All Features articles – Page 472

  • Stephen Margolis
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    The UK private film funds

    2009-05-14T16:29:00Z

    Who are the leading players at the UK film funds and what are they backing?

  • Fish Tank
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    Who’s got the money?

    2009-05-14T15:11:00Z

    The UK’s private film funds are becoming increasingly important to cash-strapped independent producers. But are investors interested?

  • Marche du Film, Cannes
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    Japan and India step up at Cannes

    2009-05-14T14:05:00Z

    The Japanese and Indian presence at Cannes has increased this year as both territories look beyond their huge domestic markets.

  • Patrick McCormick
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    Talk Of The Town

    2009-05-14T12:53:00Z

    International producers give Wendy Mitchell the lowdown on their recent experiences of filming in Puerto Rico.

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    Egression

    2009-05-13T09:57:00Z

    Three people meet and become friends in London.Two of them form a relationship which is in turns loving and destructive. The death of one of them forces the others to reassess their lives and change or die.

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    Matching Jack

    2009-05-12T15:07:00Z

    An inspirational family drama about love, infidelity, hope and the unbreakable bond between parent and child.

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    Aurora

    2009-05-12T12:10:00Z

    A murder story, inspired by actual events.

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    Dau

    2009-05-12T12:07:00Z

    Soviet physicist Lev Landau was sent to prison for openly criticising Stalin, only later to be released to help develop the Soviet thermonuclear bomb.

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    The Great Ghost Rescue

    2009-05-12T12:05:00Z

    A young boy helps a flock of ghosts find a new home. Adaptation of the children’s novel by Eva Ibbotson.

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    Magic Boys

    2009-05-12T12:01:00Z

    Two blue-collar Hungarians disguise themselves as exotic dancers to blackmail a scheming American tycoon.

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    One More Croissant (working title)

    2009-05-12T11:59:00Z

    In Paris, an Estonian caretaker forms a bond with her charge, an elderly, exiled French lady.

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    Red Tails

    2009-05-12T11:56:00Z

    The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

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    The Turin Horse

    2009-05-12T11:54:00Z

    An existential metaphor about death and pain. Inspired by Nietzsche’s experience in the Italian city of Turin.

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    Universal Soldier III: The Next Generation

    2009-05-12T11:52:00Z

    In a continuation of the franchise started by Roland Emmerich in 1992, a special military unit must stop a plot to turn the Chernobyl nuclear plant into a giant dirty bomb.

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    The Erotic Human

    2009-05-12T11:12:00Z

    A sensual and poetic, yet sober look at human eroticism. An anthropologist (Jørgen Leth), collects material for a study on the nature and significance of the erotic. Identifying a number of travel destinations where he will look for the erotic in countries where he knows it exists, he seeks ...

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    Womb

    2009-05-12T11:06:00Z

    Somewhere on the North Sea coast, in a near future. Thomas’ sudden and tragic death pushes Rebeccato embark on a dangerous plan.

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    Diamants Sur Ordannance

    2009-05-12T11:02:00Z

    Elias is completing the last hours of a two-year community service sentence working as an ER nurse. The evening turns to catastrophe when Rudy, his former accomplice, comes to ER after a road accident in which he was trying to elude the dastardly Ortega brothers with some of the booty ...

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    Les Gardiens De L'Ordre

    2009-05-12T10:59:00Z

    Two rank-and-file police officers wound a young executive after he shoots a fellow officer without cause. Wrongly accused of excessive use of force, they lose their badges and decide to prove their innocence by investigating the drug responsible for their aggressor’s altered state.

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    Complices

    2009-05-12T10:55:00Z

    A detective is confronted by a crucial choice following the death of a young man

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    Secret Reunion

    2009-05-11T11:08:00Z

    A South Korean agent and a North Korean spy living in South Korea end up creating a tense but unusual friendship in the midst of betrayals and intrigue.