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The Saddest Music In The World
Dir. Guy Maddin. Canada. 2003. 99 min.Canadian auteur Guy Maddin is considered by many an unheralded cinematic genius. The Saddest Music In The World will change that at home: Canadian audiences will give this raucous comedy the art-house welcome it richly deserves. Abroad, it will test the ingenuity of international ...
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Bronfman: GE too big to beat
General Electric was too big and powerful to overcome in the battle for the entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal, beaten suitor Edgar Bronfman said in his first interview since losing the auction."Look, they were GE. We weren't. GE is the most powerful company in the world. They decided they wanted ...
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Code 46
Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2003. 92 mins.The latest product to leave the non-stop assembly line of Michael Winterbottom and Revolution Films is that rarest of creatures, the all-British sci-fi movie. Code 46 is set in 'the near future', and its evocation of this desertified world, where genetic engineering and constant ...
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In The Cut
Dir: Jane Campion. US/Fr. 2003. 113 mins.Describing Jane Campion's latest opus In The Cut as a serial killer thriller is as simplistic as calling The Piano a coming-of-age story. Yes, the skeleton of the film is a genre thriller about a woman caught among a string of suspects in a ...
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UK skills fund tops£2m
The Skills Investment Fund, the UK fund for training made up of contributions from local productions, has topped £2 million.Dan Films' The Republic Of Love became the 149th feature to contribute to the fund, which was launched at the end of 1999 to address skills gaps and shortages within the ...
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Fandango
Dir: Matthias Glasner. Germany. 2000. 103mins.Prod co: Calypso Filmproduktion, Buena Vista International Filmproduktion (Germany). Int'l sales: Bavaria Film International (49 89 6499 3506). Prod: Werner Possardt. Scr: Glasner. DoP: Sonja Rom. Prod des: Ingrid Buron. Ed: Markus Goller. Mus: Fetisch/meister. Main cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Nicolette Krebitz, Richy Muller, Corinna Harfouch, ...
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Marrakesh
The Marrakesh International Film Festival will run from October 3 to 8 this year with German director Volker Schlondorff presiding over the feature film jury. Jeremy Irons will head up the short film jury.This is the third go round for Marrakesh which has been gaining momentum throughout its run. Very ...
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Calendar Girls to open Dinard
Calendar Girls, Nigel Cole's British film that has been garnering plaudits since it premiered in Locarno last month, is to open the 14th Festival Du Film Britannique de Dinard(October 2-5)The film, which stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, will kick-off the festival which is sponsored by the British Film Council ...
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Marrakech announces line up
Takeshi Kitano Zatoochi, Mira Nair's Hysterical Blindness, Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent and Gotam Ghose's In The Forest'Again are among the films competing for the Golden Star (Etoile d'Or) at this year's Marrakech Film Festival (October 3-8).German director Volker Schloendorff (The Handmaiden's Tale, War And Peace) will led the feature ...
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You Don't Have To Say You Love starts shooting
UK production outfit Samuelson Productions, tax-driven First Choice Films, distributor Momentum Pictures and tax-based financier Isle of Man Film are starting shooting on comedy drama You Don't Have To Say You Love Me this week.The story of a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility ...
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Venice festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice festival sees Return to form
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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India's In The Forest heads for the trees
In surprise turn of events, Venice artistic director Moritz de Hadlen has withdrawn Indian film In The Forest...Again (Abar Arannye) from the Upstream competition two days before the end of the festival - because the title has just screened at the rival Montreal Film Festival.According to Venice's regulations, any film ...
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Venice 2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Love Me
Dir: Laetitia Masson. France. 1999. 105mins.Prod co: Lilo Films. Int'l sales: Flach Pyramide International (33 1 42 96 02 20). Prod: Alain Sarde. Exec prod: Nicolas Daguet. Co-prod: Christine Gozlan. Scr: Masson. DoP: Antoine Heberle. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Ailo Auguste. Music: John Cale. Main cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, ...
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Venice festival shakes off some of its detractors
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger. Itwould ...
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Dali/Disney short among 15 selected for New York Film Festival
Salvador Dali's mythical abandoned project for Walt Disney will beamong a series of 15 international shorts to screen at the 41st New York FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 3-19.The surrealist Spanish painter never finished Destino, which finally comes to the screen afterit was completed by director Dominique Monfrey and a ...
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Macdonald, Spence reteam to run Palm Springs Film Festival
The board of the Palm Springs International Film Festival hasnamed former Seattle InternationalFilm Festival mainstays Darryl Macdonald and Carl Spence as executive directorand director of programming respectively.The appointees arrive withthe full endorsement of the festival board after a global search for a management team to raise the profile of both ...
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Dickie leads moribund week at the box office
The autumn season began with a whimper at the weekend asParamount's Dickie Roberts: Child Star opened top on $7m while Fox's The Order flopped in sixth place on $4.3m.The weekend after Labor Day is noted for its lack of sparkle. Evenso, Paramount's first chart topper since How To Lose A ...