All Screen articles in 11 September 2008 – Page 2
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ReviewsFifty Dead Men Walking
Dir. Kari Skogland. UK/Canada. 2008. 118 mins.It was only in the aftermath of the Vietnam War that filmmakers were able to create a substantial body of work reflecting the complexities of what had happened there. The same is proving to be true of the recent ‘Troubles’that ...
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New Line options How To Be Single for Flower Films to produce
New Line Cinema has optioned Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel How To Be Single and will produce with Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.Tuccillo is a former writer for Sex and the City and co-wrote the book He's Just Not That Into You, which was also acquired and produced by ...
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Gus Van Sant to receive tribute at Gotham Awards
Gus Van Sant will receive a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Sant directed Milk, which stars Sean Penn as the assassinated gay supervisor of San Francisco and will be released through Focus Features on November 26.In recognition of Van Sant's ...
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Millstein, Morris promoted at Disney Animation, Pixar
Disney animation executive Andrew Millstein has been named general manager for Walt Disney Animation Studios and industry effects production executive Jim Morris will take on a parallel role as general manager for Pixar Animation Studios.Both will be responsible for guiding overall operations of their respective studios and will continue to ...
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Hollywood marketing agencies creative trade organisation
Hollywood marketing agencies have formed the trade organisation AEMA. Bob Farina of The Cimarron Group has been named chairman. Member agencies include In Sync Advertising, The Ant Farm, Anticipation Group, Intralink, Crew Creative and Bemis Balkind.'An organisation like AEMA is long overdue,' Farina said. 'In this constantly shifting landscape that ...
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Govan's Rain to open Bahamas International Film Festival
Maria Govan's drama Rain, one of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, will open the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), set to run from December 4-11 in Nassau.Rain received its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend and ...
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ReviewsWhat Doesn't Kill You
Dir. Brian Goodman, US, 2008, 100 minutesSouth Boston’s Irish gangland fatalism returns to the screen in Brian Goodman’s debut, a buddies-in-crime drama. Two childhood friends in the Southie slums graduate from petty crime to robbery, murder, drugs and prison, and even to a little self-awareness.The challenge ...
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imegenation abu dhabi forms $250m financing fund with Participant
Participant Media and imagenation abu dhabi have formed a five-year $250m revolving fund to finance a slate 15-18 of narrative features.Participant will take the lead in developing and will oversee production and find worldwide distribution. Participant Media CEO Jim Berk said the company had been looking to secure a multi-year ...
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IFC buys Che from Wild Bunch; plans Oscar-qualifying December run
In one of Toronto's most-anticipated deals, IFC Films has taken North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's epic Che starring Benicio Del Toro.IFC plans a one-week Oscar qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a release in January through multi-platform initiative IFC In Theatres.IFC president Jonathan Sehring, VP ...
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Tippett to receive Georges Melies Award from Visual Effects Society
Phil Tippett, who founded Tippett Studio and won an effects Oscar for his work in Jurassic Park and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Return Of The Jedi, will receive the Visual Effects Society's (VES) George Melies Award For Artistic Excellence.The Melies Award, given to individuals who have 'pioneered a ...
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Australia online competition launched as part of Stockholm festival
The Stockholm International Film Festival has launched an online short film competition in the run up to the festival, in conjunction with Baz Luhrmann's new film Australia.Entrants are challenged to re-create a scene from their favourite film, within the genres of romance, horror, action and comedy, lasting between 1-3 minutes. ...
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Richard Antley joins Digital Vision for US sales manager
Post-production provider Digital Vision has hired Richard Antley as sales manager for the Americas. Antley comes to Digital Vision after two and a half years as vice president at IMAGTICA Corp.Simon Cuff, President of Digital Vision, said: 'It is exciting for a sales executive of Richard's calibre to join Digital ...
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EFAs to honour Judi Dench, four founders of Dogma
The 21st European Film Awards will present honorary awards to Judi Dench along with Dogma fournders Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The European Film Academy announced the honours.Famed actress Dench will get the Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work.The Dogma movement, established in ...
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Johan Kling to follow Darling with Trust Me
Swedish director Johan Kling's Trust Me took $1m (Euros 0.7m) of the $1.8m Swedish Film Institute support for10 local productions.Kling'sfeature debut, Darling, was named Best Swedish Film 2007 by the Association of Swedish Film Critics,Darling went on to win the Nordic Film Prize at the Göteborg Film Festival and to ...
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ReviewsA Year Ago In Winter
Dir: Caroline Link. Germany. 2008. 128 mins.Caroline Link’s first film in seven years is an elegantly-woven portrait of a family in crisis after the suicide of an 18 year-old boy and the steps which occur on their way to healing. Never overly gloomy or downbeat, A ...
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ReviewsAfterwards
Dir. Gilles Bourdos, France/Canada/Germany, 2008, 107 minutes.Afterwards requires some serious suspension of disbelief. A man, now a lawyer, who came back from the dead as a boy, meets a doctor with the ability to identify people who are about to die from a white light they ...
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Tonight (Nuit de Chien)
Dir: Werner Schroeter. France/Germany/Portugal. 2008. 121 mins.Pascal Greggory - and the audience - stumble through a violent, decadent war-torn Eurocity in veteran German filmmaker Werner Schroeter's Tonight, trying to salvage some sort of meaning from the mess. Though it flares up occasionally with noirish atmosphere and post-apocalpytic ennui, Schroeter's first ...
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Giovanna's Father (Il Papa di Giovanna)
Dir/scr: Pupi Avati. Italy, 2008. 104 mins.Easily watchable but eminently forgettable, this period melodrama about a protective father besotted by his deranged daughter is bound to go the way of most previous Pupi Avati films: a respectable career in Italy followed by indifference elsewhere, despite featuring an emotionally-charged performance by ...
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Axiom strikes UK deals for Goodbye Solo, Sugar, The Sea Wall
UK distributor Axiom Films has picked up three titles from Toronto to add to its growing slate. They are Goodbye Solo, Sugar and The Sea Wall.Memento is selling Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which won the Fipresci prize at Venice Critics Week. The story follows an African-born cab driver who befriends ...
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Rome to open third festival with Huit/Eight and The Man Who Loves
The International Film Festival of Rome has announced Huit/Eight and The Man Who Loves will share credits as opening films for the upcoming third edition, which runs October 22-31. Huit/Eight, which was previously announced, will be presented out of competition as a Special Event, organisers specified today, even though ...