All Screen articles in 7 November 2005 – Page 8
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Mexican star hits out at Hollywood stereotyping
Leading Mexicanactor Gael Garcia Bernal has attacked what he says is Hollywood stereotyping of Latin America.Speaking atThe Times London Film Festival in London, the star of The Motorcycle Diaries, said there seemed to be two roles forHispanic people: "the bad guy" and "the good Latino from the slums."The26-year-old, who came ...
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Film Council increases UK sales support at AFM
The UKFilm Council US is doubling its support for start-up and smaller independentsales companies at this year's AFM.The movewill allow many companies to exhibit there for the first time and others tocontinue their push to international buyers.Underthe single banner of the UKFCUS export office: Carnaby International, CentreFilm Sales, Cross Day ...
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Bedside manner earns Bize the Golden Spike
Chilean-Germanco-production In Bed scooped the Golden Spikeaward at the 50thanniversary edition of Spain's Valladolid International Film Festival.DirectorMatias Bize's film (En La Cama) turns on two strangerswho meet, decide to rent a hotel room for a tryst, then unexpectedly spend therest of the night talking. Thefilm picked up the top prize ...
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Media Luna adds dance doc to AFM slate
Onthe eve of the AFM, Cologne-based sales company Media Luna has added ArneBirkenstock's documentary 12 Tangos -Adios Buenos Aires to its market line-up.Producedby Fruitmarket - Kultur undMedien and TradewindPictures, 12 Tangos follows the livesof several tango dancers in crisis-ridden Buenos Aires where the dance wasoriginally created by European immigrants.Theacquisition by ...
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Kissed By Winter (Vinterkyss)
Dir: Sara Johnsen. Nor. 2005. 84mins.A bereaved mother tries to come to terms with heranguish by seeking refuge in a snowbound northern village. There, she discoversunsuspected affinities with the local population, as well as finding romanceand becoming embroiled in a troubling mystery.As the above synopsissuggests, this year's official Norwegian submission ...
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THINKFilm plans Easter release for Passion Of The Christ doc
THINKFilm has picked upNorth American rights from The Film Sales Company to Francesco Cabras andAlberto Molinari's documentary The Big Question and plans an Easter 2006 release. Shot in English and Italianduring the filming of Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ, the picture explores beliefs about the nature ofdivinity through ...
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Italian film industry pledges support for second Oscar choice
Italian film organisation Anica says Italy fully supports theselection of Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell as the country's candidatefor the best foreign language film Oscar, despite reports of fiery argumentswithin the local movie industry.Italy had initially selected Saverio Costanzo's Middle East drama Private, but the picture was ruled ineligible by the ...
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BV, Shoreline meet at The Halfway House
Morris Ruskin's ShorelineEntertainment has picked up BV Entertainment's horror comedy The HalfwayHouse for representation at AFM.The picture is the first to beproduced under BV's Fright Film Factory label and was released on DVD in NorthAmerica earlier this year."Taking this film to the AFMand other worldwide markets is the beginning of ...
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Casablanca picks up Brazilian rights to Shadow Of The Sword
In the run up to the AFM, German sales outfit Sola Media/AtrixFilms has sold Simon Aeby's historical epic Shadow Of The Sword to Brazilian distributor Casablanca Films. Benelux rights have been taken by F.E.G. and AQS acquired allrights for Czech Republic and Slovakia. Shadow Of The Swordcomes billed as "a ...
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Branagh ready to shoot Mozart magic
Kenneth Branaghbegins principal photography on his $27m version of Mozart's The Magic Flute on23 January at Shepperton Studios.For the first time for a British film, theproduction will occupy six of the major soundstages at the studio. The film features a newly-adapted libretto byStephen Fry with musical director James Conlon conducting ...
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Home-grown hits give UK box office a holiday hike
The once unthinkable prospectof the UK matching last year's record box office is now farmore likely after an astonishing half-term holiday run.At the end of the thirdquarter, the territory was 4% down with little likelihood of finding the $460m(£261.5m) in the final three months to equal 2004.Early disappointments like Kinky ...
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Henderson, Indian bookend High Falls Film Festival
The fifth annual High FallsFilm Festival in Rochester, New York, opens on Nov 9 with Stephen Frears' MrsHenderson Presents and closes on Nov13 with Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian. All in all more than 50narrative, documentary and short films will screen, among them Scott McGeheeand David Siegel's US drama ...
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Newman named executive director of National Board Of Review
Eileen Newman has been namedexecutive director of the National Board of Review, which traditionally kicksoff the awards season and will announce its winners on Dec 6. Newman most recently servedas senior director of programming at IFP/New York and will work closely withthe board of directors in all matter, specifically in ...
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Seidelman to embark on black comedy That Loving Feeling
Susan Seidelman, whose latestdrama Boynton Beach Bereavement Club recently had its world premiere at the Hamptons International FilmFestival, is to direct the black comedy That Loving Feeling. Seidelman with reunite withher Boynton Beach Bereavement Club screenwriterJonathan Brett on the story of a mild-mannered Manhattan dentist whose plan tokill his wife ...
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Bam Bam And Celeste
Dir. Lorene Machado. US. 2005. 85mins.Film-maker Lorene Machado and screenwriter Margaret Cho misfire with Bam Bam And Celeste, a featurefound wanting in too many departments, and potentially too offensive to many,to succeed.US theatrical prospects mightsee it pick up play at midnight theatres, especially on gay circuits, but fewaudiences are likely ...
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Bac picks up French rights to Shortbus from Fortissimo
Bac Films has acquired JohnCameron Mitchell's Shortbus forFrench distribution. The deal was announced this week by Fortissimo Films. Shortbus is the long-awaited follow up to Mitchell'scritically acclaimed 2001 hit Hedwig And The Angry Inch. The film revolves around the lives of threesexually diverse characters, each facing different challenges, who meet ...
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Avant-garde focus for Rotterdam programme
A retrospective of the workof two of the world's most challenging film-makers, Stephen Dwoskinand Nagasaki Shunichi, will be among the highlights of the 35th edition of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam.The focus on London-based Dwoskin coincides with the launch of a 14-film DVD boxset of his work, while Shunichi is hoping ...
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Trio of German stars joins cast of Amiel's Angel Makers
Germanstars Daniel Bruhl and Benno Furmann - who both appear in ChristianCarion's French foreign language Oscar entry Merry Christmas - and Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run, DasExperiment) have joined the cast ofJon Amiel's Angel Makers. FilmBridge International is handling worldwide distribution on the picture, whichas previously announced stars Helen Mirren, ...
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Weinstein Co creates multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal
The Weinstein Company hasentered into a multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal Paris that paves theway for a raft of product placement and promotional opportunities. L'Oreal's makeup and hairteams will support all promotion of titles on The Weinstein Company slate, andthe cosmetic brand will be the official exclusive beauty sponsor of ...
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ContentFilm chairman talks up restructured company at AGM
ContentFilm chairman Alton Irbysaid that the company has seen at "encouraging results" after its acquisitionof the Fireworks International library and restructuring. Since the Fireworksdeal closed in July, that TV and film library has generated $10 million in cashflow and $4.5 in new contractual sales. Speaking at the company's annualgeneral meeting, ...