All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 38
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Romania's Gopo Awards set for Monday night
The second annual Gopo Awards, celebrating the best of Romanian cinema, will take place in Bucharest on Monday night.The gala, presented with the support of the National Film Centre, is organized by Romanian Film Promotion, the organization behind the Transylvania International Film Festival. Cristian Mungiu's Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 ...
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Juno wins three at Independent Spirit Awards
Juno was named best feature at the 2008 Spirit Awards presented by non-profit group Film Independent at a ceremony on Santa Monica Beach on Saturday.Jason Reitman's smash hit comedy also won trophies for Ellen Page (best female lead) and Diablo Cody (best first screenplay).Director Reitman, however, was beaten to the ...
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Features
In Focus - Cannes film festival - Palme Reading
Official selection berths seem set for Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir from Israel; Wong Kar Wai's revision of his 1994 martial arts classic Ashes Of Time - Redux; and Courtney Hunt's Sundance prizewinner Frozen River.Also tipped from Sundance are Barry Levinson's What Just Happened' featuring Robert De Niro, ...
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After Bruges'Profile of Martin McDonagh
In Bruges, which opened the Sundance Film Festival last month and opened in the US earlier this month, marks a longed-for arrival in the world of feature-length cinema for the celebrated London-based Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.'I loved movies from a very early age, about 13 or 14 onwards, so in ...
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Countdown to Oscar: Screen Looks At The Nominees
If this year's Oscar nominations are a gauge of contemporary cinema, today's film-makers are apparently preoccupied with the dark side of the human soul - whether it be the unadulterated evil of the assassin in No Country For Old Men or the rotten heart of the oil magnate in There ...
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Reviews
Heart Of Fire (Feuerherz)
Dir: Luigi Falorni. Germany/Austria. 2008. 94 mins.Inspired by the memoir of the same name by Senait G Mehari, Luigi Falorni's Heart Of Fire is valuable as a document illustrating the absurdity of using child soldiers in any conflict as well as a glimpse into the specific struggle for liberation in ...
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Murphy, Page to star in Mandate Pictures' Peacock
Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page are to star in the psychological thriller Peacock for Mandate Pictures. Michael Lander is directing, from a script he co-wrote with Ryan Roy.Barry Mendel will produce the film with Roy; Mandate Pictures' head of production Nicole Brown will executive produce with Nathan Kahane.Murphy will play ...
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As Berlin winds down, attention turns to potential Cannes selections
A clearer picture is emerging of what films will be ready for this year's Cannes Film Festival in May and the lineup looks like it will be filled with its usual blend of veteran auteur films, new discoveries and US studio fare.Official selection berths already seem set for Ari Folman's ...
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Magnolia's world sales bloom for Timecrimes, Gonzo
Magnolia Pictures' international sales department under Laird Adamson has had a successful EFM with its Spanish time travel thriller Timecrimes as well as the quirky romance Quid Pro Quo and Alex Gibney's documentary Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr Hunter S Thompson. All three films, which will be handled ...
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Reviews
The Last Word
Dir: Geoffrey Haley. US. 2008. 94 mins.Geoffrey Haley, a DP and editor perhaps best known for shooting the floating plastic bag sequence in American Beauty, makes his feature debut with The Last Word, a dark comedy about a man who makes a living writing other people's suicide notes. In ...
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Downloading Nancy
Dir: Johan Renck. 2008. US. 96 mins.A woman’s journey of self-hatred, self-degradation, self-mutilation and ultimately self-destruction courtesy of a murderous kindred spirit makes for grim viewing in Downloading Nancy, the feature debut of Swedish commercials and music video director Johan Renck. Although acted with conviction and directed with not a ...
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Joan Collins joins Christopher Lee in Hardy's Cowboys For Christ
Joan Collins has joined Christopher Lee and Paul Wesley in the cast of Cowboys For Christ which is written and will be directed by Robin Hardy, who has only made one film since his classic 1973 horror film The Wicker Man.Although the new film, which is being produced by CFC ...
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Sleep Dealer
Dir: Alex Rivera. Mexico/US. 2008. 90 mins.Alex Rivera's low budget futuristic thriller Sleep Dealer is set in the near future where the USA has been sealed off from Mexico yet Mexican workers still do all the hard labour through technology. A selection in dramatic competition at Sundance last week and ...
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Bersch takes over from Schlessel as president of SPWAG
Steven Bersch has been named president of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) after the promotion of Peter Schlessel to president of worldwide affairs for SPE.Bersch, who comes to the studio from his position as chief operating officer at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, will report to Schlessel.He will oversee ...
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Hartnett to take the lead in Snoot's martial arts action pic Bunraku
Snoot Entertainment, the four year-old LA-based production company behind Toronto Film Festival premiere Terra, has cast Josh Hartnett in martial arts action film Bunraku.The live action film is written and will be directed by Guy Moshe (Holly) and is the story of a a young man who has spent his ...
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Summit, Walden team on youth music drama Will
Walden Media and Summit Entertainment are continuing their long-standing relationship by agreeing to co-finance the fish-out-of-water story Will starring Liam Aiken, Vanessa Hudgens, Lisa Kudrow, Aly Michalka and Scott Porter. David Bowie is also in talks to join the film's cast.The music-oriented film, to be directed by Todd Graff (Camp) ...
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Gandolfini joins Jesse Martin in the cast of Sexual Healing
Sopranos star James Gandolfini will star with Jesse L Martin in in Sexual Healing, the story of the last years of singer Marvin Gaye which Gandolfini's company Attaboy Films.Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films will executive produce the film and handle international sales on the film which is budgeted in the $15m ...
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Riprendimi
Dir: Anna Negri. Italy. 2008. 96 mins.Anna Negri's second film Riprendimi is a bittersweet comedy about the breakup of a relationship and the fallout for those involved. Offering intelligent commentary on the fickleness of young men and women today as well as many amusing insights into humans in romantic ...