All Screen articles in 25 January 2008 – Page 6
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Bogeydom picks up snowboard documentary Let It Ride
Toronto-based Bogeydom Licensing has picked up international sales rights on Let It Ride, a documentary about pioneering snowboarder and counter-culture icon Craig Kelly. The film won the audience award at the recently wrapped Alpinist Film Festival in the US ski resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Kelly was the most recognised ...
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Adrien Brody to star in Sony BMG's Cadillac Records
Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright will star in Sony BMG Film's 1950s-set music industry drama Cadillac Records.Brody will play Leonard Chess, founder of the hugely influential blues record label Chess Records, while Wright will portray the legendary musician Muddy Walters in Darnell Martin's story of the birth of the electric ...
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Films shot in Wisconsin to get theatrical runs in home state
Milwaukee-based Marcus Theatres has struck a deal with Film Wisconsin in which the chain will provide theatrical runs for films shot in the State.Marcus Theatres president Bruce J Olson said his company will provide 'foundation bookings' based on the quality and appeal of films receiving a G, PG, PG-13 or ...
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UK producers group PACT defends cuts to worried film industry
UK producers group PACT is defending its restructuring moves to streamline the organisation in the midst of funding woes.Some film producers are more wary of the restruturing and say their interests could be pushed aside as TV takes more attention at PACT.In December,the elected PACT Council approveda strategic plan, unanimously ...
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UK producers group PACT defends restructuring to worried industry
UK producers group PACT is defending plans to streamline the organisation in the midst of funding woes.But some film producersfear their interests could be pushed aside in a leaner organisation which theybelievecould concentrate attention on television.The elected Pact Council approved a new strategic plan at its final meeting in December ...
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Sunshine Cleaning
Dir: Christine Jeffs. US. 2008. 102minsChristine Jeffs' third feature has a great premise and knockout cast but proves disappointingly soft-centred. Long touted as a follow-up of sorts to Little Miss Sunshine - it shares the same financiers, producers, almost the same title and Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin in virtually the ...
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Shochiku adds Sakamoto, Oikawa titles to EFM line-up
Japanese major Shochiku has unveiled its line-up for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM) which includes new titles from Ataru Oikawa and Junji Sakamoto. Oikawa's recently completed rural horror film Shrill Cries Of Summer is based on a successful franchise extending from video games to manga and TV animation. Oikawa ...
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Sundance 2008: full list of reviews
Click on a film title to see Screen's review Assassination of a High School PresidentAugustBagheadBallastBe Kind RewindBlind DateThe BrokenChokeThe DealDeath In LoveDerekDonkey PunchThe EscapistFunny Games USGood DickHenry Poole Is HereIn BrugesIncendiaryKing Of Ping PongThe Merry GentlemenMomma's ManThe Mysteries Of PittsburghNerakhoon (The Betrayal)Phoebe In WonderlandRoman Polanski: Wanted And DesiredSmart PeopleSugarSunshine CleaningTranssiberianTrouble ...
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Be Kind Rewind
Michel Gondry. US.2007. 101minsJean-Luc Godard's famous observation that the best film criticism is to remake the same film is given a deliciously inventive and stylistically daring treatment in virtuoso French director Michel Gondry's fourth feature Be Kind Rewind. It's a jaunty, outrageous and visually inventive fantasia that is wondrous, beguiling ...
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Ballast
Dir-scr: Lance Hammer. US. 2008. 96mins.Ballast reminds us that you can find poetry in the unlikeliest and the saddest of places. The grim, grey and impoverished Mississippi Delta in winter is the setting and, to a great extent, the subject of the feature debut of writer-director-editor Lance Hammer. The spare ...
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Dir. Udayan Prasad. US. 2008. 103mins. The American debut of Udayan Prasad (My Son the Fanatic), The Yellow Handkerchief is a visually confident, emotionally bruising road movie about a trinity of lost souls haunted by their past and break free of their restricted lives. The writing never quite matches the ...
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Good Dick
Dir: Marianna Palka. US. 2008. 85mins. Good Dick opens as an angry young woman rents pornographic films from a local video store, setting the clerk who serves her on a love-struck pursuit. The comedy takes us once again down a familiar Sundance road of neurotic losers in love, complete with ...
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EFM German showcase includes market premiere of Love Life
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven and Hans Weingartner's Reclaim Your Brain are among 17 titles selected by programmer Heinz Badewitz to screen in the European Film Market's German Cinema showcase.The 2008 lineup, which is targeted primarily at accredited distributors, buyers, journalists, and programmers from festivals and cultural institutions, also ...
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Control Room director Noujaim heads Pangea Day film project
Jehane Noujaim, director of acclaimed 2004 documentary Control Room, is heading a unique project offering a global day of film.Pangea Day, which is scheduled for May 10, 2008, will be held in eight different cities: Cairo, Dharamsala, Jerusalem, Kigali, London, New York, Ramallah and Rio de Janeiro. The venues will ...
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Rome Film Fest moves dates back to October 22-31
The Rome Film Fest has moved its dates for 2008 to Oct 22-31. The festival had been scheduled for Oct 2-12, which was just three weeks after Italy's other big festival, Venice, scheduled to run Aug 27-Sept 6.The 2007 festival ran Oct 18-27.Rome, now in its third year, will now ...
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Australian Directors Guild to wait before replacing Macrae
The Australian Directors Guild (ADG) is now without an executive director following the surprise departure of Drew Macrae but the organisation will not invite applications for the role until after the next board meeting in early February. 'We have been rebuilding for 18 months and are still in the process ...
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Shoreline picks up international on Ozzie comedy On Broadway
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired international rights to Dave McLaughlin's Australian comedy On Broadway.The story centres on a Boston playwright who stages a production of his work in the back of an Irish pub.Eliza Dushku, Will Arnet, Amy Poehler and Robert Wahlberg play supporting roles. Kris Meyer, Lance Green, Henry Bertolon ...