All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 58
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King Kong
Dir: Peter Jackson. US.2005. 189mins.Peter Jackson's KingKong is Jurassic Park, War Of The Worlds, Jaws, ET and Raiders Of The Lost Ark allrolled into one mammoth, three-hour rollercoaster ride. As if saying to StevenSpielberg "Anything you can do, I can do better", Jackson delivers a resoundingaudience-pleaser which pushes the boundaries ...
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Golden Globes Preview
Looking at the winners in the musical and comedycategories of the Golden Globe Awards in the last five years, it is not such asurprising selection: most films and actors went on to win Oscar nominations. But look at the nominations and the real surprisesappear. Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality,Robert De ...
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New $45m Borgia heads to Romania
Neil Jordan's $45m epic Borgia will shoot in Italy and Romania, the director saidin Los Angeles last week.The project, which wasoriginally configured as a $55m film to shoot in Italy and at BabelsbergStudios in Germany in 2002, was recently revitalized with Colin Farrell andScarlett Johnasson as siblings Cesare and Lucrezia ...
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Tsotsi, Henderson share Denver audience awards
The 28th DenverInternational Film Festival ended on Saturday night with a gala screening of BrokebackMountain and theannouncement of the juried award-winners. The festival is sponsored by StarzEntertainment Group.The audience award for best feature was shared betweenStephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presentsand Gavin Hood's Tsotsi, bestdocumentary went to Donnie I Betts' Music ...
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Rent
Dir: Chris Columbus. US.2005. 130mins.The zeitgeist 1996 Broadway musical Rent gets a faithful and energetic filmadaptation from an unlikely film-maker in Chris Columbus, and an in-builtaudience of Rent-lovers won't bedisappointed. Columbus also has a fair shot at pulling in a new generation ofkids who don't know the show and who ...
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Cave Of The Yellow Dog (Die Hohle Des Gelben Hundes)
Dir: Byambasuren Davaa. Mon-Ger. 2005. 93mins.After the extraordinary success of The Story Of The Weeping Camel, whichshe co-directed with her fellow Munich Film School student Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa returns to Mongolia for her second film The Cave Of The Yellow Dog, which hasbeen named the official Mongolian entry for ...
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Rio Festival, FIPRESCI launch Latin American film prize
Critics organization FIPRESCI is teaming up with the the RioInternational Film Festival aka Festival Do Rio to introduce a new FIPRESCIprize for best Latin American film of the year which will be awarded for thefirst time at the festival next year.The prize, which will be awarded by FIPRESCI members to ...
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Zellweger to play Beatrix Potter for Phoenix, Kirschner
Renee Zellweger has signedon to star as Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter, which Babe director Chris Noonan will direct forDavid Kirschner Productions and Phoenix Pictures.Thefilm, which at one point in its evolution had Cate Blanchett attached to starin the title role, is scheduled to begin shooting on March ...
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Marco Muller heads up Brazil jury at Rio Film Festival
Venice Film Festivaldirector Marco Muller is heading the Premiere Brazil jury at this year'sFestival do Rio which started last week and ends on Oct 6.Muller is joined on the juryby City Of God co-director KatiaLund, local actor Milton Goncalves, whose credits include Kiss Of TheSpiderwoman and Carandiru, and screenwriter Elena ...
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Inferno pacts with WiP, Castle Rock for Chaos Theory
Jim Seibel and BillJohnson's Inferno Distribution has closed a deal with Castle Rock Entertainmentand Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) to finance Chaos Theory, a comedy starring Ryan Reynolds which will bedirected by Marcos Siega (Pretty Persuasion, Underclassman).Reynolds plays a young manabout to run out on his wedding day, until he is ...
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In Her Shoes
Dir: Curtis Hanson. US.2005. 130mins.Curtis Hanson'sgenre-spanning career has included The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, TheRiver Wild, LA Confidential and 8 Mile - so it should come asno surprise that he is able to craft a superior tearjerker in his latest film InHer Shoes.The contemporary equivalentof what used to be ...
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Festival do Rio lines up programme of over 300 films
The Rio International FilmFestival, which takes place Sept 22 to Oct 6, has unveiled its programme ofover 300 features and documentaries from 60 countries.Sponsored by the City ofRio, the Secretary of Culture, Riofilme and Petrobras, the festival screens 28new Brazilian features and 21 shorts including ten new features in fictioncompetition ...
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Tsotsi, Look Both Ways win top prizes at Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival ended on Saturday, with Gavin Hood's UK/South Africaco-production Tsotsi winning thecoveted People's Choice Award voted on by festival audiences. The award has, inthe past, signaled enormous popular successes such as Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon (2000), Amelie (2001), Whale Rider (2002) Zatoichi (2003), and last year Hotel Rwanda.Sarah ...
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Shoreline acquires worldwide rights to Brooklyn Lobster
ShorelineEntertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Kevin Jordan's BrooklynLobster which had itsworld premiere in the Toronto Film Festival this week.Presented byMartin Scorsese, the film stars Danny Aiello and Jane Curtin and centres on aBrooklyn workingman struggling against the foreclosure of his lobster farm.Jordan also wrote the film and produced ...
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North Country
Dir: Niki Caro. US. 2005.123mins.After scoring a worldwidehit with the Oscar-nominated Whale Rider, New Zealand director Niki Caromakes a strong follow-up with her first Hollywood movie North Country.Loosely based on the truestory of a Minnesota woman crusading against sexual harassment in theworkplace, the film is compelling social issues storytelling in ...
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Rogue picks up Gondry's Block Party at Toronto
Dave Chappelle's Block Party, a standup comedy movie directed by Michel Gondry,was the latest film to sell at Toronto today (Wed) with Rogue Picturesacquiring worldwide rights.The deal marked the first acquisition for Rogue since it was expanded into the genre division of Universal Pictures run by David Linde. When it ...
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Walk The Line
Dir: James Mangold. US. 2005. 135mins.More the story of the romance between Johnny Cash and JuneCarter than a straight biopic of Cash, the eagerly awaited Walk The Line isa winning Hollywood entertainment dominated by two bright star performancesfrom Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.Wide audiences will lap up the drama, especially ...
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Just Like Heaven
Dir: Mark Waters. US.2005. 95mins.Despite another winningstar turn from Reese Witherspoon in the lead role, Just Like Heaven feelslike a convoluted blend of other movies from Ghost to While You WereSleeping to Sleepless In Seattle to What Dreams May Come.Set to be released byDreamWorks in North America on Sept 16 ...
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story
Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2005. 91mins.Michael Winterbottom's deliriously funny film-about-a-filmof 18th century novel Tristram Shandy is the prolific director's mostenjoyable feature to date. Based around the gigantic comic talents of SteveCoogan, A Cock And Bull Story is both Winterbottom's affectionate homageto film-making itself and a snapshot of UK talent and ...