The excitement of Geeked Week continues! Last night Netflix dropped a ton of teasers and reveals for many of its biggest shows. We found out that Avatar: The Last Airbender has cast Toph for season 2, One Piece added new cast members, Squid Game season 2 got a teaser, and so many more things it'd be crazy to try to list them all. There was simply a lot, and it's been very fun to catch all the latest.
One series that got some love which fans have been dying to hear more about is The Sandman, which debuted a new behind-the-scenes featurette for its second season. You can watch it right here:
There's a lot of cool stuff in there, from the return of Tom Sturridge as Dream and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as his sister Death, to a massive banquet for Endless, deities, and the like. That banquet would be from Season of Mists,...
One series that got some love which fans have been dying to hear more about is The Sandman, which debuted a new behind-the-scenes featurette for its second season. You can watch it right here:
There's a lot of cool stuff in there, from the return of Tom Sturridge as Dream and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as his sister Death, to a massive banquet for Endless, deities, and the like. That banquet would be from Season of Mists,...
- 9/20/2024
- by Daniel Roman
- Winter Is Coming
According to graphic designer Nikola Prijic, Bill Skarsgård himself submitted an excerpt from an H.P. Lovecraft poem titled “Despair” — a fitting match in all sorts of ways for 2024’s “The Crow” — as something his character Eric might have tattooed on his body. Prijic took the stanza from the poem that begins with “Evil wings in ether beating” and ends “in a cloud of madness,” laid it out in Procreate, and designed a custom stencil version that could be applied to Skarsgård’s back while shooting the Rupert Sanders film.
It’s always interesting when there’s a big fake tattoo plastered across an actor’s back like a billboard because, in practice, it ends up functioning like a billboard for a film protagonist’s characterization. Cultural assumptions about tattoos may not be as myriad as the different art styles people can apply to skin, but tattoos are a quick visual...
It’s always interesting when there’s a big fake tattoo plastered across an actor’s back like a billboard because, in practice, it ends up functioning like a billboard for a film protagonist’s characterization. Cultural assumptions about tattoos may not be as myriad as the different art styles people can apply to skin, but tattoos are a quick visual...
- 8/26/2024
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Fox Entertainment Global is headed to Mipcom Cannes with new fare from Gordon Ramsay and TMZ and network gameshow Snake Oil.
The Fox-owned sales house’s slate next month will include titles from Fox Alternative Entertainment such as David Spade show Snake Oil, animated content from Bento Box Entertainment, live-action comedy from Fox Entertainment Studios and more than 20 movies from MarVista Entertainment.
Toplining the new shows is Snake Oil, the upcoming Fox game show in which entrepreneurs pitch products to contestants, who must determine which ventures are the real with the help of celebrity advisors. Spade hosts and produces and Will Arnett is executive producer through his Electric Avenue Productions banner.
Also joining the Fox slate is Next Level Chef, the Gordon Ramsay cooking competition whose second season premiere took 16.7 million viewers in a post-Super Bowl slot, which made it the most-watched cooking telecast in history.
The Fox-owned sales house’s slate next month will include titles from Fox Alternative Entertainment such as David Spade show Snake Oil, animated content from Bento Box Entertainment, live-action comedy from Fox Entertainment Studios and more than 20 movies from MarVista Entertainment.
Toplining the new shows is Snake Oil, the upcoming Fox game show in which entrepreneurs pitch products to contestants, who must determine which ventures are the real with the help of celebrity advisors. Spade hosts and produces and Will Arnett is executive producer through his Electric Avenue Productions banner.
Also joining the Fox slate is Next Level Chef, the Gordon Ramsay cooking competition whose second season premiere took 16.7 million viewers in a post-Super Bowl slot, which made it the most-watched cooking telecast in history.
- 9/19/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
If you’ve been counting down the days for the second season of Good Omens so fervently that the mere thought of its arrival makes you exclaim “I am having a moment here!” then you might need to have a sit down: Good Omen Season Two Is Finally Here.
If you’re new to Good Omens, now’s the time to catch up: this fantasy series is based on the 1990 book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and stars a demon, Crowley and an angel, Aziraphale who are unlikely best buds/soulmates.
Season one saw them try to prevent the end of the world after the antichrist is born, and as for season two? Well, Crowley and Aziraphale are only just getting used to being exiled from their respective heavenly/hellish bosses when Aziraphale’s former boss, Archangel Gabriel turns up dazed, confused and totally nude. It’s up to...
If you’re new to Good Omens, now’s the time to catch up: this fantasy series is based on the 1990 book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and stars a demon, Crowley and an angel, Aziraphale who are unlikely best buds/soulmates.
Season one saw them try to prevent the end of the world after the antichrist is born, and as for season two? Well, Crowley and Aziraphale are only just getting used to being exiled from their respective heavenly/hellish bosses when Aziraphale’s former boss, Archangel Gabriel turns up dazed, confused and totally nude. It’s up to...
- 7/28/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
FX has released the first images for its upcoming limited series “A Murder at the End of the World,” which will premiere exclusively on Hulu in August.
The seven-episode murder mystery, formerly known as “Retreat,” follows a Gen-z amateur sleuth and tech savvy hacker named Darby Hart (Emma Corrin), who is invited along with eight other guests to a remote and isolated compound owned by a reclusive billionaire (Clive Owen).
In addition to Corrin and Owen, the series stars Harris Dickinson, Brit Marling, Alice Braga, Joan Chen, Raúl Esparza, Jermaine Fowler, Ryan J. Haddad, Pegah Ferydoni, Javed Khan, Louis Cancelmi, Edoardo Ballerini, Britian Seibert, Christopher Gurr, Kellan Tetlow, Daniel Olson and Neal Huff.
Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson in “A Murder at the End of the World” 2 (Photo courtesy of Christopher Saunders/FX) Emma Corrin in A Murder at the End of the World 1 (Photo courtesy of Christopher Saunders/FX)
The series,...
The seven-episode murder mystery, formerly known as “Retreat,” follows a Gen-z amateur sleuth and tech savvy hacker named Darby Hart (Emma Corrin), who is invited along with eight other guests to a remote and isolated compound owned by a reclusive billionaire (Clive Owen).
In addition to Corrin and Owen, the series stars Harris Dickinson, Brit Marling, Alice Braga, Joan Chen, Raúl Esparza, Jermaine Fowler, Ryan J. Haddad, Pegah Ferydoni, Javed Khan, Louis Cancelmi, Edoardo Ballerini, Britian Seibert, Christopher Gurr, Kellan Tetlow, Daniel Olson and Neal Huff.
Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson in “A Murder at the End of the World” 2 (Photo courtesy of Christopher Saunders/FX) Emma Corrin in A Murder at the End of the World 1 (Photo courtesy of Christopher Saunders/FX)
The series,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
It seems like we've all been complaining about the overuse of CGI for so long that we might just be witnessing the teeniest tiniest shift in how Hollywood approaches visual effects. The clickers in "The Last of Us" were just a little too practical for star Pedro Pascal, and the new "Dungeons and Dragons" movie was full of practical creatures built by the team behind Grogu. Then there was that terrifying rat queen in Guillermo Del Toro's "Cabinet Of Curiosities," which was an actual functioning puppet. And now, with "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" finally hitting theaters, we have the impressive abomination that is the ultra-realistic Chris Pratt doll.
Built by the prolific Legacy Effects, who've worked on everything from "Avatar: The Way of Water" to "The Revenant," the life-sized prop was constructed to allow Nebula actor Karen Gillan to look as though she was carrying Star-Lord with...
Built by the prolific Legacy Effects, who've worked on everything from "Avatar: The Way of Water" to "The Revenant," the life-sized prop was constructed to allow Nebula actor Karen Gillan to look as though she was carrying Star-Lord with...
- 5/8/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Uri Singer has obtained the rights “Invitation to a Beheading,” a surrealist and politically charged work by Vladimir Nabokov, the author of “Lolita.”
Singer has been carving out a niche for himself by developing literary classics into potential films. He recently obtained the rights to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Hocus Pocus” and Don DeLillo’s “The Silence.” He is also producing another DeLillo adaptation “White Noise,” which is currently filming with Noah Baumbach directing Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. Singer is also producing “The King of Oil,” set at Universal, with John Krasinski’s Sunday Night, with Matt Damon attached to play the lead role based on the book “The King of Oil” by Daniel Amman, adapted by Joe Shrapnel and Anne Waterhouse.
“Invitation to a Beheading” embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by...
Singer has been carving out a niche for himself by developing literary classics into potential films. He recently obtained the rights to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Hocus Pocus” and Don DeLillo’s “The Silence.” He is also producing another DeLillo adaptation “White Noise,” which is currently filming with Noah Baumbach directing Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. Singer is also producing “The King of Oil,” set at Universal, with John Krasinski’s Sunday Night, with Matt Damon attached to play the lead role based on the book “The King of Oil” by Daniel Amman, adapted by Joe Shrapnel and Anne Waterhouse.
“Invitation to a Beheading” embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by...
- 9/1/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix’s TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s beloved “The Sandman” comic book series has added 12 new cast members, including Kirby Howell-Baptiste in the fan-favorite role of Death.
“The Good Place” and “Killing Eve” alum will become Death, the wise sister of “The Sandman” protagonist Dream of the Endless/Morpheus (played by previously announced series’ star Tom Sturridge).
Described as “a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven,” Netflix’s “The Sandman” follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.
Other new additions to Netflix’s “Sandman” cast include Mason Alexander Park as Desire Dream’s sibling, and desire personified; Donna Preston as Despair, Dream’s sister, and the twin of Desire; Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, haunted exorcist and...
“The Good Place” and “Killing Eve” alum will become Death, the wise sister of “The Sandman” protagonist Dream of the Endless/Morpheus (played by previously announced series’ star Tom Sturridge).
Described as “a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven,” Netflix’s “The Sandman” follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.
Other new additions to Netflix’s “Sandman” cast include Mason Alexander Park as Desire Dream’s sibling, and desire personified; Donna Preston as Despair, Dream’s sister, and the twin of Desire; Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, haunted exorcist and...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
The Criterion Channel has unveiled their March 2021 lineup, which includes no shortage of remarkable programming. Highlights from the slate include eight gems from Preston Sturges, Elaine May’s brilliant A New Leaf, a series featuring Black Westerns, Ann Hui’s Boat People, the new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi.
They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.
Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.
The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963
Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972
Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...
They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.
Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.
The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963
Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972
Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Nobody could have predicted that “The Queen’s Gambit” would become the global phenomenon that it has, and that includes co-creator Scott Frank and lead actor Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix limited series. Academy Award-nominated writer/director Frank, who co-created the series with Allan Scott, is now hoping that lighting in a bottle will carry over to his next project. According to an interview with The Ringer’s The Watch podcast (via JoBlo.com), Frank is currently developing an adaptation of “Lolita” author Vladimir Nabokov’s 1932 novel “Laughter in the Dark,” with Anya Taylor-Joy to star.
Frank called the project “a valentine to movies, I’m going to do it as a film noir and a movie within a movie. And it’s a really nasty, wonderful, thriller.” The book centers on Albert Albinus, a middle-aged art critic who takes a special interest in Margot Peters,...
Frank called the project “a valentine to movies, I’m going to do it as a film noir and a movie within a movie. And it’s a really nasty, wonderful, thriller.” The book centers on Albert Albinus, a middle-aged art critic who takes a special interest in Margot Peters,...
- 12/8/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
It's been less than two weeks since the series finale of Supernatural, but appropriately, the series is still carrying on after it's been salted and burned. While fans were notably divided over the series finale, which ended with the Winchester brothers reuniting in the afterlife after Dean dies during a hunt and Sam dies from old age, it's the events from the Nov. 5 episode, "Despair," that are causing conversation and chaos.
In "Despair," the angel Castiel (Misha Collins) sacrifices his life to save Dean (Jensen Ackles), confessing his love for the hunter right before being sucked into a hell dimension and dying. If you haven't seen it, it's just as dramatic as it sounds! In the English version of the scene, Castiel says, "I love you," and Dean responds, "Don't do this, Cas." But in the Spanish dubbed version of the scene, which aired on the Warner Channel a couple of weeks later,...
In "Despair," the angel Castiel (Misha Collins) sacrifices his life to save Dean (Jensen Ackles), confessing his love for the hunter right before being sucked into a hell dimension and dying. If you haven't seen it, it's just as dramatic as it sounds! In the English version of the scene, Castiel says, "I love you," and Dean responds, "Don't do this, Cas." But in the Spanish dubbed version of the scene, which aired on the Warner Channel a couple of weeks later,...
- 11/30/2020
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
It’s been a very rough year. We’re almost at the end, folks, but if you thought we were going to make it to 2021 without having to hear Meryl Streep rap, you were sorely mistaken. Streep is one of the cast members of The Prom, Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Chad Beguelin, Bob Martin, and Matthew Sklar‘s award-winning, […]
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- 11/20/2020
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Hey, "Supernatural" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed episode 7 tonight. Now that it's all wrapped up and in the history books, it's time for us to fill you guys in on a few things that are set to play out in the next, new episode 18 of Supernatural's current and last season 15, which is due out next Thursday night,November 5, 2020. The CW served up a teaser description for one of the main episode 18 storylines via their episode 18 press release. So, that's what we'll be working with for this spoiler session. Let's get to it. To start, The CW gave us an official title for this 18th episode. It's called, "Despair." It sounds like episode 18 will feature some very intense,dramatic and action-filled scenes.
- 10/30/2020
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Film about late, legendary German director had Cannes 2020 hopes.
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
- 6/1/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Film about late, legendary German director had Cannes 2020 hopes.
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
- 6/1/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Alec Bojalad Jul 1, 2019
Neil Gaiman's Vertigo classic, The Sandman, is getting a TV series at Netflix with a big price tag to boot.
No, you're not dreaming. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is finally getting adapted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Television has come to a deal with Netflix to adapt Gaiman's influential comic book run into a television series. The deal is described as being a massive financial commitment from Netflix and represents potentially the largest dollar amount that DC Entertainment has ever received for a TV series. It would have to be a big monetary commitment for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to allow one of its juiciest comic book properties to go to a rival streaming service rather than its own, DC Universe.
Gaiman will serve as an executive producer on the TV project alongside David Goyer, who was also attached to the produce an...
Neil Gaiman's Vertigo classic, The Sandman, is getting a TV series at Netflix with a big price tag to boot.
No, you're not dreaming. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is finally getting adapted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Television has come to a deal with Netflix to adapt Gaiman's influential comic book run into a television series. The deal is described as being a massive financial commitment from Netflix and represents potentially the largest dollar amount that DC Entertainment has ever received for a TV series. It would have to be a big monetary commitment for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to allow one of its juiciest comic book properties to go to a rival streaming service rather than its own, DC Universe.
Gaiman will serve as an executive producer on the TV project alongside David Goyer, who was also attached to the produce an...
- 6/30/2019
- Den of Geek
In 2015, April Reign’s viral hashtag campaign #OscarsSoWhite indicted the Academy for its lack of recognition of contributions made by creatives of color. Since then, on-screen representation has become a cause célèbre, with inclusivity initiatives that aim to navigate culture toward more gender and racial equality. However, numbers don’t tell the full story: How much freedom do black creators have when the storytelling expectations remain mired in variations of the black struggle?
This year, there are more Best Picture Oscar contenders centered on black lives than ever, but themes largely center on the complications of race and/or racism in films like “Green Book,” “BlacKkKlansman,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” And while the concerns of “Black Panther” are more intraracial, it’s a conflict rooted in the notion of a united global black liberation in response to white supremacy. The exception that proves the rule is Steve McQueen...
This year, there are more Best Picture Oscar contenders centered on black lives than ever, but themes largely center on the complications of race and/or racism in films like “Green Book,” “BlacKkKlansman,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” And while the concerns of “Black Panther” are more intraracial, it’s a conflict rooted in the notion of a united global black liberation in response to white supremacy. The exception that proves the rule is Steve McQueen...
- 11/16/2018
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveriesNEWSKornél Mundruczó's Jupiter's Moon, competing in the 70th Cannes Film FestivalIn case you missed it, the Cannes Film Festival has announced its Official Selection (the separate but simultaneous festivals of Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week should reveal their lineup this week). Arnaud's Desplechin's Les fantômes d'Ismaël will open the event, with films in competition by Michael Haneke, Sofia Coppola, Bong Joon-ho, and the Safdie brothers. Hong Sang-soo has two films at the festival, Mathieu Amalric's Barbara will open the Un Certain Regard section (where a Kiyoshi Kurosawa alien film will be premiered), and films by Takashi Miike, Claude Lanzmann and Agnès Varda are scattered through other sections.Across the divide of cinema, many films by the legendary but too often under-distributed and under-seen filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet will soon be much more widely available in the United States,...
- 4/19/2017
- MUBI
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Courtesy of Janus Film.On the occasion of a comprehensive retrospective the Tiff Bell Lightbox (October 28 - December 23), the need to summarize the thirty plus films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder seems not just daunting, but reductive. How to simplify someone who both evolved and contradicted himself? While typically turning out three films per year between 1966 and his death in 1982, the year 1974 seems like one of the German director’s most unified, at least in terms of one preoccupation: marriage. This particular year seems as possibly a mid-way between Fassbinder’s working out-the-kinks genre exercises (The American Soldier, Love Is Colder Than Death) and the later, lavish international co-productions based on esteemed literary works (Despair, Querelle). The diversity upon which the holy union is depicted can be detected if just judging by each of the three’s own source material; Ali: Fear Eats the Soul a...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
If the age old cliche is true, then true genius will not earn the proper respect and admiration until years after they have passed. Need an example? Subject number one: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
While he’s garnered high praise before and after his deeply sad passing at the age of 37, the last few years, marked by numerous box sets of his work and various Blu-ray releases of his Grade-a masterpieces, have seen Fassbinder become a relative household name in arthouse and world cinema circles. And now he’s the subject of not one, but two documentaries, one of which debuts this weekend in New York for an exclusive one week engagement at The Metrograph.
With The Fassbinder Story waiting in the wings (it just played this year’s Kino! Festival in NY), director Christian Braad Thomsen attempts to discuss Fassbinder’s life in his own way with the superlative biographical...
While he’s garnered high praise before and after his deeply sad passing at the age of 37, the last few years, marked by numerous box sets of his work and various Blu-ray releases of his Grade-a masterpieces, have seen Fassbinder become a relative household name in arthouse and world cinema circles. And now he’s the subject of not one, but two documentaries, one of which debuts this weekend in New York for an exclusive one week engagement at The Metrograph.
With The Fassbinder Story waiting in the wings (it just played this year’s Kino! Festival in NY), director Christian Braad Thomsen attempts to discuss Fassbinder’s life in his own way with the superlative biographical...
- 4/29/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Back in May, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented the first part of the most complete retrospective of work by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in New York in over a decade. Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 2) is now running through November 26 and we're collecting reviews and video related to Despair, In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Die dritte Generation, Lili Marleen, Lola, Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, Querelle and many more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/8/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Back in May, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented the first part of the most complete retrospective of work by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in New York in over a decade. Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 2) is now running through November 26 and we're collecting reviews and video related to Despair, In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Die dritte Generation, Lili Marleen, Lola, Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, Querelle and many more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/8/2014
- Keyframe
Catherine Deneuve: 2013 European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Catherine Deneuve has been named the recipient of the the European Film Academy’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for her "outstanding body of work." And outstanding it is. Yesterday, I posted an article about Dirk Bogarde (Victim, Death in Venice, Despair), one of the rare performers anywhere on the planet to have consistently worked with world-class international filmmakers. The Paris-born Catherine Deneuve, who turns 70 next October 22, is another one of those lucky actors. (Photo: Catherine Deneuve at the Potiche premiere at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.) Deneuve’s directors have included an eclectic and prestigious list of filmmakers from various countries. Those include Belle de Jour and Tristana‘s Luis Buñuel; Le Sauvage and La Vie de Château‘s Jean-Paul Rappenau; The Hunger‘s Tony Scott; Un Flic‘s Jean-Pierre Melville; The Mississippi Mermaid and The Last Metro‘s François Truffaut...
- 9/25/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Dirk Bogarde: ‘Victim’ star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde — one of the most popular and respected British performers of the twentieth century, and the star of seminal movies such as Victim, The Servant, Darling, and Death in Venice — reveals that Bogarde was considerably more caustic and opinionated in his letters than in his (quite bland) autobiographies. (Photo: Dirk Bogarde ca. 1970.) As found in Dirk Bogarde’s letters acquired a few years ago by the British Library, among the victims of the Victim star (sorry) were Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave (Julia), a "ninny" who was “so utterly beastly to [Steaming director Joseph Losey] that he finally threw his script at her face”; and veteran stage and screen actor — and Academy Award winner — John Gielgud (Arthur), who couldn’t "understand half of Shakespeare" despite being renowned for his stage roles in Macbeth,...
- 9/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Peter Whitehead, via Occupy Cinema
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
- 1/7/2012
- MUBI
The Iron Lady (12A)
(Phyllida Lloyd, 2011, UK) Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman. 105 mins
Depicting Margaret Thatcher as a human being is already being over-generous in the eyes of many, but this weird biopic gives us Thatcher as a senile old dear, looking back on her memories and conversing with the ghost of Denis, which means we're forced to empathise. What's more, this narrative device defuses the more contentious aspects of her political legacy. The career highlights are dutifully run through (Falklands, Brighton bombing, a bit of poll tax, the miners' strike barely happens), but there's little curiosity about how the rest of Britain felt or fared as a result of her reign. What's left is a faultless, often riveting impersonation by Streep, and a sense of a personality undone by its own unbending will, but there's little here to dent the ironwork. You could imagine this playing on Fox News.
(Phyllida Lloyd, 2011, UK) Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman. 105 mins
Depicting Margaret Thatcher as a human being is already being over-generous in the eyes of many, but this weird biopic gives us Thatcher as a senile old dear, looking back on her memories and conversing with the ghost of Denis, which means we're forced to empathise. What's more, this narrative device defuses the more contentious aspects of her political legacy. The career highlights are dutifully run through (Falklands, Brighton bombing, a bit of poll tax, the miners' strike barely happens), but there's little curiosity about how the rest of Britain felt or fared as a result of her reign. What's left is a faultless, often riveting impersonation by Streep, and a sense of a personality undone by its own unbending will, but there's little here to dent the ironwork. You could imagine this playing on Fox News.
- 1/7/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 21, 2011
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The future has a look all its own in Fassbinder's 1973 film World on a Wire.
The 1973 science-fiction drama World On a Wire, a 3½-hour movie made for German television by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I Only Want You To Love Me), is a very inventive and equally paranoid film about the future.
With dashes of Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) and novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick, World on a Wire tells the noir-spiked tale of a reluctant hero, Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch, Fassbinder’s Despair), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. His discovery involves the reality of life itself, which Stiller learns might very well be an artificial creation. It’s a heady idea that results in the deaths of those who know too much about it — and a concept that’s referred to today as “virtual reality.
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The future has a look all its own in Fassbinder's 1973 film World on a Wire.
The 1973 science-fiction drama World On a Wire, a 3½-hour movie made for German television by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I Only Want You To Love Me), is a very inventive and equally paranoid film about the future.
With dashes of Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) and novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick, World on a Wire tells the noir-spiked tale of a reluctant hero, Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch, Fassbinder’s Despair), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. His discovery involves the reality of life itself, which Stiller learns might very well be an artificial creation. It’s a heady idea that results in the deaths of those who know too much about it — and a concept that’s referred to today as “virtual reality.
- 12/2/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Despair may not be Rainer Werner Fassbinder's best known or most famous work, but in his all too brief film making career, it may be the film most front loaded with talent. Fassbinder filmed a story by Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), adapted by famous British playwright Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead), shot by his frequent collaborator, and future Scorsese favorite, Michael Ballhaus (The Last Temptation of Christ), and got international cinema icon Dirk Bogarde to star. With a team like that, there is no reason that film should be anything less than a classic, yet somehow it managed to fail critically upon it's premiere at Cannes in 1978, leaving Fassbinder even more despondent than usual. Thankfully, Bavaria Media took on a massive restoration, and...
- 11/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
The Da Vinci Code, of course, is full of Leonardo, but I prefer my Last Supper posed by beggars, as in Viridiana
Ah yes, An American in Paris. Gene Kelly's character is a heel, but audiences are so busy ooh-la-la-ing over MGM's soundstage mock-up of Montmartre they don't care, and neither, really, does the film, which finally gives way to a barely relevant 16-minute ballet inspired by the work of painters such as Dufy, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec. The results, as so often with director Vincente Minnelli, pass all the way through kitsch to emerge somewhere on the side of sublime.
Minnelli once again dodges the kitsch bullet in Lust for Life, which ends up a moving study of Van Gogh, though artist biopics that aim to be tasteful, such as Girl with a Pearl Earring, usually end up as upmarket ersatz, best appreciated by folk who think film is...
Ah yes, An American in Paris. Gene Kelly's character is a heel, but audiences are so busy ooh-la-la-ing over MGM's soundstage mock-up of Montmartre they don't care, and neither, really, does the film, which finally gives way to a barely relevant 16-minute ballet inspired by the work of painters such as Dufy, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec. The results, as so often with director Vincente Minnelli, pass all the way through kitsch to emerge somewhere on the side of sublime.
Minnelli once again dodges the kitsch bullet in Lust for Life, which ends up a moving study of Van Gogh, though artist biopics that aim to be tasteful, such as Girl with a Pearl Earring, usually end up as upmarket ersatz, best appreciated by folk who think film is...
- 10/27/2011
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Despair (Rating out of 5): **
I Only Want You to Love Me (Rating out of 5): ***
I love Rainer Werner Fassbinder because he lived cinema. He slept, breathed, ate, and excreted cinema. And he died for cinema. The math tells much of the story. He died at the age of 37 having completed over 40 movies and TV shows, including two lengthy mini-series and several short films. One can only guess that he was always working on something. The films I like best of his are the ones that reflect this speed and passion, the ones that feel somewhat reckless; although, in his defense, Fassbinder's films were usually quite beautifully and rigorously shot.
And thus we come to Despair, which is not one of his best. It comes from a Vladimir Nabokov novel, and the playful Tom Stoppard adapted it. That's an interesting combination, and it suggests a movie of twisted humor,...
Despair (Rating out of 5): **
I Only Want You to Love Me (Rating out of 5): ***
I love Rainer Werner Fassbinder because he lived cinema. He slept, breathed, ate, and excreted cinema. And he died for cinema. The math tells much of the story. He died at the age of 37 having completed over 40 movies and TV shows, including two lengthy mini-series and several short films. One can only guess that he was always working on something. The films I like best of his are the ones that reflect this speed and passion, the ones that feel somewhat reckless; although, in his defense, Fassbinder's films were usually quite beautifully and rigorously shot.
And thus we come to Despair, which is not one of his best. It comes from a Vladimir Nabokov novel, and the playful Tom Stoppard adapted it. That's an interesting combination, and it suggests a movie of twisted humor,...
- 6/16/2011
- by weezy
- GreenCine
Updated.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the new DVD out from Olive Films, which has also issued Fassbinder's I Only Want You to Love Me (1976). "The relative obscurity of Despair is surprising given its pedigree. It's based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, adapted by Tom Stoppard, and starring the English actor Dirk Bogarde. Nabokov's story of a Russian émigré, written in the 30s, takes place in Prague. Fassbinder changed the setting to early-30s Berlin, teetering on the abyss of the Third Reich…. Despair is perhaps the most explicit elaboration of one of Fassbinder's recurring themes: the alienation of someone who not only 'stands outside himself,' as Hermann [Bogarde] puts it, but also wants to escape himself and indeed flee the trap of identity altogether.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the new DVD out from Olive Films, which has also issued Fassbinder's I Only Want You to Love Me (1976). "The relative obscurity of Despair is surprising given its pedigree. It's based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, adapted by Tom Stoppard, and starring the English actor Dirk Bogarde. Nabokov's story of a Russian émigré, written in the 30s, takes place in Prague. Fassbinder changed the setting to early-30s Berlin, teetering on the abyss of the Third Reich…. Despair is perhaps the most explicit elaboration of one of Fassbinder's recurring themes: the alienation of someone who not only 'stands outside himself,' as Hermann [Bogarde] puts it, but also wants to escape himself and indeed flee the trap of identity altogether.
- 6/14/2011
- MUBI
Hen’s Tooth Video will release the 1957 British war drama-adventure Ill Met By Moonlight (also known as Night Ambush) on DVD on Aug. 16 for the list price of $19.95, marking the film’s DVD premiere in the U.S.
British officers David Oxley (l.) and Dirk Bogarde are Ill Met By Midnight.
Written, produced and directed by the legendary filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the World War II movie follows two British officers (Despair‘s Dirk Bogarde, David Oxley) who are assigned to kidnap a German General (Marius Goring) from the Nazi occupied island of Crete and deliver him to Allied forces in Cairo. Aided by local patriots, the abduction itself goes smoothly, but the Brits’ subsequent action-filled escape across the rocky Cretan landscape proves to be more problematic.
Based on W. Stanley Moss’s autobiographical account of the operation, Ill Met By Moonlight was the last collaboration between Powell and Pressburger,...
British officers David Oxley (l.) and Dirk Bogarde are Ill Met By Midnight.
Written, produced and directed by the legendary filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the World War II movie follows two British officers (Despair‘s Dirk Bogarde, David Oxley) who are assigned to kidnap a German General (Marius Goring) from the Nazi occupied island of Crete and deliver him to Allied forces in Cairo. Aided by local patriots, the abduction itself goes smoothly, but the Brits’ subsequent action-filled escape across the rocky Cretan landscape proves to be more problematic.
Based on W. Stanley Moss’s autobiographical account of the operation, Ill Met By Moonlight was the last collaboration between Powell and Pressburger,...
- 6/10/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
This final wrap comes with a reminder that all our reviews, interviews and coverage of the coverage is indexed right here.
"Throughout her nearly half-century career, actress Charlotte Rampling has rarely shied away from exposing herself onscreen," writes Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "In the new bio documentary The Look, she bares it all yet again, but this time in a series of compelling discussions with different artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers." Karina Longworth for the Voice: "Director Angelina Maccarone intersperses well-chosen clips from Rampling's greatest acting hits, which hammer home the larger themes, and also offer a much-needed reminder that Max, Mon Amour exists. It's breezy and entertaining, but only occasionally more than superficially insightful. Ideal catch-it-on-cable-on-a-hungover-Saturday viewing."
More from Mark Adams (Screen) and Boyd van Hoeij (Variety). Catherine Shoard interviews Rampling for the Guardian. Clips: 1 and 2. Until The Look hits cable, we have the Charlotte Rampling gallery at everyday_i_show.
"Throughout her nearly half-century career, actress Charlotte Rampling has rarely shied away from exposing herself onscreen," writes Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "In the new bio documentary The Look, she bares it all yet again, but this time in a series of compelling discussions with different artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers." Karina Longworth for the Voice: "Director Angelina Maccarone intersperses well-chosen clips from Rampling's greatest acting hits, which hammer home the larger themes, and also offer a much-needed reminder that Max, Mon Amour exists. It's breezy and entertaining, but only occasionally more than superficially insightful. Ideal catch-it-on-cable-on-a-hungover-Saturday viewing."
More from Mark Adams (Screen) and Boyd van Hoeij (Variety). Catherine Shoard interviews Rampling for the Guardian. Clips: 1 and 2. Until The Look hits cable, we have the Charlotte Rampling gallery at everyday_i_show.
- 6/2/2011
- MUBI
Migrating Forms has just revealed the full program for its third edition, running May 20 through 29 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. And it's pretty impressive, so we're going to go the quickest route here and reproduce the release below the jump.
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
With each day that passes, Cannes is becoming closer and closer, and now, for those looking forward to seeing a few, let’s say, more classic features, your sidebar has just been announced.
Cannes has announced their Classics Sidebar lineup, and what a lineup it is. A few Criterion directors have found their way onto the list, including Roberto Rossellini (The Machine To Kill Bad People), Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Despair). And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The most interesting additions are both Georges Melies’ classic 1902 silent film, A Trip To The Moon, as well as Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. The festival’s jury head, Robert De Niro, will also be focused on in this sidebar, as his film A Bronx Tale will also be showing during the festival.
Personally, the film that I’m most excited to see would have...
Cannes has announced their Classics Sidebar lineup, and what a lineup it is. A few Criterion directors have found their way onto the list, including Roberto Rossellini (The Machine To Kill Bad People), Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Despair). And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The most interesting additions are both Georges Melies’ classic 1902 silent film, A Trip To The Moon, as well as Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. The festival’s jury head, Robert De Niro, will also be focused on in this sidebar, as his film A Bronx Tale will also be showing during the festival.
Personally, the film that I’m most excited to see would have...
- 4/29/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The 2011 Cannes Classics program was unveiled, and five new documentaries centered around film history are to be screened as part of the bill, which includes newly restored 35 mm or HD prints of A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, The Conformist (Il Conformista) by Bernardo Bertolucci, and Despair by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, among eleven other classics. The documentaries scheduled to run are as follows: The Look by Angelica Maccarone (Germany / France, 2011, 95') The film chronicles the life of long time actress Charlotte Rampling, who looks to have collaborated on the project with Maccarone. She's been working in the industry since the mid-60s, and is still going strong today with notable roles in last year's Never Let Me Go, and Lars Von Trier's latest, Melancholia.Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel by Alex Stapleton (USA, 2011, 125') Stapleton's doc looks back at the life of the legendary producer-director Roger Corman,...
- 4/27/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The Cinema de la Plage where screenings of classic films are held at 9:30 each night; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet I already mentioned how Warner Home Video would be releasing a *new* Stanley Kubrick Blu-ray collection, this time including high definition versions of Lolita and Barry Lyndon with previously released HD versions of Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and a new 40th Anniversary Edition of A Clockwork Orange. That set hits Blu-ray on May 31, but Kubrick's now-40-year-old A Clockwork Orange will be hitting the Cannes Croisette a little bit earlier than that.
Another, late night look at the Cinema de la Plage; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet It had been previously announced, but yesterday the Cannes Film Festival made it official that A Clockwork Orange would be part of the...
Photo: Brad Brevet I already mentioned how Warner Home Video would be releasing a *new* Stanley Kubrick Blu-ray collection, this time including high definition versions of Lolita and Barry Lyndon with previously released HD versions of Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and a new 40th Anniversary Edition of A Clockwork Orange. That set hits Blu-ray on May 31, but Kubrick's now-40-year-old A Clockwork Orange will be hitting the Cannes Croisette a little bit earlier than that.
Another, late night look at the Cinema de la Plage; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet It had been previously announced, but yesterday the Cannes Film Festival made it official that A Clockwork Orange would be part of the...
- 4/27/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Cannes Film Festival's unveiled its Classics program today: "Fourteen films, five documentaries, surprises, a Masterclass (Malcolm McDowell), new or restored prints: The program is based on proposals from national archives, cinematheques, studios, producers and distributors. Rare classics to discover or re-discover, they will be presented in 35mm or high definition digital prints."
The Films
The first round of descriptions comes straight from the Festival.
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16'). "The color version of Georges Méliès most famous film, A Trip to the Moon (1902) is visible again 109 years after its release: having been long considered lost, this version was found in 1993 in Barcelona. In 2010, a full restoration is initiated by Lobster Films, Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Heritage Cinema. The digital tools of today allows them to re-assemble the fragments of 13 375 images from the film and restore them one by one.
The Films
The first round of descriptions comes straight from the Festival.
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16'). "The color version of Georges Méliès most famous film, A Trip to the Moon (1902) is visible again 109 years after its release: having been long considered lost, this version was found in 1993 in Barcelona. In 2010, a full restoration is initiated by Lobster Films, Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Heritage Cinema. The digital tools of today allows them to re-assemble the fragments of 13 375 images from the film and restore them one by one.
- 4/26/2011
- MUBI
The 64th festival de Cannes announced the selection for Cannes Classics on Tuesday. The selection will present fourteen films which includes the colour version of Georges Méliès famous A Trip to the Moon. The programme also comprises five documentaries and a Masterclass by actor Malcolm McDowell.
Established in 2004, the selection showcases heritage cinema, re-discovered films, restored prints and theatrical, television or DVD releases of the great works of the past.
Mrinal Sen s Khandahar and Ritwik Ghatak’s Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas) were presented in this section in the 2010 edition of the festival.
Cannes Classics: The Films
1. A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16′)
2. Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1971, 137′)
3. The Machine to Kill Bad People (La Macchina Ammazzacattivi) by Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1952, 80′)
4. A Bronx Tale by Robert De Niro (USA, 1993, 121′).
5. The Conformist (Il Conformista) by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy,...
Established in 2004, the selection showcases heritage cinema, re-discovered films, restored prints and theatrical, television or DVD releases of the great works of the past.
Mrinal Sen s Khandahar and Ritwik Ghatak’s Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas) were presented in this section in the 2010 edition of the festival.
Cannes Classics: The Films
1. A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16′)
2. Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1971, 137′)
3. The Machine to Kill Bad People (La Macchina Ammazzacattivi) by Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1952, 80′)
4. A Bronx Tale by Robert De Niro (USA, 1993, 121′).
5. The Conformist (Il Conformista) by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy,...
- 4/26/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Cannes Classics is a recent addition to the festival, and will enjoy its 8th instalment this year. Part of the line-up of this section of the fest is screened at Ceinema de la Plage, that’s right, on the beach. You’ve got to admit that it’s pretty cool – an open-aired screening of a classic film on the French Riviera, away from the exclusivity of the Palais, and able to be enjoyed by Panini-eating passers-by on the Croisette. There should be more of this at the festival, it’s good for the soul.
This year’s line-up of films includes work by Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, Euzhan Palcy (currently being honored by MoMA in New York) and Jerry Schatzberg, whose photograph of Faye Dunaway is embedded into this year’s festival poster above.
Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal will present a screening of “A Bronx Tale” to celebrate ten...
This year’s line-up of films includes work by Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, Euzhan Palcy (currently being honored by MoMA in New York) and Jerry Schatzberg, whose photograph of Faye Dunaway is embedded into this year’s festival poster above.
Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal will present a screening of “A Bronx Tale” to celebrate ten...
- 4/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Cannes Classics is a recent addition to the festival, and will enjoy its 8th instalment this year. Part of the line-up of this section of the fest is screened at Ceinema de la Plage, that’s right, on the beach. You’ve got to admit that it’s pretty cool – an open-aired screening of a classic film on the French Riviera, away from the exclusivity of the Palais, and able to be enjoyed by Panini-eating passers-by on the Croisette. There should be more of this at the festival, it’s good for the soul.
This year’s line-up of films includes work by Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, Euzhan Palcy (currently being honored by MoMA in New York) and Jerry Schatzberg, whose photograph of Faye Dunaway is embedded into this year’s festival poster above.
Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal will present a screening of “A Bronx Tale” to celebrate ten...
This year’s line-up of films includes work by Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, Euzhan Palcy (currently being honored by MoMA in New York) and Jerry Schatzberg, whose photograph of Faye Dunaway is embedded into this year’s festival poster above.
Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal will present a screening of “A Bronx Tale” to celebrate ten...
- 4/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Olive Films will give two movies by the late, great German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun) their digital debuts in the U.S. Despair (1978) and the TV movie I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) will be released on DVD on June 7.
Vitus Zeplichal takes a train ride to potential happiness in I Only Want You to Love Me.
Adapted by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, drama Despair is set in early 1930s Germany against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power. It’s here that we meet Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde, Death in Venice) as he starts to experience a growing mental breakdown. Hermann soon encounters Felix (Klaus Löwitsch), an unemployed laborer, whom he believes to be his doppelganger. Trying to maintain his sanity, Hermann hatches an elaborate plot, which he believes...
Vitus Zeplichal takes a train ride to potential happiness in I Only Want You to Love Me.
Adapted by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, drama Despair is set in early 1930s Germany against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power. It’s here that we meet Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde, Death in Venice) as he starts to experience a growing mental breakdown. Hermann soon encounters Felix (Klaus Löwitsch), an unemployed laborer, whom he believes to be his doppelganger. Trying to maintain his sanity, Hermann hatches an elaborate plot, which he believes...
- 3/9/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Anyone who follows me on Twitter might guess from my icon that I’m a bit of a Dirk Bogarde fan. I featured him in The Servant last year but until last week I had never seen this amazing poster for Fassbinder’s 1978 Despair, one of the many films that Bogarde made outside the UK (the greatest of course being Visconti’s Death in Venice). The Despair poster, with its sunburst of striped light and surreal collage, reminds me of the posters of the great Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo, but is in fact by a German designer named Uwe Wandrey. It would go very nicely on my wall in a fedora diptych with another of my all-time favorite posters: Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch.
- 10/8/2010
- MUBI
Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, is being published despite the author's instructions that it be destroyed after his death. Martin Amis confronts the tortuous questions posed by a genius in decline
Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs (Look Left), and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice. Most writers, I think, would want to go along with Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), when he reminisced in 1974:
". . . I regarded Paris, with its gray-toned days and charcoal nights, merely as the chance setting for the most authentic and faithful joys of my life: the coloured phrase in my mind under the drizzle, the white page under the desk lamp awaiting me in my humble home.
Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs (Look Left), and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice. Most writers, I think, would want to go along with Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), when he reminisced in 1974:
". . . I regarded Paris, with its gray-toned days and charcoal nights, merely as the chance setting for the most authentic and faithful joys of my life: the coloured phrase in my mind under the drizzle, the white page under the desk lamp awaiting me in my humble home.
- 11/14/2009
- by Martin Amis
- The Guardian - Film News
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