All Screen articles in 20 January 2003 – Page 3
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Dir: Umit Unal. Turkey. 2002. 94mins.Preceded by a quote from Franz Kafka's In The Penal Colony about the invisible workings of the system, 9 presents a grim portrait of the way in which religious bigotry and social malaise have a direct and poisonous impact on people's everyday behaviour. Chosen, surprisingly, ...
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Til Schweiger to star in Star Trek spoof
Til Schweiger is to take one of the leads in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1, Michael "Bully" Herbig's follow-up to his surprise 2001 hit Manitou's Shoe Schweiger, who appeared in last year's Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt and Drive, will play opposite the Manitou acting trio of Herbig, Rick Kavanian and ...
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Rotterdam festival to revive 'Film Parliament'
The Rotterdam festival is reviving the idea of the "Rotterdam Film Parliament", a forum which adopts the confrontational style of a legislative chamber to discuss the future prospects for visionary cinema. Under the banner "What is to be done'" it aims to deliver a clash of ideas and the development ...
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Canada's Keith Behrman to get Genie Award for best debut film
Canadian filmmaker Keith Behrman will receive the award for best debut feature at the 23rd annual Genie Awards on Feb 13. His film, Flower & Garnet, which debuted in Toronto last year, won Behrman the Vancouver film festival's prize for best emerging western Canadian filmmaker while its screenwriter Nicholas Racz ...
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Hot German director announces next two projects
German filmmaker Oskar Roehler, whose Angst (Der Alte Affe Angst) is a competition entry at year's Berlinale, is developing his next two film projects with X-Filme Creative Pool and Constantin Film.Roehler (pictured), who will have Angst distributed this spring by X-Filme's distribution arm X Verleih, told screendaily that the ...
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Sundance: a foreign affair'
For foreign buyers, the Sundance Film Festival has never been easy to navigate, let's face it. Intrepid acquisitions executives not only have an epic trip trekking to its home in the ski resort of Park City. Once there they are also faced with a raft of unknown films, struggle to ...
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Ermanno Olmi wraps $9.5m pirate epic
Veteran Italian director Ermanno Olmi (Profession Of Arms) has wrapped shooting on his new Euros 9m epic, Cantando Dietro I Paraventi.The film is the first production to have been shot in part at Roma Studios, the recently renovated studios built by producer Dino De Laurentiis in the 1960s.Based on a ...
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First Run takes US rights to Garrone's The Embalmer
US independent First RunFeatures has acquired US theatrical, TV and home video rights to MatteoGarrone's The Embalmer (L'Imbalsamatore) which world premiered in Directors Fortnight atCannes last year.The film was produced byDomenico Procacci's Fandango and is based on a tabloid case in Rome inthe 1990s about a provocative love triangle between ...
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Cavu buys worldwide rights to second film The Holy Land
Cavu Pictures,the New York-based independent production and distribution outfit founded byfilm-makers Michael Sergio and Isil Bagdadi, has acquired worldwide rights toits second feature, Eitan Gorlin's award-winning debut The Holy Land. The picture won the Grand Jury Prize forbest Feature Film at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival and is a coming-of-agetale ...
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Hart Sharp launches US video distribution arm
John Hart andJeff Sharp's New York-based Hart Sharp Entertainment, the productioncompany behind Boys Don't Cry and You Can Count On Me, has launched a stand-alone US home entertainment companyHart Sharp Video (HSV) to be run by the key staff of former USA Films divisionUSA Home Entertainment (USA HE).Joe Amodei,former president ...
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Val Kilmer joins the cast of Anselmo's Stateside
Val Kilmer has joined the cast of writer-director RevergeAnselmo's romantic drama Stateside,a joint venture between Anselmo's Seven Hills Pictures and First LookMedia. Already on board are Joe Mantegna, Rachel Leigh Cook, who starred in JosieAnd The Pussycats, Jonathan Tucker, whowill be seen in the upcoming remake of The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Alliance Atlantis takes international rights to hot Sundance pic
AllianceAtlantis has acquired international rights, excluding the English-speakingworld and Latin America, to David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls, his second feature following hisaward-winning debut George Washington. The picture, which will receive its world premiere indramatic competition at Sundance and is to screen in the International Forum ofNew Cinema at ...
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Production designer Mel Bourne dies aged 79
Mel Bourne, theproduction designer and longtime Woody Allen collaborator who received threeOscar nominations during his career, has died in New York. He was 79. He was born inChicago on Nov 22, 1923, and after serving in the Second World War became anassistant to the legendary theatrical designer Robert Edmond Jones ...
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Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei)
Dir: Yoji Yamada. Japan. 2002. 129mins.The winner of a slew of film awards at home and a competition selection at Berlin next month, The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) may finally propel director Yoji Yamada into the international spotlight, after a long and highly successful career. Ironically, the film is in ...
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Kangaroo Jack
Dir: David McNally. US. 2002. 86 mins. Jerry Bruckheimer's first stab at younger-skewing family fare is a mishmash of an action comedy with buddy bonding, chase sequences and eye candy for the adults and fart gags and a computer enhanced 'roo for the kids. Arriving in US cinemas this week ...
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Start-up UK distributor launches with Balzac
New London-based distribution outfit Soda Pictures is to launch with Dai Sijie's Golden Globe-nominated Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, which it has picked up for release in the UK and Eire in early May.The film, based on the novel of the same name written by the director, follows two ...
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Neil Jordan plans Odysseus' Return
Neil Jordan's Borgia may have failed to start shooting, but the Irish director appears to have found another European epic, Odysseus' Return.Michael Kuhn's London-based production company is understood to be finalising a deal to board the production, which is set up with producer Uberto Pasolini, best known for The Full ...
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StudioCanal faces crippling staff losses
France's StudioCanal, which once boasted ambitions of being Europe's biggest film production outfit, looks to be heading towards total meltdown.It had recently been rumoured that hefty job cuts lay ahead at the company as parent Vivendi Universal sought cost cutting measures - and reported figures placed that number at around ...
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Gerardmer horror fest unveils competition line-up
The Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival has announced its jury and film line-up for this year's event which runs from January 29 to February 2. Presiding over the horror film festival jury is Exorcist director William Friedkin (pictured). Other jury members: Cube director Vincenzo Natali, Crimson Rivers writer Jean-Christophe Grange, actresses ...
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Warner Bros Italia's first local co-production scores at home
Warner Bros. Italia's first local co-production, It Can't Be All Our Fault (Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi), has shot into the number one slot at the Italian box office.Italian director Carlo Verdone's new comedy, Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi (It Can't Be All Our Fault) (pictured) powered into the number ...