All Comment articles – Page 73
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CommentIs Film Losing Its Value?
The ongoing attempts to sell MGM and Miramax Films highlight the steep decline in the valuation of libraries but consumers are also feeling the cheapening of the product.
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CommentPACT proposals: ambitious but timely
UK producers have long survived on resourcefulness rather than reward; trade association PACT is determined to rebalance the industry although its plans to help producers get their share have met with lively debate.
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CommentIndian film's tender shoots
Against a backdrop of social and economic change, Indian cinema has started to diversify. But it will take more time for India’s new wave of film-makers to compete at an international level
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CommentBeyond China’s Borders
Liz Shackleton argues that the Chinese film industry can’t overlook the usefulness of Hollywood and the international film business.
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CommentIssues, with an element of surprise
Producer Peter Carlton, chair of the drama jury for the One World Media Awards, says cinema and social issues can go together with entertainment and surprise.
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CommentSummer Chill
This summer not many of the tentpole movies have been delivering the goods, Mike Goodridge argues.
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CommentPopcorn and Other Disasters
Mike Goodridge confesses to being a cinema shusher who is offended by the loud popcorn crunchers and mobile phone talkers. That’s why exhibitors need to keep upping the ante to draw us into the theatrical experience.
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CommentSex and the Souk
Sex And The City 2’s trip to the Middle East can either be seen as silly fun or deeply offensive. Mike Goodridge goes further and asks why Hollywood and the Gulf States aren’t making as many strides together as expected.
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CommentThe Boys Are Back
Forget Stallone and Schwarzenegger. This year’s Cannes market unleashed a tsunami of action movies starring 21st Century tough guys like Gerard Butler, Jason Statham and Clive Owen.
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CommentLes Miserables
Mike Leigh and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Cannes competition titles offer bleak portraits of the human condition that will both polarise audiences and provoke debate. Where else would such ambitious world cinema find a home but at Cannes.
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CommentWhere will the Cannes winner come from?
Almost half way through the Competition screening schedule and things are finally hotting up.
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CommentA Princely Mall Date
I have to admit I was a bit wary of attending a glitzy film premiere…in a mall. Stars and gowns don’t mix with a browse around Claire’s Accesssories in my book. But Disney’s May 9 launch of Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time turned out to be quite impressive. ...
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Betting on the Palme
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has placed 3/1 odds on Ken Loach’s last minute competition entry Route Irish to scoop the Palme D’Or.
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Overheard at Cannes...
Just a few telling comments overheard at Cannes events this week…“Fireworks. The recession must be over.”Industry veteran at the Marche opening party “But I have meetings tomorrow.”Woman at Abu Dhabi party who realized her henna tattoo wasn’t going to wash off. “Where’s Doha?”Asked of me four times at Doha party, ...
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CommentThe not-so-merry Robin Hood
Despite giant waves battering the beaches last week, volcanic dust clouds this week and the non-appearance of Ridley Scott, director of opening night film Robin Hood (he is recovering from knee surgery), the 63rd Cannes film festival last night officially got underway.Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood has received mixed reviews with ...
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CommentTime To Get Back To Basics
Bob Berney’s resignation from Apparition highlights how much money is required to release prestige movies in the high-spending US distribution arena these days. So perhaps it’s time to get back to basics.