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FeaturesRing out the old, ring in the new - Screen's review of 2009
Leading lights from the international film industry give their views of 2009 and their hopes for 2010.
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FeaturesClare Stewart, Director, Sydney Film Festival, Australia
Favourite filmIf I was being sportingly patriotic I would claim Samson & Delilah (pictured, right) or Bright Star (pictured, right), but my 2009 honours must go to I Am Love (main picture). I heart Luca Guadagnino and principal accomplice Tilda Swinton. Together they rush headlong into ...
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FeaturesPatrice Theroux, Distributor, E1 Filmed Entertainment, Canada
Favourite filmObviously The Twilight Saga: New Moon (main picture), which E1 distributed in both the UK and Canada. We also handled the merchandising for the film in the UK and released the score through our E1 Music label. Definitely my favourite film of the year!!! But ...
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FeaturesDenis Pedregosa, head of productions, Kanzaman Films, Spain
Favourite filmClint Eastwood’s Gran Torino was brilliant. Clint’s character reminded me of Dirty Harry, but now with self control. I actually didn’t know what the film was about at first, I assumed it was something to do with the Gran Torino car, but then when I ...
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FeaturesPaul Wiegard, Distributor, Madman Entertainment, Austfralia
Favourite film Sin Nombre(main picture) was a harrowing immigration tale that’s also sensitive and feels deeply authentic. Also, is a probing psychological study of a rootless young man. Both took me on a journey and were fresh filmmaking. Both are brilliantly directed gangster films.Biggest ...
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FeaturesYoshi Yatabe, Programming Director, Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan
Favourite film:Gran Torino (main picture). I was knocked out by its simplicity and profoundness.Biggest news story:The bankruptcies of medium-size Japanese distribution companies. It’s caused considerable damage for the distribution of ‘arthouse’ films in Japan.Changes in store for 2010The Japanese market for arthouse films will keep shrinking ...
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FeaturesJen Meurer, producer, Egoli Tossell Film, Germany
Favourite film Inglourious Basterds (main picture). A German masterpiece, beautifully and wisely made by an American director with outstanding acting, especially by Christoph Waltz (pictured), but also many others (August Diehl, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger). Nicely inspired by a true story.Biggest news story Good ...
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Vincent Maraval, producer, sales agent, distributor, Wild Bunch, France
Favourite filmAntichrist (main picture) because it dares to play with modern aesthetics by revisiting a genre and binding it to its roots by disrupting the comfort of the audience in order to make them investigate and discover their intimate fears. Antichrist, after years of the devaluation ...
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FeaturesElizabeth Karlsen, Producer, Number 9 Films, UK
Favourite filmMy favourite was A Prophet (main picture). [Jaques Audiard] is a brilliant film-maker, who manages to combine raw violence with poetry and emotion.Biggest news storyThe end of Miramax, on both a personal and professional level. When I started out in New York Miramax was the ...
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FeaturesBjorn Hoenvoll, Distributor, Nordisk Filmdistribusjon, Norway
Favourite filmThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (main picture). It may be unfair to choose one of our own releases, but still – Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy was a best-seller, expectations for the film were high, and it delivered in full. Noomi Rapace in the lead ...
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FeaturesSteve Hoban Producer, Copperheart Entertainment, Canada
Favourite film:Taken, not for creative reasons, but because it showed that a mid-budget, foreign-made English-language movie without, what the studios would consider, a bankable star could become a significant US box office success.Unlike the lightening strike of a Paranormal Activity (main picture), a film like Taken ...
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FeaturesScreen's 2009 Quiz of the Year
Have you been paying attention? Test your knowledge with ScreenDaily’s Quiz Of The Year.
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FeaturesLeonard Glowinski, Head of French and European Co-Productions, Studiocanal, France
Favourite filmUp (main picture) for its script and 3D in a tie with The Hangover( pictured, right) – it’s rare to find a typical US comedy without big stars that travels so well!Biggest news storyAvatar (pictured, right) for its advances in 3DChanges in store for ...
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FeaturesKim Dong-Ho, Festival Co-Director, Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea
Favourite filmI liked Bong Joon-ho’s Mother (main picture) best. It has an extraordinary innate artistic value and Kim Hye-ja’s acting was excellent, too. Of course, across the years I had seen her mostly in TV dramas and in Kim Soo-yong’s film Late Fall [which was released ...
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FeaturesJyoti Deshpande (pictured), Coo & Commercial Director, Eros International
Favourite filmLove Aaj Kal (pictured, right), a fabulous love story told by Imtiaz Ali in his inimitable style. This is film is special as I feel no one could have told the story better than Imtiaz. And no one could have played the parts better than ...
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FeaturesYolanda del Val, Head of Acquisitions, Deaplaneta, Spain
Favourite film It would have to be Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (main picture) for being surprisingly different. We, the buyers, are tired of reading and watching the same kinds of movies with different actors. I actually fell in love with the script for Slumdog before watching ...
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FeaturesKevin Chang, Producer and Asia Pacific Producers Network (APPN) Secretary General
Favourite filmI liked Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (main picture) and District 9 (pictured, right) which Peter Jackson produced. There are certain kinds of films that the Korean industry has yet to make into our own and I especially liked that sci-fi films are invigorating the industry ...
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FeaturesTim Bevan (pictured), Producer, Working Title Films and Chairman, UK Film Council
Favourite filmDistrict 9 (pictured, right). In a thin year both commercially and artistically District 9 shines for its originality, innovation and the fact that is was done on a budget.Biggest news story The collapse of the DVD market, meaning that studios have to work harder than ...
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Cameron Bailey, Co-Director, Toronto International Film Festival
Favourite filmNobody who sees several hundred films a year could give you just one. Right now I’m rooting for both Up In The Air (main picture) and Precious (pictured, right) in the year-end awards. American movies aren’t always allowed the privilege of aesthetic invention AND moral ...