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  • News

    IFC Films picks up North American rights to Everlasting Moments

    2008-09-09T14:16:00Z

    IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Jan Troell's pan-Scandinavian co-production Everlasting Moments screening here and will release the film next year through IFC In Theatres.Troell wrote the screenplay with Niklas Radstrom and Agneta Ulfsater Troell; the story depicts cultural shifts told through the history of a late ...

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    Ole Christian Madsen plans sex addiction drama

    2008-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Ole Christian Madsen, here at TIFF with Danish smash hit Flame & Citron (The Match Factory has sold to 25 territories including IFC for the US), has several new projects in the works. The first to shoot will be a film about sex addiction to shoot in Denmark in December ...

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    MEIFF names eight films in competition, Laila's Birthday screening

    2008-09-09T16:20:00Z

    Eight films have been set for the international competition feature film and documentary sections at the second annual Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (Oct 10-19)Toronto festival favourite Laila's Birthday from Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi will also have its Middle Eastern premiere at the festival. The film, about ...

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    Newton heats up next projects after Three Blind Mice

    2008-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Australian actor/writer/director Matthew Newton, here with Three Blind Mice, has two new scripts in development.People People is about a 40-year-old married couple trying to stay together. 'It's about comfort versus freedom,' Newton says. 'It's like an anti-rom-com, about how we relate to each other.'He also has LA-set genre piece about ...

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    DeVito, Winkler, Zwick honoured by Israel Film Festival

    2008-09-09T16:59:00Z

    Danny DeVito, Irwin Winkler and Edward Zwick will be honoured at the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which runs in New York from October 29-November 13.DeVito will receive the Lifetime Visionary Award, Winkler the Lifetime Achievement Award and Zwick the Outstanding Achievement In Film award. Zwick's second world war Resistance ...

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    Cantet's The Class to close Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema

    2008-09-09T17:01:00Z

    Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class will close the 37th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema. A long-time Cantet supporter, the FNC awarded him its 2001 Louve d'Or for Time Out (L'Emploi Du Temps). The Class (aka Entre Les Murs) will open the New York Film Festival on Sept 26.Other ...

  • Reviews

    Pandora's Box (Pandoranin Kutusu)

    2008-09-09T18:12:00Z

    Dir. Yesim Ustaoglu. Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium. 2008. 112 mins.

  • Reviews

    $5 A Day

    2008-09-08T18:10:00Z

    Dir. Nigel Cole. US.2008.89 mins.

  • News

    Canada's Itemus acquires The Shooting Gallery

    2000-11-01T11:58:00Z

    US media company The Shooting Gallery has been sold to Toronto-based dotcom Itemus in a $56m share swap deal. However The Shooting Gallery familiar to the international film industry, namely the film development and distribution business, will be spun off, along with allied television and music arms, to existing shareholders ...

  • Still Walking
    Reviews

    Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo)

    2008-09-09T18:15:00Z

    Dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Japan. 2008. 114 mins.Adapted by Kore-Eda from a novel he wrote, evidently inspired by the death of his parents a few years back, Still Walking is a quiet, almost whispered picture in which nothing much seems to happen and may well be a ...

  • Reviews

    White Night Wedding

    2008-09-09T18:17:00Z

    Dir. Baltasar Kormakur. Iceland. 2008. 94 mins.

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    Easy Virtue

    2008-09-08T18:32:00Z

    Dir: Stephan Elliott. UK. 2008. 93mins

  • News

    Maximum takes six films apiece from Fortissimo, Cinetic

    2008-09-10T06:00:00Z

    After an earlier TIFF deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Canadian distributor Maximum Film Distribution has taken on a package of six films from Fortissimo's current slate.Maximum has also taken Canadian rights to six titles from New York-based Cinetic Media as part of an exclusive output agreement between the two companies ...

  • Reviews

    Uncertainty

    2008-09-08T18:38:00Z

    Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel. US. 2008. 101 minsRegular collaborators McGehee and Siegel have hit what is called in baseball a double-a compliment, that—with Uncertainty. In the past, their provocative films have veered toward the academic, as with the study of amnesia in the modern Cain-and-Abel ...

  • Management
    Reviews

    Management

    2008-09-08T18:44:00Z

    Dir. Stephen Belber. US. 2008. 93 mins.

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    Rampling, Bruhl, Friel to star in Amiel's WWI comedy Angel Makers

    2008-09-10T09:00:00Z

    Charlotte Rampling will star alongside Daniel Bruhl and Anna Friel in London-based The Producers' first world war dark comedy Angel Makers which Jon Amiel will direct.Benno Furmann, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anne-Marie Duff and John Hurt round out the key cast. The Producers principal Jeanna Polley is producing and is currently scouting ...

  • Reviews

    The Stoning Of Soraya M

    2008-09-08T18:55:00Z

    Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh. US. 2008. 116mins.This harrowing, if cinematically flawed, account of a male mob’s murder of a young wife and mother according to Shariah law in an Iranian village in 1986, just a few years after Khomeini took power, takes on particular relevance today. Exposes ...

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    Palisades Tartan extends Fortissimo library deal

    2008-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Palisades Tartan UK, the Palisades Pictures subsidiary formed with the takeover of the library of the now-defunct Tartan Films, has struck a deal to extend its UK distribution rights to Fortissimo Films titles.The library includes more than 30 films including Mysterious Skin, Capturing The Friedmans, 2046, Super Size Me, The ...

  • Reviews

    Native Dancer

    2008-09-08T19:00:00Z

    Dir. Guka Omarova. Kazakhstan/ Russia/ France/ Germany. 2008. 87 mins.

  • News

    Filmax develops English-language trio

    2000-11-01T12:04:00Z

    Fresh from the sales success of forthcoming English-language feature Darkness, Barcelona-based mini-studio The Filmax Group is prepping three new English-language co-productions as part of its international push.Luis Sepulveda's political drama Nowhere, a co-production with Surf Films of Italy and Buena Vista/Telefonica Media-backed Patagonik of Argentina, is being prepped for a ...