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Jindabyne
Dir: Ray Lawrence. Australia. 2006. 123 minsIn a time of uncertainty or crisis, the only things you can cling on to are personal integrity and a sense of community. That is the hard lesson learnt by the residents of Jindabyne in director Ray Lawrence's haunting companion piece to his award-winning ...
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Tartan acquires US rights to Red Road
Tartan USA has acquired all US rights to Andrea Arnold's British title Red Road, in competition at Cannes, from Trust Film Sales. Arnold's debut feature Red Road, an intense drama starring newcomer Kate Dickie, is the first of three films to be made through Lars von Trier's Advanced Party scheme ...
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The Right Of The Weakest (La Raison Du Plus Faible)
Dir, scr: Lucas Belvaux. Belgium/France 2006. 116 minsA Belgian proletarian caper movie is hardly the first thing anyone expected from Lucas Belvaux, whose Trilogy, a set of three interlocking features, was an audacious formal anomaly in recent French mainstream cinema. The Right Of The Weakest lies halfway between working-class realism ...
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The Right Of The Weakest (La Raison Du Plus Faible)
Dir, scr: Lucas Belvaux. Belgium/France 2006. 116 minsA Belgian proletarian caper movie is hardly the first thing anyone expected from Lucas Belvaux, whose Trilogy, a set of three interlocking features, was an audacious formal anomaly in recent French mainstream cinema. The Right Of The Weakest lies halfway between working-class realism ...
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The Family Friend (L'Amico Di Famiglia)
Dir, Scr: Paolo Sorrentino. Italy/France 2006. 110 mins A generally unsurprising Cannes competition received an invigorating blast of invention with The Family Friend, a stylish, dark but sometimes perplexing third feature from Neapolitan director Paolo Sorrentino.The story of a thoroughly grumpy old loanshark, this philosophical black comedy sets itself the ...
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Italy pays tribute to Leo Pescarolo
Leo Pescarolo, the Italian producer behind Federico Fellini's Prova D'Orchestra and co-producer of Lars von Trier's Dogville, has died. He was 70.Born in Genova to silent-era movie star Vera Vergani, Pescarolo was known as a courageous producer who championed quality arthouse pictures and international co-productions.He was credited with "discovering" a ...
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The Singer (Quand J'Etais Chanteur)
Dir/Scr: Xavier Giannoli. France. 2006. 112 minsSad songs say so much in The Singer, an unashamedly sentimental love story that features one of Gerard Depardieu's most fully realised and endearing performances in recent years. His melancholy, smalltime singer has the same weary charm as Burt Lancaster's aging hood in Atlantic ...
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A Scanner Darkly
Dir, Scr: Richard Linklater. USA 2006. 100 mins.Returning to the animated live-action technique of his 2001 philosophical doodle Waking Life, the hyper-productive Richard Linklater has come up with what must surely be the first sci-fi slacker movie. Based on Philip K Dick's cult novel of the same name, this ...
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Gold Circle grabs remake rights to Russian horror picture
Gold Circle Films has optioned English-language remake rights fromCentral Partnership to Dead Daughters based on Pavel Ruminov's upcoming Russian horror picture.Gold Circle chief Paul Brooks will produce the story of a crazedwoman who sparks a chain of supernatural vengeance after she kills her three daughters.Scott Niemeyer and Norm Waittwill serve ...
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Crazy
Dir: Hans-Christian Schmid. Germany. 2000. 97mins.Prod co: Claussen + Woebke. Int'l sales: c/o Claussen + Woebke (+49 89 23 11 010). Prods: Jakob Claussen, Thomas Woebke. Scr: Hans-Christian Schmid, Michael Gutmann, based on the novel by Benjamin Lebert. DoP: Sonja Rom. Ed: Hansjoerg Weissbrich. Mus: Christoph Kaiser. Main cast: Robert ...
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Keaton to star in Kalvert's Reaper for Media 8
Michael Keaton has joined the cast of Media 8 Entertainment's supernaturalthriller Reaper.Scott Kalvert will direct the story of a private investigator who probesa surreal underworld that holds clues to his daughter's fate.Media 8 has scheduled an autumnstart date. David Alpert, Lawrence Mattis and Sammy Lee are producing and DavidEngel, Jason ...
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MySpace teams with Bside, Right Angle to launch touring US film and music fest
Hugely successful lifestyleportal MySpace is teaming with specialized independent film distributor BsideEntertainment and festival consultant Right Angle Studios to launch the BsideRoadshow, a touring US film and music festival which will begin on June 4 inAustin, Texas.The festival will travel tocollege towns like Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, Madison, Philadelphia, Boulder,Portland and ...
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24th Outfest to open with Puccini on July 6
Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian FilmFestival, will kick off its 24th edition on July 6 with MariaMaggenti's comedy Puccini For Beginners and close on July 17 with Spanish musical 20 Centimeters directed by Ramon Salazar.Among the other gala screenings are Q Allan Brocka's BoyCulture which will play on ...
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Picturehouse wins US rights to La Vie En Rose
New Line/HBO joint venturePicturehouse has acquired US rights to the hotly sought after Cannes markettitle La Vie En Rose, the biopicof Edith Piaf which stars Marion Cotillard as Piaf and Gerard Depardieu as LouisLeplee. The film follows Piaf's risefrom the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York all ...
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Sono's Circus scores Cannes US deal with TLA
Philadelphia-based TLAReleasing has acquired North American theatrical and home entertainment rightsto Sion Sono's Japanese shocker Strange Circus. It is the seond Sono film in TLA's library after SuicideClub which is featured in thecompany's upcoming "Danger After Dark" box set.TLA bought the film fromJapan's Sedic International; the deal was negotiated at ...
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Ken Loach shakes the favourites to win the Palme D'Or
In aceremony full of surprises, Ken Loach's TheWind That Shakes The Barley won the Palme d'Or 2006. The film had been very warmly received but seemedout of the running after the screening of the Spanish-language crowd pleasers Volver and Babel.But the jury was unanimous in its decision for the film, ...
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Babel
Asingle gun shot reverberates around the world in Babel, unexpectedly uniting disparate lives in Morocco, Mexico and Japan. Thethird collaboration between director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu andscreenwriter Guillermo Arriaga initially seems to lack the bravura edge ofCannes discovery Amores Perros or the soulfulintensity of 21 Grams but it matures into amelancholy ...
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ReviewsPan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto Del Fauno)
Dir: Guillermo del Toro. Spain / Mexico.2006. 112 mins
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X-Men makes mighty stand with $107m US debut
X-Men: The Last Stand grossed an estimated$107m at the North American box office over the weekend, becoming the fourthbiggest US opener in history and the biggest ever over the Memorial Day holidayweekend. The estimate -- released on Sunday by 20thCentury Fox, which made the film with Marvel Entertainment -- was ...
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The Singer (Quand J'Etais Chanteur)
Sadsongs say so much in The Singer, an unashamedlysentimental love story that features one of Gerard Depardieu's most fully-realisedand endearing performances in recent years. Hismelancholy, smalltime singer has the same weary charm as Burt Lancaster's ageinghood in Atlantic City. Depardieu is well matched by Cecile de France andtogether they transcend ...