All Screen articles in 11 September 2006 – Page 5
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The Magic Flute (La Flute Enchantee)
Dir: Kenneth Branagh. UK.2006. 137mins.Can filmed opera attract a multiplex audience'Probably not, but Kenneth Branagh's sumptuous newversion of The Magic Flute comes asclose to crossover as a meeting of these two great light-and-sound artforms ever will. Any exercise in this hybrid genre hasto deal with the question of how to ...
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Euphoria (Ejforija)
Dir: Ivan Vyrypaev. Russia.2006. 73mins.A brief, spare but intense love story, Euphoria is a ferocious and downbeatwork from debut Russian film-maker Ivan Vyrypaev, whomay have over-reached himself with its poetical effusions, but who displaysenough promise to watch for the future.Gloriously shot, withjudicious and often surprisingly effective choice of camera angles, ...
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Alatriste
Dir. Agustin Diaz Yanes. Sp-US-Fr 2006. 145mins.At first glance, big budget Hispanic feature Alatriste wouldseem destined for something of a critical fall, directed as it is by alittle-tested film-maker (at least in the way of epics) from several novels andfeaturing an English-language star speaking Spanish. But Agustin Diaz Yanes's $30.8m ...
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Holland Film Meeting selects 21 projects for pitches
The 19thHolland Film Meeting, held Sept 29-Oct 1 during the Netherlands Film Festival,will present 21 feature film projects this year as part of the NetherlandsProduction Platform.The eightDutch and 13 European feature will be pitched to apanel of international producers and financiers. The Dutch films are eligiblefor a prize of $6336 ...
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Pyramide strikes deals for Darratt and Seven Years
French sales outfits appearto have been enjoying brisk business in Venice this year. Paris-based Pyramidehas announced a raft of new deals on its Venice slate.One title that has clearlycaught buyers' imaginations is African auteur MahamatSaleh Haroun's Darratt. Madeunder the umbrella of New Crowned Hope (the Vienna festival celebratingMozart), the film ...
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Zhang Yimou's new film gets Oscar-qualifying run
Beijing-based NewPicture Film Co has announced that Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The GoldenFlower will be eligible to be the Chinese candidate for the bestforeign-language film category at next year's Oscars. The film will have anOscar-qualifying run in Shenyang city in Northern China for a week, starting Sept 23.The film'sofficial release ...
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FilmFour promotes Carlton to senior commissioning editor
FilmFour has promoted Peter Carlton, head of FilmFour Lab, to senior commissioning editor for FilmFour. Carlton now has increased commissioning responsibility andwill work closely with FilmFour head Tessa Ross to commissionprojects and executive produce films at a variety of budget levels. Despite movingaway from the "Lab" tag, Carlton will continue ...
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Raindance line-up includes world premiere of Ramones film
The 14th RaindanceFilm Festival will run in LondonSept 27-Oct 8 with 80 features and 150 shorts selected in what organisersdescribe as a "festival of discovery."As previously announced, thefestival opens Sept 27 with the London premiere of Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Brothers OfThe Head, which recently won the Michael Powell ...
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French TV sales up 2.7% to $192.5m in 2005
French TV exports continuedto rise in 2005 according to a study by film board theCNC and TV France International, the country's TV exportorganisation.At TV France International'sannual Rendez Vous held inSt Tropez this week, organizers announced that for 2005 sales totalled $192.5m(Euros 150.8m) for a 2.7% increase over last year.The US ...
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Nu Image wraps Bulgarian shoot for Day Of The Dead
Director Steve Miner haswrapped production on zombie thriller DayOf The Dead, a new interpretation of George Romero's1985 horror classic, after six weeks of shooting in and around Sofia. The production usedfacilities of Nu Image's BoyanaStudios in the Bulgarian capital and other sets and locations around thecountry, including Ilientzi, where Brian ...
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Mueller says Venice needs bigger theatres and more buyers
Venice Festival directorMarco Mueller has again repeated his calls for the festival to "solve itsinfrastructural problems" and ramp up its industry facilities. "We need biggertheatres," Mueller told ScreenDaily.com as this year's festival heads into itsclosing weekend. "We need the capacity of those theatres to be bigger. We needthe autonomous sidebar ...
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Artificial Eye gets UK rights to latest from Alain Resnais
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up UK rights to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places, which premiered in competition in Venice and will also play in Toronto.The French-Italian co-production stars Lambert Wilson, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi and Isabelle Carre. Bruno Pesery produced the production ...
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Quaid, Weisz, Haden Church star in Groundswell's People
Filming is set to begin on Nov 6 in Pittsburgh on Groundswell Productions'comedy drama Smart People starring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Weisz and Thomas Haden Church.Michael London's Groundswell isproducing the project along with Bill Block's QED International and GrosvenorPark. QED's Kim Fox is handling international sales.Quaid stars as a curmudgeonly professor ...
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Skoll hires former Hard Rock Cafe chief Berk as Participant CEO
Former Hard Rock Cafe International president and chief executiveofficer James Berk has joined LA-based Participant Productions as chiefexecutive officer.The appointment ends a lengthy search by Participant chairman andfounder Jeff Skoll and president Ricky Strauss to find a suitable executive toreplace Skoll as chief executive officer.Berk will assume day-to-day executive leadership ...
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Construction finally begins on Toronto Film Studio
Construction has begun onToronto Film Studio's long-delayed mega-studio project. The first phase, to becompleted by 2008, includes a 45,000 square-foot,clear-span "mega-stage" TFS claims will be world's largest purpose-builtsoundstage, as well as six other sound stages. "Thisstage will attract blockbuster feature films costing $100m or more, like SpidermanIII or Die Hard ...
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IFC takes North America on ...So Goes The Nation
IFC Entertainment has picked up North American rights to thepolitical documentary ...So Goes The Nation, which receives its world premiere in Toronto. The film isdirected by Endgame Entertainment founder James Stern and Adam Del Deo....So Goes the Nation explores America's tumultuous electoral process and focuses onthe infamous Ohio vote count ...
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Stranger Than Fiction to open 42nd Chicago festival
Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction will openthe 42nd Annual Chicago InternationalFilm Festival, which is running from Oct 5-19.Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures' comedy receivesits world premiere as a Special Presentation here tomorrow at Toronto and starsWill Ferrell as a man who hears the voice of an author inside his head anddoesn't ...
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Still Life (Sanxia Haoren)
Dir: Jia Zhankg-Ke. Chi. 2006. 107mins.The decision of the Mostradel Cinema to screen Jia Zhankg-Ke'sStill Life in the prestigioussurprise competition film slot at Venice - and then slap its two press andindustry screenings on at 11pm and midnight respectively - is not going to dothe director nor his film many ...
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Exiled (Fangzhu)
Dir: Johnnie To. HK. 2006.100mins.Less concerned than ever to tell an actual story, and more interested in exploring the possibilities ofcinematic language, Johnnie To's latest gang war epicis probably his most eccentric foray yet into the genre. Paying tribute toWesterns of every kind, particularly the spaghetti variety, Exiled sees To ...
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Inland Empire
Dir/scr: David Lynch. US-Fr-Pol. 2006. 189mins.Around 10 minutes into INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch's baffling new cinematic mindgame,a guy with the head of a rabbit drones: "I do not think it will be much longernow". Wrong, bunny: it will be another two hours and 50 minutes of improvisedplotting, rumbling sound effects ...