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Venice Horizons adds Iranian debut Tedium (Khastegi)
Tedium (Khastegi), the debut film of Iranian director Bahman Motamedian, is the first of two surprise films to be added to Venice's Horizon's line-up, the Biennale announced today.The Tehran-set film follows the experience of seven transsexuals within the confines of Iran's conservative culture. The film's title underscores the public and ...
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Beta Cinema handling sales on two Venice world premieres
Beta Cinema is to handle international sales on two Italian films - Marco Pontecorvo's Pa-Ra-Da, the opening film of the Horizons sidebar, and Uberto Pasolini's Venice Days title Machan - which are having their world premieres at next week's Venice Film Festival.Pa-Ra-Da, DoP Pontecorvo's feature film debut, tells the true ...
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Screen opinion:Tuning into a new era
Back in the 1970s, musician Benny Green wrote an essay on the demise of jazz. His lament was that every possible combination of notes had been explored, reworked, reversed and occasionally twisted into barely listenable shapes. 'We have to ask whether today's brilliant jazz musicians have left themselves any fresh ...
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In Focus: The awards season
Between last September and December, studios and independents unleashed 42 prestige English-language films on domestic audiences. On paper it was a bumper Oscar-qualification season which featured titles from Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Sidney Lumet, the Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ridley Scott, Robert Redford and Mike Nichols.But 2008 is a ...
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In Focus - The Year to Date
Watch out for awards recognition for:- Martin McDonagh (original screenplay) for In Bruges (Focus Features)- Sandy Powell (costume design) for The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony Pictures/Focus Features)- Horton Hears A Who! for animated feature (20th Century Fox)- Tom McCarthy (writer/director), Richard Jenkins (actor), Haaz Sleiman (supporting actor) and Hiam Abbass ...
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United States/India - A Taste For India
When producer Debra Martin Chase was looking for a location for the third film in Disney's Cheetah Girls franchise, she immediately thought of India.The Cheetah Girls first appeared in 2003 in a Disney Channel TV film about a four-member teen girl group making their way in Manhattan. After it became ...
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Profile: Anne Francois
This is a big year for Anne Francois and her company Tactics. The producer, who divides her time between Los Angeles and Paris, has been actively developing four projects for the last few years and she says the scripts are ready to go; 2009 is her target year to move ...
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Film Focus: The Descent 2
Getting to the set of The Descent 2 somewhat surprisingly does not require a trip underground. Like the 2005 original, the sequel shot mostly in caves recreated on studio sets - this time for a 40-day shoot at London's Ealing Studios with some location work in England and Scotland (the ...
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Nippon Herald takes Intermedia trio for Japan
Nippon Herald Films has clinched a three picture deal with Intermedia that covers the Harrison Ford-starrer K:19 The Widowmaker, K:Pax starring Kevin Spacey and The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.The deal marks the first multi-picture sale for Intermedia since it unveiled its star-studded slate just ahead of ...
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Interview: Barbet Schroeder
Now in his mid-60s, film-maker and self-proclaimed iconoclast Barbet Schroeder is busier than ever. His new feature, Inju, The Beast In The Shadow, will be in competition at Venice and will screen in Toronto, just a year after his documentary Terror's Advocate, about controversial lawyer Jacques Verges, screened in Cannes. ...
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In Focus: Australia's New Holland Pictures
New Holland Pictures launched in 2004 with the ambitious - for Australia - aim of producing three films a year.Four years on, and the company that was set up as a joint venture between leading Dutch film company Idtv Film and Australian producers Mark and Cathy Overett is proving that ...
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Preview: Venice film festival
The 65th edition of the Venice film festival (August 27-September 6) may well be remembered as the year the world's oldest film festival greeted a bright new future.After a very successful four years as artistic director, Marco Mueller has been reconfirmed for a second mandate, working alongside Biennale president Paolo ...
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Festival talk - The Gospel according to Marco
Which festivals are important to you'I enjoy being in Berlin and Cannes because that's where we start working and making international contacts, and it's when I first get an inkling of what's going to happen in the next few months in terms of artistic films and original, special films. I ...
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Venice 2008: Buzz films
BUZZ VENICE FILMSCOMPETITIONAchilles And The Tortoise (Akires To Kame) (Jap)Dir: Takeshi KitanoThe story: Follows a failed painter and the long-suffering family that supports him.The cast: Kitano takes the lead, alongside Kanako Higuchi and popular actress Kumiko Aso, whose credits include Dororo.The buzz: A well-established figure on the Lido, Kitano returns ...
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Venice: A critical preview
The 2008 Venice line-up looks like one of the riskiest major festival selections in recent memory.Cross the Italian contenders, the Coen brothers, Kathryn Bigelow, Jonathan Demme and a few other media darlings off the list, and you are left with directors such as Semih Kaplanoglu from Turkey, Algerian Tariq Teguia ...
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Flashback to 2007
Lust, CautionAng Lee's Lust, Caution was the surprise toast of Venice last year, stealing the Golden Lion from under the nose of critical favourite, Abdellatif Kechiche's Couscous (aka The Secret Of The Grain). It went on to dominate at the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, with seven wins including best ...
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International - Ponyo on the make
Studio Ghibli's Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea has held on to the top slot at the Japanese box office for a fifth week - despite going head to head with the latest Pokemon film, The Dark Knight and a strong $6.97m opening for Asian-themed The Mummy: Tomb Of ...
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International - 3D's looking flat
Can technical innovation save the movie theatre as it faces up to a period of extreme competition'Technology has, of course, fundamentally changed the fortunes of the business before. On October 6, 1927, the talking pictures revolution was launched with The Jazz Singer at Los Angeles' Tower Theater.Sound could not lay ...
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Scottish Screen increases slate funding to $2m over 2 years
Scottish Screen has selected five production companies to receive substantial finance through the organisation's Slate Fund. Launched in March 2008, the Slate Fund was originally intend to offer a share of $741,325 (£400,000) to a maximum of four companies. The quantity and quality of the applications has led to the ...
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NewsBuick Riviera wins prizes for best film, actor at Sarajevo Film Festival
Goran Rusinovic’s Buick Riviera, a co-production between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the big winner in the competition section of the 14th annual Sarajevo Film Festival which closed on Saturday night.