All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 57
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Carlos Saura's Iberia will open Guadalajara Film Festival
The 21st annual Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexicowill open on March 24 with a screening of Carlos Saura's Iberiaand close on March 31 with Edward James Olmos'English-language picture Walkoutfeaturing Spy Kids star Alexa Vega.This year marks the inaugural event run by director-generalJorge Sanchez Sosa, a veteran producer with credits ...
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QED joins Intermedia for four film deal
BillBlock's newly formed QED International (Screendaily, Feb 10) has formed anagreement with Intermedia to co-finance and co-produce four Intermedia-developed films.QEDwill complete the financing, co-produce and handle worldwide distribution onthe films, led by Spring Break In Bosnia. The comic thriller from The Matador writer/director Richard Shepard will be distributed in the ...
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Lenny Kravitz gets Iced for Daniels
LennyKravitz will make his feature film acting debut as a musician who falls intothe abyss of crack addiction in Iced, thesecond film to be directed by Lee Daniels and available at Berlin from his LeeDaniels Entertainment.Basedon the debut novel by Ray Shell, the film will follow Kravitz's character froma promising ...
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One Last Dance
Dir: Max Makowski.Singapore. 2006. 100mins.Here's a puzzle: Brazil-born film-maker Makowski (The PigeonEgg Strategy, Taboo) makes hisfirst film in Cantonese - a Singapore-set crime thriller which is soaked in thevisual stylistics and artificial dialogue one has come to expect from homages to Hong Kong action films.But One Last Dance delivers an ...
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Dir: Toa Fraser. New Zealand. 2006. 93mins.A Fijian matriarch calls her family together for onebig party before she dies in Toa Fraser's agreeable directorial debut which hadits international premiere at the Sundance Film Festival recently before headinginto Berlin's Panorma section.No. 2,named after the house on the street where the film ...
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Watson joins Zellweger, McGregor in Miss Potter
Emily Watson has joinedRenee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the high-powered cast of Chris Noonan's MissPotter, the biopic of UK children'sauthor Beatrix Potter which is scheduled to start shooting in the UK and theIsle Of Man in March.Watson will play Millie, thesister of McGregor's character, Norman Warne, Potter's publisher and ...
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Quinceanera
Dir/scr: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland. US.2006. 90mins.Winner of both the jury and audience prizes indramatic competition at Sundance this weekend, Quinceanera is a warm-heartedportrait of a trio of outcasts in the conservative Latino community of EchoPark, East Los Angeles, who pull together as a family of sorts. Glatzer and ...
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Destricted
Dirs: Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla,Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe,Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood. US/UK. 2006. 116mins.A series of short adult films by someof the most outre artists and film-makers on theworld stage today, Destrictedis an unusual project which brings pornographic imagery somewhere into the veryouter margins of the mainstream.Continuingthe trend ...
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Sola, Atrix take on worldwide rights to Swedish comedy Winners And Losers
German sales companies SolaMedia and Atrix Films have picked up worldwide rights to Swedish family comedy WinnersAnd Losers (pictured) directed byKjell Sundvall.The deal was concluded betweenSola Media's Solveig Langeland with Anders Landstrom of FilmlanceInternational. Langeland and Atrix Films' Beatrix Wesle will present the filmto buyers for the first time at ...
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The Science Of Sleep
Dir: Michel Gondry. Fr. 2006. 105mins.For his third feature The Science Of Sleep, French directorMichel Gondry leaves behind Charlie Kaufman, whowrote his first two films, and finds a droll, eccentric voice all his own. Amadcap surreal comedy set in Paris and shot in English and French, it doesn'thave the emotional ...
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Little Miss Sunshine
Dirs: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris. US. 2006. 100mins.The first big hit of the 2006 SundanceFilm Festival, sold the night after its first screening last Friday to FoxSearchlight for over $10m, Little MissSunshine is a genuinely delightful comedy about a family of misfits on a roadtrip to a beauty pageant.Playing ...
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Friends With Money
Dir/scr: Nicole Holofcener. US. 2006. 88mins.Nicole Holofcener's thirdfemale-skewed ensemble piece confirms her as a distinctive, urbane commentatoron the life of (affluent) women in America today. An incisive snapshot ofcontemporary values as grappled with by four Los Angeles women, Friends With Money is only her thirdfilm, but stints on episodic television ...
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Bergstein, Tutor buy Capitol as core of ambitious group
The three owners ofLondon-based Capitol Films - Sharon Harel, Jane Barclay and Hannah Leader -have announced that their long-in-the-works sale of Capitol to LA-basedentrepreneurs David Bergstein and Ronald N Tutor has been completed. Bergstein and Tutor now haveambitious plans to form an international entertainment group which will becalled Capitol with ...
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Brokeback Mountain towers over Golden Globes
AngLee's western romance Brokeback Mountain and James Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line dominated the Golden Globe Awards at last night's 63rdannual ceremony.BrokebackMountain won four prizes - bestmotion picture (drama), best director for Ang Lee, best screenplay and bestsong. Walk The Line won threetrophies - for best motion picture ...
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Hamilton joins Paramount specialised label as vp, production
John Lesher's new hires atParamount's reconfigured specialized arm continued yesterday with theannouncement that Chad Hamilton had been named vice president, production.Hamilton (pictured) will be involved inthe acquisition and development of material, reporting to Amy Israel, executivevice president of production and acquisitions.He was formerly vicepresident, production, at Anonymous Content, the LA-based ...
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Weinstein Co returns The Promise to producers
The WeinsteinCompany has returned distribution rights to Chen Kaige'sThe Promise (akaMaster Of The Crimson Armor) to thefilm's producers Moonstone Entertainment and China Film Group.TWC had boughtrights in North America, UK, Australia and South Africa to the film at Cannesthis year but those territories are now available again and Moonstone's Etchie ...
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The Promise (Mo Gik)
Dir/scr: Chen Kaige. China. 2005. 102 mins.Chen Kaige's first attemptat the Chinese adventure epic which has become a global box-office staple sinceAng Lee's CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero and House Of FlyingDaggers is a commercial, entertaining addition to the genre.Already hyped as one of themost expensive films ever ...
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Munich
Dir: Steven Spielberg. US.2005. 165 mins.It's a bold and courageous move for Steven Spielbergto address the 100-year Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a $70mHollywood movie, and he has already stirred up advance controversy for thestory he opted to tell - that of the Israeli government's secret hit squadsallegedly formed in the aftermath ...
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Munich
Dir: Steven Spielberg. US.2005. 165 mins.It's a bold and courageous move for Steven Spielbergto address the 100-year Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a $70mHollywood movie, and he has already stirred up advance controversy for thestory he opted to tell - that of the Israeli government's secret hit squadsallegedly formed in the aftermath ...
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Brokeback named year's best picture by LA critics
Ang Lee's BrokebackMountain continued thewinning streak it started at the Venice Film Festival, taking best picture anddirector citations from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) in itsdeliberations on Saturday.The western, which focuses on a love affair between twocowboys, opened in the US over the weekend to some of the ...