All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 175
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Berlin reveals 'political' competition selection
More than half of the 18 films confirmed so far for the Berlinale's Competition next month (5-15 February) are world premieres.Moreover, the 2004 edition promises to feature a remarkable number of politically committed films, according to the festival's selectors.Bjorn Runge's Daybreak, Cedric Kahn's Red Lights, Patrice Leconte's Intimate Strangers, Romuald ...
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Berlin names Perspectives German Cinema titles
Rotterdam's Tiger Award competitor En Route (Unterwegs) by Jan Kruger, the Max Ophuels Prize entry Muxmäuschenstill by Marcus Mittermeier and Patrick Tauss's First Steps Award-winner Der Typ are among the twelve films selected by programmer Alfred Holighaus for the Berlinale's Perspectives German Cinema (Perspektive Deutsches Kino) sidebar.The lineup also includes ...
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First Forum films announced by Berlinale
Films by Korea's Kim Jee-woon, Japan's Sabu, Russian directorial duo Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, and Hong Kong's Johnnie To are among the first batch of titles confirmed for this year's International Forum of New Cinema at the forthcoming Berlinale.The titles announced so far are:A Bride Of The Seventh Heaven ...
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15 films to compete for Max Ophuels Prize
Venice prize-winner Schultze Gets The Blues by Michael Schorr, Ruth Mader's Un Certain Regard entry Struggle and Damir Lukacevic's Heimkehr are among 15 films by the new generation of German-speaking filmmakers selected to compete for this year's Max Ophuels Prize in Saarbruecken (January 26 - February 1).This year's lineup sees ...
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Tykwer sniffs out Perfume possibilities
Tom Tykwer (Heaven, Run Lola Run) may direct the long-anticipated screen adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's internationally bestselling novel Perfume (Das Parfuem) for Germany's Constantin Film.Constantin's board member Thomas Peter Friedl confirmed to ScreenDaily.com that the director has been working with screenwriter Andrew Birkin (The Concrete Garden) and producer Bernd Eichinger ...
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Berlinale names Shooting Stars participants
Iceland's Tomas Lemarquis (Noi Albinoi), Maria Simon (Good Bye, Lenin!) , Spain's Elena Ananya (Van Helsing) and the UK's Eva Birthistle (Bloody Sunday) are among 21 young European actors and actresses who will participate in this year's Shooting Stars initiative during the forthcoming Berlinale.They were nominated by the members of ...
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Warner emerges as German 2003 distributor champ
Warner Bros. reigned supreme at the German box office in 2003 with a 20.4% market share, according to figures from EDI Nielsen.Warner also had the year's top film, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, which was seen by 6.6m cinemagoers and took Euros 45.1m by Dec ...
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Minghella, Murch named as Berlinale Talent Campus guests
Writer-producer-director Eleanor Bergstein, sound designer/film editor Walter Murch and director-producer-screenwriter Anthony Minghella, whose latest film Cold Mountain will open this year's Berlinale, have been announced as the celebrity hosts for the second edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus (7-12 February).Bergstein was responsible for the production and screenplay of the box ...
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Tykwer's True to support Love
Tom Tykwer's 10-minute short True is to be released in Germany by X Verleih as a supporting film for Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts which has its world premiere at this month's Sundance Film Festival.True was directed by Tykwer in Paris over four days in August 2002 as a ...
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Danielsen named as Leipzig festival chief
Claas Danielsen, head of studies at the Munich-based Discovery Campus training initiative for the international co-production of high quality documentaries, has been named as successor to Fred Gehler as the artistic director of the Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary and Animation.The month-long search for a successor to Gehler, who retired ...
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Teichmann named Austrian Film Institute chief
Roland Teichmann, managing director of the Association of the Audiovisual and Film Industry, has been named the successor to Gerhard Schedl as the director of the Austrian Film Institute (OFI) from May 2004.Teichmann, who organised a two-part international conference with the German lobby group film20 on the challenges of the ...
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Warner Bros strikes package deal with ProSiebenSat.1
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has concluded its first direct programming deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITV) for a package of free-TV rights to over 30 theatrical films and six TV series.Film highlights in the package include Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, the Jet Lee actioner Cradle 2 The Grave, ...
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Minnelli, Ustinov, Lee to host Berlinale Peace event
Liza Minnelli, Sir Peter Ustinov and Christopher Lee are to be the hosts for the third edition of the "Cinema for Peace" gala event which will be held in Berlin's Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt during the Berlinale on Feb 9.Around 600 guests from the world of entertainment and high society are ...
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German arthouse exhibitors attack cinema levy
Germany's arthouse and repertoire exhibitors have criticised the introduction of increases to the cinema levy in the new Film Funding Law (FFG) which came into effect on 1 January.The new cinema levy envisages an average 2.6% of a cinema's annual gross turnover of tickets flowing to the German Federal Film ...
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Eurimages names Niehuus as vice-president
Kirsten Niehuus, deputy board member at the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in Berlin, has been unanimously elected as Vice-President of Eurimages by all of the 29 national delegates of the pan-European co-production fund."I am very pleased about the decision, particularly in view of the forthcoming EU enlargement and the ...
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German film critics announce award nominations
Distant Lights (Lichter) by Hans-Christian Schmid, Pigs Will Fly (pictured) by Eoin Moore and Wolfsburg by Christian Petzold are among the films nominated for this year's German Film Critics Awards.The complete line-up of nominations in the four categories are:Best Feature FilmPigs Will Fly, dir: Eoin MooreDistant Lights, dir: Hans-Christian SchmidAngst, ...
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Keil exits Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The German film industry has been rocked by the news thatKlaus Keil is to exit his post as chief executive of the regional public filmfunding body Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB) on 31 March 2004.Keil, who became the head of FBB when it was created by thefederal states of Berlin and Brandenburg ...
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Berlinale launches new niche competitions
Two new competitions - the Volkswagen Score Competition and the "Dialogue en Perspective" Prize - are being launched at the forthcoming Berlinale (5-15 February, 2004).In the Volkswagen Score Competition, a jury will select the most outstanding contribution to the Berlinale Talent Campus' "The Sound and Music" section and the prize-winner ...