All Screen articles in 23 October 2006 – Page 4
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Crossing The Line
Dir. Daniel Gordon. UK. 2006. 91mins.Perfectly timed to reach Pusanjust as current tensions with North Korean increase once more, Crossing The Linepromises more than it can deliver. The story of former US soldier James Joseph Dresnok, 44 years after he left the American dream andsettled in Pyongyang, DanielGordon's documentary fails ...
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Breaking And Entering to open, Rescue Dawn to close Denver Film Festival
Anthony Minghella's London-set drama Breaking And Entering and Werner Herzog's Vietnam POW thrillerRescue Dawn bookendthe 29th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF29).Minghella will receive the Mayor's Career Achievement Awardfollowing the opening night screening on Nov 9.Breaking And Entering stars Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Ray Winstoneand Martin Freeman and ...
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Boys Of Tomorrow (Woori-Ege Nae-Ileun Eobda)
Dir/scr. Noh Dong-seok. S Kor. 2006. 93mins.Pursuing similar themes to those covered in his debutfeature Generation, which screened acouple of years ago in Pusan, Noh Dong-seok's Boys OfTomorrow again takes up the cause of lost youth whose hopes and dreams aretrampled by the slum misery into which they are born.Shot ...
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Woman On The Beach (Haebyuneui Yeoin)
Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. S Kor. 2006. 128mins.Owing more to French cinema of the 1960s thancontemporary Korean film-making, Hong Sansoo'sromantic comedy Woman OnThe Beach is as intimate, laid back and low-key as his previousefforts. As such it will have a good following among critics and do well with thirtysomething arthouse audienceswho ...
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UK tax credit stranded while Europe ponders approval
Screen International's UK Film Financesummit meets today amid growing evidence that the European Commission may be uncomfortable with aspectsthe UK's new film tax plans. The UK's new tax credit was announced in March this year,further clarified in April, and has been approved by the UK parliament. UK government bodies had ...
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Amy Redford heads cast of Finding Fate for MacArt, Bootstrap
Amy Redford has joined the cast of Jack Conroy's family drama FindingFate, which is set tobegin filming in Ireland and New York in early 2007.Patrick Bergin, Hugh O'Conor, Jamie Harris, and John Keating alsostar in the story of a woman who embarks upon a search for the truth when herlife ...
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After This Our Exile (After This Our Exile)
Dir: Patrick Tam. Hong Kong, 2006.158mins.Excruciatingly long and exceedingly over-sentimental,Patrick Tam's After This, Our Exilelooks like a daytime soap, save for a couple of torrid love scenes which may beits best achievement.Tam's tear-jerking dramaabout a cook whose family is torn apart by his inveterate gambling and unpaiddebts displays great technical ...
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Davis joins Liberation as head of worldwide business affairs
J Alan Davis has joined Los Angeles-based distribution and saleshouse Liberation Entertainment as vice president and head of worldwide businessaffairs.Davis previously served as head of business affairs at Warner BrosInternational Television Production, and was a principal of media consultingcompany Periscope.Liberation Entertainment was launched earlier this year by mediaentrepreneur Jay Boberg, ...
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PUSAN: Pang's Ibrahim takes top prize at PPP
The Pang Ho Cheung project, One Day Of Ibrahim, picked up the topprize at this year's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) - the $20,000 Busan Awardpresented by the Metropolitan City of Busan. The $2.2m project, about ayoung Kenyan boy's journey to find water, is set to be produced by the Hong ...
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The Sakai's Happiness (Sakai-ke No Shiawase)
Dir/scr: O Mipo. Jap. 2006. 102mins.Debut film-maker O Mipo mayfind that The Sakai's Happiness, herlaudably understated approach to family life in a provincial town, will findfavour with critics but alienate many potential audiences. Keeping at all timeswithin the boundaries of low-key drama, it's the sort of feature that mightstrike impatient ...
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Gangster High (Pokryok Sekkeul)
Dir/scr: Park Kihyung. Korea, 2006. 102mins.An exceedingly violent high-school rumpus that deterioratesinto warfare, with dead and wounded left on the battlefield, Park Kihyung's GangsterHigh is the kind of picture no young teen will be allowed to see, should censorshave any say in the matter.Park Ki-hyung,whose disappointing family horror film Acaciaclosed ...
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Hounsou to star in urban drama The Trunk
Djimon Hounsou will star in urban drama The Trunk for the trio of Los Angeles-basedcompanies Melee Entertainment, White, and Bluvoma Inc.Brian White, Boris Kodjoe, and Thomas Krestchmann are alsoattached to the story of an inner city musical prodigy on the cusp of successwho discovers some of his closest friends will ...
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The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre)
Dir: Guillaume Nicloux. Fr-Ger-It. 2006. 100mins.A French Da Vinci Code inwhich Catholic mystical hokum is replaced by Mongololianshamanistic hokum, Jean-Christophe Grange's Le Concille DePierre was a literary bestseller when it came out in France in 2000. Withits high-profile Bellucci-Deneuve pairing and lushproduction values, this $28m adaptation of the book is ...
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VOD service Eurocinema signs to handle First Run catalogue
US video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive dealwith independent film distributor First Run Features to handle First Run'scatalogue of titles.Premiere First Run Features titles launching on Eurocinema inDecember include Claude Chabrol's Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Ludivine Sagnier's La Petite Lili, Dani Levy's Go For Zucker, and Ole Christian Madsen's ...
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SPRI and BVI team for distribution joint venture in Korea
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) and Buena Vista International(BVI) have formed a joint venture to distribute their pictures and localproduct in South Korea, effective Nov 30.The set-up allows the companies to streamline their operations inone office, and reflects similar arrangements between SPRI and BVI in Mexico,Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Switzerland, ...
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Pretty Pictures buys North Korean hit Schoolgirl's Diary
French distributor PrettyPictures has bought North Korean hit TheSchoolgirl's Diary, marking the first commercial deal for a North Koreanfilm to a Western country in recent decades.James Velaise, president ofPretty Pictures, attended the Pyongyang International Film Festival inSeptember where The Schoolgirl's Diary,a local hit with 8 million admissions, was screened. Negotiations ...
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Father wins China's first mobile phone movie awards
The inaugural Mobile PhoneMovie Awards - organised by Beijing-based Zonbo Media, Xian city government andXian Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone - closed yesterday in China's Xian city with eight awards given out to youngshort filmmakers across the country.Father,directed by Qin Xiaopeng, took the top prize, the best film award, winning$1,265 (RMB10,000).Another ...
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Fire, Evil take audience awards at Mill Valley
Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire took home the audience award for best dramatic feature atthe Mill Valley Film Festival, which ran from Oct 5-15.Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil won corresponding honours in the documentarysection and Wolfgang Murnberger's Lapislazuli: In The Eye Of The Bear took the award for best ...
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Asian Film Market has promising first edition
The first Asian Film Marketwrapped today after a four-day run (Oct 15-18), concurrent to the 11thedition of the Pusan International Film Festival. The event was held mainly inthe Grand Hotel on Haeundae beach, with a total of 3,500 participants.The sales market was joinedby locations, production and post-production convention BIFCOM, and ...
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PUSAN: Asian Film Market deals round-up
Cineclick Asia had a busymarket selling two horror titles to France's Wild Side Films - Hanzel And Gretel, directed by YimPil-sung (Antartic Journal), and Mommy's Risen, a co-production betweenCineclick and Blue Storm. Meanwhile, Thailand's J-bics picked up a package ofKim Tae-yong's quirky family drama FamilyTies; melodrama Love Me Not,starring Moon ...