All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 50
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AMPAS names shortlist of 16 for animated feature Oscar
The Academy Of MotionPicture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has announced a list of 16 films which areexpected to compete for the animated feature Oscar this year. Since thecategory allows five nominations if there are 16 eligible films or more, 2006could be the first year since 2002 to have a five-film ...
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Telepool picks up Gilles
Germany's Telepool has acquired German and Austrian rights to Belgian box office hit Gilles from Sola Media. The story, about a 12-year-old boy and his passion for football, scored 230,000 admissions in Belgium. The deal was negotiated by Beatrix Wesle for Sola Media and Marc Gabizon and Silke Wilfinger for ...
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Madrid-LA Forum draws Iacono, Pittleman
The first ever Madrid-LA Entertainment Media Forum closed on Tuesday, after two days of 250 intensive meetings between 17 Madrid-based film, TV and music companies and 45 of their US counterparts.Sponsored by PromoMadrid, CEIM (Confederacion Empresarial de Madrid) and FAPAE (the Spanish Audiovisual Producers Association), the gathering was attended by, ...
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Summit brings Pope Joan, Buck Howard to buyers
Summit Entertainment hasboarded Constantin Film's latest English-language production Pope Joan which will be directed by Volker Schloendorff withFranka Potente in the title role.The film, based on Donna Cross'bestseller, is the story of Johanna von Ingehlheim who, according to legend,disguised herself as a man, and entered the highest ranks of the ...
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Children Of Glory (Szabadsag, Szerelem)
Dir: Krisztina Goda. Hung-UK. 2006. 123mins.Produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the1956 Hungarian Revolution, the first time that the people of an Eastern Bloccountry took up arms against the Soviet Regime, Children Of Glory is a rousing and highly effective tribute to themen and women who fought in ...
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Running With Scissors
Dir: Ryan Murphy. US.2006. 122 mins.Ryan Murphy, the Hollywood wunderkind whose Nip/Tuck is one of the most cutting edge series on US TV atthe moment, turns his caustic sensibilities to Running With Scissors, the film version of Augusten Burroughs' popularmemoirs. As one might expect from the creator of Nip/Tuck, Murphy ...
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Lumina takes on worldwide rights to Espectro
London-based Lumina Filmshas picked up worldwide rights to Colombian horror movie Espectro (pictured) and will screen the film for buyers atAFM.The film all takes placeinside an apartment inhabited by an agoraphobic woman called Vega (played byNoelle Shonwald). Sensing she is not alone, she sets up cameras to film herselfsleeping and ...
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Australia's Horniak wins HATCHfest for student short Love Proof
The third annual HATCHfestAudiovisual Arts Festival closed in Bozeman, Montana, with the presentation ofthe Moonlight Basin Outstanding Filmmaker Award to Australia's Maia Horniak forher short film Loveproof.Thefilm festival, which brings in student film-makers from around the world with aview to offering mentorship, education and inspiration, gave Horniak a cashprize of ...
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus
Dir: Steven Shainberg. US. 2006. 122mins.A surprising and seductive curio from Secretary directorSteven Shainberg, Furis one of the season's most unusual films. On the one hand, its high-calibrecast led by Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jrscreams of prestige awards contender, while on the other its unconventionalpacing, largely fictional story about ...
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Polanski to preside over competition jury at Marrakech
The sixthMarrakech International Film Festival, which will take place from Dec 1 to 9, hasannounced that Roman Polanski will be the president of this year's competition jury. Thefestival which takes place under the patronage of Morocco's King Mohammed VIwill also feature a retrospective focus on Italian cinema.Polanski will presumably come ...
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The Dog Pound (La Perrera)
Dir: Manuel Nieto Zas. Urug-Arg-Can-Sp.2006. 109mins.Ahyper-naturalistic portrait of a city slacker living amongst uneducatedlabourers in a sleepy resort town on the Uruguayan coast, La Perrera (The Dog Pound) is a deceptively simple film which,underneath its placid surface, is unsettling and finally shocking. With itslanguid pace and detached point of view, ...
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Nominations announced for third Hollywood World Award
ScreenInternational and The Hollywood Film Festival have named the ten nominationsfor this year's Hollywood World Award.Apanel of international judges voted for the award, now in its third year, whichwill be presented to the best film in world cinema at the annual HollywoodAwards ceremony in Beverly Hills on Oct 23.Theshortlist is ...
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Mon Meilleur Ami
Dir: Patrice Leconte. Fr. 2006. 94mins.Patrice Leconte, whosebelated second sequel to his breakthrough 1978 smash Les Bronzes was France's biggest homegrownblockbuster this year, stays in similar territory for his follow-up Mon Meilleur Ami.In fact, this broad high-concept comedy of the Dinner Game or Apres Vous variety could have been a ...
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Strand buys domestic rights to Goldberger's Hawk Is Dying
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to JulianGoldberger's The Hawk Is Dying which had its world premiere at Sundance this year and alsoplayed in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes.The deal was concluded between Jon Gerrans of Strand with JeffLevy-Hinte of the film's production company Strand Releasing. Also representingthe film were ...
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Breaking And Entering
Dir/scr: Anthony Minghella. UK. 2006. 119mins.Anthony Minghella's firstcontemporary London-set film since Truly MadlyDeeply in 1991, Breaking And Enteringis an ambitious but disappointing affair revolving around middle class folkfrom North London in crisis. Although handsomely produced and featuring one ortwo noteworthy performances, it is hijacked by a surprising lack ofplausibility, both ...
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Stranger Than Fiction
Dir: Marc Forster. US. 2006.118mins.A highly original script by newcomerZach Helm, some superlative performances and the deft guiding hand of directorMarc Forster, trying his hand at comedy for the first time, make Stranger Than Fiction the season's must-seefilm for discerning audiences. Financed and co-produced by Mandate Pictures,the film is having ...
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Bruce Weber plots Robert Mitchum documentary
Bruce Weber, in Toronto, tosupport a Dialogues screening of his 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost, has announced that his next project will definitelybe his long-cherished Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast: A Portrait OfRobert Mitchum.Described by Weber as a'musical documentary,' the project is a profile of Hollywood's original badboy, Mitchum. ...
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Bruce Weber to start Robert Mitchum documentary
Bruce Weber, in Toronto tosupport a Dialogues screening of his 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost, has announced that his next project will definitelybe his long-cherished Nice Girls Don'tStay For Breakfast: A Portrait Of Robert Mitchum.Described by Weber as a"musical documentary," the project is a profile of Hollywood's original bad boy. ...
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Feature planned based on life of rocker Carole Pope
Jan Nathansonof straight edge films and Andrew Boutilier of SubmissionFilms have teamed to acquire the rights to produce a feature based on the lifeand times of Canadian rock icon Carole Pope. Based on Pope's 2001autobiography Anti-Diva, the filmexplores the outrageous life of the openly lesbian Canadian singer and hercareer in ...