All Screen articles in 7 July 2006 – Page 3

  • Reviews

    The Way I Spent The End Of The World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii)

    2006-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Rom-Fr. 2006. 106mins.More like a quick guide to recent history rather thana fully rounded first feature, Catalin Mitulescu's debut TheWay I Spent The End Of The Worldpaints a disturbing realistic, if often disorganised,portrait of Romanian life during 1989, the last year of the Ceausescu era.Blending childhood pranksand ...

  • Reviews

    The Way I Spent The End Of The World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii)

    2006-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Rom-Fr. 2006. 106mins.More like a quick guide to recent history rather thana fully rounded first feature, Catalin Mitulescu's debut TheWay I Spent The End Of The Worldpaints a disturbing realistic, if often disorganised,portrait of Romanian life during 1989, the last year of the Ceausescu era.Blending childhood pranksand ...

  • Reviews

    Beauty In Trouble (Kraska v Nesnazich)

    2006-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Jan Hrebejk. Czech Rep. 2006. 110mins.Film-maker Jan Hrebejkreturns with Beauty In Trouble,another chronicle about the morality of his Czech compatriots as they crossfrom the vestiges of their recent totalitarian past to the best of the West.Inspired by a Robert Graves poem about a beauty saved by an angelic presence, ...

  • News

    Crowe and Luna among members of Venice jury

    2006-07-03T15:00:00Z

    The Venice Film Festival(August 30-Sep 9) has announced its full competition jury, with membersincluding Cameron Crowe and Bigas Luna.As previously announced, themain competition jury of the 63rd edition will be presided over by Catherine Deneuve.Bigas Luna, whose new comedy Yo Soi La Juanis set for release at the end of ...

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    Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m

    2006-07-03T10:34:00Z

    The board of Eurimages has decided to support 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of $5.4m (Euros 4.2m). The coproductions supported are:35 Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (France, Germany, Belgium) Capri 1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (France, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fur einen Augenblick, ...

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    Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m

    2006-07-03T10:27:00Z

    MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/34889F51/wendy1.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"The board of Eurimages has decided tosupport 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of =$5.4m(Euros 4.2m). The coproductoins supported are:35Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (Fran=ce,Germany, Belgium) Capri1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (Fra=nce, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fureinen Augenblick, Freiheit, ...

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    Krrish takes flight at Indian box office

    2006-07-03T07:00:00Z

    Rakesh Roshan's Krrish, billed as India's first real superhero movie, has blasted its wayinto Bollywood's blockbuster league by grossing an estimated $15m (Rs690m) inits opening week (June 23-29).The $10m film has alsobecome a hit in overseas markets, debuting at number nine at the UK box office in its opening weekend ...

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    Korean filmmakers protest as new quota becomes reality

    2006-07-03T05:00:00Z

    An estimated 10,000protestors rallied in Seoul todemonstrate against the reduction of Korea's Screen Quota and the US-Korea free tradenegotiations on Saturday (July 1), the day that the reduced quota wasintroduced. Top stars such as AhnSung-ki (Silmido) and Choi Min-shik (Old Boy) led filmmakers, academics andrepresentatives from financial, cultural and audio-visual ...

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    Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition

    2006-07-03T04:00:00Z

    Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...

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    Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition

    2006-07-03T04:00:00Z

    Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...

  • News

    Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition

    2006-07-03T04:00:00Z

    Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...

  • Reviews

    Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    2006-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Gore Verbinski. US. 2006. 151mins.Coming three years after the originalride-turned-movie dug up a hoard of summer box office gold, the second voyageof Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's PiratesOf The Caribbean franchise is bigger, longer and more spectacular than itspredecessor but at the same time less breezily entertaining. The novelty value ...

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    No records broken but Superman still flies high in US

    2006-07-03T00:00:00Z

    The Man of Steel soared overthe box office but not the record books as Warner Bros' Superman Returns added an estimated $52.2m over three days to raisethe five-day tally to $84.2m.While the result was nowherenear the five-day mark of $152.4m set by Sony's Spider-Man 2 exactly two years ago, it ...

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    UK anti-piracy group adds theatrical investigator

    2006-07-03T00:00:00Z

    The UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is clamping down on camcorder use in UK cinemas by creating the new role of theatrical investigator. The theatrical investigator will liaise with the UK exhibition and distribution industry to help prevent camcorder use and other forms of digital recording. The post reports ...

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    Ira & Abby, Mario are LAFF audience favourites

    2006-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Robert Cary's Ira & Abby won the audience award for best narrative feature, JeffWerner and Susan Koch's Mario's Storytook corresponding documentary honours, and Tomer Heymann's Paper Dolls won the audience award for best international feature atthe Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) which finished last night (Sunday).The award for outstandingperformance in ...

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    ...and takes powerful $20m international gross in just 11 markets

    2006-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI)'s Superman Returns burst on to the international scene with an outstanding $20m weekend haul from just 1,750 prints in 11 markets that generated 5.06million admissions.Opening number one in allits markets, the epic took $5.2m and 795,741 admissions from 303 prints in SouthKorea, and $3.8m and 525,843 ...