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ReviewsA Woman In Berlin (Anonyma - Eine Frau In Berlin)
Director. Max F䲢erb Germany-Poland. 2008. 118 mins.
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Slumdog Millionaire takes prestigious audience prize at Toronto
Click on film name's to see reviewDanny Boyle's Mumbai-set Slumdog Millionaire won the Cadillac People's Choice Award as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition on Saturday. The award comes with a cash prize of $14,000 (C$15,000).Accepting the award on behalf of Boyle, actress Freida Pinto saluted Mumbai, ...
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Cantet's The Class to close Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class will close the 37th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema. A long-time Cantet supporter, the FNC awarded him its 2001 Louve d'Or for Time Out (L'Emploi Du Temps). The Class (aka Entre Les Murs) will open the New York Film Festival on Sept 26.Other ...
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Martin McGartland settles with Fifty Dead Men Walking producers
The producers of Fifty Dead Men Walking have settled with Martin McGartland, whose autobiography provided the basis for the film. McGartland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary mole who infiltrated the IRA and survived two attempts on his life, had taken issue with the film's misrepresentation of true events. Since viewing a ...
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Mongrel, Sienna, Foundry launch screenwriting lab
Two Toronto production companies are banding with boutique distributor Mongrel Media to launch The Writers Unit (TWU), a screenplay development lab. Mongrel president Hussein Amarshi, Sienna Pictures' Julia Sereny and Jennifer Kawaja, producers behind such films as How She Move and A Touch Of Pink, and Danny Iron of Foundry ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y.'s Vallee sets up Shoe Business
Jean-Marc Vallee, the multi-award winning filmmaker behind 2005 Quebecois smash C.R.A.Z.Y., is setting up his next production, Shoe Business, a comic drama set at the height of the 1970s disco craze.Vallee will produce the film on an estimated $6.6m-$9.4m (C$7m-C$10m) budget through his C.R.A.Z.Y. Films production shingle, although he is ...
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Canadian Film Centre launches actors' training programme
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is launching Canada's first professional training program for established screen actors. The scheme, set to launch in autumn 2009, will offer advanced onscreen performance training to up eight experienced Canadian actors. Its principal backers are CanWest and the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation.The training will explore ...
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Carmody plans 3-D project Evil Dead: The Musical
Producer Don Carmody and partners are in negotiations with Spidermandirector Sam Raimi to bring to the screen the musical version of the formerhorror meister's Evil Dead films, Evil Dead: The Musical.Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi's cult classic horror ...
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Gale Ann Hurd picks up remake rights to Quebecois hit Nitro
LA-based production powerhouse Valhalla Motion Pictures has acquired English-language remake rights to the Quebecois street racing action hit Nitro.The film, produced by Pierre Even of Montreal-based Cirrus Communications and directed by Alain Desrochers, earned $1.2m on its opening weekend in Quebec in 2007, besting Live Free Or Die Hard and ...
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Maximum Films takes the world on Control Alt Delete
Maximum Films International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Cameron Labine's feature debut Control Alt Delete. Maximum Films Releasing will distribute in Canada. The slacker comedy makes its world premiere at TIFF on Wednesday in the Canada First! programme.Set at the turn of the century when Y2K scared the ...
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Burns gets CTV backing for My Canada feature series
Toronto-based producer Michael Burns has teamed with Canada's largest private broadcaster CTV in the development of My Canada, a series of director-narrated documentary features after the fashion of Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. Burns, who envisioned the series and commissioned Maddin, has enlisted top Canadian directors to create their own personal ...
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Thom Fitzgerald to direct Sense Of Things for Samson, Eagle Vision
Thom Fitzgerald is set to direct an adaptation of novelist Alison Dye's The Sense of Things next summer. The film will be produced by Ireland's Samson Films, producers of the Oscar-winning Once, and Eagle Vision of Canada, producers of the Oscar-winning Capote. Fitzgerald's other titles include The Hanging Garden, Beefcake, ...
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Venice dates move: A storm in a teacup'
Reports that the Venice Film Festival is contemplating moving its start date into September next year will not affect Toronto, which itself moves back a week to start on Sept 10 in 2009.Toronto's dates traditionally shift with the calendar (the first Thursday after North American Labour Day). Venice's dates this ...
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Fifty Dead Men Walking author holds legal fire against TIFF
The author of Fifty Dead Men Walking is holding his fire. Martin McGartland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary mole who infiltrated the IRA and nearly paid for it with his life, has decided to see the film for a second time. The film, which screens as a gala on Sept. 10, ...
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Canada's Alliance gets New Line reprieve into 2009
Alliance Films and New Line Cinema have extended their output deal into 2009. The extension, rumoured over past weeks, will add at least eight titles to Alliance's Canadian releasing schedule, including the much-anticipated The Time Traveller's Wife from director Robert Schwentke and starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana as well ...
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Takita's Okurbito wins top competition prize at Montreal
The Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday with Japanese filmmaker Yojiro Takita's Okurbito (Departures) winning the top competition prize, the Grand Prix of The Americas. Canadian documentary filmmaker Benoit Pilon won three prizes for his dramatic debut, The Necessitites Of Life, earning a Special Grand Prix of the Jury ...
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Maximum takes international on Fleck and Boden's Sugar
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up international sales rights on Sundance US dramatic competitor Sugar, the follow-up film from the production team behind Half Nelson. The HBO Films production screens in Toronto in Contemporary World Cinema.Written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anne Boden and produced by Paul Mezey, ...
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Preview: Toronto International Film Festival
This is the strongest year we've had since I started programming Canadian films,' says Steve Gravestock, head of Canadian programming at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).To see buzz films click hereTo visit Toronto special site click hereThat was five years ago. 'Not only is there a wider range of ...
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In focus: Canadian distribution
On the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian distributors Alliance Films and Entertainment One (E1) are circling each other like prize fighters - but they do so on top of a shifting canvas.The unpredictable nature of the international film market and the US marketplace's tendency to lob spanners ...
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In focus - Small pond, big ripple
The stacks of recycled business cards are piling up after nearly two years of seismic shifts in the Canadian distribution business. The faces have remained the same - almost all the key executive are still in positions of power - but the dynamics have changed.First came last year's $2.3bn sale ...