All Screen articles in 19 May 2007 – Page 6
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Cannes at 60 - By The Numbers: The Palme D'or*
26 - Palme d'Or-winning directors who have won other Cannes awards in the same year35 - Palme d'Or-winning directors who have won awards at Cannes in other years17 - Palme d'Or winners who have also won best director Oscars1 - Films that have won both the top Cannes prize and ...
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Cannes at 60 - Director Profiles
CHEN KAIGE (winner, 1993, Farewell My Concubine)Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine shared the 1993 Palm d'Or with Jane Campion's The Piano and he is so far the only Chinese director with the honour. He was in Competition twice before his win, and twice since. He is now preparing a biopic ...
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Bold, The Orphanage to produce supernatural action thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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Vantage/PPI to handle international distribution on Overture titles
Paramount Pictures has confirmed rumours that Paramount Vantage and Paramount Pictures International (PPI) will handle international sales and distribution of the Overture Films slate. Overture will have access to Vantage's newly installed international sales division as well as PPI's global distribution apparatus. The new deal complements the domestic organisation that ...
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Nguyen promoted to Warner Bros International senior VP of operations
Jack Nguyen has been promoted to senior vice president of operations at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI). Nguyen is a 17-year veteran of the studio and supervised the studio's distribution activities during a period of intense growth across the Asia-Pacific region. Nguyen joined the studio in 1990 as ...
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Relativity spies franchise potential in Clancy adaptation
Relativity Media has lined up an adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse and is eyeing a potential franchise centered on the character of CIA operative John Kelly/John Clark. Lionsgate is believed to have acquired North America, the UK, Australia and several other territories on the project, which ...
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Zodiac, Shrek open in pre-Pirates international lull
The lull between the global assaults of Spider-Man 3 and next week's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End continues this weekend, though the debut of Zodiac and the Russian opening of Shrek The Third could produce some new action in the international marketplace. David Fincher's acclaimed Zodiac, with ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Wim Wenders
German director Wim Wenders has had eight films in the Cannes Competition, including 1993's Faraway, So Close, which won the Grand Jury prize, and Wings Of Desire, for which he picked up best director. Wenders won the Palme d'Or in 1984 for Paris, Texas. What did it feel like to ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Andrzej Wajda
Polish director Andrzej Wajda won the Palme d'Or in 1981 with Man Of Iron, but he says winning the Special Jury prize in 1957 for Kanal made him a European director overnight. 'I couldn't believe Cannes would notice an unknown young directorand a film from Poland which presented viewers an ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Seven films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been to Cannes - but it was Father And Master which the Palme d'Or in 1977. Their next entry at Cannes, The Night Of San Lorenzo, took the Jury prize. They now present films out of Competition in order 'to give a ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d'or at Cannes in 1994 with Pulp Fiction, his second feature. He also chaired the Jury in 2004 and returns to the festival again this year with the recut version of Death Proof.'I love Cannes. I remember reading about Cannes when I was a little ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Roman Polanski
Having presented several films in Cannes, Roman Polanski finally won the Palme d'Or in 2002 for The Pianist, which went on to win three Oscars including best director. Part of this year's Chacun Son Cinema project - a compilation of specially commissioned shorts made by Cannes luminaries to mark the ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Ken Loach
Until May 26, Ken Loach is still the reigning king of Cannes. The 70-year-old British director was a surprise winner of the Palme d'Or in 2006 with his eighth film in Competition at Cannes, Irish civil war drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley. The socially conscious director previously won ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Claude Lelouch
When A Man And A Woman scooped the Palme d'Or in 1966, its French director Claude Lelouch had already been hailed at festivals for such works as In The Affirmative and To Be A Crook. But the romance, starring Anouk Aimee, catapulted him to international fame and landed him not ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Mike Leigh
When UK director Mike Leigh won the Palme d'Or in 1996 for Secrets And Lies, its star Brenda Blethyn also picked up the best actress prize. Leigh's first film in competition was 1993's Naked, which won the best actor and best director prizes. 'I had been making films for a ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Emir Kusturica
Born in Sarajevo in 1954, double Palme d'Or winner Emir Kusturica won the Palme d'Or with When Father Was Away On Business in 1985 and Underground in 1995. He returns to the Competition this year for the fifth time with Promise Me This and was also jury president in 2005. ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Abbas Kiarostami
When Abbas Kiarostami's Taste Of Cherry shared the Palme d'Or with Shohei Imamura's The Eel at the 50th Cannes Film Festival in 1997, the Iranian auteur was no stranger to Cannes. Life And Nothing More had won the Un Certain Regard award in 1992; Through The Olive Trees screened in ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine shared the 1993 Palm d'Or with Jane Campion's The Piano - and he is so far the only Chinese director to win the honour. He was in Competition twice before his win, and twice since. He is now preparing a biopic of Peking Opera master ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Costa-Gavras
Greek-born Costa-Gavras has been in Competition at Cannes three times: in 1969 with Z, which won the Jury Prize; in 1975 with Special Section, which won the best director prize; and in 1982 with Missing. The latter also picked up the best actor prize for Jack Lemmon. What did it ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Anselmo Duarte
The 87-year-old Anselmo Duarte is the only Brazilian who has picked up the top prize at Cannes with The Given Word in 1962, when the unknown director nabbed the prize from under the noses of Michelangelo Antonioni (The Eclipse), Robert Bresson (The Trial Of Joan Of Arc) and Luis Bunuel ...