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A Hole In My Heart (Ett Hal I Mitt Hjarta)
Dir: LukasMoodysson. 2004. Sweden/Norway. 98mins.Sweden's LukasMoodysson takes an astonishing journey to the dark heart of humanity in hisfourth feature A Hole In My Heart. Audaciously expressionistic andcinematically experimental, it will be one of Toronto's talking points andprompted plenty of walkouts at the first screenings.Set almostentirely in a dingy apartment in ...
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3-Iron
Dir/scr/prod/ed: KimKi-duk. S Kor. 2004. 89mins.An arthouse favourite,now firmly established after last year's Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter' AndSpring, Kim Ki-duk's reputation will be enhanced by his latest work, whichis less extreme but no less intriguing.Coming only seven monthsafter Kim won Best Director at Berlin for Samaritan Girl, this sleek,elegant, stylised ...
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FRANCE 10 September
Francois Ozon's latest work, 5x2, debuted in second position with a strong per screen average of$5,962 on 221 copies. Indeed French films performed well with Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent BeaucoupD'Enfants still near the top of the list in third position - though itdropped off by more than ...
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Eisner to retire from Disney in 2006
Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Michael Eisner will retire inSeptember 2006, when his contract expires, the company said on Friday."Until then I shall continue to exert every effort tohelp the company achieve our goals, to assist the Board in selecting the newChief Executive Officer, and to make the transition expeditious, ...
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Italy's Moviemax looks to tap cult Asian, US films
One ofRome's newest distributors, one-year-old Moviemax, aims to tap into a lucrative nichereleasing American and Asian cult and genre films which usually have troublefinding distribution in Italy.Moviemaxhas picked up Italian rights to 2001 film Donnie Darko: The Director'sCut, which iscurrently screening at the Venice Film Festival, and has never been ...
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Irvine Welsh adaptation joins Fast Forward shortlist
An Irvine Welsh adaptationof a book by Morvern Callarauthor Alan Warner, a moon expedition comedy, and a Scottish Deliverance are amongst the projects shortlisted for the FastForward initiative run by Scottish Screen, the BBC and ContentFilm.The partners will developthe ten projects into treatment, when six will go forward to first ...
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I Heart Huckabees
Dir: David O. Russell.US. 2004. 106minsFive years after ThreeKings, writer-director David O Russell returns with an absurdistexistential comedy that is more idiosyncratic and daring than anything he hasmade before. I Heart Huckabees combines the lickety split verbalgymnastics of a Preston Sturges with the philosophical musings of a StephenHawking and then ...
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Alzheimer named as Belgian Oscar contender
Flemish-languagethriller The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer) has been selected to represent Belgium in the foreign-languageOscar category.Directed by Erikvan Looy, the film follows an aging contract killer who turns on his politicalmasters when he discovers that he is being manipulated. Alzheimer was a huge local hit in its nativeBelgium, selling ...
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Leigh, Amenabar take top Venice honours
Mike Leigh walked away with the Golden Lion at the Venice FilmFestival last night for his latest drama Vera Drake and his leading ladyImelda Staunton won the Volpi Cup for best female performance, a sweetvictory for Vera which was a surprise omission from the competition lineup at this year's Cannes ...
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First Look takes on Cold & Dark horror
British horror film Cold& Dark has found itself a USdistribution berth with First Look.The deal was brokered byHilary Davis of the London-based sales arm of Australia's Beyond Films.Previous sales included those to Japan's Gaga Communications, Mexico'sCine, Video Y Television and Russia's Beliven Enterprises.Directed by Andrew Goth andstarring former boy band ...
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Deauville praises Maria Full Of Grace
The 30th Deauville Festival of American film wrapped up Sunday night with a slew of prizes for Joshua Marston's Maria Full Of Grace. The festival favourite - already honoured at Sundance and Berlin among others - took home the Grand Prize, the Audience Award and the International Critics' Prize.The jury, ...
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Venice: from the sublime to the ridiculous
The 61st edition of the Venice film festival proved to be anunmitigated fiasco from the organisational point of view, with films running upto two hours late and Al Pacino unable to get a seat at the official screeningof The Merchant of Venice (starring Al Pacino).The final straw came when theprojectionist ...
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Sony Classics swings for 3-Iron
Sony PicturesClassics picked up North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's 3 Iron this weekend as the Korean film grabbed a total of fourprizes in Venice including the best director and the FIPRESCI prize for bestfilm.Cineclick, headed by Suh Young-joo,also closed deals in the UK with Optimum Releasing, Australia and New ...
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Private is a public hit with buyers
Private, the film by Saviero Costanza that shines anunusually humanist light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been a hitwith buyers and a glittering start for Scalpel, the new sales company launchedat Toronto by Pierre Menahem. "After thefirst industry screening we had great feedback, especially from Latin America.In some territories we ...
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A Film adds to acquisition firepower
On the eve of Toronto TheNetherlands' leading independent distributor A-Film has beefed up its firepowerwith a $12m (Euros10m) working capital facility. The cash will be used to expand the company's film acquisitionprogramme and to enable it to enlarge its p&a commitment to the films itreleases in the Benelux region. "The ...
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Disney ups Johnson as de Villiers resigns
The Walt Disney Co. has promoted Michael Johnson to the post of president of Walt Disney International while the overseas outfit's European chief Etienne de Villiers has resigned. Johnson has headed up Walt Disney International, Asia since June 1999. One of his first tasks in his new role will be ...
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Latido sells key territories on Cabrera thriller
Massimo Saidel'sMadrid-based sales outfit Latido has sold sexy Columbian-Spanish thriller TheArt Of Losing (Perder Es Questo De Metodo) to a slew of territories as a result of its world premiere as a midnightscreening in Venice and an official competition entry at the Montreal festival.The film by Sergio Cabrera,which stars Martina ...
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Fortissimo's Overture sings to Toho Towa
On the eve its Sept 11international premiere in Toronto, Thai drama The Overture put in placea key piece in its distribution jigsaw. Handled by Fortissimo Film Sales, thefilm was sold to Toho Towa of Japan. The Overture, directed and produced by Itthisoontorn Vichailak, is a period drama about a peasantxylophone ...
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Tierney's latest set up as Greece/Canada co-pro by Victorious
Toronto-based VictoriousFilms is readying Jacob Tierney's Return Baggage aka The Lonely Planet, the Canadian actor's follow-up to his featuredirectorial debut Twist, whichscreened at last year's Venice Film Festival. Victorious president VictoriaHirst will co-produce the Canada-Greece coproduction with Fenia Cossavitsa (TheCat's Meow, Signs And Wonders). Thedrama is set to star Nick ...
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Seville joins Haut Et Court in Cantet's South
Montreal-based SevillePictures has signed on as Canadian copoducer of Laurent Cantet's long-delayed HeadingSouth (Vers Le Sud), joining France's Haut et Court. Work on theproject, announced at Cannes 2003, has been held up by political upheaval in its key location of Haiti.International sales agent Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams told ScreenInternational ...