All Cannes articles – Page 330
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Crook steals his way into Third World People
Paris-based Chic Films has added Mackenzie Crook to the cast of its Kristin Scott Thomas romantic comedy Third World People.Antoine Desrosieres will direct the English-language French, South African and German co-production, about Europeans' views on third-world people.Other projects on Chic's line -up include the currently-shooting Black starring French rap artist ...
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Lebanese films start to take the spotlight in Cannes
Lebanon, unlike most other Arab nations this year, is having a good Cannes. Besides Danielle Arbid's A Lost Man and Nadine Labaki's hot Caramel in Directors' Fortnight, and a showcase of recent productions as part of Tous les Cinemas du Monde, the state-funded Fondation Liban Cinema is promoting a raft ...
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First Star plans its Boer War Siege
New York-based First Star Pictures is in Cannes unveiling Siege Of O'Kiepe, a $37m epic set during the Boer War of 1901. The project will shoot in 2008 in Australia and South Africa with producers Olivier French and Bruce Bisbey. Bisbey also wrote the screenplay.The movie is set in the ...
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Revolver dances along with Vida Ballet documentary
Revolver Entertainment has pre-bought the UK rights to feature documentary Vida Ballet from director Beadie Finzi, who previously co-directed and produced Unknown White Male.Giorgia Lo Savio produced the film, which is executive produced by Tigerlily's Nikki Parrott. Vida Ballet follows a year in the life of two teenagers, Irlan and ...
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Film4 locks into Winterbottom's new five-year prison project
Film4 is on board for a new project from Michael Winterbottom, entitled 7 Days. The film for Channel 4 TV is based on the fictionalised story of a UK prison inmate and his relationship with his wife and four children. John Simm, who Winterbottom worked with on 24 Hour Party ...
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Spain's S2 sings for The Turtle Song
Stephane Sorlat's Madrid-based S2 International has rights in Spain and Portugal to Nick Stringer's documentary The Turtle Song from Sola Media.Produced by the UK's Film And Music Entertainment, the film tells the story of the little loggerhead turtle and her journey from a beach in Florida to the frozen north ...
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Nadine Labaki attracts buyer buzz with debut feature Caramel
Nadine Labaki shot Caramel - now attracting buyer buzz in Cannes after its Directors Fortnight debut -- in Beirut in late spring 2006, when the troubled city was in buoyant mood following the departure of the Syrian army. 'The timing was so fortuitous, something of a miracle,' says producer Anne-Dominique ...
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The Milky Way (A Via Lacteal)
Dir: Lina Chamie Brazil 2007. 88 mins. A cross-city drive turns into an existential odyssey in Lina Chamie's The Milky Way, which opened Cannes ' Critics Week sidebar. Part urban road movie, part stream-of-consciousness cinematic monologue, Milky Way layers flashbacks, bon mots about life and death, and variant versions of ...
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Magnus
Dir/scr: Kadri Kousaar. Est/UK 2007. 86 mins Seamy low life, chic depression and off-the-wall humour make a heady if uneven mixture in the debut feature by Estonia's Kadri Kousaar. Magnus presents a morose, sometimes blackly witty view of life in contemporary Estonia from the point of view of a suicidal ...
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The 11th Hour
Dir: Leila Conners Petersen & Nadia Conners. USA . 2007. 91 mins.Leonardo DiCaprio discreetly lends his weight as star and environmental campaigner to The 11th Hour, an unashamedly polemical documentary cum call-to-arms about the current dire state of the ecology - and future prospects for change. The film makes a ...
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Actresses (Actrices)
Dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Fr. 2007. 110mins Facing 40 becomes a wake-up call for a neurotic self-absorbed performer in Actresses, the second feature from Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Previously entitled Dream Of The Night Before, the film mines autobiographical material to explore the eternal conflict between professional success and personal happiness. ...
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Tehilim
Dir: Raphael Nadjari. Fr / Is. 2007. 96 mins. Raphael Nadjari is back, digging again at the 'dialectical dimensions of Judaism' (as he calls it), a labour of love that he has persistently pursued in all his films to date. A quiet, subdued and remarkably controlled drama, fiercely introverted and ...
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The Band's Visit (Bikur Hatizmoreth)
Dir/scr: Eran Kolirin. Is/Fr. 2007. 85 mins.This melancholy deadpan comedy accepted in three out of Cannes' four official sections and finally running in Un Certain Regard, is a kind of prestidigitator's tightrope act, almost crashing down several times before triumphantly reaching its goal in one piece.Though nothing much is happening ...
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Buena Onda works with Sardi and Max on Buena Onda Americas
Miami-based producer Donald K. Ranvaud (Central Station, City Of God) is in Cannes with a slate of 10 films from the top young Latin-American talent. The new films are being packaged and produced through Ranvaud's new outfit Buena Onda Americas, which recently set up in association with Silvio Sardi Communications ...
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Target strikes six-film deal with Finch's Pink Sands
UK-based Target Entertainment has struck a six-film deal with Charles Finch and Kate McCreery's production outfit Pink Sands.Target's slate will focus on UK films with a budget of about $2m, and the line-up includes Kfir Yefet's The Smell of Apples, based on the novel by Mark Behr and starring Gillian ...
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Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres)
Dir/scr: Celine Sciamma. France 2007. 85 mins Every Cannes festival brings at least one sexually delicate French coming-of-age drama, and while Water Lilies is hardly mould-breaking, it's certainly an affecting and more than competent addition to the genre. Set against the eccentric background of synchronised swimming, Celine Sciamma's debut is ...
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Dreamachine gets animated for three films
Dreamachine has announced details of three animation projects Fear (s) Of The Dark is produced by Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic of Prima Linea Productions with animators under the artistic directorship of Etienne Robial. Mia & Migoo, by Jacques-Remy Girerd. The film is produced by Folimage together with Jacques-Remy Girerd ...
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Rezo Films sells Schlondorff's official selection title
France's Rezo Films has sold Volker Schlondorff's official selection title Ulzhan, to Germany's X-Filme and South America's Arthouse Movies. Other territories to pick up the film include Portugal and Greece with several others circling after the film's first screening Saturday.
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Craig to star in Flashbacks
Daniel Craig has signed on to star in Baillie Walsh's Flashbacks Of A Fool, playing an ageing hedonistic Hollywood star who has to return to his roots in England. Craig will also executive produce. Arclight Films is handling international sales and Buena Vista International has acquired UK rights. The project ...
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Golden Harvest rings L's bells
Hong Kong-based Golden Harvest Entertainment has pre-bought Hong Kong and Taiwanese rights to Nippon Television Network's upcoming Death Note spin-off which has the working title L. The original Death Note and its sequel grossed more then $67m in Japan. The spin-off, directed by Hideo Nakata and starring Kenichi Matsuyama, is ...