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Weekend
Newsreel - September 30, 2005
Compiled by the FilmBuffOnLine Staff
 Best
Foreign Film Oscar Contenders Begin To Be Announced-
With the application deadline looming, several of the 91 countries invited
to submit films for consideration for the Academy Awards Best Foreign
Language Feature Oscar have announced their submissions. China will be
entering the fantasy epic The Promise from director Kaige Chen (Farwell,
My Concubine, 1993) which, with a budget of $30 million, is the most
expensive Chinese film ever. Denmark’s entry is the comedy Adam’s
Apples. Hong Kong has entered director Peter Chan’s musical Perhaps
Love. The love story Paheli (Riddle) from director Amol Palekar
will represent India’s thriving film industry. Iran has submitted the
father/son drama Too Far, Too Close for consideration. South Africa
has submitted the drama Tsotsi, which has already been receiving
positive reviews at the various festivals it has screened at. Films are
selected by various groups within each country. Members of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Foreign Language Film Award Committee
then screen the films to determine the five nominees for Oscar voting. The
deadline for submissions is this Monday, October 3, 2005.
Stunt People Honored-
Kill
Bill, Vol. 2
and The Bourne Supremacy each earned a pair of awards at the 2005
Taurus World Stunt Awards held this past Sunday at the Paramount Pictures
lot. Kill Bill stunt women Zoe Bell and Monica Staggs shared the
trophies for Best Fight and Best Overall Stunt by a Woman. Bourne
Supremacy won for Best Work with a Vehicle for a breakneck car chase
sequence and Best Stunt Direction and/or 2nd Unit Direction in
a feature film. The prize for best overall stunt by a man went to Chris
Daniels and Michael Hugghins for their work on Spiderman 2.
Honorary awards were also presented to Kill Bill director Quentin
Tarantino, Sylvester Stallone and Vic Armstrong, who received a lifetime
achievement award for a career that included doubling for Harrison Ford in
the Indiana Jones series. The awards ceremony will air on the E!
cable channel on October 13 at 8pm.
 Francis Ford Coppola
Announces New Film-
After an
eight-year hiatus, Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola is set
to return to the director’s chair with Youth Without Youth, an
adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade’s novella. Financed by Coppola
himself and produced under his American Zoetrope production banner, the
film is the story of a college professor who suddenly finds himself a
pursued fugitive through pre-World War II Europe. The production is set to
begin early next week in Bucharest with Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara and
Bruno Ganz set to star. Coppola’s last film was 1997’s The Rainmaker.
IN REMEMBRANCE-
Thomas Bond -
(September 24) Actor, 79.
Joel Hirschhorn
- (September 18) Songwriter, 67.
Constance Moore
- (September 16) Actress, 84.
Sadamasa Arikawa
- (September 22) Special Effect Cameraman, 80.
Opening This Week In
Theaters-
Today
-
Capote
(NY, LA)
-
Duma
(LA)
-
Going
Shopping (NY, LA)
-
The
Greatest Game Ever Played
-
A
History Of Violence (wider)
-
Into
The Blue
-
Little
Manhattan (NY)
-
MirrorMask (NY)
-
Oliver
Twist (wide)
-
The
Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio (limited)
-
Proof
(top 40 markets)
-
Separate Lives (LA)
-
Serenity
-
Sueno
(limited)
-
Three
Days Of Rain (NY)
-
The
War Within (limited)
October 5
October 6
DVD Best Bets-
Judging
from the number of releases on this week’s schedule, it looks as though the
studios are already starting to push out numerous titles for the upcoming
holiday shopping season. There are numerous box sets being released to
satisfy any film fan’s genre tastes- Hitchcock fans have the mega-sized
Masterpiece Collection (with The Birds, Family Plot,
Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie, Psycho,
Rear Window, Rope, Saboteur, Shadow Of A Doubt,
Topaz, Torn Curtain, The Trouble With Harry and
Vertigo) Comedy fans get The Best Of Abbott and Costello:
Volume 4; and fans of 50s horror have The Val Lewton Horror
Collection (with Bedlam, Body Snatcher, The Cat
People, Curse Of The Cat People, The Ghost Ship, I
Walked With A Zombie, Isle Of The Dead, The Leopard Man,
The Seventh Victim) to look forward to… Spaghetti western fans
might want to look into picking up Sabata (1969) and The Return
Of Sabata (1971) both starring Lee Van Cleef… Director Walter Hill’s
The Warriors (1979) gets an Ultimate Director’s Cut release this
week… You can see the complete list of this week’s DVD Releases
here. |
