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Venice kicks off with Swords, metal detectors
The 62nd VeniceInternational Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night in hot and stickyweather with the world premiere of Tsui Hark's Seven Swords, amid heightened security measuresinvolving more than a dozen metal detectors and around 1,000 police officerspatroling the Lido.The black tieopening ceremony, which was hosted by Spanish model Ines ...
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Good Night, And Good Luck
Dir:George Clooney. US. 2005. 90mins.Anaustere drama of political and journalistic ethics, Good Night, And GoodLuck represents George Clooney's consecration as a serious writer anddirector after his original but uncertain debut, Confessions Of A DangerousMind.Shotin elegant black-and-white with a classic, measured feel to editing and pacingthat matches its patient establishment of ...
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Hungary names Fateless as Oscar choice
Hungary will fieldLajos Koltai's Fateless as its entry for the foreign language Oscar innext March's Academy Awards.The move come as Fateless,which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, preparesfor a Toronto screening in advance of its North American release.Based on a novel by2003 Nobel literature prize winner Imre ...
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Kitano film tipped to be surprise Venice competitor
TakeshiKitano's Takeshis is tipped to be the "surprise" last-minute entry inthe Venice Film Festival's competition.Takeshis, whichsees the Japanese director playing himself contronting a look-alike, is alsoset to screen at the Toronto Film Festival.Kitanolast attended the Venice Film Festival with his 2003 samurai romp Zatoichi.In themeantime, the Biennale was keeping tight-lipped ...
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Clooney rides on Good Luck at Venice
Actor-director George Clooney's Venice competition film Goodnight,And Good Luck has emerged as one of the first buzz films at the festival.Screen International reviewer Lee Marshall said thefilm "represents George Clooney's consecration as a serious writer anddirector" (see review, opposite).Goodnight was well received by critics atits Venice press screening, ahead of ...
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Copenhagen Screenings win seller approval
The Copenhagen International Film Festival's (Aug 18-28)new industry Screenings programme has been given the stamp of approval byScandinavian sellers.Trust Film Sales, NordiskFilm Sales and Angel Film have reported strong interest generated by the CopenhagenScreenings. Ten new Danish films wereshown to 30 international buyers over a two-day period during the festival ...
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Campaigning for BAFTA awards season kicks off
The BAFTA awards season unofficially kicked off this weekwith the first lobbying of the organisation's members - more than five monthsbefore next the awards ceremony takes place (Feb 19, 2006).Yesterday (Aug 31) saw BAFTA members invited to Ang Lee'smuch anticipated Brokeback Mountain next week to be accompanied by starJake Gyllenhaal ...
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Erratum: Pupi Avati's La Seconda Notte di Nozze
PupiAvati's Venice competition title La Seconda Notte di Nozze is being soldat the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals by Rai Trade and not Adriana ChiesaEnterprises, as reported in the weekly edition of Screen International. Weapologize for any confusion this may cause.
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The Secret Life Of Words (La Vida Secreta De Las Palabras)
Dir/scr: IsabelCoixet. 2005. Sp-UK. 112mins.Produced once more by Pedro Almodovar's El Deseooutfit, Isabel Coixet's second English-language feature proves itself to be adeeply felt work that is much stronger on emotions than it is on form.Initially affecting,her story of a recluse tending a temporarily blinded man eventually becomesrepetitive before stating its ...
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Films Distribution strikes US deal on Live And Become
French sales house FilmsDistribution has acquired several new titles, formed a new alliance andmade some of high-profile sales.Radu Milhaileanu's LiveAnd Become, which last month took top prizes at the Copenhagen FilmFestival, has been sold to the US's Menemsha in a six figure deal. The film hasalso gone to Klockworx in ...
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Zhang Yimou reunites with Gong Li for China drama
Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou will reunite with his former museGong Li for the first time in 10 years in an untitled new film slated for 2006.Qin Lixun, deputy general manager of Beijing New Picture,has confirmed that both Gong and Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat have signed tostar in a ...
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Terence Stamp joins cast of western love story Dawn
Terence Stamphas joined the cast of September Dawn, Christopher Cain's Western love story set against thebackdrop of religious fanaticism.Jon Voight,Lolita Davidovitch, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope and John Gries were previouslyconfirmed in the cast.Cain wrote the screenplaywith Carol Whang Schutter, and is producing with Scott Duthie and KevinMatossian. Production is currently ...
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Telluride lineup includes Pluto, Brokeback
Announcing aheavily US-centric line-up on its opening day, organisers of the 32nd TellurideFilm Festival have snagged world premiere bragging rights to films includingJames Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and ReeseWitherspoon, and Scott McGehee and David Siegel's drama Bee Season starring Richard Gere and JulietteBinoche.Also scheduledto ...
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Virgin goes against Red Eye in hot UK weekend for UIP
Warner BrosPictures International (WBPI) executives are bidding to hold on to theirinternational crown of the past few weeks when they unleash The Dukes OfHazzard in Italy on Sept2 and Taiwan on Sept 3.The comedy hasgrossed $5.5m from six territories so far and executives will be looking tocapitalise on its familiarity ...
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Two Bollywood movies set to shoot in New York
Two Indian projectsfeaturing Bollywood superstars are gearing up for autumn shoots with thefinancial support of New York Mayor Bloomberg's Made In NY tax creditinitiative. Shirish Kunder's romanticcomedy Jaaneman stars megastarSalman Khan with Preity Zinta and Akshay Kumar and is being produced byNadiawala Grandson Entertainment, which plans to launch a US ...
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Sogepaq runs with South Express
Spain's Sogepaqhas picked up world rights on new feature South Express, screening this month in both Toronto andSan Sebastian.The movie (SudExpress) weaves togethersix stories of ordinary people whose lives are touched by the fabled train linethat runs from Lisbon to Paris.It was shot onDVacross three countries and in five languages ...
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A Sound Of Thunder
Dir: Peter Hyams.US/Germany/Czech Republic/UK. 2005. 101 mins. Emerging in themarketplace almost three years after it was made, A Sound of Thunder turns a vintage Ray Bradbury short story into acheesy and unconvincing big budget B-movie. With its sub-par effects, uninspiredperformances and unfocused narrative, this sci-fi thriller, left over from theglory ...
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De Palma, Gilliam sign up for Talent Lab at Toronto
Brian De Palma, TerryGilliam and Atom Egoyan are just three of the film artists who have signed forthe Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab, a four-day artisticdevelopment programme for emerging Canadian filmmakers held during the event. 22participants from across Canada were selected.De Palma, a perennialaudience member at TIFF, has agreed ...
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Warner Bros signs German broadband VOD deal
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year deal toprovide content to T-Online for its broadband VOD service in Germany.Beginning inSeptember, Warner Bros pictures from the Harry Potter and Matrix franchises, as well as Ocean's Twelve and The Polar Express, will be available on T-Online'sbroadband VOD service. The deal ...
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Anjelica Huston to head San Sebastian jury
Anjelica Huston will presideover the official jury of the 53rd Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 15-24), which has also unveiled TheWorld's Fastest Indian as its closing film.Written and directed byRoger Donaldson, The World's Fastest Indianstars Anthony Hopkinsin the true story-inspired tale of a man who set a new speed record ...