All Screen articles in 18 September 2005 – Page 5
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Ferrara lines up prequel to King Of New York
Cult American indie filmmaker Abel Ferrara, whose picture Maryis screening in competition at the Venice Film Festival, has announced that hisnext project will either be a prequel to the King Of New York orlong-gestating screwball comedy Go Go Tales.Speaking in Venice, Ferrara said that he is currentlylooking for financing for ...
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Guns drawn over Smoking deal in Toronto
A high drama erupted Saturday night over the sale of hot festivaltitle Thank You For Smoking, with both Fox Searchlight Pictures and Paramount Classicsclaiming they have bought all available worldwide rights for the film includingNorth America.Paramount Classics co-chiefs Ruth Vitale and DavidDinerstein claim they had reached a deal with Cassian ...
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Guns out over Smoking deal
A high drama eruptedSaturday night over the sale of hot festival title Thank You For Smoking,with both Fox Searchlight Pictures and Paramount Classics claiming they havebought all available worldwide rights for the film including North America.Paramount Classics co-chiefsRuth Vitale and David Dinerstein claim they had reached a deal with CassianElwes ...
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Pride & Prejudice
Dir Joe Wright. 2005UK-US-Fr. 127mins.There'sno question that 19th-century English novelist Jane Austen still has shapelylegs. Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility (1995) enjoyed seven Oscarnominations (including best picture) and $134m box-office worldwide, $43m fromthe US alone, while Colin Firth owes his career to a 1995 BBC version of Pride & Prejudice ...
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Mary
Dir: Abel Ferrara.It-Fr-US. 2005. 83mins.Watching Abel Ferrara's Maryis like watching an odd religious ritual taking place in a language we onlyhalf understand. We recognise the power of the ceremony, and the commitment ofthose involved - but as for what the hell is going on, and what it all means,and whether ...
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Imagine Me And You
Dir/scr: Ol Parker.UK-Ger. 2005. 93minsOl Parker ventures intoRichard Curtis territory for his directorial debut Imagine You And Me, apleasant romantic comedy that often appears torn between its more soulful, reflectiveinstincts and the lure of following the crowd-pleasing Curtis formula. Theformula generally wins even if the mismatched lovers on this occasion ...
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Everlasting Regret (Changhen ge)
Dir: Stanley Kwan.Chi-HK. 2005. 115mins.With EverlastingRegret, Stanley Kwan delivers a women's film par excellence; the kind thatfilm-makers such as Douglas Sirk loved to spin out and that Kwan himself hassuccessfully proved adept at in the past.A sprawling, melancholystory about unrequited love adapted from one of modern China's most successfulnovels, it ...
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Tideland
Dir: Terry Gilliam. UK-Can.2005. 121mins.Terry Gilliam has spent hisentire career celebrating the power of the imagination to transcend the awfulrealities of life and death. He has described Mitch Cullin's Tideland as"Alice In Wonderland meets Psycho" and it sounds like idealmaterial for him.Unfortunately, thismacabre, longwinded fantasy is closer in tone to ...
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Revolver
Dir/scr: Guy Ritchie. Fr-UK. 2005. 110mins.After the fiasco of Swept Away there wasnowhere to go but up for writer/director Guy Ritchie. Retreating to the safeterritory of gangland squabbles, dirty deeds, diamond geezers and hardcoreviolence must have seemed like a good idea but Revolver is such aconvoluted, risibly overwrought muddle of ...
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Oliver Twist
Dir: Roman Polanski.Fr-UK-Czech Rep. 2005. 128mins.Roman Polanski made thisnew version of Oliver Twist for his children, but it's hard to imaginekids anywhere warming to his austere, colourless treatment of the story.Oliver Twist here evokes both Polanski's traumatic childhood andthe Wladyslaw Szpilman character in The Pianist - a blameless humandesperate to ...
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Nayar's The Thread unspools in India, UK
Supernatural thriller The Thread has started shooting inIndia this week, where it will continue through the rest of September beforemoving to the UK. Mahesh Mathai (Bhopal Express) is directingfrom a script by Randall Fontana, based on a story by Harris W. Freedman.Deepak Nayar, who previously produced Bride and Prejudice and ...
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Webber's Young Hannibal lines up for Prague shoot
PeterWebber's Behind The Mask: Young Hannibal is to start shooting on October10th in Prague. Dinoand Martha De Laurentiis, Tarak Ben Ammar of Quinta Communications and Britishco-producers Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of Zephyr Films will produce thefilm with Petr Moravec of Czech production company, Etic Films.Bestselling novelist Thomas Harris has ...
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RESFEST kicks of global tour in New York this week
The 9th RESFEST touring festival willkick off its global tour of 35 plus cities with a launch at New York City'sTribeca Performing Arts Center from September 15-18. This year's RESFEST willoffer the world premiere of Doug Pray's graffiti documentary Infamy aswell as retrospectives devoted to musician Beck, the label XL ...
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Mehta plots Exclusion as Water follow-up
Still riding the strong reaction to her Toronto festivalopener Water, hot Canadian director Deepa Mehta is already preparing hernext project, Exclusion, with Water star John Abraham in thelead. Mehta is looking to shoot in Calcutta and Vancouver next summer.The screenplay, written by Mehta, concerns the little-known Komagata Maruincident of 1914, ...
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KWA takes on international sales for Galan's Editor
Spanish sales outfit KevinWilliams Associates (KWA) has picked up international rights on a handful ofnew Spanish and Latin American films including San Sebastian special screener Pablo G.del Amo: Editor Of Illusions. The documentary from DiegoGalan, the former director of the Donostia- San Sebastian International FilmFestival, tracks the career of one ...
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Dubai recruits Field, Scarlet
Heading into its second year,the Dubai International Film Festival is beefing up its presence by appointingfive high-profile new programmers, including former Rotterdam chief Simon Fieldand Tribeca's executive director Peter Scarlet.South Africa's Nashen Moodley,Arab cineaste Raouf Tewfik and Iraq's Ziad Khuzai join a team which alreadyincludes former LFF director Sheila Whitaker, ...
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Rumley's Home Of The Dead cranks up in UK
Volcano Entertainment andVita Pictures have started principal photography on psychological drama TheLiving in the Home of the Dead in Wiltshire, southern England. Simon Rumley, whopreviously directed Club Le Monde, The Truth Game, and StrongLanguage, is writing and directing with Nick O'Hagan producing. O'Haganpreviously co-produced Young Adam and was an associate ...
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Intermedia, Kadokawa extend co-production pact
Intermedia Film EquitiesUSA and Kadokawa Pictures USA have extended their agreement and signed amulti-picture deal to develop, finance and produce up to six Intermedia picturesto be made in 2006 and 2007.The new deal is a significant step in Intermedia Film Equities USAparent company Internationalmedia's foray into genre production.The expanded deal ...
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Disney eyes China as Hong Kong park opens to public
Hong Kong Disneyland opensits door to the paying public today after a weekend of celebrations attended byDisney president Robert Iger, outgoing CEO Michael Eisner, China's vice president Zeng Qinghong and a host a localcelebrities.Hong Kong stars such as KarenMok, Coco Lee, Charlie Young and HK Disneyland spokesman Jacky Cheung turned ...
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Breakfast On Pluto
Dir: Neil Jordan. Ire-UK. 2005. 135mins.Neil Jordan comes over all Almodovar in BreakfastOn Pluto, a sprawling, picaresque account of a young transvestite's epicodyssey in search of his mother. Jordan has a patchy record with broad comicmaterial (High Spirits, We're No Angels etc) and this reunionwith Butcher Boy writer Patrick McCabe ...