All Screen articles in 9 October 2008
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Features
Flying the flag for 3D
Only one in 10 digital screens is adequate for 3D screenings, pioneering 3D film-maker Ben Stassen has claimed.Stassen is CEO of Brussels-based nWave, which is behind a series of successful Imax projects and this year released 3D animation Fly Me To The Moon. But although he claimed 3D is the ...
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In Focus: How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.
Journalist Toby Young has a reputation for being an obnoxious cad with few likeable qualities - this is a man who brought a stripper to the office on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day. So reinventing Young for a big-screen version of his memoirs How To Lose Friends & Alienate ...
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In Focus: Bill Plympton's 'Animation Lollapalooza'
The older couple was muttering. 'This isn't funny!' the husband said, shifting in his seat as animator Patrick Smith's Puppet - about a masochist, handcuffed by self-punishing sock puppets - played out on the tiny theatre's screen. What the couple expected was Looney Tunes. What they got was something else.'Animation ...
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Special feature - The Muhr Awards - Middle Eastern promise
For all the black-tie bacchanalia and glitzy galas, it is Diff's main competition which forms the central focus around which all other activities take place.The Muhr Awards for Excellence in Arab Cinema were introduced in 2006 as a way of drawing international attention to Arab film-makers (a 'muhr' is a ...
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In Focus: Criterion puts classics on Blu-ray
The first time Joseph Cotton's war correspondent Holly Martins discovers his presumed dead friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), in postwar Vienna, the moment packs a powerful punch.'Wait until you see the sequence in pristine high-definition video,' says Peter Becker.Carol Reed's 1949 classic The Third Man is one of five titles ...
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Special feature - Dubai Film Market - Bridging the sales gap
One of the most important additions to this year's Diff is the Dubai Film Market (DFM), an initiative set up to encourage regional and international film production and trade, as well as raising the profile of world cinema.Worthy aspirations, but does the world need another film market' Ziad Yaghi, director ...
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In focus: Small cinemas' digital cinema threat
There are few certainties about the disruptive digital future for film, but at least there has been agreement in recent times that change is inevitable, permanent and will sweep the whole industry along with it.Business models would emerge, recalcitrant distributors and exhibitors would take the plunge and our attention would ...
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Special feature - Making the connection
In addition to the red-carpet appearances from George Clooney, Sharon Stone and co, one of the main attractions at last year's Diff was the establishment of the Dubai Film Connection (DFC), the first feature and documentary film co-production market in the UAE. It was the brainchild of Industry Office head ...
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Screen opinion: The D-cinema dilemma
The word 'mutuality' comes across now as a rather dated concept. It's a term which, for those of a certain age, will conjure up images of bicycles on cobbled streets, ration books and powdered eggs. The self-help mutual funds and building societies it once described have often been gobbled up ...
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Power To The Pixel launches digital project forum
The groundbreaking Power to the Pixel event at The Times BFI London Film Festival is to include a Project Forum to introduce cutting-edge digital projects to financiers, distributors and promoters.The forum aims to bring the business models and tools of cross-media film to the market and forms part of ...
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Special feature - Dubai International Film Festival at five - The fifth element
"Just look around you," urges Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) chairman Abdulhamid Juma, gesturing from the window of his office in the glass-and-steel business district known as Dubai Media City. "Dubai is hungry for new things."It is the middle of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Arguably, Dubai should ...
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International - Music to industry ears
Mamma Mia! The Movie's phenomenal run has led to an Indian summer at the box office. Screen's international top 40 chart was up 12.1% year on year, with the Abba musical making another big contribution.Universal's hit musical notched up another milestone, passing $350m gross since its initial international release in ...
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Special feature - Muhr winners
"For me, success in the Middle East is as important as success anywhere else," says Franco-Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi, whose second feature Under The Bombs - a heartfelt road movie featuring jarring images of Israel's recent war in Lebanon - won the Gold award in Diff 2007's Muhr Awards. "For ...
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In Focus: The UK's micro wave
Just as the European Union apparently had its butter mountain and wine lake, since the early days of National Lottery funding for film in the mid-1990s, the UK has supposedly had its own surplus of unreleased movies, spurned by distributors and gathering dust on shelves. The production fever of the ...
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Reviews
Body Of Lies
Dir: Ridley Scott. US. 2008. 129 mins.Ridley Scott employs all his cinematic tricks to craft a heart-thumping action thriller in Body Of Lies, which blends thematic elements of Syriana, Rendition and The Kingdom and then churns them through a high octane Bourne blender. More gripping to watch in the moment ...
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Romero begins production on untitled zombie movie in Canada
Production has begun on George A Romero's untitled latest zombie parable in Ontario, Canada.In keeping with all Romero's other films the project is not a sequel but a new adventure informed by the contemporary social and political climate.The action takes place on an isolated island off the North American coast ...
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MK2 picks up Patrice Chereau's Prosecution
MK2 has announced the acquisition of Patrice Chereau's latest Prosecution.MK2 will handle international sales on the film which begins shooting in Paris next week.Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jean-Hughes Anglade star in a story of 'crazy love and emotional persecution,' according to MK2. The film is from an original script ...
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Japanese anime focus for 2009 Locarno
The world of Japanese anime will be the subject of the retrospective for next year's Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15, 2009) which will also mark the last edition under artistic director Frederic Maire before he becomes head of the Swiss Cinematheque in Lausanne.The Manga Impact retrospective and exhibition will provide ...
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Japanese sellers premiere new titles at Asian Film Market
Japanese majors and independent production companies are kicking off sales of their latest titles at Pusan's Asian Film Market, which launched today. While many Japanese companies reserve full market screenings for the likes of Cannes and the Santa Monica AFM, they believe that Pusan's AFM is an important place to ...
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Singapore Film Commission awards $1.6m to new directors
Nine Singapore directors have each received $170,000 (S$250,000) to direct their first feature-length film under the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund. Funding was granted on the basis that each project has the potential to carry a Singapore-made story to overseas markets.The projects include Japan-Singapore co-production Thunder Boys as ...