All Screen articles in 4 September 2002
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Man Without A Past, Ramsay get new FIPRESCI prizes
The Man Without A Past (Miles Vailla Menneisyytta) will receive the Best Film of the Year and UKdirector Lynne Ramsay the newly-created New Director of the Year awards fromthe International Film Critics Federation (FIPRESCI) at the opening ceremonyof this month's San Sebastian International Film Festival.The prizes are selected by ...
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Latin films honoured at Films From South festival
Denmark'sFilms From The South Festival is this to focus onLatin American cinema and will open in Copenhagen on Sep 5 with Walter Salles Brazilian drama Behind The Sun (Abril Despedacado). Theperipatetic festival is the second largest international film festival inDenmark and has always focused on films from outside Europe and ...
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Helkon sells TV prod unit and distributor Solo Film
Helkon Media has now offloaded its interests in the TV productionsubsidiary Sonne, Mond + Sterne Film- und Fernsehproduktions and distributorSolo Film Verleih.The 75.6% stake in Sonne, Mond + Sterne has been acquired by itsmanaging director Erwin Kraus, while Solo Film's managing director PeterHeinzemann has taken over all of the shares ...
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Bernabe adds voice to Venice modernisation calls
Franco Bernabe, the new head of the Biennale, which operates all theVenice arts festival, yesterday added his voice to the calls for modernisationof the film event. Bernabe, one on Italy's most senior business leaders,having run petrochemical giant ENI and Telecom Italia, likened the Venice FilmFestival to the World Economic Summit ...
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Beta Cinema adds Baader, Scherbentanz to sales slate
Beta Cinema, the feature film division of Beta Film, has picked upinternational rights to Christoph Roth's controversial biopic Baaderwhich won the Alfred Bauer Prize at this year's Berlinale and received a stormyinternational premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in a 15-minute shorter version last month. "The new version of ...
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Bernabe adds voice to Venice modernisation calls
Franco Bernabe, the new head of the Biennale, which operates all theVenice arts festival, yesterday added his voice to the calls for modernisationof the film event. Bernabe, one on Italy's most senior business leaders,having run petrochemical giant ENI and Telecom Italia, likened the Venice FilmFestival to the World Economic Summit ...
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Friday Night (Vendredi Soir)
Dir: Claire Denis. France. 2002. 88mins.A man and a woman, complete strangers, meet by chance in Paris and, after the briefest of verbal exchanges, end up having long, passionate sex. But don't be fooled: Friday Night (Vendredi Soir) is as much about traffic jams and unfamiliar neighbourhoods as it is ...
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Far From Heaven
Dir: Todd Haynes. US. 2002. 107 mins.In painstakingly recreating the style and mood of a Douglas Sirk melodrama, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven attempts to show that prejudice is as rampant in the complacent America of the new millenium as it was behind the twitching net curtains of Sirk's affluent ...
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BVI's Insomnia wakes up UK box office
Buena Vista International (BVI) scored a hit this weekend with its Alaskan-set thriller Insomnia. Opening with an impressive $1.8m (£1.16m) over the three-day weekend, the film saw off all comers to claim the number one slot in the chart. The latest film from British director Christopher Nolan (whose previous title ...
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Insomnia wakes up UK box office
BuenaVista International (BVI) scored a hit this weekend with itsAlaskan-setthriller Insomnia. Opening with an impressive $1.8m (£1.16m)over the three-day weekend, the film saw off all comers to claim the numberone slot in the chart. Thelatest film from British director Christopher Nolan (whose previoustitleMemento grossed $2.4m for Pathe in 2000 ...
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura steps down at Warner Bros
Lorenzo diBonaventura has stepped down from his corporate position as executive vicepresident, worldwide motion pictures, at Warner Bros to become an independentproducer for Warner Bros Pictures. He has been co-president or president ofproduction at the studio since 1996 and is one of the best-known productionexecutives in Hollywood."I lovefilmmaking, but the ...
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Battle of the delegations
The Bear's Kiss, a Russian fantasy in competition at Venice, is accompanied by a massive official delegation of no less than 45 people. Given the high prices for hotels and restaurants in Venice, the hospitality bill could end up equalling a significant chunk of the $7m budget.The film by veteran ...
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The Nearest To Heaven (Au Plus Pres Du Paradis)
Dir: Tonie Marshall. Fr-Can-Sp. 2002. 97mins.Tonie Marshall's latest outing proves again that no amount of screenplay physics can make up for a lack of chemistry between leading man and leading lady. And the pairing of Catherine Deneuve-William Hurt, however intriguing it looks on paper, fizzles and dies in this flat ...
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Linda Tizard tipped to become FFC boss
The close-knit Australian film industry is awash with talk that Linda Tizard is to become the new chief executive of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), arguably the most influential film job in the land. But the FFC says that no selection has yet been made and no ministerial stamp given, ...
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Veteran Tamberi launches Metacinema group
Italian industry veteran Giovanni Tamberi is launching an ambitiouscompany that will focus on film production, distribution, communication andmultimedia education in Italy.Under a new umbrella companyMetacinema, Tamberi will oversee three separate outfits each named afterRoberto Rossellini films. Voyage In Italy (Viaggio in Italia) will focus eachyear on the production of two ...
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Government offers Swedish industry surprise lifeline
With only two weeks to go beforeparliamentary elections, Sweden's minister of culture Marita Ulvskog unveiled asurprise $8.7m (SEK80m) financial support package for the Swedish filmindustry.Ulvskogpresented her package to mixed reactions at a meeting between trade bodies andpolitical parties held at the Swedish Film Institute yesterday (Monday)evening.Themove comes after some 18 ...
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Roger Dodger
Roger DodgerReviewed by Lee Marshall in VeniceDir: Dylan Kidd. USA. 2002. 106 mins.This dark-veined New York comedy by first-time director Dylan Kidd came as oneof the few pleasant surprises in the opening few days at Venice, where itplayed in critics' week. Roger Dodger is thethinking man's American Pie: thestory of ...
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Roger Dodger
Roger DodgerReviewed by Lee Marshall in VeniceDir: Dylan Kidd. USA. 2002. 106 mins.This dark-veined New York comedy by first-time director Dylan Kidd came as oneof the few pleasant surprises in the opening few days at Venice, where itplayed in critics' week. Roger Dodger is thethinking man's American Pie: thestory of ...
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SPC clings tight to Michell's Mother
Sony Pictures Classics haspicked up Free Range Films' The Mother for North American distribution. The film which reunites Buddha Of Suburbia team -director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer Kevin Loader - iscurrently in post-production following a six-week shoot on location in London.The story of a recently bereaved woman ...
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Few films can equal mosquitos' buzz
If a festival is only as good as the films it screens,Venice has cause to be more than a little worried. It's day five on the Lido,and so far only the mosquitos, out in record numbers this year, have beenconsistently successful in getting under the skin.Thestart was respectable enough. Frida, ...