‘After decades of mass products, society wanted to move back to the artisanal and great quality’
The R250 million transaction involved dealing with the cinema group’s debt, as well as the purchase of 100% of its shares by UK and local firms
The season’s finale leaves our two reviewers wanting
With the invention of the cell phone, anyone can make a movie. With the creation of the 1-Minute Film Festival, anyone’s movie can be seen.
With the growth of South Africa’s film industry, royalties from music licensing is becoming an increasingly viable revenue stream for artists
The release of the new James Bond, film’s favourite super spy, is more significant than ever
Industry experts say movie theatres will survive the effects of the lockdown only if more of them start providing an experience viewers can’t replicate at home
In Kurdish-held areas of the northeast, filmmaker Shero Hinde is screening films in remote villages using just a laptop, projector and a canvas screen
Businessman and film doyen Moosa Moosa, the second generation of the Moosa film family, has passed away
AMC Entertainment has been granted the first licence to operate cinemas, with Saudi state media saying the US giant is expected to open 40 cinemas
Despite earlier reports in the German media that between 20 and 50 people were hurt, police said none of the hostages were injured in the attack.
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/ 22 January 2010
The Labia cinema in Cape Town gets the documentary season off to an early start with the Sunday Bloody Slamdance film festival this weekend.
The Hughes brothers’ debut feature, Menace II Society, was a clichéd story of the hood; filmed with flair on a budget of $3-million, it grossed over 10 times that amount. Dead Presidents, their second feature, was made with the support of big bucks — and while it covers familiar territory (the Vietnam war, ghetto violence), […]
The feel-good, teenage boy rite-of-passage pic set in the early Sixties has, in the Nineties, become a genre all of its own. The era of JF Kennedy is, after all, easy to invoke as white America’s age of innocence — a social-science lab purged of confounding variables where all the truisms about character, honour, manhood […]
Leaving Las Vegas is a pretty uncompromising look at the lives of two no-hopers loose in Las Vegas, who stumble across each other and fall in love. The two, superbly played by Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (see picture) , are a drunk and a prostitute respectively. Their fondness for each other, gained slowly, does […]