All Features articles – Page 452
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FeaturesJapan, caution
The collapse in Japan’s independent distribution sector has made the territory one of the most difficult for foreign films to crack ‹ and nor are Hollywood studio films working. Jason Gray reports
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FeaturesCan the writers change the script?
On paper, these cash-conscious times look particularly tough for screenwriters. But, as Geoffrey Macnab reports, the sector is also developing a powerful sense of collective identity which may help to redefine the writers’ role in the film-making process
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FeaturesInternational Screenwriters' Festival
“Each time I’ve been, I’ve been really astonished at how rewarding it is. It makes you realise how isolated writers are on the whole,” says screenwriter Olivia Hetreed of the International Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham, UK.The fourth edition of the festival runs from October 26-29 this ...
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FeaturesWorld Standard
Screen highlights the films shortlisted for this year’s Hollywood World Award.
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FeaturesEmpowering Audiences is Cross-Media Mission
Michael Gubbins looks at some of the main conference themes discussed at the Power to the Pixel London Forum.
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FeaturesWhere to find the serious money
Heavyweight international financiers will be in London this week to discover the best UK and European projects in search of investment at this year’s Production Finance Market (Oct 21-22). Geoffrey Macnab looks at what’s on offer.
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Fliegende Fische
Comedy/drama about 16-year-old Nana trying to calm down her mother’s embarrassing lifestyle by pairing her off with a decent man… until Nana herself ends up falling in love with “Mr. Right”.
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FeaturesWeekly international box office – October 16
Screen brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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Operation Casablanca
A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwideterrorist plot.
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Die Superbullen
Comedy about Germany’s stupidest cops Tommie and Mario whose latest case is to find the billy goat Hennes, the mascot of their beloved football team 1st FC Cologne.
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Mahler Auf Der Couch
Alma Mahler, her older husband the composer Gustav Mahler, her lover Walter Gropius…. and Sigmund Freud.
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Hochzeitspolka
The German Frieder has been living in the deepest backwoods of Poland for the past two years. Of all days, his childhood friends - with whom he played in a hard rock band back home - turn up on the day of his wedding to the Polish girl Gosia.
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Hier Kommt Lola!
Family film, based on Isabel Abedi’s first book about the adventures of schoolgirl Lola with her colourful imagination.
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Furcht & Zittern
A man suffering from agoraphobia and panic attacks leaves his appartment for the first timein years only to be taken hostage by a woman 20 years his elder.
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Das Leben Ist Zu Lang
Semi-autobiographical tragicomedy set in the world of film and television.
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FeaturesCapital cultivates its green shoots
International film production is big business in London, but it also inflicts great damage on the environment. Caroline Parry looks at the efforts to reduce the impact
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FeaturesJapan tempts overseas talent
The Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 17-25) is growing in importance as a crucial gateway into the huge but challenging Japanese market.