All Screen articles in 3 June 2002 – Page 3
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Irreversible
Dir: Gaspar Noe. France. 2002. 95mins. Flagged from the beginning of the festival as Cannes' 'succes de scandal', with a huge commotion in the French media and an official warning printed on its tickets, Irreversible emerges as neither successful nor, come to that, especially scandalous. A significant backward step for ...
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The Son (Le Fils)
Dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Belgium/ France. 2002. 103 mins.The Dardennes' austere and uncompromising aesthetic is back on full display in The Son, a minutely observed, dramatically compelling study of the violent emotions seething below the drab surface of working-class lives. Not exactly an easy sell, in other words, which ...
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Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya)
Dir: Elia Suleiman. France-Palestine. 2002. 92mins. Subtitled a "chronicle of love and pain", Elia Suleiman's second feature belies its own maudlin-sounding description and reinvents the tragic tensions in Palestine as a deadpan, slow-burning, almost silent comedy. Lacing the surreal apocalyptic humour of Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor with ...
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Japan's Toho gears up for new fiscal year with new president
Toho, Japan's largest film distributor and exhibitor, has named its new president, Hideyuki Takai. He replaces Toshihiko Ishida, who will take the post of advisor. Takai joined Toho in 1964 and has been involved in film production since 1977. Credits include Kon Ichikawa's 48 Ronin (1994), Hideyuki Hirayama's School Ghost ...
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Every Stewardess goes to France
Spain's Wanda Vision has sold all French rights on Berlin Panorama entry Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven (Todas Las Azafatas Van Al Cielo) to Pretty Pictures.Wanda's Jose Maria Morales and Miguel Morales said the deal was closed in Cannes. The film from up-and-coming Argentine director Daniel Burman (Waiting For The ...
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Hollywood SFX pioneer launches Japanese digital film studio
Richard Edlund, a special effects master who is president and CEO of Boss Film Studios, has launched a start-up for the production of digital films in Yokohama, Japan. The winner of four Academy Awards for his work on Stars Wars, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back and ...
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Tradewind, MMC Independent sign first-look deal
Cologne/Erfurt-based production house Tradewind Pictures and the MMC studios' production arm MMC Independent have signed a first-look deal for a long-term co-operation on the production of national and international feature films.As part of the agreement, both partners will offer each other the chance to board projects as a co-producer. ...
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Wild Bunch picks up Cannes title Chihwaseon
Wild Bunch has picked up world sales rights outside Asia to Im Kwon-Taek's Chihwaseon - the Cannes competition title that jointly won the festival's best direction prize.Wild Bunch picked up the film after seeing it at its early screening on Saturday 25 May and closed the deal on Sunday morning.Wild ...
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The Way Home wins Korea's top Grand Bell award
Lee Jeong-hyang's The Way Home was named best picture at South Korea's 39th annual Grand Bell (Daejong) Awards, held in Seoul on May 26.The film, about a seven year-old boy who goes to live with his grandmother in the country, has been a local audience favourite, earning over $20m since ...
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Australia's Seven takes everything from Icon
Australia's Seven Network has signed for television and pay television rights to all the films that are released theatrically by the Australian arm of Icon Film Distribution, which opened for business early this year. The first package of films in the multi-year deal includes We Were Soldiers, Gosford Park, the ...
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Spain's Grupo Pi announces string of deals
Spanish sales consortium Grupo Pi announced a string of deals on various titles from its growing slate of feature films.At Cannes, Pi closed all rights for Colombia to Cineplex on women-driven comedy My Mother Likes Women (A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres) starring Leonor Watling (Talk To Her). The ...
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Sedgwick named director of new Adelaide film festival
Katrina Sedgwick has been appointed director of the inaugural 2003 and the 2005 Adelaide International Film Festival. The first edition will be held in late February or early March 2003 and will celebrate the 30th year of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC). Chair of the festival board is Sydney ...
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Niche acquires Cannes titles over the phone
Niche Pictures principal Lyn McCarthy has closed deals for Australian and New Zealand rights on two high-profile Cannes film - on the phone from the northern New South Wales coast resort Byron Bay, where she lives. They are director Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, which was in Competition at Cannes, ...
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Kinepolis Group's Albert Bert dies, aged 74
Albert Bert, co-chairman of the board of directors of the Kinepolis Group died on 21 May 2002 aged 74. Bert was widely acknowledged as one of the innovators of how movie theatres are operated in Belgium. In the sixties, he took over the Cinema Majestiek in Harelbeke from his father. ...
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Yeoh to get tough with French distributor M6
Wearing her producer hat - rather than that of actress or Cannes juror - Michelle Yeoh is to start legal proceedings against French distributor M6/SND.Yeoh and Thomas Chung, managing director of Hong Kong-based Han Entertainment, through which the Yeoh-produced film The Touch is financed, say they will be seeking damages ...
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Eureka Screenings to select 300 love stories
Love has been chosen as the theme for Audiovisual Eureka's 5th Eureka Screenings which are being hosted in Skopje by the Minister of Culture of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from October 30 - November 3.During three days, buyers from all over Europe will have the opportunity of viewing ...
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Real Women have deals too
A number of internationaltheatrical distributors have bought local territorial rights to HBO Films' RealWomen Have Curves, even though theaward-winning made-for-cable production will not be seen in US theatres.Among the buyersannounced yesterday by the pay-TV networks sales arm, HBO Enterprises, were MosaicEntertainment, which bought UK rights in association with Optimum Releasing;Italy's ...
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Bollywood release triumphs in the shadow of Star Wars' attack
Five new openers launched into the UK chart this week but were unable to make much impact on the box office of chart leader Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones.The most impressive of this week's debutantes was Eros International's latest Bollywood release, Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam. The ...
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Serbian Government introduces national film fund
The Serbian Government has launched a Euros 1.5m prototype film fund, with six local features receiving an award equivalent to 30% of its budget.Goran Markovic's The Cordon, Srdjan Koljevic's Red Coloured Gray Truck, Dusan Kovacevic's The Professional, Milos Petricic's An Almost Ordinary Story, Srdjan Karanovic's Loving Glances and Milos Radovic's ...
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Banderas, Cruz may re-unite with Almodovar for Tarantula
Two of Spain's hottest properties, Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz, are likely to co-star in Tarantula, a futuristic film noir by director Pedro Almodovar. Producer Agustin Almodovar was quoted in Cannes this weekend confirming that the long-mooted project (see Screendaily July 10, 2001) would star Banderas and Cruz. Tarantula, the ...
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