All Screen articles in 4 February 2006 – Page 5
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Debut feature film wins the Grand Prix-Golden FIPA
Wega-Film production Mein Morder (MyMurderer), the debut feature of Austrian former documentary director and journalistElisabeth Scharang received the Grand Prix-Golden Fipa in the Fiction section of the 19th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz January24-29. The five-memberjury headed by Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi and including among others ...
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Five world premieres for Berlinale Special
The selection of films for Berlinale Special has beenfinalised. This film series has a varied programme with two football filmsfeaturing among the five world premieres which are, Luis Llosa'sThe Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta Del Chivo), based on the best-selling novel of the samename by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas ...
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Peckinpah's Pat Garrett to close Berlin
Thedirector's cut of Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy TheKid willclose this year's Berlinale on February 18.Announcingthe complete festival programme, festival directorDieter Kosslick revealed that Peckinpah'sfilm will be shown "out of competition" in a High Definition versionat the Berlinale Palast andUrania cinemas.Therewill also be other films shown in high ...
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Wild Bunch finalises Berlin slate
At the upcoming EFM in Berlin,French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch will commence sales on the latestfilm from director Emir Kusturica about the life offootball legend Diego Maradona.Maradona,a documentary that traces the player's rise to stardom, fall from grace andeventual redemption, travels from Argentinato Naples to Cuba,Barcelona, Yugoslaviaand other ...
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Wild Bunch finalises Berlin Slate
At the upcoming EFM in Berlin,French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch will commence sales on the latestfilm from director Emir Kusturica about the life of football legend DiegoMaradona.Maradona, a documentary that traces the player's rise to stardom, fall fromgrace and eventual redemption, travels from Argentinato Naples to Cuba,Barcelona, Yugoslaviaand ...
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Hungarian Film Week sticks by Istvan Szabo
Istvan Szabo'sRelatives will open the 37thHungarian Film Week tonight as scheduled despite the director's admission thathe was an informant for Hungary's communist-era secret police while a filmstudent in the 1950s.Magyar Filmunio, the promotionagency of the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation, would not comment onthe matter other than to say that ...
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Coixet's Secret Life takes Goyas for best film and director
IsabelCoixet's The Secret Life Of Words wasthe big winner atthe 20thanniversary edition of the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Awards, taking home fourstatues including best film, director and script.But unlikelast year, when Alejandro Amenabar made history with 14 Goyas for The SeaInside, this year's prizes were spread more evenly acrossnominees. Nosingle ...
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Watson joins Zellweger, McGregor in Miss Potter
Emily Watson has joinedRenee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the high-powered cast of Chris Noonan's MissPotter, the biopic of UK children'sauthor Beatrix Potter which is scheduled to start shooting in the UK and theIsle Of Man in March.Watson will play Millie, thesister of McGregor's character, Norman Warne, Potter's publisher and ...
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Vertigo Films plans public funding for Nick Love's Outlaw
UK production anddistribution company Vertigo Films has announced a unique financing structurefor its next feature, Nick Love's Outlaw. The budget for the film will be less than $5 million.The film's entire budgetwill be funded by the public, through a website withinvestment packages of £10, £50, and £100. In return for ...
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Quinceanera
Dir/scr: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland. US.2006. 90mins.Winner of both the jury and audience prizes indramatic competition at Sundance this weekend, Quinceanera is a warm-heartedportrait of a trio of outcasts in the conservative Latino community of EchoPark, East Los Angeles, who pull together as a family of sorts. Glatzer and ...
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Open Window
Dir/scr: Mia Goldman. US. 2006. 98mins.Debut film-maker Mia Goldman uses the intelligent andtroubling Open Window to explore the ramifications- physical, psychological and emotional - of a sexual assault upon a young woman.In the process, she denies the audience the visceral satisfaction of vengeance,opting instead for helplessness, defeat and inadequacy. It ...
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God Grew Tired Of Us
Dir. Christopher Quinn. US. 2006. 86minsAn emotionally absorbing documentary from ChristopherQuinn, God Grew Tired Of Us is apiece that demands another telling of the genocidalSudanese civil war and the horrifying emotional and physical conditions itinflicted on its thousands of battered survivors.It also stands as an ablecompanion piece to Megan Mylan ...
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Destricted
Dirs: Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla,Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe,Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood. US/UK. 2006. 116mins.A series of short adult films by someof the most outre artists and film-makers on theworld stage today, Destrictedis an unusual project which brings pornographic imagery somewhere into the veryouter margins of the mainstream.Continuingthe trend ...
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Sundance closes with domestic and international deals
TheSundance Film Festival 2006 ended with a flurry as deals were closed on Half Nelson, Stay, TV Junkie, The Darwin Awards and Man Push Cart.Meanwhile buyers were closing in on Neil Burger's The Illusionist, Joey Lauren Adams' ComeEarly Morning, WashWestmoreland and Richard Glatzer's double Sundance winner Quinceanera, Hilary Brougher's Stephanie ...
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Rick Sands joins MGM as chief operating officer
Former DreamWorks president and chief operating officer Rick Sandshas switched studios and joined MGM as chief operating officer.Sands, who also previously served as the Weinsteins' right handman as Miramax chief operating officer, will set about leveraging the company'sacclaimed film and television library across multiple platforms both here andabroad.He will work ...
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Dowling to write, O'Connor to direct Paramount/MTV Films project Born To Rock
Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have hired Tim Dowling to adapt GordonKorman's novel Born To Rock, a coming-of-age story about a Republican student who enlists thesupport of his rock star father to get him into school.Gavin O'Connor will direct the project and Solaris' Greg O'Connorand Josh Fagin will co-produce.MTV Films' ...
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We Go Way Back takes top honours at Slamdance Film Festival
Lynn Shelton's We Go Way Back has won the 2006 Grand Jury Award for best narrativefeature at the Slamdance Film Festival, while Philippe Diaz' Empire In Africa has taken corresponding documentaryhonours.The Grand Jury Prize for best narrative short went to Peter Templeman'sThe Saviour, and theaward for best documentary short was ...
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Hoffman, Witherspoon, Crash cast take top SAG awards
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and the ensemble cast ofCrash were among thechief winners at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in LosAngeles yesterday evening.Hoffman won outstanding performance by a male actor in a leadingrole for his role as Truman Capote in Capote, while Witherspoon won correspondinghonours for ...
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Sola, Atrix take on worldwide rights to Swedish comedy Winners And Losers
German sales companies SolaMedia and Atrix Films have picked up worldwide rights to Swedish family comedy WinnersAnd Losers (pictured) directed byKjell Sundvall.The deal was concluded betweenSola Media's Solveig Langeland with Anders Landstrom of FilmlanceInternational. Langeland and Atrix Films' Beatrix Wesle will present the filmto buyers for the first time at ...
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Ang Lee wins DGA honours for Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee took a giant stride towards the Academy Award at theweekend after collecting top honours from the Directors Guild of America (DGA)on Saturday night for Brokeback Mountain.Lee beat out George Clooney for Good Night, And Good Luck, Paul Haggis for Crash, Bennett Miller for Capote, and Steven Spielberg for ...