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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 ...
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SPAIN
Spanish film Football Days (Dias De Futbol) opened strong on its first weekend with a three-day gross of Euros 879,354 from 200 prints through Buena Vista International. The film marks the directorial debut of the screenwriter of last year's local hit The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado ...
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Under The Tuscan Sun
Dir: Audrey Wells. US 2003. 120 minutesA genial, if undemanding, romantic comedy/drama about a divorced woman learning to embrace life again, Under The Tuscan Sun owes a great deal of its appeal to its ingratiating star, Diane Lane. The actress has an inherent likableness that also worked for her in ...
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FRANCE
As kids get back to school and the French reminisce about summer flings, love is in the air with Jeux d'Enfants. The story of two inseparable and sometimes insufferable lovers who never quite make it, opened healthily at number one boosted by the star power of Guillaume Canet and new ...
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Ladies In Lavender kicks off for Dance
Charles Dance's directorial debut, Ladies In Lavender, has kicked off seven weeks of principal photography in Cornwall, London and at Pinewood Studios.Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruhl plays Andrea, a handsome and charismatic Polish castaway who is discovered by two spinsters - played by Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie ...