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From Within
Dir. Phedon Papamichael. 2008. USA . 90mins.Although he is a well-regarded cinematographer (Sideways, I Walk The Line), Phedon Papamichael's third foray into directing is little more than another hackneyed horror film. The visuals are assured, but Keene 's screenplay relentlessly piles on the cliches. Without recognizable stars and indistinguishable from ...
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Bart Got A Room
Dir: Brian Hecker. 2008. USA. 80mins.Bart Got A Room falls in that painful neurotic sphere that connects the vulgarities of lower-middle-class Jewish family life in Tamara Jenkins's The Slums of Beverly Hills, the Floridian sterility and kooky dysfunction of Little Miss Sunshine, and the unfocused, ever-horny worldview of Philip Roth's ...
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Newcastle
Dir/scr: Dan Castle. Australia. 2008. 106 mins.Dan Castle is an American-born director, but he recognises the dichotomies of Australia, where he makes films. The best thing about Newcastle, a feature set in the country's third largest city, is its awareness of how an industrial landscape (coal and shipping) can coexist ...
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Love Pain And Vice Versa (Sexo, Dolor Y Vice Versa)
Dir. Alfonso Pineda-Ulloa, Mexico, 2008, 86 minutesAlfonso Pineda-Ulloa's thriller is a stylish feature debut that infuses Alfred Hitchcock's influence into every frame of a story about mutual obsession. Love, Pain & Vice Versa may not rock the box office - although it seems to have potential for modest success - ...
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Finding Amanda
Dir/scr. Peter Tolan, US, 2008, 100 minutesIn Finding Amanda , a compulsive gambler who is also a recovering drunk sets out for Las Vegas to find his hooker niece and take her to rehab in Malibu . It's a comedy suicide mission, a Saving Prostitute Ryan which offers up some ...
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News
Hays and Mullen join TIFF Canadian programming team
The Toronto International Film Festival has added two new faces to its Canadian programming team. Montreal-based academic and film journalist Matthew Hays joins Jesse Wente and Steve Gravestock on the feature film selection committee.Programming veteran Kathleen Mullen will handle the Short Cuts Canada selection for TIFF 2008 along with programmers ...
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Canadian Film Centre, NFB launched theatrical doc programme
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will launch Canada's first programme to develop theatrical documentaries. Announced today at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, the CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program will begin in January 2009 with the goal of developing feature documentaries for international cinema ...
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Tennessee
Dir: Aaron Woodley. USA . 2008. 95mins.Those expecting Tennessee to be a Mariah Carey vanity vehicle are in for a letdown. What is most impressive about the film is Carey's brave, understated, deglamorised performance as an ensemble player rather than star. Yes, the film does come on the heels of ...
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MGM buys domestic rights to How To Lose Friends...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has acquired domestic rights to How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Robert B Weide's film of Toby Young's bestselling memoir, and set a US release date of Oct 3 this year.Simon Pegg, currently shooting Star Trek in which he plays Scotty, stars in the film as Sidney ...
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European Investment Bank turns attention to film
Capital starved EU film-makers are set to grab a share in a Euros12bn boost from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU's long-term lending arm. The move - which could shrug off the EU's low-budget image - follows concerns that massive box office potential rests untapped because EU film-makers have ...
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UK's Warp, Australia's Madman pact for at least two low-budget films
Mark Herbert, managing director of Warp Films in the UK, said he wanted to get involved with Australian filmmakers when he visited in October last year; he has turned out to be a man of his word. Warp, which is based in Sheffield in Yorkshire, plans to work with ...
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Golden Globes set awards schedule for 2009
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 11, 2009, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Jorge Camara announced today [April 22].
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Secret Of The Grain lands in the US through IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar winner The Secret Of The Grain, which will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28.The French-language drama centres on a man from the French port town of Sete whose plans to set up a restaurant heal deep wounds ...
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Noeltner's CMG brings Under Still Waters to Cannes
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired international rights to Carolyn Miller's noir Under Still Waters and will commence pre-sales in Cannes next month.The film will receive its market premiere on the Croisette on May 15. It stars Lake Bell, who appears with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher in ...
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Ang Lee to take on Taking Woodstock for Focus Features
Ang Lee's next film will be the true story Taking Woodstock, based on events surrounding the legendary 1969 music festival. As always with Lee's films, it is being produced at Focus Features.The comedy will follow Tiber, a Greenwich Village interior designer, as he steps in at the eleventh hour to ...
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Revitalised MGM Studios picks up comedy spec script The Zookeeper
MGM has acquired Jay Scherick and David Ronn's comedy spec script The Zookeeper with Walt Becker attached to direct.Becker directed the 2007 comedy hit Wild Hogs as well as the upcoming comedy Old Dogs and will produce The Zookeeper with Jennifer Eatz for The Walt Becker Company. The story tracks ...
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Warner Bros signs multi-picture deal with India's Ocher Studios
Warner Bros Pictures India is following its foray into the production of Hindi-language films with an exclusive multi-picture deal with South Indian-language film company Ocher Studios. Chennai-based Ocher Studios is headed by superstar actor Rajnikanth's daughter Soundarya. Warner Bros Pictures India and Ocher will produce and distribute live-action South Indian-language ...
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Danielak's Arsenal to pre-sell Gooding comedy Harold at Cannes
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has boarded the Cuba Gooding Jr comedy Harold and will commence pre-sales at Cannes.The City Lights, M.E.G.A. Films and Blue Star Pictures production is in the $3.5m-4m range and will go before the cameras shortly.The story centres on a friendship between a prematurely bald 13-year-old and ...
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Darjeeling Limited gets greenlight for India release
Wes Anderson's India-set Darjeeling Limited, initially scheduled to be released in India in January, is finally being released on April 25. The film hit a road-block when the Indian Censor Board denied a certification of the film citing inadequate permissions to shoot animal life. While the shots of animals in ...
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Deception
Dir: Marcel Langenegger. US. 2008. 107 mins.The spirit of Joe Eszterhas and Adrian Lyne is revived to disappointing results in Deception, a slick, cat-and-mouse thriller that unfolds with sharply-diminishing plausibility. Polished production values and star names will have a limited effect in trying to counteract the old-hat nature of the ...