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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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Grimm
Dir. Alex van Warmerdam. The Netherlands, 2003. 104mins.Looking both grim and Grimm (as in the Brothers), this modern nightmarish fairytale has nevertheless enough weird humour in it to legitimately qualify as a comedy, though there is nothing funny going on throughout. The way Dutch director Warmerdam applies his wicked touch ...
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Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Koran (Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Koran)
Dir. Francois Dupeyron. France, 2003. 94mins.Screened out of competition at Venice to celebrate Omar Sharif's Golden Lion, Francois Dupeyron's new film isn't the kind of stuff festivals dream of, and looks much better suited for commercial than art house distribution. Based on a short best-selling, auto-biographical novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ...
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Pornography
Dir: Jan Jakub Kolski. Poland/France. 2003. 113mins.One of the most frequent Polish guests at international film competition, Jan Jakub Kolski's Venice contender once again goes back to the Second World War, in order to expose old wounds that have never quite healed. But as ambitious as it looks on paper, ...
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Secondhand Lions
Dir: Tim McCanlies. US 2003. 107minsAny film starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall as a pair of old codgers can't be all bad, but this family comedy/drama sure tests the audience's tolerance level. Veering between overly broad humour and exaggerated cutesyness, Secondhand Lions lacks any sense of real emotion and ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Sequels rule OK. Or maybe not. Someone must have decided to nominate the weekend as a haven for sequels because UIP's Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle Of Life, Fox's Legally Blonde 2 and UIP's Rugrats Go Wild all opened. But none of the brands were strong enough to ...
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Cape Town studio project gets greenlight
Dreamworld Film City, a consortium headed by leading South African film producer Anant Singh, has won the bidding to establish a world-class studio facility in Cape Town. The consortium, which was shortlisted with five other bidding groups by the provincial government of the Western Cape and the City of Cape ...
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Golden Leopard rewards Salvatores, launches film classes.
The second edition of the Golden Leopard Prize was awarded to director Gabriele Salvatores (I'm Not Afraid) on Sept 20, for his 'continuing research of new expressive forms and styles.'The ceremony was held at La Colombaia, Luchino Visconti's villa on the island of Ischia, near Naples. The prize was established ...
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SWITZERLAND
Mike Eschmann's teen-comedy Ready, Steady, Charlie! (Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!) became the all-time biggest local opener in Switzerland when it took the lead on an unprecedented 49 prints in the German region of the country attracting over 70,000 admissions after a large wide-spread marketing and media blitz.This included a premiere in ...
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Iranian war movie looks to break mould
Iran is lining up its biggest ever movie, a war film budgeted at $4m - more than twenty times the cost of a regular Iranian film. Directed and produced by Mohammad Reza Darvish, the film is set during the Iran-Iraq war. It focuses on a group of Iranians ...
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Sony launches Japanese animation unit
Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan has announced plans to make two full-length animated features annually for the local and international markets.The company has set up a new unit to produce the films and distribute them in 67 countries worldwide. The unit will also recruit and train animators for their productions. The ...
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Fuse named as Bosnian Oscar contender
Pjer Zalica's Silver Leopard-winning Fuse (Gori Vatra) has been selected by the Association of the Film Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a secret vote to compete for a nomination to the Academy Award's Best Foreign Language Film category. Screenings of three Bosnian features - Fuse, Dino Mustafic's Remake and ...
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Jackie Chan vehicle revs up in Hong Kong
Distant echoes of a successful franchise rang around Hong Kong this week as production got underway on a new Jackie Chan vehicle, currently titled New Police Story."Strictly speaking it is not a sequel and we won't call it Police Story anything as we don't have the rights," said Albert Lee, ...
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Canadian producers prepare for European Immersion
A wide range of Canadian and international producers are set to participate in Immersion Europe: 2003, the ninth annual Canada-Europe feature film financing forum to be held in Paris November 17-20. The line-up of 36 Canadian and 38 European producers will be looking for partners to get their projects financed ...
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Dinard films express 'an England in conflict', says fest director
Films at 14th annual Dinard Festival of British Film (Oct 2-5) express "an England in conflict", according to Hussam Hindi, artistic director of the three-day event.The festival opens with Nigel Cole's comedy Calendar Girls before taking a turn towards more serious issues.Hussam Hindi, artistic director of the three-day event noted ...
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Pearl Earring director falls for pickpocket drama
UK director Peter Webber, currently drawing plaudits for his feature debut Girl With A Pearl Earring, will next direct a gritty feature about pickpockets for BBC Films.In development for the past two years, Jackdaw (working title) is a contemporary exploration of teenage crime in London. Producer is Jake Lushington, with ...
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NYC's Guggenheim mounts huge Fellini retrospective
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will launch a retrospectiveof Federico Fellini's films and rarely seen drawings next month to coincidewith the 10th anniversary of the great director's death.Included in the three-month show are newly restored printsand a section devoted to Fellini's art that includes caricatures he drew as ayoung ...
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Little Vilma: The Last Diary
Dir: Marta Meszaros. Hungary. 1999. 115mins.Prod co: Dialogue Studios. Supported by: Eurimages, Mafilm, Duna TV. Int'l sales: Dialogue Studios. Prods: Csaba Bereczki, Karoly Makk. DoP: Nykia Jancso. Ed: Grzesuik Cezary. Main cast: Jan Nowicki, Barbara Hegyi, Kitty Keri, Lukas Nowiczki, Cleo Ladanyi, Lili Monori.Critics and cinephiles have long-awaited the last ...
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Cooler, Human Stain bookend brimming Hamptons festival
The East Coast premiere of Wayne Kramer's Las Vegas-set casinodrama The Cooler willopen the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 22-26and closes with the East Coast premiere of Robert Benton's drama The HumanStain.All in all there will be 22 world premieres at this festival thattakes place in ...