All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 49
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Picture players: Best director contenders
Asthe final wet prints of year-end releases are frantically unveiled toawards voters in Los Angeles, New York and London, a picture of theplayers who will rise to the top in the kudos countdown is emerging.And that picture is a surprising one. 2006 has featured an unusuallylarge number of so-called prestige ...
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The Holiday
Dir: Nancy Meyers. US. 2006.136mins.Queen of saccharine Nancy Meyers returns with The Holiday, a bloated romantic comedywhich will inevitably be the indulgence of choice for millions of predominantlyfemale moviegoers during the upcoming holiday season. With What Women Want and Something's Gotta Give, Meyersestablished her own brand of contemporary rom-com:guilty pleasure ...
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Dreamgirls
Dir: Bill Condon. US. 2006.130mins.As movie versions of hit Broadway musicals go, BillCondon's Dreamgirlsis more Chicago than Rent. Likely to set the box officealight over Christmas domestically and in the New Year around the world, it isalso bound to figure highly in Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, if notend-of-year critics ...
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56 foreign-language films qualify for Golden Globes
Fifty-six foreign-language films have qualified for consideration in the 64th Golden Globes race.
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Magiday joins Element Films as head of production
Lee Magiday, former vice president of acquisition andproduction, Europe, at Focus Features, has joined Dublin-based productionoutfit Element Films as head of production. She will remain based in London.Magiday (pictured) left Focus in 2005 to take some timeoff. At Element, she will have responsibility for acquiring, developing andoverseeing new feature film ...
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Beauty In Trouble takes Denver's Kieslowski Award
Jan Hrebejk's Beauty In Trouble was the winner of this year's Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for best feature film at the Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF).For the first time this year, Screen International partnered with SDFF to present the Kieslowski award, a juried award given to a feature film which reflects ...
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Focus on 2006 craft awards
Surveying the patterns that Academy voters follow when choosing the craft awards, Screen selects the likely contenders for this year's categories in production design, cinematography, costume design, editing, music and visual effects. 2006 once again delivered a wide array of epic period and fantasy films which are set to dominate ...
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The Nativity Story
Dir: Catherine Hardwicke. US. 2006. 102mins.One of the most bizarre matches of talent andmaterial this year - the story of the nativity from the director of Thirteen and The Lords Of Dogtown and the writer of The Rookie - delivers a satisfying andentirely inoffensive slice of Biblical drama which could ...
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2006 Golden Globe winners
Best Motion Picture - DramaBrokeback MountainBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - DramaFelicity Huffman - TransamericaBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - DramaPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyWalk The LineBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - ...
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Foreign-language Oscar submissions in full
Argentina Family Law (Daniel Burman) Australia Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer) Austria You Bet Your Life (Antonin Svoboda) Bangladesh Forever Flows (Abu Sayeed) Belgium Someone Else's Happiness (Fien Troch) Bolivia American Visa (Juan Carlos Valdivia) Bosnia and Herzegovina Grbavica (Jasmila Zbanic) Brazil Cinema, Aspirins And Vultures (Marcelo Gomes) Bulgaria Monkeys ...
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Wonders Of The World
You could argue that every year is a banner year for international cinema, but few would deny that 2006 has more than its fair share of crowd-pleasing non-English language movies. And the foreign-language Oscar category is, after all, more focused on films that play with audiences than films that please ...
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Light relief from the Globes
The Golden Globes show not only brings together the world of film and TV but it also includes categories in comedy and musical categories, one of the major differentiating features of the Globes from other awards bodies.
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AMPAS names shortlist of 16 for animated feature Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has announced a list of 16 films which are expected to compete for the animated feature Oscar this year. Since the category allows five nominations if there are 16 eligible films or more, 2006 could be the first year since 2002 ...
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Beauty In Trouble takes Denver's Kieslowski Award
Jan Hrebejk's Beauty In Trouble was the winner of this year's Krzysztof KieslowskiAward for best feature film at the Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF) whichended on Saturday night with the US premiere of Werner Herzog's RescueDawn.For the first time this year, Screen International partneredwith SDFF to present the Kieslowski award, ...
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Curse Of The Golden Flower (Man Cheng Jin Dai Huang Jin Jia)
Dir: Zhang Yimou. China. 2006.114mins.China's mostexpensive production to date has every yuang up onthe screen. One of the most sumptuous and almost absurdly opulent spectacles onscreen in recent memory, Zhang Yimou's $45m epic Curse Of the GoldenFlower is fortunately not just a pretty face. It's also a meaty,blood-soaked melodrama filled ...
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Venture capitalist Hoff to finance Vertigo chiller Echo
Roy Lee and Doug Davison'sprolific LA-based production outfit Vertigo Entertainment has secured thebacking of venture capitalist Robert Hoff and his new company RightOffEntertainment to fully finance The Echo, aremake of 2004 Filipino thriller Sigaw.Hoff, a general partner atCrosspoint Venture Partners since 1983, will executive produce the film whileLee and Davison ...
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Amritraj's Hyde Park to co-finance Merchant Ivory's City
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde ParkEntertainment is teaming up with Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) to co-produceJames Ivory's latest film The City Of Your Final Destination which is set to star Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney,Omar Metwally, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Norma Aleandro, AlexandraMaria Lara and Kate Burton.Hyde Park International ishandling sales here on ...
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Locarno Film Festival adds international shorts competition section
The Locarno InternationalFilm Festival has a delegation in AFM prepping for next year's 60thanniversary edition which runs Aug 1 to 11, 2007.Artistic director FredericMaire, who took over from Irene Bignardi in Oct 2005, has announced that thefestival is looking to introduce an international shorts competition sectionfor the first time next ...
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Strand buys two for North America from Fortissimo
Strand Releasing has pickedup North American rights to two films from Fortissimo Films - ApichatpongWeerasethakul's Syndromes And A Century and Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone. Both films, which played in competition at theVenice Film Festival and at Toronto, were commissioned as part of the City OfVienna's New ...