All Screen articles in 27 August 2003 – Page 5

  • Reviews

    Solid Air

    2003-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Dir: May Miles Thomas. UK. 2003. 113minsA doleful examination of social injustice and family heartache, Solid Air is a remarkably polished and painfully personal second feature from BAFTA-winning Scots director May Miles Thomas. Dedicated to her father and others who have suffered from asbestos-related illnesses, the film's unrelenting intensity creates ...

  • News

    ITALY Production Listings - August 22 2003

    2003-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Copyright: Screen InternationalItaly - August 22PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Main cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260ANNI RAPACI(Poetiche Cinematografiche) Budget: $3m. Backer: Telepiu. Dist: Sharada (It). Traces 20 years in the life of a major southern Italian organised ...

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    Maya team ready Indian Opium tale

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    The production outfit and director behind the acclaimed Indian film Maya have launched their next project, Opium Royale, which is budgeted at $3.5m. Set to start shooting in India on Jan 15, 2004, Opium Royale is produced by Dileep Singh Rathore and Emmanuel Pappas of Kundalini Pictures and directed by ...

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    UA options the rights to Snake Hips

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    United Artists has optionedthe rights to Anna Thomas Soffee's memoir Snake Hips and will develop the project with Hart SharpEntertainment.Published in 2002, SnakeHips is a comic account of the30-year-old authoris life as a relationship ends and she moves back homewith her parents in Virginia, where she reconnects with her Lebanese ...

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    Fortissimo tests out Spellbound worldwide

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to documentary Spellbound, an account of eight ambitious young finalists in America's national spelling contest. Spellbound is currently on release in the U.S and Canada where it has taken over $5m at the box-office since its premiere earlier this year via Thinkfilm. The ...

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    Scola's Gente Di Roma to premiere at Viareggio

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    Renowned Italian writer-director Ettore Scola's new film, Gente Di Roma, is to have its world premiere at the 20th Europa Cinema festival in Viareggio (Sep 20 - 27). Co-produced and distributed by Istituto Luce, Gente Di Roma stars Stefania Sandrelli (The Last Kiss, Un Filme Falado) and Valerio Mastandrea (V-Max) ...

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    Deauville rounds out festival line-up

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    Along with the list of competition films announced on August 19, France's Deauville Festival of American Film (Sept 5-14) has unveiled its premieres and special sections.American films which will have their French premieres out of competition include American Wedding with stars Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs set to attend; Woody ...

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    Hammer, TriggerStreet contribute to New Orleans festival

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    Hammer FilmProductions and Kevin Spacey's online film-makers' collectiveTriggerStreet.com are lending their support to The New Orleans MediaExperience, an inaugural arts festival set to run from Oct 26-Nov 1.Hammer willprovide prints for the Breakfast With Hammer Films series, a daily screening ofclassic horror from the company's vaults such as Dracula Prince ...

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    Senator still in red despite Good Bye, Lenin!

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has posted an operating loss of Euros 6.9m for the first six months of 2003.Earlier this year, Senator posted a massive net loss of Euros 178.2m for the 2002 financial year Turnover in the first six months of 2003 stood at Euros 25.8m - down Euros ...

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    Little Fiesta makes big noise in Spain

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    A new Spanish release about a hard-partying group of college-aged kids, appropriately called La Fiesta, has taken the Spanish box office by surprise and could convert its directors into poster children for struggling filmmakers in Spain.Shot on a budget of less than Euros 6,000 with a crew of unpaid actors ...

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    Arthouse films benefit from Edinburgh exposure

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    Speaking at last year's Edinburgh premiere of All Or Nothing, Mike Leigh declared that he could think of no better event in Britain to launch a new film. His words might yet come to be seen as the guiding ethos of this year's Festival where Jim Sheridan's warm-hearted family drama ...

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    Apollo wraps Russian-US feature

    2003-08-21T04:00:00Z

    Russian-American production company Apollo Films has just wrapped on its new feature Passenger From San Francisco after nearly a year of shooting in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cyprus, the Crimea, the Greek islands, Moscow and St Petersburg.Producer and director Anatoli Balchev hopes to break into the American market with the ...

  • Reviews

    Intermission

    2003-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Dir: John Crowley. Ireland. 2003. 106minsAn abrasive, sour-tasting ensemble piece, Intermission is a giddy Irish attempt to muscle in on the kind of territory previously mined by the likes of Amores Perros and Happiness. Ambitious in its scope, it has a confident swagger to its execution but lacks the originality ...

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    Istituto Luce buys Good Lawyer's Wife

    2003-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Istituto Luce has become the latest Italian distributor to grab itself a Venice competition title before the festival has started.The specialist releaser has bought A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), a sexually-challenging drama from up and coming young Korean director Im Sang-Soo. The title was bought in tandem with Italian ...

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    Istituto Luce buys Korea's Good Lawyer's Wife

    2003-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Istituto Luce has become the latest Italian distributor to grab itself a Venice competition title before the festival has started.The specialist releaser has bought A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), a sexually-challenging drama from up and coming young Korean director Im Sang-Soo. The title was bought in tandem with Italian ...