All Screen articles in 23 February 2007 – Page 4
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The 79th Academy Awards
The Departedstole the show at the 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood,taking top prize for best picture and propelling Martin Scorsese to hislong-awaited first directing Oscar.WarnerBros and Initial Entertainment Group's crime thriller remake took fourawards overall and had been regarded as a solid contender in awide-open best picture race. However its ...
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IFC Entertainment makes films available to iTunes
IFC Entertainment is the latest distributor making available its film catalogue for iTunes users, including the six titles nominated in this weekend's 2007 Independent Spirit Awards among them American Gun and Sorry, Haters.'By making IFC films available on the world's most popular online movie store we're giving independent film-makers the ...
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MGM's Woods to receive Variety Club Humanitarian Award
MGM president of domestic distribution Clark Woods will receive the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens' 2007 Humanitarian Award.Woods, who was chosen in recognition of his contributions as both a role model and mentor to children, will collect the honour in New York on Jun 13.'Clark is a true ...
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Killer strikes ongoing finance, distribution deal with THINKFilm
THINKFilm and Killer Films have entered into an agreement granting the former the right to finance and handle worldwide distribution on films developed and produced by Killer.The deal is the first major initiative struck by THINKFilm since it was taken over last year by film financier and producer David Bergstein, ...
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BFI partners with HP for Mediatheque's digitised archive offerings
As the British Film Institute (BFI) gets ready to unveil its revamped Southbank home next month, the institute has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard (HP). HP will use its digital technology to offer the BFI National Archive materials to the public. The pact was announced this morning by BFI ...
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Canadian actors' strike ends this time for real
After a false start earlier this week, the six-week Canadian actors' strike seems to have been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. Last Friday, the Alliance of Cinema, Television and Radio Actors (ACTRA), the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de film et ...
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Shelter (Riparo: Anis Fra Di Noi)
Dir: Marco Simon Puccioni. It-Fr. 2007. 105mins. A small, unpolished but involving drama of jealousy and social status, Shelter offers an interesting twist on the theme of the stranger who enters a family unit and exposes its faultlines. The unit in this case is a lesbian couple, and the stranger ...
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Lagerfeld Confidential
Dir/scr: Rodolphe Marconi. Fr. 2007. 87mins. Flashy, dazzling if never quite penetrating, Lagerfeld Confidential, French film-maker Rodolphe Marconi's impressionistic documentary of fashion artist, costume designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld, provides a relatively unvarnished examination of his reptilian charm, talent and considerable genius for promotion. The movie does a reasonable job ...
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Madonnas
Dir/scr Maria Speth. 2007. Ger. 100mins. There's nothing beatific or saintly about motherhood in Maria Speth's minimalist new feature, Madonnas. Rita, the mother of five children by at least three fathers, gets out of jail and makes a reluctant effort to live with the kids that she has brought into ...
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Alice's House
Dir. Chico Teixeira. Braz. 2007. 90mins. Alice's House , documentarian Chico Teixeira's first fictional feature, is a look inside a middle-class family in Sao Paolo seen largely through the eyes of Alice, a frustrated fortyish manicurist. Teixeira shows us infidelity, love affairs, sibling rivalry and ageing through a cold lens ...
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Tekkonkinkreet
Dir: Michael Arias. Jap. 2007. 112mins. The first feature-length Japanese anime to be directed by a foreigner, the impressive Tekkonkinkreet has cult animation written all over it. It's a streetwise Spirited Away, darker, moodier and more adult-oriented than Miyazaki's masterwork, with an apocalyptic undercurrent that reminds one of the dark ...
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John Wilkinson to depart UK's Cinema Exhibitors' Association
John Wilkinson, who has served as chief executive of the UK-based Cinema Exhibitors' Association (CEA) since 1990, plans to step down from his post. He will remain in place until a replacement has been found. Barry Jenkins, chairman of CEA, said: 'John has successfully led the Association for 17 years ...
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Renny Harlin to make his first film in Finland in 20 years
Currently making Cleaner in the US with Samuel L Jackson and Ed Harris, Finnish Hollywood-director Renny Harlin will direct his first film in Finland for 20 years, a $15.8-18.8m (Euros 12m-14m) epic of Finnish historical legend CGE Mannerheim, a Swedish-speaking nobleman who served the Russian Tsar before returning in 1917 ...
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Penketh High makes indie feature Days
Over 500 teachers and students at an innovative high school in Warrington, England, combined talents to make a full-length feature film in eight months on a budget of about $11,700-$13,600 (£6000-£7000). Local businesses and organisations also got behind the production. Project co-ordinator Jonathon Kay said the project was the first ...
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Hot Fuzz breaks Shaun Of The Dead UK box-office tally in first week
Universal's Hot Fuzz has already beaten Shaun Of The Dead at the UK box office, raking in a whooping $13.9m (£7.1m) in its first seven days. The new cop comedy marks the reunion of Shaun's team: director Edgar Wright, actors Simon Pegg (who also co-writes with Wright) and Nick Frost, ...
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European cinema admissions up 4% during 2006
Cinema attendance in Europe was up 4% in 2006, according to new research from the European Audiovisual Observatory.Of the 25 member states of the EU, EAO tracks 20 countries, 17 of which sold more cinema tickets in 2006 than in 2005. Eastern Europe showed the greatest leaps, with Lithuania's attendance ...
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The Number 23
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2007. 94mins. Jim Carrey continues his beseeching petition of dramatic film fans with The Number 23, a stylish if somewhat murky thriller about one man's downward descent into geometric fixation and madness. The film intriguingly flits around the edges of loopy susceptibility that go hand in ...
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Seville clocks up Berlin deals on Poor Boy's Game
Seville International has closed multiple sales on Clement Virgo's Berlin Panorama entry Poor Boy's Game starring Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland and Laura Regan. Tot Media bought the film for Spain, CCV for Scandinavia, All Interactive Distribution for Australia, Epelpol for Poland, Video Filmes for Brazil, Teleview International for the Middle ...
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Miami names nine projects in Encuentros market event
Nine films have been selected for the Miami International Film Festival's (MIFF) fifth Miami Encuentros series dedicated to emerging producers from Spain and Latin America.The three-day event offers film-makers a chance to network with US and international industry professionals as they nurture their careers.'Having a brilliant vision is only part ...
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Frost, Glue open New Directors/New Films in New York
Paul Auster's psychodrama The Inner Life Of Martin Frost and Alexis Dos Santos' Argentine coming-of-age tale Glue will open the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 36th New Directors/New Films showcase.The event is set to run from Mar 21-Apr 1 in New York and features ...