All Screen articles in 10 September 2004 – Page 5

  • News

    Spacey outfit wins Orientrose backing

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    UK company Orientrose is totake a 13% stake in Trigger Street Independent, the newly-formed low-budgetoffshoot of Kevin Spacey and DanaBrunetti's Trigger Street production company.Orientrose also has anoption for a further 32% of the company for a payment of $500,000. The othershareholders include a trust of which Spacey is a beneficiary, ...

  • Reviews

    Enduring Love

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Roger Michell. 2004. UK. 100 mins. After spinningan intense yarn with Hanif Kureishi in TheMother, UK film-maker Roger Michell turns to the ultimate British master ofthe dark side Ian McEwan for his latest film Enduring Love. The result is the most effective film adaptation ofMcEwan to date. Faithful to ...

  • Reviews

    A Hole In My Heart (Ett Hal I Mitt Hjarta)

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: LukasMoodysson. 2004. Sweden/Norway. 98mins.Sweden's LukasMoodysson takes an astonishing journey to the dark heart of humanity in hisfourth feature A Hole In My Heart. Audaciously expressionistic andcinematically experimental, it will be one of Toronto's talking points andprompted plenty of walkouts at the first screenings.Set almostentirely in a dingy apartment in ...

  • News

    Filmax takes on international Hypnos sales

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Filmax International has picked up worldwide distributionrights to Spanish thriller Hypnos (Hipnos)from DeAPlaneta PC, and will present it to buyers in Toronto.The deal teams two of Spain's film behemoths and couldmark the start of a prolific relationship. It also marks only the second timeFilmax has picked up a third-party film ...

  • Reviews

    I Heart Huckabees

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: David O. Russell.US. 2004. 106minsFive years after ThreeKings, writer-director David O Russell returns with an absurdistexistential comedy that is more idiosyncratic and daring than anything he hasmade before. I Heart Huckabees combines the lickety split verbalgymnastics of a Preston Sturges with the philosophical musings of a StephenHawking and then ...

  • News

    Venice filmmakers vent their political anguish

    2004-09-10T04:00:00Z

    Wim Wenders became the latest director to join a chorus ofvoices at the Venice Film Festival condemning the Bush administration, during aweek which has twice seen the Biennale officially react to events developing onthe world stage."As a Christian, I am deeply troubled by the acts of theBush administration," said Wenders, ...

  • News

    Love's Business completes casting

    2004-09-10T04:00:00Z

    Human Traffic's Danny Dyer is to star in Nick Love's Costa del Crimestory The Business, which Content International will present at the AFM.Dyer will appear with TamerHassan (Batman Begins), Roland Manookian (The Football Factory)and Georgina Chapman (Shanghai Knights) in the film, which startsprincipal photography Sept 20 in Malaga, Spain. The ...

  • News

    UIP scoops up remaining Fahrenheit territories

    2004-09-10T04:00:00Z

    Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a furthertheatrical lease of life as United International Pictures (UIP) has acquiredall remaining territories to the film, including six in Asia.Territories covered by the deal, signed last week, includeMalaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and SouthAfrica.UIP is aiming to give the ...