The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first group of films slated to compete for the Golden Bear, the festival’s top prize, including new titles from Gus Van Sant and Benoît Jacquot. Heading to Berlinale after its Sundance premiere is Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot,” a biopic about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara. Jacquot, best known for 2012’s “Farewell, My Queen,” will premiere his remake of the the 1962 Jeanne Moreau vehicle “Eva,” starring Isabelle Huppert and Gaspard Ulliel. The previously announced opening night film is Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs,” which will also play in competition.
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Two Berlinale Special Galas have also been unveiled: Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Lars Kraume’s “Das Schweigende Klassenzimmer.” The 2018 Berlin International Film...
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Two Berlinale Special Galas have also been unveiled: Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Lars Kraume’s “Das Schweigende Klassenzimmer.” The 2018 Berlin International Film...
- 12/18/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Author: Stefan Pape
There are few actresses working today quite as fearless as Isabelle Huppert. The French superstar, recently rewarded with a Golden Globe for her turn in Elle (which also earned her an Oscar nomination) was on fine form when we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with her in Paris in January this year.
She speaks about the collaborative process with Paul Verhoeven in this daring piece of contemporary cinema, and speaks candidly about her own career, her choices, her attitude towards the profession – and on some of the directors that have most inspired her. We also discuss the Globes success, and find out what she has coming up.
When you decide to take on a role, what is the most important thing for you, that makes you sign on to a project?
It’s the director, that’s really the key piece to the ensemble, the director.
There are few actresses working today quite as fearless as Isabelle Huppert. The French superstar, recently rewarded with a Golden Globe for her turn in Elle (which also earned her an Oscar nomination) was on fine form when we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with her in Paris in January this year.
She speaks about the collaborative process with Paul Verhoeven in this daring piece of contemporary cinema, and speaks candidly about her own career, her choices, her attitude towards the profession – and on some of the directors that have most inspired her. We also discuss the Globes success, and find out what she has coming up.
When you decide to take on a role, what is the most important thing for you, that makes you sign on to a project?
It’s the director, that’s really the key piece to the ensemble, the director.
- 3/8/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Eva
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writer: Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice last September, the prolific Benoit Jacquot returns to work with Isabelle Huppert (with whom he has collaborated five times prior, including The Wings of the Dove, The School of Flesh, False Servant, Keep it Quiet, and Villa Amalia) for a remake of Joseph Losey’s 1962 film Eva, which starred Jeanne Moreau (Jacquot recently remade Bunuel’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, which also starred Moreau).
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Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writer: Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice last September, the prolific Benoit Jacquot returns to work with Isabelle Huppert (with whom he has collaborated five times prior, including The Wings of the Dove, The School of Flesh, False Servant, Keep it Quiet, and Villa Amalia) for a remake of Joseph Losey’s 1962 film Eva, which starred Jeanne Moreau (Jacquot recently remade Bunuel’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, which also starred Moreau).
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- 1/9/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Abel Ferrara is hardly the most bankable filmmaker and this project has yet to be financially secured, so let’s just hope extra-hard that the pieces fall together here. From the Italian publication La Stampa comes word that he’s moving ever closer to Siberia, a drama the director had tried (and failed) to launch via Kickstarter last year, with the previously attached Willem Dafoe now joined by the “certainly cast” Isabelle Huppert and Nicolas Cage.
Siberia‘s initial reveal was almost hilariously vague, the crowdfunding campaign labeling this endeavor “a subjective and objective journey into the subconscious” that will use Carl Jung’s Red Book as a launch pad for “[exploring] the language of dreams, myth and the natural world.” The longer synopsis sounded just as peculiar:
“We begin in an outpost far north of Jack London country where Clint holds out with his partner Mitchell, (Willem Dafoe in both roles) serving coffee,...
Siberia‘s initial reveal was almost hilariously vague, the crowdfunding campaign labeling this endeavor “a subjective and objective journey into the subconscious” that will use Carl Jung’s Red Book as a launch pad for “[exploring] the language of dreams, myth and the natural world.” The longer synopsis sounded just as peculiar:
“We begin in an outpost far north of Jack London country where Clint holds out with his partner Mitchell, (Willem Dafoe in both roles) serving coffee,...
- 12/19/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Actor best known for his role as X in Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad
Of the 40 or so film appearances by Giorgio Albertazzi, the Italian actor-manager, who has died aged 92, the best known was his unsettling role as X in Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961). In the surreal film, set in a dreamlike hotel, Albertazzi plays a man who claims to have had a relationship with a woman, A, and who has come to take her away from her husband, M (Sacha Pitoëff), 12 months later, as she asked him to. But A (Delphine Seyrig) appears to have no recollection of this.
The film won the Golden Lion at Venice that year, after which Albertazzi also appeared in two Joseph Losey films: Eva (1962) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). His first hit on TV had been in 1959 in The Idiot and he was...
Of the 40 or so film appearances by Giorgio Albertazzi, the Italian actor-manager, who has died aged 92, the best known was his unsettling role as X in Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961). In the surreal film, set in a dreamlike hotel, Albertazzi plays a man who claims to have had a relationship with a woman, A, and who has come to take her away from her husband, M (Sacha Pitoëff), 12 months later, as she asked him to. But A (Delphine Seyrig) appears to have no recollection of this.
The film won the Golden Lion at Venice that year, after which Albertazzi also appeared in two Joseph Losey films: Eva (1962) and The Assassination of Trotsky (1972). His first hit on TV had been in 1959 in The Idiot and he was...
- 6/10/2016
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
10 days ago, 12 survivalists were brought to the Colombian badlands in what can only be described as the world’s toughest survival challenge: No Food, No Water, and no Clothes. They’ve been divided into four groups in the area’s four distinct topographies and already, one of the survivalists has been unable to continue in the harsh and unforgiving environment and tapped out. Jeff, Hakim and Ej begin their journeys in the hot and volcanic Roca Diablo (Devil Rocks), but Hakim tapped out on day 4. Jeff and Ej have located a water source and caught fish. Laura, Eva and Dani … Continue reading →
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- 7/29/2015
- by Kellie Freeze
- ChannelGuideMag
Guess these folks' pants weren't sufficiently scared off the first time ...
People can exclusively announce that Discovery Channel is premiering a Naked and Afraid spin-off called Naked and Afraid Xl on July 12. According to a release from the network, the show "is both a survival and societal challenge. How will these survivalists respond to each other? Will they band together as one large group or will they break apart into smaller groups to survive?"
As implied by its title, the competition is supersized, with 12 survivalists (six men and six women) enduring 40 days in the wild without the comfort or convenience of food,...
People can exclusively announce that Discovery Channel is premiering a Naked and Afraid spin-off called Naked and Afraid Xl on July 12. According to a release from the network, the show "is both a survival and societal challenge. How will these survivalists respond to each other? Will they band together as one large group or will they break apart into smaller groups to survive?"
As implied by its title, the competition is supersized, with 12 survivalists (six men and six women) enduring 40 days in the wild without the comfort or convenience of food,...
- 6/10/2015
- by Alexandra Hurtado, @AliMarieHurtado
- People.com - TV Watch
Virna Lisi, who won a best actress award in Cannes as well as a César and the Italian Silver Ribbon for her portrayal of Catherine de' Medici in Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot (1994), has passed away at the age of 78. In a career that spanned over half a century, Lisi appeared in over 100 film and television productions. She worked with Jeanne Moreau in Joseph Losey's Eva (1962), with Jack Lemmon in in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), with Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966), with Frank Sinatra in Assault on a Queen (1966), with Rod Steiger in The Girl and the General (1967) and with Anthony Quinn in The 25th Hour (1967) and Stanley Kramer's The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969). For her performance in Alberto Lattuada's The Cricket (1980), she won her first David di Donatello award. » - David Hudson...
- 12/18/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Virna Lisi, who won a best actress award in Cannes as well as a César and the Italian Silver Ribbon for her portrayal of Catherine de' Medici in Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot (1994), has passed away at the age of 78. In a career that spanned over half a century, Lisi appeared in over 100 film and television productions. She worked with Jeanne Moreau in Joseph Losey's Eva (1962), with Jack Lemmon in in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), with Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966), with Frank Sinatra in Assault on a Queen (1966), with Rod Steiger in The Girl and the General (1967) and with Anthony Quinn in The 25th Hour (1967) and Stanley Kramer's The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969). For her performance in Alberto Lattuada's The Cricket (1980), she won her first David di Donatello award. » - David Hudson...
- 12/18/2014
- Keyframe
Books and films have been joined at the hip ever since the earliest days of cinema, and adaptations of novels have regularly provided audiences with the classier end of the film spectrum. Here, the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best
• Top 10 family movies
• Top 10 war movies
• Top 10 teen movies
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. Planet of the Apes
Although the source novel, La Planète des Singes, was written by Frenchman Pierre Boule and originally reached its futureshock climax in Paris, this enduring sci-fi fantasy is profoundly American, putting Charlton Heston's steel-jawed patriotism to incredible use. It also holds up surprisingly well as a jarring allegory for the population's fears over escalating cold war tensions.
Beginning with a spaceship crash-landing on an unknown planet after years of cryogenic sleep, Franklin J Schaffner's film soon gets into gear as Heston's upstanding...
• Top 10 family movies
• Top 10 war movies
• Top 10 teen movies
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. Planet of the Apes
Although the source novel, La Planète des Singes, was written by Frenchman Pierre Boule and originally reached its futureshock climax in Paris, this enduring sci-fi fantasy is profoundly American, putting Charlton Heston's steel-jawed patriotism to incredible use. It also holds up surprisingly well as a jarring allegory for the population's fears over escalating cold war tensions.
Beginning with a spaceship crash-landing on an unknown planet after years of cryogenic sleep, Franklin J Schaffner's film soon gets into gear as Heston's upstanding...
- 11/15/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Above: 1968 poster for Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, USA, 1966).
Last weekend I came across a bizarre poster, which you can see below, for Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause: a late 60s Czech design which reimagines James Dean as a long haired, barefoot East European hippie. This got me digging into the work of its author on the estimable and essential Czech movie poster site Terry Posters (named in honor of Terry Gilliam). The artist Eva Galová-Vodrázková was born in 1940 and, after studying at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, designed numerous film posters between 1966 and 1972 (Terry Posters has forty-two of them on their site). Her bio says she gave up poster design after “normalisation changes in the venture,” whatever that means, and has since worked as a textile designer. What attracted me to her poster work is a certain devil-may-care quality—evidenced in her Rebel—coupled with a powerful sense of composition.
Last weekend I came across a bizarre poster, which you can see below, for Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause: a late 60s Czech design which reimagines James Dean as a long haired, barefoot East European hippie. This got me digging into the work of its author on the estimable and essential Czech movie poster site Terry Posters (named in honor of Terry Gilliam). The artist Eva Galová-Vodrázková was born in 1940 and, after studying at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, designed numerous film posters between 1966 and 1972 (Terry Posters has forty-two of them on their site). Her bio says she gave up poster design after “normalisation changes in the venture,” whatever that means, and has since worked as a textile designer. What attracted me to her poster work is a certain devil-may-care quality—evidenced in her Rebel—coupled with a powerful sense of composition.
- 12/21/2012
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Icons of Suspense: Hammer Films, an "attractively priced (if modestly packaged) three-disc collection from Sony offers six lesser-known, black-and-white thrillers from the studio," and for the New York Times' Dave Kehr, the centerpiece is These Are the Damned, "a slippery, unsettling blend of social commentary and science-fiction from the exiled American director Joseph Losey. Filmed in 1961 but not released in England until 1963 (and then with severe cuts), it's a transitional work that stands between Losey's last un-self-conscious genre piece (The Criminal, a 1961 prison picture with Stanley Baker, retitled Concrete Jungle in America) and Eva, a strenuously ambitious drama that pointed the way to Losey's later art-house career (The Servant, The Go-Between)."...
- 4/6/2010
- MUBI
Chicago – The international reputation of director Michael Haneke (”Caché,” “Funny Games”) is due in no small part to his longtime collaboration with cinematographer Christian Berger, who photographed Haneke’s latest film, “The White Ribbon.”
The White Ribbon is a sorrowful, arduous journey about a small village in pre-WW1 Austria whose rigid class structure becomes cracked as a result of a series of mysterious tragedies. With its critical overview of religion, morality, rich vs. poor and the lines crossed within the middle class, The White Ribbon is another exceptional statement in the filmography of Michael Haneke.
Shades of Gray: The Young Villagers in ‘The White Ribbon’
Photo credit: © Sony Classics
Side-by-side with this master filmmaker is cinematographer Christian Berger. After first collaborating with Haneke in 1992’s “Benny Video,” Berger has been the perpetrator of the director’s look and feel for four more productions including The White Ribbon.
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The White Ribbon is a sorrowful, arduous journey about a small village in pre-WW1 Austria whose rigid class structure becomes cracked as a result of a series of mysterious tragedies. With its critical overview of religion, morality, rich vs. poor and the lines crossed within the middle class, The White Ribbon is another exceptional statement in the filmography of Michael Haneke.
Shades of Gray: The Young Villagers in ‘The White Ribbon’
Photo credit: © Sony Classics
Side-by-side with this master filmmaker is cinematographer Christian Berger. After first collaborating with Haneke in 1992’s “Benny Video,” Berger has been the perpetrator of the director’s look and feel for four more productions including The White Ribbon.
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- 1/15/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Mercedes Ruehl is returning to Broadway after a seven-year absence, starring in Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Richard Greenberg's The American Plan, a 1990 play set in a 1960s Catskills resort. Ruehl plays Eva Adler, a highly intelligent German woman who's obsessively involved with her emotionally unstable daughter (Lily Rabe). Eva isn't easy to play, and that's why Ruehl likes her. The character is a far cry from Stevie, the stunned, enraged, belittled wife in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Ruehl's last show on Broadway. She's even further removed from the sweet, mentally limited Bella in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, for which Ruehl won a Tony Award. In playing Eva, Ruehl finds herself influenced by Irene Worth, who portrayed Bella's mother -- a figure not unlike Eva. "There are certain inflections, and the way I hold my mouth," she says in describing the similarities.
- 1/22/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
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