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Reviews
The Aerial (La Antena)
Dir: Esteban Sapir. Arg. 2007. 90mins.Esteban Sapir's second feature is an intriguing and beautifully-made oddity - a largely silent, black-and-white fantasy that seems inspired in equal measure by Fritz Lang's Metropolis, FW Murnau's The Last Laugh, 1920s surrealism and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Made for a reported budget of ...
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News
Oscar nominees Dreamgirls, Blood Diamond hit major territories
Dreamgirls, the recipient of eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday, gets its first major international push this weekend.Paramount/PPI executives will be looking to convert the recognition into healthy overseas returns when it opens the hit musical in Italy, Mexico and Spain on Jan 26.Meanwhile the family film Charlotte's Web opens in ...
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Sundance and NHK announce four winners of filmmaker awards
Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the winners of the 2007 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.The four winners will each receive a $10,000 award at the annual awards ceremony on Jan 27 and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of their ...
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San Sebastian confirms Galan exit
The San Sebastian International Film Festival today confirmed the departure of festival director Diego Galan (Screendaily, July 18). He will be replaced in 2001 by Mikel Olaciregui, currently sub-director of the event.Galan, who steps down for personal reasons, has helmed the festival since 1995 and between 1985 and 1989. Between ...
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New chairman for Korea Film Producers' Association
The Korea Film Producers' Association (KFPA) has voted in a new chairman - Tcha Seung-jai, head of leading production company Sidus FNH. He replaces Guardtec president Jonathan Kim, whose four years in the position have expired. Part of the first generation of Korean film renaissance producers, Tcha has shown increasing ...
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Reviews
A Very British Gangster
Dir: Donal MacIntyre. UK. 2006. 97mins.Donal MacIntyre's first feature is a documentary portrait of DominicNoonan, a working-class British gangster who is the head of Manchester's biggest crime family. Both a study in the politics of crime and a fascinating insight into a large poverty-stricken community which defers to gangland rules ...
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Reviews
Slipstream
Dir: Anthony Hopkins. US. 2007. 110mins.Anthony Hopkins' first film as a director since 1996's August is arambling, sporadically engaging experiment which attempts to illustratea man's descent into madness through stream-of-consciousness visualsand distorted, overlapping narratives.Although David Lynch has proved time and again that there is a limitedtheatrical audience and potential cult ...
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Dedication
Dir: Justin Theroux. US. 2007. 112mins.After playing a malevolent director in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, actor Justin Theroux takes the plunge down the rabbit hole with Dedication, bringing an electric charge and furious energy to the story of a misanthropic writer of children's books whose professional pairing with a beautiful ...
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News
Bouchareb, Ferran and Canettop Cesar nominations
Three films tied for the most mentions at this year's Cesar nominations in Paris. Oscar nominee for best foreign film, Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory has receivednine Cesar nominations, as has Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley and Guillaume Canet's Ne Le Dis A Personne . The three are allup for best ...
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Bavaria Film picks up Menzel's King
Bavaria Film International has picked up worldwide rights to Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England, an adaptation from the novel of the same title by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. The film will screen in the main competition at Berlin. 'We are delighted to work cooperate with Jiri Menzel,' ...
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Reviews
My Kid Could Paint That
Dir. Amir Bar-Lev. US. 2007. 81mins.My Kid Could Paint That addresses the sceptical notion that has dogged painting ever since art ceased to depict a pure likeness of its subject - that abstract art often looks like it could have been painted by a child. Amir Bar-Lev's documentary then zooms ...
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Faye Dunaway starts shoot for Flick in Wales
David Howard's Flick is now shooting in and around Cardiff and at the Barcud Derwen Studios through Feb 10. Howard wrote and is directing the project, which is produced by Rik Hall and executive produced by Cross, Linda James, Pauline Burt and Bryn Roberts. Financing is from Finance Wales' IP ...
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Deliver Us From Evil to have international premiere in Dublin
Lionsgate's Oscar-nominated documentary feature, Deliver Us From Evil, is to receive its international premiere at next month's Dublin International Film Festival. Directed, written and produced by Amy Berg, Deliver Us From Evil tells the story of an Irish priest, Oliver O'Grady, whose multiple and serial sexual assaults, primarily on children, ...
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Toei invents digital colour technique for cartoons
Toei Animation, Hitachi and Toei Chemical Industry have jointly developed a technique for digitally colouring black-and-white animated films - a first for the Japanese film industry. Toei Animation researchers have successfully used the technique to colour part of an episode of Wolf Boy Ken, a 1963 Toei cartoon series.After cleaning ...
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Lolafilms plans $7.7m biopic of Spanish poet Gil de Biedma
Andres Vicente Gomez's Lolafilms will produce a new Spanish-language biopic about prominent 20th-century poet Jaime Gil de Biedma. Guillermo Toledo (Crimen Ferpecto) is set to star in the estimated $7.7m (Euros 6m) El Consul De Sodoma for director Agusti Villaronga. Gomez says he hopes to co-produce with France and shoot ...
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Denmark's Trust Film Sales expands into distribution
Zentropa's sister company Trust International Film Sales has set up Trust Film Distribution to handle releases for Zentropa projects as well as other titles.The new division is set up in time to release Anders Ronnow Klarlund's black social comedy How To Get Rid Of The Others nationwide today. In addition ...
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Reviews
Waitress
Dir/Scr: Adrienne Shelly. US. 2007. 104minsThe third and final feature by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered last aUTUMN, Waitress is a bittersweet, pungent reminder of the formidably smart and gracious touch she possessed in front of and behind the camera. The story of a small town pregnant woman who charmingly ...
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BBC World Cinema prize goes to The Death Of Mr Lazarescu
The fourth BBC World Cinema Award was handed out to Cristi Puiu's The Death Of Mr Lazarescu. The BBC Four award was given out Jan 25 at London 's National Film Theatre. Romanian director Cristi Puiu accepted the prize from actress Emily Watson and the awards host Jonathan Ross. Tartan ...
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Berlin completes Panorama line-up of 50 titles
The Berlinale's Panorama section has now finalised its line-up, with more than half of its 50 titles being world premieres. Seven are debut features. The latest additions include Paul Oremland's feature debut Surveillance set in a world of security cameras and the Canadian actress Sarah Polley's directorial debut Away From ...
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Features
Editorial - Screen says Trend of an era
By far the most enjoyable anomaly in the Oscars nominations is the one for adapted screenplay for the improvised Borat. Twentieth Century Fox's publicity for the film hailed "a new form of film-making for an age in which reality and entertainment have become increasingly intertwined".Perhaps here is the future of ...