All Americas articles – Page 302
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Poor Boy's Game
Dir. Clement Virgo. Canada , 2007. 102 Mins.Racial tension in an unusual setting and a quiet, authoritative voice pack a surprising punch in Poor Boy's Game, a new film from Afro-Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo. Though framed around a grudge match in the boxing ring, the film has a considerably broader ...
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Trumbo
Dir: Peter Askin. US. 2007. 96mins.Peter Askin's endearing and sometimes strangely compromised documentary portrait Trumbo, a meditation on the life and times of the radical American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is an alternately rich and often bewildering mixture of theatre, family memoir and hot wired historical document.The film's portrait of an ...
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In Bloom
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2007. 90 mins.Four years after his directorial debut The House Of Sand And Fog, Vadim Perelman returns with In Bloom, an adaptation of Laura Kasischke's novel The Life Before Her Eyes which is an even more ambitious challenge than its predecessor. But some books are just ...
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The Princess of Nebraska
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2007. 77mins.Wayne Wang's The Princess of Nebraska is a stylistically audacious companion piece to the director's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, adapted from the same collection of short stories by expatriate Chinese writer Yiyun Li. Like Blue in the Face, the improvisational variant of his ...
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A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Tennen Kokekko)
Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita. Japan , 2007. 121 min.Rarely has a title fit so perfectly the picture bearing it. Cute, corny and inoffensive, with just a pinch of salt to suggest the flavour of the old Yamashita, whose reputation lies mostly with tongue-in-cheek deadpan Jarmusch-like satires such as The Ramblers and ...
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2007. 83mins.After a series of Hollywood assignments, the eclectic and unpredictable Wayne Wang has fashioned an old fashioned classical piece in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, written by the highly regarded Chinese writer Yiyun Li, who adapted her own short story. The minor key and ...
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Kerner signs multi-year production deal with Walden Media
Producer Jordan Kerner has signed a multi-year first look deal with Walden Media, with whom he collaborated on the 2006 family film Charlotte's Web.Kerner, recently appointed dean of the North Carolina School of the Arts' School Of Filmmaking, will divide his time between Los Angeles and Winston-Salem.His credits include Snow ...
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Rubin leaves Universal for evp job at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Robert W Rubin has joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) as executive vice president.Rubin reports to SPHE president David Bishop and will work on global strategy and business development and spearhead SPHE's faith-based and family entertainment initiatives.Prior to SPHE, Rubin held several senior executive positions at Universal Pictures including stints ...
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Lewis, Doby-Flewellyn set up Filmbankers International
Former Union Bank of California entertainment loan executives Harold Lewis and Brenda Doby-Flewellyn have set up the financing, sales and distribution company FilmBankers International.The Beverly Hills-based company is lining up co-financing for the $30m Bob Marley reggae biopic No Woman, No Cry, one of 30 projects the principals say they ...
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Suzuki to head Paramount's home entertainment arm in Japan
Former NPD Japan president and representative director Junichiro Suzuki has been named president of Home Entertainment Paramount KK, Japan.Suzuki will be responsible for overseeing sales, marketing and distribution in Japan, and will report directly to Paramount Home Entertainment International president Dennis Maguire.Prior to NPD, Suzuki served as president and representative ...
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Alan Horn to get Producers Guild Milestone Award in 2008
Warner Bros president and chief operating officer Alan Horn will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2008 Milestone Award.The PGA will present its most prestigious honour at the 19th Annual PGA Awards in Beverly Hills on Feb 2.PGA Awards chair Mark Gordon said that under Horn's leadership the studio ...
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Ricardo Darin's directorial debut hits big at Argentina's box office
Ricardo Darin's directorial debut The Signal (La Senal), topped the Argentinian box office over the weekend with 105,000 admissions in its first four days of release on 62 screens. The $2.5m Argentina-Spain co-production accounted for 27.4% of audiences at the weekend and beat openings for Hollywood fare like The Simpsons ...
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Rio Festival to host world premiere of Newell's Cholera
Mike Newell's film of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel Love In The Time Of Cholera will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the ninth annual Rio International Film Festival on Oct 4.The first major international film in years to shoot in the walled city of Cartagena, ...
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New York City Serenade
Dir. Frank Whaley. US 2007. 103 mins.The title of New York City Serenade and an opening aerial skyline shot would lead you to believe that the film is an ode to New York . It's really an ode to friendship with a friend who gets you to the wrong places ...
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Cleaner
Dir: Renny Harlin US . 2007. 92 minsTen years have passed since the combination of Samuel L Jackson and director Renny Harlin was a guarantee of lively box-office action. Think The Long Kiss Good Night (1996) and Deep Blue Sea (1999). Harlin has steadily surrendered his A-list status and Jackson ...
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The Last Lear
Dir. Rituparno Ghosh. India 2007. 130 min.An overly complicated film-within-a-film story, told through multiple narrators, causes confusion in Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear. The film was conceived as a vehicle for the greatest living idol of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan, in his first full length English-language film. The role of ...
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Dr. Plonk
Dir. Rolf de Heer. Australia 2007. 84 min.Deprived of the frantic mania and destructively anarchic passion that drove the best silent comedies, Rolf de Heer's attempt to revive the genre turns out into another capricious whimsy for a director whose erratic career has never followed a conventional path. Shot on ...