All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 53
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ReviewsChelsea On The Rocks
Dir. Abel Ferrara. US. 2008. 88minsThe Chelsea hotel in New York has a global reputation as the place where artists go to enhance their notoriety. Dylan Thomas slid into alcoholic oblivion from a room at the Chelsea. Sid Vicious’s girlfriend Nany Spungen died there and its ...
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Cinefile picks UK rights to Gardener
Scottish distribution company Cinefile have bought all UK rights to Jean Becker's Dialogue Avec Mon Jardinier (Conversations With My Gardener). The film opened in France in June 2007, recording admissions in excess of 1.2 million and earning a Best Actor Cesar nomination for Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Daniel Auteuil stars as a ...
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ReviewsIndiana Jones And The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Dir: Steven Spielberg. US. 2008. 123mins.
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Cannes Buzz: Directors' Fortnight
Each year, when the lights go down after every film at the Noga Hilton (now known as the Palais Stephanie), a history of Directors' Fortnight unfolds before your eyes.An inspirational montage of still photos and brief scenes skim through 40 years of talent discovery and championing of world-class film-makers.Key images ...
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Deception
Dir: Marcel Langenegger. US. 2008. 107 mins.The spirit of Joe Eszterhas and Adrian Lyne is revived to disappointing results in Deception, a slick, cat-and-mouse thriller that unfolds with sharply-diminishing plausibility. Polished production values and star names will have a limited effect in trying to counteract the old-hat nature of the ...
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Scottish Screen to invest $1.5m in specialist exhibition
Scottish Screen has announced that it will invest $1.5m (£750,000) in the specialist exhibition sector in Scotland. The funds are part of along-term strategy to promote the development and provision ofcultural cinema programming throughout the country. Among the fundingrecipients are the Glasgow Film Theatre, Dundee Contemporary Arts andthe Edinburgh International ...
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Scottish Screen sets up Slate Fund for development
Scottish Screen has created a new $792,900 (£400,000) Slate Fund to provide financial backing for companies to develop marketable, high value projects over a two-year period.Up to four companies will benefit from investment awards designed to support the development of a range of projects including film, television and interactive digital ...
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UK Film Council backs Edinburgh Film Fest with $3.8m over 3 years
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has become the first beneficiary of the UK Film Council's Film Festival Strategy to support UK Festivals of national and international significance. Edinburgh will receive $3.8m (£1.88m) of funding over a three-year period until 2010.The announcement is a major boost for a Festival that is ...
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The Cottage (2007)
Dir: Paul Andrew Williams. UK . 2008. 92 mins.London To Brighton (2006) was one of the most admired British debut features in recent years, with writer/director Paul Andrew Williams being widely hailed as the next great hope of British filmmaking. How fortunate that The Cottage wasn't his first feature. A ...
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Features
Feeling Bullish
Nigel Thomas has a disarmingly straightforward explanation of Matador Pictures' guiding philosophy. "The core of the business is making quality feature films that we want to see ourselves," he claims. "If we wouldn't go see that film, we won't make it."It is a philosophy that has proved highly effective so ...
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Advance Party trilogy continues with McKinnon's Donkeys shoot
Sigma Films and Zentropa have begun principal photography on Rounding Up Donkeys.After Andrea Arnold's Red Road, this film is the second project in the Advance Party trilogy. Originally entitled Old Dogs, Rounding Up Donkeys marks the feature debut of television and short film director Morag McKinnon and is written by ...
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The Accidental Husband
Dir: Griffin Dunne. US. 2008. 90minsUma Thurman's recent track record with romantic comedy is not auspicious - neither Prime (2005) nor My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) turned out to be major box-office contenders. The Accidental Husband, however, should improve her standing in this genre. There is nothing unpredictable about this glossy, ...