All Screen articles in 23 February 2007 – Page 3
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Features
In focus - Berlinale round-up - Bear's market bullish
This year's Berlinale and European Film Market (EFM) was the most successful ever, at least in statistical terms: more industry visitors, more festival-goers, even the branded teddy bears sold out.So this year's expansion of market floorspace and new programmes looks to have been justified. Indeed, the unprecedented arrival of 430,000 ...
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Brazil - The away game
Brazilian film-maker Cao Hamburger first began to think about The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, which just played in Competition at Berlin, while living in London in 2001."All the cab drivers I spoke to knew by heart the Brazilian soccer team that won the World Cup in 1970," says ...
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Austria/Germany - Seeing double
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky must have been the right man for The Counterfeiters, a drama about a Nazi-organised forgery scam in a German concentration camp - he was independently approached by two production companies for the same project within the space of three weeks.With a resume including two successful horror ...
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Production - Argentina - The funds of others
Since Argentina's economic crash, the territory's film industry has been fighting its way back to health. But while the industry has been weathering the storm - 90 films were produced last year and directors such as Daniel Burman, Pablo Trapero and Lucrecia Martel are drawing plaudits around the world - ...
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Editorial - But is it any good'
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." Henry Louis Mencken's aphorism springs to mind because there are times when belief in one's open-mindedness is challenged. This week, Dieter Kosslick, Berlinale festival director offered a flower-sniffing test par excellence.The critics pretty much universally ...
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Foreign affairs
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an editorial that put forward an argument for the elimination of the foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. Its point was that "foreign film-making talent is represented in record numbers" in all categories and therefore in no need of special support.The argument from the ...
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Features
Analysis: International box-office Weekend February 16-18 - Ghost's arrival spooks Night
Comic-book fantasy Ghost Rider knocked Night At The Museum off the top spot, taking more than $16.6m internationally in its opening weekend. Luc Besson's Taxi 4 also showed impressive first-weekend results, grossing $14.1m in Belgium and France. Meanwhile, UK audiences flocked to see Edgar Wright's cop spoof Hot Fuzz - ...
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News
Adriene Bowles gets promotion at Focus Features
Adriene Bowles has been promoted to president of worldwide publicity and executive vice president of marketing at Focus Features.The appointment expands Bowles' remit - she previously worked in the company's domestic division as executive vice president of publicity and marketing - and gives her a more proactive role in establishing ...
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Telefilm backs new films from Falardeau, Poole, Picard
Fresh from his triumphant Best Picture prize for Congorama at Quebec's Jutras earlier this week, Quebecois auteur Philippe Falardeau has been greenlit by Telefilm Canada for his next production, C'est Pas Moi Je Le Jure. It was one of ten films in the latest round of French-language project funding by ...
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Reviews
The Filthy World
Dir: Jeff Garlin. US. 2006. 86mins. 'I'm not a sadist, I did it one take,' John Waters says about the notorious climatic action of Pink Flamingos, his breakthrough underground assault of bourgeois refine and social taste whose debauchery ends with Divine, the 300-pound transvestite, ingesting dog faeces. Jean Renoir famously ...
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Poseidon
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen. US. 2006. 100mins. Wolfgang Petersen's new version of ocean liner disaster yarn The Poseidon Adventure - first adapted, of course, as a 1972 blockbuster with Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters starring - works well enough as a full-speed-ahead thrill ride, even if it sometimes drifts off into ...
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Gaumont strikes US deal for Fidel with Koch Lorber and Red Envelope
France 's Gaumont has announced the sale of Prix Michel d'Ornano winner and Sundance entry Blame It On Fidel to Koch Lorber in the US. The film, directed by Julie Gavras, will go out in the second quarter of 2007 in NY and LA followed by a wider release. Koch ...
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Cyborg to close next month's SXSW festival
The closing night film for the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival will be Park Chan-wook's new film, I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK.Fresh from its European premiere at the recent Berlinale, Cyborg will have its North American premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival when it brings ...
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Sheffield Docfest to offer eighth UK touring programme
The Sheffield Docfest is working with the BFI to launch its UK tour at the Barbican in London on March 7, in partnership with Dochouse. The Sheffield touring programme is now in its eighth year and includes highlights from the November festival. The tour will travel for three months to ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 Group signs free-TV rights deal with Warner
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Media has signed a long-running agreement with Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) for future productions from the Warner Bros studio. Starting in 2007, the agreement grants the German broadcasting group exclusive free-TV rights for all of the studio's feature films and a selection of series released during ...
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UKFC Development Fund backs projects from Kudos and Vertigo
The UK Film Council's Development Fund has announced the latest round of projects it is supporting with National Lottery awards. The projects being funded include spy satire Blowback, which is written by Rupert Walters and will be produced by Stephen Garrett and Paul Webster at Kudos. That film gets $121,892 ...
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Oscar winning Dutch film-maker Fons Rademakers dies aged 86
Dutch director Fons Rademakers died last Thursday at the age of 86. He received an Academy Award in 1987 for his wartime thriller The Assault. Rademakers died in a hospital in Geneva from lung emphysema complications. During his career, he directed 11 features, mostly based on Dutch novels. His most ...
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Neo's Just Follow Law has strong opening in Singapore
Singaporean director Jack Neo's Just Follow Law had a strong but not record-breaking four-day opening during the Chinese New Year holiday, scooping $421,000 from 35 prints for second place in the chart. Ghost Rider topped the chart with $678,000 on 39 prints over the four days, while Hong Kong drug ...
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Hong Kong film festival to feature 16 world premieres
This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival will feature 16 world premieres as part of an expanded line-up that reflects its new industry and international ambitions. Among the world premieres are Indonesian director Riri Riza's Three Days To Forever; Fruit Chan's 30-minute short Xian Story; Things We Do When We ...