All Screen articles in 18 February 2005 – Page 7
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Fateless (Sorstalansag)
Dir. Lajos Koltai.Hung-Ger-UK. 2005. 136mins.Initially offered a lessprestigious slot at Berlin, the producers of Fateless have been provedjustified in holding out for the competition slot which it was awarded hoursbefore the festival began.Oscar-nominatedcinematographer Lajos Koltai's (Malena, Being Julia) grim andsober debut initially seems like any other neatly calibrated, if hardlyexceptional ...
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Funds dry up at Euro Media Programme
The Media Programme'sdistribution support system appears to be in a state of disarray. Speaking inBerlin on Sunday, Raymond A. J. Goverde confirmed that the budget for 2004 ranout in mid-November and that no distributors have received the money they werepromised since then.Goverde (Head of MonitoringTeam at Media) said that the ...
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One Day In Europe
Dir/scr: Hannes Stohr.Ger-Sp. 2005. 101mins.The idea, at least, is promising: four mini-stories set in four Europeancities, all playing out against the background of a major internationalfootball match. But in the end there's something frustratingly inconclusiveabout One Day In Europe, Hannes Stohr's follow-up to Berlin Is InGermany, which won the Panorama ...
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Gavin Films strikes US deal for Mothers And Daughters
Bill Gavin's Gavin Films hassold North American rights to Mothers And Daughters to SalonEntertainment.The US distributor isplanning a theatrical release for the low-budget British comedy, written,directed and produced by actors Hannah Davis and David Conolly exploring thetangled love lives and family relationships of middle class Londoners."Salon is making a verysignificant ...
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Icon takes Perfect Creature for the UK
Icon Entertainment haspicked up UK rights to Perfect Creature, the New Zealand-UK producedvampire thriller. Starring Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Stuart Wilson andScott Wills it explores a retro-futuristic world where vampires and humansco-exist. The Icon deal was signed byArclight Films, which handles international sales jointly with New ZealandFilm. "We get the ...
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Collins' Dead Long Enough embarks on Irish shoot
The secondlocally developed feature to commence production in Ireland in 2005, DeadLong Enough, starts principal photography today in County Donegal. StarringMartin Sheen, Angeline Ball, Jason Hughes and Douglas Henshaw, the film is aromantic comedy in which two Welsh brothers return to Ireland to relive amemorable summer of their youth. Dead ...
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Gold Circle looks to draw Garcia to Smoke
Gold Circle Films is infinal negotiations to hire Spanish first-time director Victor Garcia to directthe horror suspense feature Smoke.The film is based on a specscript by Ronnie Christensen and is being produced by The Grudgeproducers Roy Lee & Doug Davidson of Vertigo Entertainment and Lauren Lloydat Bedlam Media.The SleepingWith The ...
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Delbonnel takes top cinematography prize
Bruno Delbonnelwon top honours for his work in A Very Long Engagement in the 19thAnnual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding AchievementAwards in Los Angeles yesterday (13).It was the first ASC award for Delbonnel, who was nominated for Jean-PierreJeunet's Amelie in 2002.Delbonnel beat off stiff competition from Dion Beebe and ...
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Emperor names Tse as international sales chief
Hong Kong production and distribution outfit Emperor MotionPictures (EMP) has appointed Ricky Tse to oversee its international salesactivities in the role of distribution general manager.Tse, who was formerly assistant general manager at MediaAsia Distribution, will take on responsibility for EMP's new distribution teamreporting directly to the company's chief executive Albert ...
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British feature wins at Miami
The Miami International FilmFestival ended yesterday with Amma Assante's British feature A Way Of Lifewinning the grand jury prize and the FIPRESCI prize for best dramatic featurein world cinema competition.In the documentary featurecategory, the grand jury prize went to Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez's LaSierra from Colombia which shows a ...
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Cineclick unveils details of Kim Ki-duk's Bow
Cineclick Asia has unveiled details of the new picture fromKim Ki-duk, the Korean maestro (ThreeIron) who last year won best director prizes at both Berlin and Venice.Kim has previously announcedseveral projects, including one to be co-produced in Europe, but The Bow, a challenging drama about thegrowing love affair between a ...
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StudioCanal snaps up gangster tale Bittersweet Life
StudioCanal has snapped upKorean major CJ Entertainment's A Bittersweet Life, a gangster dramafrom the director Kim Jee-woon (A Tale Of Two Sisters, The Foul King). StudioCanal has guaranteed aminimum commitment on the scale of the French theatrical release and agreed tobe the agent to present the film for selection at ...
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Films Distribution scores sales on Berlin's Panorama opener
France's Films Distributionhas scored a slew of sales on Panorama Special opening film Live And Become(Vas, Vis Et Deviens)The film directed by RaduMihaileanu, the France-based Romanian who previously made Train De Vie,has been licensed to Golem Distribucion for Spain, Cinestar for Austria,Seville Pictures for Canada and Hopscotch for Australia. In ...
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European Shooting Stars hit Berlin
"Listen to directors anddon't dream of being a star'do your job, be yourself, and it will work out inthe end." That was Man To Man directorRegis Wargnier's advice to the 21 fresh-faced actors and actresses from aroundEurope chosen for the 8th Shooting Stars initiative last week.Around 40 European castingagents are ...
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Beyond boosts Berlin slate
Beyond Films has added twoUK films to its slate at Berlin. Richard Kwietniowsky is to direct black comedyNo One Gets Off In This Town, which is expected to star Brenda Blethyn,Jane Horrocks, John Hurt Amira Casar and Rupert Evans. "We are pre-selling thefilm as part of the financing," said Beyond, ...
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Svensk to back Danish directing collective
Swedish giant SvenskFilmindustri (SF) is to power up its production ambitions in neighbouringDenmark by backing "a Danish version of United Artists".The new company, Tju-BangFilm, is a collective of directors and creatives which includes Jacob Thuesen,director of Berlin competition film TheAccused (Angeklaget). SF will own80 percent of the company, with the ...
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Fateless attracts the crowds at Hungarian Film Week
The 36th edition of the Hungarian Film Week (February 2-8)saw a major admissions increase this year according to the organisers.Admissions were nearly forty-eight thousand, a five thousandincrease on last year.Renowned cinematographer Lajos Koltai's directorial debut,Berlinale contender Fateless was theFilm Week's most popular title with over 3,000 admissions, while anotherBerlinale participant ...
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Asylum
Dir:David Mackenzie. UK-Ire. 2005. 93mins.A dark, assured period piece about passion and madness, and the way societyrestrains them, Asylum is a much slicker product than Scottish directorDavid Mackenzie's previous outing, Young Adam.It has not had an easygestation: US distributor Paramount has been involved since Patrick McGrath'snovel was published in 1997; ...
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Roundabout wins UK animation chart battle
The UK saw two animations - Pathe's The MagicRoundabout and UIP's TheSpongeBob SquarePants Movie - go headto head over the crucial first half-term weekend.On the official UK chart, The Magic Roundabout was the winner with the film coming in third overall with $2.9m (£1.57m) from425 sites. However, this figure includes ...
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Idiot Love (Amor Idiota)
Dir: Ventura Pons.Sp-And. 2005. 95mins.Catalan director Ventura Pons is something of a Berlin fixture: IdiotLove sets a festival record by being the sixth consecutive feature by thedirector to premiere here. It's an original love story, self-deprecatinglyironic but also fizzing with eroticism.If Italian director NanniMoretti ever decided to take on the ...