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Don't Touch The Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)
Dir: Jacques Rivette. Fr-It. 2007. 137mins Elegance, austerity, high seriousness, barbed wit: this heady combination might not be to everyone's taste, but anyone susceptible to literary costume drama at its most intellectually substantial will be bowled over by Don't Touch The Axe, Jacques Rivette's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Balzac's novel ...
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Hot Fuzz rocks UK box office with preview figures
Universal's cop comedy Hot Fuzz has generated over $2.9m (£1.5m) in its first two days in the UK box office, hinting at the film's potential weekend success. British lovers preferred the spoof to romantic rival Music And Lyrics as it generated $1.8m (£946,448) on Valentine's Day - its opening day ...
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Sony Classics gets North American rights for The Children Of Huang Shi
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Roger Spottiswoode's The Children Of Huang Shi. The epic tale is set in war-ravaged China in 1938. Production on the project ends today in Shanghai, with a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Arthur Cohn ...
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Oz distribs warn against day and date releases
Although simultaneous global release dates are being encouraged by some US distribution executives, their Australian counterparts have cautioned against not carefully weighing up all factors when dating blockbusters, including the competition and timing of the school holidays."There is a lot of merit in tent-pole pictures going simultaneously in as many ...
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BR Films sets March 9 Indian release for Mehta's Water
Distributor BR Films have scheduled the Indian release of Deepa Mehta's Oscar nominated Water for March 9. Ravi Chopra of BR Films confirmed that the company would be releasing up to 100 prints nationally with a focus on multiplexes. The controverisal film had originally been slated for a release in ...
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Lost In Beijing (Ping Guo)
Dir. Li Yu. China. 2007. 112mins. A social satire with strong sexual undertones in its early reels, which switches as it progresses into a darker melodrama, Li Yu's new film offers another variant on the surrogate mother dilemma. Despite some hesitancies in the second half, it pulls through thanks to ...
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Cinema China premieres new Zhang Yimou in the UK
Cinema China, a celebration of the past and present of Chinese film-making, will launch on March 9 in Edinburgh and unfold across 20 cities until March 18. The line-up brings together over 20 significant films, from the three Chinas of the People's Republic, Hong Kong and Taiwan, going back to ...
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Bavaria seals deals on Competition films and market titles
Bavaria Film International has closed a slew of deals on Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale competition this afternoon. The adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel starring Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and Julia Jentsch was sold to Distribution Company (Argentina, Chile, ...
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Berlinale to show Lost In Beijing in uncensored version
China's Li Yu's Lost In Beijing will have its world premiere tonight (Friday) in the Berlinale's official competition at the Berlinale Palast in the uncensored version after all. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com exclusively, festival director Dieter Kosslick announced: 'We are showing the film tonight in the version which the producer is ...
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Hallam Foe
Dir: David Mackenzie. UK. 2007. 96mins. In Hallam Foe, Jamie Bell continues to slough off the shadow of Billy Elliot, while director David Mackenzie (Young Adam) gets back on confident form after his unsteady psychodrama Asylum. But while it has panache to spare, this very Scottish coming-of-age story suffers from ...
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Italian box-office up massive 79.1% year-on-year; other regions struggle
Global box office takings of nine major territories collectively fell 9.7% year-on-year this week, pushed by dips in the French, Korean and North American markets, according to Screen International's Screen Index. France dropped by 32.6% compared to the same week last year despite new entries from studio Oscar-nominated films. Blood ...
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India's BR Films sets March 9 release date for Water
Indian distributor BR Films has scheduled the local release of Deepa Mehta's Oscar-nominated Water on 100 prints nationwide, with a focus on multiplexes, on March 9. 'We decided to shift the release as we were not ready before. Now we have enough time to get to the consumer and the ...
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Hula Girls takes top prize at Japanese Oscars
Lee Sang-il's Hula Girls was named best picture of 2006 at the 30th Japan Academy Awards, which took place on Friday night (Feb 16).The film picked up a total of four major prizes from 13 nominations, including best director for Lee Sang-il, best supporting actress for Yu Aoi and best ...
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Bridge To Terabithia
Dir: Gabor Csupo. US. 2007. 95mins. Walden Media's latest take on a children's literature classic, Bridge To Terabithia is an understated, touching and largely faithful version of Katherine Paterson's pre-teen novel. With animation artist Gabor Csupo making his live-action directing debut, the fantasy-adventure nicely captures the spirit of Paterson's boy-girl ...
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Ghost Rider
Dir/scr: Mark Steven Johnson. US. 2007. 108mins. Another lesser-known Marvel superhero gets his big-screen break in Ghost Rider, a silly but serviceable comic book adaptation with Nicolas Cage starring for Daredevil writer-director Mark Steven Johnson. The Columbia/Crystal Sky project could work well as a stopgap for those hardcore comic fans ...
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Bordertown
Dir/scr: Gregory Nava. US. 2007. 112mins.In Bordertown, directed by Gregory Nava, Jennifer Lopez plays a Chicago reporter who speaks no Spanish, but goes undercover as a Mexican worker in a Juarez sweatshop to investigate the brutal murders of hundreds of women. If you can believe this, you can believe much ...
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I Served The King Of England (Obsluhoval Jsem Anglickeho Krale)
Dir: Jiri Menzel. Czech Rep-Slovak. 2007. 119mins. A likeable comic underdog saga that follows the life and loves of a Chaplinesque waiter in pre- and post-war Czechoslovakia, I Served the King of England represents veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel's most marketable feature for some time. The film's little-big-man protagonist and ...
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Angel
Dir: François Ozon. Fr-UK-Bel. 2007. 137mins They don't make 'em like this any more - but just try telling that to François Ozon, whose Angel is a determinedly old-fashioned English costume melodrama of the sort that once would have been a cast-iron vehicle for the likes of Bette Davis. Based ...
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Chinese film takes Golden Bear
Chinese director Wang Quan'an had an ideal start for the Chinese New Year by winning this year's Golden Bear for his third feature Tuya's Marriage (Tu ya de hun shi) on the eve of the Year of the Pig.The tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in ...
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New award pays tribute to Robert Altman
Film Independent will inaugurate the Robert Altman Award for the best ensemble cast and director at the 2008 Spirit Awards to commemorate the late director. Meanwhile next weekend's Spirit Awards [24] on Santa Monica Beach will pay tribute to Altman with the presentation of a posthumous honorary Spirit Award.Collaborators including ...