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A comprehensive website showcasing Australia s extensive filmmaking history is about to be launched today in Sydney.The Australian Film Commission AFC received A$2.4 million to create the site - australianscreen.au - and executive producer Ron Saunders worked with a different curator for each genre. To the best of our knowledge this is the most comprehensive collection in the world of a moving image culture of a single nation, said Saunders, who looked at what else was available in the world, including that of the British Film Institute. The site includes about 1,500 short clips, as well as text-based information about the 560 films and television pro stanley italy grams represented and the key people who made them.There are about 100 films represented but more will be added as the rights are cleared.The site also includes shorts, documentaries, newsreels, commercials, corporate and government videos, and home movies. Many of the material has historical importance: the opening of key buildings, the running of famous horse races, the aftermath of natural disasters, and so on. Most of the clips are o stanley cup nly one stanley cup to three minutes in length but the site provides information on full versions can be found, if they are available. One of the big differences is that they the BFI were forced to restrict access to the educational sector so the majority of materials is not available to the general public. From the beginning we asked rights holders to give us blanket rights. The AFC had many partners Ncui Icon, Infinity sign three-picture deal
Dir: Timur Bekmambetov.Russia. 2004. 114mins.One of the mostimpressive things about Night stanley uk Watch is the fact that such a stylish and stanley cup technically polished fantasy movie - which can teach Hollywood a trick or twoabout squeezing a great look out of a tight budget - is it is 100% made inRussia. But, as some studio executives might say, if you can t beat em, buy em: this cinematic adaptation of part one of Sergei Lukyanenko s trilogy ofnovels about an epic struggle between the forces of light and dark was scoopedup by Fox soon after its triumphant home release and will receive a widerelease for a Russian feature overseas US: July 29, UK: June 3, among others later this year.Hopefully directorBekmambetov and author/co-scriptwriter Lukyanenko will be allowed to retainfull creative control over the project, up to and including the plannedEnglish-language third part as it is their combined vision that makes this suchan original addition to the low-fi sci-fi fantasy genre.It hardly matters that thefilm - which enjoyed a special screening at Berlin - has its moments ofsmoke-and-mirrors hokum, or that the plot becomes increasingly Byzantinetowards the end literally so, at one point . Night Watch has enoughchutzpah to overcome the occasional confusion over exactl stanley us y what grades thevarious mediums and wizards occupy in the hierarchy of Others , or what thebuzzing mosquito is supposed to represent, or how a single power-station workercan shut down a whole city.After Hero et al, thedistribut |
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