All Screen articles in 21 October 2003 – Page 5
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The Missing
Dir. Lee Kang-Sheng. Taiwan. 2003. 84 min.Sharing the top award in Pusan's New Currents competition, the debut of actor Lee Kang-Sheng as writer and director indicates beyond doubt that he shares the visual and spiritual world of his mentor and friend, Tsai Ming-Liang, in whose films he has regularly appeared ...
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ITALY
UIP's Intolerable Cruelty has charmed the Italian box office, where it opened at number one on 330 screens grossing a massive screen average of $9,233. While the film's star George Clooney graced the covers of weekly Italian magazines, Intolerable Cruelty earned a huge $3,059,641, squeezing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ...
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Record number of foreign Oscar submissions
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hasunveiled the final list of submissions for the foreign language film awardcategory, claiming a record-breaking country count of 55, one more than lastyear.Notable absentee is India which made no submission this year, but for the first time Palestine has met submission criteria ...
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Ruiz honoured by Mannheim-Heidelberg festival
Chilean-born screenwriter, film and theatre director Raoul Ruiz is to receive the Master of Cinema Award at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Nov 20-29).The honour comes days after Ruiz was selected as Filmmaker in Focus at next year's Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan 21 - Feb 1, 2004).The award ...
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Box office massacre for Texas Chainsaw Redux
Platinum Dunes' horror remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre slaughtered the opposition as it openednumber one on an estimated $29.1m over the weekend. Platinum Dunes is the lowbudget film outfit of mega-budget director Michael Bay which has a productiondeal at Ted Field's Radar and therefore Focus Features handles sales of itsfilms. ...
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Berlinale Talent Campus film wins German Shorts nomination
UK filmmaker Philip Traill, one of the participants of this year's Berlinale Talent Campus, has seen his short film Dangle selected as one of ten finalists for this year's German Short Film Awards (Nov 10).Traill made his 5 minute 54 second short in Berlin in February after his script was ...
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BELGIUM
Local title The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer) saw a massive response in Belgium over its five-day opening for Kinepolis Film Distribution/RCV.Selling nearly 60,000 tickets from its 34 screens the psychological thriller took $348,074 (Euros 299,344) over the five-day weekend (Oct 15-19) and $387,286 (Euros 333,066) including previews.By the close ...
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Singing Behind The Screens (Cantando Dietro I Paraventi)
Dir: Ermanno Olmi. Italy. 2003. 100 mins.Years ago, David Thomson wrote "A question mark hangs over Ermanno Olmi, as if he needed some gust of passion or surrealism to free him from the aspirations of realism". This gust began to blow in Olmi's last film, The Profession Of Arms, and ...
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Financial backing flows into Spain's Manga Films
Spanish media veteran Enrique Cerezo has taken a 16% stake in Barcelona-based distributor and producer Manga Films, underwriting a Euros 6m capital increase through his Video Mercury Films.Separately, Manga has also signed a Euros 10m loan with the Catalan Finance Institute (ICF), boosting the company's current financial resources to Euros ...
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Sheridan's In America wins top Flanders prize
Jim Sheridan's In America won best film at the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which focuses on the impact of music on film-making, while Im Sangsoo was named best director for A Good Lawyer's Wife.Other prizes at the Fiapf recognised event, which wrapped on Saturday, included best music for ...
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Amenebar, Piccioni, Ruiz win Eurimages backing
New features by Alejandro Amenabar, Giuseppe Piccioni and Raoul Ruiz are among the 12 European co-productions supported with over Euros 4.6m by the Council of Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages in its latest round of funding.Three projects - Amenabar's Spanish-French-Italian co-production Mar Adentro, Piccioni's Italian-German co-production La Vita Che Vorrei ...
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Foreign Oscar submissions 2003
The complete list of Foreign Oscar submissions is as follows: (click on the title to read the Screen International review, where available)Afghanistan Osama(Siddiq Barmak, director)Argentina Valentin(Alejandro Agresti)Austria Free Radicals(Barbara Albert)Belgium Sea Of Silence(Stijn Coninx)Bolivia Sexual Dependency (Rodrigo Bellott)Bosnia & Herzegovina Fuse (Pjer Zalica)Brazil Carandiru(Hector Babenco)Bulgaria Journey To Jerusalem (Ivan Nichev)Canada ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - October 20 2003
DENMARK - October 20PRE-PRODUCTIONBOELLE BOB OG SMUKKE SALLY(Grasten Film) Family musical based on popular characters from the 1980s. Prod: Regner Grasten. Dir: Martin Schmidt. Scr: Gunnar Geertsen. Shoots in 2004.Contact: Regner Grasten, Grasten Film, (45) 39 63 44 24EUROTRH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euro1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). ...
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UK Production Update - October 20
UK Production Update - October 20IN PRODUCTION:CREEP (Dan Films, Zero West [Ger]) Backers: UK Film Council's Premiere Fund, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalia (NRW). Int'l sales: Capitol Films. Dist: Pathe (UK), X-Filme (Ger). Horror film set in subterranean London. London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, Kate (Franka Potente) ...
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Haifa names No Longer 17 as best film
Itzhak 'Tzeppel' Yeshurun's No Longer 17 won the best Israeli film prize at the 19th Haifa Film Festival (Oct 11-18), with Yoav Kosh taking top honours for the cinematography of Life Is Life by Michal Bar Adam. Hallelujah, a satire on the 1979 Eurovision song contest, was elected best TV ...
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First of many Marlowe films to start shooting
Fast rising British actor Tom Hardy is to star as Elizabethan playwright - and spy, occultist and sexually-ambiguous free thinker - Christopher Marlowe.Hardy, a graduate of the young ensemble casts of Band Of Brothers and Black Hawk Down, is donning the doublet for UK producer Andy Paterson, who is currently ...
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UIP picks up Hof opening film
Michael Schorr's Schultze Gets The Blues, the opening film at this year's Hof International Film Days (Oct 23-26), has been picked up for theatrical distribution by the German arm of UIP. The debut feature, which was produced by filmkombinat Nordost in co-operation with ZDF's Das kleine Fernsehspiel unit, won the ...
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UK Film Council supports int'l co-productions
The UK Film Council is investing a total of £1.7m from its New Cinema Fund in five international co-productions.In My Father's Den starring Spooks lead actor Matthew Macfadyen, currently shooting in New Zealand received £405,000, while French language films L'Ecole and Lila Dit Ça (Lila Says) received £397,330 and ...
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Danish-Swedish film promotion collaboration takes off
In a move to attract film production to the Oresund region - the land around the strait dividing Denmark and Sweden - the Oresund Film Commission has appointed Swede Natasha Banke and Danish producer Ulrik Bolt Joergensen to head a joint initiative between Copenhagen Capacity and Position Skaane. The regional ...