All Screen articles in 16 October 2007 – Page 5
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New Zealand's Signature scheme kicks off with Urale's debut
Sima Urale is set to start production on her debut feature, Apron Strings, this month.Laila Rouass will star alongside Scott Wills, Jennifer Ludlum and Nathan Whittaker.Urale is internationally known for her shorts O'Tamaiti, Still Life, and Coffee & Allah. The latter premiered in Venice earlier this year.Rachel Gardner of Maxim ...
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John Cale to star in Aguero's Salamandra
Music legend John Cale is appearing opposite Argentinean actress Dolores Fonzi (El Aura) in Pablo Aguero's feature debut Salamandra which begins principal photography in a remote community in Patagonia from today (Oct 11).The Euros 1m mother-son drama about a six-year old boy taken by his mother on a hitch-hiking trip ...
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Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone
Dir. Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki,Masayuki. Japan, 2007. 98 min.Pusan's closing night film is brash, loud, colourful but pretty confusing if you are not acquainted withthe ins and outs of the original 1995 anime TV series. It is already a hit in Japan where millions watched its final television episode. But ...
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European Academy to honour Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Ballhaus
The European Film Academy is to honourJean-Luc Godard and Michael Ballhaus.The awards will be made at the European Film Awards in Berlin on December 1.Godard receives a lifetime achievement award. He hasbeen making films for nearly 50 years, since his 1960 debut, A Bout De Souffle (Breathless).The academy is also ...
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Israeli film Foul Gesture claims first international buyers
Israeli revenge drama Foul Gesturehas soldto Barton Films for Spain, Portugal and AndorraTzahi Grad's$0.5m film proved a huge success at the San Sebastian film festival and has been a hit with critics.'We don't have a sales agent attached to the film yet, but [Bilbao based] Barton films have bought the ...
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Honeydripper
Dir/scr: John Sayles. US. 2007. 123mins. Relaxed, confident and very percussive in texture and mood, John Sayles' musical fable Honeydripper is the director's strongest work since Lone Star (1996). The story of a juke joint proprietor taking whatever measures necessary to save his country roadhouse, the movie showcases the film-maker ...
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Tribe (Tribu)
Dir. Jim Meer Libiran. Philippines, 2007. 95 min.Winner of this year's Cinemalaya top award and bound for a solid festival career around the world, Jim Libiran's vibrant debut goes back to the Manila slums, which have become lately the favourite spot for cinema in the Philippines. Thispowerful but downbeat portrait ...
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Tribe (Tribu)
Dir. Jim Meer Libiran. Philippines, 2007. 95minsWinner of this year's Cinemalaya top award and bound for a solid festival career around the world, Jim Libiran's vibrant debut goes back to the Manila slums, which have become lately the favourite spot for cinema in the Philippines. Thispowerful but downbeat portrait of ...
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Oz awards season kicks off with Home Song Stories in the lead
The Home Song Stories was the stand-out film when the Inside Film Awards announced their nominees yesterday (Oct 10). Only in the editing category did it miss out. Those named in relation to the film include producers Liz Watts and Michael McMahon for best film, director Tony Ayres, actress Joan ...
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PUSAN: Cineclick sells package to Middle East
Seoul-based sales agent Cineclick Asia has announced a flurry of sales to three territories - the Middle East, Japan and Hungary - at the Asian Film Market, headlined by Kim Ki-duk's Breath, which looks set to be the first Korean film theatrically released in the Arab regions. Ghassan Production and ...
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Up Hit Creek: Joel Schumacher and Paul Brooks in Romania
The secret to working in Romania is the smaller the budget, the better luck you're going to have,' suggests US director Joel Schumacher on the set of supernatural thriller Town Creek, which shot just outside Bucharest for 10 weeks this summer.'It's a small movie without major stars. It's gritty,' Schumacher ...
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UKFC gives $500,000 P&A support to The Counterfeiters
The UK Film Council has announced its latest recipients from the Prints & Advertising Fund: They are: $511,400 (£250,296) to Metrodome for The Counterfeiters $408,636 (£200,000) to Momentum for Control $255,700 (£124,937) to Metrodome for The Serpent $65,944 (£32,275) to Park Circus for The Sound of Music $10,216 (£5,000) to ...
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Critical Mass: What happened to the 90-minute film'
Whatever happened to the 90-minute film' You only have to look at the top prizes at Venice this year to realise this classic running time is no longer the norm. The Golden Lion went to Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (156 minutes). The Special Jury prize was shared by The Secret ...
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Christophe Barratier revisits 1930s Paris
'From the beginning, it was all a question of cost because the film is very, very expensive,' says French director Christophe Barratier of the $38.2m budget for Faubourg 36, the follow-up to his hugely successful 2004 film, The Chorus.'You can't find the Paris of the 1930s in Paris itself anymore. ...
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IDFA to open with wartime project Operation Homecoming
The 20th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open Nov 22 with Richard Robbins' Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience. This film is based on letters, poems, essays and diary fragments of American soldiers serving in Iraq (via a National Endowment for the Arts programme), set against universal themes ...
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Russian hit Apocalypse Code enters international top 10
Russian action hit Apocalypse Code was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $3.6m from 697 screens. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here. The film, directed by Vadim Shmelev, just made the top 10 and enjoyed a $5,167 screen average from ...
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Bals Fund backs new digital films from Wang Bing, Paz Encina
The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam has selected four new film projects to receive funding from its digital production category.The four projects will receive grants for low-budget digital productions.They are: Wang Bing's The Journey of Crude Oil (China), about the oil industry in the Gobi desert; ...
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Odeon Sky Filmworks strikes UK deal for REC with Filmax
Odeon Sky Filmworks has taken the UK rights to Filmax's REC. The deal was negotiated during the Toronto International Film Festival between Filmax CEO Carlos Fernandez, managing director Carles Rojano, and head of international Vicente Canales and Tony Miller head of Odeon Sky Filmworks. The Spanish-language supernatural horror film is ...
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AAM adds Pathe titles for digital rentals and downloads
Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has struck a content deal with Pathe, making titles such as Talk To Her, Memento and The Queen available for customers to rent online. The deal also covers future Pathe titles. Pathe content will also be available for download through AAM 's Vizumi platform and its ...
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Chouga
Dir. Darezhan Omirbaev. Kazakhstan / France, 2007. 88 Min.Darezhan Omirbayev's minimalist film takes Tolstoy's Anna Karenina from St. Petersburg and Moscow to Almaty and Astana, and from 1877 to 2007. It is an adaptation that will surprise many by the economy of means applied to one of the most effusive ...