All Screen articles in 15 February 2002 – Page 4
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Italian minister condemns American Beauty
Italian government minister Umberto Bossi has condemned Oscar-winning picture American Beauty for corrupting Italian family values.Bossi, the controversial leader of Italy's Northern League movement who is currently pushing for a seat on Rai's new board of directors, charged that the movie, about a middle-aged man's obsession with his daughter's ...
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A Map Of The Heart (Der Felsen)
Dir: Dominik Graf. Germany, 2002. 117mins.The second of three German films in competition at Berlin, A Map Of The Heart is a story of mixed-up emotions and crossed destinies set on the island of Corsica. Shot in mini-DV, the film is also unusual in its narrative structure - based on ...
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New opportunities for Central and Eastern Europe
Enlargement of the European Union's Media Plus programme to include Central and Eastern Europe was high on the agenda at meetings held at the Berlinale this week."At least six of the 12 candidate countries could join this year" said the EU's Giorgio Ficcarelli. Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, ...
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FIAPF re-categorises Locarno film festival
Previously specialised in young cinema, the Locarno festival is to become a generalist event from this year."FIAPF moved us to the general festival category which will give us freedom to choose what we want, although our focus will still be on new cinema", said artistic director Irene Bignardi during the ...
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Wild Bunch seals raft of deals at EFM
French sales agent Wild Bunch has completed a swathe of sales on its huge European Film Market slate. Competition film Spirited Away was confirmed as going to Pathe for UK and Switzerland, RAI Cinema for Italy and Central Partnership Russia. After buying City Of God at Sundance for the US ...
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Korea's Volcano High to Amuse for $1.5m
In a deal started at the Rotterdam film festival and completed in Berlin, Korea's Cinema Service has sold its futuristic Volcano High (pictured)to Japan's Amuse Pictures for whopping $1.5m (Y200m). In Thailand, the film was bought by Nontanund, which also grabbed Cinema Service's My Sassy Girl. For Jeong Jae-Eun's Take ...
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Vivendi Universal reports 10% revenues rise
Vivendi Universal has announced a better-than-expected 10% rise in revenues for 2001, to Euros 57.4bn, and is expecting a further 10% increase in 2002.News of the results, some Euros 1bn better than expected, boosted the company's share price by 2.9% to Euros 48.2 on Feb 11.Revenues from film and broadcasting ...
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Oz govt set to restore confidence in tax scheme
Australia's competitive appeal as a location for offshore productions, threatened last year when tax breaks were denied to investors in Red Planet and Moulin Rouge, is set to be restored following the Government's establishment of a new scheme regulating the "refundable tax offset".Australia's Government has held its ground on some ...
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Independent cinema to double size in Tokyo
Tokyo Theatres Co., a leading independent exhibitor specialising in Japanese and European arthouse films, has announced plans to double the number of theatres it operates in Tokyo from eight to sixteen, over the next five years. During Japan's long recession and consequent deflation, urban land prices have plunged, bringing residents ...
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Gilliam to revive The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
'If I play it right,' says Terry Gilliam, 'I can continue making this film for the rest of my life.' In Berlin to support Lost In La Mancha, the so-called 'un-making of' documentary about his aborted Don Quixote production, Gilliam still aims to make the film in question. Titled The ...
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South Africa's AME reports $18.3m fall in revenue
South African listed media company African Media Entertainment (AME) has reported disappointing end of year results, with the group's revenue falling by about a third to $18.3m (R209m).This fall in revenue was attributed largely to the disposal of struggling units and unprofitable operations. The group was a major co-financier of ...
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Bollore takes 7% stake in France's Gaumont
French investment group Bollore has acquired a 7% stake in French film group Gaumont, the value of which has not been disclosed.Gaumont - which saw a massive Euros 66.7m loss in 2000 and merged its exhibition operations with Pathe's in early 2001 to form EuroPalaces, (66% Pathe/ 34% Gaumont) - ...
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John Q
Dir: Nick Cassavetes. US 2002. 116mins.Socially relevant messages, simplistic action elements and teary melodramatic threads are manipulatively and unsuccessfully mixed in Nick Cassavetes' John Q, a film that tries to provide a "hard" look at an honest, working-class man, who loses control in his valiant effort to save his child's ...
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Lost In La Mancha
Dirs: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe. UK. 2001. 89mins.Lost In La Mancha is an enormously entertaining and poignant antidote to the bland "making of" films usually found as DVD add-ons and television plugumentaries. Instead of the traditional gushing interviews with cast and crew, this is the chronicle of an unmitigated disaster: ...
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Monsters, Inc. scares up UK box office record
Nothing could stand up to the might of Buena Vista International's Monsters, Inc. at the UK box office over the weekend with the animated hit claiming first place with a massive $13.0m (£9.2m), including previews of $3.8m (£2.7m). BVI's biggest opening to date, Monsters, Inc. played at 503 sites including ...
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Uncle Frank
Dir: Matthew Ginsburg. US, 2002. 84 mins.The first documentary to be produced by Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Productions, Uncle Frank is an affectionate, touching and often hilariously funny portrait of the director's octagenarian uncle, who plays the electric piano in old people's homes. Although it deals frankly (so to speak) ...
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Temptations
Dir: Zoltan Kamondi. Hungary. 2002. 88mins.Hungary is back after a long absence in the Berlinale competition with an entry that attempts to cover as many of the burning Magyar issues of the hour as its 88 minutes running time will allow. So many, in fact - from generation gap to ...
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Return To Never Land
Dirs: Robin Budd, Donovan Cook. US. 2001. After turning out a string of video sequels to recent Disney hits like The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, Walt Disney Television Animation does a more than respectable job on this animated theatrical sequel to the studio's beloved 1953 classic Peter Pan. ...
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Sound Of Brazil (Moro No Brasil)
Dir: Mika Kaurismaki. Ger/Fin/Fra/Brazil, 2002. 105 mins.A well-known European arthouse director goes on a musical pilgrimage in a Latin American country. Sounds familiar, no' Echoes of Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club come thick and fast in this roots-of-Samba documentary by cuddly Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki. But in the end, ...
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Full list of 74th Academy Awards nominees
The full list of nominees for the 74th Academy AwardsBest PictureA Beautiful MindGosford ParkIn The BedroomThe Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The RingMoulin RougeDirectingA Beautiful Mind - Ron HowardBlack Hawk Down - Ridley ScottGosford Park - Robert AltmanThe Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring ...