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Lucy
Dir\scr: Henner Winckler. Ger. 2006.92mins.The second feature from German director Henner Winckler, Lucy is a psychologically lucid,beguiling portrait of teenage restriction given a startling jolt of recognitionand star-making turn by German actress Kim Schnitzer.The story examines theemotional and personal consequences of the title character, eight-month-old Lucy(Hauschild), on her emotionally ill-equipped ...
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Prisa appoints US, Internet chiefs on eve of float
On the eve of its public offering, Spanish media empire Grupo Prisa has announced two key appointments.Jaime Polanco Soutullo has been appointed general director of Prisa for North America, a strategic post for further developing Prisa's activities in the US Spanish-speaking market. Polanco Soutullo will be headquartered in New York ...
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News From Home/News From House
Dir/scr: Amos Gitai. Is. 2006. 96mins.Israelis, Palestinians and others who follow MiddleEast politics closely will find little new, either conceptually or historicallyspeaking, in News From Home/News From House,the third instalment in Amos Gitai's documentarytrilogy about the Arab-Israeli conflict. But audiences around the world,especially at festivals, will appreciate the powerful feelings ...
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Finnish films enjoying record admissions for 2006
Figures released last weekby The Finnish Film Foundation. Local titles recorded 942,795 admissions duringJanuary and February, the best opening months of the year ever in Finland forlocal product, and have already surpassed the ticket sales of all local filmsthroughout 2005 (940,000). The top release of the yearso far was Aleksi ...
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NewsSenator Films looks set to pull cannibal film
German distributor Senator Film looks set to pull its March 9 release of Butterfly -A Grimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), after a court in Kassel granted Armin Meiwes a temporary injunction on Friday preventing the film being shown on German screens.
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Constantin subsidiary acquires rights to children's book
Just aweek after acquiring the film rights to Michael Ende'sJim Button children's classic for anEnglish language screen adaptation German producer Christian Becker has nowbought the rights to the late Max von der Gruen's 1976 children's book, The Suburban Crocodiles (Die Vorstadtkrokodile).The storyof a paraplegic boy being integrated into a children's ...
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Ask The Dust
Dir/scr Robert Towne. US. 2005. 117mins.Robert Towne returns with an evocative, nuancedadaptation of John Fante's Depression-era novel Ask The Dust, avisually lustrous and imaginatively staged film that is given piercing depth offeeling from leads Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.Fante's autobiographical 1939 work was a dominant literaryinfluence on Towne's greatest achievement, ...
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California's Method Fest opens with Matzner's Dreamland
Jason Matzner's directorial debut Dreamland starring Agnes Bruckner and Gina Gershonwill open the 8th annual Method Fest festival on Mar 31 in Calabasas,California.The line-up of 22 features and 40 shorts runs until Apr 7 andincludes the world premieres of Dave Rodriguez' youth drama Push starring Chad Lindberg, Michael Rapaportand Chaz ...
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Film Independent names lineup of fellows, advisors for Directors Lab
Film Independent has chosen seven fellows for its annual DirectorsLab, which will begin its seven-week run on Mar 7.The fellows and their projects are: Jennifer Arnold (Speedway), Thomas Dean Donnelly (Bridge AndTunnel), Tamar Halpern (EzzyFish), Michael Lew (JunkyardOf Dreams), FabianMarquez (Coyote Sleeps),Minh Nguyen-Vo (Point Of Reference), Scott Prendergast (Kabluey), and ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to kung fu comedy Babes
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to HighCotton Films' kung-fu comedy All Babes Want to Kill Me from first-time filmmakers Colin Millerand Alex Cain.The story centres on a martial artist afflicted with a raredisease that makes beautiful women want to kill him.Shoreline chief executive officer Morris Ruskin negotiatedthe deal ...
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Brokeback takes feature, director prizes at Spirit Awards
BrokebackMountain continued its virtual sweepof best picture awards at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards which took placein a tent on the beach at Santa Monica this afternoon (Saturday). The event, which isstaged by Film Independent (formerly IFP/West), acted as a mirror to tomorrow'sAcademy Awards which this year is dominated by ...
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Massis, Film Source to executive produce Brazilian gay love story Copacabana
Roberto Jabor will make his feature directorial debut on theBrazilian gay romance Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows from his own screenplay.Alex Massis of Florida-based production and sales companyThe Film Source will serve as executive producer on the $5m English-languageproject, which is set to begin shooting in the autumn in Rio ...
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Dutch gov't to open cable networks to rivals
The Dutch government has ruled that local cable networks must be open to rival internet suppliers, but partly allayed cable operators' fears by delaying the introduction of "open access" for at least two years.The cabinet also said that new legislation will be drawn up in line with wider European regulations ...
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Chan's Perhaps Love to open San Francisco Film Festival
Peter Chan's China-set musical Perhaps Love and Robert Altman's A Prairie HomeCompanion bookend the49th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 20 to May4.Ed Harris will receive the Peter J Owens Award in honour of a bodyof work that "exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity".Werner Herzog will collect the ...
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Madea continues to top North American box office
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion consolidated its number one ranking aheadof four top 10 openers in a typically quiet Oscar weekend at the box office.The Lionsgate release - which is written, directed,produced by and stars Perry in a big screen version of his hit stage play -added an estimated $13m ...
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Narnia enjoys spectacular $9.2m opening in Japan for BVI
The Chronicles of Narnia returned to the top of the international rankings thisweekend courtesy of a superb number one launch in Japan.The fantasy grossed an estimated $9.2m in the major market andtook $10.3m for the weekend overall to raise the international cumulative tallyto $389m.This makes Narnia the 19th biggest international ...
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78th Annual Academy Awards winners
Best PictureCrash - Paul Haggis, Cathy SchulmanBrokeback MountainCapoteGood Night, And Good LuckMunichBest DirectorAng Lee - Brokeback MountainBennett Miller - CapotePaul Haggis - CrashGeorge Clooney - Good Night, And GoodNightSteven Spielberg - MunichBest ActorPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteTerrence Howard - Hustle & FlowHeath Ledger - Brokeback MountainJoaquin Phoenix - Walk The ...
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Crash takes best picture Oscar, shares spoils with Brokeback Mountain
Crash turned the tables on popular wisdom when it was named best picture at the 78th annualAcademy Awards last night as it took three Oscars, while the pre-ceremonyfavourite Brokeback Mountain alsotook home three awards including best director for Ang Lee.Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon won the lead actor and ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys brisk business for its Berlin slate
Following the recent EFM at the Berlin Film Festival, French sales, finance and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has announced a slew of sales on its varied slate. Oscar-winner Luc Jacquet's follow up to March Of The Penguins, TheFox And The Child, which Wild Bunch announced in Sundance, sold in nearly30 ...
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Korean film King and the Clown rules the box office
Sleeperhit King and the Clown became Korea's biggesthit of all time with a tally of 11.8 million admissions yesterday (March 5), toppingprevious record-holder Taegukgiwith 11.7 million. Afterhaving its premiere at the Berlin market, internationalsales agent CJ Entertainment has decided to co-distribute the film directly in Japan with Kadokawa Herald Pictures, ...