All Screen articles in 18 February 2008 – Page 4
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Restless
Dir: Amos Kollek. Israel/ Canada/ Germany/ France/ Belgium, 2007. 100 mins.Back home in Israel after many years of self-imposed exile in Manhattan, Amos Kollek presents Restless as his most personal film to date. With a reputation as an American independent specializing in portraits of anti-social dropouts, he has apparently decided ...
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Patrice Leconte prepares for La Guerre
Patrice Leconte is preparing to shoot his latest comedy, La Guerre Des Miss , which begins production on March 25, Gaumont announced today.Starring Benoit Poelvoorde, Olivia Bonamy, Christian Charmetant, Laurent Gamelon and Jacques Mathou, the film is to be produced by Franck Chorot.The story of a decades-old rivalry between two ...
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Another Love Story (Mare, Nossa Historia de Amor)
Dir: Lucia Murat. Brazil/France/Uruguay. 2008. 105 mins.'It's the West Side Story of the Brazilian favelas'. Indeed - but for all the energy, goodwill and rhythmic drive of this colourful teen musical, what sounds great on the poster is less convincing on the screen. Though some of the dance sequences are ...
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Beautiful
Dir: Juhn Jaihong Korea, 2007. 88minsBeautiful, whose original title in Korean is the mellifluous 'Arumbdabda', is often confused and sometimes, especially near the end, even downright silly, but it's never wholly without interest. Its first-time 30-year-old director, Juhn Jaihong, is a protege of Kim Ki-duk, the prodigiously productive and internationally-known ...
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Dir: Matt Wolf. US. 2008. 70mins.A long-neglected cult musician gets his well-deserved moment in the limelight in Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, a moving, celebratory documentary that will turn many viewers on to its subject's strange, compelling sounds. Expect neither myth-making nor music-biz scandal from this level-headed, informative ...
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May start for Chinese-Australian co-prod The Last Dragon
The Chinese-Australian co-production The Last Dragon is to be the first feature for AMPCO Films, the company set up last year by Adelaide producer/director Mario Andreacchio with the aim of making quality family films for the international marketplace.Working with independent production company Beijing Rosat Film & TV Production, the 4K ...
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Step Up 2 The Streets
Dir: Jon Chu. US. 2008. 98minsA fresh slate of young performers, combined with energetically staged and photographed sequences that convey the cathartic joy of dance, easily outweigh some of the more predictable rhythms of formulaic storytelling in Step Up 2 the Streets, a fun, flirty and engaging teen drama and ...
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Our Mother (Kabei)
Dir: Yoji Yamada. Japan 2007. 132 minsIn Kabei - Our Mother, Yamada's 80th film to date, the veteran Japanese director offers a sweet, gentle, weepy recollection of Japan on the eve of the Second World War (1940-41), based on the autobiographical story by Teruyo Nogami.An out-and-out melodrama, the picture tells ...
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Corcoran takes new Paramount consumer role
Michael Corcoran has been hired to the newly created position ofpresident of Paramount's consumer products and recreation group.Corcoran will report to the studio's vice chairman Rob Moore andoversee worldwide licensing, consumer products and themedentertainment activities.The new arrival will spearhead a broad range of licensing andmerchandising initiatives to extend the studio ...
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Kao promoted at Paramount Digital Entertainment.
Shane Kao has been promoted to vice president of business affairs atParamount Digital Entertainment.Kao will negotiate domestic and international deals to exploitParamount's features across digital distribution platforms. He reportsto executive vice president of business and legal affairs Ron Sufrin.Kao joined Paramount in 2005 as senior attorney, business and legalaffairs for ...
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Japanese director Kon Ichikawa dies aged 92
Famed Japanese director Kon Ichikawa has died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital, according to family members. He was 92-years-old.Born in 1915 in Mie Prefecture, Ichikawa began his career as an animator in the 30s, moving into feature directing with puppet play A Girl At Dojo Temple in 1946 at ...
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Top speakers line up for screenwriters festival
The annual International Screenwriters' Festival has an exciting line-up of major writing talent and industry figures from film and television.This year's speakers include:Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Secrets And Lies)Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly)Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage, Pan's Labyrinth)Deborah Moggach (Pride & Prejudice)Lucy Prebble (Secret Diary Of A ...
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Pitch In Time means business
The International Screenwriters' Festival includes a pitching event in association with 4Talent at Channel 4.Pitch In Time will give hopeful writers a chance to appeal to an industry panel in front of a live audience at the event in Cheltenham (July 1-3).Previous panels have included Oscar winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford ...
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Asterix tops Screen international chart
Asterix At The Olympic Games won the gold medal again this weekend, generating a dynamite $24.5m after expanding in six territories. The top-40 films generated $192.4m across 43,382 screens from the period of February 8-10.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Pathe's latest instalment of the Asterix ...
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Nordisk/Trust rack up sales on Lordi horror, Von Trier, Moodysson
As the EFM draws to a close, Nordisk and Trust are continuing to rack up sales on their Berlin slate. One heavy seller is their English-language horror film Dark Floors, starring Finnish rock band and Eurovision Song Contest winners, Lordi. Deals announced yesterday (Wednesday) included Turkey (Umut Sanat/Ozen FilmTAS), Benelux ...
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Heart of Fire producers stack up new projects
Producers Sven Burgemeister of TV-60Film and Goldkind Film and Andreas Bareiss of BurkertBareiss Development have unveiled their slate of new projects ahead of the world premiere of Luigi Falorni's Heart Of Fire in competition at Berlin today.Bareiss and partner Gloria Burkert are producing newcomer Su Turhan's feature debut Ayla about ...
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Falcon swoops on Elephant Eye's Turkey for Middle East
New York-based Elephant Eye Films has closed its first pre-sale on Craig Zobel's Turkey In The Straw. All rights for the Middle East have been taken by Falcon Films.The project is Zobel's follow-up to 2007 Sundance hit Great World Of Sound, which has been also screening at the EFM market ...
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New Wave takes Ceylan's Cannes-bound Daydreams for UK
New Wave Films, the new UK distribution company set up by former Artificial Eye bosses Robert Beeson and Pam Engel, has made its second acquisition of the Berlin market, taking Daydreams, the latest feature from Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan from Pyramide International.Like New Wave's first pick-up - the Dardennes' ...
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UGC buys Canadian Berlin selection Tout Est Parfait
UGC has picked up Canadian Panorama selection Tout Est Parfait for France, Benelux and Switzerland from Anick Poirier of Montreal-based sales outfit Seville International.The feature debut of Quebecois documentary and commercials director Yves-Christian Fournier, the film is the story of a young man (Maxime Dumontier) bereft by the suicide pact ...
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Big titles at EFM overshadow festival selection in Berlin
The Berlinale kicked off in fine style with Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light but after several days the general consensus was that - at least for buyers - the festival line-up was in danger of being upstaged by the market.Focus inevitably turned to the EFM following a ...