All Screen articles in 22 July 2008 – Page 5
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Landis, Martel, To recruited for Venice jury duty
The International Competition Jury for the 65th Venice Film Festival has recruited Russian screenwriter Juriy Arabov, Italian actress Valeria Golino, British visual artist Douglas Gordon, US film-maker John Landis; New Argentine Cinema pioneer Lucrecia Martel, and Hong Kong director Johnnie To.As previously reported, Wim Wenders is the International Jury president ...
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Lance Daly's Kisses wins Best Irish Feature at Galway
Lance Daly's Kisses took the laurels for Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh in a year when the category was hotly contested by an unprecedented 14 Irish dramatic features, contenders among them being Ivan Kavanagh's Our Wonderful Home, Ian Fitzgibbon's A Film With Me in It and Rick ...
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Secret Of Kells takes Ireland's Directors Finders Series Award
Tomm Moore's Irish animation feature The Secret of Kells will be given a showcase screening on Sept 19 at the DGA Theatre, Los Angeles, to an audience of American distributors and industry personnel with the aim of securing a US distribution deal for the film.Selected by an international panel, The ...
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North Korean refugee drama crosses into Japan
South Korean distributor/investor Big House Vantage Holdings has announced the sale of North Korean refugee film Crossing to Cinequanon for Japan. Sales agent Fine Cut handled the deal for the film.Crossing is based on the true stories of people oppressed by the politics and poverty in North Korea, who risk ...
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Korea's Jecheon fest launches competition, support programme
South Korea 's 4th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF) has announced the line-up for its inaugural competition section and a new pre-production support programme for music films. The fest will open with senior citizens' rock n' roll chorus documentary Young@Heart - Stephen Walker's UK film which also screened ...
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IFC Films picks up US rights toThe Good, The Bad, The Weird
Major Korean distributor CJ Entertainment has sold Kim Jee-woon's self-described 'Oriental Western' The Good, The Bad, The Weird to IFC Films for the US. The two companies are looking at a release in the first half of 2009 starting in five major cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago ...
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Europe, Latin America take centre stage in Locarno programme
European and Latin America cinema will have a high profile at this year's Locarno Film Festival which will open on August 6 with the European premiere of UK director Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited and close August 16 with the world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Icelandic-French co-production Back Soon on the ...
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ReviewsReviews
Terribly Happy - Hanrik Ruben Ganz’s remarkably confident but misanthropic essay on shared culpability and small town mentality features an emotionally disturbed cop sent as punishment to a remote location, surrendering whatever shreds of decency he thought he still had for the murky double-standards of his new locale. Unpleasantly sinister ...
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Dorothy
Dir. Agnes Merlet. 2008. France. 102 min. An isolated Irish island whose wary residents don't like outsiders - or any developments in interior decorating since 1920 or so - is the creepy setting for supernatural thriller Dorothy, Agnes Merlet's first film in 11 years. Placing a female psychiatrist from the ...
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The Mummy 3 cleared for mainland China release
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor has been cleared for release by Chinese film censors and will be released in mainland China after the Beijing Olympics, according to local distributor Edko Films. Edko Films' chief Bill Kong, who helped to set the film up as a full US-China co-production, ...
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Amy Israel out, Guy Stodel in as Vantage changes direction
Paramount Vantage has undergone a further sea change this week with the announcement yesterday that Amy Israel is leaving the company and Guy Stodel has been appointed in her stead as executive vice president of production and acquisitions.The move appears to confirm speculation that Vantage is moving away from the ...
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