All Screen articles in 21 January 2003
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Kosslick names international jury of 53rd Berlinale
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has appointed seven members to the International Jury of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Headed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, this international group of film experts will select the winners for the Golden and Silver Bears in the competition.Atom Egoyan - director (Canada), President ...
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8 Mile dethrones The Lord Of The Rings
The UK box office chart saw a new champion this weekend as UIP's 8 Mile knocked The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers from its four-week reign. Launching with a superb $7.2m (£4.4m) from 423 sites the Curtis Hanson film, which marks the feature debut of US rap star ...
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It's All About Love
Dir: Thomas Vinterberg. Denmark. 2003. 104 min.Hugely imaginative, conceptually compelling, arresting in its visual panache, It's All About Love can be seen as a millennial fairy tale and Thomas Vinterberg as its latter-day Grimm. He peers into the near-future and sees a wintry dystopia, where the absence of love - ...
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Kaurismaki sweeps local Finnish awards
Aki Kaurismaki swept all but a few of the local Finnish film Jussi awards on Sunday night in Helsinki. The Man Without A Past picked up Best Film, Best Direction and Best Script all for Kaurismaki himself, as well as Best Actress for Kati Outinen, Best Cinematography for Timo Salminen ...
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Berlinale Talent Campus reveals programme of events
500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the Berlinale Talent Campus, a winter academy of filmmaking, from February 10 to 14, 2003. 150 of them are from Germany, others come from the UK (76), Spain (21), the US (32) and France (16) as well as Argentina (6), Israel (5), Poland ...
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Talent Campus unveils programme of events
500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the Berlinale Talent Campus, a winter academy of filmmaking, from February 10 to 14, 2003. 150 of them are from Germany, others come from the UK (76), Spain (21), the US (32) and France (16) as well as Argentina (6), Israel (5), Poland ...
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Egoyan heads main competition jury
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has appointed seven members to the International Jury of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Headed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, this international group of film experts will select the winners for the Golden and Silver Bears in the competition.Atom Egoyan - director (Canada), President ...
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The Singing Detective
Dir: Keith Gordon. US. 2003. 107 mins. There is a point where reverence for one's source material can prove damaging. That point is reached in Keith Gordon's film of The Singing Detective which follows the late Dennis Potter's script of his own landmark TV series to the letter, resulting in ...
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Kinowelt takeover saga resolved
The seemingly never-ending saga of the Koelmel brothers' (Michael, pictured left and Rainer, right) planned takeover of their Kinowelt empire has finally come to an end.Insolvency administrator Dr. Wolfgang Ott announced on Tuesday (Jan 21) that the rescue company Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH (to be known in future ...
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Hallyday, Sagnier receive French awards
In a novel combination of veteran and debutante, Johnny Hallyday (left)and Ludivine Sagnier (right)will receive the Jean Gabin and Romy Schneider awards for 2003. The prize, which has been awarded for over 20 years, often goes to a new face but with the 60 year old rocker Hallyday being singled ...
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Fortissimo picks up Jackie Chan And His Lost Family
Fortissimo Film Sales, the Hong Kong and Amsterdam based sales outfit, has picked up Traces Of A Dragon: Jackie Chan And His Lost Family (pictured), which opens the "Dokumente" documentary section of the Berlin festival's Panorama sidebar.The film directed by Mabel Cheung and Alex Law is described as "moving portrayal ...
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Planning group proposes Studio City Tokyo
A planning group that includes David Fincher and John Woo has compiled a report calling for the construction of a studio complex in the Tokyo Bay area by 2008.Called Studio City Tokyo, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the complex in the Harumi District will include 32 studios for TV ...
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Trainspotting sequel has problems with E
Other than the original cast's lack of ageing, the sequel to 1996 runaway hit Trainspotting is taking shape, said director Danny Boyle at the Sundance Film Festival.In Park City for the North American debut of UK box-office sensation 28 Days Later, the director said the sequel, based on the novel, ...
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LaZona launches into Spanish production sector
Three producers are braving the choppy waters of the Spanish film sector to launch new Madrid-based production outfit LaZona Films.Merging their combined experience in some of Spain's top media companies, LaZona partners Douglas Wilson and brothers Ignacio and Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson (pictured, left and right) say they aim to produce two ...
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Kinderfilmfest international jury announced
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has announced its International Jury which will award the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix.The five jury members are:German director Christina Schindler (Rinnsteinpiraten); Norway's Lars Berg (winner of the Grand Prix and the Crystal Bear for Glasskar last year); Ricardo Casas, director of Uruguay's Festival Internacionale de Cine para ...
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Scorsese, Polanski make shortlist for the DGA Award
Golden Globe winner Martin Scorsese received the second boost in two days to his Oscar campaign when he was today (Jan 21) named among five nominees for the top Directors Guild of America (DGA) award, a near iron-clad barometer of Academy Award success. Fresh from winning his first Golden Globe ...
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Talk To Her triumphs at Bangkok
Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her took both best film and best director prizes at the first competitive edition of the Bangkok international film festival.The fifth edition of the festival ended last night, with other Golden Kinnarees awarded to Michael Cain for best actor for The Quiet American, Kati Outen received ...
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Berlin completes competition line-up
The remaining five films in competition add significantly to the Asian content of this year's Berlin festival and put increased emphasis on the Holocaust.The new additions, which complete the line-up, are headed by Chinese-German co-production Blind Shaft (Mang Jing), a first feature by documentary director Li Yang. The film about ...
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Two Towers breaks Italian opening record
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers scored the biggest bow of all time in Italy over the weekend as it opened on a staggering $9.4m. The second instalment of Peter Jackson's J R R Tolkien adaptation averaged $11,773 from 800 screens after opening on Jan ...
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Buffalo Soldiers provokes fury at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival reached a half way mark yesterday (Tuesday) with a startling incident at the screening of Buffalo Soldiers. The controversial film bought for North American distribution by Miramax Films in Sept 2001 - but only set to be released this spring - had just finished screening at ...