All Screen articles in 5 May 2008 – Page 6
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Blindness to open Cannes Film Festival
Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is to open the Cannes Film Festival and will join the Competition line-up, it has been confirmed.The film, about a city hit with a plague causing most of the population to go blind, was adapted by Don McKellar from the novel by Jose Saramago.The cast is led ...
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Pyramide's Cannes line-up calls for Snow
Pyramide International has announced the addition of Critics Week title Snow to its line-up for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Aida Bejic and focuses on residents of a small village whose lives are disrupted by visiting businessmen just before a storm hits. Also on the ...
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Irish Film Board proposes new Irish and world cinema TV channel
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has announced a proposal for a new Irish TV channel, using new digital infrastructure, which will be dedicated to broadcasting the best of Irish, European and world cinema.The proposal has been made to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for inclusion in Ireland's ...
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The Caller
Dir. Richard Ledes, 2008, US, minutes.The Caller is an unusual hybrid, a thriller about corporate corruption that is also a Holocaust memoir. A man facing the certainty of murder looks back sixty years to his survival of the Nazi occupation of France. But the result is also a hybrid, a ...
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From Within
Dir. Phedon Papamichael. 2008. USA . 90mins.Although he is a well-regarded cinematographer (Sideways, I Walk The Line), Phedon Papamichael's third foray into directing is little more than another hackneyed horror film. The visuals are assured, but Keene 's screenplay relentlessly piles on the cliches. Without recognizable stars and indistinguishable from ...
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Lake City
Dirs. Perry Moore/Hunter Hill, 2008, US, 92 minutes .Lake City sets its earnest prodigal son story in a small southern town. When black sheep Billy (Garity) comes home with a young boy to his mother, Maggie (Spacek), a violent drug war follows him. Southern novelist Thomas Wolfe may have written ...
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Trucker
Dir/scr. James Mottern, US, 2008, 90 minutesThe trucker in Trucker is a woman: Diane Ford (Monaghan). forced to take in her young son when her ex-husband Len (Bratt) is stricken with cancer. The 11-year-old whom she hasn't seen since he was a baby proves harder to handle than the 18-wheeler ...
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Coach 14 and Orly join forces on films from Resnais, Huster and Miller
French sales companies Coach 14 and Orly Films are teaming upto handle three films from producer Jean-Louis Livi going into the Cannes Market.The association is a one-off but is designed to bring together the two outfits' know-how and to provide buyers with a double interlocutor on these particular projects which ...
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Three newcomers claim UK Film Council Development Fund awards
The first awards from theUK Film Council's new Development Fund for first features include three complete newcomers to the industry.The trioare all screenwriters working on features: Neil Knowles for slacker comedyThe Bailey Method; Elena Fuller fordramaGreener about ayoung woman coming to terms with the death of her mother; and Richard ...
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Tennessee
Dir: Aaron Woodley. USA . 2008. 95mins.Those expecting Tennessee to be a Mariah Carey vanity vehicle are in for a letdown. What is most impressive about the film is Carey's brave, understated, deglamorised performance as an ensemble player rather than star. Yes, the film does come on the heels of ...
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Lionsgate UK launches local production initiative with three projects
Lionsgate UK has confirmed plans to increase investment in UK films, intending to develop, co-produce and co-finance at least two British features per year.The initiative kicks off with three UK features set to shoot in 2009: Stiff by Dan Mazer, Emily-Jane Secret Mum as a co-production with Elton John and ...
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Liz Friedlander to direct film of Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons
Liz Friedlander, a veteran music video director who made her feature debut last year with Take The Lead, will direct a film of Tom Wolfe's best-selling novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, marking the first time Wolfe has allowed one of his novels to be optioned since The Bonfire Of The ...
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Roth's The Little Traitor to open third LA Jewish Film Festival
The third annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will take place May 8-15 with special honours being presented to Theodore Bikel and Joan Rivers and screenings of over 30 features, documentaries and shorts.Opening the festival is Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor, a drama set in 1947 Israel starring Alfred Molina, ...