All Screen articles in 17 June 2005
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Veer Zaara wins at Indian film industry Oscars
Veer Zaara, a Romeoand Juliet story about a romance between an Indian pilot and his Pakistanisweetheart, triumphed on Sunday at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA)awards ceremony held in Amsterdam. Veer Zaara, which wonthe best film prize and earned Yash Chopra a best director's award, is a timelytale of cross-cultural ...
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Digital cinema dominates Oz indie exhibitor conference
Digital cinema dominated this week's IndependentCinemas Association of Australia (ICCA) conference and, with digital advocateDenis Parkes as new president, the topic will stay on the table.Like many members, Parkes exhibits in regional Australia, inhis case in picturesque Merimbula south of Sydney. He recently invested in twodigital projectors and has been ...
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Mr And Mrs Smith tear up domestic box office with $51.1m
The allure of Brad Pitt andAngelina Jolie proved irresistible to North American audiences over the weekendas the comedy thriller Mr And Mrs Smith opened top on an estimated $51.1m.Doug Liman's spy romp abouttwo married assassins who rekindle their romance when they discover each other's identities opened togenerally good reviews and ...
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London UK Film Focus lines up 12 world premieres
The second London UKFilm Focus (LUFF) (June 27-30) has unveiled its programme for this year'sevent, which includes 12 world premieres - up from 8 last year.Among the worldpremieres (see full list below) are such sought-after titles as Neil Jordan's BreakfastOn Pluto, Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents and Nick Love's TheBusiness. ...
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...while the power couple dominate international with estimated $35m take
It was all about Hollywood's hottest pairing this weekend as MrAnd Mrs Smith starringBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie launched on an estimated $31.2m on 3,635 screensin more than 35 territories through Fox International.The comedy thriller scored a raft of impressive number one debuts,led by a $7.1m opening in the UK ...
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Top Seattle Film Festival prizes go to 4, Swimmers
The Seattle InternationalFilm Festival closed its 31st annual edition last night with theNorth American premiere of Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a film of local relevance since it was inspired bythe 1994 suicide of rock star Kurt Cobain.The 25-day festival, thelongest in North America, also announced its award-winners yesterday morning. ...
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Video Island raises extra£5m in backing
Online DVD rental outfit Video Island has raised a further£5m in backing from EVP, Europe's leading venture debt provider.The funding takes the total amount raised by Video Island toover £15m.EVP joins current equity investors BenchmarkCapital, Cazenove Private Equity and Index Ventures.The funding will be used to expand Video Island's DVD ...
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Mr And Mrs Smith soundly win domestic box office shootout
The allure of Brad Pitt andAngelina Jolie proved irresistible to North American audiences over the weekendas the comedy thriller Mr And Mrs Smith opened top on an estimated $51.1m.Doug Liman's spy romp abouttwo married assassins who rekindle their romance when they discover each other's identities opened togenerally good reviews and ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils full competition line-up
The40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9) has unveiled its fullcompetition line-up, which will include four world premieres. Director Igor Sterk's Tuning from Slovenia, Sion Sono's Noriko's Dinner Table from Japan,German-Austrian co-production Unveiledfrom director Angelina Maccarone and Israeli production What aWonderful Placefromdirector Eyal Halfon will all world premiere at ...
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Top Russian festival digs Lungin's Roots
PavelLungin's latest feature film Roots swept the board at the"Kinotavr" Open Russian Film Festival in the Black Sea resort ofSochi, winning four awards and one special mention.Thetragicomedy, which was produced as a Russian-French co-production, received theKrasnodar Territory Government's Prize, the Jury's Grand Prix and the BestScreenplay Award for Gennady Ostrovsky. ...
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Joseph's Four Last Songs tunes up in Mallorca
Principal photography beginstoday (June 13), on the Spanish island of Mallorca, on Francesca Joseph's new feature Four Last Songs .Written and directed byFrancesca Joseph (Tomorrow la Scala!), Four Last Songs isproduced by Christopher Collins, Ruth Caleb and Mate Cantero, with David M.Thompson, Duncan Reid and Paula Jalfon as executive producers.Four ...
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Marshall, Pathe eye autumn shoot for Outpost
Writer-director Neil Marshall, one of the leading figuresbehind the new wave of British horror films, is at work on another horror filmfor Pathe Pictures. Outpost is a sci-fihorror film about a genetic experiment which goes horribly wrong. Marshall is currentlyat third draft script stage and may be ready to shoot ...
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Industry veterans crank up Italian productions
After anear 18-month freeze in public funds, a new round of financing from the state'sFondo di Garanzia has allowed several films to finally get off the ground. Amongthese is Michele Soavi's long-gestating Arrivederci Amore Ciao, which isproduced by StudioCanal Urania. Adapted from Massimo Carlotto's eponymousnovel, the film tells the story ...
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Mr. Lazarescu triumphs at inaugural Hungarian fest
The First Alba Regia International Film Festival (ARIFF),claiming to be the first competitive event of its kind in Hungary, wrapped overthe weekend in the city of Szekesfehervar, an hour's ride away from Budapest.The Best Film award went to The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu, still fresh from its ...
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Adam's Apples (Adams Aebler)
Dir/scr:Anders Thomas Jensen. Den. 2005. 92mins.How do you persuade a neo-Nazi to bake an apple pie' Thisis the droll challenge that powers the third feature to be directed byubiquitous Danish screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen.Adam'sApples isa curious genre mix, part black comedy, part serious good-and-evil moralitytale. Though it does not always ...
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Ade's Forest For The Trees a big winner at Newport
Maren Ade's German drama TheForest For The Trees won BestDramatic Feature at the 8th Annual Newport International Film Festival, withHeidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's The Boys Of Baraka taking top documentary honours.Nicolas Cazale won the bestactor award for Le Grand Voyage,Eva Lobau took best actress honours for The Forest For ...
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Hungarian District triumphs at Annecy
TheDistrict,directed by Hungarian Aron Gauder, has taken the highest honours for afeature-length film at this year's festival of animation at Annecy in France(June 6-11). The film looks at rivalHungarian and Gypsy clans against the backdrop of the ghetto in Budapest. Thetop award for a short film went to The Mysterious ...
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Working Title duo honoured in Queen's birthday list
Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner,co-chairmen of Working Title Films, were both made Commanders ofthe Order of the British Empire, or CBEs, inthe Queen's birthday honours list on June 11.The leading UK producers,whose credits include a string of hits including Four Weddings And AFuneral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary and Fargo, ...
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Blanchett's Little Fish to open Melbourne festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival will announcetomorrow (June 15) that the eagerly anticipated Australian film Little Fishwill open the event on July 20 as a world premiere. Somersault opened the festival in 2004 and, of allthe homegrown fare that premiered last year, went on to become a major hit withAustralian ...
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NewFest honours go to Good Boys, Strange Fruit
The 17th AnnualNewFest, the New York lesbian and gay film festival, finished over the weekendwith the presentation of its annual film-maker awards.The ShowtimeVanguard Award went to Yair Hochner's drama Good Boys, while the Best US Narrative Feature went to KyleSchickner's story of race and sexuality in the Deep South, Strange ...