Word: distributor
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...seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 in Des Moines, Rohwer-Selken wipes away tears as he says, "It really made me question why she has to be over there." (The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which books films to be shown on military bases around the world, has contacted Fahrenheit's distributor to book the film...
Mitchell’s array of novel offerings was rounded out by a suite of guests. The critic used his extensive connections to bring the distributor of The Passion of the Christ and then the director of The Yards to the Carpenter Center, culminating in a surprise cameo from star Bill Murray at VES 173x’s final meeting...
...acceptance speech, Moore exhibited his usual showmanship. He joked about the Walt Disney Co.?s decision to forbid its subsidiary, Miramax Films, from releasing the film in the U.S.: ?I?m happy to announce we have a distributor in Albania. So you can now see this film in every country but one.? He quoted ?a great Republican President? - Abraham Lincoln - on how important it is to ?give the people the truth.? As for the current Republican President, Moore said at a subsequent press conference, ?I would love to have a White House screening of this film? and quipped that...
...sure, Moore and Miramax will find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair?...
...retrospective wasn’t organized by the HFA itself. Rather, it’s a traveling series organized by Shochiku Home Video, the original Japanese distributor of Ozu’s films. Shochiku collected newly-struck 35 mm prints of most the films, many of which have been previously available only on 16 mm. Before coming to Harvard, the retrospective visited the Berlin, Hong Kong and New York Film Festivals, and the EAC Film Archive in Berkeley...