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‘Facing Window’ picked as SIFF’s best film
"Facing Window," an Italian-British-Turkish-Portuguese co-production directed by "Emerging Master" honoree Ferzan Ozpetek, was named best picture yesterday in the closing-day award ceremonies of the 30th Seattle International Film Festival. Runners-up for the top...
KIFF’S 10 MUST-SEE FILMS
Butler's top 10 Kansas International Film Festival picks: “Bazaar Bizarre”: A fanciful/disturbing riff on KC's own serial killer, Bob Berdella. (See story at right) “Dear Frankie”: Scottish hankie-grabber about a deaf boy yearning for a father. Sounds icky. Isn't....
Dear Frankie and the Masculine Principle (a la Gerard Butler) (Blog)
Dear Frankie (2004) is another of my Netflix pics. My husband and I were on the outs so he really didn't want to watch it with me. But he did anyway. Such a sport! Of course, he griped about it and his crankiness was wearing on me but we soon got into watching the...
Art-house scene passing L.A.
When Milestone Films recently brought The Clay Bird, a Bangladeshi film about growing up Muslim in a country about to ignite in revolution, to the U.S. art-house circuit, the film made its simultaneous debut in New York City and San Francisco, but not Los Angeles....
Jersey Girl DVD Extras
...Disc Extras Static menu with music Scene Access with 18 cues and remote access Subtitles/Captions in English, Spanish with remote access 5 Other Trailer(s) featuring Raising Helen, Finding Neverland, Shall We Dance?, Dear Frankie, The Alamo.10 Deleted Scenes ......
DEAR FRANKIE
(U.K.) A Miramax Films (U.S.)/Pathe Distribution (U.K.) release of a Pathe Pictures presentation in association with U.K. Film Council, Scottish Screen of a Scorpio Films production in association with Sigma Films, Inside Track Prods. Produced by Caroline Wood....
TENTH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
LOS ANGELES – Dawn Hudson, Executive Director of IFP/Los Angeles, announced today the winners for the Tenth Annual Los Angeles Film Festival including the winner of the Target Filmmaker Award (for Best Narrative Feature), which went to Ferenc Toth for "Unknown...
Star Turn: First, the Stranger, then stranger still
Scot Gerard Butler plays a guest father in 'Dear Frankie' before becoming the Phantom. [img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/4images/data/media/20/latimes_092604.jpg[/img] Few actors can do the "tall, dark and handsome" thing well enough to pull off a character known...
Dear Frankie Review
This moving Scottish drama has a strongly emotional punch that, nicely, never turns sappy or sentimental at all. Lizzie (Mortimer) is on the run again, moving with her 9-year-old son Frankie and her cantankerous mother (Riggans) to a new flat so her ex doesn't find...
FILM PRODUCERS TOUR SCHOOLS IN SEARCH OF DEAF BOY FOR STAR ROLE
A SCHOOLBOY is to get a chance of film stardom with a leading role in a pounds 3 million feature film to be shot in Scotland in the spring. The lucky youngster will follow in the footsteps of such recent discoveries as Martin Compston and Kathleen McDermott, who won...
Foreign films outshine American entries at Idaho International Film Festival
The Egyptian theatre was one of three venues in down town Boise participating in this years Idaho International Film Festival. The Flicks and Boise Center on the Grove were also participants . Over fifty films filled three theaters for four days as Boise residents...
THE RAZZ: MOVIE REVIEWS: FILM FESTIVAL THE HIGHLIGHTS
SCOTLAND is well represented at this year's 58th Edinburgh Film Festival - and it's probably just as well. Insiders claim there will be announcements next week about stars coming to the capital. But, for the moment, the films don't boast many big guns, leaving room...
Dear Frankie en el 2005
Vista estrenará en abril del próximo año el drama Dear Frankie. Lizzie (Mortimer) lleva años huyendo del padre de su hijo Frankie un niño sordo, a través de Escocia. En su huída, Lizzie ha creado una historia ficticia en la que el padre está permanente embarcado en un...
Frankie goes to Edinburgh
JUDGED as a filmmaking nation Scotland has always punched above its weight. Even with the well-documented handicaps of limited finance and poor distribution, we still manage to create exceedingly good films. This is a country of world-class talents, from Bill Forsyth...
What’s playing at FilmFest Kansas City
“Ambush” (2002; Finland, 123 minutes): Inspired by a true story, this war yarn takes place in the summer of 1941 when Finnish troops — mounted on bicycles — were mobilized along Russia's border. Sort of a Scandinavian “Private Ryan.” (Screening at 3:30 p.m. Monday)...
Interview – Cannes – Gerard Butler
His last two big movies have been Tomb Raider 2 and Timeline, but don’t hold that against him. Gerard Butler was the best thing in both those movies, and the tall, dark and handsome Scottish actor is on the verge of big things. Refreshingly down-to-earth, the 34...
Tribeca festgoers cross the party line
NEW YORK --- Tribeca bashes finished off with full downtown flair this past weekend, with slick back-to-back soirees at some of the neighborhood's grooviest destinations. Friday night featured a 20th anni bash for U.K.-based indie Working Title ("has it really been 20...
SCOTS’ CANNES-DO ATTITUDE
ALTHOUGH it is not necessarily a strong year for British film at Cannes, there will be a Scottish presence in the south of France this week, determinedly keeping the country's film industry foremost in the minds of distributors and directors. One Scottish filmmaker...
US studio snaps up British tearjerker
A GENTLE low-budget British film could be one of the surprise hits of the year after being seized by Miramax, the American movie giant, for initial screening in the United States rather than Britain. It is extremely rare for a British film to be shown in America...
Dear Frankie goes to Hollywood ;Acclaim for simple family drama shot in Greenock
HOLLYWOOD has embraced a low-budget Scottish film about a deaf boy from Greenock - in contrast to British reviewers who dismissed it as sentimental. Film reviewers from Hollywood, where Dear Frankie has already won a major distribution deal, loved the simple tale. In...