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This Must Be The Place
Prod companies: Indigo Film, Lucky RedProducers: Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, Andrea OcchipintiDirector: Paolo SorrentinoScreenplay: Paolo Sorrentino / Umberto ContarelloContact: Indigo Film (39) 06 77250255
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Il Gioellino
Prod companies: Indigo FilmBackers: Indigo, MibacProducers: Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano Intl sales: tbaDirector: Andrea MolaioliScreenplay: Andrea Molaioli, Ludovica Rampoldi, Gabriele RomagnoliContact: Indigo Film (39) 06 77250255
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La Bellezza Del Somaro
Tuscan-set generational family comedy in which the parents don’t want to grow old and the seventeen-year old daughter is racing to become an adult.
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Un Altro Mondo
A dying man, calls his son who he abandoned 20 years to come to Kenya, where he lives, to say goodbye.
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Day Of The Flowers
Production company: Rogue Elephant Pictures Limited Producer: Jonathan Rae Director: John Roberts Cast: Charity Wakefield, Eva Birthistle Locations: Cuba, Glasgow
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FeaturesJane Campion
Jane Campion fell in love with Andrew Motion’s biography of John Keats, and knew that to do justice to a cinematic rendering of the ailing Romantic poet’s chaste love affair with the headstrong, rebellious Fanny Brawne she would have to study hard. “I fell to my ...
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FeaturesPeter Jackson
It was always going to be a risk for Peter Jackson to make a film of a novel as beloved as Alice Sebold’s 2003 classic The Lovely Bones.“There is no such thing as a perfect movie. There is no perfect screenplay and there is certainly no ...
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FeaturesRob Marshall
“When you’re working on a film musical, you really have to make it work as a film,” says Rob Marshall, the Oscar-nominated director of Chicago, whose latest movie, Nine, is based on the 1982 Broadway musical hit. “Bob Fosse threw away two of the main characters ...
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FeaturesJim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan has coaxed some of the best performances from some of the finest actors in the business, so it is no surprise that he elicits career-best work from Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal in his US remake of Susanne Bier’s Brothers.“I think one ...
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FeaturesQuentin Tarantino
When he started writing Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino wanted to come up with a “bunch-of-guys-on-a-mission movie”. “It was a sub-genre of Second World War movies,” he says, “like The Guns Of Navarone. They hadn’t been made in a long time and I thought that would be ...
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FeaturesKathryn Bigelow
For many, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is one of the most tense cinematic experiences of the year, but Bigelow insists she is merely reflecting the real lives of the US bomb-disposal units in Baghdad.“A day in the life of a bomb ‘tech’ in Baghdad, where ...
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FeaturesJason Reitman
Jason Reitman came across Walter Kirn’s novel Up In The Air at the famous Sunset Boulevard shop Book Soup. He had written his first screenplayThank You For Smoking, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, but could not get it financed and was looking for new ...
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FeaturesLee Daniels
“When I read the book [published in 1996], I thought it was just for me,” says Lee Daniels of the novel Push by Sapphire, on which his award-winning film Precious is based.
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