All Screen articles in 28 July 2006 – Page 3

  • News

    Melbourne film festival opens with Thalluri's 2:37

    2006-07-26T00:00:00Z

    The mystery film that openedJames Hewison's sixth and final Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)tonight turned out to be writer/director Murali K Thalluri's 2:37, which screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Hewison wanted audiences tohave the rare experience of going to a film they knew nothing about, an ideathat was sparked ...

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    Congorama to open 35th Montreal festival

    2006-07-25T17:12:00Z

    Montreal's Festival duNouveau Cinema will screen a selection of titles from the Cannes festival,including Ken Loach's Palmed'Or-winner TheWind That Shakes The Barley, Pedro Almodovar's Best Screenplay-winner Volver and Philippe Falardeau's Congorama, whichhas been selected to open the Montreal festival. The FNC said it expects both Loach and Almodovar to be ...

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    Borat to premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness

    2006-07-25T17:06:00Z

    Killersheep and Sacha Baron Cohen are highlights of aseriously upgraded Midnight Madness programme at theupcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The late-night cult-themedsidebar has been graced with five world premieres including the docu-spoof Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make BenefitGlorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, starring the Ali G star Cohen in ...

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    Venice Days line-up includes new films from Boe and Lerman

    2006-07-25T16:47:00Z

    Christoffer Boe's Offscreen andDiego Lerman's Mientras Tanto are among the films that willscreen in Venice's Director's Fortnight,known as Venice Days. Offscreen is the third feature fromDanish director Boe, after his acclaimed Reconstruction and Allegro, which screened in the section last year. Produced by Alphaville Pictures, Offscreen focuses on an actor,played ...

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    Sarajevo's CineLink partners with The Netherlands

    2006-07-25T13:07:00Z

    TheNetherlands will be the countrypartner of Sarajevo's CineLink(August 23-27) after the co-production market's previous collaborations with Austria in 2004 and Germany in 2005.Adelegation of around two dozen representatives from film institutions,production companies, distributors, broadcasters and sales companies will betravelling to Sarajevo to meet filmmakers from South Eastern Europe whose projects ...

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    Pirates bounty gives boost to UK box-office

    2006-07-25T13:02:00Z

    Box-office figures from thefirst half of 2006 may have seen a 3% year-on-year deficit in the UK but Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has almostsingle-handedly turned fortunes around in just two weeks. After its third weekend (18days on release) Buena Vista International's sequel had already become thehighest-grossing film ...

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    Cambridge festival sets attendance record

    2006-07-25T11:41:00Z

    The 26thCambridge Film Festival saw more than 14,500 admissions, a new festival record,during its run from July 6-16. The event hosted 225 screenings and events. Audience awards went toPedro Almodovar's Volver and Mike Flores's short Waiting/Hoping. The young person's jurywinner was 14-year-old Melinda Barber from Parkside Community College. The festival ...

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    Pinball Films wraps UK, German shoot for Horner's KAZ

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    UK-basedPinball Films has wrapped principal photography on KAZ, which marks director Ashley Horner's feature debut. Theproject shot for six weeks in Newcastle upon Tyne and Berlin. KAZ stars Nora Von Waldstatten as a German music journalist who discoversshe's inherited a blood disorder from a rock musician father she never knew. ...

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    Magnolia sees light in The Hero of Colour City

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures hasacquired North America rights to Exodus Film Group's CG-animated feature TheHero Of Color City.The story follows a group of crayons as they strive to save a vibrant land from a tyrant who clearly subscribes to the monochrome school of interior design.J P McCormick and Rich Raczelowski co-wrote the ...

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    Arrests made in north London pirate DVD operation

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Authoritieshave arrested 11 pirate DVD sellers working in Leyton Mills Retail Parkin northeast London.Theshopping area had had an ongoing problem with pirate DVD sellers and members of the public had complained to the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The operation was jointly organised by FACT, the Metropolitan Police, Waltham Forest ...

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    UK Post announces shortlist for new audio awards

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Industrybody UK Post has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Conch awards, whichwill honour the audio industry. The audioindustry nominated the shortlist, who will now be asked to submit material forjudging. Winners will be announced on Sept 21. The PinewoodStudios Group has come on board as a headline sponsor of ...

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    Ostrow, MarVista agree terms on Surfer King

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Producers representativePage Ostrow has closed an international distribution deal for Bernard Murray'steen comedy The Surfer King withLos Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment.MarVista will handle international theatrical, television and video distributionon the story, which stars Lindsay Wagner, Randy Wayne, Ben Ziff, Alan Thicke,and Cerina Vincent.The Surfer King charts the exploits of a 17-year-old ...

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    Academy tweaks marketing rules

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    The Board ofGovernors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made a slightchange to the regulations governing marketing campaigns for the upcoming 79thAcademy Awards.Going forward notifications about screening schedules may include informationabout regular theatrical release screenings alongside details of private,invitation-only screenings, as long as they conform to ...

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    Ireland establishes new Academy to run awards

    2006-07-24T13:33:00Z

    Ireland's arts minister John O'Donoghue has announced the creation of a new Irish Film and Television Academy. The body will take over the running of the Irish Film and TV Awards from previous organisers The Irish Film and Television Network. The timing of the awards will be move to February ...

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    Ireland's BCI backs Lenny Abrahamson's Garage

    2006-07-24T13:11:00Z

    Garage, Lenny Abrahamson's second feature following Adam & Paul, has been awarded $833,513 (Euros 660,000) in the second round of funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound & Vision fund. Garage is the only feature project to have been backed by the BCI in the second round of ...

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    French distributor Bac posts strong revenues

    2006-07-24T12:58:00Z

    Bac Majestic has announced a marked increase in revenues for the first half of 2006. With $15.1m (Euros 12m) in income, the French distributor saw a 56.6% rise over the same period last year. Figures were especially notable in theatrical distribution with $7.8 (Euros 6.2m) in revenues for 12 films ...

  • Reviews

    Miami Vice

    2006-07-24T05:00:00Z

    Dir: Michael Mann. US. 2006.132mins.Forget "MTV cops" in pastel suits. Michael Mann's bigscreen version of TV landmark Miami Viceturns the stylish (in its day) mid-1980s series into a darkly intensecontemporary crime drama with a vivid digital video look and broodingperformances from stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Mann'sdaring approach results ...

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    King And The Clown rings Korea's Grand Bell

    2006-07-24T02:30:00Z

    Korean box officerecord-holder King And The Clown,directed by Lee Joon-ik, swept Korea's 43rd Grand Bell Awards on Friday (July21).Nominated in an all-timehigh of 15 categories, the film took seven awards including best film, bestdirector and best leading actor for Gam Woo-sung who played a masculine courtjester.Lee Joon-ki, who shot tostardom ...

  • Reviews

    Driving Lessons

    2006-07-24T00:00:00Z

    MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/2A8CB117/drivingreview.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"Dir/scr: Jeremy Bro=ck. UK. 200=6.95mins.Funny and tender enough to compen=satefor its lightweight, conventional core, DrivingLessons, the first directorial feature from scriptwriter Jeremy Brock (=Mrs Brown, Charlotte Gray) is a likeable HaroldAnd Maude rerun that is given a commercial leg-up by the canny casting =ofthe three ...

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    Driving Lessons

    2006-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Jeremy Brock. UK. 2006.95mins.Funny and tender enough to compensate for itslightweight, conventional core, DrivingLessons, the first directorial feature from scriptwriter Jeremy Brock (Mrs Brown, Charlotte Gray) is a likeable HaroldAnd Maude rerun that is given a commercial leg-up by the canny casting ofthe three main roles. Harry Potterregular Rupert ...