All Screen articles in 17 June 2003 – Page 4

  • News

    House Of Fools to open Munich film festival

    2003-06-11T04:05:00Z

    Andrei Konchalovsky's House Of Fools (Dom Durakov), winner of the Jury Grand Prix at 2002's Venice Film Festival, will open this year's Munich Film Festival on June 28.The eight-day festival, which is the last under the management of founder Eberhard Hauff, will also include Oliver Stone's controversial documentary Comandante, Roberto ...

  • News

    The Tenth Muse to get world premiere at first Copenhagen fest

    2003-06-11T04:05:00Z

    Writer-director Torben Skjoedt Jensen's The Tenth Muse about one of the world's greatest silent film stars, Denmark's Asta Nielsen (pictured), will have its world premiere at the first Copenhagen International Film Festival. Asta Nielsen (1883-1972) was already one of the highest-paid and most popular stage actresses of her time, when ...

  • News

    Finland's Lumifilm takes Pelicanman to the big screen

    2003-06-11T04:05:00Z

    Finnish production outfit Lumifilm, best known for its animated TV productions including the long running Urpo & Turpo series, this week starts shooting its first live-action feature film, Pelicanman, in Helsinki. The children's adventure film tells of a pelican, who becomes so fascinated by humans that he tries to be ...

  • News

    Russian films maintain high presence at Moscow festival

    2003-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The 25th Moscow International Film Festival (June 20-29) has announced its competition line-up with Russian films again making their strongest presence in recent years.Three Russian films, The Stroll directed by Alexei Uchitel, Koktbel directed by Alexey Popogrebsky and Boris Khlebnikov and Petersburg directed by Irina Yevteeva feature in the ...

  • Reviews

    Drifters

    2003-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai. Hong Kong. 2003. 120minsWang Xiaoshuai's follow-up to his Berlin winner Beijing Bicycle goes back to the more hermetic, introverted style that established his reputation with arthouse patrons in his earlier films. Drifters, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, is a Hong Kong production shot in ...

  • News

    China prepares to break film distribution monopoly

    2003-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Chinese film officials have unveiled details of the territory's long-awaited second distributor, Huaxia Film Distribution Company, which is designed to break China Film Group Corp's monopoly on the distribution of imported films. The new company will be launched next week and start distributing movies next month, according to the China ...

  • News

    Stefan Arndt to receive producer award at Cinema Expo

    2003-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Stefan Arndt, producer of German hit Good Bye, Lenin! will be named European producer of the year at the 2003 Cinema Expo European exhibition conference, held June 23-26 at Amsterdam's RAI convention centre.A critical hit at this year's Berlinale, Good Bye, Lenin! has taken more than Euros 34.8m at the ...

  • Reviews

    S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

    2003-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Rithy Panh. France. 2003. 101minsA sincere and honourable attempt to fathom the depths of human evil, documentary S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine offers eyewitness testimony to the painstaking system of torture and repression that existed in Cambodia during the 1970s. The film returns victims of the regime and ...