All Screen articles in 18 February 2001 – Page 4
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Werckmeister wins top prize at Hungarian Film Week
Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies was awarded the grand prix and the Gene Moskowtiz critics prize at the 32nd Hungarian Film Week (February 1-6).Best director went to Arpad Sopsits for Abandoned and best photography to Gergely Poharnok for I Love Budapest and Sorted Letters. Best first film was split between I ...
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Gusinsky moves to block takeover of NTV
Vladimir Gusinsky is reportedly attempting to stop Russian state gas giant Gazprom from taking over his NTV television station at an extraordinary general meeting next month, by switching the location of the meeting to Gibraltar.Gusinsky, who is currently in southern Spain pending an extradition request from Russia, said that the ...
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Bavaria sells In July, Fandango to Japan
Germany's Bavaria Film International has sold Fatih Akin's In July (Im Juli) to Japan's Tokyo Theatres, and Matthias Glasner's Fandango to Japan's Gaga Communications.In July, a Bulgarian-German-Turkish co-production, is a romantic comedy and road movie which follows a journey from Hamburg to Istanbul. Director Akin is serving on this year's ...
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Peppermint acquires Italy's Domenica
German rights trader Peppermint has picked up German rights to Italian director Wilma Labate's Domenica which is showing in the Panorama section of this year's Berlin Film Festival. Starring Claudio Amendola, Domenica Giuliano and Annabella Sciorra, the film centres on a police inspector, who doesn't have a daughter, and an ...
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Cappon replaces Celli as RAI director general
Italian state broadcaster RAI has promoted deputy director Claudio Cappon to the position of director general, replacing former chief Pier Luigi Celli who quit on Friday.RAI's unprecedented speed in appointing Cappon served to quash a political storm which arose when the newly-departed director said that the broadcaster was "ungovernable"."We have ...
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Pathe, TF1 end merger talks
French broadcaster TF1 has ended its talks with film major Pathe, aimed at merging the two groups' interests in the areas of movie management, acquisition and sales, reportedly because of conflict between TF1 chairman Patrick Le Lay and Pathe's Jerome Seydoux.The merger would have created a French competitor to StudioCanal, ...
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Reviews
Hannibal
(The following is an extract from a review that ran in the weekly edition of Screen International. For the full review see Screen International, Feb 9-16)Dir: Ridley Scott. US. 2001. 141mins.The dark shadow of The Silence Of The Lambs looms large over Hannibal, the eagerly-anticipated sequel to the 1991 ...
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Greenberg omitted from Oscar documentary shortlist
The moment that this year's Academy Award nominees are revealed to the entire world at a pre-dawn ceremony broadcast live from Los Angeles tomorrow morning, there will be the usual gasps at some of the omissions and more questions raised about why some of the year's best-known documentary features have ...
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Lenormand confirmed as new StudioCanal chief
As expected, Richard Lenormand has been appointed chairman and CEO of StudioCanal to replace Vincent Grimond who has resigned following his appointment as senior executive vice president, operations and finance, at Universal Studios Group. The board of directors at StudioCanal unanimously appointed Lenormand. The 38 year-old was most recently senior ...
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