All Screen articles in 25 January 2008 – Page 3
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Features
International - A Slice of the action
While Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street was the highest entrant in this week's international box-office chart, there were a number of new European entries that catch the eye.The Warner Bros film, directed by Tim Burton, took $8,111,368 over the weekend, playing on 1,092 screens in five territories. ...
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In focus - Digital rights in Europe - 'It's an absolute minefield'
The US has been the leader in digital technologies - from downloads to digital cinema - because it has a large homogenous market where cultural, technical and legal differences are minimal.Contrast that to Europe, which is a complex jumble of states, each with their own laws and traditions. Apple will ...
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Sugar
Dir/scr: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. US. 2008. 117minsIn a word, Sugar is extraordinary. The second feature of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden deepens the promise and talent they exhibited on their debut Half Nelson. A singular examination of sports, class and the American social fabric refracted through the perspective ...
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UK gets third Culture Secretary in seven months
Andy Burnham has been named as the new UK Culture Secretary - the third holder of the post in seven months.The 38-year-old Cambridge graduate from Leigh in Manchester follows James Purnell, who was yesterday appointed Work And Pensions Minister.Purnellhad onlybeen in the post since July last year, taking over from ...
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BBC Worldwide to offer clips on MySpace
BBC Worldwide has come on board as the first major broadcasting partner for MySpace.The deal includes three-minute clips from popular BBC programmes such as Top Gear, The Catherine Tate Show, Doctor Who and talk show Parkinson being featured on MySpace. The companies will share advertising revenue.Initial offerings will include 150 ...
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Hewison to exit Australian Film Institute before 50th awards
In the lead up to its 50th anniversary awards and in the wake of James Hewison's resignation, the Australian Film Institute has begun searching for a new chief executive.AFI chair Morry Schwartz told The Age newspaper that he hoped the organisation would be able to get someone of the same ...
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Rambo
Dir: Sylvester Stallone. US. 2008. 91mins.Cynically using the decades-long Burmese civil war as a backdrop for grisly and unremitting violence, muscle-headed action flick Rambo comes off as a sad and empty attempt to be politically relevant. Coming almost two decades after the last series entry, and on the heels of ...
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ScreenWest's low-budget initiative gets Wasted
Teen thriller Wasted will be the third feature supported under West Coast Visions, the low-budget initiative run by Western Australia 's film agency ScreenWest. A high school party goes dangerously off the rails in what will be the debut film of writer/director Ben C. Lucas, but one teenager finds that ...
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Bond 22 has a title: Quantum Of Solace
Bond 22, which has been shooting since November, now has a title: Quantum Of Solace.Daniel Craig is reprising his role as James Bond after successfully taking on the part of 007 in 2006's hit Casino Royale.The new film's title is taken from the name of a 1960 short story by ...
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Micha Lewinsky's Der Freund is tops at Swiss Film Awards
Micha Lewinsky's Der Freund was named Best Film at this year's Swiss Film Awards which were presented for the 11th timelast night at the Solothurn Film Days.The drama about a shy outsider who poses as the boyfriend of a woman after her sudden death and is welcomed into her family ...
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World premiere of Golzow finale selected for Berlinale Forum
The 19th and final part of Winfried and Barbara Junge's monumental Children Of Golzow chronicle, ...they're living happily ever after. The Children of Golzow, is one of four world premieres being shown as Special Screenings in this year's Forum programme of the Berlinale.The Junges' longest-lasting observation in film history - ...
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Rotterdam opens with Lamb of God, speculation about future head
The 37th IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam) opened last night with the world premiere of Argentinian director Lucia Cedron's Lamb Of God. At a packed screening in concert hall, the Doelen, the festival's new director Rutger Wolfson spoke of his vision for the festival.Click here for Screen's full Rotterdam preview'Perhaps ...
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King Naresuan films boost Thai 2007 box office by 20%
Boosted by two local mega-blockbusters King Naresuan Part 1 and 2, Thailand's box office scaled new heights in 2007 to reach $122.35m (THB3.8bn), representing a huge surge of 20.63% year-on-year. Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol's two historical epics topped the overall box office chart with each raking in over 200m baht, making ...
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French producers arrange rendezvous with India
A high-powered delegation of French producers will be visiting India later this week for the 'Rendezvous With French Cinema' which aims to expand the audience for French film in a market that is dominated by local product. The French film festival opens in Mumbai on Jan 27 before travelling to ...
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Chinese government lauches anti-porn campaign
A group of 13 Chinese government departments are clamping down on pornographic content on the internet and mobile phones, in a nationwide campaign which will last until after the Beijing Olympicsare finished in September. The 13 departments, including the Ministry of Public Security, the Propaganda Department, the State Administration of ...
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MPA to hold the second anti-piracy contest in China
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has teamed up with the 15th Beijing Student Film Festival (BSFF) and the China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCPA) to launch the second annual China-wide anti-piracy video contest. The theme of this year's competition is 'Respect Copyrights, Uphold Fair Competition, Protect Originality, Stay Away from ...
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Reviews
Lamb Of God (Cordero de Dios)
Dir: Lucia Cedron. Argentina/France/Chile. 2008. 91minsFirst-time feature director Lucia Cedron makes an assured debut with Lamb Of God, a skillfully told and affecting tale which straddles the line between political thriller and family melodrama. The elaborate flashback structure - the film is set in Argentina in 1978, when the country ...
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Death In Love
Dir: Boaz Yakin. 2008. US. 100min Boaz Yakin's dark drama is about the legacy of pain. We enter it through a smooth-talking scammer in Manhattan whose mother survived the Nazi camps thanks to a love affair with a doctor who experimented on prisoners. Death In Love shows that, as parents ...
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Schlessel gets new role at Sony as president of worldwide affairs
Peter Schlessel has been appointed president of worldwide affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment and will step down from his role as president of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG).A replacement president for SPWAG will be announced in due course although Schlessel will retain oversight of the Group.In his new role ...
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Award-winning We Are Together sells to Palm Pictures for North America
Palm Pictures today has picked up North American rights to Paul Taylor's documentary We Are Together, which chronicles the lives of the Agape children in South Africa who use music to overcome loss.Palm's managing partner Jan Korbelin brokered the deal with Annie Roney, president of ro*co films international.Palm anticipates a ...