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NYFF '07 | Wes Anderson's "Darjeeling" to Open 45th New York Film Festival; Coen's "Country" In Cent

Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited," will open the 45th New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Wednesday evening. Joel and Ethan Coen's Cannes '07 competition feature "No Country for Old Men," meanwhile, will be the festival's Centerpiece screening, while Palme d'Or...

AFP: Iran forces Thai film festival to drop controversial film

Award-wining Iranian film "Persepolis" has been dropped from line-up at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival after pressure from the Iranian embassy, organisers said Wednesday. The film, which jointly won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, was scheduled to screen on the openi...

iW NEWS | Gill and Sacker Launch Film Department

New independent film finance, production and international sales outfit The Film Department, headed by former Warner Independent Pictures president Mark Gill and former Yari Film Group COO Neil Sacker, has announced a $200 million foundation upon which to build their company. The Film Department, officially opening its doors in two weeks, plans to fully finance six films per year, budgeted between $10 - $35 million. In the words of an announcement today, "It plans to make star-driven, commercial pictures at the high end of every genre that appeal to a worldwide audience (notably thrillers, dramas, comedies, romantic comedies, action and horro...

SF360: "Glue" and "Red Without Blue" Among Top Frameline Winners

Frameline31, the 31st San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, closed Sunday, June 24, with a gala screening of Jamie Babbit's "Itty Bitty Titty Committee," produced by 2007 Frameline Award Winner Andrea Sperling. At Sunday night's Closing Night Party, Frameline31 organizers announced the Audience Award for Best Feature was given to Chris Kraus' "Four Minutes," a German drama that follows the volatile relationship between a convicted killer and the older piano teacher who takes her on as a pupil. Vince DiPersio's "Semper Fi: One Marine's Journey" took home the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Frameline Completion Fund winner "Paria...

iW NEWS | Cinema Guild Gets "Yella"

Christian Petzold's "Yella," from the 2007 Berlinale, has been acquired by The Cinema Guild in a deal for U.S. distribution rights. Described as "a daring metaphysical thriller about a young woman's efforts to escape her past," the film will open in theaters later this year. At the Berlin International Film Festival, lead actress Nina Hoss won the Silver Bear for best actress. Ryan Krivoshey, Director of Distribution for The Cinema Guild negotiated the deal with Michael Weber for The Match Factory. "'Yella' is an extraordinary film that uses the conventions of a Hollywood thriller to offer a bracing critique of our capitalist society," commen...

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REVIEW | Body Contact: Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr's "One to Another"

There's an ever more prevalent, if still marginalized, subgenre in international films today that is difficult to classify. In such films as Larry Clark's "Bully" and Gael Morel's "Le Clan" (released here as "Three Dancing Slaves"), groups of teenagers descend into violent oblivion while the filmmak...