The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed the Official Selection for its latest edition, which is due to unfold from September 22 — 30.
The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).
American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).
American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
- 7/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Two Lottery Tickets (Doua Lozuri) Dekanalog Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Paul Negoescu Writer: Ion Luca Caragiale, Paul Negoescu Cast: Dorian Boguta, Dragos Bucur, Alexandru Papadopol, Andi Vasluianu, Serban Pavlu Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/13/21 Opens: May 21, 2021 If a Bucharest filmmaker wants to make a […]
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- 5/16/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
After being forced to pivot entirely online last-minute due to a Covid spike, Bosnia’s Sarajevo Film Festival is coming to a close and has unveiled its prize winners for this year’s edition.
A jury chaired by Michel Hazanavicius and featuring Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, director Srdan Golubović and the Morelia Film Festival’s Andrea Stavenhagen, awarded the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo, to Visar Morina’s Exile. The pic stars Misel Maticevic and Sandra Huller in the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who plunges into an identity crisis. It debuted at Sundance this year.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director went to Ru Hasanov for The Island Within, while Best Actress went to Marija Škaričić for Mare, and Best Actor went to Vangelis Mourikis for Digger. You can see the list of awards below, as well as the festival’s industry winners.
A jury chaired by Michel Hazanavicius and featuring Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, director Srdan Golubović and the Morelia Film Festival’s Andrea Stavenhagen, awarded the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo, to Visar Morina’s Exile. The pic stars Misel Maticevic and Sandra Huller in the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who plunges into an identity crisis. It debuted at Sundance this year.
The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director went to Ru Hasanov for The Island Within, while Best Actress went to Marija Škaričić for Mare, and Best Actor went to Vangelis Mourikis for Digger. You can see the list of awards below, as well as the festival’s industry winners.
- 8/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Winners included coming-of-age drama The Otter from Bosnian director Srđan Vuletić.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform CineLink has announced the winners of its 18th edition, which took place entirely online for the first time as a result of the virus crisis.
Scroll down for full list of winners
More than 40 projects in various formats and stages of development were presented from August 15-20 across strands including CineLink Co-Production Market, CineLink Work in Progress and Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
Winners included Montenegro coming-of-age drama The Otter, from director Srđan Vuletić, which won the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award.
Vuletić is known...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform CineLink has announced the winners of its 18th edition, which took place entirely online for the first time as a result of the virus crisis.
Scroll down for full list of winners
More than 40 projects in various formats and stages of development were presented from August 15-20 across strands including CineLink Co-Production Market, CineLink Work in Progress and Docu Rough Cut Boutique.
Winners included Montenegro coming-of-age drama The Otter, from director Srđan Vuletić, which won the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award.
Vuletić is known...
- 8/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Visar Morina’s “Exile,” a tense psychodrama about a Kosovan pharmacologist in Germany who becomes increasingly paranoid over a series of menacing events, won the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, earning the Kosovo-born German director the Heart of Sarajevo.
The award ceremony took place online Thursday night, with Morina winning top honors from a jury led by Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) and comprised of Carlo Chatrian, artistic director of the Berlin Intl. Film Festival; Croatian actress Jadranka Đokić; Serbian director Srdan Golubović; and Andrea Stavenhagen, head of industry and training projects at the Morelia Film Festival.
Director Michel Franco and actor Mads Mikkelsen were given honorary Heart of Sarajevo awards.
The timely drama from Morina, who was named one of Variety‘s 10 Europeans to Watch earlier this year, is a poignant study of identity and belonging at a time of ongoing uncertainty in Europe over...
The award ceremony took place online Thursday night, with Morina winning top honors from a jury led by Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) and comprised of Carlo Chatrian, artistic director of the Berlin Intl. Film Festival; Croatian actress Jadranka Đokić; Serbian director Srdan Golubović; and Andrea Stavenhagen, head of industry and training projects at the Morelia Film Festival.
Director Michel Franco and actor Mads Mikkelsen were given honorary Heart of Sarajevo awards.
The timely drama from Morina, who was named one of Variety‘s 10 Europeans to Watch earlier this year, is a poignant study of identity and belonging at a time of ongoing uncertainty in Europe over...
- 8/20/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Susanne Wolff, Dragos Bucur, Alexia Lestiboudois, Teun Luijkx, Jan Bijvoet, Therese Affolter, Mark Rietman, Kim Hertogs, Leny Breederveld, Dennis Rudge, Murth Mossel, Valentijn Dhaenens, Martijn van der Veen, Anna Tenta | Written and Directed by Lennert Hillege, Guido van Driel
The Netherlands is not a country that is very well known for its movies. Off the top of my head the only one I can actually think of is Christmas horror movie Sint/Saint (which is pretty good so check it out next December), so Bloody Marie enters a very small list of my movie watching entitled ‘Dutch cinema’.
Bloody Marie is the story of (unsurprisingly) Marie. A woman who was once a successful comic book artist but is now struggling to make a living through her art and lives in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. She is mostly drunk and walks the streets at night almost looking for...
The Netherlands is not a country that is very well known for its movies. Off the top of my head the only one I can actually think of is Christmas horror movie Sint/Saint (which is pretty good so check it out next December), so Bloody Marie enters a very small list of my movie watching entitled ‘Dutch cinema’.
Bloody Marie is the story of (unsurprisingly) Marie. A woman who was once a successful comic book artist but is now struggling to make a living through her art and lives in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. She is mostly drunk and walks the streets at night almost looking for...
- 1/20/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
"An artist draws. And I... drink." Uncork'd Ent. has released an official Us trailer for an indie drama from The Netherlands titled Bloody Marie, which is one of the films that was considered for submission to the Oscars this year. This premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year, and is already available on VOD now. Award-winning German actress Susanne Wolff (also seen in Styx) stars as Marie Wankelmut, a once successful comic artist, who lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one big conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors forces her to take action. Co-starring Dragos Bucur, Alexia Lestiboudois, Teun Luijkx, Jan Bijvoet, and Therese Affolter. Looks like this gets extra wild in the second half, turning into a crazy crime thriller. Here's the Us trailer (+ Dutch poster) for Lennert Hillege & Guido van Driel's Bloody Marie,...
- 10/15/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Set in the notorious picturesque red light district in Amsterdam, the fllm opens on the drunken antics of an attractive woman in a bar who often gets into arguments with men when drunk.
Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.
Marie shares her acute alcoholic binges with her mother whom we meet as she is passed out in her apartment along with her daughter.
Any resemblance to Fatih Akin’s recent dive bar serial killer movie The Golden Glove stops there.
One day, a fellow barfly magicaly claims ro “know her”. He resemales a creature from a fairy tale, very short wih a manly face and a prominent beak-like nose and he claims to have prescient powers.
Watch the trailer here.
Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.
Marie shares her acute alcoholic binges with her mother whom we meet as she is passed out in her apartment along with her daughter.
Any resemblance to Fatih Akin’s recent dive bar serial killer movie The Golden Glove stops there.
One day, a fellow barfly magicaly claims ro “know her”. He resemales a creature from a fairy tale, very short wih a manly face and a prominent beak-like nose and he claims to have prescient powers.
Watch the trailer here.
- 2/24/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Gwyneth Hughes, writer of the BBC and HBO’s The Girl, has created a feature-length drama about slavery in modern Britain for the BBC.
Doing Money will star Romanian actress Anca Dumitra (Las Fierbinti) and Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech. It tells the story of Ana, a young Romanian woman snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of ‘pop up’ brothels. The 90-minute thriller exposes just how big business ‘doing money’ is.
Written by Hughes, who has also written ITV’s forthcoming adaptation of Vanity Fair, and directed by Lynsey Miller (The Boy With The Top Knot), Doing Money is produced by Warner Bros’ Renegade Pictures for BBC Two. It is produced in association with Irish broadcaster Rte, produced by Mike Dormer and exec produced by Alex Cooke and Lucy Richer. It was commissioned by Patrick Holland,...
Doing Money will star Romanian actress Anca Dumitra (Las Fierbinti) and Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech. It tells the story of Ana, a young Romanian woman snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of ‘pop up’ brothels. The 90-minute thriller exposes just how big business ‘doing money’ is.
Written by Hughes, who has also written ITV’s forthcoming adaptation of Vanity Fair, and directed by Lynsey Miller (The Boy With The Top Knot), Doing Money is produced by Warner Bros’ Renegade Pictures for BBC Two. It is produced in association with Irish broadcaster Rte, produced by Mike Dormer and exec produced by Alex Cooke and Lucy Richer. It was commissioned by Patrick Holland,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, Bruce McGill, Bryan Callen, Laurence Fishburne, Dragos Bucur, Gary Owen, Jacob Latimore, Jay Pharoah, Benjamin Flores Jr. | Written by Greg Coolidge, Jason Mantzoukas, Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi | Directed by Tim Story
As someone who absolutely adored the Ice Cube buddy cop comedy All About the Benjamins I was really looking forward to Cube’s latest buddy comedy Ride Along, especially given that it also stars man of the moment Kevin Hart, whose career is currently in take off. But then (at least here in the UK) All About the Benjamins was something of an underrated gem just waiting to be discovered by those who enjoy the genre; but with this film hitting the top of the Us box office it brings with it a ton of hype for its UK debut, which I had to wonder if it could ever live up to…...
As someone who absolutely adored the Ice Cube buddy cop comedy All About the Benjamins I was really looking forward to Cube’s latest buddy comedy Ride Along, especially given that it also stars man of the moment Kevin Hart, whose career is currently in take off. But then (at least here in the UK) All About the Benjamins was something of an underrated gem just waiting to be discovered by those who enjoy the genre; but with this film hitting the top of the Us box office it brings with it a ton of hype for its UK debut, which I had to wonder if it could ever live up to…...
- 6/24/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, Bruce McGill, Bryan Callen, Laurence Fishburne, Dragos Bucur, Gary Owen, Jacob Latimore, Jay Pharoah, Benjamin Flores Jr. | Written by Greg Coolidge, Jason Mantzoukas, Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi | Directed by Tim Story
As someone who absolutely adored the Ice Cube buddy cop comedy All About the Benjamins I was really looking forward to Cube’s latest buddy comedy Ride Along, especially given that it also stars man of the moment Kevin Hart, whose career is currently in take off. But then (at least here in the UK) All About the Benjamins was something of an underrated gem just waiting to be discovered by those who enjoy the genre; but with this film hitting the top of the Us box office it brings with it a ton of hype for its UK debut, which I had to wonder if it could ever live up to…...
As someone who absolutely adored the Ice Cube buddy cop comedy All About the Benjamins I was really looking forward to Cube’s latest buddy comedy Ride Along, especially given that it also stars man of the moment Kevin Hart, whose career is currently in take off. But then (at least here in the UK) All About the Benjamins was something of an underrated gem just waiting to be discovered by those who enjoy the genre; but with this film hitting the top of the Us box office it brings with it a ton of hype for its UK debut, which I had to wonder if it could ever live up to…...
- 2/3/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 25 pairs of advance-screening passes up for grabs to the new comedy “Ride Along” starring Kevin Hart, Ice Cube and John Leguizamo!
“Ride Along,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens on Jan. 17, 2014, also stars Laurence Fishburne, Angela Kerecz, Tika Sumpter, Bryan Callen, Bruce McGill, David Banner, Julisita Salcedo, Gary Owen and Dragos Bucur from director Tim Story and writers Greg Coolidge and Jason Mantzoukas.
To win your free “Ride Along” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
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“Ride Along,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens on Jan. 17, 2014, also stars Laurence Fishburne, Angela Kerecz, Tika Sumpter, Bryan Callen, Bruce McGill, David Banner, Julisita Salcedo, Gary Owen and Dragos Bucur from director Tim Story and writers Greg Coolidge and Jason Mantzoukas.
To win your free “Ride Along” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
Preferably, use...
- 1/12/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Faulty Blueprint: Rugina’s Debut Pleasures the Crowd, Numbs the Mind
A certifiable hit at the Romanian box office, Iulia Rugina’s directorial debut, Love Building has the formulaic, crowd pleasing prowess of similar Western counterparts where hokey endeavors are piled one on top of another until, instead of revealing its own realistic mess, we reach a staunchly uplifting and/or hopelessly trite finale. To her credit, Rugina doesn’t completely dissolve her narrative in saccharine fantasyland by ending on an open-ended sequence that doesn’t quite put the ribbon on the wrapped box, but neither is it operating as anything other than simplistic fluff. While it doesn’t neatly solve the many problems of its many characters, the film also fails to question its own complicity in these types of problems, namely that maybe our conditioned, heteronormative notions of love and successfully realistic relationships is the root of discord.
A certifiable hit at the Romanian box office, Iulia Rugina’s directorial debut, Love Building has the formulaic, crowd pleasing prowess of similar Western counterparts where hokey endeavors are piled one on top of another until, instead of revealing its own realistic mess, we reach a staunchly uplifting and/or hopelessly trite finale. To her credit, Rugina doesn’t completely dissolve her narrative in saccharine fantasyland by ending on an open-ended sequence that doesn’t quite put the ribbon on the wrapped box, but neither is it operating as anything other than simplistic fluff. While it doesn’t neatly solve the many problems of its many characters, the film also fails to question its own complicity in these types of problems, namely that maybe our conditioned, heteronormative notions of love and successfully realistic relationships is the root of discord.
- 12/4/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Zeitgeist will release the 2009 foreign-language comedy-drama Police, Adjective, by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), on DVD on Aug. 30. It will carry a list price of $29.99.
Irina Saulescu and Dragos Bucur ponder the future in Police, Adjective.
The winner of two prizes at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival — the Fipresci and Un Certain Regard Jury Prizes — the movie tells the story of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he’s forced to arrest a teenager who offers hashish to classmates. Cristi doesn’t want to ruin the life of a teen whom he think is merely irresponsible, so Cristi must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience or face disciplinary action by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Presented in Romanian with English subtitles, the masterfully ironic Police, Adjective features one of the best, funniest...
Irina Saulescu and Dragos Bucur ponder the future in Police, Adjective.
The winner of two prizes at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival — the Fipresci and Un Certain Regard Jury Prizes — the movie tells the story of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he’s forced to arrest a teenager who offers hashish to classmates. Cristi doesn’t want to ruin the life of a teen whom he think is merely irresponsible, so Cristi must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience or face disciplinary action by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Presented in Romanian with English subtitles, the masterfully ironic Police, Adjective features one of the best, funniest...
- 5/19/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a police officer has been told via an informant that a teenager is smoking and supplying dope to his friends. Through an extensive surveillance and tailing operation, Cristi believes that this “supplying” is no more than simply sharing it with his friends, however his boss insists on setting up a sting operation in order to enforce the letter of the law. Cristi also feels conflicted on account of a (possibly correct) assumption that before long Romania’s drug laws will be liberalised and the boy will have been sent to prison and his life ruined needlessly.
*****
It is hard to recall or imagine a more problematic film to review. Many reviews have been thoroughly positive in their assessment of the artistic merits of this quietly uneventful, yet thematically forceful film. It is doubtless difficult to persuade a generation of film-viewers raised on the bombastic and fast-editing styles of Cameron,...
*****
It is hard to recall or imagine a more problematic film to review. Many reviews have been thoroughly positive in their assessment of the artistic merits of this quietly uneventful, yet thematically forceful film. It is doubtless difficult to persuade a generation of film-viewers raised on the bombastic and fast-editing styles of Cameron,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Originally posted online on January 19, 2011. The Way Back is nominated for Best Makeup (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng).
A pioneering figure of the new independent Australian cinema in the 1970s, 66-year-old Sydney native Peter Weir (The Truman Show) gravitated to Hollywood in the mid ’80s, found success with a handful of well-crafted studio pictures (Witness, Dead Poets Society), and never really looked back. At least that’s how it might appear after a cursory glance at his unusual oeuvre, which encompasses everything from 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (an oneiric film awash in foreboding, in which a small-town community disintegrates after a group of elite-school girls eerily vanish en masse during a lunchtime hike) to the rollicking high-seas adventure of 2003’s Master and Commander (about the friendship of a British captain and a man of science in the Napoleonic Wars era). Weir may have forsaken the interior...
A pioneering figure of the new independent Australian cinema in the 1970s, 66-year-old Sydney native Peter Weir (The Truman Show) gravitated to Hollywood in the mid ’80s, found success with a handful of well-crafted studio pictures (Witness, Dead Poets Society), and never really looked back. At least that’s how it might appear after a cursory glance at his unusual oeuvre, which encompasses everything from 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (an oneiric film awash in foreboding, in which a small-town community disintegrates after a group of elite-school girls eerily vanish en masse during a lunchtime hike) to the rollicking high-seas adventure of 2003’s Master and Commander (about the friendship of a British captain and a man of science in the Napoleonic Wars era). Weir may have forsaken the interior...
- 2/25/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
From 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) director Corneliu Porumboui comes the Romanian director’s latest film, Police, Adjective (2009), yet another strong entry within the growing body of contemporary Romanian cinematic works.
Winner of the ‘Un Certain Regard Prize’ at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Porumboui’s latest effort is a darkly humorous police drama following disillusioned cop Cristi (Dragos Bucur) who begins to question his own morality – and that of the Police unit he serves – after being assigned to gather evidence against a local drug dabbling college student.
Porumboui’s satirical views on the Romanian police authorities are made very clear almost from minute one. In an early scene, Cristi’s questioning into the worth and validity of what he is being asked to do is rebuked by his senior officer, who states, “…you’re not qualified to comment on the law”, before going on to discuss the aesthetic merits of Paris,...
Winner of the ‘Un Certain Regard Prize’ at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Porumboui’s latest effort is a darkly humorous police drama following disillusioned cop Cristi (Dragos Bucur) who begins to question his own morality – and that of the Police unit he serves – after being assigned to gather evidence against a local drug dabbling college student.
Porumboui’s satirical views on the Romanian police authorities are made very clear almost from minute one. In an early scene, Cristi’s questioning into the worth and validity of what he is being asked to do is rebuked by his senior officer, who states, “…you’re not qualified to comment on the law”, before going on to discuss the aesthetic merits of Paris,...
- 2/15/2011
- by Cine-Vue
- CineVue
There is something very poignant about a movie that takes a political movement, turns it into an intangible unearthly feeling and then grows it into an unbearable enemy that is hardly seen or heard – just painfully felt. The Way Back is a stripped down story, free from Hollywood glamour, of man versus the world – in this case, Communism. Though the story drags on at times, being most of the movie is spent hiking (or rather on the run), very reserved and contained performances from Jim Sturgess (Heartless, Upside Down), Ed Harris (Appaloosa, Salvation Boulevard), Colin Farrell (Crazy Heart, Fright Night) and Saoirse Ronan (Hanna, The Hobbit: Part 1) create palpable desperate characters that are more human than those found in the typical blockbuster.
The Way Back is inspired from the Slavomir Rawicz novel “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom.” It begins with Stalin’s invasion of Poland.
The Way Back is inspired from the Slavomir Rawicz novel “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom.” It begins with Stalin’s invasion of Poland.
- 1/31/2011
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
In the 1940's, a group of political prisoners escaped a Siberian gulag and trekked over 4000 miles to India, through unforgiving tundra forests, over harsh desert sands, and eventually over the snowy peaks of the Himalayas. Only three would finish the journey. This was documented in Slavomir Rawicz's bestselling memoir The Long Walk. Peter Weir, who hasn't sat in the director's chair since 2003's Master and Commander, brings the arduous slog to life. And I mean to life, with vast sweeping shots of the various vistas the men must tromp across telling more in their Boschian postcard silence than any sort of narration. Weir takes a dynamic cast and hauls them through the bowels of hell. If anything, the film's almost like a historical epic horror story, with the landscape acting as the slasher picking off the survivors one by one. It manages to be poignant without being overly sentimental,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Brian Prisco
Title: The Way Back Directed By: Peter Weir Starring: Jim Sturgess, Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean, Saoirse Ronan, Gustaf Skarsgard, Mark Strong, Sebastian Urzendowsky No, it’s not right to knock a film for a lengthy runtime, but if a movie is pushing two hours, it better be able to justify it. In The Way Back’s case it does - kind of. While the first portion of the film drags considerably despite impressively effective imagery, it isn’t until over an hour into it that things really become compelling. There’s nothing wrong with a film that saves the best for last, but it still needs to be entertaining while you’re [...]...
- 1/19/2011
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
The Green Hornet takes down The Dilemma, while True Grit continues to impress. Here's our Us box office round up...
With a new weekend comes a new release slate. This weekend, The Green Hornet and The Dilemma came up for public appraisal, and the clear winner is Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, and the Black Beauty. Of the two new releases, The Green Hornet was the biggest success, bringing in $34 million in a decent, if a bit soft new release.
The Dilemma was left in the dust, picking up second with 17.4 million bones based solely off of the names Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. I saw The Dilemma this weekend. See my review for further information, if so inclined.
Last week's top film, True Grit, was pushed down to third, but Paramount has to be celebrating yet another eight-digit weekend at theaters. True Grit picked up $11.2 million this weekend, pushing its...
With a new weekend comes a new release slate. This weekend, The Green Hornet and The Dilemma came up for public appraisal, and the clear winner is Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, and the Black Beauty. Of the two new releases, The Green Hornet was the biggest success, bringing in $34 million in a decent, if a bit soft new release.
The Dilemma was left in the dust, picking up second with 17.4 million bones based solely off of the names Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. I saw The Dilemma this weekend. See my review for further information, if so inclined.
Last week's top film, True Grit, was pushed down to third, but Paramount has to be celebrating yet another eight-digit weekend at theaters. True Grit picked up $11.2 million this weekend, pushing its...
- 1/17/2011
- Den of Geek
This is a Pure Movies review of The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir and starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Dejan Angelov, Yordan Bikov, Dragos Bucur, Sattar Dikambayev, Sally Edwards and Valentin Ganev. It's been seven long years since acclaimed Australian director Peter Weir’s (Gallipoli, The Truman Show) last cinematic outing – 2003's Master and Commander – but The Way Back finds him again exploring a similar Boys’ Own yarn of an adventure. Based on a true story, it recounts the extraordinary escape from a Russian gulag by a group of men in 1940. Extraordinary because they managed to escape the camp and subsequently survived the Siberian wilderness and trekked a staggering 4,000 miles – crossing the Himalayas to reach India for their eventual freedom. To put that in perspective, that’s like walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats and back again… in some of the worst...
- 1/4/2011
- by David Hudson
- Pure Movies
Colin Farrell stars in the reconstruction of a daring 1941 escape. Whether it is a true story or not, Peter Weir's film is an engaging piece of storytelling, says Peter Bradshaw
For his first film in seven years, Peter Weir has chosen to tell an epic tale with a panoramic sweep, in the manner of David Lean. It is "inspired" by a true story, which may unfortunately have been itself merely "inspired" by what its author claims to be the truth. Its veracity was in question even before it was put through the movie mill. This source material was a bestseller by the Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, who was imprisoned by the Soviets after their invasion of 1939, accused of spying and sent to the Siberian gulag. In his book, he claimed that with a group of other prisoners he pulled off a daring escape during a blizzard in 1941; against incredible odds,...
For his first film in seven years, Peter Weir has chosen to tell an epic tale with a panoramic sweep, in the manner of David Lean. It is "inspired" by a true story, which may unfortunately have been itself merely "inspired" by what its author claims to be the truth. Its veracity was in question even before it was put through the movie mill. This source material was a bestseller by the Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, who was imprisoned by the Soviets after their invasion of 1939, accused of spying and sent to the Siberian gulag. In his book, he claimed that with a group of other prisoners he pulled off a daring escape during a blizzard in 1941; against incredible odds,...
- 12/24/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Seven years after directing Russell Crowe in Master and Commander, acclaimed director Peter Weir (The Truman Show) has retaken his place behind the camera for a dramatic journey of survival from within the Soviet Union's iron curtain.
Co-written with executive producer Keith Clarke, The Way Back, loosely based on a prominent memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, sketches the escape from a Siberian gulag by a gang of prisoners under the cover of a blizzard. The snow masks not only their disappearance, but also the personal wounds they each carrying courtesy of Communist authorities under Stalin’s Reign of Terror.
Led by kind-hearted former cavalry officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess), the motley gang includes his fellow Poles Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean) and Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky), the American Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), the Latvian Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), and the comedian of the group, Zoran (Dragos Bucur). Tagging along, knife firmly in hand, is the murderous,...
Co-written with executive producer Keith Clarke, The Way Back, loosely based on a prominent memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, sketches the escape from a Siberian gulag by a gang of prisoners under the cover of a blizzard. The snow masks not only their disappearance, but also the personal wounds they each carrying courtesy of Communist authorities under Stalin’s Reign of Terror.
Led by kind-hearted former cavalry officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess), the motley gang includes his fellow Poles Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean) and Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky), the American Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), the Latvian Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), and the comedian of the group, Zoran (Dragos Bucur). Tagging along, knife firmly in hand, is the murderous,...
- 12/21/2010
- Shadowlocked
Back in 2006, book critic Barbara Scott claimed that “‘The Long Walk’ is so cinematic that you have to wonder why it has never been made into a movie.” That statement proved to be prescient because now that novel about a handful of prisoners crossing over the planet’s harshest terrain in order to see freedom has been turned into a film by the phenomenal Peter Weir. The director of masterful human stories like Master and Commander, Dead Poets Society, and Witness now has a trailer out there in the world for his latest – The Way Back. It looks treacherous and raw. It appears to be Man vs Nature in all its glory. See for yourself: It boasts a fine cast featuring Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Ed Harris, Mark Strong, and other foreign-born talents like Dragos Bucur. Hopefully they’ll last longer than the guys from Van Diemen’s Land did before turning to cannibalism. What...
- 10/12/2010
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Guardian have unveiled the brand new UK trailer for Peter Weir’s The Way Back.
Set to open on December 26, The Way Back stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Dejan Angelov and Dragos Bucur.
The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
The Way Back premiered at premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September to positive reviews. The release will ensure the film qualifies for all major awards ceremonies.
Set to open on December 26, The Way Back stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Dejan Angelov and Dragos Bucur.
The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
The Way Back premiered at premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September to positive reviews. The release will ensure the film qualifies for all major awards ceremonies.
- 10/8/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Made In Dagenham (15)
(Nigel Cole, 2010, UK) Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine James, Jaime Winstone, Miranda Richardson. 113 mins
From the maker of Calendar Girls, another feelgood tale of sisters pulling together for a cause, but this is at least a story worth telling: the 1968 strike by workers at Ford's factory that led to equal pay for women. You know where it's going and you can guess how it's going to get there, but with a best-of-British cast and some sense of purpose, it does the job. In car terms, it's a Mondeo, but with all the trimmings.
Buried (15)
(Rodrigo Cortés, 2010, Spa) Ryan Reynolds. 95 mins
Can Reynolds act his way out of a wooden box? This thriller sticks to its coffin location with admirable determination, heaping on enough scares, surprises and suspense to sustain the claustrophobic premise.
The Secret Of Kells (PG)
(Tomm Moore, 2009, Fra/Bel/Ire) Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson. 79 mins
Oscar-nominated Irish animation whose vibrant,...
(Nigel Cole, 2010, UK) Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine James, Jaime Winstone, Miranda Richardson. 113 mins
From the maker of Calendar Girls, another feelgood tale of sisters pulling together for a cause, but this is at least a story worth telling: the 1968 strike by workers at Ford's factory that led to equal pay for women. You know where it's going and you can guess how it's going to get there, but with a best-of-British cast and some sense of purpose, it does the job. In car terms, it's a Mondeo, but with all the trimmings.
Buried (15)
(Rodrigo Cortés, 2010, Spa) Ryan Reynolds. 95 mins
Can Reynolds act his way out of a wooden box? This thriller sticks to its coffin location with admirable determination, heaping on enough scares, surprises and suspense to sustain the claustrophobic premise.
The Secret Of Kells (PG)
(Tomm Moore, 2009, Fra/Bel/Ire) Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson. 79 mins
Oscar-nominated Irish animation whose vibrant,...
- 10/1/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
The Romanian film suggesting that the spirit of the police state is far from dead is intriguing, if somewhat deadening, writes Peter Bradshaw
The fact that "police" is not an adjective – rather, a noun or transitive verb – is one of many perplexing oddities about this perplexingly odd movie from Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, who made the much-admired 12:08 East of Bucharest. This is a deadpan slice-of-life drama, showing a modern Romania torpidly depressed in spirit, unable to jettison the toxic bureaucratic pedantry of the old regime. Cristi (Dragos Bucur) plays a young cop whose job is to tail a teenage dope-smoker. Cristi has a crisis of conscience over Romania's petty, draconian laws and confronts his chief (Vlad Ivanov) who, in a bizarrely over-extended scene, forces him to read out the dictionary entry for "police". Flustered, Cristi turns to what appears to be a rare adjectival definition. This whole film is very "police": that is,...
The fact that "police" is not an adjective – rather, a noun or transitive verb – is one of many perplexing oddities about this perplexingly odd movie from Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, who made the much-admired 12:08 East of Bucharest. This is a deadpan slice-of-life drama, showing a modern Romania torpidly depressed in spirit, unable to jettison the toxic bureaucratic pedantry of the old regime. Cristi (Dragos Bucur) plays a young cop whose job is to tail a teenage dope-smoker. Cristi has a crisis of conscience over Romania's petty, draconian laws and confronts his chief (Vlad Ivanov) who, in a bizarrely over-extended scene, forces him to read out the dictionary entry for "police". Flustered, Cristi turns to what appears to be a rare adjectival definition. This whole film is very "police": that is,...
- 9/30/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Reviews, Cinematical, Festivals
Tuesday, After Christmas:
There have been one or two movies about infidelity before (maybe three), and while you may have naturally assumed that 'Obsession' was the ultimate cinematic comment on the subject, Radu Muntean's 'Tuesday, After Christmas' is perhaps the most vital "boy cheats girl" tale since Bergman's 'Scenes From a Marriage.' A clean and unyielding portrait of the Bucharest bourgeoise, Muntean's film wastes little time in transcending its familiar milieu. Its first shot - one of those miraculous long-takes that have become a staple of recent Romanian cinema - is immediately arresting as it observes Cristi (Dragos Bucur) and Raluca (Maria Popistasu) sharing a relaxed and engaging post-coital conversation in the nude. Raluca isn't Cristi's wife, she's his daughter's dentist, and while the various relationships aren't made explicitly clear until the next scene, the instability of their affair is clear from their affectionate but wary conversation.
Tuesday, After Christmas:
There have been one or two movies about infidelity before (maybe three), and while you may have naturally assumed that 'Obsession' was the ultimate cinematic comment on the subject, Radu Muntean's 'Tuesday, After Christmas' is perhaps the most vital "boy cheats girl" tale since Bergman's 'Scenes From a Marriage.' A clean and unyielding portrait of the Bucharest bourgeoise, Muntean's film wastes little time in transcending its familiar milieu. Its first shot - one of those miraculous long-takes that have become a staple of recent Romanian cinema - is immediately arresting as it observes Cristi (Dragos Bucur) and Raluca (Maria Popistasu) sharing a relaxed and engaging post-coital conversation in the nude. Raluca isn't Cristi's wife, she's his daughter's dentist, and while the various relationships aren't made explicitly clear until the next scene, the instability of their affair is clear from their affectionate but wary conversation.
- 9/30/2010
- by David Ehrlich
- Cinematical
Director Corneliu Porumboiu was the toast of the Romanian film industry on Monday after his movie Police, Adjective scooped six top honours at the Gopo Awards.
The comedic drama, about a cop who decides not to take action against a youngster caught dealing drugs to his friends, took home the prizes for Best Film, Best Actor for Dragos Bucur and Best Director for Porumboiu.
Police, Adjective, which was a double winner at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2009, also landed accolades for Best Scenario, Best Supporting Role for Vlad Ivanov and Best Photography.
Other winners at the ceremony in Bucharest included filmmaker Radu Milhaileanu's Le concert, which received awards for Best Costumes and Best Original Music, while Hilda Peter walked away with the Best Actress honour for her role in Katalin Varga.
The comedic drama, about a cop who decides not to take action against a youngster caught dealing drugs to his friends, took home the prizes for Best Film, Best Actor for Dragos Bucur and Best Director for Porumboiu.
Police, Adjective, which was a double winner at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2009, also landed accolades for Best Scenario, Best Supporting Role for Vlad Ivanov and Best Photography.
Other winners at the ceremony in Bucharest included filmmaker Radu Milhaileanu's Le concert, which received awards for Best Costumes and Best Original Music, while Hilda Peter walked away with the Best Actress honour for her role in Katalin Varga.
- 3/30/2010
- WENN
Police, Adjective is one of those films we refer to as a slow burn, a movie that is more about what is percolating underneath than on the surface. To note, not a whole lot happens on that surface, and the film rides that edge between tedium of interest with a certain level of threat of toppling over. It never does, though, and, thanks in large part to the direction by Corneliu Porumboiu and the lead performance from Dragos Bucur, the film ends up being an intriguing study of the way one man’s world works even if he doesn’t fully understand it.
Bucur plays Cristi, a Romanian police officer set with the assignment of following a young man who may or may not be a drug dealer. Cristi soon comes to his own conclusions as to the boy’s innocence, and his interests in another boy, the one who...
Bucur plays Cristi, a Romanian police officer set with the assignment of following a young man who may or may not be a drug dealer. Cristi soon comes to his own conclusions as to the boy’s innocence, and his interests in another boy, the one who...
- 2/5/2010
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Eastern Europe isn't content with being the backdrop to major motion pictures, and so they're throwing their hat in the ring for Oscar consideration. Romania's Corneliu Poromboiu has been drawing attention with his solid little comedy Police, Adjective, which is what prompted me to give it a once over. Cristi, an undercover detective (Dragos Bucur) struggles with the decision whether or not to bust a young boy who's been selling hashish to his two friends. The film spends time between long, establishing sequences of Cristi trailing the boy interspersed with clever dialogue exchanges about semantics and the police machine. While the exchanges -- particularly the finale between the commander, Cristi, and a partner -- are wickedly splendid, the rest of the film really feels drawn out. It's kind of like watching "The Wire," if "The Wire" were just hour long snippets of Freamon sitting around waiting for people to talk on the phone.
- 1/7/2010
- by Brian Prisco
"Police, Adjective" is one of the year's most striking films, the type that will be embraced by some and derided by others for its bone dry humor, its solemnly long takes (including scrolling down hand-written police reports) and the fact that its climax pivots on the dictionary definition of "conscience." It is, in some ways, an extension of Corneliu Porumboiu's first film, "12:08 East of Bucharest," which dazzled as much with its debate over the hazy recollections of the Romanian Revolution as with its startling final image of snow falling over the city of Vaslui. "Adjective" is similarly wintry, following the daily grind of a policeman (Dragos Bucur) assigned to follow a student suspected of dealing marijuana to his friends and arriving at a conclusion that leads his boss to pull out the Merriam-Webster's to convince him otherwise. While at the Toronto Film Festival, Porumboiu took some time to talk about the film's origins,...
- 12/30/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
(Dragos Bucur, above, as Cristi in a scene from Police, Adjective, and Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, below.)
By Terry Keefe
It's a world apart from "CSI." Cristi, the young Romanian police detective played by Drago Bucur in director Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective (Politist, adj.), is on a case far removed from the hip procedural universe of cool lighting, clothes, and shocking plot twists that we've come to know on network television. Instead, the director puts us right in the middle of low-level surveillance work in Romania, and lets us feel the ennui of this daily grind. Cristi inhabits a world of paperwork and bureaucracy, and the way he fills out an official form, and the words that he uses to do so, can make a big difference in the life of the person he is writing about. The plot twists in Police, Adjective come not from action set pieces,...
By Terry Keefe
It's a world apart from "CSI." Cristi, the young Romanian police detective played by Drago Bucur in director Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective (Politist, adj.), is on a case far removed from the hip procedural universe of cool lighting, clothes, and shocking plot twists that we've come to know on network television. Instead, the director puts us right in the middle of low-level surveillance work in Romania, and lets us feel the ennui of this daily grind. Cristi inhabits a world of paperwork and bureaucracy, and the way he fills out an official form, and the words that he uses to do so, can make a big difference in the life of the person he is writing about. The plot twists in Police, Adjective come not from action set pieces,...
- 12/25/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
In the famous last scene of The Untouchables, Eliot Ness, the straight-arrow federal agent tasked with hunting down Al Capone, is asked what he’ll do if Prohibition gets repealed. “I think I’ll have a drink,” he responds. Point being, Ness doesn’t complicate his job by questioning the letter of the law; whatever society dictates through its lawmakers, he’s duty-bound to carry out those rules. That rigid fidelity would make Ness the villain in Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, a clever, exceedingly wonky procedural about a undercover cop (Dragos Bucur) who quietly refuses to do what he ...
- 12/23/2009
- avclub.com
Happy holidays, everyone! Those willing and able to drag themselves away from the huge pile of swag under the tree can enjoy the late Heath Ledger's final performance, a Jude Law double bill and a drolly comic Romanian police procedural underneath among other holiday presents that await at the multiplex.
"Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel"
With the tagline "Munk Yourself" sounding more like a threat than a come-on, the high-pitched trio of singing rodents return just in time for exhausted moms to plunk the rugrats down at the multiplex after the presents are unwrapped while they snore quietly in the back row. Betty Thomas, who has some kid-themed kid-themed hijinks with on her CV, steps in for the first film's helmer Tim Hill and trades out her experience with real critters on "Dr. Dolittle" for these much less messy (not to mention non-union) digital substitutes. Jason Lee reprises his role as Dave,...
"Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel"
With the tagline "Munk Yourself" sounding more like a threat than a come-on, the high-pitched trio of singing rodents return just in time for exhausted moms to plunk the rugrats down at the multiplex after the presents are unwrapped while they snore quietly in the back row. Betty Thomas, who has some kid-themed kid-themed hijinks with on her CV, steps in for the first film's helmer Tim Hill and trades out her experience with real critters on "Dr. Dolittle" for these much less messy (not to mention non-union) digital substitutes. Jason Lee reprises his role as Dave,...
- 12/22/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
This Friday is Christmas, a day in which millions will go to the movies following their gift-giving and other holiday rituals, and as usual there are plenty of new releases opening wide for them to choose from. There's something for the kiddies, something for the adults and something for both action-fiends and classic literature buffs. And of course there are those who'll be catching up on or returning to the beautiful 3D world of "Avatar."
But for audiences looking for something less mainstream, there are also a few new titles out in limited release. Of these, one will be expanding its scope to play nearer to you in coming weeks, while the other two are available for viewing on demand through most cable services. So keep them each in mind and seek them out when and if you can.
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
What it is: The final film appearance from the late,...
But for audiences looking for something less mainstream, there are also a few new titles out in limited release. Of these, one will be expanding its scope to play nearer to you in coming weeks, while the other two are available for viewing on demand through most cable services. So keep them each in mind and seek them out when and if you can.
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
What it is: The final film appearance from the late,...
- 12/22/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
After making 12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?), the film that (along with the tour de force 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, or 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) was the high-water mark for the recent 'Romanian New Wave,' Corneliu Porumboiu is back, masterful long takes and all. His latest film, Police, Adjective, or Politist, adj. (which is the Romanian entry for Best Foreign Film in the 2010 Oscar race) follows a few days in the life of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a cop who is getting ready to mount a sting operation on a small-time drug dealer. As he becomes more involved in the operation, Cristi begins to have ethical misgivings about the sting. However, as Porumboiu dwells on the finer points of how power structures manipulate language, we realize that the cop storyline is more of a MacGuffin than anything else. This film is ...
- 12/8/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
Cologne, Germany -- For this first time since its launch in 1997, next year's Shooting Stars event will not include an actor from either Germany, France or Spain.
The Shooting Stars jury on Wednesday announced the 10 young acting talents that will take part in the event, which runs Feb. 13-15 during the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21, 2010).
And, with the exception of British actor Edward Hogg ("White Lightnin") and Italy's Michele Riondino ("The Past is a Foreign Land") all of the talents come from smaller European countries.
Central and Eastern Europe is well represented, with four Shooting Stars including Poland's Agata Buzek ("Within the Whirlwind"), Czech actor Krystof Hadadek ("Three Seasons in Hell"), Romanian actor Dragos Bucur ("The Way Back) and Croatia's Zrinka Cvitesic, who stars in "Nat putu" the new film from Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic ("Esma's Secret -- Grbavica") which is widely expected to compete in Berlin next year.
The Shooting Stars jury on Wednesday announced the 10 young acting talents that will take part in the event, which runs Feb. 13-15 during the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21, 2010).
And, with the exception of British actor Edward Hogg ("White Lightnin") and Italy's Michele Riondino ("The Past is a Foreign Land") all of the talents come from smaller European countries.
Central and Eastern Europe is well represented, with four Shooting Stars including Poland's Agata Buzek ("Within the Whirlwind"), Czech actor Krystof Hadadek ("Three Seasons in Hell"), Romanian actor Dragos Bucur ("The Way Back) and Croatia's Zrinka Cvitesic, who stars in "Nat putu" the new film from Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic ("Esma's Secret -- Grbavica") which is widely expected to compete in Berlin next year.
- 12/2/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu's "Police, Adjective," the tale of a police officer who has a crisis of faith. The film will be Romania's entry for the 2009 foreign-language Oscar.
"Police" stars Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica and Irina Saulescu and will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by its U.S. bow at the New York Film Festival.
IFC has established an affinity with Romanian cinema, having distributed Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" and recently picked up that director's "Tales From The Golden Age."
The deal for "Police" was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, IFC Films vp of acquisitions with Pape Boye of Coach 14. The movie will be released via the company's IFC in Theaters platform, which offers video-on-demand titles on the same day as their theatrical release.
"Police" stars Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica and Irina Saulescu and will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by its U.S. bow at the New York Film Festival.
IFC has established an affinity with Romanian cinema, having distributed Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" and recently picked up that director's "Tales From The Golden Age."
The deal for "Police" was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, IFC Films vp of acquisitions with Pape Boye of Coach 14. The movie will be released via the company's IFC in Theaters platform, which offers video-on-demand titles on the same day as their theatrical release.
- 8/20/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- For anyone looking to possibly learn Romanian as a second language, I suggest you watch films with the IFC Films label on it. The company which loaded up on Cannes fair have the same taste buds as Ioncinema.com does when it comes to imports from Romanian. Following their last year pick up of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and this year's pick up of his Tales From The Golden Age hybrid, Arianna Bocco has put her cuffs on Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective - surely the more difficult film to sell (compared to 12:08 East of Bucharest) to a wider art-house following. This features Dragos Bucur as Cristi, a policeman who refuses to arrest a young man who offers hashish to two of his school mates. “Offering” is punished by the law. Cristi believes that the law will change, he does not want the life of
- 8/20/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Radu Muntean's Cannes entry Boogie, saw popular Romanian actor Dragos Bucur take on the role of the husband who after a a quarrel with the wife, hooks up with some old buddies and loses focus for an evening. Variety reports that Muntean's next feature will touch upon similar themes of guilt and “choices”. Scripted by Muntean, Alexandru Baciu and Razvan Radulescu, Tuesday, After Christmas will start shooting in November (they probably need some snow). Set one week before Christmas, "Tuesday" focuses on marital crisis -- that of Paul and Adriana, who've been married for 10 years and have an 8-year-old daughter. Paul decides to leave his wife for his mistress. He informs his wife, who gives him until the Tuesday after Christmas to tell his daughter.. Currently, Bucur is working on Peter Weir's The Way Back, but by all logic should take the lead role....
- 7/9/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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