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All Features articles – Page 500
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Promotional Feature - Encounters - Taking the long view on shorts
The 13-year-old Encounters Short Film Festival boasts an impressive range of past alumni. UK film-makers including Lynne Ramsay, Damien O'Donnell and Bille Eltringham all had their first shorts screened at Encounters. And the event remains a major talent discovery hotspot on the industry calendar.Held in Bristol, in the south west ...
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Editorial - A European Union'
There are few places that seem quite as far removed from the realities of the film business as the European Parliament in Brussels. A conference last week, 'The way forward for the European film industry', had a pleasingly surreal edge after the down-and-dirty reality of a somewhat subdued AFM.Even the ...
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Documentaries - IDFA - And nothing but the truth ..
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) (November 22 to December 2) in the Netherlands will celebrate its 20th anniversary in some style with five world premieres in its feature competition line-up and what are bound to be some very heated debates.Among the special guests at this year's event, which ...
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Portugal - 'Thirty years of contacts'
When details were first announced of the inaugural European Film Festival Estoril (November 8-17) in Portugal, predictably some on the festival circuit were unenthusiastic about another autumn date. Nonetheless, under the direction of Portugal's best-known producer, Paulo Branco, the new event looks set to attract plenty of big-names.Branco was first ...
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Awards Countdown People - Awards People
STEVEN KNIGHTThe writer of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises tells Edward Lawrenson about a 'painless' experience working with the Canadian masterAfter 2002's Dirty Pretty Things, which explored the twilight existence of London's illegal immigrants, and Eastern Promises, which portrays the Russian gangster underworld in the city, Steven Knight is well known ...
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United kingdom - Going Ape
Ceri Levy was smart enough to recognise he was in the right place at the right time. He was a long-time friend of Damon Albarn of the band Blur (for which Levy produced the 1994 Starshaped documentary), and Levy was present at the kitchen table when Albarn and Jamie Hewlett ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend November 9-11
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE - WEEKEND NOVEMBER 9-11(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1NewOm Shanti Om (Ind)$18,174,6371048$18,174,637172NewSaawariya (Ind)$13,348,401899$13,348,401123NewLions For Lambs (US)$10,339,5612675$10,339,561444(1)Ratatouille (US)$9,291,2843680$388,577,782305(4)The Heartbreak Kid (US)$8,727,0801762$41,255,273236(3)Stardust (UK-US)$5,798,9932327$83,502,885487(2)Resident Evil: Extinction (Aus-Ger-UK-US)$5,436,3201726$79,517,214398(11)Lust, Caution (Ch-HK-Tai-US)$4,998,295782$27,894,056129(15)30 Days Of Night (US)$4,928,8971227$10,986,7921110(12)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$4,805,582982$195,736,6062511(5)Saw IV (US)$4,056,8371506$32,823,1922412(13)Sky Of Love (Jap)$4,001,120287$11,875,709113(10)Always - Sunset On Third Street 2 (Jap)$4,000,922382$13,676,716114(9)Elizabeth: The Golden Age (UK-US-Fr)$3,983,481966$14,259,089815(17)Le ...
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International - The rising of Japan
A slew of Japanese films made a powerful dent in the international top 40 this weekend, collectively taking more than $13m and accounting for 8.9% of the chart's total revenue.Ensemble drama Always - Sunset On Third Street 2 was the highest new entry over the weekend, taking $4.7m from 330 ...
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United states - Fairy-tale project
It has been more than a decade since Barry Josephson first brought Enchanted, Walt Disney Pictures' big release for the forthcoming US Thanksgiving holiday weekend, to the studio.At the time, Josephson was starting out as a producer after his stint as Columbia Pictures' president of worldwide production. So he understood ...
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United states - Dance partners
With its uplifting story and cinematic style, War/Dance has won a shelf-ful of festival honours, including the Sundance documentary directing award, and looks likely to be in the running for this year's documentary feature Oscar.Directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine say the most important beneficiaries will be the children ...
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Israel - Rude awakenings
Actor-turned-director Tzahi Grad is a household name in Israel as a star of local film and television. With a reputation as a serious and self-assured actor, he decided to move behind the camera in 2001 to make his debut feature, Giraffes, in order to "control the language of cinema" as ...
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Analysis - Shaping the future
Who controls the future of creative content is the big question posed at the 2008 Media Summit in London.The high-level conference, organised by Screen International, Broadcast and Q magazine, brings some of the biggest thinkers in the film, television and new media businesses to talk about the changing entertainment language.They ...
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South Africa - Durban legend
A nant Singh is a busy man. In the US, he has just wrapped production on AmericanEast, his 62nd film and director Hesham Issawi's first, described as "Do the Right Thing for the American Muslim community".In South Africa, Singh is in post-production with the docu-drama More Than Just A Game, ...
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South Africa - On location - Double appeal, half the cost
Filming in South Africa was buoyant before the Department Trade and Industry's rebate scheme - a 15% tax rebate that kicks in above $3.5m of South African spend - was launched in 2004. But in terms of creating jobs and local revenue streams through international co-productions, the rebate is viewed ...
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South Africa - Production - Support for rising talent
South Africa's indigenous films often do well at the box office; the biggest star Leon Schuster's broad slapstick comedies, for example, regularly trounce Hollywood competition. Yet local production virtually ground to a halt last year when the National Film & Video Foundation's (Nfvf) $5.6m (r37m) budget was slashed by a ...
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A strong rat run
Analysis: International box-office - Weekend October 26-28(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)Ratatouille (US)$22,611,0004,271$348,162,311292NewSaw IV (US)$12,413,1331,642$12,413,133153(2)Stardust (UK-US)$10,905,8102,789$60,551,073434NewLissi Und Der Wilde Kaiser (Ger)$6,885,826905$6,885,82635(31)Surf's Up (US)$4,344,9692,230$63,944,881356(5)The Orphanage (Sp)$4,022,917369$20,497,89617(3)Resident Evil: Extinction (US)$3,619,9972,087$56,554,424318NewLe Coeur Des Hommes 2 (Fr)$3,611,486535$3,611,48629NewCrows: Episode 0 (Jap)$3,479,025259$3,479,025110(16)The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (US)$3,150,1761,982$11,033,3193011(9)Going By The Book (S Kor)$3,014,715343$8,326,427112(4)Shadow Boxing 2 (Rus)$2,889,874646$10,151,290313(6)Rush Hour 3 ...
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United Kingdom - Shoot The Moon
David Sington has landed, so to speak. The 20-year veteran of the TV documentary world has generated great interest (not to mention high-profile deals) with his first theatrical documentary, In The Shadow Of The Moon.The film, about the Apollo space programme, won the World Cinema audience award at Sundance in ...
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Canada - Community service
Contemplating the conclusion of another successful edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff), Alan Franey, the festival's director since 1988, is a happy man.Once again, paid admissions to the 300-plus films screened - among them She's A Boy I Knew, winner of the Vancity People's Choice Award for Most ...
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Box office: data - The Critical view - Malick magic
It was the major coup of the second Rome Film Festival: Terrence Malick, the great recluse of US cinema, would be appearing on stage for one of the high-calibre 'conversations' about film. Malick is the JD Salinger of the film world: he's famous for not giving interviews (the last was ...
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Editorial - It's a booty call
"It will never be harder than it is today to pirate a movie," a blogger told a film conference last year. It's one of those phrases that sticks in the mind. It was certainly intended as a warning but for him it was also a statement of the bleeding obvious.It's ...