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ABC Africa
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. Iran. 2001. 83 mins. Commissioned to raise international awareness of the work being done by the Uganda Women's Effort To Save Orphans (UWESO), ABC Africa is a surprisingly straightforward return to the documentary form from Palme D'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami. Largely eschewing the heartache and misery ...
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No Such Thing
Dir: Hal Hartley. US 2001. 101 mins.Instead of arresting a downward spiralling career, No Such Thing, Hal Hartley's new film and latest folly, demonstrates what happens to an iconoclastic film-maker when he neglects his instinctive talent for small, quirky, offbeat films and decides to go uproariously big. Indeed, a ...
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Sobibor
Dir. Claude Lanzmann, France 2001, 95 mins.A companion piece for his celebrated 1985 masterpiece Shoah, this new documentary combines material shot in 1979 but never incorporated in Claude Lanzmann's major opus, with some additional footage taken in Poland recently. Dealing with the uprising that took place at the date and ...
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Martha... Martha
Dir: Sandrine Veysset. France. 2001. 97 mins.Martha... Martha resumes many of the themes of Sandrine Veysset's previous work, in particular her first feature, Will It Snow At Christmas': deeply damaged families living on the poverty line, a mother with suicidal tendencies and, more generally, the pervasive undercurrent of emotional violence ...
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Pauline & Paulette
Dir: Lieven Debrauwer. Belgium/France/Netherlands. 2001. 78minsA bittersweet little heart-warmer on the ties that bind four sisters, Pauline & Paulette marks a promising feature debut from writer-director Lieven Debrauwer who won the Prize Du Jury at Cannes in 1997 for his short film Leonie. Lightly humorous and quietly perceptive as it ...
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German companies team to produce Ramones pic
German production outfits Red Beat Pictures and Indigo Filmproduktion have teamed up to acquire the rights to produce Too Tough To Die, a biopic of punk band The Ramones and its late lead singer Joey Ramone, with LA-based Capture Film Inc.Co-written and to be co-directed by German film-makers Peter Thorwarth ...
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Tiger scores second biggest US DVD launch
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has become the fastest selling DVD title in Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment's history since its release in North America on June 5. The title has sold an estimated 1.5 million units with a 60% sell-off in its first week. On its first day of ...
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Kinowelt finally secures German TV deal with ZDF
Beleaguered German mini-studio Kinowelt Medien has finally found a TV home for the Wachowski brothers' Warner Bros. action blockbuster The Matrix.The title is among 15 German free-TV premieres - including the animation feature Pokemon - The Film and Amos Kollek's Fast Food, Fast Women - sold as part of a ...
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StudioCanal to take over TV powerhouse Expand
As expected, Vivendi Universal's StudioCanal is to take over Expand, the television production powerhouse born in February 2000 of the merger Canal Plus' television production and distribution affiliate Ellipse Programmes and French television production group Expand.After exercising an option on the 20.4% owned by the FinExpand financial holding in Expand, ...
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Hannover Leasing to raise $465m for Fox, New Line
Munich-based leasing company Hannover Leasing (HL) has launched seven separate production funds to raise over $465m (Euros540m) in finance for feature projects from 20th Century Fox and New Line Cinema. HL's collaboration with New Line Cinema follows on from last year when the German fund specialist raised a total of ...
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Father and son pull off Bollywood double whammy
The second annual Indian Film Awards, held this year at Sun City, South Africa, saw father and son duo Hrithik and Rakesh Roshan pulling off a remarkable double act. Bollywood heart-throb Hrithik Roshan was named best actor for his role in Tell Me You Love Me (Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai), ...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien goes to IFC Films
IFC Films, the theatrical distribution arm of Independent Film Channel, has acquired North American distribution rights to Y Tu Mama Tambien, the erotic Spanish-language Mexican film from director Alfonso Cuaron which last week opened in Mexico to the biggest three day opening of a Mexican film in history.Y Tu Mama ...
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Laura Rooney leaves ShoWest, joins AFM
Laura Rooney has been appointed director, AFM operations, by the American Film Marketing Association.Rooney comes to the AFMA from exhibitors association NATO of California, most recently as director of annual film trade event ShoWest. She will oversee all operational aspects of AFM and, as the primary contact with the Loews ...
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Terry Sanders buys film rights to Tokyo Rose story
Acclaimed documentary film-maker Terry Sanders has acquired film rights to the screenplay Tokyo Rose by Pat Fielder and Richard Bluel based on the book They Call Her Tokyo Rose by Rex Gunn. He will produce and direct through his company The American Film Foundation; It will mark his first fictional ...
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Tender Years best of poor Russian line-up at Sochi
Sergei Soloviev's Tender Years won the main prize at the Sochi International Film Festival, traditionally a weather vane for Russian cinema as it screens virtually all the year's films to an audience of local professionals.This year's edition brought the usual array of Russian stars and international critics for parties, sun ...
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De Laurentiis to give keynote address at Montreal
Actress Sophia Loren and producer Dino De Laurentiis will be feted at this year's Montreal World Film Festival as part of the event's 25th anniversary celebration.Loren will receive a Special Grand Prix of the Americas for her exceptional achievement in cinema. Loren's most recent film, Francesca E Nunziata, directed by ...
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UK's Film Council hands out training awards
UK support body the Film Council has allocated its first training grants for film-makers already working in the industry.The council's bursary programme will pay for three writers - Lorrie Sheehy, Phillippa Goslett and Michael Maynard - to attend this year's Moonstone International Screen Labs in Italy. The Moonstone scheme allows ...
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European bodies unite to form digital forum
Pulling together a swathe of public and private European film bodies, the nucleus for a single agency representing the Continent's interests in the digital era was formed last week under the banner of the European Digital Cinema Forum.The forum is to act as a consultative body for governments and the ...