All Screen articles in 24 June 2005 – Page 3
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Warner Bros picks up Almodovar's Volver for Italy
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has acquired PedroAlmodovar's upcoming Volver fordistribution in Italy. The film stars Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenasand Chus Lampreave. Volver becomes thethird Almodovar project to which WBPI has acquired select distribution rights.The company previously distributed the Spanish director's Hable conElla (Talk to Her) and La ...
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Land Of The Dead
Dir/scr: George A Romero.US. 2005. 94mins.Film-maker George ARomero did not invent the idea of the dead returning to life, but he did helppopularise it with his seminal genre films, starting with 1968's Night OfThe Living Dead and continuing with its two sequels, Dawn Of The Deadand Day Of The Dead. ...
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Recall signs sountrack deal with EuropaCorp
RecallMusic For Films is to handle soundtracks for films produced by Luc Besson andPierre-Ange Le Pogam's French mini-major EuropaCorp.Thecompany is a joint-venture between composer Eric Serra and France'sRecall music label. It will have an international licence to distribute musicfrom films produced by EuropaCorp. Thedeal kicks off with the release ...
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Factotum
Dir: Bent Hamer.Nor-US-Ger. 2005. 93mins.Following the modest butreal arthouse success of Kitchen Stories (which premiered, in 2003, inDirector's Fortnight at Cannes), Norwegian auteur Bent Hamer is back with Factotum,a small but droll and, in its own way, quietly powerful film based on a novelby America's poete maudit, Charles Bukowski.To this ...
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La Petite Jerusalem
Dir/scr: Karin Albou. Fr.2005. 96mins.Karin Albou's LaPetite Jerusalem purports to deal with the femininity of its two youngParisian sister protagonists, Laura (Valette) and Mathilde (Zylberstein), eachattempting to make peace between her respective beliefs and desires.But in truth this debutfeature amounts to little more than another impossible romance where true loveis ...
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The Magician
Dir/scr: Scott Ryan. Aust.2005. 88minsThis year's Sydney Film Festival was noticeably shorton new Australian movies. The UK feature My Summer Of Love played theopening night, usually reserved for a local premiere, and three Aussiemicro-budget independents seemed tucked away at the smallest festival venue.Surprisingly, The Magician, a gangster mockumentary chilling andhilarious ...
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The Magician
Dir/scr: Scott Ryan. Aust.2005. 88minsThis year's Sydney Film Festival was noticeably shorton new Australian movies. The UK feature My Summer Of Love played theopening night, usually reserved for a local premiere, and three Aussiemicro-budget independents seemed tucked away at the smallest festival venue.Surprisingly, The Magician, a gangster mockumentary chilling andhilarious ...
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Orlando Vargas
Dir/scr:Juan Pittaluga. Uru-Fr. 2005. 80mins.JuanPittaluga was associate producer and sound man on Jonathan Nossiter's fortunatewine documentary Mondovino, and Nossiter has returned the favour byassociate producing the Uruguayan director's first feature, Orlando Vargas.But although it is has moments of visual poetry and a certain atmosphericforce, this wilfully obscure film, which screened ...
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Picture This takes Ristovski's Mirage for North America
Picture This! Entertainment has acquired North Americanrights to Svetozar Ristovski's Mirage (Ilujiza), a Macedonian -language coming of age tale that hasbeen an official selection at festivals including Toronto, Tokyo and Rotterdam.Picture This! plans a November 2005 theatrical release forthe film, which was acquired from Small Moves Ltd. Ristovski, who previously ...
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Garner to star in Japanese drama remake
Jennifer Garner has committed tostar in a remake of the 2004 Japanese hit drama Be With You, with WarnerBros agreeing to distribute, according to Kei Haruna, one of the film'sproducers. He says Garner attended aprivate screening of a subtitled print in Los Angeles in January. Moved by the film's story ...
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Tan heads first Singapore-Japan co-production
Singapore writer/director Royston Tan's script 0430 has been chosen byJapanese broadcaster NHK as one of the four projects for its 6th AsianFilm Festival, making it the first Singapore-Japan co-production.NHK executive producer Makoto Ueda who is inSingapore for the filming of 0430says, 'I have been hoping to co-produce a film with ...
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Wenders and Kiarostami to be honoured at Locarno
Inan 'exceptional step' this year the Locarno Film Festival (August3-13) has decided to award two Leopards of Honour to filmmakers Wim Wenders andAbbas Kiarostami. Theyare hailed as 'illustrious representatives of diverse but nonethelesscomplementary ways of making films, both ambassadors of their cultures indifferent contexts around the globe.'WhileWenders - who ...
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Wenders and Kiarostami to be honoured at Locarno
Inan "exceptional step" this year the Locarno Film Festival (August3-13) has decided to award two Leopards of Honour to filmmakers Wim Wenders andAbbas Kiarostami.Theyare hailed as "illustrious representatives of diverse but nonethelesscomplementary ways of making films, both ambassadors of their cultures indifferent contexts around the globe."WhileWenders - who will turn ...
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New venture aims to break US digital cinema deadlock
Yet another new business venture has been formed with the promise of breaking the digital cinema fundingdeadlock in the US.Access Integrated Technologies and projection equipment supplier ChristieDigital Systems have created a subsidiary offering to help pay for installationcosts of 2K resolution projectors in exchange for long-term support and equipment ...
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Curzon offers school for shorts
London's Curzon Soho cinema is hosting a four-day short filmfestival, starting on July 6.The Short Film Summer School (SFSS) will screen some of thebest work from new and established directors.The Screen International-supported event also includes workshops,advice sessions and a chance to pitch ideas with the UK Film Council. One of ...
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Cayla to head up French film body
Cannes FilmFestival administrative director Veronique Cayla has been named to head Frenchfilm body the CNC it was announced today. Theappointment is effective immediately and she will leave her festival roleat once. Cayla, whohas also been named interim president of France'sfilm school FEMIS, takes up her functions at the CNC following ...
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Academy tightens rules on Oscar producers
The US Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)has further tightened the number of producers who can takehome an Oscar.In approving rules for the 78th Annual AcademyAwards this week, the AMPAS board decided that its Producers Branch ExecutiveCommittee will "designate the qualifying producer nominees for each of thenominated pictures."The decision means ...
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Magnolia, SPHE acquire domestic rights to Nine Lives
MagnoliaPictures and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) have teamed up to acquireNorth American rights to Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, which played as a premiere at Sundance this yearand screened this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival.Magnoliaplans to release the film theatrically in Sept with subsequent DVD and videodistribution to ...
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First Look acquires worldwide rights to Emmanuel's Gift
Los Angeles-based First LookMedia has acquired worldwide rights to Emmanuel's Gift, a documentary produced and directed by Lisa Lax andNancy Stern about a young disabled man from Ghana, West Africa, who rode abicycle across Ghana on one leg to eradicate the country's negative perceptionof the disabled.FirstLook Pictures plans a domestic ...
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Almodovar preps collector's editions of his own work
The Almodovarbrothers' El Deseo has bought into Spanish DVDdistributor Cameo Media and will pump the bulk of its catalogue and newproductions through the company, including Pedro Almodovar'supcoming feature Volver.Funding a capital increase, El Deseo joins Alta Films, Wanda Vision, TornasolFilms, Continental Producciones, Golem and Cameomanaging director Juan Carlos Tous as ...
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