All Screen articles in 18 September 2003 – Page 4
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Sansa
Dir: Siegfried. France. 2003. 115minsSansa wants to be a profound and moving cinematic experience, perhaps something like a hyped-up tone poem. It is even called 'an essay' rather than a film. Toward that end, writer-director Siegfried employs every trick he can that is available in the panoply of the ...
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Raja
Dir: Jacques Doillon. France-Morocco. 2003. 112mins.The latest excursion by the director of Ponette - which scooped a Venice Best Actress prize in 1996 for underage star Victoire Thivisol - is a prickly and at times inaccessible meditation on the nature of colonial and sexual power in present-day Morocco. Though its ...
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The Soul Of A Man
Dir: Wim Wenders. Germany. 2003. 100minsWim Wenders' The Soul Of A Man, which screened earlier this year at Sundance and played at Cannes as a special screening, is the first in a series of seven films about that quintessential American art form, the blues. Other notable directors taking part are ...
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ITALY
BVI's Johnny Depp vehicle Pirates Of The Caribbean continued its stellar performance at the Italian box office on its second weekend, grossing a massive screen average of $6,056 from 531 screens, which brings its running total to $11,968,867.Medusa's newcomer Confidence, a thriller starring Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman and ...
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La Chose Publique
Dir: Mathieu Amalric. France. 2003. 85minsAnd you thought they didn't make them like this any more' an old-fashioned political essay in film-on-film, the latest from director Mathieu Amalric - better known as an actor, though he does not cast himself here - wears its Godard influences proudly on its sleeve, ...
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Mike Brant: Laisse Moi T'Aimer
Dir. Erez Laufer. Israel/France. 2002. 101mins.A natural for French markets, this account of the meteoric rise and fatal crash of Israeli performer Mike Brant, who became one of Paris's shiniest stars in the early 1970s, is more than a nostalgia piece. Instead it plays as a cautionary tale about a ...
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The Boys From County Clare
Dir: John Irvin. Ireland/UK/Germany. 2003. 90 minsWarm in spirit but slight in terms of substance, The Boys From County Clare is a lightweight period charmer. Attractively photographed and ably performed, it is a nice little inoffensive film that lacks the bite or grit to make much headway in theatrical terms. ...
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A Little Bit Of Freedom
Dir: Yuksel Yavuz. Germany. 2003. 101minsAwell-intentioned attempt to explore the fate of Kurdish immigrants, both legal and illegal, living on the streets of Hamburg and the illusion of freedom they enjoy there, Yuksel Yavuz's second feature seeks to cover too much ground and ultimately delivers too little for its efforts. ...
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Arimpara
Dir: Murali Nair. India-Jap. 2003. 90minsDirector Murali Nair's Throne Of Death and A Dog's Day were feted at Cannes, the former with the coveted Camera d'Or for best first feature. But Arimpara, which screened in Un Certain Regard, has not gone down so well, and it certainly has its problems. ...
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Messier wins again in quest for severance from Universal
Former Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier scoredanother round of victory in his ongoing battle to secure a severance payment onMonday in New York. Following an arbitration court's decision that Messier was owed$23.5 million in exit monies and Vivendi Universal's appeal against thefindings, state supreme court justice Marilyn Shafer said the ...
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8.17pm, Darling Street (20.17, Rue Darling)
Dir: Bernard Emond. Canada. 2003. 101minsInexplicable tragedy prompts a soul-searching quest for the meaning of life in 8.17pm Darling Street, a modestly effective but resolutely glum second feature from writer-director Bernard Emond whose debut, La Femme Qui Boit also screened in Critics' Week in 2001. Addressing the guilt of those ...
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Invasions, Zatoichi take top Toronto prizes
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions won theToronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi won the AGF People's Choice Award as the 28thToronto International Film Festival wrapped after ten trouble-free days. The Discovery Award,selected by the press corps, went to Rhinoceros Eyes, a US-financed effort directed by Toronto ...
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Invasions, Zatoichi take top TIFF prizes
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions won theToronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi won the AGF People's Choice Award as the 28thToronto International Film Festival wrapped after ten trouble-free days. The Discovery Award,selected by the press corps, went to Rhinoceros Eyes, a US-financed effort directed by Toronto ...
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High Point takes on Godforsaken sales
The producers of Dutch hit and Oscar candidate Twin Sisters, IdtV, have appointed High Point Films to handle international sales - excluding Benelux - on their thriller Godforsaken.Also produced by Reiner Selen of Rinkel Film, Godforsaken is directed by first time director Peter Kuijpers and has been chosen for the ...
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Italy's Eagle embarks on Lazarus Child shoot
Shooting is currently underway on Rome distributor Eagle Pictures' first major production, the English-language picture The Lazarus Child starring Andy Garcia and Angela Bassett.The Lazarus Child focuses on a girl who falls into a coma after being hit by a bus. Her only hope for recovery hinges on an eccentric ...
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Stars travel to San Sebastian for career prizes
Sean Penn, Robert Duvall and Isabelle Huppert will each receive the career achievement Donostia Award at Spain's upcoming Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Huppert, who will receive her prize on Saturday the 20th, has starred in over 80 films. She won the best actress prize at Cannes in 2001 ...
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Merchant Of Venice shoot pushed back
Shooting on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice has been pushed back until the 10 November.Set to star Al Pacino as Shylock opposite newcomer Lynn Collins as Portia, the $20m-$30m Shakespeare adaptation had been scheduled to begin filming last week.Roughly half of the film will shoot in Luxembourg on a ...
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What Alice Found delights Polanski-led jury at Deauville
In a surprise turn of events, A Dean Bell's What Alice Found took home the trophy for best filmSunday night at the Deauville Festival of American Film. The festival iscentered around independent American cinema and saw ten films compete for theprize. The main jury was presided over by Roman Polanski.The ...
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Twentynine Palms
Dir. Bruno Dumont. France/Germany, 2003. 119mins.It's The Brown Bunny syndrome all over again. This time, two people driving in a car instead of one, covering only a small part of Southern California instead of the entire continent. And granted, there is a lot more sex, not particularly attractive but quite ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Finding Nemo showed good resilience in its second weekend against the launch of BVI stable-mate Pirates Of The Carribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl. The swashbuckler stole the top spot but there was little between them. Speaking of resilience, local picture Whale Rider (also handled by BVI) is still ...