All Screen articles in 12 October 2006 – Page 7
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Forever
Dir: Heddy Honigmann. Neth. 2006. 95mins.An intellectual mood piece about life and art,observed through the perspective of death, Heddy Honigmann's documentary about renowned Parisian cemetery Pere Lachaise is surprisinglyaffecting and perceptive, despite its conventional structure.Taking a camera through oneof the most celebrated resting places in the world, and pointing it ...
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Robbie Williams hosts short-film competition
Singer Robbie Williams is workingwith film-makers community Shooting People to encourage emerging film-makers tomake short films to complement his new album Rudebox. Responding to a wide brief,film-makers submitted a variety of treatments using as much or as little fromthe album tracks as they wanted. Williams himself selected and green-lit theseven ...
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The White Planet (La Planete Blanche)
Dir: Thierry Piantanida,Thierry Ragobert, Jean Lemire.Can-Fr. 2006. 86mins.The White Planet triesits best to repeat the magic of March Of The Penguins, which became a surprise worldwide hitdespite being a documentary about penguins. Unfortunately, it doesn't quitemake the grade. Though a handful of powerful images rise up occasionally toreclaim the audience's ...
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Benton and Jeffrey to head new Ingenious Securities
Media infestment group Ingenious has appointed Robert Bentonand Richard Jeffrey as chief executive and head of securities, respectively, ofIngenious Securities. Both had worked at Bridgewell Securities.The new business will launch in 2007 to provide research onthe media sector. The pair have worked closely withIngenious during recent fundraising and the ...
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Vue's Tim Richards gets entrepreneur award
Vue Entertainment chief executiveTim Richards has been named Ernst & Young's UK Entrepreneur Of The Year. Richards left the US exhibition business to found Vue in 1998. The companynow runs 53 cinemas across the UK. "Tim left a successfulcareer to take on the industry giants. He has turned his industry's ...
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Australia's Horniak wins HATCHfest for student short Love Proof
The third annual HATCHfestAudiovisual Arts Festival closed in Bozeman, Montana, with the presentation ofthe Moonlight Basin Outstanding Filmmaker Award to Australia's Maia Horniak forher short film Loveproof.Thefilm festival, which brings in student film-makers from around the world with aview to offering mentorship, education and inspiration, gave Horniak a cashprize of ...
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EFA announces nominees for European Discovery award
TheEuropean Film Academy has announced the fourfilms nominated in its European Discovery category, recognising a director'sfirst full-length feature film. The nominees are Gela Babluani's 13 Tzameti from France/Georgia; Slawomir Fabicki's Retrieval (ZOdzysku) from Poland; MatthiasLuthardt's Pingpong from Germany; and AgnesKocsis' Fresh Air (Friss Levego) fromHungary. Thenominees were decided by a ...
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I Am The Other Woman (Ich Bin Die Andere)
Dir: Margarethe Von Trotta. Ger. 2006. 104mins.A faint scent of nostalgia for the past rules over Margarethe Von Trotta's handsomeproduction I Am TheOther Woman, which looks like a psycho-romantic melodrama from the 1950s. Justimagine Three Faces OfEve meets Belle De Jour on theRhine valley, with all the modern paraphernalia that ...
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I Am The Other Woman (Ich Bin Die Andere)
Dir: Margarethe Von Trotta. Ger. 2006. 104mins.A faint scent of nostalgia for the past rules over Margarethe Von Trotta's handsomeproduction I Am TheOther Woman, which looks like a psycho-romantic melodrama from the 1950s. Justimagine Three Faces OfEve meets Belle De Jour on theRhine valley, with all the modern paraphernalia that ...
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All About Lola (Lo Que Se De Lola)
Dir: Juan Rebollo. Sp-Fr. 2006. 112mins.After a long and successful career in short films,Juan Rebollo's much awaited feature debut All About Lola turnsout to be the kind of film one would rather talk about than watch.Intentionally hermetic, enormously self-indulgent and ignoring reality any timethat the real world disturbs its metaphor, ...
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Google buys video sharing website YouTube for $1.7bn
Google has bought the video sharing website YouTube in a dealbelieved to be worth $1.7bn in stock.The companies will continue to operate independently. YouTubelaunched in February 2005 and swiftly became one of the most popular sites onthe web with an estimated 70million individual visitors each month.The acquisition gives Google an ...