All Screen articles in 11 September 2002 – Page 3
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Taiwan's Dreamland favoured by Venice critics
Some24 hours ahead of the festival's main prizes, Taiwanese drama Somewhere OverThe Dreamland (Mon Huan Buo Luo), was named the winner of a particularlystrong Venice Critics' Week section. The film, directed by Cheng Wen-Tang, was cited by the Criticsweek jury- comprising Julie Delpy, Screen International critic DanFainaru and Italian ...
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Taiwan's Dreamland wins Critics Week prize
Some24 hours ahead of the festival's main prizes, Taiwanese drama Somewhere OverThe Dreamland (Mon Huan Buo Luo), was named the winner of a particularlystrong Venice Critics' Week section. The film, directed by Cheng Wen-Tang, was cited by the Criticsweek jury- comprising Julie Delpy, Screen International critic DanFainaru and Italian ...
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Italy's Lucky Red acquires Open My Heart
Italian independent distributor Lucky Red has picked up Italian rights to Venice title Open My Heart, a drama directed by first-time director Giada Colagrande about a prostitute who lives with her sister.Screening in Venice's New Territories sidebar, Open My Heart was co-produced by Colagrande and Massimo Cortesi, the producer behind ...
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Johan Padan launches Green Movie Group's animation aspirations
Italian producer Giorgio Prandoni is hoping that Johan Padan, the closing night film at the Venice festival, will mark the start of a new force in European animation.His company Green Movie Group fully financed the $7.5m film which tells the story of the discovery of America by a real-life 16th ...
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Johan Padan launches Green Movie Group's animation aspirations
Italian producer Giorgio Prandoni is hoping that Johan Padan, the closing night film at the Venice festival, will mark the start of a new force in European animation.His company Green Movie Group fully financed the $7.5m film which tells the story of the discovery of America by a real-life 16th ...
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Berlusconi moves to protect control of broadcast networks
Silvio Berlusconi's government has presented a controversial new media law to the Italian Parliament, which clears the path for the privatisation of state broadcaster RAI in 2004 and will allow the media mogul-premier to retain all three of his free-to-air Mediaset channels. Shares of RAI will be offered to the ...
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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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UGC UK dives into Ozon's Swimming Pool
UGC Films has picked up Francois Ozon's forthcoming Swimming Pool, marking its third buy since being formed earlier this year as the UK theatrical distribution arm of French exhibition giant UGC. International sales on the film are handled by Celluloid Dreams.The film, a drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier, ...
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Mullan's Magdalene Sisters wins Venice Golden Lion
The Magdalene Sisters, by Scottish director Peter Mullan, scooped the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the closing ceremony of the Venice film festival. The film about a group of apparently promiscuous girls and their cruel treatment at the hands of Irish nuns, screened near the beginning of the festival ...
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Mullan's Magdalene Sisters wins Venice Golden Lion
The Magdalene Sisters, by Scottish director Peter Mullan, scooped the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the closing ceremony of the Venice film festival. The film about a group of apparently promiscuous girls and their cruel treatment at the hands of Irish nuns, screened near the beginning of the festival ...
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Toronto mourns death of actress Katrin Cartlidge
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival was in a state of shock yesterday after learning of the suddendeath of Katrin Cartlidge, the talented British actress whose film rolesincluded such well-regarded European films as Topsy-Turvy, Before The Rain, Naked, Breaking The Waves and last year's Oscar-winning No Man'sLand. She was 41.Born in London, ...
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Toronto mourns death of actress Katrin Cartlidge
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival was in a state of shock yesterday after learning of the suddendeath of Katrin Cartlidge, the talented British actress whose film rolesincluded such well-regarded European films as Topsy-Turvy, Before The Rain, Naked, Breaking The Waves and last year's Oscar-winning No Man'sLand. She was 41.Born in London, ...
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Celluloid wraps additional deals on Kitano's Dolls
Celluloid Dreams closed deals for Takeshi Kitano's competition film Dolls with Maywin Media for Russia, Artdo for the Baltic states, Cineplex for Columbia Seville for Canada and Imovision for Brazil.Celluloid had previously sold Dolls to Mikado for Italy, Cinelibre for Benelux, Frenetic for Switzerland, DEA Planeta for Spain, Atalanta for ...
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Alliance Atlantis takes international rights on Toronto twosome
Alliance Atlantis is to handle international sales rights on Benoit Jacquot's Benjamin Constant's Adolphe starring Isabelle Adjani and to Dylan Kidd's Roger Dodger starring Campbell Scott and Isabella Rossellini. Charlotte Mickie, managing director, international motion picture sales at Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling the two films which are both ...
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The Quiet American
Director: Phillip Noyce. US-UK. 2002. 101minsThe fatal global consequences of blundering American naivety are brought into sharp focus by Phillip Noyce's elegantly understated adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. First published in 1955, Greene's spare, prophetic fiction told of America's misguided adventures in the politics of Indo-China through a love ...
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The Quiet American
Director: Phillip Noyce. US-UK. 2002. 101minsThe fatal global consequences of blundering American naivety are brought into sharp focus by Phillip Noyce's elegantly understated adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. First published in 1955, Greene's spare, prophetic fiction told of America's misguided adventures in the politics of Indo-China through a love ...
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Spanish producers' association appoints communications director
The Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE) has appointed Mercedes Martinez as its new communications director.Martinez replaces previous director Fernando Bejarano, who left FAPAE for Madrid-based production outfit BocaBoca.Martinez has worked for the last five years in the Spanish film acquisitions department of digital satellite pay TV platform Via Digital.FAPAE is overseen ...
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Columbia TriStar hits international billion dollar gross mark
Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) says it has passed $1bn in internationalticket sales this year, the third time the Sony Pictures Entertainment divisionhas crossed over that billion-dollar threshold overseas. The totalworldwide box office gross for parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment nowstands at $2.4bn, already the fifth highest annual total on ...
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HFF buys French rights to The Good Girl from Myriad
Hachette Filipacchi Films (HFF), the company formerly known as Film Office, has acquired French rights to Miguel Arteta's US hit The Good Girl from Myriad Pictures. The deal was sealed at the Deauville Festival Of American Film where the film received its international premiere.Mars Film will release the film theatrically ...