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The Invisible Circus
Screened at Sundance (Premieres). Dir: Adam Brooks. US. 2001. 98mins.Adam Brooks' The Invisible Circus is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and as a coming of age of a young girl obsessed by the mysterious death of her ...
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StudioCanal's German arm boards second project
The German production arm of France's StudioCanal, StudioCanal Produktion, is to co-produce Robert Schwentke's directorial debut Tattoo, it's second project following Edward Berger's love story Frau 2 Sucht Happy End.StudioCanal's German theatrical arm, Tobis StudioCanal (TSC), has set an autumn 2001 release for the thriller, which has been shooting ...
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Italy's Buskin Film snaps up Berlin trio
Fledgling Italian sales outfit Buskin Film has picked up worldwide rights to three films which are set to screen at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival: Peter Del Monte's Against The Wind (Controvento), Luciano Emmer's A Long, Long, Long Night Of Love and Rosalia Polizzi's Reconciled.Against The Wind, produced by Italy's ...
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Beckett on Film project rolls out in Dublin
Top directors including Anthony Minghella, Atom Egoyan and David Mamet are expected to attend the ambitious "Beckett on Film" project, a week-long series of screenings of filmed versions of Samuel Beckett's 19 plays, which kicks off at the Irish Film Centre in Dublin today.Some of the films have already been ...
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Davis quits as CEO of Terra Lycos
Bob Davis, founder of internet giant Lycos, will step down as CEO of Terra Lycos in a move widely depicted as the result of a power struggle with Terra chief Joaquim Agut.Davis will continue as non-executive vice president to the administrative board of Terra Lycos, the merged firm which resulted ...
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BV International acquires Vietnamese Stork
Norwegian sales company BV International Pictures has picked up international rights to Jonathan Foo and Nguyen Phan Quang Bing's Song Of The Stork, described as the first Vietnam war film to be shot on location in Vietnam by an international crew. Inspired by true stories, Song Of The Stork depicts ...
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Usborne to head regional at UK's New Cinema Fund
UK film superbody the Film Council has appointed independent producer Alex Usborne to oversee regional funding through its low-budget and edgy production fund, the New Cinema Fund.Usborne is to encourage film-makers across the UK to access the fund, which is worth $7.4m (£5m) a year. He previously ran Sheffield-based production ...
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Fake UK doc gets Colombian treatment
Colombian production outfit Tucan Productions is developing a feature inspired by the case of UK broadcaster Carlton Television's fake 1996 documentary The Connection, which claimed to have uncovered a new heroin route from Colombia to British school playgrounds.The Deal (El Trato) is to be directed by Colombian filmmaker Francisco Norden, ...
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Kevin Williams picks up Cordoba's debut
Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up world rights on Juan Vicente Cordoba's feature film directorial debut, What You Never Knew (Aunque Tu No Lo Sepas).The film, a co-production between Samarkanda and Enrique Cerezo PC, premiered at last year's San Sebastian International Film Festival.What You Never Knew ...
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Jodie Foster drops out as Cannes jury president
Actress Jodie Foster has been forced to drop out as president of this year's Cannes Film Festival jury after being selected as a last-minute replacement for the injured Nicole Kidman in the lead role of David Fincher's The Panic Room.The impending threat of a summer strike, should either the writers ...
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Hollywood Partners champions Hill's Undisputed
Hollywood Partners (HP), the Munich-based private film fund, has committed to co-financing and co-producing Walter Hill's Undisputed, starring Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames and Peter Falk, in return for all foreign rights and certain income rights in the US and Canada.The film, which began shooting at a maximum security prison just ...
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Pellet scoops four awards at Spain's Goyas
Actor-turned-director Achero Manas' debut feature film, Pellet (El Bola), was the surprise grand winner at the 15th edition of Spain's top Goya Awards on Saturday night.A startlingly realistic tale of child abuse and one of the first titles out of new production house Tesela Producciones, Pellet won four out of ...
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Uruguay's 25 Watts lights up Rotterdam
Uruguayan directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's 25 Watts, about a group of bored teenagers in Montevideo, clinched one of the three VPRO Tiger Awards, along with the Movie Zone Award, at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival.The other two Tiger Award winners, who each receive prizes worth Euro10,000, ...
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Cool And Crazy bags top award at Goteborg
Knut Erik Jensen's feature-length documentary Cool And Crazy (Heftig Og Begeistret) picked up the Nordic film award at Scandinavia's largest film event, the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden, which wrapped on Saturday night.The film had its successful world premiere at the Tromso International Film Festival in Norway, but director Jensen, ...
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Valentine can't edge out Wedding Planner from No 1
Columbia Pictures' The Wedding Planner - sold internationally by Intermedia - held on to the number one slot at the North American box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $11m to bring its ten day total to $28.2m. The romantic comedy beat out competition from Warner Bros' teen ...
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Argentine production to receive tax boost
Argentina is poised to introduce a new law which will create tax shelters for companies investing in cinema and other cultural endeavors, along the same lines as the Brazilian model. The so-called Ley de Mecenazgo (Sponsorship Law) will be put forward in March for final deliberations by the government.Under the ...
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Verhoeven shorts to heat up Tampere fest
The leading Nordic short film event, Finland's Tampere International Short Film Festival (March 7-11), has unveiled the programme of its 31st edition which includes cult favourites chosen by Aki Kaurismaki as well as early shorts from Paul Verhoeven.Both international and Finnish competition films will be judged by an international jury ...
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London's Electric Cinema set to reopen
The Electric Cinema, one of London's most celebrated theatres, is to reopen on February 21 after a seven-year hiatus with a charity gala screening of Stephen Frears' Liam.The cinema's initial programme also includes screenings of Marc Singer's acclaimed documentary Dark Days, a re-release of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, ...
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Feilberg takes post at Danish Film Institute
The board of the Danish Film Institute has appointed Lars Feilberg as area manager for production and development, replacing Thomas Stenderup, effective from April. Feilberg has previously held positions as managing director of Domino Film & TV Produktion, MTV Produktion and Endemol Entertainment. He was also a project manager and ...
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The Deep End
Screened at Sundance (Dramatic Competition). Dirs: Scott McGehee, David Siegel. US. 2001. 99mins.Without the brilliant Tilda Swinton, The Deep End, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's neo-noir, would have been just another technically accomplished thriller. With her, however, the film assumes a strong dramatic center and emotional resonance that elevates ...