All Screen articles in 9 June 2001
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ROBERTO SUCCO
Dir: Cedric Kahn. France. 2001. 124 mins. An immensely detailed study of a notorious mass murderer and his hunters, Roberto Succo is an impressive but subdued piece of work which, despite an extraordinary central performance, never delivers on the director's promise to slip the audience inside the mind of a ...
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Il Mestiere Delle Armi (The Profession of Arms)
Dir: Ermanno Olmi. Italy/France/Germany, 2001. 104 mins.Veteran Italian auteur Ermanno Olmi has come up with a hermetically-sealed historical epic that some will find ravishingly poetic, others merely boring. Not a few viewers will shuttle between these two states: something of an Italian Tarkowsky, Olmi has the rare talent of transfixing ...
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Swordfish
Directed by Dominic Sena. US 2001. 100 mins.After a couple of major flops (Battleship Earth, Lucky Numbers), John Travolta is again in top form as the morally ambiguous protagonist of the techno thriller, Swordfish, playing a dangerously charismatic spy who propagates his own brand of patriotism. Boasting a sleek look ...
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EM.TV gets animated with double pick-up
EM.TV & Merchandising has acquired international distribution rights for the animated versions of Michael Ende's Momo and Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson On The Roof.EM.TV will be marketing the TV, audio, video, publishing and merchandising rights as part of its Junior portfolio for the two properties which are both being developed as ...
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Optimum picks up classics for new video/DVD label
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up UK rights on two classic arthouse titles from TF1 for release through start-up video and DVD distribution and sales operation World Cinema.Luchino Visconti's Rocco And His Brothers and Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages Of Fear will both be re-mastered by Optimum and released on ...
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FTD takes all French rights to 29 Palms
FTD Entreprises, a division of France Television Distribution (FTD), the film and television rights trading arm of French public broadcaster France Television, has acquired all French rights (theatrical, television and home video) to Alliance Atlantis' 29 Palms. This underscores FTD's commitment to aggressively strengthening its international film sales and French ...
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TF1 picks up Pearl, signs deal with local producer
TF1 has acquired free-TV rights to Disney's Pearl Harbor, which the French broadcaster will show from autumn 2004.The latest Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer title, released in France on June 6 by Gaumont Buena Vista International, attracted a strong 141,268 admissions on its first day. Although this does not come ...
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Edinburgh festival to salute Herzog documentaries
Maverick German director Werner Herzog will be the subject of this year's retrospective at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 12-26). The festival will focus exclusively on his documentary work, which includes such titles as Herdsmen Of The Sun (1992), Bells From The Deep (1993) and Little Dieter Needs To ...
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Belgian Film Archive wins funding reprieve
Belgium's federal government decided today to increase annual subsidies to the Royal Belgian Film Archives and Cinematheque by 70% to $1.7m (Euros2m). This comes into effect from 2002.The decision follows months of heavy lobbying by both local and international film personalities, including Cannes festival head Gilles Jacob, Belgian film-maker Andre ...
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No room for Russian films at Moscow festival
The Moscow International Film Festival, which runs June 21-30, has come under criticism in the local press with the announcement of a competition line-up this year without any Russian entry. Sergei Bodrov's US-produced English language entry The Quickie, starring Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, should however go some way towards satisfying ...
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Pau And His Brother
Dir: Marc Recha. Spain/ France. 2000. 110 mins. Marc Recha's third feature starts from the principle of focussing on tiny moods and moments rather than grand dramatic set-pieces and allowing a story to evolve spontaneously instead of marshalling events in a structured sequence. While potentially fruitful, the result in this ...
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Universal downsizes LA international division
Universal Pictures, which distributes its films in international territories through the London-based United International Pictures (UIP), has downsized its Los Angeles international marketing and distribution department laying off six staff members. In addition, Thomas Castaneda, the much-liked veteran vice president of international publicity, has resigned.The move continues the studio's integration ...
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Flanders Film Fest to host World Soundtrack Awards
This year's Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent is to host the inaugural ceremony of the World Soundtrack Awards. The 18 October event, which will honour achievements in the field of film music composition, will precede a film concert presenting music from Oscar winning composers Gabriel Yared (The English Patient) ...
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Taormina promo launches Italy's summer renaissance
Continuing the drive to promote the Taormina Film Festival as a major summer launchpad for international blockbusters, Italy's multiplex association is screening a film depicting the history of the 47-year-old festival before the main feature on 200 multiplex screens across the country.In addition to this initiative, which will last throughout ...
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BSkyB axes film production arm
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is axing Sky Pictures, the prolific film production arm that was out to challenge Channel 4 and the BBC's established feature operations.A spokesperson said on Thursday that the broadcasting giant expected to close the division within months. Sky Pictures' 17 staff were told this week that ...
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Dutch bureaucracy floors film funds
Policy makers from the Dutch ministries of finance and economic affairs have been quick to blame the slow bureaucratic machinery in Brussels, but when Labour politician and former documentary maker Hillie Molenaar started asking questions in parliament, it transpired that the Dutch bureaucrats had not even sent off its proposal ...
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$100m double boost for German film funding
$100m double boost for German film funding Mediability and MDF funds launch in Germany, bringing new $100m revenue stream onlineGerman media mogul Herbert Kloiber's CTM Concept TV & Merchandising is to serve as the production and international distribution partner for the new Munich-based media fund Mediability, which was launched last ...
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Norsk's last film gets blockbuster roll-out
The last feature to roll out from the now disbanded Norwegian state production outfit Norsk Film will benefit from the highest p&a budget ever for a local film.Thomas Robsahm's $3.4m The Greatest Thing, about a rural femme fatale who simultaneously marries three men only to run away from all of ...
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Cyprus becomes focus for multiplex builders
Mediterranean sunspot, Cyprus is to get its second multiplex next month with the opening in Larnaca of a six-screen theatre operated by K Cineplex.DJK Karatatis, the local Cypriot trading group which built and operates the K Cineplexes, opened its first site in Limassol in late 1999 and plans to open ...
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Pathe and Sky Pictures sign eight-picture deal
Pathe's UK arm and Sky Pictures, the film production arm of UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB, have signed a production and distribution agreement for up to eight films over the next two years.The partners will jointly select films, with Pathe handling distribution in the UK, France, Benelux and Switzerland and international ...