All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 81
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Jackson to present Rings trilogy at Lincoln Center in Jan
Peter Jackson will attend anall-weekend screening of the completed The Lord Of The Rings trilogy on Jan 10-11 2004 at the Lincoln Center inNew York City.Jackson will present thespecial extended editions of the first two films in the trilogy followed by TheReturn Of The King, the final filmin the trilogy ...
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Stringer gets Britannia Award honour from BAFTA/LA
Howard Stringer, chairmanand CEO of Sony Corporation Of America and vice chairman, Sony Corporation,will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award for contributions to worldwideentertainment at the 12th annual Britannia Awards on Nov 8 in LosAngeles. 'We are pleased to honor Sir Howard Stringer, who hasmade immeasurable contributions to the manner and practice ...
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Morgan Creek switches allegiance to Universal
Morgan Creek Productions,James G Robinson's production and financing company which has been basedat Warner Bros for the last 13 years, has entered into an exclusive, three-yeardomestic distribution agreement with Universal Pictures.Under the terms of the deal,Morgan Creek will produce and finance all its films for domestic distributionin all media by ...
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The Story Of The Weeping Camel
Dir: Luigi Falorni & Byambasuren Davaa. Mongolia/Germany. 2003. 90mins.One of the few buyer talking points at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, The Story Of The Weeping Camel is an illuminating portrait of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert which recalls everything from Nanook Of The North to Nikita Mikhalkov's ...
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Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan dead at 94
Oscar-winningfilm director Elia Kazan, whose credits include Hollywood classics On TheWaterfront (1954) and AStreetcar Named Desire(1951), has died aged 94 in New York City.Thecontroversial Kazan, whose own immigrant experience from Contantinople he documentedin the 1963 film of his book America America, worked first as an actor at New York'sGroup Theater ...
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Kill Bill Vol 1
Dir: Quentin Tarantino. US. 2003. 110 mins.Kill Bill, the fourth film by Quentin Tarantino (as it is announced in the opening credits), continues the director's tradition of raiding other films, film-makers' styles and his own soundtrack collection. And like his three previous films, the result of his looting is a ...
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French directors embark on US educational programme
Seven illustrious Frenchdirectors are embarking upon a new US initiative entitled On Set With FrenchCinema in which they will give aspiring US film-makers a series of lectures ontheir professional experience.The series kicks off inLos Angeles on Oct 6 with Regis Wargnier, while the New York events will startwith Claude Miller ...
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Pathe closes Toronto deals on Void, Girl
Pathe International UK chief Alison Thompson closed a slew ofdeals at the Toronto International Film Festival following the screenings ofPeter Webber's Girl With A Pearl Earring and Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void. Both films had their world premierescreenings at Telluride in late August before heading to Toronto.Asmik Ace and Pony ...
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Pathe closes deals on Void, Girl
Pathe International UK chief Alison Thompson closed a slew ofdeals at the Toronto International Film Festival following the screenings ofPeter Webber's Girl With A Pearl Earring and Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void. Both films had their world premierescreenings at Telluride in late August before heading to Toronto.Asmik Ace and Pony ...
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Halcyon's Deepwater kicks off in Canada
Chris Coen's LA-basedHalcyon Entertainment has commenced production on its first film in Canada. Theproject Deepwater is apsychological thriller about a drifter who happens upon the town of Deepwaterwhere he is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.Lucas Black plays thedrifter with Peter Coyote, Mia Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren, ...
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Toronto: SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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Mongrel gets Canadian rights to My Architect
Mongrel Media has acquiredall Canadian rights to Nathaniel Kahn's feature length documentary MyArchitect which is the story of theillegitimate son of famed architect Louis I Kahn as he searches the world foranswers to his father's mysterious life.Kahn, who died bankrupt andalone in Pennsylvania Station in 1974, is considered by many ...
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In The Cut
Dir: Jane Campion. US/Fr. 2003. 113 mins.Describing Jane Campion's latest opus In The Cut as a serial killer thriller is as simplistic as calling The Piano a coming-of-age story. Yes, the skeleton of the film is a genre thriller about a woman caught among a string of suspects in a ...
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In The Cut
Dir: Jane Campion. US/Fr. 2003. 113 mins.Describing Jane Campion's latest opus In The Cut as a serial killer thriller is as simplistic as calling The Piano a coming-of-age story. Yes, the skeleton of the film is a genre thriller about a woman caught among a string of suspects in a ...
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In The Cut review
Dir: Jane Campion. US/Fr. 2003. 113 mins.Describing Jane Campion's latest opus In The Cut as a serial killer thriller is as simplistic as calling The Piano a coming-of-age story. Yes, the skeleton of the film is a genre thriller about a woman caught among a string of suspects in a ...
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Out Of Time
Dir: Carl Franklin. US. 2003. 114 mins. This lightweight sub-noir thriller from director Carl Franklin is not merely implausible, it is preposterous. A star vehicle for Denzel Washington, who was reportedly paid $20m for his efforts, the film just about gets by on his megastar screen presence but stretches the ...
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Toronto means business: Miramax, Newmarket start the buying
MiramaxFilms beat out all-comers to Takeshi Kitano's Venice prize winner Zatoichi yesterday, buying rights in the US, Latin America andAustralia in Toronto over the weekend from Celluloid Dreams.Thedeal was the only festival title clinched at Toronto but two other domesticdeals were closed: Newmarket Films acquired US theatrical rights to the ...
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Festival means business: Miramax, Newmarket start the buying
MiramaxFilms beat out all-comers to Takeshi Kitano's Venice prize winner Zatoichi yesterday, buying rights in the US, Latin America andAustralia in Toronto over the weekend from Celluloid Dreams.Thedeal was the only festival title clinched at Toronto but two other domesticdeals were closed: Newmarket Films acquired US theatrical rights to the ...
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Kordon takes top prize at Montreal, Gaz Bar Blues second
Goran Markovic's intense drama Kordon from Serbia/Montenegro won the top prize- the Grand prix des Ameriques - at the Montreal World Film Festival on Sundaynight. Set in Belgrade in 1997, the film follows a police patrol on its roundsaround the city which is swept up in a sea of unrest ...