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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 176
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Wild Bunch boards new films from Macdonald, Roeg, Gordon Green
Ever-aggressive Frenchoutfit Wild Bunch has added new films by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, veteranBritish auteur Nicolas Roeg, US indie darling David Gordon Green and Frenchmaster Alain Corneau to its AFM slate.Macdonald's new featuredocumentary My Enemy's Enemy,which follows his dramatic debut The Last King Of Scotland, promises to be especially controversial. It ...
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IFC strikes US deal for Brisseau's Exterminating Angels
In the run up to the AFM ithas become clear that the controversy surrounding veteran French filmmakerJean-Claude Brisseau hasn't hurt his appeal in the marketplace. Brisseau'slatest feature The Exterminating Angels, which deals in dramatized form with incidents that later landed thedirector in court, has now been sold to IFC Films ...
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Latido sells Your Life In 65 Minutes to Strand in US
Madrid-based Latido Filmshas snared a US buyer for Maria Ripoll's comedy, Your Life In 65 Minutes. Strand Releasing has taken North American rights tothe film, which is on Latido's AFM slate. "It gives us impetus goinginto the AFM. That's why we wanted to close it as soon as possible," a ...
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M6 racks up sales on Siri's Intimate Enemies
Following the success of Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory, another French film dealing with thetrauma of the Algerian experience has been piquing buyers' interest. In therun-up to the AFM, Florent Siri's Intimate Enemies has been racking up deals.Since M6 began pre-sales on the project in Cannes in May with onlya ...
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Bavaria sells Sweet Mud to Canada, Brazil
On the eve of the AFM, Bavaria Film International has sold IsraeliOscar entry Sweet Mudto Mongrel Media in Canada and Imovision in Brazil. The deals were concludedduring the Business Street Days of the Rome Film Festival earlier this monthSweet Mud,directed by Dror Shaul, is the story of a 12-year-old boy ...
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EC says it will rule on UK film tax by end of year
The European Commission has offered further clarification asto what has caused its delay in EC approval for the new UK film taxlegislation. The EC now says it is aiming to make a decision "by the endof the year." In a statement to ScreenDaily.Com yesterday, EuropeanCommission Spokesman on Competition Jonathan Todd ...
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UK tax credit stranded while Europe ponders approval
Screen International's UK Film Financesummit meets today amid growing evidence that the European Commission may be uncomfortable with aspectsthe UK's new film tax plans. The UK's new tax credit was announced in March this year,further clarified in April, and has been approved by the UK parliament. UK government bodies had ...
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The History Boys
Dir: Nicholas Hytner. UK.2006. 112mins.It is hard to begrudge a film as wellwritten and acted as The History Boys.Nicholas Hytner's screen adaptation of Alan Bennett'sacclaimed play is buoyed by some tremendous performances, one or two of whichlook very likely to be nominated for major awards. The writing is superb. Nonetheless,in ...
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Initial Entertainment plans Queen Victoria film
In the wake of The Queen, another film about theBritish Royal Family is in the pipeline. In London this week with MartinScorsese's $120m The Departed (whichhe produced for Warner Bros), Initial Entertainment Group producer Graham Kinghas revealed that he is planning a new feature about the early years of QueenVictoria."Julian ...
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Pyramide strikes deals for Darratt and Seven Years
French sales outfits appearto have been enjoying brisk business in Venice this year. Paris-based Pyramidehas announced a raft of new deals on its Venice slate.One title that has clearlycaught buyers' imaginations is African auteur MahamatSaleh Haroun's Darratt. Madeunder the umbrella of New Crowned Hope (the Vienna festival celebratingMozart), the film ...
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Mueller says Venice needs bigger theatres and more buyers
Venice Festival directorMarco Mueller has again repeated his calls for the festival to "solve itsinfrastructural problems" and ramp up its industry facilities. "We need biggertheatres," Mueller told ScreenDaily.com as this year's festival heads into itsclosing weekend. "We need the capacity of those theatres to be bigger. We needthe autonomous sidebar ...
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Artificial Eye gets UK rights to latest from Alain Resnais
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up UK rights to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places, which premiered in competition in Venice and will also play in Toronto.The French-Italian co-production stars Lambert Wilson, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi and Isabelle Carre. Bruno Pesery produced the production ...
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Venice deals emerge for The Island and Falling
As theVenice Festival ends the final stretch, there has been a small flurry ofdeal-making on the Lido. Russiansales agent Intercinema has soldits competition title The Island by Pavel Longouine to Metropole Pathe for Switzerland and hasdeals pending with distributors in Mexico, Turkey, the UK and Greece for thetitle. Intercinema's Raisa ...
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Bobby's Estevez grateful for Weinstein support
It was hats off to Harvey time at yesterday's Venice press conference for Bobby as director Emilio Estevez and star Lindsay Lohan both paidtribute to Harvey Weinstein, the head of The Weinstein Company (which will bereleasing Bobby in the US.) "Bobby Kennedy stood for thelittle guy and the underdog. Perhaps ...
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Beirut Film Festival makes plans for October event
Despite last month's war in Lebanon, the organisers of the seventh Beirut InternationalFilm Festival have confirmed that their event will be going ahead from Oct 4-11.A range of international titles have already been invited including Mark Dornford-May's Son OfMan, Jafar Panahi's Offside, Cannes hit Paris Je T'Aime,and Pedro Almodovar's Volver.The ...
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Smith hopes to bring Universal's Wanted to UK
UK producer Iain Smith (in Venice with two competitionfilms, The Fountain and Children Of Men)is in advanced negotiations to bring Wanted,a big-budget studio feature, to the UK. The project is beingfinanced by Universal. Adapted from a comic book, it is set in a contemporary US city. The director willbe from ...
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Sellars hopes to bring New Crowned Hope idea to other cities
Globe-trottingopera director Peter Sellars is in talks with twocities about the possibility of overseeing further events along the lines ofthe New Crowned Hope Festival, which has already yielded a handful of films competingin Venice and Toronto."Theseare the first steps," Sellars commented. "My hope isthat we can repeat this type of ...
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A-Film looking for Dirk De Lille's replacement
DirkDe Lille has left leading independent Benelux distributor A-Film for"personal reasons." His departure was confirmed yesterday in Venice by A-Film CEO Pim Hermeling.Itis yet to be announced who will replace De Lille. "Sofar, I haven't decided," Hermeling said. He addedthat he was not looking for a new director but for ...
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The Queen
Dir: Stephen Frears. UK2006. 97mins.The British have been making films about their RoyalFamily almost since cinema began. What is so distinctive about Stephen Frears' brilliant new feature The Queen is that it is unfolds only a few years ago - in 1997 atthe time of Princess Diana's death - and ...
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Frears' Queen is royally received
Regal mania gripped the Lido following this weekend's world premiere of Stephen Frears' The Queen in competition at the Venice Festival. Frears, Helen Mirren and the film's producers received a standing ovation at their press conference.There was a whiff of republicanism as Frears met the British press in the gardens ...