All Screen articles in 23 February 2007
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Wild Hogs
Dir: Walt Becker. US. 2007. 99mins. Four suburban buddies confront their mid-life crisis by hitting the highway in Wild Hogs, an extremely pedestrian road movie that sputters along in search of laughs. With much of the comedy coming from failed homo-erotic digs at male bonding, this ensemble piece features several ...
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Ghost Rider takes international lead with $16.1m from 40 territories
Ghost Rider's fiery lass tightened its grip on the international arena in the film's second weekend, adding an estimated $16.1m from 3,000 screens in 40 markets for a $39.4m international running total.The action film opened at number one in Germany through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) on $2.2m from 363 ...
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Rider rules in North America with $19.7m second weekend
Sony's action title Ghost Rider held on to top spot at the North American box office in its second weekend, fending off New Line's new psycho-thriller The Number 23, which had to make do with the number two.The Marvel Comics adaptation added an estimated $19.7m to raise the tally to ...
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Four Last Songs to play out Malaga festival
UK directorFrancesca Joseph's Four Last Songs will close the 10th annual edition of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga(March 9-17).The film, aSpanish co-production which shot in Mallorca, stars Stanley Tucci, with Rhys Ifans, HughBonneville and Marisa Paredes. It's the story of an American pianist ofmediocre talents whose efforts to organise ...
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The Unpolished (Die Unerzogenen)
Dir: Pia Marais. Ger. 2007. 95mins The perils and occasional benefits of growing up bohemian are subtly and wryly evoked in The Unpolished, a confident debut feature from German director Pia Marais which premiered in Rotterdam, where it was one of the Tiger Award winners. An elliptical, somewhat dreamlike narrative, ...
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Zodiac
Dir: David Fincher. US. 2007. 158mins. In the shadows of this year's Oscar ceremony comes the first legitimate contender for next year's honours in the form of David Fincher's Zodiac, a dense but hypnotic and starkly involving account of the unsolved murders in California that spanned the late 1960s and ...
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Lady Chatterley takes best picture Cesar
Lady Chatterley was crowned best picture Saturday night at France's Cesar Awards. The film, directed by Pascale Ferran also took the best actress honour for Marina Hands among five awards.Best actor went to Francois Cluzet for his role in Guillaume Canet's Tell No One. Guillaume Canet was also named best ...
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Little Miss Sunshine dominates Spirit Awards
Little Miss Sunshine picked up four honours at this years Spirit Awards, including best film and best directors.Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Oscar-nominated film also picked up awards for Michael Arndt's screenplay, and for Alan Arkin as best supporting actor.Both best actor (Ryan Gosling) and best actress (Shareeka Epps) honours ...
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Golden Flower to open Mumbai festival
The 9th edition of the International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM) organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) will open with Zhang Yimou's The Curse of the Golden Flower on March 8.The week-long festival, presented by Adlabs, will close on March 15 with Mira Nair's The Namesake.About 100 ...
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42 Plus to open Austrian Diagonale festival
Sabine Derflinger's latest feature 42 Plus will be the opening film atthis year's Austrian national film festival Diagonale (March 19-25)which is being held in the Styrian capital for the tenth time this year.The DOR Film production, starring Claudia Michelsen, Ulrich Tukur,and Tobias Moretti, centres on a 42-year-old woman whose eye ...
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Half Nelson
Ryan Fleck. US. 2006. 107 minsThe tired cliches of the inspirational teacher/pupil relationship are successfully turned on their head in Half Nelson. This is not the kind of formula crowd-pleaser that invites you to applaud the triumph of the underdog, instead it offers a haunting snapshot of the unlikely friendship ...
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Malaysia bans Muhammad's Village People
Malaysia has banned Amir Muhammad's Village People Radio Show, a documentary about former Malay-Muslim Communists now living in exile in southern Thailand, after the censorship board rejected the film for being sympathetic towards communism. Without relying on a narrator or voiceover, the documentary recorded the life of 15 surviving members ...
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Pan's Labyrinth leads the field for Mexico's Ariel Awards
Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-nominated Pan's Labyrinth led the field for the annual Ariel Awards in Mexico presented by the Mexican Academy Of Cinematographic Arts And Sciences.The film took 12 nominations including best picture, director, actor and actress.Scoring seven nominations was Francisco Vargas' El Violin which was nominated for picture, director, ...
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Mexico City's FICCO begins with Children, to run to March 4
The fourth edition of Mexico City's International Contemporary Film Festival (FICCO) kicked off on Wednesday night with Todd Field's Oscar-nominated Little Children and runs through to March 4.More than 3,000 guests attended the opening at the Cinemex Antara complex where FICCO Is headquartered this year. The festival, one of Mexico's ...
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Sky increases Italian film investment
Satellite TV operator Sky Italia has come to an agreement with Italian producers to increase investment in Italian cinema by 37%, increasing their actual investment from $28.8m (Euros 22m) to $45.9m (Euros 35m) annually. Details of the rights purchasing agreement of local films - including how much exclusivity Sky ...
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Golden Bear winner finds new buyers
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia has closed EFM wrap-up deals for Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage to Maywin Media for the ex-CIS territories and Arsenal for Germany.Wang Quan'an's third feature, the film portrays a Mongolian woman in search of a new groom who will take care of her family - ...
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Reshuffle at Pusan brings in Lee as co-festival director
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced a major reshuffle of its organisation. Twelve-year festival head Kim Dong Ho is taking on a co-festival director - former co-deputy director Lee Yong Kwan. Kim (70), whose globe-trotting, hard-working personality has come to personify PIFF, will continue steering the festival's international ...
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Dunn takes MD job at Fox Australian home entertainment division
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) has appointed Chris Dunn as MD in Australia.He takes over from Steven Leighton who recently became Managing Director of TCFHE UK. 'We are very pleased to have Chris join Fox and we're confident he willbuild upon the strong leadership and retail success that StevenLeighton ...
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Dorm sweeps the board at Thai Critic Awards
Songyos Sugmakanan's solo directorial debut Dorm dominated the 15th Thailand National Critic Awards with five wins, including best film and best director, out of ten nominations. The coming-of-age horror tale also took best supporting actress for Jintara Sukphat, best script and best cinematography. It recently won the crystal bear for ...
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Second Naresuan film conquers Thai box office
Following the success of the first instalment of Thai historical epic, The Legend Of King Naresuan, the second film in the trilogy, Declaration Of Independence, stormed the Thai box office on its four-day opening weekend, raking in a whopping $3.9m (130m baht) in Bangkok. The second instalment, also directed by ...