All Berlin articles – Page 234

  • News

    WKW's Jet Tone recruits Chengto directProtein Girl

    2009-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Wong Kar-wai's production outfit Jet Tone Films hasbrought on boardTaiwanese director Cheng Hsiao-tse to write and direct urban comedy drama Protein Girl. Scheduled to start shooting this summer, the film follows three characters - a thirty-something woman, a boy who is growing up to become a young Casanova and another ...

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    Latido closes number of deals on Sex, Party & Lies

    2009-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Madrid-based sales outfit Latido has closed several sales on Sex, Party & Lies by Albacete and Menkes. The film, to be released by Sony Spain on 250 prints in late March, has gone to Korea (Planis Entertainment), Greece (Art Free) and the US (Multivision). France, Italy and Russia are in ...

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    Eurimages plans contribution systemrestructure

    2009-02-12T06:00:00Z

    A clearer picture is beginning to appear of how Eurimages (the Council of Europe fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinematographic works) might change its contribution system. Last month, it emerged that Holland and Italy were considering withdrawal from Eurimages on the grounds that they put more ...

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    Rapid Eye picks up Phantom'sLove Exposure

    2009-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Rapid Eye has acquired all German-speaking rights to Forum title Love Exposure from Japan's Phantom Film. Directed by Sono Sion, the four-hour drama follows a young boy who falls in love with a girl who later becomes his step sister. He is then forced to rescue her, along with her ...

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    Match Factory floats with Vinterberg's Submarino

    2009-02-12T06:00:00Z

    The Match Factory has taken on sales for Thomas Vinterberg's low budget feature Submarino which is based on the novel of the same name by Jonas T Bengston. The deal continues Match's collaboration with Danish production house Nimbus Film after handling international sales on their previous productions of Ole Christian ...

  • Happy Tears
    Reviews

    Happy Tears

    2009-02-11T20:05:00Z

    Dir/scr: Mitchell Lichtenstein. US. 2009. 96mins.

  • Reviews

    An Englishman In New York

    2009-02-11T18:36:00Z

    Dir: Richard Laxton. UK-US. 2009. 74mins.

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    Yang Yang

    2009-02-11T18:10:00Z

    Dir/scr: Cheng Yu-chieh. Taiwan. 2008. 112mins.

  • Reviews

    It Might Get Loud

    2009-02-11T16:38:00Z

    Dir: Davis Guggenheim. US. 2009. 97mins.When you get down to it, that much-idolised object the electric guitar is basically a plank of wood, some strings and a chunk of circuitry. It’s the person wielding it who makes the noise: that’s the level-headed gist of It Might ...

  • Katalin Varga
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    Katalin Varga

    2009-02-11T16:24:00Z

    Dir/scr: Peter Strickland. Romania-UK-Hungary. 2009. 84mins.

  • Reviews

    Sweetgrass

    2009-02-11T15:18:00Z

    Dir: Lucien Castaing-Taylor. US. 2009. 115mins.

  • Eccentricities Of A Blond-Haired Girl (Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loura)
    Reviews

    Eccentricities Of A Blond-Haired Girl (Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loura)

    2009-02-11T14:36:00Z

    Dir: Manoel de Oliveira. Portugal-France-Spain. 2009. 63mins.

  • Reviews

    Double Take

    2009-02-11T13:59:00Z

    Dir: Johan Grimonprez. Belgium-Germany-Netherlands. 2008. 80mins.

  • News

    Magnolia kicks up US rights to Ong Bak 2

    2009-02-11T06:00:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to Thai martial arts action title Ong Bak 2 from Sahamongkolfilm International. Magnolia is planning a theatrical release for the film under its Magnet Releasing genre label. The company released the first Ong Bak film, also starring Tony Jaa, which grossed more than $4m ...

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    Winter booked for Gate remake by H20, MMC

    2009-02-11T06:00:00Z

    UK-born actor-director Alex Winter, still best known for playing Bill in the Bill & Ted films, has been confirmed as the director for a remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate which could become the first 3D feature film to be shot completely in Germany later this year. Winter's ...

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    Sinclair in Berlin with Feet In The Clouds

    2009-02-11T06:00:00Z

    London based film-maker Kate Sinclair is in Berlin shopping Feet In The Clouds a screenplay, which she wrote, based on the award winning novel of the same name by journalist Richard Askwith. She also plans to direct the project with Christopher Eccleston lined up to play the role of Askwith. ...

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    IM Global sets sales for Hill, Miller movies

    2009-02-11T06:00:00Z

    IM Global has reported strong initial sales on the upcoming Mickey Rourke thriller St Vincent and is close to selling out Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee following the drama's world premiere here in Berlinon Monday night. St Vincent reunites Rourke with his Johnny Handsome director Walter Hill ...

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    Intra's Tobruk lands in UK with Hi-Fliers

    2009-02-11T06:00:00Z

    Italian sales outfit Intra Movies has closed a UK deal in Berlin with Hi-Fliers on Czech World War Two film, Tobruk. Directed by Vaclav Marhoul, thestoryis about a20-year-old volunteer in the Czech army in North Africa in the autumn of 1941. Showing its increasing appetite for eastern European fare, Intra ...

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    Uchitel to hunt Lions with Sokolovsky

    2009-02-11T06:00:00Z

    Russian director Alexey Uchitel's company Rock Films has lined up local filmmaker Vadim Sokolovsky to direct thriller Hunting The Lions. Written by the Ukrainian-born Anastasia Sarkisyan, the film is set among a group of Nazi-style nationalists planning an Oklahoma-style bombing in St. Petersburg. An experienced TV drama director, Sokolovksy previously ...

  • Reviews

    The Bone Man (Der Knochenmann)

    2009-02-10T22:00:00Z

    Dir: Wolfgang Murnberger. Austria. 2008. 121mins.