French actor Lambert Wilson is perhaps most famous, worldwide, for his portrayal of the Merovingian, a sinister — and delightfully camp — artificial intelligence in the Matrix movies. But when it comes to actual AI, the 65-year-old star shares the concerns, and fears, of his U.S. colleagues, who are manning the SAG-AFTRA picket lines in part to stop the studios from using new technology to make them obsolete. “I’m on their side, 100 percent,” says Wilson. “I think this struggle is crucial for our future.”
Speaking to THR Roma at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where he heads up the competition jury, Wilson stressed his solidarity with the strikers, explained why AI is a threat he’s been “talking about for 20 years” and why, after nearly 50 years in the business, he’s proud of everything he’s done (even Catwoman).
I have to ask about the strike, where artificial intelligence...
Speaking to THR Roma at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where he heads up the competition jury, Wilson stressed his solidarity with the strikers, explained why AI is a threat he’s been “talking about for 20 years” and why, after nearly 50 years in the business, he’s proud of everything he’s done (even Catwoman).
I have to ask about the strike, where artificial intelligence...
- 8/6/2023
- by Boris Sollazzo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Swiss documentary festival runs April 21-April 30.
Swiss-Canadian director Peter Mettler won the $22,000 grand jury prize of the international competition with While The Green Grass Grows at Switzerland’s documentary festival Visions du Réel in Nyon today (April 28).
The project, described as “a free-flowing meditation on life, death and what lies beyond” in Screen’s review, will consist of seven parts once completed – two of which were presented as a world premiere at the festival. maximage are handling international sales. This is the second time Mettler has won this award.
Knit’s Island, shot entirely from inside a video game and directed by Ekiem Barbier,...
Swiss-Canadian director Peter Mettler won the $22,000 grand jury prize of the international competition with While The Green Grass Grows at Switzerland’s documentary festival Visions du Réel in Nyon today (April 28).
The project, described as “a free-flowing meditation on life, death and what lies beyond” in Screen’s review, will consist of seven parts once completed – two of which were presented as a world premiere at the festival. maximage are handling international sales. This is the second time Mettler has won this award.
Knit’s Island, shot entirely from inside a video game and directed by Ekiem Barbier,...
- 4/28/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Emily Atef, who is presenting her latest film, “Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything,” in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, just moved to Paris to direct “La Maison,” a series depicting a fictional family-owned French luxury fashion empire.
While discussing “Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything” ahead of its world premiere, Atef told Variety that “La Maison” will be filled with a lot of drama and tragicomedy. “It’s very Shakespearean. There’s so much beauty and luxury with old mansions in Brittany, Parisian ‘hotel particuliers,’ and then behind all that there’s so much human poverty, and you see them ripping each other appart for power,” said Atef, who will direct the pilot and three more episodes.
The series was created and penned by Jose Caltagirone (“Les Combattantes”) and Valentine Milville (“The Bureau”), and will star a high-profile French ensemble cast, including Lambert Wilson (“Benedetta”), Carole Bouquet (“En Therapie...
While discussing “Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything” ahead of its world premiere, Atef told Variety that “La Maison” will be filled with a lot of drama and tragicomedy. “It’s very Shakespearean. There’s so much beauty and luxury with old mansions in Brittany, Parisian ‘hotel particuliers,’ and then behind all that there’s so much human poverty, and you see them ripping each other appart for power,” said Atef, who will direct the pilot and three more episodes.
The series was created and penned by Jose Caltagirone (“Les Combattantes”) and Valentine Milville (“The Bureau”), and will star a high-profile French ensemble cast, including Lambert Wilson (“Benedetta”), Carole Bouquet (“En Therapie...
- 2/17/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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