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IFC Entertainment takes North America on Kalin's Savage Grace
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, which had its world premiere in Directors Fortnight at Cannes this year.The film will be released theatrically and at the same time on video on demand cable platforms in the US as part of IFC First Take programme.Julianne ...
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Affleck, Connelly, Meron and Zadan get Hollywood Awards
Ben Affleck will be named Hollywood Breakthrough Director Of The Year, Jennifer Connelly Hollywood Supporting Actress Of The Year and Neil Meron and Craig Zadan Hollywood Producers Of The Year at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony in Los Angeles on Oct 22.The awards show takes place at the close of ...
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Shadows
Dir/Scr: Milcho Manchevski. Macedonia 2007. 120mins.A ghost story that draws on the irrational to explore the historical and cultural redress of displaced Macedonians, Milcho Manchevski's third feature Shadows is ambitious and capably mounted. However it is too fastidious for its own good, and is damaged by dramatically contradictory parts that ...
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Love Comes Lately
Dir. Jan Schutte. Germany/Austria/US 2007. 86 min.Jan Schutte's adaptation of three short-stories by the Yiddish writer and Nobel-prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer will attract mostly mature audiences who will identify with its central character, octogenarian writer Max Kohn. Like most adaptations of works by great authors, the picture faces the ...
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Reclaim Your Brain (Free Rainer-Dein Fernseher Lugt)
Dir. Hans Weingartner. Germany . 2007. 132 minsAnyone who has ever railed against the pernicious poison of reality television should derive a scattering of wry chuckles from Reclaim Your Brain, a Capra-esque call to arms from writer/director Hans Weingartner. Taking aim at some obvious targets, it is slow to warm ...
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The Take
Dir: Brad Furman. US 2007. 96 mins.The Take is a potentially very interesting film that suffers from a bad case of bi-polar disorder. On the one hand, a gritty, often exciting crime-and-caper movie, and on the other hand an authentic-feeling domestic drama set in one of the Latino barrios of ...
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Nickerson, Gerber join Summit's new US home entertainment arm
Steve Nickerson has joined Summit Entertainment as president of its new home entertainment division, while Bobby Gerber has joined as executive vice president and general sales manager.The pair arrive from Warner Home Video and will spearhead the new division with a focus on traditional video distribution and emerging market opportunities. ...
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Burum to receive ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen H Burum will receive the American Society of Cinematographers' (ASC) 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Hollywood on Jan 26, 2008.Burum earned an Oscar nomination for Hoffa in 1993 and won the ASC Outstanding Achievement Award for that film. He earned ASC ...
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MGM launches HD TV channel on DIRECTV in US
MGM, for years a major player in the international television arena, will launch its first wholly owned channel in the US this autumn.MGM HD will run on DIRECT TV and draw on the company's library of more than 4,100 features, among them Hotel Rwanda, Leaving Las Vegas, West Side Story, ...
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TWC buys North America on Argento's The Mother Of Tears
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has finally closed a deal with Myriad Pictures for all North American rights excluding US theatrical and Canadian theatrical and television to Dario Argento's horror film The Mother Of Tears.TWC had been circling ever since the film's world premiere at Toronto. Genius Products will distribute the ...
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Dainipponjin
Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto. Japan, 2007.With similar credentials to those Takeshi Kitano had before he made movies, but determined to take a different approach for his debut, Hitoshi Matsumoto looks set to establish a reputation as a quirky, bizarre type of humourist. His first film should qualify with equal ease for ...
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The Babysitters
Dir. David Ross. US. 2007. 90mins.First time director David Ross negotiates a precarious line between exploitation and provocation with The Babysitters, the story of a bright and industrious teenager who fronts a high school escort service for bored suburban men. It inverts the story of Risky Business, moving away from ...
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Poor Boy's Game
Dir. Clement Virgo. Canada , 2007. 102 Mins.Racial tension in an unusual setting and a quiet, authoritative voice pack a surprising punch in Poor Boy's Game, a new film from Afro-Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo. Though framed around a grudge match in the boxing ring, the film has a considerably broader ...
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Trumbo
Dir: Peter Askin. US. 2007. 96mins.Peter Askin's endearing and sometimes strangely compromised documentary portrait Trumbo, a meditation on the life and times of the radical American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is an alternately rich and often bewildering mixture of theatre, family memoir and hot wired historical document.The film's portrait of an ...
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In Bloom
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2007. 90 mins.Four years after his directorial debut The House Of Sand And Fog, Vadim Perelman returns with In Bloom, an adaptation of Laura Kasischke's novel The Life Before Her Eyes which is an even more ambitious challenge than its predecessor. But some books are just ...
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The Princess of Nebraska
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2007. 77mins.Wayne Wang's The Princess of Nebraska is a stylistically audacious companion piece to the director's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, adapted from the same collection of short stories by expatriate Chinese writer Yiyun Li. Like Blue in the Face, the improvisational variant of his ...
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A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Tennen Kokekko)
Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita. Japan , 2007. 121 min.Rarely has a title fit so perfectly the picture bearing it. Cute, corny and inoffensive, with just a pinch of salt to suggest the flavour of the old Yamashita, whose reputation lies mostly with tongue-in-cheek deadpan Jarmusch-like satires such as The Ramblers and ...