With Lars von Trier sticking to the vow he made following Nazi-comment-gate to no longer speak to the press or do interviews, it means that if you want to hear the director speak, you'll have to dig into the archives. And luckily, the folks at The Seventh Art have done just that. They've unearthed director Sophie Fiennes' ("A Pervert's Guide To Cinema," "A Pervert's Guide To Ideology," "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow") debut, the 10-minute 1998 short documentary, "Lars From 1-10." As the title suggest, the all-too-short film finds von Trier addressing the ten rules of the Dogme '95 manifesto that sought to strip all manner of artifice from the filmmaking process, while providing brief glimpses of behind the scenes footage from "The Idiots" (taken from the longer documentary, "The Humiliated"). Basically, it's a must for von Trier fans and for anyone who wants to see the filmmaker while so young,...
- 2/17/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Texas is known for some great film festivals. apart from SXSW and Fantastic Fest, both held in Austin – Houston also hosts some wonderful events. Among them is the Cinema Arts Festival. This year’s line-up is extremely strong, with titles that include Pina, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, The Artist and the World Premiere of Art Car: The Movie. Sadly we do not have any contributors over in Houston, but I did feel the need to quickly promote the festival. Here is the press release.
Houston – Now in its third year, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, which runs from November 9 to 13, 2011 will bring an ambitious program of films by and about artists to the vibrant Texas city known internationally for its dynamic art scene. From painting and dance to classical music and multimedia work, this edition will also include appearances by directors, actors, musicians, and special tributes to Ethan Hawke and documentary master Patricio Guzman.
Houston – Now in its third year, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, which runs from November 9 to 13, 2011 will bring an ambitious program of films by and about artists to the vibrant Texas city known internationally for its dynamic art scene. From painting and dance to classical music and multimedia work, this edition will also include appearances by directors, actors, musicians, and special tributes to Ethan Hawke and documentary master Patricio Guzman.
- 10/31/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
"Idiom is an online magazine of artistic and cultural practice." And it now has a new film and electronic art editor. Tom McCormack introduces the new section, promising long-form work focusing on the "avant-garde and the art-house and the gallery" — and YouTube. What's more: "We'd like to get polemical. We want to get argumentative." Idiom Film launches with Michael Joshua Rowin on the collection of essays Optics Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs, Colin Beckett on work by John Smith on DVD, Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon on Rossellini's Rome, Open City and Courtney Fiske on Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
How did I miss this breezy read in the New York Times last week? Elaine May: "The producers of Relatively Speaking (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom it...
How did I miss this breezy read in the New York Times last week? Elaine May: "The producers of Relatively Speaking (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom it...
- 10/18/2011
- MUBI
Sophie Fiennes has wrapped shooting The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, her new feature documentary collaboration with philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who has been called both “the closest thing philosophy has to a superstar” and “the undisputed spritz master of cinema studies.” The pair worked together on The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006), which Variety called "a virtuoso marriage of image and thought." Ideology explores some heady stuff, using psychoanalysis and cinema to explore the mechanisms that shape what we believe and how we behave. Fiennes’ latest, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, played at Cannes 2010. A UK-Ireland co-production of P Guide Productions and Blinder Films, Ideology was financed by the BFI Film Fund, Film4, Channel 4 and the Irish Film Board and new UK equity ...
- 10/14/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Opening with long meditative, carefully composed tracking shots through tunnels, passages and man-made caves, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow is a portrait with little context of the artist Anselm Kiefer. We learn in text Kiefer moved from his native Germany to Barjac, France, the studio where this work has been filmed.
The film sheds light on an experience in a way that a TV documentary on the same subject perhaps could not. However, like all cinema this is a manipulated experience that contains as much filmmakers Sophie Fiennes hand as it does Kiefer’s. The experience of the work cannot be replicated in Fiennes’ carefully composed frames and tracking shots, all intensified with a musical score lacking subtlety.
Kiefer’s work had been previously unknown to me, an advantage in that the film invites you to do discover his work and process with little commentary, aside from an interview...
The film sheds light on an experience in a way that a TV documentary on the same subject perhaps could not. However, like all cinema this is a manipulated experience that contains as much filmmakers Sophie Fiennes hand as it does Kiefer’s. The experience of the work cannot be replicated in Fiennes’ carefully composed frames and tracking shots, all intensified with a musical score lacking subtlety.
Kiefer’s work had been previously unknown to me, an advantage in that the film invites you to do discover his work and process with little commentary, aside from an interview...
- 8/15/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Title: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Director: Sophie Fiennes Featuring: Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer and the notion of the venerated artist more generally is celebrated in Sophie Fiennes documentary “Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow,” a kind of ethereal, meandering nonfiction look at the aforementioned German painter and sculptor. Attempting to mine greater meaning out of the minutiae of artistic production, this glacially paced film will hypnotize some with its often beautiful compositions and mesmeric rhythms, but mostly confound general audiences, and those desiring a pinch more of a conventional biographical hook upon which to hang the hat of their captured interest. Characterized by a foreboding and depressive style that sometimes...
- 8/15/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
"In 1993 the artist Anselm Kiefer left his native Germany and moved to a derelict silk factory on 86 acres in the southern French town of Barjac," begins Kristin Hohenadel in the New York Times. "He shored up the old industrial buildings to make them habitable. Then he brought in a crew of locals to bulldoze bare land, dig a network of underground tunnels and erect concrete structures to house his large-scale paintings and sculptures made from lead, wood, glass and other materials, transforming the landscape into a giant workshop and a monumental work of art. Mr Kiefer has since moved here, where he lives with his family and works in a warehouse outside the city. But his final days in Barjac were captured in Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, a documentary by the British director Sophie Fiennes that runs at Film Forum in New York from Wednesday through Aug 23."
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- 8/12/2011
- MUBI
Sophie Fiennes’ latest documentary, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, profiles German artist Anselm Kiefer while determinedly refusing to provide any easy context for its subject by way of talking heads or interviews to the camera. Few biographical details are offered, beyond an opening card that explains that for the past decade, Kiefer has been building installations in and around a former silk factory in southern France. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow attempts to let Kiefer’s art, and the process by which it’s made, speak for itself. There’s something admirable to this austerity and the way ...
- 8/10/2011
- avclub.com
The Cannes film festival starts today – with a record four women competing for the main prize. Why so few? The key directors talk to Charlotte Higgins about chauvinism and the Croisette
At last year's Cannes film festival, there was an outcry: there was not a single woman in competition for the Palme d'Or. British director Alicia Duffy screened her debut feature in the Directors' Fortnight strand, and British directors Sophie Fiennes and Lucy Walker both took documentaries, but the main competition was an all-male affair: Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and 17 others. This year – perhaps by chance, perhaps as a corrective measure taken by the selectors – there are four female film-makers in contention: Lynne Ramsay, the British director of We Need to Talk About Kevin; Australian Julia Leigh; France's Maïwenn Le Besco; and Japan's Naomi Kawase. This is still only four out of 20 directors – depressingly, the largest number of women ever...
At last year's Cannes film festival, there was an outcry: there was not a single woman in competition for the Palme d'Or. British director Alicia Duffy screened her debut feature in the Directors' Fortnight strand, and British directors Sophie Fiennes and Lucy Walker both took documentaries, but the main competition was an all-male affair: Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and 17 others. This year – perhaps by chance, perhaps as a corrective measure taken by the selectors – there are four female film-makers in contention: Lynne Ramsay, the British director of We Need to Talk About Kevin; Australian Julia Leigh; France's Maïwenn Le Besco; and Japan's Naomi Kawase. This is still only four out of 20 directors – depressingly, the largest number of women ever...
- 5/10/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
La Quattro Volte
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Screenplay by Michelangelo Frammartino
2010, Italy
A story about the cosmic connection between all things and a slow cinema document of the rural everyday, Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro volte (The Four Times) has its theatrical debut in Montreal this week after making the festival rounds from Cannes to Tiff to the Festival du nouveau cinema. The elemental mysticism that pervades Le Quattro Volte readily recalls that other 2010 arthouse standout, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives. Far less enigmatic than its Thai counterpart, Le Quattro Volte still manages to avoid overly sentimental cliché and pays graceful homage to the notion of life as a cycle.
With beautifully composed static long shots that capture of the squalidness of the everyday and hybridized narratives that walk the line between documentary and fiction, Le Quattro Volte enters into a (slow) dialogue...
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Screenplay by Michelangelo Frammartino
2010, Italy
A story about the cosmic connection between all things and a slow cinema document of the rural everyday, Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro volte (The Four Times) has its theatrical debut in Montreal this week after making the festival rounds from Cannes to Tiff to the Festival du nouveau cinema. The elemental mysticism that pervades Le Quattro Volte readily recalls that other 2010 arthouse standout, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives. Far less enigmatic than its Thai counterpart, Le Quattro Volte still manages to avoid overly sentimental cliché and pays graceful homage to the notion of life as a cycle.
With beautifully composed static long shots that capture of the squalidness of the everyday and hybridized narratives that walk the line between documentary and fiction, Le Quattro Volte enters into a (slow) dialogue...
- 5/9/2011
- by Lindsay Peters
- SoundOnSight
Our film critic makes the nominations for his own personal Oscars in a widely underrated year for film
December is the season of list-making and Top 10 compiling, but when I mention this to other critics, it's been getting winces and shrugs and mutterings that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year. I'm not so sure about that. It's true that the huge arthouse hits like The White Ribbon and A Prophet are now a very distant memory — A Prophet in fact was released at the very beginning of this year, but has been so extensively discussed, that I don't mention it below. Some huge crowd-pleasers, like Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, haven't yet had a full release and neither has Kelly Reichardt's western, Meek's Cutoff. These things may combine to produce the impression that 2010 is in itself a thin year.
December is the season of list-making and Top 10 compiling, but when I mention this to other critics, it's been getting winces and shrugs and mutterings that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year. I'm not so sure about that. It's true that the huge arthouse hits like The White Ribbon and A Prophet are now a very distant memory — A Prophet in fact was released at the very beginning of this year, but has been so extensively discussed, that I don't mention it below. Some huge crowd-pleasers, like Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, haven't yet had a full release and neither has Kelly Reichardt's western, Meek's Cutoff. These things may combine to produce the impression that 2010 is in itself a thin year.
- 12/1/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Facebook story did well, but Steve Carell animation Despicable Me tops the table. And Vampires Suck just won't die
The winner #1
While every major studio has developed either a successful animation division or a distribution relationship with a successful animation producer, for years, Universal has taken up the rear in this field. The company can only have gazed with envy at the likes of 20th Century Fox (Ice Age) and Warner Bros (Happy Feet), to say nothing, of course, of market leaders Disney/Pixar and the Paramount-distributed DreamWorks Animation.
But that's all changed, and in impressive style, with Despicable Me, the first film from Illumination Entertainment, which is co-owned and exclusively distributed by Universal. Founded and led by former 20th Century Fox Animation president Chris Meledandri, Illumination has hit the ball out of the park on its first swing at the bat, with a film that has already grossed...
The winner #1
While every major studio has developed either a successful animation division or a distribution relationship with a successful animation producer, for years, Universal has taken up the rear in this field. The company can only have gazed with envy at the likes of 20th Century Fox (Ice Age) and Warner Bros (Happy Feet), to say nothing, of course, of market leaders Disney/Pixar and the Paramount-distributed DreamWorks Animation.
But that's all changed, and in impressive style, with Despicable Me, the first film from Illumination Entertainment, which is co-owned and exclusively distributed by Universal. Founded and led by former 20th Century Fox Animation president Chris Meledandri, Illumination has hit the ball out of the park on its first swing at the bat, with a film that has already grossed...
- 10/19/2010
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Despicable Me (U)
(Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, 2010, Us) Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett. 95 mins
Despite being zippily outlandish and cartoony, there's a certain truthfulness to this animation about a would-be supervillain who's always being outdone: it's basically how every aspiring animation company feels when they look at Pixar. Whatever fiendish new weaponry they develop, Pixar's still winning this cuddly arms race. But judging by this effort from Universal and Illumination, in which Carell's supposedly evil heart is melted by three spirited little girls, they're catching up fast. With its polished visuals, sharply timed slapstick, and mix of fantastical adventure and domestic reality, it could be a spin-off of The Incredibles.
The Social Network (12A)
(David Fincher, 2010, Us) Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake. 120 mins
Fincher and West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin's breathless chronicle of the Facebook creators could well be the defining film of...
(Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, 2010, Us) Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett. 95 mins
Despite being zippily outlandish and cartoony, there's a certain truthfulness to this animation about a would-be supervillain who's always being outdone: it's basically how every aspiring animation company feels when they look at Pixar. Whatever fiendish new weaponry they develop, Pixar's still winning this cuddly arms race. But judging by this effort from Universal and Illumination, in which Carell's supposedly evil heart is melted by three spirited little girls, they're catching up fast. With its polished visuals, sharply timed slapstick, and mix of fantastical adventure and domestic reality, it could be a spin-off of The Incredibles.
The Social Network (12A)
(David Fincher, 2010, Us) Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake. 120 mins
Fincher and West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin's breathless chronicle of the Facebook creators could well be the defining film of...
- 10/15/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Film Weekly is out and about as this year's BFI London film festival kicks off. Jason Solomons and Xan Brooks preview some of the many cinematic treats on offer. And Jason asks can a remake be better then the original? He talks to young actor Kodi Smit McPhee and director Matt Reeves about Let Me In, a remake, screening at the festival, of the Swedish vampire hit Let The Right One In.
Jason also meets Sophie Fiennes to explore her film Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, a Kubrick-esque observational documentary about German artist Anselm Kiefer's expansive installation in southern France.
We review the Facebook film The Social Network, out this week, and we have a pair of tickets to the French writer-director Olivier Assayas's London festival masterclass for you to win.
Xan BrooksJason SolomonsJason Phipps...
Jason also meets Sophie Fiennes to explore her film Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, a Kubrick-esque observational documentary about German artist Anselm Kiefer's expansive installation in southern France.
We review the Facebook film The Social Network, out this week, and we have a pair of tickets to the French writer-director Olivier Assayas's London festival masterclass for you to win.
Xan BrooksJason SolomonsJason Phipps...
- 10/15/2010
- by Xan Brooks, Jason Solomons, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
Sophie Fiennes's documentary about artist Anselm Kiefer's remarkable studio in Barjac, France requires a cultivated mental quiet, says Peter Bradshaw
The last documentary about art released here was Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop. This film could not be more different. Where Banksy's film was shot through with humour and spoofery, and explicitly premised on the cynical, alchemical thrill of making shedloads of cash, Sophie Fiennes's piece is a deeply serious meditation on artistic practice and expression: a discourse in which the artist as creator is respectfully restored to the very centre of the process, and not marginalised by the cross-currents of money, fashion or theory.
Wordless for long stretches, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow could be described as a "participatory documentary" in the sense that the film-maker gets alongside her subject and in some way contributes to the art being created: her camera...
The last documentary about art released here was Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop. This film could not be more different. Where Banksy's film was shot through with humour and spoofery, and explicitly premised on the cynical, alchemical thrill of making shedloads of cash, Sophie Fiennes's piece is a deeply serious meditation on artistic practice and expression: a discourse in which the artist as creator is respectfully restored to the very centre of the process, and not marginalised by the cross-currents of money, fashion or theory.
Wordless for long stretches, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow could be described as a "participatory documentary" in the sense that the film-maker gets alongside her subject and in some way contributes to the art being created: her camera...
- 10/13/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Restrepo (15)
(Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, 2010, Us) 94 mins
This powerful frontline Afghanistan doc has been compared to a real-life Hurt Locker but here, war is all difficulty and very little glory. Closely observing a Us company in the hostile Korengal Valley, it's a mix of tense combat, bunker downtime and tricky "hearts and minds" local engagement efforts, interspersed with moving post-combat reflection. It all leaves you with a great deal of respect for the soldiers, and very little for the people who put them there.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A)
(Oliver Stone, 2010, Us) Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Carey Mulligan. 133 mins
Nice timing for the return of Gordon Gekko, but has the lizard changed his spots? He's now preaching that greed isn't good, and taking in young buck Labeouf for dubious reasons, in a flawed but fun sequel.
Mr Nice (18)
(Bernard Rose, 2010, UK) Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis. 121 mins
Ifans...
(Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, 2010, Us) 94 mins
This powerful frontline Afghanistan doc has been compared to a real-life Hurt Locker but here, war is all difficulty and very little glory. Closely observing a Us company in the hostile Korengal Valley, it's a mix of tense combat, bunker downtime and tricky "hearts and minds" local engagement efforts, interspersed with moving post-combat reflection. It all leaves you with a great deal of respect for the soldiers, and very little for the people who put them there.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A)
(Oliver Stone, 2010, Us) Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Carey Mulligan. 133 mins
Nice timing for the return of Gordon Gekko, but has the lizard changed his spots? He's now preaching that greed isn't good, and taking in young buck Labeouf for dubious reasons, in a flawed but fun sequel.
Mr Nice (18)
(Bernard Rose, 2010, UK) Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis. 121 mins
Ifans...
- 10/8/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Rachel Weisz in The Whistleblower The Toronto International Film Festival has added even more films to their line-up today as the complete line-up was announced, which ended up causing the festival's server to crash, but I was lucky enough to get in and get out before missing out on the information.
First off, the festival's Mavericks line-up is quite interesting, which includes a series of guest presentations and this year will see Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen, NBA All-Star and native Canadian Steve Nash will present his hour-long film Into the Wind, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will talk with the audience as his Cannes Palm d'Or-winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives was just added to the Masters programme, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty will be interviewed by Michael Moore on politics and cinema and Philip Seymour Hoffman will have his own panel. Also on hand will be Bill Gates,...
First off, the festival's Mavericks line-up is quite interesting, which includes a series of guest presentations and this year will see Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen, NBA All-Star and native Canadian Steve Nash will present his hour-long film Into the Wind, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will talk with the audience as his Cannes Palm d'Or-winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives was just added to the Masters programme, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty will be interviewed by Michael Moore on politics and cinema and Philip Seymour Hoffman will have his own panel. Also on hand will be Bill Gates,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
I'm calling it now. Vanguard is the best program of the Toronto International Film festival 2010. Featuring titles from Romain Gavras, Adam Wingard, Sion Sono, Tatsuya Nakashima and more, this is exactly the sort of programming I was hoping for when the program was first created a few years back. Absolutely fantastic. Here are the announcements for both Visions and Vanguard.
Visions Programme
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Andrei Ujica, Romania North American Premiere
Culled from one thousand hours of archival footage and four years in the making, this spellbinding epic montage unfolds as if from the memory of former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu, after his reign was brought to an abrupt and
tumultuous end in December 1989.
Brownian Movement Nanouk Leopold, The Netherlands/Germany/Belgium World Premiere
Acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Nanouk Leopold explores a young mother's desires and needs in this langorous and atmospheric film.
The Ditch Wang Bing, France/Belgium...
Visions Programme
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Andrei Ujica, Romania North American Premiere
Culled from one thousand hours of archival footage and four years in the making, this spellbinding epic montage unfolds as if from the memory of former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu, after his reign was brought to an abrupt and
tumultuous end in December 1989.
Brownian Movement Nanouk Leopold, The Netherlands/Germany/Belgium World Premiere
Acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Nanouk Leopold explores a young mother's desires and needs in this langorous and atmospheric film.
The Ditch Wang Bing, France/Belgium...
- 8/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte (aka The Four Times), one of treasured discoveries I made at Cannes this year is among those selected in Visions section -- a grouping of films that are definitely bending the narrative form. Other noticeable titles include Wang Bing's The Ditch, Acne director Federico Veiroj's A Useful Life and what should make for an interesting evening in Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water. Here are the selected titles, several began their life at Cannes this year. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Andrei Ujica, Romania North American Premiere Culled from one thousand hours of archival footage and four years in the making, this spellbinding epic montage unfolds as if from the memory of former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu, after his reign was brought to an abrupt and tumultuous end in December 1989. Brownian Movement Nanouk Leopold, The Netherlands/Germany/Belgium World Premiere Acclaimed Dutch...
- 8/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Miff has announced its full program, as well as visits from Ballarat-born, Mexico-based Camera d’Or winner Michael Rowe and his Leap Year; Us director Joe Dante, who will be the recipient of a special tribute; and Entourage star Adrian Grenier and his Teenage Paparazzo.
The Australian films Little Sparrows and The Tree will be screened during next month’s Melbourne International Film Festival; both had their Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival. Bill Bennett’s ghost story Uninhabited will be another local film screening at Miff.
The program includes Cannes titles such as Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid, Sophie Fiennes’ Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme, Olivier Assayas’ 5 hour long Carlos, and Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy starring Juliette Binoche. It will be closed by a biopic on musician Ian Dury, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, starring Andy Serkis.
Miff will feature a spotlight on India,...
The Australian films Little Sparrows and The Tree will be screened during next month’s Melbourne International Film Festival; both had their Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival. Bill Bennett’s ghost story Uninhabited will be another local film screening at Miff.
The program includes Cannes titles such as Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid, Sophie Fiennes’ Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme, Olivier Assayas’ 5 hour long Carlos, and Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy starring Juliette Binoche. It will be closed by a biopic on musician Ian Dury, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, starring Andy Serkis.
Miff will feature a spotlight on India,...
- 7/6/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian on Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: "With infinite patience and care, and a sense of how the movie camera can both record and also participate in the process of making art, Sophie Fiennes has directed an intriguing documentary about the work of 65-year-old artist Anselm Kiefer, who in the early 1990s left his native Germany for Barjac in the south of France where he devised an extraordinary artistic living-space: an atelier, an installation complex, an entire created landscape."...
- 5/26/2010
- MUBI
Sophie Fiennes, whose new documentary has won critical acclaim, is among UK directors who struggle to get funding at home
Being chosen for the official programme of the Cannes film festival brings high-profile and glamorous exposure for a director, and Sophie Fiennes's documentary about the German artist Anselm Kiefer was widely admired on the Croisette when it premiered at the weekend.
Yet the British documentary maker could not raise a penny of her budget from the UK, and instead it was financed largely from France and the Netherlands.
Fiennes (sister of actors Ralph and Joseph and director Martha) received particular critical acclaim for her The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006), a collaboration with the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. But "despite that we couldn't prise a single door open", she said.
She had approached the UK Film Council, Arts Council England and Tate Media as potential funders for And Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
Being chosen for the official programme of the Cannes film festival brings high-profile and glamorous exposure for a director, and Sophie Fiennes's documentary about the German artist Anselm Kiefer was widely admired on the Croisette when it premiered at the weekend.
Yet the British documentary maker could not raise a penny of her budget from the UK, and instead it was financed largely from France and the Netherlands.
Fiennes (sister of actors Ralph and Joseph and director Martha) received particular critical acclaim for her The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006), a collaboration with the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. But "despite that we couldn't prise a single door open", she said.
She had approached the UK Film Council, Arts Council England and Tate Media as potential funders for And Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
- 5/18/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Films by Stephen Frears, Abbas Kiarostami and Sophie Fiennes all come highly recommended
So, Cannes: I've been neglecting my blog, because things have been incredibly busy. It is hard to describe just how much queuing, waiting, being mucked about and dashing hither and thither there is at this the greatest of all film festivals. And that's before you get to sit down and write a word. To say it's a whirl is putting it mildly. However, here I am on the train back after a sleep-deprived and adrenaline-fuelled week. And here are my cinematic recommendations.
First, one of those odd ones: I didn't, to my great chagrin, get to see Mike Leigh's Another Year. But word of mouth on the Croisette is very good: everyone's saying this is a "strong" film by the British auteur. As a paid-up member of the Leigh fan club, I'll certainly waste no time...
So, Cannes: I've been neglecting my blog, because things have been incredibly busy. It is hard to describe just how much queuing, waiting, being mucked about and dashing hither and thither there is at this the greatest of all film festivals. And that's before you get to sit down and write a word. To say it's a whirl is putting it mildly. However, here I am on the train back after a sleep-deprived and adrenaline-fuelled week. And here are my cinematic recommendations.
First, one of those odd ones: I didn't, to my great chagrin, get to see Mike Leigh's Another Year. But word of mouth on the Croisette is very good: everyone's saying this is a "strong" film by the British auteur. As a paid-up member of the Leigh fan club, I'll certainly waste no time...
- 5/18/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
There is not a single female director in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, which opens today. There is, though, a handful of British women in the official selection – and it is interesting to note that Cannes has, in recent years, provided a launchpad for a certain kind of British female film-maker (one thinks particularly of Andrea Arnold, whose debut feature, Red Road, and last year's Fish Tank, impressed audiences).
This year, Alicia Duffy springs on to the scene with her deeply gloomy first feature, All Good Children; Sophie Fiennes has Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about the artist Anselm Kiefer; and there's the London-born Lucy Walker, whose intriguing-sounding documentary Countdown to Zero cheerily argues that the threat of nuclear annihilation has intensified rather than faded since the end of the cold war. I don't want to come over all Daisy Goodwin about this, but...
This year, Alicia Duffy springs on to the scene with her deeply gloomy first feature, All Good Children; Sophie Fiennes has Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about the artist Anselm Kiefer; and there's the London-born Lucy Walker, whose intriguing-sounding documentary Countdown to Zero cheerily argues that the threat of nuclear annihilation has intensified rather than faded since the end of the cold war. I don't want to come over all Daisy Goodwin about this, but...
- 5/12/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
As his Robin Hood opens the Cannes film festival, Ridley Scott talks about showdowns with Russell Crowe, his favourite men in tights – and why Churchill was a geezer
It's election day in Britain when we meet. "Have you voted yet?" I ask Ridley Scott, as we settle down to talk in a Beverly Hills hotel suite. "I'm going to miss it, I guess," he says. "God, I hope they know what they're doing – because we don't really know who they are, these new boys, do we? You used to have to have fought in a war to be President of the United States or Prime Minister of England."
Scott, a director whose name has become synonymous with quality action movies whose heroes do battle in hostile, unfamiliar worlds, pauses for a second, as if the thought has given him the inspiration for a movie. He hits on an idea and...
It's election day in Britain when we meet. "Have you voted yet?" I ask Ridley Scott, as we settle down to talk in a Beverly Hills hotel suite. "I'm going to miss it, I guess," he says. "God, I hope they know what they're doing – because we don't really know who they are, these new boys, do we? You used to have to have fought in a war to be President of the United States or Prime Minister of England."
Scott, a director whose name has become synonymous with quality action movies whose heroes do battle in hostile, unfamiliar worlds, pauses for a second, as if the thought has given him the inspiration for a movie. He hits on an idea and...
- 5/10/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywoodnews.com: On May 12, the Cannes Film Festival will start its 63rd edition. The president of the jury is Tim Burton and the jury consists of Kate Beckinsale – Actress / United Kingdom, Giovanna Mezzogiorno – Actress / Italy, Alberto Barbera – Director of the National Museum of Cinema / Italy, Emmanuel Carrere – Author – Screenwriter – Director / France, Benicio Del Toro – Actor / Porto Rico,Victor Erice – Director/ Spain, Shekhar Kapur – Director – Actor – Producer / India and Alexandre Desplat – Composer / France.
For this year’s line-up Scroll Down.
Below letter from one of the Cannes Film Festival bosses, Thierry Frémaux:
“As happens every year, the Festival´s programme was launched in January with the announcement of who would be the President of the Jury: Tim Burton! The news, which was unanimously greeted with enthusiasm, put the world of film in a good mood. The choice of Tim Burton to head the next edition of the Festival brings with...
For this year’s line-up Scroll Down.
Below letter from one of the Cannes Film Festival bosses, Thierry Frémaux:
“As happens every year, the Festival´s programme was launched in January with the announcement of who would be the President of the Jury: Tim Burton! The news, which was unanimously greeted with enthusiasm, put the world of film in a good mood. The choice of Tim Burton to head the next edition of the Festival brings with...
- 5/8/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Bass-baritone William Shimell makes his film debut opposite Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy, the Iranian director's new movie, which will have its world premiere in Cannes
When Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy premieres at the Cannes film festival this month, all eyes will be on the director's first movie made outside his native Iran.
Just as intriguingly, though, Juliette Binoche's co-star in the movie will not be Robert de Niro – who was rumoured to have been in talks for the part – but rather, an unknown British man.
Unknown, that is, in cinema circles. William Shimell is in fact a respected opera singer, a bass-baritone who has sung at the Met, La Scala and the Royal Opera House over the course of a long and distinguished musical career.
But Shimell had never acted in a film before working on Certifed Copy. In fact, he had never acted in straight theatre of any kind.
When Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy premieres at the Cannes film festival this month, all eyes will be on the director's first movie made outside his native Iran.
Just as intriguingly, though, Juliette Binoche's co-star in the movie will not be Robert de Niro – who was rumoured to have been in talks for the part – but rather, an unknown British man.
Unknown, that is, in cinema circles. William Shimell is in fact a respected opera singer, a bass-baritone who has sung at the Met, La Scala and the Royal Opera House over the course of a long and distinguished musical career.
But Shimell had never acted in a film before working on Certifed Copy. In fact, he had never acted in straight theatre of any kind.
- 5/7/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
As I suggested in my last update, the Cannes film festival line-up we announced earlier this month has since changed slightly, with new additions coming quickly after the initial announcement, and the hoped for inclusion of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life not making it to the party after all. Below is the new- and with only a week or so left until the Festival opens with Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood- presumably the absolute final line-up for this year’s programmes. All titles have been translated into English for ease where they re not obviously translatable.
Opening Film
Ridley Scott ‘Robin Hood’ [Out of Competition]
The Competition
Mike Leigh ‘Another Year’
Sergei Loznitsa ‘My Joy’
Apichatpong Weerasethakul ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’
Doug Liman ‘Fair Game’
Im Sang-soo ‘The Housemaid’
Takeshi Kitano ‘Outrage’
Danielle Lucheti ‘Our Life’
Nikita Mikhalkov ‘Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus’
Mathieu Amalric ‘On Tour...
Opening Film
Ridley Scott ‘Robin Hood’ [Out of Competition]
The Competition
Mike Leigh ‘Another Year’
Sergei Loznitsa ‘My Joy’
Apichatpong Weerasethakul ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’
Doug Liman ‘Fair Game’
Im Sang-soo ‘The Housemaid’
Takeshi Kitano ‘Outrage’
Danielle Lucheti ‘Our Life’
Nikita Mikhalkov ‘Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus’
Mathieu Amalric ‘On Tour...
- 5/2/2010
- by Simon Gallagher
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Festival de Cannes lives up to its name in its selection of its first 16 Competition Films from 13 countries. But an international cry went up when at the first announcement not a single picture was directed by a woman in the Competition area. (Last year there were directors Jane Campion, Isabel Coixet and Andrea Arnold.) However, the Closing Night film was just announced and it is Julie Bertucelli’s The Tree, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas and Aden Young. It will close the 63rd Festival de Cannes on Sunday, May 23rd following the Awards Ceremony. Memento is the international sales agent. Contacts for all films are listed below.
The other women invited can be found in the special screening sidebar where Sophie Fiennes' Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow about the German artist Anselm Kiefer, one of five docs chosen to be in the festival, Sabina Guzzanti's Draquila...
The other women invited can be found in the special screening sidebar where Sophie Fiennes' Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow about the German artist Anselm Kiefer, one of five docs chosen to be in the festival, Sabina Guzzanti's Draquila...
- 4/30/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
The complete Cannes line-up has been announced, Movie-Moron.com is going, and this is your last chance to win a VIP trip there yourself.
So the 63rd Festival de Cannes win run from May 12th-23rd with the following films screening in and out of competition:
In Competition
“Another Year,” U.K., Mike Leigh
“Biutiful,” Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Burnt by the Sun 2,” Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
“Certified Copy,” France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
“Fair Game,” U.S., Doug Liman
“Hors-la-loi,” France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
“The Housemaid,” South Korea, Im Sang-soo
“La nostra vita,” Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
“La Princesse de Montpensier,” France, Bertrand Tavernier
“Of Gods and Men,” France, Xavier Beauvois
“Outrage,” Japan, Takeshi Kitano
“Poetry,” South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
“A Screaming Man,” France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“Tournee,” France, Mathieu Amalric
“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” Spain-Thailand-Germany-u.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“You, My Joy,” Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa
Un Certain Regard
“Adrienn Pal,...
So the 63rd Festival de Cannes win run from May 12th-23rd with the following films screening in and out of competition:
In Competition
“Another Year,” U.K., Mike Leigh
“Biutiful,” Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Burnt by the Sun 2,” Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
“Certified Copy,” France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
“Fair Game,” U.S., Doug Liman
“Hors-la-loi,” France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
“The Housemaid,” South Korea, Im Sang-soo
“La nostra vita,” Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
“La Princesse de Montpensier,” France, Bertrand Tavernier
“Of Gods and Men,” France, Xavier Beauvois
“Outrage,” Japan, Takeshi Kitano
“Poetry,” South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
“A Screaming Man,” France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“Tournee,” France, Mathieu Amalric
“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” Spain-Thailand-Germany-u.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“You, My Joy,” Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa
Un Certain Regard
“Adrienn Pal,...
- 4/21/2010
- by Sheridan Passell
- Movie-moron.com
Updated 04/19 They've added two titles but none to the actual competition list just yet. Updates are included below
04/15 Yes, they will add a few titles. Looking round the web people expect something like 4 to 5 more films to show up. Speculation that Malick's Tree of Life or Nolans Inception or Schnabel's Miral probably won't die until after they add said missing titles. But if you're heading over to the South of France next month or merely reading along on various Twitter feeds or film blogs, these are some of the titles you'll be hearing about.
Blanchett. Crowe. Scott
Opening Night Film
Because you have to kick off with a starry entry for that maximum red carpet kick. It gets the international and mainstream press excited and you need their eyeballs... even if your festival is for the global cinephiles.
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)
I'm amused that the tagline is marketing this as an "untold story". Hee.
04/15 Yes, they will add a few titles. Looking round the web people expect something like 4 to 5 more films to show up. Speculation that Malick's Tree of Life or Nolans Inception or Schnabel's Miral probably won't die until after they add said missing titles. But if you're heading over to the South of France next month or merely reading along on various Twitter feeds or film blogs, these are some of the titles you'll be hearing about.
Blanchett. Crowe. Scott
Opening Night Film
Because you have to kick off with a starry entry for that maximum red carpet kick. It gets the international and mainstream press excited and you need their eyeballs... even if your festival is for the global cinephiles.
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)
I'm amused that the tagline is marketing this as an "untold story". Hee.
- 4/20/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Kathryn Bigelow may have been the first woman to win best director at the Oscars, but if you imagined that meant that the era of sexual equality was nigh in cinema, think again. At the Cannes festival this year, not a single movie in competition for the Palme D'Or is directed by a woman. Two British women will at least see work at the festival: Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow gets a special screening, while Alicia Duffy's All Good Children was yesterday announced as part of the Directors' Fortnight lineup.
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- 4/20/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
When Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar, I noted: "we must remember that there is still a long battle ahead. This is a great step that only marks change in the industry if women continue to stay in the spotlight with critical and box office success. This could, very easily, become a fluke in Hollywood's boys' club. As it stands, 2010 doesn't seem to have the same femme-centric punch as 2009." Well, forget about punch. When it comes to Cannes Film Festival, there's barely a murmur.
Last week, Cannes announced their film lineup for next month's festivities. After the fest kicks off with Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, the Cannes Competition lineup (competing for the Palme d'Or) features notable filmmakers like Kiarostami, Inarritu, and Leigh, but not one woman. If you jump to the Official Selection list, there is one -- Agnes Kocsis and her film Pal Adrienn.
Last week, Cannes announced their film lineup for next month's festivities. After the fest kicks off with Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, the Cannes Competition lineup (competing for the Palme d'Or) features notable filmmakers like Kiarostami, Inarritu, and Leigh, but not one woman. If you jump to the Official Selection list, there is one -- Agnes Kocsis and her film Pal Adrienn.
- 4/20/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
There are just 27 days to go now until one of the biggest movie festivals of the year, the Cannes Film Festival 2010, and the official line-up has now been announced! We already know that Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong) will be opening the festival, but what’s next? What else will we see?
Well fear not, good movie-goer, because we have the official list Right Here:
In Competition
“Another Year,” U.K., Mike Leigh
“Biutiful,” Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Burnt by the Sun 2,” Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
“Certified Copy,” France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
“Fair Game,” U.S., Doug Liman
“Hors-la-loi,” France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
“The Housemaid,” South Korea, Im Sang-soo
“La nostra vita,” Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
“La Princesse de Montpensier,” France, Bertrand Tavernier
“Of Gods and Men,” France, Xavier Beauvois
“Outrage,” Japan, Takeshi Kitano
“Poetry,” South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
“A Screaming Man,” France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“Tournee,...
Well fear not, good movie-goer, because we have the official list Right Here:
In Competition
“Another Year,” U.K., Mike Leigh
“Biutiful,” Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Burnt by the Sun 2,” Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
“Certified Copy,” France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
“Fair Game,” U.S., Doug Liman
“Hors-la-loi,” France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
“The Housemaid,” South Korea, Im Sang-soo
“La nostra vita,” Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
“La Princesse de Montpensier,” France, Bertrand Tavernier
“Of Gods and Men,” France, Xavier Beauvois
“Outrage,” Japan, Takeshi Kitano
“Poetry,” South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
“A Screaming Man,” France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“Tournee,...
- 4/15/2010
- by Craig Sharp
- FilmShaft.com
The 63rd Cannes Film Festival kicks off next month and it draws a host of talented filmmakers from all over the world. The festival will open with long awaited Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood,” starring Russell Crowe. Out-of-competition there will be screenings of Woody Allen’s “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, ” which stars Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, and Anthony Hopkins, and Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” starring Shia Labeouf and Michael Douglas.
Tim Burton will be the President of the Festival de Cannes’ Feature Film Jury as previously announced and as many as six more films are expected to be added to the list below as the festival draws closer. For the complete list of films scroll down.
The Cannes Film Festival 2010 takes place May 12-23.
Listen to the press conference from this morning below:
View the lineup below:
In Competition
“Tournee...
Tim Burton will be the President of the Festival de Cannes’ Feature Film Jury as previously announced and as many as six more films are expected to be added to the list below as the festival draws closer. For the complete list of films scroll down.
The Cannes Film Festival 2010 takes place May 12-23.
Listen to the press conference from this morning below:
View the lineup below:
In Competition
“Tournee...
- 4/15/2010
- by Staff
- Hollywoodnews.com
The official lineup for the 63rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 12 to 23, 2010, has been unveiled. Check out Cannes Film Festival 2010 official full list below.
Many titles were rumored to be screening but we can’t see them on the list But we know that this list isn’t finished and that Festival head Thierry Fremaux will probably find something to surprise us with.
Fremaux said that more films can and will be added to the slate, that the door is still open to add upwards of six additional titles.
We’re also still waiting for the festival to announce its closing night film.
Opener
Robin Hood, U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott
Competition
Another Year, U.K., Mike Leigh
Biutiful, Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Burnt by the Sun 2, Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
Certified Copy, France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
Fair Game, U.S., Doug Liman
Hors-la-loi, France-Belgium-Algeria,...
Many titles were rumored to be screening but we can’t see them on the list But we know that this list isn’t finished and that Festival head Thierry Fremaux will probably find something to surprise us with.
Fremaux said that more films can and will be added to the slate, that the door is still open to add upwards of six additional titles.
We’re also still waiting for the festival to announce its closing night film.
Opener
Robin Hood, U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott
Competition
Another Year, U.K., Mike Leigh
Biutiful, Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Burnt by the Sun 2, Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
Certified Copy, France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
Fair Game, U.S., Doug Liman
Hors-la-loi, France-Belgium-Algeria,...
- 4/15/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
The complete lineup for the 63rd Festival de Cannes has now been announced! Running from May 12 - 23 in Cannes, the festival is widely considered one of the highest profile and most prestigious of all film events.
"Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott will open the festival just two days before hitting theaters. The Hollywood Reporter has a complete rundown of all of the films screening both in and out of competition, take a look:
In Competition
"Another Year," U.K., Mike Leigh
"Biutiful," Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
"Burnt by the Sun 2," Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
"Certified Copy," France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
"Fair Game," U.S., Doug Liman
"Hors-la-loi," France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
"The Housemaid," South Korea, Im Sang-soo
"La nostra vita," Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
"La Princesse de Montpensier," France, Bertrand Tavernier
"Of Gods and Men," France, Xavier Beauvois
"Outrage," Japan, Takeshi Kitano
"Poetry," South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
"A Screaming Man,...
"Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott will open the festival just two days before hitting theaters. The Hollywood Reporter has a complete rundown of all of the films screening both in and out of competition, take a look:
In Competition
"Another Year," U.K., Mike Leigh
"Biutiful," Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
"Burnt by the Sun 2," Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
"Certified Copy," France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
"Fair Game," U.S., Doug Liman
"Hors-la-loi," France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
"The Housemaid," South Korea, Im Sang-soo
"La nostra vita," Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
"La Princesse de Montpensier," France, Bertrand Tavernier
"Of Gods and Men," France, Xavier Beauvois
"Outrage," Japan, Takeshi Kitano
"Poetry," South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
"A Screaming Man,...
- 4/15/2010
- by amcsts@gmail.com
- AMC - Script to Screen
Woody Allen is back again, but among the auteurs like Takeshi Kitano will be some other things we were expecting like Gregg Araki's Kaboom and L'autre monde from Gilles Marchand, both playing in the midnight section.
List after the break. More to come!
Opener
"Robin Hood," U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott
Competition
"Another Year," U.K., Mike Leigh
"Biutiful," Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
"Burnt by the Sun 2," Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
"Certified Copy," France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
"Fair Game," U.S., Doug Liman
"Hors-la-loi," France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
"The Housemaid," South Korea, Im Sang-soo
"La nostra vita," Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
"La Princesse de Montpensier," France, Bertrand Tavernier
"Of Gods and Men," France, Xavier Beauvois
"Outrage," Japan, Takeshi Kitano
"Poetry," South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
"A Screaming Man," France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
"Tournee," France, Mathieu Amalric
"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," Spain-Thailand-Germany-u.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
"You, My Joy," Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa...
List after the break. More to come!
Opener
"Robin Hood," U.S.-U.K., Ridley Scott
Competition
"Another Year," U.K., Mike Leigh
"Biutiful," Spain-Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
"Burnt by the Sun 2," Germany-France-Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov
"Certified Copy," France-Italy-Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
"Fair Game," U.S., Doug Liman
"Hors-la-loi," France-Belgium-Algeria, Rachid Bouchareb
"The Housemaid," South Korea, Im Sang-soo
"La nostra vita," Italy-France, Daniele Luchetti
"La Princesse de Montpensier," France, Bertrand Tavernier
"Of Gods and Men," France, Xavier Beauvois
"Outrage," Japan, Takeshi Kitano
"Poetry," South Korea, Lee Chang-dong
"A Screaming Man," France-Belgium-Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
"Tournee," France, Mathieu Amalric
"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," Spain-Thailand-Germany-u.K.-France, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
"You, My Joy," Ukraine-Germany, Sergey Loznitsa...
- 4/15/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The Cannes Film Festival has just announced it’s film line-up for 2010, and there are several Criterion alum both in and out of competition.
Mike Leigh’s latest, Another Year, will be screening at the festival, where in 1993, his Criterion film, Naked, won both the Palm d’Or and Best Director. Abbas Kiarostami, he of Taste of Cherry (which also won the Palm d’Or), and the upcoming Criterion release: Close-Up, will be showing off his latest film: Certified Copy. Finally, the Criterion heavy weight champion, Jean-Luc Godard, will quite possibly stun us all with his latest, and rumored last film, Socialisme. This will be Godard’s first film to be shot digitally.
Other Criterion Collection names to note on the list: Kate Beckinsale (Last Days of Disco) and Benicio del Toro (Che, Traffic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) will both serving on the Competition Jury. Mathieu Amalric, of A Christmas Tale,...
Mike Leigh’s latest, Another Year, will be screening at the festival, where in 1993, his Criterion film, Naked, won both the Palm d’Or and Best Director. Abbas Kiarostami, he of Taste of Cherry (which also won the Palm d’Or), and the upcoming Criterion release: Close-Up, will be showing off his latest film: Certified Copy. Finally, the Criterion heavy weight champion, Jean-Luc Godard, will quite possibly stun us all with his latest, and rumored last film, Socialisme. This will be Godard’s first film to be shot digitally.
Other Criterion Collection names to note on the list: Kate Beckinsale (Last Days of Disco) and Benicio del Toro (Che, Traffic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) will both serving on the Competition Jury. Mathieu Amalric, of A Christmas Tale,...
- 4/15/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The lineup for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival set to run from May 12 - 23 was announced this morning in Paris, France at the Grand Hotel. On top of the information you'll read below, Twitter user OnTheCroisette added additional information as did ioncinema who specifically reports Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life is 'not ready'" and will not be included in the festival as was previously expected. OnTheCroisette said the Cannes selection committee saw a "copy" of the film, and "anything could happen in the coming weeks," but I'm not holding my breath.
Word from the press conference is that we can expect four to six additional films announced over the coming days/weeks. What will they be? Olivier Assayas's Carlos? Julian Schnabel's Miral? Francois Ozon's Potiche? Bruce Robinson's Rum Diary? Take a look at the list and my brief commentary below and let us know what you think.
Word from the press conference is that we can expect four to six additional films announced over the coming days/weeks. What will they be? Olivier Assayas's Carlos? Julian Schnabel's Miral? Francois Ozon's Potiche? Bruce Robinson's Rum Diary? Take a look at the list and my brief commentary below and let us know what you think.
- 4/15/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Official Selection at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23) was unveiled at midday today in Paris at the traditional press conference. Here is the list of films in the line-up:
Official Selection
Competition
Another Year - Mike Leigh
Biutiful - Alejandro González Inárritu
Hors-la-loi - Rachid Bouchareb
La princesse de Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier
Poetry - Lee Chang-dong
The housemaid - Im Sang-soo
Outrage - Takeshi Kitano
Copie conforme - Abbas Kiarostami
Tournée - Matthieu Amalric
Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Des hommes et des dieux - Xavier Beauvois -
La nostra vita - Daniele Luchetti
Un homme qui crie - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
You: My Joy - Sergei Loznitsa
Utomlyonnye solntsem 2 - Nikita Mikhalkov
Fair Game - Doug Liman
Out of Competition
Robin des Bois - Ridley Scott
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - Woody Allen
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - Oliver Stone
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps...
Official Selection
Competition
Another Year - Mike Leigh
Biutiful - Alejandro González Inárritu
Hors-la-loi - Rachid Bouchareb
La princesse de Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier
Poetry - Lee Chang-dong
The housemaid - Im Sang-soo
Outrage - Takeshi Kitano
Copie conforme - Abbas Kiarostami
Tournée - Matthieu Amalric
Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Des hommes et des dieux - Xavier Beauvois -
La nostra vita - Daniele Luchetti
Un homme qui crie - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
You: My Joy - Sergei Loznitsa
Utomlyonnye solntsem 2 - Nikita Mikhalkov
Fair Game - Doug Liman
Out of Competition
Robin des Bois - Ridley Scott
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - Woody Allen
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - Oliver Stone
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps...
- 4/15/2010
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
Paris – An international pot pourri of all-male auteurs from across the globe will battle France's own filmmaking superstars on their home turf when the French-accented 63rd Festival de Cannes kicks off its annual Riviera rendez-vous on May 12th, the fest's artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced Thursday at a press conference in Paris.
Familiar faces in the famous fest's Competition selection including Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mike Leigh, Rachid Bouchareb and Lee Chang-Dong will screen their films alongside Gallic filmmakers Bertrand Tavernier, Xavier Beauvois, Mathieu Amalric and Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
The Competition will feature 16 films from 13 countries. 46 features had been chosen for the full selection as of Thursday's conference, with "six or seven more" to come in the coming days, Fremaux told journalists at the conference held at the luxe Parisian Grand Hotel.
The red carpets won't be lacking famous faces. Former jury president Sean Penn will...
Familiar faces in the famous fest's Competition selection including Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mike Leigh, Rachid Bouchareb and Lee Chang-Dong will screen their films alongside Gallic filmmakers Bertrand Tavernier, Xavier Beauvois, Mathieu Amalric and Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
The Competition will feature 16 films from 13 countries. 46 features had been chosen for the full selection as of Thursday's conference, with "six or seven more" to come in the coming days, Fremaux told journalists at the conference held at the luxe Parisian Grand Hotel.
The red carpets won't be lacking famous faces. Former jury president Sean Penn will...
- 4/15/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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