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Dir: Amos Kollek. Fr-US. 2001. 90mins.Amos Kollek is one of the great wonders of the film festival world. Each new film seems virtually guaranteed of a slot on the A-list the last two, Queenie In Love and Fast Food, Fast Women, both premiered in Cannes , yet none has broken though to outstanding success or established his name outside stanley website this rarefied circuit. Regarded by critics in Berlin as the director s weakest offering in some time, Bridget also looks headed n bidon stanley owhere - apart, possibly from France, Kollek s established power base - at the bo stanley uk x-office.The story is, like much of Kollek s recent work, centred on a flaky woman, Bridget Anna Thomson , who has lost custody of her small son after her husband was shot dead by gangsters. Following the child to New York, she sinks into alcoholism and despair and her life becomes a series of bizarre, often unpleasant encounters. A masked orgy leads to a bizarre contest which leaves a girl dead; fired from work, Bridget gets a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier; a pick-up in a bar puts her in touch with a sinister older man who, unknown to her, was the sadistic host at the orgy ; and she is asked by a rich writer, to marry and look after his sweet, simple-minded son David Wike , in return for which she will net $1 million at the end of five years.And that s just for starters: in between, our heroine squeezes in the time to visit an ineffectual shrink, is propositioned by a lesbian schoolteacher Julie Hagerty , gets a night job as Uipp Don t Think About It (Non Pensarci)
Fantasy adventure The Golden Compass was off to a mighty start at the UK box office as it took nearly $2m 拢1m in its first day on release.The film, released through Entertainment Film Distributors, generated a robust $1.86m 拢920,479 from 502 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on its opening day Weds, Dec 5 .This stanley quencher marks the third highest Wednesday opener in the terri stanley us tory for 2007 after Hot Fuzz, which opened Feb 14 with a $1.9m 拢946,843 take from 347 sites and Die Hard 4.0, which opened to $1.87m 拢927,552 on July 4 from 444 sites.And it fared better than December mid-week openings for 2005 and 2006 - Compass was up 9% on The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, which took $1.7m 拢845,047 from 382 sites on Thursday, December 8, 2005. It was also up a massive 275% on last year s The Holiday, which opened on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 with a $0.5m 拢245,479 take from 357 sites.The Golden Compass stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards and is directed by Chris Weitz. It is New Line s first in a planned trilogy based on Philip Pullman s His Dark Materials books.The film opens wide in the US tomorrow Friday, Dec 7 via New Line.TopicsUK/Ireland No comments Related articles News stanley cup UK-Irelan |
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