All Screen articles in 29 June 2001 – Page 2
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Queenie In Love
Dir: Amos Kollek. US-France. 2001. 98mins.The closing event at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, Amos Kollek's new romantic comedy, is a sequel of sorts to his 2000 competition entry, Fast Food, Fast Women. The novelty of his approach may have worn off a bit and the structure may seem at times even ...
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Stuff And Dough (Marfa Si Banii)
Dir. Cristi Puiu. Romania. 2001. 90mins.Cristi Puiu's feature debut, made on what appears to be a non-existent budget, takes a close look at the underbelly of Romanian everyday life and comes up with a strangely compelling statement that goes way beyond its apparently insouciant approach. A road movie following, for ...
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La Chambre Des Officiers
Dir: Francois Dupeyron. France. 2001. 135minsComfortingly old-fashioned in its virtues of sensitive direction and finely nuanced performances, La Chambre Des Officiers is a moving account of an injured officer's struggle for physical and spiritual regeneration at the height of the First World War. Conventional handling of the material may not ...
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Final
Dir: Campbell Scott. US. 2001. 111mins.Campbell Scott, who co-directed the hit Big Night in 1996 with Stanley Tucci, finally gets back behind the camera with Final, the fourth digital video production from IFC-backed IndiGent after Bruce Wagner's Women In Film, Richard Linklater's Tape and Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls. Unlike Chelsea ...
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Big Bad Love
Directed by Arliss Howard. US. 2001. 121 min.Severely flawed in both dramatic and cinematic ways, Big Bad Love, the feature directorial debut from actor Arliss Howard, is an ambitious film about a Vietnam vet (played by Howard), who's trying to create fiction from his troubled past and regain control over ...
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Intertainment to focus on hands-on production
Troubled German rights trader Intertainment aims to be more of a "hands on" producer in the future, through such production alliances as the one forged last year with veteran US producer Arnold Kopelson.Speaking at the shareholders general meeting yesterday, Intertainment CEO Barry Baeres explained that, due to the prevailing market ...
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French theatrical subsidies law extended
The French government has amended the law which limits financial support to smaller theatres in order to allow larger exhibitors to benefit from the same subsidies.Current legislation limits local subsidies to theatres which sell less than 2,200 tickets on average per week. The new regulation now puts the cap at ...
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Toho Towa, TV Asahi invite Korean Friend to Japan
Friend, the record-breaking Korean action drama, has secured a release in Japan after Toho Towa and TV Asahi put up a massive $2.1m.The film by Kwak Kyun-taek is represented by Cineclick Asia, which also sold the film for Hong Kong to Mandarin, which is believed to have paid close to ...
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Balian and Wiederspiel quit Tobis StudioCanal
On the eve of this year's Filmfest Muenchen, the German distribution sector has been rocked by the news of the sudden departure of Haig Balian and Albert Wiederspiel from Canal Plus' German theatrical arm Tobis StudioCanal (TSC) "due to insurmountable differences".For the time being, TSC will be managed solely by ...
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The State I Am In (Die Innere Sicherheit)
Dir: Christian Petzold. Germany. 2001. 102min.The word terrorism is never mentioned in The State I Am In, but it hangs over the film like a omnipresent, menacing fog. For, with his first theatrical outing, director Christian Petzold has chosen to comment on the 1970s, Germany's dark decade of politically motivated ...
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Russian Doll
Dir: Stavros Kazantzidis. Australia. 2001. 90 mins.This ambling, soft-edged romantic comedy is due to receive a New York premiere on June 15, only days after its local debut, which saw it take $8,929 off 10 screens in five days - which says much for Beyond Films' enthusiastic sales muscle and ...
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Lovely Rita
Dir: Jessica Hausner. Austria. 2001. 79 mins.After her noted short Flora (1996) and medium-length film Inter-View (1999), Hausner makes a highly impressive feature debut with this tragi-comic portrait of a withdrawn teenager. Shot on DV with amateur actors, the project's small-scale and offbeat nature will limit its ...
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Late Marriage
Directed by Dover Kosashvili. Israel-France 2001. 103 minsTelling an extremely powerful story of family tyranny and intergenerational conflict within Israel's Georgian-Jewish community, Late Marriage represents the impressive feature debut of Dover Kosashvili, who, at this phase, acquits himself more honorably as an astute writer than competent director. A highlight of ...
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Hush
Dir: Ryosuke Hashiguchi. Japan. 2001. 135 mins. Hashiguchi's directorial debut, Like Grains of Sand, won prizes at Rotterdam, Dunkirk and the Turin Gay And Lesbian Festival. But it is less easy to see Hush!, his second feature, achieving the same welcome and having the same impact even on the arthouse ...
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Desert Moon
Dir:Shinji Aoyama. Japan.2001.131mins After winning the International Critics Award at Cannes last year for his remarkable Eureka, a lot was expected of Shinji Aoyama, a young director who clearly has it in him to make waves outside his home country. Perhaps too much, since Desert Moon strives too hard to ...
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Crush
Dir: John McKay. UK. 2001. 111minsA calculating mixture of hilarity and heartache, Crush is one of the more polished British candidates poised to ride the hem lines of Bridget Jones's success and exploit the expanding market for upscale chick flicks. A first feature from writer-director John McKay, it tries too ...
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The Chimp
Director: Aktan Abdykalykov. France/Kazakhstan. 2001. 98minsThe desolate Kazakhstan locale may be relatively unknown but everything else about this slight coming of age drama is wearily familiar. The concluding film in director Aktan Abdykalykov's autobiographical trilogy follows a teenage boy in the weeks leading up to his departure for military service. ...
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Bride Of The Wind
Directed by Bruce Beresford. US 2001. 99 mins.It is said that behind every successful man stands a woman. But rarely in history has one woman, Alma Mahler, stood behind so many brilliant and accomplished men. With Bride Of The Wind, Australian director Bruce Beresford (Double Jeopardy, Driving Miss Daisy) attempts ...
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Hollywood legend Jack Lemmon dies
American film icon Jack Lemmon has died in Los Angeles aged 76, his publicist has announced. Lemmon, a two-time Academy Award winner, died at USC Norris Cancer Hospital on Wednesday night (June 27, 2001).Since his silver screen debut in 1954 comedy It Should Happen To You, opposite Judy Holliday and ...
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Baby Boy
Dir: John Singleton. US. 2001. 130 mins.The innersoul of a young, immature black man is placed under scrutiny in JohnSingleton's Baby Boy, a companion piece but not a sequel, to his breakthrough film,Boyz N' The Hood,which exactly ten years ago made a splash in the film world. Revisiting thesame ...