All Screen articles in 13 February 2009
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Indiestory's Old Partner becomes Korea's top independent film
Korean film distributor Indiestory's Old Partner, an ultra-low-budget documentary about an octogenarian man, his wife and his loyal, hard-working cow of 30 years has become South Korea's biggest independent film hit on record.Focusing onthe relationship between theman and his cowand thevalue of humble labor, Lee Chung-ryoul's 78-minute HD documentaryhas taken ...
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It Might Get Loud
Dir: Davis Guggenheim. US. 2009. 97mins.When you get down to it, that much-idolised object the electric guitar is basically a plank of wood, some strings and a chunk of circuitry. It’s the person wielding it who makes the noise: that’s the level-headed gist of It Might ...
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German distributor Universum Film developing Tractor bestseller with UK's Trijbits
German distributor Universum Film has joined forces with UK-based producer Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films for the development of an adaptation of Marina Lewycka's A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian. The culture clash comedy about a dysfunctional Ukranian family living in Peterborough in the 1990s was a bestseller in ...
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ReviewsEccentricities Of A Blond-Haired Girl (Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loura)
Dir: Manoel de Oliveira. Portugal-France-Spain. 2009. 63mins.
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The Necessities Of Life leads Genie nominations
Benoit Pilon's The Necessities Of Life received eight nominations and Yves-Christian Fornier's Everything Is Fine received seven as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the contenders for the 29th annual Genie Awards. Necessities Of Life was Canada's submission for the foreign-language Oscar.The two Quebecois titles were followed closely ...
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Uchitel to hunt Lions with Sokolovsky
Russian director Alexey Uchitel's company Rock Films has lined up local filmmaker Vadim Sokolovsky to direct thriller Hunting The Lions. Written by the Ukrainian-born Anastasia Sarkisyan, the film is set among a group of Nazi-style nationalists planning an Oklahoma-style bombing in St. Petersburg. An experienced TV drama director, Sokolovksy previously ...
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Intra's Tobruk lands in UK with Hi-Fliers
Italian sales outfit Intra Movies has closed a UK deal in Berlin with Hi-Fliers on Czech World War Two film, Tobruk. Directed by Vaclav Marhoul, thestoryis about a20-year-old volunteer in the Czech army in North Africa in the autumn of 1941. Showing its increasing appetite for eastern European fare, Intra ...
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IM Global sets sales for Hill, Miller movies
IM Global has reported strong initial sales on the upcoming Mickey Rourke thriller St Vincent and is close to selling out Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee following the drama's world premiere here in Berlinon Monday night. St Vincent reunites Rourke with his Johnny Handsome director Walter Hill ...
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Phaidon Press buys Cahiers Du Cinema from Le Monde
French movie institution Cahiers du Cinema has found a new home in Phaidon Press which closed a deal to purchase the venerable film magazine from Le Monde this week. Le Monde bought the title in 1998 and announced last April that intended to sell it as part of a reorganization ...
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Sinclair in Berlin with Feet In The Clouds
London based film-maker Kate Sinclair is in Berlin shopping Feet In The Clouds a screenplay, which she wrote, based on the award winning novel of the same name by journalist Richard Askwith. She also plans to direct the project with Christopher Eccleston lined up to play the role of Askwith. ...
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Doc Alliance launches online distribution portal
Doc Alliance, the partnership between five leading documentary festivals (CPH: Dox Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review and Visions Du Reel) has launched its own online portal. The new website, which goes live on March 1, will make available 250 films to stream or download. This will include ...
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Asmik Ace picks up Kore-eda's Air Doll
Japan's Asmik Ace has picked up worldwide sales rights to Hirokazu Kore-eda's project Air Doll (working title), which stars Korean actress Bae Doo-na. The film, which is currently in post-production after wrapping at the end of January, is based on a manga created by Yoshiie Goda. It follows the story ...
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NewsCannes selectors face deluge of auteurs in 2009
As Berlin draws to a close, selectors at the Cannes Film Festival are facing such a deluge of films from the world’s greatest auteurs that many will no doubt be rejected from official selection.The lineup of titles ready for the May 13-24 festival is daunting, and ...
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Winter booked for Gate remake by H20, MMC
UK-born actor-director Alex Winter, still best known for playing Bill in the Bill & Ted films, has been confirmed as the director for a remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate which could become the first 3D feature film to be shot completely in Germany later this year. Winter's ...