All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 48
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A Very British Gangster
Dir: Donal MacIntyre. UK. 2006. 97mins.Donal MacIntyre's first feature is a documentary portrait of DominicNoonan, a working-class British gangster who is the head of Manchester's biggest crime family. Both a study in the politics of crime and a fascinating insight into a large poverty-stricken community which defers to gangland rules ...
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In Focus - Academy awards and the nominees are..
The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards see Dreamgirls leading the race. But the hit musical has been shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also received three nominations for best song, meaning that it can only win five Oscars at most.Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Son Of Rambow
Dir: Garth Jennings. UK-Fr. 2007. 94mins.An immensely satisfying comedy about childhood friendship, Son Of Rambow is one of those rare British films which is at once culturally specific but directed with such confidence and visual panache that it should enjoy worldwide distribution. The work of hot UK director/producer team Jennings ...
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Dreamgirls leads Oscar nominees but shut out of Best Picture race
Dreamgirls led the Oscar race with eight nominations this morning but the hit musical was shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also took three nominations in the best song category, meaning that it could only win five Oscars at most. Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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An American Crime
Dir: Tommy O'Haver. US. 2007. 92mins.A horrifiying real-life crime from 1965 Indiana is recreated with almost scientific verisimilitude in Tommy O'Haver's first serious drama, An American Crime. Although often excruciating to watch, it is so well-crafted and well-acted that its portrait of casual savagery in the burbs resonates long after ...
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An American Crime
Dir: Tommy O'Haver. US. 2007. 92mins.A horrifiying real-life crime from 1965 Indiana is recreated with almost scientific verisimilitude in Tommy O'Haver's first serious drama, An American Crime. Although often excruciating to watch, it is so well-crafted and well-acted that its portrait of casual savagery in the burbs resonates long after ...
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World power: the Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 under the name The Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association by one William Mooring, a correspondent in Los Angeles for The Daily Mail in the UK.The group gave out awards from that year on, although the Golden Globe itself was inaugurated in ...
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18 new titles selected for Hungarian Film Week
Hungarian Film Week has announced the lineup for its 38th annual showcase of new Hungarian cinema which takes place from Jan 30 to Feb 6 in Budapest.For the first time in the history of the event, a selection committee whittled down the available films to 18 films in competition. Pal ...
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Lionsgate tries Tenderness in multiple territories
Lionsgate has acquired rights in North America, UK,Australia and South Africa to GreeneStreet Films' thriller Tenderness which is directed by John Polson and stars RussellCrowe.Based on the novel by Robert Cormier, the film featuresSophie Traub as a 15 year-old dreamer who becomes embroiled with a mysteriousyoung man (Jon Foster). Crowe ...
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Hudson of Dreamgirls to get breakthrough performance award at Palm Springs
Jennifer Hudson, the star ofDreamgirls, will receive the BreakthroughPerformance Award at the 18th annual Palm Springs International FilmFestival awards gala on Jan 13, 2007.Hudson, a runner-up on TV's AmericanIdol, will also perform at the galaevent. The newcomer, who plays Effie White in the film, recently won a GoldenGlobe nomination for ...
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Atlantic Overseas, EuroCo set US/Hungarian co-production slate
New York-based AtlanticOverseas Pictures and Budapest-based EuroCo Productions are partnering up toco-produce a slate of films kicking off with Holocaust love story The FlowerOf The Fence starring RichardDreyfuss and Maia Morgenstern.Written by Atlantic Overseaspresident Harris Salomon and Matt Salzberg, the film tells the real story ofHerman Rosenblat who found his ...
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Warner Premiere staffs up in marketing, business affairs, production
Warner Bros Entertainment has hired key executives to staffits recently launched direct-to-DVD and direct-to-platform production armWarner Premiere. Irika Slavin has been named senior vice president,marketing; Geoff Shaevitz is vice president, production; Sean Wimmer is vicepresident, post production; Stephanie Schroeder is vice president, businessaffairs and Eva Davis is vice president, acquisitions.The ...
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Dafoe joins Goldblum in Schrader's Adam Resurrected for Bleiberg
WillemDafoe has joined Jeff Goldblum in the cast of Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama AdamResurrected whichis being financed and produced by Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg'schairman and CEO Ehud Bleiberg is producing the film with Werner Wirsing, headof German distributor EMS/3L. Ulf Israel is executive producer.Based onthe novel by Yoram Kaniuk, the film tells ...
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Palm Springs to open with Outsourced close with Tiger's Tail
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will open its18th annual event on Jan 4 with the US premiere of John Jeffcoat's Outsourced about a salesman who heads to India to train hisreplacement after his entire department is outsourced. It will close on Jan 14with the North American premiere of John ...
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Seven film shortlisted for visual effects Academy Award
Seven film have been shortlisted for consideration for the visual effects Oscar by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).They are Casino Royale, Night At The Museum, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Poseidon, Superman Returns and X-Men The Last Stand.On Jan 17, the Academy's visual effects ...
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Ennio Morricone to receive honorary Oscar in 2007
Italian composerand conductor Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Oscar at next year'sAcademy Awards ceremony on Feb 25, 2007, 'for his magnificent and multifacetedcontributions to the art of film music.'Remarkably,Morricone, who has received five nominations before, has never won the Oscar.His nominations were for Days Of Heaven (1978), The Mission ...
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Best in show: best actor contenders
Ifthe winner of the best actor Oscar was hardly a surprise last year whenPhilip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote or 2004 when Jamie Foxx won forRay, 2006 is anything but a one-horse race. No single performance hasleapt out so far, a far cry from the best actress category which is,unusually, ...
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Iwo Jima voted best picture of 2006 by LA Critics
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, already named best picture of the year by the National Board Of Review on Wednesday, was names best picture of 2006 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) yesterday (Sunday). The runner-up was The Queen. The 32nd annual LAFCA achievement awards ceremony will ...
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Iwo Jima voted best picture of 2006 by LA Critics
Clint Eastwood's LettersFrom Iwo Jima, already named bestpicture of the year by the National Board Of Review on Wednesday, was namesbest picture of 2006 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)yesterday (Sunday). The runner-up was The Queen.The 32nd annualLAFCA achievement awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on ...
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The Good German
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US. 2006.107mins.Steven Soderbergh's latestcinematic experiment is an homage to atmospheric wartime noir classics like The Third Man and Casablanca, attempting to reconjure themagic by recreating post-war Berlin on the backlot, shootingin black-and-white and encouraging the actors to give heightened theatricalperformances a la Bogart or Dietrich. It's a ...