All Screen articles in 11 February 2004 – Page 3
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FIAPF set to rewrite festival rule-book
International film producers body FIAPF is set to revamp its film festival regulations and accreditation system following a meeting in Berlin with the directors of the world's leading international film festivals yesterday.At a meeting hosted by Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick, FIAPF's president, producer Andres Vicente Gomez, outlined FIAPF's plan to ...
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Guadalajara selects Dreamers as opener
In keeping with the Italian theme of this year's edition, the 19th Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Showcase has unveiled plans to open the festival with Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic thriller, The Dreamers.The event, which runs from March 19 - 25, has selected Italy as its guest of honour this year. A ...
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EFA opens doors to Israeli, Palestinian film-makers
The European Film Academy (EFA) has invited Israeli and Palestinian film-makers to submit their films for the European Film Awards.The invitation is part of moves by EFA to open up to Mediterranean countries "which have natural and historic cinema relations with Europe," said EFA chairman Humbert Balsan.Israeli director Amos Gitai ...
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Disney's animated Brother Bear managed to charm its way into the top spot in front of Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai, with a slightly higher admissions screen average but a lower box-office average of DKR42,722 compared to Samurai's DKR57,693.Though only dropping just 15%, Annette K. Olesen's Berlin competition entry In ...
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Daybreak (Om Jag Vander Mig Om)
Dir. Bjorn Runge. Sweden, 2004. 108 mins.Already the recipient of four Swedish Oscars and a hit in its home territory, Bjoern Runge's fourth feature turns out to be yet another one of the recently fashionable multi-episode panoramic spreads that portray contemporary family life in various states of distress. Three separate, ...
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Country Of My Skull
Dir. John Boorman. UK-Ireland-South Africa. 2003While there is no reason to doubt the profound sincerity and laudable intentions behind this adaptation of Antjie Krog's book, John Boorman's portrait of South Africa grappling with its own terrible past during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) - whose purpose was to clear ...
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Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes)
Dir. Patrice Leconte. France, 2003. 104 mins.This brilliantly written, superbly acted, witty two-hander, directed with clockwork precision, finds director Patrice Leconte in top form, doing what he does best - engineering encounters between two opposite characters and watching them squirm. A sentimental thriller, to use his own definition, providing a ...
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Cheaper previews well in UK, Jury opens third in Spain for Fox
Fox International's comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2.1m at the weekend, including$1.3m in previews from 329 UK screens, raising its international running totalto $15.8m.The thriller Runaway Jury took $2.2m, the highlight of which was a third place $1.1mbow in Spain on 222 screens. The film has amassed $14.4m in ...
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Brother Bear has strong Swedish bow for BVI
Brother Bear opened top in Sweden for Buena Vista International at theweekend, grossing $978,000 from 129 screens to record the biggest winter bowever for an animated title, exceeding the opening gross of Monsters, Inc by 12%.The picture also opened top in Denmark on $541,000 from 76 for thesecond biggest animated ...
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British tax authority slams shut equity loophole
Operations ofthe UK tax finance industry today (Jan 10) suffered a major blow when theInland Revenue (the UK's tax authority) closed down the burgeoning equityfunds sub-sector.Some 17production partnerships managed by financiers such as Grosvenor Park andIngenious' Inside Track that use "Generally Agreed AccountingPrincipals" are understood to have been affected.The Revenueclosed ...
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Sundance Institute mourns the death of Lynn Auerbach
The Sundance Institute ismourning the death of Lynn Auerbach, the well-liked associate director of itsfeature film programme, who died suddenly at the end of January. The Institute hasissued the following statement."It is with deep sadnessthat we at Sundance grieve the loss of our colleague Lynn Auerbach. Overfifteen years, Lynn was ...
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Schwartzman gets top honours from ASC for Seabiscuit
Seabiscuitcinematographer John Schwartzman won top honours at the 18th Annual AmericanSociety of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards gala on Sunday(Feb 8).It was the first victory for Schwartzman in the ASC competitionafter his nomination for Pearl Harbor in 2002.He beat Russell Boyd for Master and Commander: The Far Side OfThe World, ...
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First Love (Primo Amore)
Dir: Matteo Garrone. Italy. 2004. 98mins.The only Italian film in competition at Berlin, Matteo Garrone's First Love takes an unflinching look at the subject of anorexia. It is as painful an experience for the audience as it appears to be for the protagonist: by the end, we feel that we ...
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Hinsou named supporting actor of the year at Showest
Djimon Hounsou, who is nominated for a best supporting actorAcademy Award for his role in In America, has been named ShoWest 2004 Supporting Actor of the Year."Ittakes a very special actor to create a character as complex as Mateo [in InAmerica]," ShoWest co-managingdirector Mitch Neuhauser said in a statement."Djimon Hounsou ...
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First Run acquires US video/DVD rights to yoga guru doc
First Run Pictures has acquired domestic home video and DVD rightsto Ashtanga, NY,Caroline Laskow and Mary Wigmore's documentary about the Indian yoga guru Sri KPattabhi Jois. A release is planned in the autumn.The film has been a festival mainstay since its debut at the TribecaFilm Festival last year; it follows ...
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King: $943m with Japan still to open
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return OfThe King has become thethird biggest grossing film of all time with a worldwide running total of$942.7m.The fantasy finale added $11.1m at the weekend from 4,352 screensin 58 markets for a $591.5m international box office and $4.3m in domestic fora ...
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UK Film Showcase unveiled
Further details have emerged of The UK Film Showcase, the new screenings initiative for British films being launched in London this summer.London mayor Ken Livingstone is investing roughly £50,000 into the event, due to be held in late June at the three-screen National Film Theatre in London. The Showcase is ...
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SHIP shapes up with detective trilogy
Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP), the English-language division of Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), has unveiled a slate of five feature projects for production in 2004/2005.The first project scheduled for production at the end of this year is the children's adventure film The Mystery Of Skeleton Island, which will be the ...
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German media fund strikes radical US deal
Producers Eberhard Junkersdorf and Dietmar Guntsche's private German media fund Neue Bioskop Germany (NBG) has teamed up with US producer @radical.media.Junkersdorf said that the co-operation with production and commercials outfit @radical.media, a producer of Oscar nominated documentary The Fog Of War, would "immediately give us a partner at our side ...
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Wondrous director readies Dali, Lorca project
Director Paul Morrison, whose film Wondrous Oblivion opened the Berlinale Kinderfest, is set to direct Little Ashes, a drama based on the relationship between Spanish artists Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali in 1920's Madrid.The screenplay is by Philippa Goslett, and was developed by Moira Campbell through UK production company ...