Hilary Swank thinks that Hugh Grant would be ideal to play opposite her as,
of all things, the love interest in a romantic comedy. Swank will be starring
in a Cinderella-style flick called The Chambermaid. She will take the
role of a hotel maid who falls in love with a British man.
Swank was asked her opinion on three British actors-Grant, Dougray Scott and
Ben Chaplin -- but apparently she has "been a fan [of Grant] since Four Weddings
and Funeral but Bridget
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A rundown villa on the edge of the sea is transformed into a dogs' home which frequently also provides shelter for chance visitors. The lady who owns it was once a famous opera singer who now shares her loneliness with an old friend.
Her extravagant shows are a daily occurrence for the visitors. Every year she plays out her own death like an opera performance, the date of which has been predicted by a famous clairvoyant without specifying the year. Every new visitor becomes unwittingly involved...
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Born in Sofia, Bulgaria on 28 September 1966, Stephan Komandarev is one of the youngest and perspective Bulgarian film directors with an experience in directing of music videos, commercials, TV shows, short films and documentaries.
Graduated medicine in 1993, he worked 4 years as child psychiatrist in Alexandrovska hospital. In 1998 Stephan is graduated from New Bulgarian University as cinema director. With four short length films he participates and won awards in festivals in Bulgaria ...
Dogs'Home won the Debut Prize at the Golden Rose 2000, Varna, Bulgaria.
It was also screened at the Berlinale 2001 , the International Forum of the New Cinema....
All about the Opera World, from the land of Opera: Operas, singers, news, schedules, more......
Iranian director
Jafar Panahi,
whose film The
Circle has been a hit on the festival circuit after winning prizes at
the Venice Film Festival, was detained by the police at New York's JFK airport.
His crime? Iranian citizenship. Under
the Bush administration, all Iranian filmmakers must be fingerprinted (previously
this humiliating procedure was waived for artists). This applies for people coming
to a festival in the States or merely passing through the US en route to Argentina
...
Based on Talbott's original screenplay, Eat Me! reveals the intertwining and often contentious relationships between housemates living in a humble group house lovingly referred to as the hot zone.
Eat Me! is set in a Washington, DC group house, where a group of unrelated singles share expenses. Each of the housemates is embroiled in his or her own personal hell. When it appears that the house is about to be sold, the housemates come together and make a pact to purchase the property and tur...
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Joe Talbott gained attention in 1994 when the trailer for his first screenplay Waterman premiered at the Independent Feature Film Market in New York. A tribute to Talbott's adopted home on the Chesapeake Bay, Waterman earned critical acclaim from many influential distributors including Fine Line Features and H.B.O., who recognized Talbott as an emerging talent in the independent film community and have since tracked his career. Waterman was a springboard for Talbott, who has since earn...
Joe Talbott won a lot of awards in his career. For his different movies, shorts, and documentaries, he won:
*Peer Award, Best Short Screenplay 2000, at the Washington Film Council, Washington, DC
*International Silver Telly Award, 2000, at the Telly Awards, Cincinnati, Ohio
*Peer Award, Best Feature Screenplay, 1999 at the Washington Film Council, Washington, DC
*Rosebud Award, 1999, at the Rosebud Awards, Washington, D.C.
*Best Take Award, 1997, at the International Television...
One of the very few films to be made in South Africa with the cooperation of its inhabitants. It is a spirited and defiant statement against the oppressive regime. It has been recognised and welcomed by the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid movement. It is banned in South Africa.
Mapantsula is a South African term for wideboy, and the film centres arund Panic, a cynical, streetwise con-artist, devoted to flash suits and snappy shoes. Panic lives the township to the full dancing, drinking and relie...
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After an impressive career at UCT Michaeli's School of Fine Art in Capetown, Oliver Schmitz completed a BA (Fine Art), majoring in film and audiovisuals.
Working as a co-ordinator for Media Workshop Afroscope led him to Momentum Films as an assistant editor, where he worked pimarily on documentaries and magazine programs for television. He then worked as sound editor on the TV drama "Blind Justice" and edited the documentary Two Rivers for Murunzie Motion Pictures, which won first...
Mapantsula was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Certain Regard competition, in 1988.
It also went to:
*Gotenburg Film Festival
*Edinburgh Film Festival
*New York Film Festival
*Tel Aviv Film Festival
*San Francisco Film Festival
*Istanbul Film Festival
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Whoopi Goldberg will receive her second Women In Film award, this time a Crystal
Award honoring women who have helped expand female roles in the industry. Glenn
Close, Columbia Pictures chairman Amy Pascal, and casting director Juliet Taylor
will all receive the same honor.
Pierce Brosnan and his honey Keely Shaye Smith will be honored with the Humanitarian
Crystal award for their philanthropic contributions. Director Betty Thomas will
receive the Dorothy Arzner Direct...
The Miami Hispanic Film Festival will open next month with the Argentinean drama
Historias Clandestinas de la Havana. Ken Loach's social drama Bread
And Roses about unionizing janitors in Los Angeles will close the fest.
The fest will also screen films including Chilean Silvo Ciaozzis box-office
success Coronacion,
the Brazilian O Auto Da Compadecida and the Venezuelan-Spanish production
of Oro Diablo. They will be joined in competition by Peru's Ciudad
De M a...
Ashton Kutcher has only recevied one award nomination this year, and he should
be grateful for it. The star of the high-school comedy panned by critics, Dude,
Where's My Car, received a nod from the MTV academy for best male breakthrough
performance. Joining him in the lopsided competition are Patrick Fugit from
Almost
Famous, High
Fidelity's Jack Black and X-Men
star Hugh Jackman.
MTV, like the Academy, liked Gladiator
and gave it five nominations. Cast
...
Lars von Trier's Dogville is the latest movie to be put on hold because
of actors' overloaded schedules conflicting with strike plans. Nicole Kidman
will star in the $9 million pic but is too busy filming The Hours to
meet Dogville's schedule which calls for principal photography to finish
by July 1.
However, not everyone slated to work on the film would be affected by the strike,
further complicating matters. Actors Stellan Skarsgard and Katrin Cartlidge
are not m...
A
"cadreur" is the technician who looks through the viewfinder and frames the
actual shot.
One
hundred years before Filmfestivals.com began, the Lumière Brothers' cameramen
traveled to the proverbial four corners of the earth shooting and projecting
the world's first short films (52 seconds each!) of street life. The life of
a "cyber-cadreur" (as I began calling myself at the 1996
Cannes Film Festival while shooting Hi-8 video) can be just as adventuresome
as th...
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush....
A finely paced production of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play. A man with a giant spirit (and nose to match) supplies the words and a man with dashing looks supplies the kisses as they tragically conspire to seduce the woman they both love. Academy Awards: Best Actor--Jose Ferrer.
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Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. Directed by Roger Corman, the film was the basis for the later hit stage musical. ...
Marie-Pierre Macias,
director of the independent sidebar in existence since 1968, announced the selection
of films for the 33rd edition today in Paris. They were 13 who during one month
sifted through the 900 features and 500 shorts submitted. Of the 21 feature
films, 18 are world premieres and 11 are first films in competition for the
Camera d'Or. Thirteen countries are represented with the US and France screening
the most number of films. From the US, the films of two a...
Could any movie be more popular than Bridget
Jones' Diary? Apparently so, because The Full Monty was selected
as England's most popular film in a poll by Empire Online to celebrate St. George's
Day, the patron saint of England. The 1997 film about unemployed steel workers
who become strippers grossed almost 100 times the $4.9 million it cost to make.
The only other recent movie in the top five was Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and
Two Smoking Barrels at number three. The Italian Job, Wit...
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