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Calgary film fest fever heats up
CALGARY - The Calgary International Film Festival is growing by leaps and bounds and no one is happier than David Marrelli, the festival's director. In its first year, the festival hosted 60 films evenly split between full-length features and short films. There were...
Hot list
Buyers to take a close look at these pix in Toronto A rundown of the films buyers say they'll be taking a close look at in Toronto: [b] BEOWULF & GRENDEL: A U.K./Canadian/Icelandic adaptation, helmed by Sturla Gunnarsson. Icelandic heavy cast includes Gerard...
Water to make a big splash at film festival
Deepa Mehta's Water will kick off the 24th Vancouver International Film Festival, which unveils its 300-film program today. The 16-day festival begins Sept. 29 with the opening night gala Water, by the Indian-born, Toronto-based director Mehta. Completing her...
At Play in the Fields of Odin: Shooting Beowulf
This article is in PDF format, click the link below to access: [b]http://www.dgc.ca/page.php?id=501.[/b] Then click on "Sturla Gunnarsson and Beowulf" The scene is set at the top of an Icelandic mountain. This isn’t fog. You’re inside cloud, and the rain is blowing...
Three Icelandic films in Toronto
Baltasar Kormakur’s first English language film A Little Trip to Heaven and Sturla Gunnarsson’s epic film Beowulf and Grendel have been invited to screen at Toronto International Film Festival ’s Special Presentations this year among 41 films from 17 countries, while...
Hollywood hopes to rake it in
Redford-Lopez drama opens a season that includes international intrigue with Nicolas Cage, airline thrills with Jodie Foster and more Tim Burton weirdness After an unseasonably chilly summer -- bottom line: attendance down more than 11 percent -- Hollywood's optimists...
Beowulf & Grendel
Toronto International Film Festival 2005 Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Writer: Andrew Rai Berzins Producers: Paul Stephens, Eric Jordan, Sturla Gunnarsson (Canada); Michael Cowan, Jason Piette (U.K.); Anna Maria Karlsdottir, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Iceland) Cast:...
Post-Brosnan, Bond is a tough suit to fill
With production set to begin in January on the 21st Bond picture, "Casino Royale," the dashing movie hero who dates back to the '60s might as well be missing in action. The latest Bond film, "Die Another Day," starring Pierce Brosnan, was released by MGM in 2002. But...
Scandanavian film industry
The next generation of Scandinavian filmmakers is emerging from the long shadow of the Dogme movement to make Hollywood-style crowd-pleasers. Blond ambition : The next generation of Scandinavian filmmakers is emerging from the long shadow of the Dogme movement to make...
He Can Relate to Roles That Have Mysteries
He played the lead role in a British film, “Dear Frankie,” (directed by Shona Auerbach) which is currently being shown in theaters. It is a tale of love within a family, taking place in a seaside town, near Glasgow. A mother of a boy with a hearing impairment...
Beowulf screenwriter Andrew Berzins Answers Fan Questions
1. Can you explain why you felt the violence was deemed necessary for the film? - Lady Claire This one puzzles me. I'm not sure how familiar Lady Claire is with the original poem. The section of the story dealing with Beowulf's battle with Grendel (our "monster") is...
Premi: “Dear Frankie” si aggiudica il premio “Percorsi creativi 2005”
Il film “Dear Frankie” di Shona Auerbach ha vinto il premio “Percorsi Creativi 2005” promosso dai Cinecircoli Giovanili Socioculturali nell’ambito del Giffoni Film Festival. Il riconoscimento è stato assegnato da una giuria composta da insegnanti ed operatori...
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In Depth: Beowulf: The Movie(s)
A Comprehensive Look at the (Brief) List of Cinematic Adaptations of the English Language's Most Enduring Epic Poem From the cover of the graphic novel by Gareth Hinds. Literally hundreds of “muscle-man” films exist that are attributed to the great, masculine myths of...
Toronto film fest to screen Owen retrospective
When Don Owen's Nobody Waved Goodbye premiered in 1964, critics said it offered such a stifling picture of Toronto that even Torontonians were put off by the city. Seems strange then that the Toronto International Film Festival would choose it as part of a...
Improbable tale leaves family with hope
There are things that happen in real life, and there are things that only happen in the movies. If the latter sometimes seem plausible, chalk it up to the power of cinema to make us believe the unbelievable. "Dear Frankie" makes a convincing case that a mother who...
Bittersweet weepie that’s life-affirming
DEAR FRANKIE ***/5 Starring Jack McELhone, Emily Mrtimer, Gerard Butler,Sharon Small, Mary Riggans, Sean Brown, Jayd Johnson,John Kazek, Katy Murphy. Certificate : 15. IN an effort to hide froms her abusive ex-partner, single mother Lizzie (Mortimer) transplants...
A gritty performer leaps from the shadows
"DEAR FRANKIE" (2005) Director Shona Auerbach's Scottish-made festival circuit entry tells the nominally offbeat but also seemingly predictable story of single mom Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), who for years has been secretly replying to the letters her young son, Frankie...
DVD Releases for July 5, 2005
Every week films get a second chance at success from the home market; or, in some cases, a first chance at success. Here is a list of wide releases, limited releases, classics and a few from the growing TV on DVD section. Usually the first week of the month is the...
Dear Frankie DVD Review
Guide Rating - 4 1/2 Stars out of 5 The Bottom Line I was extremely disappointed when Miramax pulled "Dear Frankie" from its 2004 release calendar. Had it found its way into theaters last year, "Dear Frankie" would have had a spot on my Top 10 list of the Best Films...