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Film20 assesses EU-expansion in the film industry
In advance of the second part of its Euro Expansion Conference, to be held in Berlin on October 20 - 21, Germany's Film20 producer lobby group held a press conference in Berlin to set the agenda. Titled 'Pro Extension in the film business' the event set out the strategy of ...
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Intermission dominates Irish Film&TV Awards
Intermission, which passed the Euos 2m mark at the Irish box office last week, has been shortlisted in 11 award categories in the Irish Film & Television Awards which will be announced in Dublin on November 1. Debut director John Crowley, and writer Mark O'Rowe have both been nominated for ...
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Comfortable premiere anticipated at Bergen
Norway's Bergen International Film Festival (Oct16-21) will see the world premiere of highly anticipated local documentary, Gunnar Hall Jensen's Gunnar Goes Comfortable.The Bergen-based filmmaker's highly autobiographical documentary has been much talked about since an incomplete version won the Swedish Film Institute's Documentary Award back in 2002. It follows Jensen who ...
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Mifed unveils market premieres
Milan's Mifed market has announced its market premieres for its 70th edition (Nov 9-13), as well as unveiling a new strand designed to showcase young European filmmakers to buyers.Mifed's new titles include Wild Bunch's Janis And John, Samuel Benchetrit's film about Janis Joplin which stars Marie Trintignant in one of ...
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Rosenstrasse
Dir. Margarethe von Trotta. Germany, 2003. 136mins.A classical, straightforward, honest and deeply felt reconstruction of a little known Second World War incident, which provided a little ray of light in a sea of darkness, Margarethe von Trotta's first feature in nine years is a worthy addition to a mass of ...
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Rotterdam focuses on US politics
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), to be held from Jan 21 - Feb 1, 2004, has lined up an edgy thematic sidebar focusing on the current US political climate.Called Homefront USA, it presents works by American filmmakers and other artists reflecting on the climate of neo-conservatism and the global ...
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Cannes 2000 veers towards larger scale pictures
Although Gilles Jacob is still six weeks away from announcing his Cannes competition selection, the line-up in all the Cannes festival sections is already looking heavily skewed towards high-profile, large-scale films, with a particular bias towards English-language titles, many of the them sizeable international co-productions.The potential list of contenders that ...
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Scotland to don Maybury's Jacket
Scotland is to host the shoot of John Maybury's $32m The Jacket, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley.The Jacket will be produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Section Eight, with Peter Gruber's Mandalay Pictures in association with German fund VIP Medienfonds. Warner Bros has US rights and it is ...
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Jonjo Mickybo cranks up in Northern Ireland
Filming began in Northern Ireland yesterday (Oct 15) on Jonjo Mickybo, designer Terry Loane's feature film debut as writer and director.Loane previously worked as a designer in theatre and on many short films, including the Oscar-nominated short Dance Lexie Dance, before turning to film writing and direction with the short ...
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Spain's FAPAE names Perez as new president
The Spanish Producers' Federation FAPAE has elected former Via Digital president Pedro Perez as its new president, replacing Eduardo Campoy.Perez previously held the FAPAE post from 1993 to 1997. His new candidacy, which went uncontested and was voted in by a majority, will last for a minimum of two years.Campoy ...
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Stander's South African debut disappoints
Bronwen Hughes's Stander had a disappointing world premiere in South Africa over the weekend for distributor Nu Metro. The $15m film, starring Thomas Jane and Deborah Unger, is one of the first South African-content films that is neither driven by politics nor candid-camera type farce. It is based on the ...
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Lescure returns to his roots
Pierre Lescure is returning to his roots. The former Canal Plus chairman, who started as a radio and television journalist, will present a cinema news program on French terrestrial network France 5 beginning this season.Although no start date is slated for the show, entitled 24 1/2, France 5 today announced ...
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New Brazilian cinema initiative aims to double country's screen count
Plans are afoot to doublethe current screen count of Brazil, currently estimated at 1,700. An outreachproject dubbed Cinema For All (Cine Para Todos), spearheaded by leadingnational exhibitor Cinemas Severiano Ribeiro and top veteran producer LuizCarlos Barreto (Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands, Middle Of The World), has unveiled plans to ...
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Rialto buys Bresson, Godard classics for US theatrical re-release
New York-based RialtoPictures has acquired theatrical rights to four classic titles from Paris-basedArgos Films and will kick off with the release of Robert Bresson's acclaimed1966 drama Au Hasard Balthazar atNew York's Film Forum on Oct 17.Au Hasard Balthazar, an allegorical musing on saintliness, willsubsequently go out on national release and ...
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People I Know
Dir: Daniel Algrant. USA. 2001. 100mins.Anyone who wants to see Al Pacino in his one of his most impressive roles since Scent Of A Woman is going to have to get on a plane to Rome, at least for the time being. A combination of commercial bad timing and self-regulatory ...
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Garage Days
Dir: Alex Proyas. Australia. 2002. 105mins.With the major backing of Fox Searchlight and a US$7m budget - hefty by Australian standards - Alex Proyas' eagerly anticipated first feature since his acclaimed, effects-laden dramas The Crow (1994) and Dark City (1998) is a surprisingly lightweight comedy about an underachieving Sydney band's ...
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Pinocchio's Italian screen count noses ahead
Massive demand from Italian exhibitors has led Italian distributor Medusa to widen its nationwide release of Pinocchio this Friday to an unprecedented 940 screens, up from the previously announced - and already record-breaking - 860 screens.Through a careful Euros2m marketing campaign, Medusa and the film's star and director, Roberto Benigni, ...
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Magical cast lines up for Pathe's Roundabout
A host of star names, including Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue are to provide the voices for Pathe Pictures' CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.The $20m movie, to be directed by Dave Borthwick of Bristol-based animation studio bolexbrothers, will also feature the voices of Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Joanna Lumley, ...
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Last Life wraps as Bohemian's first film
Last Life In The Universe, the latest pan-Asian co-production and first feature from start-up production outfit Bohemian Films, is set to wrap this week following a six-week shoot in Bangkok.Directed by Thailand's Pen-ek Ratanaruang, the film is a dark comedy about a suicidal Japanese librarian, living in Bangkok, who is ...