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EFA announces 12 nominees for audience awards
The European Film Academy hasopened votes for its People's Choice Award, which allows audiences across Europe to votefor their favourite film. Nominees for this year's People's Choice Award are:Adam'sApples by Anders Thomas JensenTheElementary Particles by Oskar RoehlerThe Childby Jean-Pierre & Luc DardenneMerryChristmas by Christian CarionThe MarchOf The Penguins by Luc ...
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Bostock named to new post as sales director of ITN Source
ITN Source, formerly ITN Archive, has expanded with the appointment of David Bostockto the new position of sales director.Bostock will be responsible for building, developing andmanaging ITN Source's sales operation, overseeing the UK team from the London headquarters. He previously managed the UK sales operation for AdLinkInternet Media.ITN Source recently ...
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Warsaw to open with Karwowski's South By Northwest
The 22nd edition of theWarsaw International Film Festival will open Oct 6 with the world premiere of Lukasz Karwowski's South By Northwest.The programme, which runsuntil Oct 15, will include roughly 140 films from 48 countries. Czech filmmaker Petr Zelenka will chair the jury,which will award the Nescafe Grand Prix and ...
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Warner Home Video plans UK HD DVD and Blu-ray releases
Warner Home Video has announced plans to deliver its firsttitles in the HD DVD and Blu-rayformats in the UK. The first releases in theformat, both recent films and catalogue titles, will be available in late 2006.Titles already announced for UK release in HD DVD and Blu-rayare Batman Begins, Harry Potter ...
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FIPRESCI to give Grand Prix to Almodovar's Volver
Pedro Almodovar'sVolver willreceive FIPRESCI's Grand Prix for Best Film of theYear during the San Sebastian International Film Festival.The annual award will bepresented to producer Agustin Almodovar on Sept 21,during the opening gala of the festival. The prize from TheInternational Federation of Film Critics is voted on by more than 350 ...
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The Last King Of Scotland
Dir: Kevin Macdonald. UK. 2006. 121mins.Kevin Macdonald has proved himself to be an expertdocumentary film-maker with films like OneDay In September and in his last feature Touching The Void he melded documentaryand drama into a heart-stopping narrative. Now, in his first dramatic feature,he tells a fictional story against the real-life ...
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Venus
Dir: Roger Michell. UK. 2006. 95mins. The team behind TheMother - director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer KevinLoader - reunites for Venus, anotherportrait of an old character being revitalised by love for a younger. In thiscase, the relationship - between a septuagenarian and a teenager - is even ...
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Australia passes digital legislation
Australia has finalised controversial legislation restricting the number of TV channels in the digital era.Legislation passed late yesterday (June 29) - the final instalment in the laws that will determine Australia's digital TV future - confirmed the three commercial incumbents' continuing monopoly of free-to-air services for at least five years. ...
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Copenhagen selects competitors for fourth, later festival
The fourthCopenhagen International Film Festival (Sept 21 to Oct 1) is spearheaded by tenEuropean films competing for the Golden Swan Awards. The jury of Robby Muller,Pawel Pawlikowski, Greta Scacchi, Kornel Mundruczo and Danish actress GhitaNorby will be judging the following films in competition: Mouth To Mouth (Bjorn Runge, Sweden)Happy As ...
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Smith hopes to bring Universal's Wanted to UK
UK producer Iain Smith (in Venice with two competitionfilms, The Fountain and Children Of Men)is in advanced negotiations to bring Wanted,a big-budget studio feature, to the UK. The project is beingfinanced by Universal. Adapted from a comic book, it is set in a contemporary US city. The director willbe from ...
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A-Film looking for Dirk De Lille's replacement
DirkDe Lille has left leading independent Benelux distributor A-Film for"personal reasons." His departure was confirmed yesterday in Venice by A-Film CEO Pim Hermeling.Itis yet to be announced who will replace De Lille. "Sofar, I haven't decided," Hermeling said. He addedthat he was not looking for a new director but for ...
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Alatriste opens well in Spain but doesn't break records
The hugely awaited Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatriste, themost expensive Spanish production ever, scored well during its opening weekendin its home market but fell short of breaking local records.According to provisionalfigures from Nielsen EDI, Alatriste took around $5.8m (Euros 4.5m) in its openingweekend, which would leave it trailing local record holders Torrente ...
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Sellars hopes to bring New Crowned Hope idea to other cities
Globe-trottingopera director Peter Sellars is in talks with twocities about the possibility of overseeing further events along the lines ofthe New Crowned Hope Festival, which has already yielded a handful of films competingin Venice and Toronto."Theseare the first steps," Sellars commented. "My hope isthat we can repeat this type of ...
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Invincible remains North American box office champ
BuenaVista's American football drama Invincible held on to the number one spot with a $15.2m four-day haul over theLabor Day holiday weekend and stayed ahead of new releases Crank in second place and The Wicker Man in third.FoxSearchlight's comedy Little Miss Sunshinefell one place to fourth on an excellent $9.7m ...
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I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Hei Yanquan)
Dir: Tsai Ming Liang. Tai-Fr-Aust. 2006. 115mins.Tsai Ming Liang is anacquired taste: either you like what he does or you don't and there are no twoways about it. If you do, then you will not be surprised by I Don't Want to Sleep Alone's static shots, absence of anyvisible narrative, ...
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The Fountain
Dir: Darren Aronofsky. US. 2006. 96mins.Something of a feature-length New Age doodle, The Fountain will alienate many of thosewho were turned on to indie director Darren Aronfosky by his quirky debut Pi and its follow-up, the drug-fuelled cinematic opera Requiem For A Dream. Threading its epiclove story through three time ...
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China bans Summer Palace director for five years
Following months ofspeculation, Chinese authorities have finally made a statement aboutcontroversial Cannes competition entry Summer Palace, banning both the directorLou Ye and producer Nai An from making films in China for five years. According to the Beijing-basedLegal Mirror newspaper, the filmmaking duo has been banned for submitting thefilm to Cannes ...
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Rosa And Cornelia
Dir: Giorgio Treves. 2000. Italy. 90 mins.Prod co: Gierre-Film Tre. Domestic dist: Lantia Cinema e Audiovisivi. Exec prod: Sandro Frezza. Prod: Grazia Volpi. Scr: Remo Binosi, Francois De Maulde, Treves, from Binosi's play, L'Attesa. DoP: Camillo Bazzoni. Prod des: Lorenzo Baraldi. Ed: Carla Simoncelli. Music: Franco Piersanti. Main cast: Stefania ...
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Jia's Still Life added to Venice competition
Chinese director JiaZhangke's Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) has been added to thecompetition section of this year's Venice International Film Festival, whichwraps on Saturday.Shot in the village of Fengjie on the Yangtze River, the film is set in the very near future when thevillage has been submerged by the Three Gorges ...
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Maundy Thursday set for April release in Japan
Korea's Prime Entertainment has announced that Song Hae-sung's Maundy Thursday will be released by AmuseEntertainment in Japan in April 2007.Amuse was an investor in the$4.2m film which revolves around the relationship between a man on death rowfor committing three murders and a woman who has attempted three times to killherself. ...