All Screen articles in 16 March 2008 – Page 3
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Kimberly Peirce on Stop Loss
Kimberly Peirce was in New York on the day of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks and recalls vividly her emotional devastation at the sight of the towers' collapse.In the tense aftermath, she began reflecting on how her life and the lives of those around her had fundamentally changed.Her grandfather ...
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Features
Production - Iceland - White hot
Iceland punches above its weight in the film world, considering the number of film-makers and film-goers per capita in this small, isolated nation. The country's reputation is on the up thanks to increasingly high-profile work from the likes of Baltasar Kormakur, whose acclaimed thriller Jar City was launched in the ...
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Production - The film-makers - Youth movement
NABIL AYOUCHAyouch first came to attention in 2000 with his second feature, Ali Zaoua, Prince Of The Streets, a drama about children in Casablanca which won international prizes from St Louis to Stockholm. The latest title from the film-maker, whose mother is French-Jewish and father is Moroccan-Muslim, is Whatever Lola ...
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In focus - Financing - Filming in hard times
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget has been watched with trepidation by the film industry in recent years. The biggest change was the dramatic overhaul of the tax system that ended the sale-and-leaseback era.But in hindsight Gordon Brown, now the prime minister, made perhaps the most significant gesture ...
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Editorial - Don't rely on the numbers
One of the 60th anniversaries that will go largely unnoticed this year is New Zealand economist Bill Phillips' invention of an economic calculating device called Moniac.The Moniac is an ingenious proto-computer that promised to predict scientifically a nation's economic fortunes. It opened and closed valves that released water into tubes, ...
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Mapp's Direction
Christopher Mapp, managing director of Australia's Omnilab Group, has much resting on The Bank Job, which opened in the UK on February 28 and in the US on March 7. The film is the biggest and most international of several projects the ambitious company has helped finance in the past ...
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International - A French Collection
French comedy Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis enjoyed its second weekend at number one, taking an impressive $29.8m from three territories while keeping new entry 10,000 BC at bay.Ch'tis fell a mere 8% over the three-day period and played on 905 screens for a whopping $32,916 screen average, the highest of ...
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French production- Cinema Sans Frontieres
France produces 200-plus films a year, more than any other country in Europe. Its output has long been dominated by light-hearted fare, targeted at the local market.However, with the local box office falling in 2007 and exports booming, this is gradually changing as a new breed of French film-makers and ...
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The big kick-off
With a tale that echoes their documentary In The Hands Of The Gods, the four young Brits who make up film-making collective Fulwell 73 set out to achieve their dream - and ended up busking their way to success on little more than a wing and a prayer.Brothers Gabe and ...
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Box office: Data - The critical view - Bad moon rising
At this year's Berlinale, I found myself pitching an idea for a script I'll probably never write to an old friend who is now a leading British producer. I felt a bit guilty: this was supposed to be his one non-working lunch of the festival, and there was me turning ...
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United Kingdom - Political Animal
Cinema is about telling human stories and the politics need to be in the back." Those words may come as a surprise from Salford-born director Pete Travis, whose last two feature films are powerful political dramas.In 2004, his debut feature, Omagh, followed a family in the aftermath of the 1998 ...
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Tribeca 2008 announces Discovery, Midnight lineups
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the films in its Discovery and Midnight sections for this year's festival which runs April 23 to May 3 in Manhattan.Discovery features 30 films with 18 world premiers and 11 North American premieres from up-and-coming narrative and documentary directors, while the Midnight section features ...
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UK financiers don't see disaster with closed tax loophole
UK film financiers have been striking a philosophical note about yesterday's Budget 2008 government announcement that 'sole traders' who spend fewer than 10 hours a week on film-related activities will no longer be able to offset predicted losses on film investment.Previous UKGovernment clampdowns, whether last year's sudden closure of so-called ...
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UK Culture Minister defends Creative Industries strategy
Criticism that there are no funds to support the UK government's recently released strategy for the creative industries has been shrugged off by the UK's new Minister for Culture, Creative industries and Tourism, Margaret Hodge.In an interview with film producer David Puttnam that was made public, Hodge was asked whether ...
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Film4 budget holds steady as Channel 4 unveils future vision
Channel 4's film production arm Film4 was held up as a central part of the company's public service contribution during the broadcaster's 'Next On 4' future vision presentation earlier today.In London, Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson, chief executive Andy Duncan and director of TV/content Kevin Lygo unveiled strategic plans for ...
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Mary Parent hired as chair of MGM worldwide motion picture group
Mary Parent, the former vice chairman of worldwide production at Universal Pictures, has joined MGM as chairperson, worldwide motion picture group. She will be responsible for oversight of worldwide theatrical production, distribution, marketing and business affairs for the company.She reports directly to Harry E Sloan, chairman and CEO of MGM ...
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Reviews
Os Desafinados (Slightly Out Of Tune)
Dir: Walter Lima Jr. Brazil, 2008. 138 mins.A tribute to the golden age of bossa nova, Os Desafinados tells the story of four young musicians from Rio trying to make it big in New York in the sixties, just as Joao Gilberto and Tom Jobim were influencing popular music there ...
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UK Finance: Life After Loopholes
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget has been watched with trepidation by the film industry in recent years. The biggest change was the dramatic overhaul of the tax system that ended the sale-and-leaseback era in 2006.But in hindsight Gordon Brown, now the prime minister, made perhaps the most ...
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Gaviria's Latinos takes RTVE award at Guadalajara meetings
At the fourth Iberoamerican Co-production Meetings at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Colombian project Latinos, to be directed by Victor Gaviria and produced by El Baile Films, was awarded with the main prize. The award's sponsor, Spanish public TV station RTVE, will determine the amount of the prize, ranging from ...
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Hyyti to leave Finland's FS Film Oy; Toiviainen promoted to MD
Lasse Hyyti is leaving his post as managing director of Finnish distributor FS Film Oy.The company's current VP of marketing and head of theatrical distribution, Antti Toiviainen, will be promoted to Managing Director as of April 16.Hyyti, who has been with FS Film for eight years, will pursue a career ...