All Screen articles in 30 October 2001 – Page 4

  • News

    Trainspotting author joins Four Way Pictures

    2001-10-25T02:56:00Z

    UK author Irvine Welsh, currently writing the follow-up book to his bestseller Trainspotting, has joined director Antonia Bird, actor Robert Carlyle and journalist Mark Cousins as a partner at talent-led production company Four Way Pictures.Welsh is writing a new screenplay, The Meat Trade, for the two-year old company, set up ...

  • News

    Amelie joins cast of foreign-language Oscar race

    2001-10-25T02:49:00Z

    The foreign-language Oscar race hotted up yesterday as Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain aka Amelie was named the French submission for the Academy Award, ending speculation that other French films might deprive the phenomenal hit of its chance in the Hollywood spotlight.The submission now gives US distributor Miramax ...

  • News

    Jamie Bell heads supernatural WWII action drama

    2001-10-25T02:42:00Z

    Jamie Bell, the child star of international hit Billy Elliot, is to head the cast of The Great War Project (working title), a supernatural action drama which tops the slate of Film and Music Entertainment (F.&.M.E.).The picture is the story of eight young soldiers trapped in the WWI trenches who ...

  • News

    Sexy Beast scores at British indie film awards

    2001-10-25T02:36:00Z

    Extolled by US critics, but cooly received in the UK, British gangster drama Sexy Beast was finally feted in its home market. It triumphed at last night's British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), winning in all four categories in which it had been nominated.Sexy Beast was named Best British Independent ...

  • Reviews

    Bones

    2001-10-25T01:27:00Z

    Dir: Ernest Dickerson. US. 2001. 90 mins. Its touches of social conscience aside, Bones is the sort of horror nonsense that only really thrill-starved pre-Halloween filmgoers can be expected to swallow. Featuring rapper Snoop Dogg in his first starring role and boosted by a soundtrack that has already entered the ...

  • Reviews

    K-PAX

    2001-10-25T01:20:00Z

    Dir Iain Softley. US 2001. 118minsLawrence Gordon, the producer of K-Pax, would like to believe that his new film is in the spiritual-magical vein of Field Of Dreams (1989), a far superior baseball story about faith and redemption, which he also produced. However, judging by the minor melodrama that unfolds ...