All Screen articles in 9 October 2008 – Page 6
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Features
Special feature - Dubai International Film Festival at five - The fifth element
"Just look around you," urges Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) chairman Abdulhamid Juma, gesturing from the window of his office in the glass-and-steel business district known as Dubai Media City. "Dubai is hungry for new things."It is the middle of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Arguably, Dubai should ...
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Power To The Pixel launches digital project forum
The groundbreaking Power to the Pixel event at The Times BFI London Film Festival is to include a Project Forum to introduce cutting-edge digital projects to financiers, distributors and promoters.The forum aims to bring the business models and tools of cross-media film to the market and forms part of ...
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Screen opinion: The D-cinema dilemma
The word 'mutuality' comes across now as a rather dated concept. It's a term which, for those of a certain age, will conjure up images of bicycles on cobbled streets, ration books and powdered eggs. The self-help mutual funds and building societies it once described have often been gobbled up ...
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Special feature - Making the connection
In addition to the red-carpet appearances from George Clooney, Sharon Stone and co, one of the main attractions at last year's Diff was the establishment of the Dubai Film Connection (DFC), the first feature and documentary film co-production market in the UAE. It was the brainchild of Industry Office head ...
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In focus: Small cinemas' digital cinema threat
There are few certainties about the disruptive digital future for film, but at least there has been agreement in recent times that change is inevitable, permanent and will sweep the whole industry along with it.Business models would emerge, recalcitrant distributors and exhibitors would take the plunge and our attention would ...
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Special feature - Dubai Film Market - Bridging the sales gap
One of the most important additions to this year's Diff is the Dubai Film Market (DFM), an initiative set up to encourage regional and international film production and trade, as well as raising the profile of world cinema.Worthy aspirations, but does the world need another film market' Ziad Yaghi, director ...
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In Focus: Criterion puts classics on Blu-ray
The first time Joseph Cotton's war correspondent Holly Martins discovers his presumed dead friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), in postwar Vienna, the moment packs a powerful punch.'Wait until you see the sequence in pristine high-definition video,' says Peter Becker.Carol Reed's 1949 classic The Third Man is one of five titles ...
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Special feature - The Muhr Awards - Middle Eastern promise
For all the black-tie bacchanalia and glitzy galas, it is Diff's main competition which forms the central focus around which all other activities take place.The Muhr Awards for Excellence in Arab Cinema were introduced in 2006 as a way of drawing international attention to Arab film-makers (a 'muhr' is a ...
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In Focus: Bill Plympton's 'Animation Lollapalooza'
The older couple was muttering. 'This isn't funny!' the husband said, shifting in his seat as animator Patrick Smith's Puppet - about a masochist, handcuffed by self-punishing sock puppets - played out on the tiny theatre's screen. What the couple expected was Looney Tunes. What they got was something else.'Animation ...
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In Focus: How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.
Journalist Toby Young has a reputation for being an obnoxious cad with few likeable qualities - this is a man who brought a stripper to the office on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day. So reinventing Young for a big-screen version of his memoirs How To Lose Friends & Alienate ...
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Flying the flag for 3D
Only one in 10 digital screens is adequate for 3D screenings, pioneering 3D film-maker Ben Stassen has claimed.Stassen is CEO of Brussels-based nWave, which is behind a series of successful Imax projects and this year released 3D animation Fly Me To The Moon. But although he claimed 3D is the ...