All Screen articles in 29 July 2003 – Page 5

  • Reviews

    Father And Son (Otets Y Syn)

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Germany. 2003. 81mins.Alexander Sokurov's new film is the second part of a trilogy that began in 1996 with the esteemed Mother And Son, which brought the director to international attention. Subsequent appearances in Cannes competition have included Moloch (1999), Taurus (2000), and Russian Ark (2002), the last ...

  • News

    Pictorion Das Werk unveils new management structure

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Pictorion Das Werk - formerly Das Werk - has unveiled its new management structure and the opening of an additional post house in Cologne.The move comes three months after Helmut Breuer's Media Select took over the insolvent Das Werk postproduction group' facilities in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich and Frankfurt-based ...

  • News

    Kidman parts company with Von Trier's USA trilogy

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Despite collaborating to great acclaim on Dogville, Nicole Kidman and Lars Von Trier will no longer work together on the next two instalments of the director's planned USA trilogy.Because of Kidman's busy schedule, Lars von Trier feels he cannot wait for the Hollywood star and will shoot the films with ...

  • Reviews

    Nina's Tragedies: A Very Sad Comedy (Ha'assonoth shel Nina)

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Savi Gabizon. Israel, 2003. 106mins.Film-maker Savi Gabizon's gently nonsensical humour has been much appreciated in the past by both Israeli critics and audiences. His new coming-of-age comedy, which looks at a gallery of eccentric, obsessive characters engineering themselves into impossible corners, should do reasonably well at home, especially after ...

  • Reviews

    Dark Blue

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Ron Shelton. US. 2002. 113mins.Dark Blue is the first Hollywood film to fully take on board the shameful case of Rodney King, the black motorist who was savagely beaten by four LA traffic cops in 1991. The King beating and the riots that were unleashed a year later when ...

  • News

    Filmstiftung NRW backs four international co-productions

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Four international co-productions - by the UK's Christopher Smith, Argentinian Pablo Trapero, Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad and German newcomer Till Franzen - are among seven feature projects receiving a total of Euros 2.5m production support from Filmstiftung NRW in its latest round of funding. Euros 500,000 was allocated to Smith's fantastic ...

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    Strikes hit Paris Cinema attendance figures

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    A week after the curtain closed on the inaugural Paris Cinema, organisers have announced that roughly 70,000 Parisians attended the festival. The two-week mini-festival which ran from July 2-15 was backed by the city and run by former Directors' Fortnight artistic director Marie-Pierre Macia. While good intentions, a healthy programme ...

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    MPAA unleashes nationwide anti-piracy campaign on Thursday

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    After months of apocalyptic warnings about the global threat ofpiracy the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is ready to unleash itsfirst nationwide US educational campaign.Starting on Thursday (July 24) a series of 30-second publicservice announcements produced by 20th Century Fox will air on more than 35network and cable outlets ...

  • Reviews

    All Tomorrow's Parties

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Yu Lik Wai. China-France. 96minsShot digitally for the sake of flexibility and screened the same way in Un Certain Regard at Cannes - though a film version is in the making, to judge by the credits - Yu Lik Wai's second feature attempts to explore the near future ...

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    Warner International hits $1bn after seven months

    2003-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Driven by the worldwide successes of Harry Potter And TheChamber Of Secrets, The Matrix Reloaded and Two Weeks Notice, Warner Bros Pictures International has passed $1bn inticket sales after just seven months of the year.The $1.012bn running total is the sixth time the distributor hasreached the $1bn mark (after 1993, ...