All Screen articles in 2 March 2007 – Page 5
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Germany breaks 100m barrier for DVD sales
Annual DVD unit sales in Germanypassed the 100 million mark for the first time last year, according to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute for the home entertainment industry body BVV.A total of 100.7m units were sold in 2006, up from 98.7m in 2005, with record sales in ...
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Singapore festto open with Sri Lankan drama Sankara
The Singapore International Film Festival (April 18-30), which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will showcase more than 300 films from 40 countries. For the first time, a Sri Lankan film will open the festival - Prasanna Jayakody's feature debut Sankara - a Buddhist fable about desire and non-attachment. Indonesian ...
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Shotgun Stories
Dir/scr: Jeff Nichols. US. 2007. 93mins. A measured and sobering meditation on violence and discontent, distilled through a blood feud that ruptures two clans of half-brothers, Jeff Nichols’ Shotgun Stories is a highly intelligent and accomplished first feature that makes palpable suffering, loss and the wanton destructiveness of vengeance. Inexplicably ...
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Sakuran
Dir: Mika Ninagawa. Jap. 2007. 111mins. Call it lush, sumptuous, a symphony of colours, a cinematographer's cherry blossom dream: Mika Ninagawa's directorial debut Sakuran leaves no doubt about her background. An enormously successful photographer, her first film looks exactly like something she would have concocted in the privacy of her ...
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Lucky Miles
Dir: Michael James Rowland. Aus. 2007. 105mins. The debut feature from Michael James Rowland, Lucky Miles follows a boatload of asylum seekers cynically dumped on the vast, barely inhabited West Australian coast. Scenically, it's terrific, with gorgeous sunsets and a rich gallery of inhospitable terrains; dramatically, it's less satisfying, for ...
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 2007. 85mins. Naive and over-didactic, but still brimming with infectious energy and a sense of mission that's hard to hate, Jamie Babbit's third feature serves up radical lesbian feminism in teen-movie sauce. Actually, teens are generally more mature than this; Itty Bitty Titty Committee is like ...
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Armin
Dir/scr: Ognjen Svilicic. Cro-Ger-Bos. 2007. 82mins.A low-key Balkan film may seem like a contradiction in terms, given the ebullient energy of the cinema produced in that part of the world, but there is no better way to describe Ognjen Svilicic's second feature. Something of a surprise after his raucous debut ...
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Shindo to have world premiere at Hong Kong Filmart
The Tokyo International Film Festival has arranged to hold the world premiere of Koji Hagiuda's Shindo (translation: Prodigy) at this year's Hong Kong Filmart on March 21. The Tokyo fest and its attendant TIFFCOM market, which are held in October, have been using Filmart as a launch pad in recent ...
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Marvel's new Hulk movie set for Toronto shoot in summer
Marvel Studios has confirmed it will shoot The Incredible Hulk in Toronto this summer. The $100m+ comic book adaptation is the second feature of the newly-refinanced studio folllowing Iron Man. The announcement came as welcome news for the city following last week's tentative settlement of a strike by Canadian performers. ...
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Daughters Of The Dust opens Images Of Black Women Film Festival
The third annual Images of Black Women Festival, a celebration of the achievements of black women in cinema, will open on Friday (March 2) at the Tricycle Theatre in London.The event opens with a screening of the Daughters Of Dust, followed by a Q&A session with the director Julie Dash. ...
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FDA reports UK film industry is thriving
According to figures released today by the Film Distributor's Association, an average of ten films a week were released in the UK last year (505 up from 467) with a print-and-advertising spend of $588.6 million (£300m) in 2006. The UK 's 2006 box-office return was equivalent to that of 2005 ...
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Zodiak swoops on Yellow Bird
Sweden's Zodiak Television, which already controls such outfits as Jarowskij, MTV Mastiff, Mastiff, Social Club and Diverse Production, has purchased film and television production outfit Yellow Bird. During the last two years Yellow Bird has produced 13 films totalling $28.4 million based on Swedish author Henning Mankell's books about Ystad ...
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BitTorrent goes legit, making deal with major movie houses
BitTorrent Inc, the San Francisco based company that created the software used to download pirated blockbusters from the internet, has entered into a licensing agreement with some of America's top studios in an attempt to dramatically decrease blackmarket activity. Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros and Lionsgate are ...
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A Soap surprise at the Bodil Awards
The best film at this year's Danish Bodil prizes may have been Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Soap, but in many ways the star of the night was a film financing programme. New Danish Talent was launched by the Danish Film Institute two years ago to supportDanish debut directors or younger ...
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The Match Factoryannounces deals on Berlin competitor Yella
Christian Petzold's Berlin Competition film Yella, which won a Silver Bear for lead actress Nina Hoss, has been sold by The Match Factory to six territories, with further deals in the offing with distributors in the US and Scandinavia, among others.Sales on the Schramm Film production were completed in Berlin ...
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Ane Dahl Torp receives inaugural Liv Ullmann prize
Norwegian actress Ane Dahl Torp received the first $16,300 (Euros 12,400) Liv Ullmann Honorary Prize at the Norwegian Film Ball, the gala event organised by the Norwegian Film Institute with the industry at the Oslo Plaza. Ullmann had cancelled her participation due to sickness.Educated at the Norwegian National Drama School ...
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Fallen Angels still ready to fly
Despite losing a director and $1.1m(Eu0.9) state fundingfor Fallen Angels - the second instalment of the Varg Veum project, a $12.9m (Euros 9.8m) package of two theatrical features andfour TV movies - Norway's SF Norge producer Guttorm Pettersonis certain production will proceed as planned.'We expect to name a new director ...
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European Film Market: The Deals
EFM Deals2 Days In Paris dir: Julie Delpy (Rezo International)The Works (UK)Alexandra dir: Alexander Sokurov(Rezo International)Arthouse Movies (Latin America) Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (Fortissimo Films)Haut et Court (France), Lucky Red (Italy) Ashes of Time Redux dir: Wong Kar-wai(Fortissimo Films)Vertigo (Spain), BIM (Italy), A Films (Benelux), Proobtoki (Greece) United ...
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Final line-up announced for Malaga Film Festival
UK director Francesca Joseph's Stanley Tucci-starrer Four Last Songs will close the upcoming 10th annual edition of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (March 9-17). The film, a Spanish co-production which was shot in Mallorca, co-stars Rhys Ifans, Hugh Bonneville and Marisa Paredes in the story of an American pianist ...
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'Could you double-check the envelope please'' Scorsese jokes as crime thriller proves biggest winner of the night
The Departed stole the show at the 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood last night, taking top prize for best picture and propelling Martin Scorsese to his long-awaited first directing Oscar.Warner Bros and Initial Entertainment Group's crime thriller remake took four awards overall and had been regarded as a solid contender ...