All Screen articles in 11 February 2008 – Page 3
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The Song Of Sparrows
Dir: Majid Majidi. Iran. 2008. 98 mins.The perennial workingman's blues get a cheerful philosophical spin in The Song Of Sparrows, a briskly likeable comedy from Iranian director Majid Majidi. But while the film will raise plenty of charmed smiles on the festival circuit as enjoyable light relief, its crowd-pleasing style ...
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Atonement takes best film BAFTA but Cotillard steals show
BAFTA spread its awards widely this year with French film La Vie En Rose the surprise show-stealer with four wins.
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Fool's Gold takes top domestic spot
Warner Bros' adventure romance Fool's Gold with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey opened top at the weekend for Warner Bros on an estimated $22m.Universal's comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins starring Martin Lawrence came in second with a $17.1m launch, one place ahead of last week's champion Hannah Montana, which added ...
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Elegy
Dir: Isabel Coixet. US. 2008. 108 mins.After a couple of near misses, Isabel Coixet finally learns that less is more with Elegy. Her latest feature is an impressively-controlled melodrama that strips back Philip Roth's unsentimental 2001 novel of ageing male desire, The Dying Animal, and repackages it as a straight ...
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Cloverfield continues to lead international market
Paramount's monster movie Cloverfield dominated the international market, adding an estimated $14.3m from 3,849 locations in 46 territories through PPI. Its running total has now climbed to $58m.The film opened in 13 territories where the best result came from France as a number two debut produced $3.3m from 443 screens.Elsewhere ...
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Fireflies In The Garden
Dir. Dennis Lee. US. 2008. 98 minutes.Some fine performances are compromised by a confusing script in first-time director/screenwriter Dennis Lee's often-involving family melodrama, Fireflies In The Garden. So much of the film is so delicately accomplished, and sports such evident star power as Julia Roberts and Willem Dafoe, that it's ...
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The Feelings Factory (La Fabrique Des Sentiments)
Dir. Jean-Marc Moutout. France/ Belgium.2008, 104 minutes. Jean-Marc Moutout's The Feelings Factory (La Fabrique des sentiments) wants to be about life and love and all manner of profound things, but ends up as little more than a jumble of endless close-up reaction shots of French actress Elsa Zylberstein. Unfortunately, this ...
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The Aquarium (Genenet Al Asmak)
Dir. Yousry Nasrallah. Egypt/ France/ Germany, 2007. 111 mins.As undoubtedly the best-known protege of t legendary Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, Yousry Nasrallah has been working as a film critic or film-maker for nearly 30 years. Since 1988, hhee has directed a series of distinctive films that frequently show up in ...
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Guilty (Coupable)
Dir: Laetitia Masson. France , 2007. 107 mins.There is no better way to kill off a thriller than to leave the audience completely indifferent to its characters. In Guilty (Coupable), Laetitia Masson has written herself all the elements of a classic noir: a murder, two suspects, a plain-clothes policeman and ...
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Johar's Dharma Productions unveils expansion plans
Hot Indian filmmaker Karan Johar has announced expansion plans for his production outfit, Dharma Productions. After producing five films over the past decade, Johar plans to release three films a year from 2009, focusing on contemporary stories, debut directors, CG animation and new talent both in front of and behind ...
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Palador Pictures acquires Indian rights to Shine A Light
Mumbai-based Palador Pictures has acquired Indian rights to Berlin opening film Shine A Light from Fortissimo Films. Although the Indian market has traditionally been dominated by local product, Indian buyers are becoming more active as local multiplexes and audiences open up to foreign films.In addition, three Indian companies - Palador, ...
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Minghella to head Shanghai film festival jury
Anthony Minghella will serve as president of the international jury at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), which takes place June 14-22. This year's festival will also feature the second edition of contents market SIFF Mart and projects market China Film Pitch & Catch (CFPC). The latter two-day event ...
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Cody, Coens, Gibney take WGA Awards on Saturday
Diablo Cody and Joel and Ethan Coen were the big feature film winners at the 60th annual Writers Guild Of America awards on Saturday night.Cody won best original screenplay for her comedy Juno while the Coen brothers' big screen version of Cormac McCarthy's crime novel No Country For Old Men ...
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Just Anybody (Le Premier Venu)
Dir/Scr: Jacques Doillon. Fr/Belg 2008. 122mins.French director Jacques Doillon's first feature in five years, Just Anybody (Le Premier Venu), is a supple and intelligent work that exerts a strange and fascinating pull. The movie consistently darts and moves toward the unexpected and unveils depths of characterisation and subtlety of action ...
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Soloplan takes Polish rights to Sayles' Honeydripper
Solopan has taken Polish rights to Honeydripper, the latest film from acclaimed indie film director John Sayles. The deal was concluded with sales agent Rezo early during the EFM."'It is an audience pleaser - the kind of film that has a long life. We keep doing sales (on Honeydripper) at ...
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Open Graves international rights go to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has taken international rights on the upcoming horror film Open Graves to star Mike Vogel from the US hit Cloverfield and Eliza Dushku.Alvaro De Arminan will direct from a screenplay by father-and-son team Bruce A Taylor and Roderick Taylor about a group of surfers who awaken a centuries-old ...
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Generator kicks off five-film genre slate with Red Mist
Generator Entertainment is kicking off with a new slate of five genre films - with budgets of about $3m each - starting with Paddy Breathnach's new supernatural thriller Red Mist, which started shooting for 24 days in Belfast on Monday. The project marks Breathnach's follow-up to Shrooms.Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge ...
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Japan's Iseki Satoru to produce Korean epic Sharaku
Japanese producer Iseki Satoru (Battle Of Wits) has boarded epic mystery fantasy Sharaku (working title), which Park Tae-choon is directing for Korea's Studio2.0. Studio 2.0 is co-financing and handling international sales on the $8m Korean-Japanese co-production, which will be shot in Japan with a mostly Japanese cast and crew. Behind-the-scenes ...
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Patrick Stewart lines up for Damian Harris' Pop
Patrick Stewart is attached to star in Pop, Damian Harris' follow-up to his Berlinale competition entry Gardens Of The Night.Based on Kitty Aldridge's debut novel, Harris wrote the adaptation with the author. Their script has been optioned by Andrew Karsch, who will produce the project with Simon Bosanquet of Generator ...