Small MPU – Page 3417
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Lucky Miles
Dir: Michael James Rowland. Aus. 2007. 105mins. The debut feature from Michael James Rowland, Lucky Miles follows a boatload of asylum seekers cynically dumped on the vast, barely inhabited West Australian coast. Scenically, it's terrific, with gorgeous sunsets and a rich gallery of inhospitable terrains; dramatically, it's less satisfying, for ...
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Shotgun Stories
Dir/scr: Jeff Nichols. US. 2007. 93mins. A measured and sobering meditation on violence and discontent, distilled through a blood feud that ruptures two clans of half-brothers, Jeff Nichols’ Shotgun Stories is a highly intelligent and accomplished first feature that makes palpable suffering, loss and the wanton destructiveness of vengeance. Inexplicably ...
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 2007. 85mins. Naive and over-didactic, but still brimming with infectious energy and a sense of mission that's hard to hate, Jamie Babbit's third feature serves up radical lesbian feminism in teen-movie sauce. Actually, teens are generally more mature than this; Itty Bitty Titty Committee is like ...
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Hanway Films boards Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence
HanWay Films, the sales arm of UK producer Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Picture Company, has boarded Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, the Australian-born director's first project in his home country after 12 years in the US.Written by Christine Olsen, the adaptation of Doris Pilkington's book follows three Aboriginal girls forcibly taken from ...
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FDA reports UK film industry is thriving
According to figures released today by the Film Distributor's Association, an average of ten films a week were released in the UK last year (505 up from 467) with a print-and-advertising spend of $588.6 million (£300m) in 2006. The UK 's 2006 box-office return was equivalent to that of 2005 ...
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Sakuran
Dir: Mika Ninagawa. Jap. 2007. 111mins. Call it lush, sumptuous, a symphony of colours, a cinematographer's cherry blossom dream: Mika Ninagawa's directorial debut Sakuran leaves no doubt about her background. An enormously successful photographer, her first film looks exactly like something she would have concocted in the privacy of her ...
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Armin
Dir/scr: Ognjen Svilicic. Cro-Ger-Bos. 2007. 82mins.A low-key Balkan film may seem like a contradiction in terms, given the ebullient energy of the cinema produced in that part of the world, but there is no better way to describe Ognjen Svilicic's second feature. Something of a surprise after his raucous debut ...
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Daughters Of The Dust opens Images Of Black Women Film Festival
The third annual Images of Black Women Festival, a celebration of the achievements of black women in cinema, will open on Friday (March 2) at the Tricycle Theatre in London.The event opens with a screening of the Daughters Of Dust, followed by a Q&A session with the director Julie Dash. ...
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Marvel's new Hulk movie set for Toronto shoot in summer
Marvel Studios has confirmed it will shoot The Incredible Hulk in Toronto this summer. The $100m+ comic book adaptation is the second feature of the newly-refinanced studio folllowing Iron Man. The announcement came as welcome news for the city following last week's tentative settlement of a strike by Canadian performers. ...
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Shindo to have world premiere at Hong Kong Filmart
The Tokyo International Film Festival has arranged to hold the world premiere of Koji Hagiuda's Shindo (translation: Prodigy) at this year's Hong Kong Filmart on March 21. The Tokyo fest and its attendant TIFFCOM market, which are held in October, have been using Filmart as a launch pad in recent ...
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Singapore festto open with Sri Lankan drama Sankara
The Singapore International Film Festival (April 18-30), which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will showcase more than 300 films from 40 countries. For the first time, a Sri Lankan film will open the festival - Prasanna Jayakody's feature debut Sankara - a Buddhist fable about desire and non-attachment. Indonesian ...
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Mary McGuckian plans UK and US shoot for Art In Las Vegas
The UK's Pembridge Pictures is in pre-production for Mary McGuckian's Art In Las Vegas, the third film in her 'amorality' trilogy which will start shooting this summer in London and Las Vegas. London-based Scion Films and Toronto-based Prospero Pictures are also on board. The ensemble cast will draw from some ...
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Germany breaks 100m barrier for DVD sales
Annual DVD unit sales in Germanypassed the 100 million mark for the first time last year, according to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute for the home entertainment industry body BVV.A total of 100.7m units were sold in 2006, up from 98.7m in 2005, with record sales in ...
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World Circuit Records launches a film division
The four-time Grammy Award-winning independent record label today announced the launch of World Circuit Films, an in-house production company dedicated to the creation of music-related films for theatrical, television, DVD and digital release.The company will be headed by Rosa Bosch, who was previously deputy director of the London Film Festival ...
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Video Networks heads for Downtown
Downtown Pictures has become the latest UK distributor to tune into Video-on-Demand (VoD), striking an alliance with Video Networks, the UK VoD company planning a national roll-out next year.Along with a multi-year output arrangement, the partnership will see Video Networks investing in Downtown if the distributor satisfactorily advances plans for ...
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Video-on-demand prompts Swedish major to merge
To prepare for the breakthrough of video-on-demand in the Scandinavian market, Swedish media giant Bonnier Entertainment - the owner of Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri - has merged its VOD service, SF Anytime, with sister company SF Bio, Scandinavia's largest exhibitor. 'It is a crucial time for video-on-demand, and SF Anytime ...
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Curse Of The Golden Flower closes Glasgow Film Fest
The Glasgow Film Festival closed on Sunday Feb 25th with a coup - the sell-out UK premiere of Zhang Yimou's Curse of The Golden Flower. The festival, now in its third year, has reportedly seen an increase of 60 per cent in audience admissions, translating to approximately 14,000 ticket sales.The ...
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Off The Fence signs output deal with Principal Large Format
IMAX producer Phil Streather of Principal Large Format (PLF) has signed an exclusive agreement to provide Off The Fence with current and in-production theatrical releases of giant-screen content as well as generating new projects for the company.PLF generated the award-winning IMAX film Bugs!, Britain's most successful theatrical documentary, which grossed ...
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UK's Darklight scheme selects 10 women for horror projects
The UK has launched a new training and production initiative to encourage women film-makers working in the horror genre. Darklight: Women Direct Horror has been established by Warp X with Threshold Studios, and support from Skillset. There were 76 applications for the scheme, and 10 women have been selected: Smita ...
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Oscar shorts nominees available on iTunes
Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures joined forces with iTunes to make Oscar-nominated short films available for the public to stream just days prior to the Academy Awards ceremony.The seven independently produced nominated shorts included five live action and two animated shorts. Available to view for free via iTunes were the ...