Film Constellation, the London-based company behind Cannes’ Un Certain Regard highlights “Joyland” and “Harka,” is set to ramp up its production pipeline with the launch of a dedicated banner in Paris and a raft of ambitious new projects.
Named Constellation Productions, the new outfit is on board to co-produce Oscar-nominated Quebecois director Jeremy Comte’s debut “Paradise” and Carmen Chaplin’s documentary feature “Charlie Chaplin: A Man of the World.”
Created by Fabien Westerhoff in 2016, Film Constellation kicked off its production activities two years ago and is now taking it to the next level to invest on more promising talents, as well as develop original projects. Edward Parodi, head of acquisitions at Film Constellation, will be working across acquisition and development for the sales and production outfits.
“The new production house is another step in that direction to develop original projects with historical talent relationships, and take an active part in international co-productions,...
Named Constellation Productions, the new outfit is on board to co-produce Oscar-nominated Quebecois director Jeremy Comte’s debut “Paradise” and Carmen Chaplin’s documentary feature “Charlie Chaplin: A Man of the World.”
Created by Fabien Westerhoff in 2016, Film Constellation kicked off its production activities two years ago and is now taking it to the next level to invest on more promising talents, as well as develop original projects. Edward Parodi, head of acquisitions at Film Constellation, will be working across acquisition and development for the sales and production outfits.
“The new production house is another step in that direction to develop original projects with historical talent relationships, and take an active part in international co-productions,...
- 5/25/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Actress Daphne Patakia has inked with Artist International Group for management.
She’ll be represented at Aig by partner Chris Prapha and founder David Unger.
Patakia most recently starred in Benedetta, the latest film from Paul Verhoeven, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama about a nun in 17th-century Italy, who suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions, is currently showing in French cinemas. It’s set to be released in the United States later this year.
The actress is currently shooting the second season of French television series Ovni(s) for Canal+.
She has also starred opposite Matt Dillon in Nimic, a short film directed by three-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos as well as Tony Gatlif’s Djam, which premiered at the the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. She is also known for her role as...
She’ll be represented at Aig by partner Chris Prapha and founder David Unger.
Patakia most recently starred in Benedetta, the latest film from Paul Verhoeven, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama about a nun in 17th-century Italy, who suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions, is currently showing in French cinemas. It’s set to be released in the United States later this year.
The actress is currently shooting the second season of French television series Ovni(s) for Canal+.
She has also starred opposite Matt Dillon in Nimic, a short film directed by three-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos as well as Tony Gatlif’s Djam, which premiered at the the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. She is also known for her role as...
- 8/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Man Without a Country: Gatlif Explores the Tribulations of Redemption in Oblique Character Study
French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif remains something of a European anomaly despite steady output since the 1970s, many of which have premiered at high profile film festivals, with Cannes remaining his mainstay. Often exploring the roots of his Romani culture through displaced characters, his nineteenth feature Tom Medina is purportedly partly autobiographical while revisiting similar themes and parameters.
While his 1993 musical Latcho Drom remains one of his most lauded efforts, the late 1990s and early 2000s afforded him significant visibility, including several projects starring a young Romain Duris, such as 2004’s Exils, which won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif remains something of a European anomaly despite steady output since the 1970s, many of which have premiered at high profile film festivals, with Cannes remaining his mainstay. Often exploring the roots of his Romani culture through displaced characters, his nineteenth feature Tom Medina is purportedly partly autobiographical while revisiting similar themes and parameters.
While his 1993 musical Latcho Drom remains one of his most lauded efforts, the late 1990s and early 2000s afforded him significant visibility, including several projects starring a young Romain Duris, such as 2004’s Exils, which won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
- 7/8/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Films will world premiere as part of Le Cinema de la Plage nightly screenings on the beach.
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the selection of films that will play in its evening Le Cinema de la Plage screenings, which take place at 9.30 pm every night on the Macé beach opposite the Majestic hotel.
The line-up features a mix of premieres and classic film titles.
Two titles, Tony Gatlif’s Tom Medina and Patrick Imbert’s animated adventure tale The Summit Of The Gods, will world premiere in the sidebar and are regarded as being part of Cannes 2021 Official Selection.
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the selection of films that will play in its evening Le Cinema de la Plage screenings, which take place at 9.30 pm every night on the Macé beach opposite the Majestic hotel.
The line-up features a mix of premieres and classic film titles.
Two titles, Tony Gatlif’s Tom Medina and Patrick Imbert’s animated adventure tale The Summit Of The Gods, will world premiere in the sidebar and are regarded as being part of Cannes 2021 Official Selection.
- 6/30/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Set to unfold during the busy summer break, the Cannes Film Festival will roll out a lineup of screenings, including world premieres and concerts on the beach aimed at holiday-makers and red carpet-jaded festival attendees.
Called Le cinema de la plage, the open-air screenings will run every evening at 9:30 p.m. on the beach across from the Majestic hotel and will be free and accessible to all.
As previously reported by Variety, the lineup of beach screenings boasts the European premiere of “F9,” the latest instalment of Universal’s action-packed “Fast & Furious” franchise with Vin Diesel, John Cena and Michelle Rodriguez.
Besides “F9,” Cannes will also host the screening of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” an entrancing big-screen version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia.” Both McQueen and Lee, who heads this year’s competition jury, will be there to present their respective films,...
Called Le cinema de la plage, the open-air screenings will run every evening at 9:30 p.m. on the beach across from the Majestic hotel and will be free and accessible to all.
As previously reported by Variety, the lineup of beach screenings boasts the European premiere of “F9,” the latest instalment of Universal’s action-packed “Fast & Furious” franchise with Vin Diesel, John Cena and Michelle Rodriguez.
Besides “F9,” Cannes will also host the screening of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” and Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” an entrancing big-screen version of David Byrne’s “American Utopia.” Both McQueen and Lee, who heads this year’s competition jury, will be there to present their respective films,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
They may have missed out on the red carpet, but Tom Medina, the new drama from Algerian director Tony Gatlif (Exiles) and Patrick Imbert’s animated feature The Summit of the Gods – both of which were picked for the canceled 2020 Cannes Film Festival – will still get their Croisette debut.
The festival has selected both films to be part of this year’s Cannes on the Beach program, the free-access, open-air cinema screenings held every night on the Macé beach facing the Majestic Hotel. Held back from release until now, Tom Medina and The Summit of the Gods will have their world premieres ...
The festival has selected both films to be part of this year’s Cannes on the Beach program, the free-access, open-air cinema screenings held every night on the Macé beach facing the Majestic Hotel. Held back from release until now, Tom Medina and The Summit of the Gods will have their world premieres ...
- 6/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
They may have missed out on the red carpet, but Tom Medina, the new drama from Algerian director Tony Gatlif (Exiles) and Patrick Imbert’s animated feature The Summit of the Gods – both of which were picked for the canceled 2020 Cannes Film Festival – will still get their Croisette debut.
The festival has selected both films to be part of this year’s Cannes on the Beach program, the free-access, open-air cinema screenings held every night on the Macé beach facing the Majestic Hotel. Held back from release until now, Tom Medina and The Summit of the Gods will have their world premieres ...
The festival has selected both films to be part of this year’s Cannes on the Beach program, the free-access, open-air cinema screenings held every night on the Macé beach facing the Majestic Hotel. Held back from release until now, Tom Medina and The Summit of the Gods will have their world premieres ...
- 6/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Ouf!” – “Phew!” in French: the sigh of relief was the first word to appear in the inaugural clip at the opening ceremony of Lyon’s Lumière Festival, which kicked off on Saturday night as the city was put on maximum alert amid the coronavirus pandemic.
While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.
Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film events, which celebrates both heritage cinema and more contemporary works. Among those, audiences will be able to discover no less than 23 premieres originally meant to be screened in Cannes before the festival was cancelled in the wake of the global lockdown.
This year’s opening ceremony, which normally takes places before a full house of more than 5,000 people in Lyon’s abattoir-turned-concert hall Tony Garnier,...
While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.
Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film events, which celebrates both heritage cinema and more contemporary works. Among those, audiences will be able to discover no less than 23 premieres originally meant to be screened in Cannes before the festival was cancelled in the wake of the global lockdown.
This year’s opening ceremony, which normally takes places before a full house of more than 5,000 people in Lyon’s abattoir-turned-concert hall Tony Garnier,...
- 10/11/2020
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
David Murgia, Slimane Dazi, Karoline Rose and Suzanne Aubert all shine bright in the cast of the filmmaker’s 19th feature, a Prince Films production sold by Les Films de Losange. Halted by the health crisis after several weeks of filming across February and March, Tony Gatlif revived his Tom Medina film-set at break-neck speed once lockdown had ended. He’d wrapped shooting by the end of May, becoming the first director in France (by far) to resurrect a suspended production, a fact which won’t come as a great surprise to many, given his cast-iron character teeming with love for life and freedom. Tom Medina is the 19th feature by the filmmaker, who has notably won acclaim in Locarno (scooping the Silver Leopard in 1997 for Gadjo dilo), Berlin (gracing the 2012 Panorama line-up with the documentary Indignados) and, most importantly, in Cannes, where he has featured in the Official Selection showcase.
The Cnc is also throwing its weight behind films put forward by Ursula Meier, Robert Guédiguian, Philippe Faucon, Tony Gatlif, Mona Achache and the duo composed of Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli. Seven projects were selected during the 5th and final session of the Cnc’s second advance on receipts 2019 committee. Standing out amongst these is Le temps d’aimer which will be Katell Quillévéré’s fourth feature film following on from 2010’s Love Like Poison (screened in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight 2010 and the winner of the Prix Jean Vigo), Suzanne and Heal The Living (unveiled in Venice’s Orizzonti line-up in 2016 before participating in Toronto’s Platform competition). Written by the filmmaker alongside Gilles Taurand, the story kicks off in 1947. Madeleine, a waitress in a hotel restaurant and the mother of a small...
At the conclusion of Wednesday’s morning Cannes press conference for Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, the festival opener “Everybody Knows,” the Iranian filmmaker snuck in one last comment, unprompted by the assembled crowd of international press or his starry cast of heavy-hitters like Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. After the conference wrapped, the “A Separation” filmmaker requested to have his microphone back, so that he could issue a comment on a situation clearly close to his heart.
“I thought perhaps we could go on to one last point,” he said. Farhadi pointed out that his is not the only Iranian film in competition this year, but that his fellow countryman Jafar Panahi was not in attendance to support his film “Three Faces” because of his ongoing house arrest in 2011 for charges of making propaganda.
The “Offside” and “The Circle” filmmaker was also banned by his own country from making films for twenty years,...
“I thought perhaps we could go on to one last point,” he said. Farhadi pointed out that his is not the only Iranian film in competition this year, but that his fellow countryman Jafar Panahi was not in attendance to support his film “Three Faces” because of his ongoing house arrest in 2011 for charges of making propaganda.
The “Offside” and “The Circle” filmmaker was also banned by his own country from making films for twenty years,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
London-based festival to open with Oh Lucy! with Josh Hartnett.
The 25th Raindance Film Festival (Sept 21 -Oct 2) has revealed the majority of its line-up and jury members.
The international premiere of Atsuko Hirayanagi’s Oh Lucy! (USA), starring Josh Hartnett, is the opening night film of the London-based event. The closing night film will be announced later this month.
The competition jury includes ex-bifa director Johanna Von Fischer, Spanish producer Rosa Bosch and actors Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Sean Bean (Game Of Thrones), Christopher Eccleston (Dr Who), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), Celia Imrie (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Training Day), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel Rwanda), Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul), Neil Marshall (Game Of Thrones) and Rachel Portman (Chocolat).
They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the European premiere of Koichiro Miki’s Noise and the world premiere of Evald Johnson’s High & Outside: A Baseball...
The 25th Raindance Film Festival (Sept 21 -Oct 2) has revealed the majority of its line-up and jury members.
The international premiere of Atsuko Hirayanagi’s Oh Lucy! (USA), starring Josh Hartnett, is the opening night film of the London-based event. The closing night film will be announced later this month.
The competition jury includes ex-bifa director Johanna Von Fischer, Spanish producer Rosa Bosch and actors Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Sean Bean (Game Of Thrones), Christopher Eccleston (Dr Who), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), Celia Imrie (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Training Day), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel Rwanda), Josh Whitehouse (Northern Soul), Neil Marshall (Game Of Thrones) and Rachel Portman (Chocolat).
They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the European premiere of Koichiro Miki’s Noise and the world premiere of Evald Johnson’s High & Outside: A Baseball...
- 8/15/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Project is debut feature from the director of award-winning short April 4th 1968.
Paris-based Mpm Films and Greek production company Blonde Sa are teaming on French director Myriam Gharbi’s debut feature Pirates.
The semi-autobiographical tale revolves around a rebellious young woman from a tough outer-city suburb who is given a new lease of life when she hooks up with two anarchical squatters – Z and Manos - after serving time in prison on drug-dealing charges.
It was among nine upcoming productions presented at the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab pitching event on Friday.
Mpm producer Claire Gadéa, who is lead producing out of France, previously produced Philippe Lacôte’s Run, which was also developed at the lab before going on to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2014.
Gadéa has also already secured development money from France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
Blonde Sa founding chief Fenia Cossovitsa is one of Greece’s best known independent producers...
Paris-based Mpm Films and Greek production company Blonde Sa are teaming on French director Myriam Gharbi’s debut feature Pirates.
The semi-autobiographical tale revolves around a rebellious young woman from a tough outer-city suburb who is given a new lease of life when she hooks up with two anarchical squatters – Z and Manos - after serving time in prison on drug-dealing charges.
It was among nine upcoming productions presented at the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab pitching event on Friday.
Mpm producer Claire Gadéa, who is lead producing out of France, previously produced Philippe Lacôte’s Run, which was also developed at the lab before going on to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2014.
Gadéa has also already secured development money from France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
Blonde Sa founding chief Fenia Cossovitsa is one of Greece’s best known independent producers...
- 7/16/2017
- ScreenDaily
Algerian-born French writer-director Tony Gatlif has carved a unique niche making quasi-documentary dramas rooted in underclass folk music and the marginalized migrant groups who perform it. A former best director prize-winner, Gatlif's fifth Cannes premiere, Djam, revolves around the subculture of "rebetiko," an emotionally charged storytelling style that spread from poor urban communities in Greece and Turkey to the islands of the Aegean. The plot loosely mirrors key themes in the songs, which are steeped in exile and loss, but still lusty and defiant.
Djam is very much in Gatlif's signature style, with flavorsome musical set-pieces taking precedence over scrappy...
Djam is very much in Gatlif's signature style, with flavorsome musical set-pieces taking precedence over scrappy...
- 5/26/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Cannes Classics additions also include Michael Bay’s Bad Boys.
Cannes Classics is understood to have added three movies to its lineup in the shape of Bugsy Malone, Saturday Night Fever and Bad Boys.
Director Alan Parker has been closely involved in the restoration of his 1976 classic Bugsy Malone, which is due to get a Cinéma de la Plage (beach screening) on Friday May 19th.
The director’s cut of John Travolta dance drama Saturday Night Fever, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with a Us re-release, is slated for a Cinéma de la Plage on Saturday 20th May.
The cut will include three scenes not in the original release.
Michael Bay’s 1995 action-comedy Bad Boys will also get a beach screening on Monday 22 May. The film’s star Will Smith is on the festival jury this year.
The trio are among the Classics lineup restored by distributor Park Circus, which has also...
Cannes Classics is understood to have added three movies to its lineup in the shape of Bugsy Malone, Saturday Night Fever and Bad Boys.
Director Alan Parker has been closely involved in the restoration of his 1976 classic Bugsy Malone, which is due to get a Cinéma de la Plage (beach screening) on Friday May 19th.
The director’s cut of John Travolta dance drama Saturday Night Fever, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with a Us re-release, is slated for a Cinéma de la Plage on Saturday 20th May.
The cut will include three scenes not in the original release.
Michael Bay’s 1995 action-comedy Bad Boys will also get a beach screening on Monday 22 May. The film’s star Will Smith is on the festival jury this year.
The trio are among the Classics lineup restored by distributor Park Circus, which has also...
- 5/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera, Li Ruijun’s Walking Past The Future join Ucr.
Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story is one of several additions to the Cannes line-up announced on Thursday.
The film will play out of competition and stars Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner and Vincent Perez and tells of a writer who gets involved with an obsessive fan.
Meanwhile Ruben Östlund’s The Square lands a competition slot. Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West star in the drama about a city square where there are no rules. Östlund’s last film, Force Majeure, won the Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2014.
There are two additions to Un Certain Regard. Political drama La Cordillera stars Ricardo Darin and is Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s follow-up to his Cannes Critics’ Week 2015 Nespresso Grand Prize-winner Paulina. The other new selection is Walking Past The Future from Li Ruijun.
Joiing the Special Screenings roster are Barbet Schroeder’s [link...
Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story is one of several additions to the Cannes line-up announced on Thursday.
The film will play out of competition and stars Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner and Vincent Perez and tells of a writer who gets involved with an obsessive fan.
Meanwhile Ruben Östlund’s The Square lands a competition slot. Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West star in the drama about a city square where there are no rules. Östlund’s last film, Force Majeure, won the Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2014.
There are two additions to Un Certain Regard. Political drama La Cordillera stars Ricardo Darin and is Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s follow-up to his Cannes Critics’ Week 2015 Nespresso Grand Prize-winner Paulina. The other new selection is Walking Past The Future from Li Ruijun.
Joiing the Special Screenings roster are Barbet Schroeder’s [link...
- 4/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
French film industry to explore Vr at first edition of public festival running June 17-18 at Paris’s Forum des Image.
Claire Denis, Stéphane Brizé, Tony Gatlif and Rithy Panh will be among filmmakers exploring virtual reality at the first edition of the Paris Virtual Film Festival.
They are set to participate in a Vr Lab aimed at cinema professionals taking place within the public festival running June 17-18 at the Forum Des Images.
Michel Reilhac, the former Arte Cinema chief-turned-transmedia and Vr pioneer, initiated and is co-curating the entire festival.
He says the idea for the lab was born...
Claire Denis, Stéphane Brizé, Tony Gatlif and Rithy Panh will be among filmmakers exploring virtual reality at the first edition of the Paris Virtual Film Festival.
They are set to participate in a Vr Lab aimed at cinema professionals taking place within the public festival running June 17-18 at the Forum Des Images.
Michel Reilhac, the former Arte Cinema chief-turned-transmedia and Vr pioneer, initiated and is co-curating the entire festival.
He says the idea for the lab was born...
- 6/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
Mubi is showing Jean-Charles Hue's Eat Your Bones exclusively May 16 - June 15, 2016.As befits a mélange of genre trappings and documentary contours, Jean-Charles Hue’s Eat Your Bones is riddled with elements chafing at each other—daybreak and dusk, reverent sermons and macho bluster, an outlaw’s perpetual flight and a community’s promise of stability. Opposites right out of a 1950s western, but the setting here is a Yeniche camp, a circle of trailers and tents on the rural periphery of French society. Introduced zipping across a battered meadow on the back of a motorcycle, the 19-year-old protagonist Jason (Jason François) faces a pair of imminent events: his upcoming baptism (“Christians can’t go wild,” he worries) and the return of his brother Fred (Frédéric Dorkel), fresh off a 15-year prison stint and starved for barbecue meat and nocturnal joyrides. (Their reunion is filmed from a low angle...
- 5/15/2016
- MUBI
Off With Head: Iosseliani Returns with Breezy Cluster of Vignettes
Fans of Georgian auteur Otar Iosseliani will be delighted to find the octogenarian in top form with his latest effort, Winter Song (Chant d’hiver), as the filmmaker enters his sixth decade in filmmaking. Revealing a new title every five years or so, Iosseliani continues to work in French, though this latest filmed partially in Georgia as well. Lovers of his first French production, 1984’s masterful Favorites of the Moon should be pleased to note his latest is modeled via the same series of vaguely interconnected vignettes across time periods. Several notable names float around in the vast cast in this mirthful, even silly portrait of a modern Parisian apartment block unknowingly haunted and connected to the skull of a French aristocrat who met an unhappy end with the guillotine. Hardly as macabre as its grisly beginning would indicate, Iosseliani...
Fans of Georgian auteur Otar Iosseliani will be delighted to find the octogenarian in top form with his latest effort, Winter Song (Chant d’hiver), as the filmmaker enters his sixth decade in filmmaking. Revealing a new title every five years or so, Iosseliani continues to work in French, though this latest filmed partially in Georgia as well. Lovers of his first French production, 1984’s masterful Favorites of the Moon should be pleased to note his latest is modeled via the same series of vaguely interconnected vignettes across time periods. Several notable names float around in the vast cast in this mirthful, even silly portrait of a modern Parisian apartment block unknowingly haunted and connected to the skull of a French aristocrat who met an unhappy end with the guillotine. Hardly as macabre as its grisly beginning would indicate, Iosseliani...
- 3/8/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Locarno’s Golden Leopard has been awarded to Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.Scroll down for full list of winners
The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.
On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.
“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.
“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...
The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.
On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.
“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.
“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...
- 8/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Pedro Costa's Horse Money
The Locarno Film Festival has announced their lineup for the 67th edition, taking place this August between the 6th and 16th. It speaks for itself, but, um, wow...
"Every film festival, be it small or large, claims to offer, if not an account of the state of things, then an updated map of the art form and the world it seeks to represent. This cartography should show both the major routes and the byways, along with essential places to visit and those that are more unusual. The Festival del film Locarno is no exception to the rule, and I think that looking through the program you will be able to distinguish the route map for this edition." — Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director
Above: Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France
Concorso Internazionale (Official Competition)
A Blast (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands)
Alive (Jungbum Park, South Korea)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa,...
The Locarno Film Festival has announced their lineup for the 67th edition, taking place this August between the 6th and 16th. It speaks for itself, but, um, wow...
"Every film festival, be it small or large, claims to offer, if not an account of the state of things, then an updated map of the art form and the world it seeks to represent. This cartography should show both the major routes and the byways, along with essential places to visit and those that are more unusual. The Festival del film Locarno is no exception to the rule, and I think that looking through the program you will be able to distinguish the route map for this edition." — Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director
Above: Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France
Concorso Internazionale (Official Competition)
A Blast (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands)
Alive (Jungbum Park, South Korea)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa,...
- 7/25/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Juliette Binoche - star of Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria - and recipient of a career achievement award in Locarno
With special career achievement awards for stellar actresses Mia Farrow and Juliette Binoche and the veteran Armin Mueller-Stahl, as well as a line-up of such diverse talents as Dario Argento, Agnès Varda, Aleksandr Sokurov and Olivier Assayas, the Locarno Film Festival’s director Carlo Chatrian today (16 July) unveiled the cornucopia of delights in store for next month’s bumper 67th edition.
Other names figuring in the cast list include Luc Besson (for the opening film Lucy with Scarlett Johannson), cinematographer Garrett Brown and Spanish director Víctor Erice (both the subject of special focuses and workshop sessions), as well as American star Melanie Griffith, and French actress Julie Depardieu.
The vast 8000-seat Piazza Grande open air auditorium will see a host of international and world premieres among them Jean-Jacques Zilbermann...
With special career achievement awards for stellar actresses Mia Farrow and Juliette Binoche and the veteran Armin Mueller-Stahl, as well as a line-up of such diverse talents as Dario Argento, Agnès Varda, Aleksandr Sokurov and Olivier Assayas, the Locarno Film Festival’s director Carlo Chatrian today (16 July) unveiled the cornucopia of delights in store for next month’s bumper 67th edition.
Other names figuring in the cast list include Luc Besson (for the opening film Lucy with Scarlett Johannson), cinematographer Garrett Brown and Spanish director Víctor Erice (both the subject of special focuses and workshop sessions), as well as American star Melanie Griffith, and French actress Julie Depardieu.
The vast 8000-seat Piazza Grande open air auditorium will see a host of international and world premieres among them Jean-Jacques Zilbermann...
- 7/16/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard are world premieres; Juliette Binoche to receive Excellence Award.
Full details of the line-up for the 67th Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 6-16, were unveiled at a press conference in the Swiss capital Berne today.
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard in the festival’s International Competition section are world premiers including Syllas Tzoumerkas’s A Blast [pictured], Jungbum Park’s Alive (South Korea), Paul Vecchiali’s White Nights On The Pier (France) and Yury Bykov’s The Fool (Russia). International premieres include Alex Ross Perry’s hotly antipated Us comedy Listen Up Philip starring Jason Schwartzman who is expected to attend.
The Piazza Grande line-up includes the international premieres of Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs, Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ critically acclaimed Iceland set Land Ho! Which world premiered at Sundance, and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria, which played in competition in Cannes. World premieres...
Full details of the line-up for the 67th Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 6-16, were unveiled at a press conference in the Swiss capital Berne today.
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard in the festival’s International Competition section are world premiers including Syllas Tzoumerkas’s A Blast [pictured], Jungbum Park’s Alive (South Korea), Paul Vecchiali’s White Nights On The Pier (France) and Yury Bykov’s The Fool (Russia). International premieres include Alex Ross Perry’s hotly antipated Us comedy Listen Up Philip starring Jason Schwartzman who is expected to attend.
The Piazza Grande line-up includes the international premieres of Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs, Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ critically acclaimed Iceland set Land Ho! Which world premiered at Sundance, and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria, which played in competition in Cannes. World premieres...
- 7/16/2014
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
In his almost 40-year career, writer-director Tony Gatlif has taken an admirable stand for the underdogs in French society, particularly Gypsies (Latcho Drom) and Africans (Time for Outrage!) Geronimo returns to the winning gambit of contemporary ethnic music and dance he does so well, and also to his typical problem of a weak screenplay. If this drama about a woman who works with kids in a French housing project was only able to maintain the energy and excitement of its acrobatic, show-stopping hip hop numbers, it could reach out to just the kind of angry, disenfranchised people
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- 5/20/2014
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Wang Chao’s feature to premiere in Un Certain Regard.
Paris-based sales company has picked up international sales rights to Wang Chao’s Fantasia ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes this year.
Set against the backdrop of a contemporary, Chinese industrial city, the film revolves around a family pushed to the limits, socially and economically, by the father’s hospitalisation. Against this background, the youngest son escapes into fantasy world.
It is the second time Wang’s work has screened in Un Certain Regard, after Luxury Car which premiered in the section in 2006, picking up one of the peripheral prizes.
The director is currently developing a road movie set between Beijing, Tibet, Paris and Provence called Looking for Rohmer, in which French actor Jérémie Elkaim and Chinese actor Gen Han are set to co-star.
Other Official Selection titles on Les Films Du Losange’s slate include Tony Gatlif’s Geronimo, about a young...
Paris-based sales company has picked up international sales rights to Wang Chao’s Fantasia ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes this year.
Set against the backdrop of a contemporary, Chinese industrial city, the film revolves around a family pushed to the limits, socially and economically, by the father’s hospitalisation. Against this background, the youngest son escapes into fantasy world.
It is the second time Wang’s work has screened in Un Certain Regard, after Luxury Car which premiered in the section in 2006, picking up one of the peripheral prizes.
The director is currently developing a road movie set between Beijing, Tibet, Paris and Provence called Looking for Rohmer, in which French actor Jérémie Elkaim and Chinese actor Gen Han are set to co-star.
Other Official Selection titles on Les Films Du Losange’s slate include Tony Gatlif’s Geronimo, about a young...
- 5/8/2014
- ScreenDaily
Above: Sophia Loren, this year's Guest of Honor, in Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style
The following films comprise this year's slate of Cannes Classics:
Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
Regards sur une revolution: Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (Marceline Loridan & Joris Ivens)
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)
Overlord (Stuart Cooper)
Fear (Roberto Rossellini)
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
Dragon Inn (King Hu)
Daybreak (Marcel Carné)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
Gracious Living (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)
Les violons du bal (Michel Drach)
Blue Mountains (Eldar Shengelaia)
Lost Horizon (Frank Capra)
La chienne (Jean Renoir)
Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
8½ (Federico Fellini)
Two Documentaries about Cinema:
Life Itself (Steve James)
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (Hilla Medalia)
None of these films will be presented on film.
The following films comprise this year's slate of Cannes Classics:
Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
Regards sur une revolution: Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (Marceline Loridan & Joris Ivens)
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)
Overlord (Stuart Cooper)
Fear (Roberto Rossellini)
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
Dragon Inn (King Hu)
Daybreak (Marcel Carné)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
Gracious Living (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)
Les violons du bal (Michel Drach)
Blue Mountains (Eldar Shengelaia)
Lost Horizon (Frank Capra)
La chienne (Jean Renoir)
Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
8½ (Federico Fellini)
Two Documentaries about Cinema:
Life Itself (Steve James)
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (Hilla Medalia)
None of these films will be presented on film.
- 5/1/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Cannes Film Festival has added more than 30 films to its lineup, including a new feature by French director André Téchiné, revival screenings of “Paris, Texas,” “8 ½” and “Lost Horizon” and documentaries about Roger Ebert and Cannon Films. Six of the films announced on Wednesday have been added to the Cannes official selection, though only Kornél Mundruczó's “White Dog” (“Feher Isten”) will screen in competition, as part of the Un Certain Regard section. The others, including Téchiné's “L'homme qu'on aimait trop,” Tony Gatlif's “Geromino” and Pablo Fendrik's “El Ardor” (starring Cannes jury member Gael Garcia Bernal) will be.
- 4/30/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) is just two weeks away and in spirit, the Cannes Classics lineup of restored masterpieces new and old has been unveiled. The Cannes Classics guest-of-honor will be Sophia Loren, who won Best Actress in 1961 for Vittorio De Sica's "Two Women," and presided over the Jury in 1966. Loren will present a screening of her latest, Edoardo Ponti's short film "La Voce Humana," along with a newly buffed print of De Sica's "Marriage Italian Style" from 1964. She'll also give a masterclass at Cannes' Salle Bunuel. Meanwhile, the festival has added six more features to its official selection. Pablo Fendrik’s Western "El Ardor," Laurent Becue-Renard's doc "Of Men and War," Adilkhan Yerzhanov's "The Owners" and Tony Gatlif's "Geronimo" will play in the Special Screenings section, while Andre Techine's "In The Name of My Daughter" will screen out-of-competition, and Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" will play Un Certain Regard.
- 4/30/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
It's customary for a few films to be added to the Cannes Film Festival lineup in the weeks following the initial announcement, raising cinephiles' hopes for whatever big-name prospect was left out to begin with -- and usually dashing them. A further six films were added today, the highest-profile of which is another French title: André Téchiné's "In the Name of My Daughter," starring Guillaume Canet and Catherine Deneuve. None of them, however, will play in Competition, which remains fixed at 18 features -- currently the lowest number since the 1990 festival. The new arrivals are: "In the Name of My Daughter" (Out of Competition): Titled "The Man Who Loved Too Much" in French, the latest from veteran director André Téchiné is based on the mysterious real-life case of heiress Agnes Le Roux, who disappeared without trace in 1977. Adele Haenel ("House of Tolerance") plays Le Roux, Catherine Deneuve her mother Renee,...
- 4/30/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Six films were added to the Cannes Film Festival, including premieres starring Catherine Deneuve and Gael Garcia Bernal.
Deneuve stars in director André Téchiné’s L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In The Name of my Daughter), which will be screening out of competition. Pablo Fendrik’s El Ardor, starring Bernal, is one of four special screenings added to the Cannes slate.
The other three special screenings are Of Men and War (Des Hommes et de la guerre) by Laurent Bécue-Renard, The Owners by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, and Géronimo by Tony Gatlif.
Kornél Mundruczó’s Fehér Isten (White God) will play...
Deneuve stars in director André Téchiné’s L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In The Name of my Daughter), which will be screening out of competition. Pablo Fendrik’s El Ardor, starring Bernal, is one of four special screenings added to the Cannes slate.
The other three special screenings are Of Men and War (Des Hommes et de la guerre) by Laurent Bécue-Renard, The Owners by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, and Géronimo by Tony Gatlif.
Kornél Mundruczó’s Fehér Isten (White God) will play...
- 4/30/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet in L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop, a late addition to the Cannes line-up
With only two weeks to go before the start of the 67th edition of this year's Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), the event's artistic director today (April 30) has added six titles to the official selection, including an out-of-competition slot for veteran André Techiné's latest L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop (literally The Man Who Was Loved Too Much) with Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet.
The other additions include White Dog (Fehér Isten) by Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó in Un Certain Regard, which traces the misadventures of a girl and her best friend, a canine, in a world of winners and losers.
There will be Special Screenings for Of Men and War (Des Hommes Et De La Guerre), a documentary by Laurent Bécue-Renard; The Owners by Kazakhstan film-maker Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Géronimo from France's Tony Gatlif, and starring...
With only two weeks to go before the start of the 67th edition of this year's Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), the event's artistic director today (April 30) has added six titles to the official selection, including an out-of-competition slot for veteran André Techiné's latest L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop (literally The Man Who Was Loved Too Much) with Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet.
The other additions include White Dog (Fehér Isten) by Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó in Un Certain Regard, which traces the misadventures of a girl and her best friend, a canine, in a world of winners and losers.
There will be Special Screenings for Of Men and War (Des Hommes Et De La Guerre), a documentary by Laurent Bécue-Renard; The Owners by Kazakhstan film-maker Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Géronimo from France's Tony Gatlif, and starring...
- 4/30/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New additions include El Ardor [pictured] by Pablo Fendrik starring Cannes jury member Gael Garcia Bernal, and a film starring Catherine Deneuve based on the mysterious disappearance of French casino heiress Agnès Le Roux.
The Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) has added six titles to its Official Selection in the Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard and Special Screenings strands.
L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In the Name of my Daughter), directed by André Téchiné, will feature in the Out of Competition line-up. Elle Driver handles international sales.
The 71-year-old French director has been in the running for the Palme d’Or six times and while the big prize eluded him he won best director in 1985 with erotic drama Rendez-vous.
His new film stars Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel in a drama inspired by Agnès Le Roux case that has remained a mystery since 1977. Le Roux was a young, glamorous heiress...
The Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) has added six titles to its Official Selection in the Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard and Special Screenings strands.
L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In the Name of my Daughter), directed by André Téchiné, will feature in the Out of Competition line-up. Elle Driver handles international sales.
The 71-year-old French director has been in the running for the Palme d’Or six times and while the big prize eluded him he won best director in 1985 with erotic drama Rendez-vous.
His new film stars Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel in a drama inspired by Agnès Le Roux case that has remained a mystery since 1977. Le Roux was a young, glamorous heiress...
- 4/30/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
With only hours ago before the official selection for the Main Competition is announced, we’ve narrowed our final predictions to the following titles that we’re crystal-balling as the films that will be included on Thierry Fremaux’s highly anticipated list. Despite an obvious drought of Asian auteurs (we’re thinking the rumored frontrunner Takashi Miike won’t be included in tomorrow’s list) who’s to say there won’t be some definite surprises, like Jia Zhang-ke’s A Touch of Sin last year.
Several hopefuls appear not to be ready in time, including Malick, Hsou-hsien, Cristi Puiu, and Innarritu, to name a few. But there does appear to be a high quantity of exciting titles from some of cinema’s leading auteurs. We’re still a bit tentative about whether Xavier Dolan’s latest, Mommy, will get a main competition slot—instead, we’re predicting another surprise,...
Several hopefuls appear not to be ready in time, including Malick, Hsou-hsien, Cristi Puiu, and Innarritu, to name a few. But there does appear to be a high quantity of exciting titles from some of cinema’s leading auteurs. We’re still a bit tentative about whether Xavier Dolan’s latest, Mommy, will get a main competition slot—instead, we’re predicting another surprise,...
- 4/17/2014
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Director [pictured] to start shooting gritty drama in France in June.
French director Philippe Claudel is set to work with key cast members of Stranger by the Lake – Pierre Deladonchamps and Patrick D’Assumçao – on his upcoming film (childhood).
The picture, which is due to shoot in France in June, revolves around 13-year-old Jimmy, a teenager forced to grow-up too soon due to his turbulent home-life, caught between a depressed mother and a controlling stepfather.
Deladonchamps, D’Assumçao and Angelica Sarre feature in the cast alongside two unknown siblings in the child roles.
The €3.9m production is due to start shooting in north-eastern France in June. Les Films du Losange, which is also producing, will start pre-sales on (childhood) at the Efm.
Claudel is best known internationally for I Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman re-building her life after 15 years in prison, which competed at the Berlinale in 2008 and also won a Bafta...
French director Philippe Claudel is set to work with key cast members of Stranger by the Lake – Pierre Deladonchamps and Patrick D’Assumçao – on his upcoming film (childhood).
The picture, which is due to shoot in France in June, revolves around 13-year-old Jimmy, a teenager forced to grow-up too soon due to his turbulent home-life, caught between a depressed mother and a controlling stepfather.
Deladonchamps, D’Assumçao and Angelica Sarre feature in the cast alongside two unknown siblings in the child roles.
The €3.9m production is due to start shooting in north-eastern France in June. Les Films du Losange, which is also producing, will start pre-sales on (childhood) at the Efm.
Claudel is best known internationally for I Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman re-building her life after 15 years in prison, which competed at the Berlinale in 2008 and also won a Bafta...
- 2/6/2014
- ScreenDaily
It made its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival last year, and has been touring the film festival circuit since then. It was also 1 of 71 films screened for as many as 450 international distributors at the 14th Rendez-vous with French Cinema market in Paris, France, last spring. Directed by Frenchman Tony Gatlif, the drama is titled Indignados, and stars newcomer Mamebetty Honoré Diallo as Betty, a young undocumented immigrant from the African continent (although the synop doesn't say what country exactly; however, given her real name, I'd guess Senegal), travelling along the edge of the borders of a Europe that's "on the verge of collapse in terms of its social...
- 5/29/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Morelia, Mexico -- Coming off a big win at Cannes earlier this year, Mexican writer-director Michel Franco has launched production and distribution company Lucia Films with producer Moises Zonana. Franco wrote and directed the bullying-themed drama Despues de Lucia (After Lucia), winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Story: Cannes 2012: Un Certain Regard Top Prize Goes to Michel Franco's 'After Lucia' Lucia Films currently is developing Estrella Gitana (Gypsy Star), which brings together award-winning director Tony Gatlif (Exiles) and Miss Bala screenwriter Mauricio Katz. The shingle also is
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- 11/5/2012
- by John Hecht
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indignados, which will premier at Berlin film festival, is loosely based on essay by 94-year-old concentration camp survivor
The traditional way of depicting history on the big screen is to wait a while after something has happened before turning it into a film. But one of the most talked-about premieres at the Berlin film festival depicts a chapter of the history books very much still being written: the Occupy movement.
Indignados (The Outraged) is loosely based on Indignez-vous! (Time For Outrage), an essay by Stéphane Hessel, a 94-year-old concentration camp survivor and former diplomat and ambassador. The slim volume, which urges readers to take action against the unfairness of modern society, was translated into at least 40 languages and has become the set text of the civilian movements that have occupied public spaces around the globe.
The feature film tells the story of an African immigrant, Betty, who washes up on...
The traditional way of depicting history on the big screen is to wait a while after something has happened before turning it into a film. But one of the most talked-about premieres at the Berlin film festival depicts a chapter of the history books very much still being written: the Occupy movement.
Indignados (The Outraged) is loosely based on Indignez-vous! (Time For Outrage), an essay by Stéphane Hessel, a 94-year-old concentration camp survivor and former diplomat and ambassador. The slim volume, which urges readers to take action against the unfairness of modern society, was translated into at least 40 languages and has become the set text of the civilian movements that have occupied public spaces around the globe.
The feature film tells the story of an African immigrant, Betty, who washes up on...
- 2/10/2012
- by Helen Pidd
- The Guardian - Film News
Following up the initial announcement of titles, the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival revealed it will open with the period drama Les Adieux à la reine (Farewell My Queen) today. From director Benoît Jacquot, the drama stars Inglourious Basterds lead Diane Kruger, as well as Léa Seydoux who broke-out in Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol this year. Based on, Chantal Thomas’ novel we have the first stills of the film (from Lumiere via The Playlist) that follows the “first few days of the French Revolution from the perspective of the servants at Versailles.”
Kruger, who plays Marie Antoinette here, has only appeared in one big film following her post-Basterds role with Unknown, but I look forward to her future work, especially with this film. I thought Seydoux was great as an action villain in Ghotocol and excited to see her career rise. Check out the stills below,...
Kruger, who plays Marie Antoinette here, has only appeared in one big film following her post-Basterds role with Unknown, but I look forward to her future work, especially with this film. I thought Seydoux was great as an action villain in Ghotocol and excited to see her career rise. Check out the stills below,...
- 1/4/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival to be held from February 9-19, 2012 announced the list of films to be screened in Panorama section. The lineup includes renowned names such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Volker Schlöndorff, Cao Hamburger, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Teona Strugar Mitevska.
No Indian film has yet found a place in Berlinale Panorama 2012. Last year Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in this section.
Feature films to date:
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien,Taiwan
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan, Ireland
Elles by Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
Fon Tok Kuen Fah (Headshot) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France
From Seoul To Varanasi by Kyuhwan Jeon, Republic of Korea
Hot boy noi loan – cau chuyen ve thang cuoi, co gai diem va con vit...
No Indian film has yet found a place in Berlinale Panorama 2012. Last year Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in this section.
Feature films to date:
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien,Taiwan
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan, Ireland
Elles by Malgoska Szumowska, France/Poland/Germany
Fon Tok Kuen Fah (Headshot) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/France
From Seoul To Varanasi by Kyuhwan Jeon, Republic of Korea
Hot boy noi loan – cau chuyen ve thang cuoi, co gai diem va con vit...
- 1/4/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Berlinale's announced today that 20 films are now lined up for its Panorama program. All in all, around 50 titles will make up the main program, Panorama Special and Panorama Dokumente.
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Toon, Wu Nien-Jen, Sylvia Chang, Chen Guo-Fu, Wei Te-Sheng, Chung Meng-Hung, Chang Tso-Chi, Arvin Chen, Yang Ya-Che and others, Taiwan — see a full report from the Taipei Film Commission: "Funded by the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Republic of China Centenary Foundation, 10+10 [is] a movie comprised of 20 short films by 10 renowned and 10 emerging Taiwanese filmmakers."
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
With Fehd Benchemsi, Fouad Labiad, Mouhcine Malzi, Imane Elmechrafi, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
With Martina Gedeck — Synopsis from The Match Factory: "(1.) The wall is a highly unusual exploration of solitude and survival. (2.) It is the story of a woman who is separated from the...
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Toon, Wu Nien-Jen, Sylvia Chang, Chen Guo-Fu, Wei Te-Sheng, Chung Meng-Hung, Chang Tso-Chi, Arvin Chen, Yang Ya-Che and others, Taiwan — see a full report from the Taipei Film Commission: "Funded by the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Republic of China Centenary Foundation, 10+10 [is] a movie comprised of 20 short films by 10 renowned and 10 emerging Taiwanese filmmakers."
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
With Fehd Benchemsi, Fouad Labiad, Mouhcine Malzi, Imane Elmechrafi, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
With Martina Gedeck — Synopsis from The Match Factory: "(1.) The wall is a highly unusual exploration of solitude and survival. (2.) It is the story of a woman who is separated from the...
- 1/4/2012
- MUBI
The Berlin International Film Festival has slated twenty films to play in the fest's Panorama Program, which will include fifty across three sections (Main Programme, Panorama Special and Panorama Dokumente series) by the time the fest launches February 9 for ten days. Among the twenty confirmed titles are French director Tony Gatlif's "Indignados" and Malgoska Szumeowska's "Elles," from Poland, starring Juliette Binoche. Among the countries represented are Brazil, Korea, France, Thailand, Germany, Canada, Serbia, Spain and Vietnam. The twenty announced titles are listed below. Indiewire has more details. "10+10" by Hou...
- 1/3/2012
- Thompson on Hollywood
Reviewed by Bob Hill
(March 2011)
Directed/Written by: Tony Gatlif
Starring: Mark Lavoine, Marie-Josée Croze and James Thierrée
France, 1943. The Nazi occupation is in full swing. For the natives, life under Hitler’s regime is oppressive at best. For the gypsies who travel back and forth along the Burgundy countryside desperate for work, it might as well be hell.
Gypsies are considered vermin by the Nazis — rounded up on sight and imprisoned at internment camps for one to five years. “Korkoro” is the real-life story of one such band of tramps who were hunted like animals, imprisoned for their vagrancy and ultimately made to pay the ultimate price for their beliefs.
It’s a tragic story, to be sure. But it’s also one that’s been told several times, to the extent that the audience will likely find itself asking, “Why now?”
The answer to that question may have...
(March 2011)
Directed/Written by: Tony Gatlif
Starring: Mark Lavoine, Marie-Josée Croze and James Thierrée
France, 1943. The Nazi occupation is in full swing. For the natives, life under Hitler’s regime is oppressive at best. For the gypsies who travel back and forth along the Burgundy countryside desperate for work, it might as well be hell.
Gypsies are considered vermin by the Nazis — rounded up on sight and imprisoned at internment camps for one to five years. “Korkoro” is the real-life story of one such band of tramps who were hunted like animals, imprisoned for their vagrancy and ultimately made to pay the ultimate price for their beliefs.
It’s a tragic story, to be sure. But it’s also one that’s been told several times, to the extent that the audience will likely find itself asking, “Why now?”
The answer to that question may have...
- 3/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Bob Hill
(March 2011)
Directed/Written by: Tony Gatlif
Starring: Mark Lavoine, Marie-Josée Croze and James Thierrée
France, 1943. The Nazi occupation is in full swing. For the natives, life under Hitler’s regime is oppressive at best. For the gypsies who travel back and forth along the Burgundy countryside desperate for work, it might as well be hell.
Gypsies are considered vermin by the Nazis — rounded up on sight and imprisoned at internment camps for one to five years. “Korkoro” is the real-life story of one such band of tramps who were hunted like animals, imprisoned for their vagrancy and ultimately made to pay the ultimate price for their beliefs.
It’s a tragic story, to be sure. But it’s also one that’s been told several times, to the extent that the audience will likely find itself asking, “Why now?”
The answer to that question may have...
(March 2011)
Directed/Written by: Tony Gatlif
Starring: Mark Lavoine, Marie-Josée Croze and James Thierrée
France, 1943. The Nazi occupation is in full swing. For the natives, life under Hitler’s regime is oppressive at best. For the gypsies who travel back and forth along the Burgundy countryside desperate for work, it might as well be hell.
Gypsies are considered vermin by the Nazis — rounded up on sight and imprisoned at internment camps for one to five years. “Korkoro” is the real-life story of one such band of tramps who were hunted like animals, imprisoned for their vagrancy and ultimately made to pay the ultimate price for their beliefs.
It’s a tragic story, to be sure. But it’s also one that’s been told several times, to the extent that the audience will likely find itself asking, “Why now?”
The answer to that question may have...
- 3/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
I'd like ten bucks for every time a U.S. president has used the term "freedom" in an address. No one has uttered that magic word more than George W. Bush, who never defined it to my knowledge but appears to mean liberating people of Iraq and Afghanistan from oppressive governments. To the gypsies, or Romani people (the latter being the politically correct term), freedom means being able to keep in motion-the journey, not the destination, is the reward. In Tony Gatlif's graphic drama about the fate of the gypsies under the Nazis, freedom means so much to the Romani that one of them turns on a bathroom sink and, concerned that the water is being held back against its will, simply turns the two handles clockwise allowing the water to seep over the sink, onto the bathroom, and down the stairs. While Gatlif's movie is not a comedy,...
- 3/16/2011
- Arizona Reporter
Lorber Films have acquired U.S. rights to Tony Gatlif's WWII drama "Korkoro," starring Marie Josée Croze ("Tell No One") and Marc Lavoine ("The Good Thief"). Based on historical events, the film tracks a tribe of Gypsies rounded up by the Germans during the war in France. Lorber plans to theatrically premiere "Korkoro" on March 25 at the Cinema Village in New York, followed by a rollout to select cities nation ...
- 2/23/2011
- Indiewire
The nominations for this year’s César Awards (France’s Oscar equivalent) has been announced. In addition the awards ceremony has also chosen Quentin Tarantino as the recipient of the ceremony’s honorary award. Alain Terzian, the president of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma announced at a press conference this morning confirmed that the director would be present to ick up his award in person.
It is also worth noting that there are three American movies among the seven nominees for Best Foreign Film: Inception, The Social Network and perhaps the biggest surprise, Invictus.
The 36th edition of the Césars will take place on February 25 in Paris.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Best Movie
L’arnacoeur by Pascal Chaumeil
Le nom des gens by Michel Leclerc
The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
Tournée by Mathieu Amalric
Des Hommes et des Dieux by Xavier Beauvois
Gainsbourg...
It is also worth noting that there are three American movies among the seven nominees for Best Foreign Film: Inception, The Social Network and perhaps the biggest surprise, Invictus.
The 36th edition of the Césars will take place on February 25 in Paris.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Best Movie
L’arnacoeur by Pascal Chaumeil
Le nom des gens by Michel Leclerc
The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
Tournée by Mathieu Amalric
Des Hommes et des Dieux by Xavier Beauvois
Gainsbourg...
- 1/21/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Three U.S. films are among the seven nominees for best foreign film in this year’s César Awards, France’s version of the Oscars. Meanwhile, American director Quentin Tarantino has been selected to receive an honorary award and will be at the Feb. 25 ceremony in Paris to accept it, it was announced Friday.
The three American films cited by the Académie des arts et techniques du cinema are Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” David Fincher’s “The Social Network” and Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus,” an Oscar contender in the States last year.
Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men” (“Des hommes et des Dieux”) — not one of the nine films still in contention for the best foreign film Oscar — leads with 10 nominations, while Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” and Joann Sfar’s “Gainsbourg” (“Vie Héroïque”) are also nominated in multiple categories.
Presiding over this year’s awards is American actress and director Jodie Foster.
The three American films cited by the Académie des arts et techniques du cinema are Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” David Fincher’s “The Social Network” and Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus,” an Oscar contender in the States last year.
Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men” (“Des hommes et des Dieux”) — not one of the nine films still in contention for the best foreign film Oscar — leads with 10 nominations, while Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” and Joann Sfar’s “Gainsbourg” (“Vie Héroïque”) are also nominated in multiple categories.
Presiding over this year’s awards is American actress and director Jodie Foster.
- 1/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"The Fantasia Collection"
Released by Disney Home Entertainment
While the headliner of Disney's incredible group of releases on November 30th will be the four-disc Blu-ray double feature of "Fantasia" and "Fantasia 2000," it's what's less publicized that should be exciting to both Disneyphiles and film fans in general. Starting with the hi-def debut of the two "Fantasias," Disney will finally include amongst the films' copious special features (many ported over from the out-of-print DVD set) the 1946 Salvador Dali-Walt Disney collaboration "Destino," along with an 82-minute making-of documentary. And incidentally, Disney is also releasing three standalone documentaries that shouldn't be overlooked in "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story" about the songsmiths behind the studio's most famous musicals like "Mary Poppins," "Walt & El Grupo," which details the company-shifting trip Walt Disney took with his animators to Latin America as part of the Good...
"The Fantasia Collection"
Released by Disney Home Entertainment
While the headliner of Disney's incredible group of releases on November 30th will be the four-disc Blu-ray double feature of "Fantasia" and "Fantasia 2000," it's what's less publicized that should be exciting to both Disneyphiles and film fans in general. Starting with the hi-def debut of the two "Fantasias," Disney will finally include amongst the films' copious special features (many ported over from the out-of-print DVD set) the 1946 Salvador Dali-Walt Disney collaboration "Destino," along with an 82-minute making-of documentary. And incidentally, Disney is also releasing three standalone documentaries that shouldn't be overlooked in "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story" about the songsmiths behind the studio's most famous musicals like "Mary Poppins," "Walt & El Grupo," which details the company-shifting trip Walt Disney took with his animators to Latin America as part of the Good...
- 11/29/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy"
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Released by Universal Home Entertainment
Yes, we're finally getting the footage of the original Marty McFly, Eric Stoltz, for the first time, but for many simply having the hi-def version of Robert Zemeckis' time-travel franchise will be good enough. Commentaries, deleted scenes, a full-length documentary and much, much more come on this new set of the trilogy.
"Alien Anthology"
Directed by Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
While not as much of an upgrade over its previous DVD release as "Back to the Future," the Blu-ray update of the four "Alien" films worth owning now boasts isolated scores for each film, all of Ridley Scott's sketches for the first "Alien," the uncut documentary of David Fincher's ill-fated "Alien 3" as...
"Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy"
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Released by Universal Home Entertainment
Yes, we're finally getting the footage of the original Marty McFly, Eric Stoltz, for the first time, but for many simply having the hi-def version of Robert Zemeckis' time-travel franchise will be good enough. Commentaries, deleted scenes, a full-length documentary and much, much more come on this new set of the trilogy.
"Alien Anthology"
Directed by Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
While not as much of an upgrade over its previous DVD release as "Back to the Future," the Blu-ray update of the four "Alien" films worth owning now boasts isolated scores for each film, all of Ridley Scott's sketches for the first "Alien," the uncut documentary of David Fincher's ill-fated "Alien 3" as...
- 10/26/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Paris -- The 36th annual Deauville American Film Festival will kick off on Friday with a smaller screen, but bigger stars than recent years with Annette Bening, Terry Gilliam and Zac Efron among the talent expected on the Normandy shores.
The fest will host its first "Deauville: Season 1" sidebar, a screenwriting and creativity platform for professionals in the TV biz.
The TV sidebar will run from Sept 4th – 5th during Deauville's opening weekend and will feature Master Classes, an "All About Screenwriting" professional discussion among French and TV writers and screenings of the latest hit U.S. shows including recent Emmy-winners "Modern Family" and "The Good Wife" plus "Sons of Anarchy," "House," "Treme," "How to Make it in America," "True Blood" and "The Sopranos."
Master Classes will be taught by creator, screenwriter, director and producer of "The Sopranos" David Chase and screenwriter, producer and showrunner of "Dexter" Clyde Phillips. In addition to the small screen,...
The fest will host its first "Deauville: Season 1" sidebar, a screenwriting and creativity platform for professionals in the TV biz.
The TV sidebar will run from Sept 4th – 5th during Deauville's opening weekend and will feature Master Classes, an "All About Screenwriting" professional discussion among French and TV writers and screenings of the latest hit U.S. shows including recent Emmy-winners "Modern Family" and "The Good Wife" plus "Sons of Anarchy," "House," "Treme," "How to Make it in America," "True Blood" and "The Sopranos."
Master Classes will be taught by creator, screenwriter, director and producer of "The Sopranos" David Chase and screenwriter, producer and showrunner of "Dexter" Clyde Phillips. In addition to the small screen,...
- 9/2/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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