All Screen articles in 18 February 2007 – Page 2
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Reviews
Don't Touch The Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)
Dir: Jacques Rivette. Fr-It. 2007. 137mins Elegance, austerity, high seriousness, barbed wit: this heady combination might not be to everyone's taste, but anyone susceptible to literary costume drama at its most intellectually substantial will be bowled over by Don't Touch The Axe, Jacques Rivette's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Balzac's novel ...
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Opus Dei to consult on Lux Vide feature film
Opus Dei - the controversial Catholic religious order exposed in Dan Brown's runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code - announced they will act as consultants on an upcoming feature film on the life of their founder, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. The announcement was made at a Friday press conference held ...
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Banderas' Summer Rain wins Europa Cinemas prize in Berlin
Antonio Banderas' Summer Rain (El Camino de los Ingleses) won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for Best European film in Berlinale Panorama. The award comes with theatrical exposure and additional promotion from the Europa Cinemas network of 690 cinemas. The jury for the Europa Cinemas prize was comprised of four ...
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Sony launches web promotion for Spider-Man 3
Sony is launching a competition to find two online correspondents to report on breaking news about Spider-Man 3 in the run-up to the May 4 release. Two fans of the franchise - one male and one female - will be charged with creating videos presenting news, information and special promotions. ...
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New Brizzi film sets Italy Wednesday opening record
Italian director Fausto Brizzi's second feature Night Before Finals: Today (Notte prima degli esami - oggi) broke records for an Italian film released on a Wednesday earning $1.18m (Euros 900,000) on its Valentine's Day opener. The picture is the sequel to last year's local sleeper hit Night Before Finals. Today's ...
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German-Indian film agreement signed in Berlin
Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, India's Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, and Germany's Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Nuemann signed a German-Indian film agreement in Berlin on Friday afternoon providing a legal framework for cooperation between producers from Germany ...
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Desert Dream (Hyazgar)
Dir. Zhang Lu. Kor-Fr. 2007. 123mins. The joint efforts of a Chinese director, a Franco-Korean production team and Mongolian locations results in Desert Dream, a kindly, well intentioned but over-extended allegory which spreads itself thinly over slightly more than two hours. Zhang Lu's follow-up to his festival hit Grain In ...
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Screenwriters festival launches script market
This year's international Screen Writers Festival is to launch a speculative script market.scriptMARKET offers writers the chance to send in a script for consideration by a panel of agents, producers, commissioners, developersand/or sales agents.The panel will meeet the top 30 at the festival in the UK town of Cheltenham on ...
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Leslie Unger named new communications director at AMPAS
Leslie Unger will succeed the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' longtime communications director John Pavlik after the 79th Academy Awards on February 25.Pavlik is stepping down after 15 years of service, in which time he has been the only communications chief in the Academy's history.He had earlier served ...
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Roadside picks up zen cooking doc
Roadside Attractions has acquired North American rights from Atrix Films to Doris Doerrie's documentary How To Cook Your Life.The film will open in the US this summer and profiles the SanFrancisco-based zen priest and master chef Edward Espe Brown as heoutlines zen and the art of culinary sustenance.Franz Xaver Gernstl ...
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World Cinema Fund casts its net wider
As of this summer, the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) will be open to projects by film-makers from South East Asia and the Caucasus in addition to the existing focus regions of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Central Asia. 'After the positive development of the WCF in the ...
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Sundance Institute announces fellowships and grants
Sundance Institute has announced this year's annual Feature Film Program fellowships and grants for emerging independent film-makers.'We are thrilled to offer additional support to these uniquely talented and visionary artists,' Michelle Satter, director of the Feature Film Program, said.'We are committed to a year-round programme that provides our film-makers with ...
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Meserve promoted to president of Wind Dancer
Dete Meserve has been promoted to president of Wind Dancer Films and will be based in the company's new Beverly Hills office.As president, she will oversee production, financing and distribution of Wind Dancer's film slate, continuing to manage the company's development fund and working with financiers to put films into ...
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Studios offer triple punch of Ghost Rider, Good Shepherd and Hot Fuzz
A diverse trio of studio-distributed films make their international debuts this weekend, with Sony launching comic book-based action outing Ghost Rider and Universal opening spy drama The Good Shepherd and British comedy Hot Fuzz. Ghost Rider, with Nicolas Cage as the Marvel Comics title character, opens through Sony Pictures Releasing ...
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Gail Lyon appointed president of production at Initial
Gail Lyon has been hired as president of production at Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group, effective immediately.Lyon, who most recently produced Disney/Spyglass' comedy Stick It starring Jeff Bridges, will report directly to King while working closely with vice president of development Grey Rembert and production executive Denis O'Sullivan.'Gail elegantly combines ...
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Indian drama Parzania faces unofficial ban in Gujarat
Rahul Dholakia's controversial drama Parzania has been unofficially banned in the state of Gujarat, where cinema owners have opted not to screen the film for fear of a political backlash from the ruling party. The English-language film, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika, is based on a true incident of the ...
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Features
The showman
The omission of Bill Condon from the list of directing Oscar nominees was a shock to the growing legions of Dreamgirls fans across North America. Condon's DreamWorks and Paramount-backed production, which won the best picture (musical or comedy) Golden Globe, also faced a crushing shutout in the best picture Oscar ...
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Outsider's view
Fans of David Mackenzie's earlier films The Last Great Wilderness, Young Adam and Asylum will not be too surprised by his new feature Hallam Foe, he predicts. "I thought it was an opportunity to do something that goes with the general flow of my work," he says of the project, ...
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Industry moves
Wolf to leave Peace ArchPenny Wolf is leaving her post as managing director of Peace Arch Films in London, effective March 16. Wolf is attending the European Film Market in Berlin to meet buyers as a company employee, before going on to pursue new opportunities.New Kofic US office headSun-young Moon ...