All Berlin articles – Page 254
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The Other (El Otro)
Dir: Ariel Rotter. Argentina/France/Germany. 84 mins.A city lawyer's mid-life crisis becomes an existential odyssey in Ariel Rotter's second feature. Politely received at its Berlinale press showing, this competition entry is intriguing and thought-provoking without ever being truly involving. There is much to admire in the formal devices that the film ...
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Getting Home (Luo Ye Gui Gen)
Dir. Khang Yang. China, 2007. 97 min.A road movie is by definition a mixed bag of goods. It can be funny one minute and trite the next, alternately brilliant and awkward, changing nature and tone as it goes along. Zhang Yang's new film may not be an exception to this ...
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Irina Palm
Dir: Sam Garbarski Bel-Ger-Lux-UK-Fr. 2007. 103mins It may be the work of a German-born, Belgian-based director, but Euro co-production Irina Palm is a thoroughly British film at heart - the latest in that 'naughty-but-nice' vein of stories that delight in placing genteel English matrons in risque situations. Sam Garbarski's film ...
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The Walker
Dir. Paul Schrader, USA, 2007, English, 107 minutes, colour.Writer/director Paul Schrader has built The Walker around a gay man of style and superficiality (Woody Harrelson) who escorts rich Washington women to lunch and to the cultural events that their powerful husbands scorn. When a friend's lobbyist lover ends up dead, ...
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Robson Entertainment plans Chile, supercentarians films
Sybil Robson Orr, who produced Blindsight in Panorama Dokumente, has travelled to the southernmost region of Chile, the Tierra del Fuego, to shoot her next project (as a director this time). The project is about an 80-year-old woman who is the last living purebred member of the Yagan tribe. 'She's ...
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High Point Films closes three deals on The Front Line
UK-based sales company High Point Films has sold David Gleeson's thriller The Front Line to Film Entertainment Group for Benelux, Alberto Bitelli International Films for Brazil (planning a summer release), and Falcon Films for The Middle East. High Point's Elisar Cabrera is in final negotiations for deals covering France and ...
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When A Man Falls In The Forest
Dir. Ryan Eslinger, USA, English, 90 minutes, colour.When a Man Falls In The Forest stars Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton as middle-aged victims of monotony in their marriage and their work. Yet the real victim of monotony in Ryan Eslinger's second feature is the audience. The dull drama, developed at ...
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Mein Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (Mein Fuhrer - Die Wirklich Wahrste Wahrheit Uber Adolf Hitler)
It's not quite The Great Dictator, nor Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be (nor even Mel Brooks's remake of it). But for audacity and good intentions at least, Dani Levy's Hitler comedy Mein Fuhrer belongs in a more honourable tradition than its buffoonish tone immediately suggests. Despite some hostile ...
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Witnesses (Les Temoins)
Dir: Andre Techine. France. 2007. 115minsTechine powerfully reasserts his status as one of European cinema's most adult film-makers in Witnesses, a complex, assured evocation of the mid-80s, when French society was first confronted with the reality of Aids. In a simple narrative framework - made a touch more complex by ...
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Intercinema lands deal for The Island
Aki Kaurismaki is Russia-bound. The Finnish director's work is rarely seen in the country, but thanks to Raisa Fomina' sales and distribution outfits Intercinema, Russian audiences will soon be able to lap up almost every movie Kaurismaki has ever made.First, Intercinema released A Man Without A Past and Lights In ...
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Lionsgate strikes US, UK and Australia deal for BBC's Earth
Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide's documentary feature Earth.The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on ...
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Wild Bunch seals deals with Picturehouse, Magnolia, Goldwyn
Wild Bunch may have broken off official relations with the Berlinale and set up shop in a jerry-built cabin, but the French sales powerhouse has had its best EFM ever, including three US deals.Morgan Spurlock's untitled documentary has been an especially hot seller. UK rights have now gone to Optimum, ...
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Stansfield and Crook join Quest For A Heart
UK singer Lisa Stansfield and actor Mackenzie Crook will lend their voices to Quest For A Heart, a $7.7m (Euros 6m) fully-animated feature shortly to wrap a five-year production schedule for Finland's MRP Matila Rohr Productions. Stansfield will also perform the theme song.'It will be the jewel of the crown,' ...
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Tartan, Legend take on Ex Drummer
Tartan Films has taken North American and UK rights for controversial Belgian feature Ex Drummer, while German rights have been sold to Legend Home Entertainment.Loic Magneron at Wide Management struck the Tartan deal with head of acquisitions Jane Giles. Magneron said other major territory deals will close in the next ...
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Buyers go gaga for Estonian Lotte From Gadgetville
Buyers are going gaga for Estonian animated feature Lotte From Gadgetville. Midway through the EFM, the film - aimed at pre-school kids in the 3-to-8 age range - Lotte has now sold to 15 territories for theatrical. Lotte, on Sola Media/Atrix Film's EFM slate, has gone to Finland (Filmkempaniet), Poland ...
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Schafer's gay and lesbian film doc finds buyers
Andre Schafer's Here's Looking At You, Boy is tickling the fancy of buyers worldwide. Schafer's documentary, telling the story of the coming-out of gay and lesbian cinema, has sold worldwide in advance of its premiere in Panorama later this week.Amsterdam-based sales agent Sydney Neter of SND Films has closed deals ...
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Megabox targets women with new acquisitions label
Major Korean exhibitor Megabox Mediaplex debuts a new acquisitions label in EFM. The Megabox label will acquire foreign films for theatrical release in its multiplexes, then to go to cable on sister company On*Media's new film channel Movie OnStyle.Megabox owns 10 theaters with a total of 91 screens nationwide, and ...
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Sony sells Japanese anime to France
Rezo Films has acquired French rights from Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) to the Japanese anime title Tekkonkinkreet, whichreceived its world premiere in Berlin's Generation 14Plus strand.Rezo has set an April 25 theatrical release date for the Studio 4°C andAniplex co-production, which will be renamed Amer Beton for the Frenchmarket.Tekkonkinkreet is ...
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Prime and ImaginAsian take A Bloody Aria to US
Korea's Prime Entertainment has pacted with New York-based ImaginAsian Entertainment to co-distribute comic thriller A Bloody Aria in the US.Dylan Marchetti, director of theatrical productions and acquisitions for ImaginAsian, signed with Juyoung Park, senior manager of international sales and acquisitions for Prime Entertainment at EFM.'ImaginAsian is about bringing top-quality Asian ...
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Artificial Eye strikes UK deal for Lady Chatterley
Artificial Eye has acquired the UK rights to Lady Chatterley, which is playing in Berlinale Panorama.Films Distribution is handling international sales.Pascale Ferran directed the France-Belgium co-production, an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's story John Thomas and Lady Jane. Ferran recently won best director at the Lumiere Awards, with actress Marina Hands ...