All articles by Fionnuala Halligan – Page 43
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Horton Hears A Who!
Dirs. Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino. US. 2008. 88minsBefore he ever heard a Who, Dr Seuss's idiosyncratic elephant Horton hatched an egg. While pundits have been predicting that this all-animated Blue Sky Studios adaptation would be it, they're wrong.Everyone loves the Dr Seuss books, but they've been a creativedisasters cinematically - ...
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Fox buys UK and Australian rights to Scorsese's Stones documentary
20th Century Fox International has picked up UK, Australia and New Zealand rights to Martin Scorsese's upcoming Rolling Stones documentary from international sales agent Fortissimo Films. As previously announced, Paramount will roll out the as-yet-untitled documentary in the US in late 2007. The film, which is centred around two New ...
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Mister Lonely - Set report - Only the lonely
It has been a decade since Gummo and a good eight years since Julien Donkey-Boy, and Harmony Korine is finally back behind the camera with Mister Lonely. He co-scripted the story about celebrity impersonators - the key characters being "Michael Jackson" and "Marilyn Monroe" - with his younger brother Avi, ...
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The Binger Filmlab - 'Youth is our main focus'
In the heart of Amsterdam, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science-backed Binger Filmlab is doing its part to help 'quality' films along, both from the Netherlands and internationally.The Binger Filmlab, which turned 10 last year, runs two five-month intensive coaching programmes a year, one for 10 directors heading ...
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Project market - CINEMART 2007 project focus
One of the surprises about the line-up of projects in the 24th CineMart (January 28-February) is the number of high-profile directors - Stephan Elliott and Kim Ki-duk, for example - scattered among the more traditional CineMart arthouse fare. Therefore budgets overall look higher, capped by Elliott's Black Oasis at $7m ...
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Falafel
Michel Kammoun turns in a freshly confident feature debut with Falafel, which won second prize at the recent Dubai International Film Festival late last year. Set during one night in present-day Lebanon - imagine an Arabic-language After Hours - it's funny and energetic, dispensing insights without preaching them. Centred around ...
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Rotterdam announces full Tiger competition, with 7 world premieres
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan 24-Feb 4) has announced the final 15 competitors for this year's Tiger Awards for first or second films, which include seven world premieres. A further 25 films will compete for the short film Tigers.The world premieres include Me, by Spain's Rafa Cortes; La Fine ...
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Dubai opens with increased industry ambitions
The thirdDubai International Film Festival has opened with a premiere of Bobby and evident grand plans to becomean industry centrepoint of the Middle East. As Cairo's festival wrappedwith honours going to Zhang Jiarui'sThe Road and Marrakech saw its top prize going to DominikGraf's The Red Cockatoo - heavyweight Dubainow steps ...
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Cinemart to present 46 projects to 800 partners
The world's largestco-production market, Rotterdam'sCinemart, has announced its line-up for the 24th edition, which will run fromJan 28 to Feb 1, 2007.A total of 46 projects - upone from last year's tally of 45 - have been selected to present to an internationalaudience of up to 800 buyers, sales agents, ...
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Cape Town honours King And The Clown
South Korea's The King And The Clown, directed by Lee Joon-ik, has taken topprizes at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival. The period satire won BestFilm and Best Screenplay for writers Choi Seok-hwan and Kim Tae-woong.The best director prize wentto Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom for The Road To Guantanamo; ...
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Fortissimo takes on sales for Children Of Glory
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights to the Andy Vajna-produced Children Of Glory, an action-drama setagainst the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film premiered in its home territorythis week during fraught celebrations of the uprising's 50th anniversary.Previously, Fortissimo'sco-managing director Michael Werner had signed on as sales and marketingconsultant on the film. ...
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Starter For Ten
Dir: Volker Schloendorff. Ger.2006. 104mins.Billed in the opening credits as a "ballad", Strike is based on events in the Leninshipyards in Gdansk, Poland during the early 1980s,which sparked the creation of the Solidarity movement and, ultimately, thebeginning of the end of the Cold War.Coming off as a Polish Norma Rae ...
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Starter For Ten
Dir. Tom Vaughan. UK. 2006. 96mins.James McAvoy confirms hisposition as Britain's brightest newcomer in StarterFor Ten, a solid, rather endearing comedy, basedaround Britain'slong-running quiz show University Challenge. A period piece setin 1985-6, with all the music and haircuts to match, it is produced by TomHanks, via Sam Mendes, and, despite ...
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Strike (Die Heldin Von Danzig)
Dir: Volker Schloendorff. Ger.2006. 104mins.Billed in the opening credits as a "ballad", Strike is based on events in the Leninshipyards in Gdansk, Poland during the early 1980s,which sparked the creation of the Solidarity movement and, ultimately, thebeginning of the end of the Cold War.Coming off as a Polish Norma Rae ...
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All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Dir/scr: Jonathan Levine. US. 2006. 88mins.A quick $3.5m-$4m buy for The Weinstein Company atToronto, All TheBoys Love Mandy Lane proves to be a crisply-executed teen horror debut fromdirector Jonathan Levine and LA production outfit Occupant Films. It's likelyto be a smart buy, given that this genre, at its best, is ...
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All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Dir/scr: Jonathan Levine. US. 2006. 88mins.A quick $3.5m-$4m buy for The Weinstein Company atToronto, All TheBoys Love Mandy Lane proves to be a crisply-executed teen horror debut fromdirector Jonathan Levine and LA production outfit Occupant Films. It's likelyto be a smart buy, given that this genre, at its best, is ...
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Antonia
Dir: Tata Amaral. Br. 2006. 90mins.The third feature from film-maker TataAmaral, Antoniatakes a well-sung genre - the rap group from the wrong side of the tracks whotry to make it big in the face of ruptured friendships - and gives it theunique flavour of a Sao Paolo favela.It is further ...
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Memento signs up Jia's Venice winner
Paris-basedsales agent Memento Films has moved to sign up Venice Golden Lion winner StillLife, directed byChina's Jia Zhangke.Mementohas also come on board Jia's documentary East (Dong), which played in Venice's Horizonssection.It hasalso emerged that Jia's next film will be a period costime drama, set to startshooting next Spring. Office Kitano ...
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Asif Kapadia to start True North shoot in Denmark
Shootingis set to commence in Norway next week on Asif Kapadia's new feature TrueNorth. StarringMichelle Yeoh, Sean Bean and newcomer Michelle Crusiec,True North will be sold internationally byFrench label Celluloid Dreams.Based ona script by Kapadia and Tim Miller from a story by Sara Maitland, True North is produced by Film4, ...
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Seville lands The Bubble in Canada
Pierre Menahem's ScalpelFilms has sold Canadian rights to Eytan Fox's The Bubble to Seville Pictures.The Bubble, Fox's follow-upto Walk On Water, has itsinternational premiere in Toronto as a Special Presentation.The film first bowed athome in Israel, where it has notched almost 100,000 admissions in two months.Set in Tel Aviv's hippestneighbourhood, ...