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Restored classic films from Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are among eight older titles set to play at next month’s Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Lubitsch’s 1920 farce “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters,” will be presented with a live music accompaniment by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. And, despite rumors to the contrary, Kubrick’s first feature, “Fear and Desire,” has been preserved intact and will play at the festival with nine minutes of previously deleted footage. It forms an anti-war pair with Polanski’s 2000 Nazi occupation tale “The Pianist.”
Others selected include Michelangelo Antonioni‘s “Il Grido”; Manoel d’Oliveira’s “Madame Bovary” adaptation “Abraham’s Valley”; Arturo Ripstein’s director’s cut of “Deep Crimson,” restored in 4K with an additional 25 minutes of content; Jacques Rivette’s “L’Amour Fou”; and “The Dupes,” by Tewfik Saleh.
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Restored classic films from Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are among eight older titles set to play at next month’s Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Lubitsch’s 1920 farce “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters,” will be presented with a live music accompaniment by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. And, despite rumors to the contrary, Kubrick’s first feature, “Fear and Desire,” has been preserved intact and will play at the festival with nine minutes of previously deleted footage. It forms an anti-war pair with Polanski’s 2000 Nazi occupation tale “The Pianist.”
Others selected include Michelangelo Antonioni‘s “Il Grido”; Manoel d’Oliveira’s “Madame Bovary” adaptation “Abraham’s Valley”; Arturo Ripstein’s director’s cut of “Deep Crimson,” restored in 4K with an additional 25 minutes of content; Jacques Rivette’s “L’Amour Fou”; and “The Dupes,” by Tewfik Saleh.
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Screentime New Zealand will adapt hit property format “Location,...
- 2/23/2024
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Daniel Espinosa’s “Madame Luna,” about an Eritrean refugee-turned-people smuggler — which premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam — is facing legal turmoil. According to filmmaker Binyam Berhane, it’s based on his original story and research.
“I am very saddened to hear these accusations towards the movie and genuinely hope that all parties that are involved in this will be heard,” Espinosa tells Variety.
“I sincerely hope Binyam Berhane is well, I’ve only heard good things about him and he is a very talented documentary director. What I can express is a genuine trust in the producers and the production company Momento Film, and I hope this clears up for everyone involved.”
As per Deadline, the $2 million lawsuit is directed at Momento Film, Rhea Films and Hercules Film Fund.
“It is surprising to read Binyam Berhane’s version of events. At this time, we must refrain from commenting in detail,...
“I am very saddened to hear these accusations towards the movie and genuinely hope that all parties that are involved in this will be heard,” Espinosa tells Variety.
“I sincerely hope Binyam Berhane is well, I’ve only heard good things about him and he is a very talented documentary director. What I can express is a genuine trust in the producers and the production company Momento Film, and I hope this clears up for everyone involved.”
As per Deadline, the $2 million lawsuit is directed at Momento Film, Rhea Films and Hercules Film Fund.
“It is surprising to read Binyam Berhane’s version of events. At this time, we must refrain from commenting in detail,...
- 1/30/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based sales agency and production company Luxbox has sold the French distribution rights to 12 pics of the late Portuguese maestro filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira to Capricci Films, which plans to release the restored films in cinemas across France from 2024.
Expressing his pride at adding some of Oliveira’s best films to its catalog, Capricci’s Louis Descombes said: “We had long hoped to be able to give new life to the unique, mischievous and incredibly modern work of the Portuguese filmmaker.” The Bordeaux-based distributor aims to kick off the releases with “Val Abraham” in the spring.
Bringing back Oliveira’s films to French cinemas “wouldn’t be possible without the work of the Portuguese Cinematheque which already restored ‘Abraham’s Valley’ and will continue the digitization and restoration of the rest of the films in 2024, including Oliveira’s first film, ‘Aniki-Bóbó,’” said Luxbox CEO, Fiorella Moretti.
Inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s classic tale Madame Bovary,...
Expressing his pride at adding some of Oliveira’s best films to its catalog, Capricci’s Louis Descombes said: “We had long hoped to be able to give new life to the unique, mischievous and incredibly modern work of the Portuguese filmmaker.” The Bordeaux-based distributor aims to kick off the releases with “Val Abraham” in the spring.
Bringing back Oliveira’s films to French cinemas “wouldn’t be possible without the work of the Portuguese Cinematheque which already restored ‘Abraham’s Valley’ and will continue the digitization and restoration of the rest of the films in 2024, including Oliveira’s first film, ‘Aniki-Bóbó,’” said Luxbox CEO, Fiorella Moretti.
Inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s classic tale Madame Bovary,...
- 10/19/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Following Main Slate and Spotlight, the 61st New York Film Festival has unveiled its Revivals lineup, featuring new restorations of classic and overlooked films. Highlights include Manoel de Oliveira’s Abraham’s Valley, Jean Renoir‘s The Woman on the Beach, Bahram Beyzaie’s The Stranger and the Fog, Abel Gance’s La Roue, Paul Vecchiali’s The Strangler, Lee Grant’s Tell Me a Riddle, Nancy Savoca’s Household Saints, Horace Ové’s Pressure, and more.
“This year’s edition of Revivals is a thrilling showcase of cinema history, packed with groundbreaking discoveries and long unseen classics alike, all in outstanding restorations,” said Florence Almozini, Senior Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center and NYFF Revivals Programmer. “We never cease to be amazed at the lasting influence of these cinematic gems on our collective sense of cinema, with the way they have tackled cultural, societal, or political issues with such modernity and artistry.
“This year’s edition of Revivals is a thrilling showcase of cinema history, packed with groundbreaking discoveries and long unseen classics alike, all in outstanding restorations,” said Florence Almozini, Senior Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center and NYFF Revivals Programmer. “We never cease to be amazed at the lasting influence of these cinematic gems on our collective sense of cinema, with the way they have tackled cultural, societal, or political issues with such modernity and artistry.
- 8/21/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Cold Souls and Madame Bovary director Sophie Barthes returned to Sundance Film Festival earlier this year with her latest feature The Pod Generation. Led by Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film follows their characters living in a not-so-distant future in New York, taking a wild ride to parenthood after landing a coveted spot at the Womb Center, which offers couples a convenient and shareable pregnancy by way of detachable, artificial wombs, or pods. Ahead of an August 11 theatrical release, the first trailer has now arrived.
John Fink said in his review, “A sharp relationship satire that proves the more things change, the more they stay the same, Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation imagines a world of, to borrow Aaron Bastani’s idea, Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Are there poor people in this imagined futuristic world of the United States? (We can only identify the country because there’s a...
John Fink said in his review, “A sharp relationship satire that proves the more things change, the more they stay the same, Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation imagines a world of, to borrow Aaron Bastani’s idea, Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Are there poor people in this imagined futuristic world of the United States? (We can only identify the country because there’s a...
- 7/17/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The 2023 Directors’ Fortnight runs in Cannes from May 16-27.
Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight (La Quinzaine des Cinéastes) has unveiled its 2023 poster ahead of its 55th edition complete with a new name and a new artistic director.
The 2023 poster features an image of Portuguese actress Leonor Silveira in tribute to Manoel de Oliveira’s 1993 feature Abraham’s Valley (inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary) and celebrates the 30th anniversary of its selection at Directors’ Fortnight that year.
Founded in 1969 by France’s directors’ guild the Srf (Société des réalisateurs de films), Directors’ Fortnight is heading into its 55th edition with a complete makeover.
Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight (La Quinzaine des Cinéastes) has unveiled its 2023 poster ahead of its 55th edition complete with a new name and a new artistic director.
The 2023 poster features an image of Portuguese actress Leonor Silveira in tribute to Manoel de Oliveira’s 1993 feature Abraham’s Valley (inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary) and celebrates the 30th anniversary of its selection at Directors’ Fortnight that year.
Founded in 1969 by France’s directors’ guild the Srf (Société des réalisateurs de films), Directors’ Fortnight is heading into its 55th edition with a complete makeover.
- 3/30/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Summer exclusive theatrical release planned.
Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired North American rights to Sophie Barthes’ 2023 Sundance Alfred P. Sloan feature prize-winner The Pod Generation.
The distribution partners plan a summer exclusive theatrical release on for the film, which is set in a near future where A.I. is all the rage as a New York couple participate in an initiative involving mobile, artificial wombs.
Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Vinette Robinson, and Jean-Marc Barr star in Barthes’ third film after Cold Souls and Madame Bovary.
Geneviève Lemal, Yann Zenou, Nadia Kamlichi, and Martin Metz served as producers, while the executive producers are Clarke,...
Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired North American rights to Sophie Barthes’ 2023 Sundance Alfred P. Sloan feature prize-winner The Pod Generation.
The distribution partners plan a summer exclusive theatrical release on for the film, which is set in a near future where A.I. is all the rage as a New York couple participate in an initiative involving mobile, artificial wombs.
Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Vinette Robinson, and Jean-Marc Barr star in Barthes’ third film after Cold Souls and Madame Bovary.
Geneviève Lemal, Yann Zenou, Nadia Kamlichi, and Martin Metz served as producers, while the executive producers are Clarke,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Director Sophie Barthes (“Madame Bovary”) futuristic comedy/drama “The Pod Generation” has been acquired by Roadside Attractions and Vertical after the feature’s Sundance debut back in January.
The feature follows Emilia Clarke’s Rachel and her partner Alvy (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an upscale New York couple living in a future world where natural childbirth is considered passe. When Rachel gets a coveted position at the city’s Womb Center, where children are birthed in egg-like pods, the couple decides to go on a journey towards parenthood that asks the question of what “natural childbirth” truly is.
“Today, every filmmaker dreams to have a theatrical release. Roadside Attractions and Vertical have made this dream possible,” Barthes said in a statement. “The Pod Generation could not have found a better home, with such a dedicated, innovative and experienced team. I’m thrilled to start this adventure with a team truly in love...
The feature follows Emilia Clarke’s Rachel and her partner Alvy (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an upscale New York couple living in a future world where natural childbirth is considered passe. When Rachel gets a coveted position at the city’s Womb Center, where children are birthed in egg-like pods, the couple decides to go on a journey towards parenthood that asks the question of what “natural childbirth” truly is.
“Today, every filmmaker dreams to have a theatrical release. Roadside Attractions and Vertical have made this dream possible,” Barthes said in a statement. “The Pod Generation could not have found a better home, with such a dedicated, innovative and experienced team. I’m thrilled to start this adventure with a team truly in love...
- 3/28/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
Disney+ will move forward on two new French series, tackling questions of euthanasia with “Lambert v. Lambert,” and intimacy in the social media age with the literary thriller “Les enfants sont rois.”
Adapted from a recent page-turner by “Based on a True Story” author Delphine de Vigan, “Les enfants sont rois” (“The Children Are Kings”) follows a reality-tv has-been turned mommy vlogger who fills her social media feeds with daily updates about her two precocious children. When her older daughter disappears and is thought kidnapped, the bereft momfluencer faces a police investigation that calls into question the very existence of child.
Described in one review as a mix of “Madame Bovary” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” that plays as a “thriller, essay and court drama,” the caustic novel spans three decades, beginning with the rise of reality TV in 2001 and ending with an epigraph attributed to Stephen King: “We had a...
Adapted from a recent page-turner by “Based on a True Story” author Delphine de Vigan, “Les enfants sont rois” (“The Children Are Kings”) follows a reality-tv has-been turned mommy vlogger who fills her social media feeds with daily updates about her two precocious children. When her older daughter disappears and is thought kidnapped, the bereft momfluencer faces a police investigation that calls into question the very existence of child.
Described in one review as a mix of “Madame Bovary” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” that plays as a “thriller, essay and court drama,” the caustic novel spans three decades, beginning with the rise of reality TV in 2001 and ending with an epigraph attributed to Stephen King: “We had a...
- 3/22/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Mia Wasikowska has spoken about her decision to step out of the Hollywood limelight in the late 2010s to return to her native Sydney, Australia.
The now-33-year-old actor landed her breakthrough role leading Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010) opposite Johnny Depp. She was 21 at the time.
The film’s box office success catapulted Wasikowska to fame among the Hollywood “It girls” of the era.
Her career continued on an upward trajectory as she booked starring film roles in Jane Eyre (2011), Stoker (2013), Madame Bovary (2014) and Crimson Peak (2015).
However, it was just after she reprised her role as young Alice in Burton’s spinoff, Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), that she disappeared from the big screen.
“I want to do more things in life other than be in a trailer,” Wasikowska recently told IndieWire in a new interview. “I didn’t entirely like the lifestyle of going back to back to back.
The now-33-year-old actor landed her breakthrough role leading Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010) opposite Johnny Depp. She was 21 at the time.
The film’s box office success catapulted Wasikowska to fame among the Hollywood “It girls” of the era.
Her career continued on an upward trajectory as she booked starring film roles in Jane Eyre (2011), Stoker (2013), Madame Bovary (2014) and Crimson Peak (2015).
However, it was just after she reprised her role as young Alice in Burton’s spinoff, Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), that she disappeared from the big screen.
“I want to do more things in life other than be in a trailer,” Wasikowska recently told IndieWire in a new interview. “I didn’t entirely like the lifestyle of going back to back to back.
- 3/3/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Film
“The Pod Generation” has garnered the first award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Sophie Barthes directed the sci-fi film, which stars Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor as parents whose child is being grown in a pod. The dark comedy took home the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Sundance Institute Science-in-Film initiative top cash prize of 20,000. The prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character. The 2023 jury for Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize included Dr. Heather Berlin, Jim Gaffigan, Dr. Mandë Holford, Shalini Kantayya, and Lydia Dean Pilcher.
The jury shared that it selected “Sophie Barthes’ futuristic romantic comedy, ‘The Pod Generation,’ for its bold, visually-arresting depiction of a brave new parenthood in which AI and artificial wombs provide technological benefits...
Sophie Barthes directed the sci-fi film, which stars Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor as parents whose child is being grown in a pod. The dark comedy took home the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Sundance Institute Science-in-Film initiative top cash prize of 20,000. The prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character. The 2023 jury for Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize included Dr. Heather Berlin, Jim Gaffigan, Dr. Mandë Holford, Shalini Kantayya, and Lydia Dean Pilcher.
The jury shared that it selected “Sophie Barthes’ futuristic romantic comedy, ‘The Pod Generation,’ for its bold, visually-arresting depiction of a brave new parenthood in which AI and artificial wombs provide technological benefits...
- 1/24/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Encapsulating humanity’s weighty history and paths toward healing, director Véra Belmont (“Red Kiss”) takes a leap from live-action cinema to animated feature with her latest project, “My Father’s Secrets,” a Holocaust story that tackles generational familial trauma and redemption.
Based on the graphic novel “Second Generation” by Israeli illustrator Michel Kichka, the film is set for its market premiere at the Cannes Marché du Film, with the incentive for international markets of Elliott Gould leading the English voice cast.
“My Father’s Secrets,” set in Belgium, introduces two young brothers, Michel and Charly, who struggle with their father Henri’s reclusive nature surrounding his time at Auschwitz.
Their imaginations get the better of them as their father retreats inward on a personal journey to recoup his life after surviving the tragedies of internment. They hypothesize, snoop and act out in response, causing familial friction.
Sold by Simon Crowe...
Based on the graphic novel “Second Generation” by Israeli illustrator Michel Kichka, the film is set for its market premiere at the Cannes Marché du Film, with the incentive for international markets of Elliott Gould leading the English voice cast.
“My Father’s Secrets,” set in Belgium, introduces two young brothers, Michel and Charly, who struggle with their father Henri’s reclusive nature surrounding his time at Auschwitz.
Their imaginations get the better of them as their father retreats inward on a personal journey to recoup his life after surviving the tragedies of internment. They hypothesize, snoop and act out in response, causing familial friction.
Sold by Simon Crowe...
- 5/18/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Germany’s Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to two anticipated Movistar Plus originals, Canneseries-bound “El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid” and Galician crime drama “Rapa.”
Sneak peeked at Series Mania, “Rapa” screens at the Malaga Festival on March 22.
The acquisitions form part of an ongoing multi-year distribution-production alliance unveiled in 2019, giving Beta exclusive international distribution rights to about six Movistar Plus series a year.
A Movistar Plus co-production with Telemundo Streaming Studios in collaboration with Banijay’s Dlo Producciones, “El Inmortal” inspired by true events, marks a deep dive into a figure and gang which reshaped Madrid’s 1990s criminal underworld.
There, José Antonio, played by Álex Garcia, rises up the ranks to drug lord, through a combination of burning ambition, innocence, and merciless elimination of rivals. But what he cherishes most may just cause his downfall, the synopsis runs.
Created by Dlo head José Manuel Lorenzo, eight-episode...
Sneak peeked at Series Mania, “Rapa” screens at the Malaga Festival on March 22.
The acquisitions form part of an ongoing multi-year distribution-production alliance unveiled in 2019, giving Beta exclusive international distribution rights to about six Movistar Plus series a year.
A Movistar Plus co-production with Telemundo Streaming Studios in collaboration with Banijay’s Dlo Producciones, “El Inmortal” inspired by true events, marks a deep dive into a figure and gang which reshaped Madrid’s 1990s criminal underworld.
There, José Antonio, played by Álex Garcia, rises up the ranks to drug lord, through a combination of burning ambition, innocence, and merciless elimination of rivals. But what he cherishes most may just cause his downfall, the synopsis runs.
Created by Dlo head José Manuel Lorenzo, eight-episode...
- 3/16/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Fate’s the one to blame!”
Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol – a new 5-disc set will be available on Blu-ray February 22nd from Arrow Video
Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means off lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol. Anything can be corrupted, and usually will be.
Arrow Video is proud to present Lies & deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol. Featuring Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), Inspector Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty and Torment (L’enfer), this inaugural collection of Claude Chabrol on Blu-ray brings together a wealth of passionate contributors and archival extras to shed fresh light...
Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol – a new 5-disc set will be available on Blu-ray February 22nd from Arrow Video
Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means off lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol. Anything can be corrupted, and usually will be.
Arrow Video is proud to present Lies & deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol. Featuring Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), Inspector Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty and Torment (L’enfer), this inaugural collection of Claude Chabrol on Blu-ray brings together a wealth of passionate contributors and archival extras to shed fresh light...
- 1/17/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Pod Generation
Fatigue, odd food cravings, varicose veins, and stretch marks – while parenthood ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, what if men had to take out the trash and…carry a child for nine months? Likely to tackle philosophical, psychological and moral questions in one basket, Sophie Barthes will finally return behind the camera this coming March after an eight year absence. The US-based French filmmaker umbilical cord lassoed Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor for a sci-fi rom com that could, if all goes well, land on the fall festival circuit of Telluride, Venice, TIFF and/or NYFF. After Cold Souls (2009) and Madame Bovary (2014), Barthes’ line of thinking for The Pod Generation is the “idea of the artificial womb as either doom or liberation for women is inherently comedic material.” …...
Fatigue, odd food cravings, varicose veins, and stretch marks – while parenthood ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, what if men had to take out the trash and…carry a child for nine months? Likely to tackle philosophical, psychological and moral questions in one basket, Sophie Barthes will finally return behind the camera this coming March after an eight year absence. The US-based French filmmaker umbilical cord lassoed Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor for a sci-fi rom com that could, if all goes well, land on the fall festival circuit of Telluride, Venice, TIFF and/or NYFF. After Cold Souls (2009) and Madame Bovary (2014), Barthes’ line of thinking for The Pod Generation is the “idea of the artificial womb as either doom or liberation for women is inherently comedic material.” …...
- 1/10/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke and Oscar-nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) are set to headline “The Pod Generation,” a sci-fi romantic comedy that will be directed by Sophie Barthes. MK2 Films has boarded international sales, and CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights.
Set in a near future where AI is all the rage and nature is becoming a distant memory, the story revolves around Rachel (Clarke) and Alvy (Ejiofor), a New York couple who are ready to take their relationship to the next level and start a family. Rachel’s work gives them a chance to use a new tool developed by a tech giant, Pegasus, which offers couples the opportunity to share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs, or pods. Alvy, a botanist and devoted purist, has doubts, but his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.
Set in a near future where AI is all the rage and nature is becoming a distant memory, the story revolves around Rachel (Clarke) and Alvy (Ejiofor), a New York couple who are ready to take their relationship to the next level and start a family. Rachel’s work gives them a chance to use a new tool developed by a tech giant, Pegasus, which offers couples the opportunity to share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs, or pods. Alvy, a botanist and devoted purist, has doubts, but his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.
- 10/25/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Jackie Collins epitomizes one of the 20th century’s favorite types of star: the celebrity novelist who gets rich and famous writing scandalous best-sellers about fictionalized scandalous celebrities. She rode in from England to Hollywood to take up her throne as the queen of the delectably trashy sex-and-shopping paperbacks, peaking in the Eighties, right around the time her real-life big sister Joan Collins starred in the prime-time soap Dynasty. Jackie turned herself into a wildly successful one-woman factory for fantasies with nuanced titles like The Bitch and The Stud. Yet...
- 6/28/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Frances O’Connor is in week two of the edit for her debut feature as writer-director, “Emily,” which brings to life the world of author Emily Brontë in the years leading up to the creation of her seminal novel “Wuthering Heights.” Variety speaks to O’Connor about the film, which has been pre-sold by Embankment Films to multiple major territories.
As an actor O’Connor has had a successful career, appearing in such films as “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and series such as “Madame Bovary” and “The Missing,” with the latter two each earning her a Golden Globe nomination.
About 10 years ago, a love of Emily Brontë led her to start writing a script about the author’s life. “She’s a very inspirational character, but we know so little about her,” she says. “And there are certain issues that I was interested in exploring about being authentic as a woman,...
As an actor O’Connor has had a successful career, appearing in such films as “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and series such as “Madame Bovary” and “The Missing,” with the latter two each earning her a Golden Globe nomination.
About 10 years ago, a love of Emily Brontë led her to start writing a script about the author’s life. “She’s a very inspirational character, but we know so little about her,” she says. “And there are certain issues that I was interested in exploring about being authentic as a woman,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Flying high after two Academy Awards for “The Father,” which it produced and sold, London-based Embankment has unveiled a first look photo of “Sex Education” star Emma Mackey in “Emily,” as well as robust early pre-sales on the feature, an Emily Brontë origin story.
Mackey was nominated on Wednesday for a BAFTA TV Award for Netflix’s “Sex Education” in the category of female performance in a comedy program.
News of first major territories sold, including much of Europe, comes as “Emily” begins principal photography. The film marks the writer-director feature debut of actor Frances O’Connor, a double Golden Globe nominee for her performances in “Madame Bovary” and “Missing.”
First major territory deals have been struck with significant distributors and also take in one multi-territory deal — both signs of the film’s perceived market potential.
Warner Bros., for instance, has closed the U.K. while Wild Bunch has clinched France,...
Mackey was nominated on Wednesday for a BAFTA TV Award for Netflix’s “Sex Education” in the category of female performance in a comedy program.
News of first major territories sold, including much of Europe, comes as “Emily” begins principal photography. The film marks the writer-director feature debut of actor Frances O’Connor, a double Golden Globe nominee for her performances in “Madame Bovary” and “Missing.”
First major territory deals have been struck with significant distributors and also take in one multi-territory deal — both signs of the film’s perceived market potential.
Warner Bros., for instance, has closed the U.K. while Wild Bunch has clinched France,...
- 4/28/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Review The film opens to 74-year-old Kg George intensely watching a Federico Fellini film.Neelima MenonVeethi.comThirty minutes into the narrative we are introduced to Selma George, Kg George’s wife. She sits next to her husband and calmly recounts their 44 odd years of married life with this line— “He is a great artist but not a great family man. He has no sentiments for his family. Marriage meant only sex and good food for him. But he is undoubtedly one of the greatest filmmakers in the country.” George listens to her with an indulgent awkward smile and almost feebly cuts in— “Selma, that’s what I am.” That was perhaps the most stunningly revelatory part of that 125-minute documentary. However much of a cruel paradox that sounds, considering the repertoire of brilliantly nuanced female characters he has created on screen, anyone who has explored his filmography will be quick...
- 4/28/2021
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Samantha Laidlaw.
Streaming service Femflix, which carries features, documentaries, miniseries and short-form content celebrating female-centric storytelling, has launched in Australia and New Zealand.
The brainchild of Samantha Laidlaw, the ad-free service costs $8.99 a month and offers 200 titles, all with at least one female-identifying creative in positions such as director, producer, writer, cinematographer or lead actress.
“Our goal is to shine a spotlight on female filmmakers in Australia, New Zealand and from around the world and to increase availability of female-centric storytelling for audiences,” Laidlaw tells If. “As a woman, it’s important to see yourself reflected on screen and have access to storytelling through a female gaze.
“We’re excited to have the support of a number of well-established distributors like Transmission Films, Bonsai Films and Vendetta Films and are in conversation with other distributors now that we have launched.
“We’ve also partnered with a number of screen industry bodies including Wift Australia,...
Streaming service Femflix, which carries features, documentaries, miniseries and short-form content celebrating female-centric storytelling, has launched in Australia and New Zealand.
The brainchild of Samantha Laidlaw, the ad-free service costs $8.99 a month and offers 200 titles, all with at least one female-identifying creative in positions such as director, producer, writer, cinematographer or lead actress.
“Our goal is to shine a spotlight on female filmmakers in Australia, New Zealand and from around the world and to increase availability of female-centric storytelling for audiences,” Laidlaw tells If. “As a woman, it’s important to see yourself reflected on screen and have access to storytelling through a female gaze.
“We’re excited to have the support of a number of well-established distributors like Transmission Films, Bonsai Films and Vendetta Films and are in conversation with other distributors now that we have launched.
“We’ve also partnered with a number of screen industry bodies including Wift Australia,...
- 10/8/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Director Andrij Parekh, the Indian connect in the Emmys 2020 winner roster, has dedicated his award to all people of colour.
Andrij Parekh, who is of Indian-Ukrainian descent, won an Emmy for directing the "Hunting" episode of drama series "Succession", one of the big winners at the annual gala this year.
An acclaimed cinematographer for 20 years, the "Succession" job incidentally marked his directorial debut.
"I am deeply honoured and humbled by this award. This distinction has been bestowed upon me on my birthday. So, thank you for the gift," Parekh said while starting his acceptance speech, going on to thank the cast and crew of the show.
"The show has been such a professional dream starting as a cinematographer, and now this... I want to thank my beautiful wife and daughter who put up with my artistic pursuits, brother and my mom and dad," he added.
Parekh dedicated the award to...
Andrij Parekh, who is of Indian-Ukrainian descent, won an Emmy for directing the "Hunting" episode of drama series "Succession", one of the big winners at the annual gala this year.
An acclaimed cinematographer for 20 years, the "Succession" job incidentally marked his directorial debut.
"I am deeply honoured and humbled by this award. This distinction has been bestowed upon me on my birthday. So, thank you for the gift," Parekh said while starting his acceptance speech, going on to thank the cast and crew of the show.
"The show has been such a professional dream starting as a cinematographer, and now this... I want to thank my beautiful wife and daughter who put up with my artistic pursuits, brother and my mom and dad," he added.
Parekh dedicated the award to...
- 9/21/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
2016 has been very interesting year for all of the sinophone world, with a plethora of very interesting productions, both cinematically (Tharlo) and in terms of controversy (Ten Years). Art-house and Hk action could not be missing, while Derek Tsang directed a very impressive drama (SoulMate).
With a focus on diversity, here are the best Sinophone films of 2016, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2015, but since they became widely known in 2016, are also included. Films like “The Tenants Downastairs”, “Godspeed” and “The Summer is Gone” seem like films that could have also been included, but since I have not watched them, I could not put them in this list.
1. Ten Years (Ng Ka-leung)
Despite the fact that it was produced on a budget of merely Hk$500,000, with a cast and crew mainly comprised of volunteers, “Ten Years” was one of the most successful films of the last years,...
With a focus on diversity, here are the best Sinophone films of 2016, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2015, but since they became widely known in 2016, are also included. Films like “The Tenants Downastairs”, “Godspeed” and “The Summer is Gone” seem like films that could have also been included, but since I have not watched them, I could not put them in this list.
1. Ten Years (Ng Ka-leung)
Despite the fact that it was produced on a budget of merely Hk$500,000, with a cast and crew mainly comprised of volunteers, “Ten Years” was one of the most successful films of the last years,...
- 8/15/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: In-demand young talents Emma Mackey (Sex Education), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) and Emily Beecham (Cruella) will star in Emily, Golden Globe-nominated actress Frances O’Connor’s (Mansfield Park) directorial debut about the early life of Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë.
Mackey, star of Netflix smash Sex Education and Fox’s upcoming Death On The Nile, will star as Emily. Harriet and The Favourite actor Alwyn will play Brontë’s conflicted lover. Whitehead, well known for Dunkirk and Emmy-winner Bandersnatch, plays Branwell Brontë, Emily’s inspiring but self-destructive brother, and Cannes 2019’s Best Actress winner Emily Beecham (Little Joe) completes the quartet as sibling writer Charlotte Brontë.
Embankment will handle world sales on the project, which is slated to shoot in Yorkshire, UK, in Q1, 2021. The firm will be selling from now and during the upcoming Cannes virtual market.
From a self-penned script, O’Connor imagines the transformative,...
Mackey, star of Netflix smash Sex Education and Fox’s upcoming Death On The Nile, will star as Emily. Harriet and The Favourite actor Alwyn will play Brontë’s conflicted lover. Whitehead, well known for Dunkirk and Emmy-winner Bandersnatch, plays Branwell Brontë, Emily’s inspiring but self-destructive brother, and Cannes 2019’s Best Actress winner Emily Beecham (Little Joe) completes the quartet as sibling writer Charlotte Brontë.
Embankment will handle world sales on the project, which is slated to shoot in Yorkshire, UK, in Q1, 2021. The firm will be selling from now and during the upcoming Cannes virtual market.
From a self-penned script, O’Connor imagines the transformative,...
- 5/21/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Above: Tsai Ming-liang. Photo by Chang Jhong-Yuan.One of the strongest qualities of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival is just how many small scale movies have been granted a much-deserved premiere on the biggest of screens and reddest of carpets here, in the main competition. The most personal of all these, as well as the most touching, is Days, the new film by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang. Stripped down even further than 2015’s stoic Stray Dogs, it iterates on both Afternoon (2015), a documentary made of a conversation between a loquacious Tsai and the taciturn star of his movies, Lee Kang-sheng, and Your Face (2018), a feature-length gallery work made up only of intensely observed close-ups, many of elderly Taiwanese. Days takes the lessons of documentary impulse, evocative spareness, extreme patience, and extended duration from those films, as well as their focus on the aging, to create a new...
- 2/28/2020
- MUBI
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Monday announced the sartorial legends that will be on display as part of its costume collection.
With its opening delayed until at least 2020, the museum revealed that costumes from Dracula, Singin' in the Rain, The Little Princess, Madame Bovary, The Shining, An American in Paris, Cleopatra, The Big Lebowski and Mary Queen of Scots will be among those showcased at the exhibit on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The Academy received Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape as a partial gift from his family (he personally kept it after filming until he died). “My ...
With its opening delayed until at least 2020, the museum revealed that costumes from Dracula, Singin' in the Rain, The Little Princess, Madame Bovary, The Shining, An American in Paris, Cleopatra, The Big Lebowski and Mary Queen of Scots will be among those showcased at the exhibit on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The Academy received Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape as a partial gift from his family (he personally kept it after filming until he died). “My ...
- 10/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Monday announced the sartorial legends that will be on display as part of its costume collection.
With its opening delayed until at least 2020, the museum revealed that costumes from Dracula, Singin' in the Rain, The Little Princess, Madame Bovary, The Shining, An American in Paris, Cleopatra, The Big Lebowski and Mary Queen of Scots will be among those showcased at the exhibit on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The Academy received Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape as a partial gift from his family (he personally kept it after filming until he died). “My ...
With its opening delayed until at least 2020, the museum revealed that costumes from Dracula, Singin' in the Rain, The Little Princess, Madame Bovary, The Shining, An American in Paris, Cleopatra, The Big Lebowski and Mary Queen of Scots will be among those showcased at the exhibit on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The Academy received Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape as a partial gift from his family (he personally kept it after filming until he died). “My ...
- 10/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christian Petzold: "Transit is the first movie in 20 years where the main character is a male." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Christian Petzold joined me for a conversation at the Film Society of Lincoln Center when he was in New York for Carte Blanche: Christian Petzold Selects and a sneak preview screening of Transit. He brought up Claude Chabrol's work with Stéphane Audran and Isabelle Huppert. Julia Hummer and Nina Hoss, George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, Alex Brendemühl, a Franz Kafka-like "hell construction" in Anna Seghers' novel and the books of William Burroughs also emerged.
Marie (Paula Beer) with Georg (Franz Rogowski) in Transit
Shot by his longtime cinematographer Hans Fromm, Transit is Christian Petzold's "first movie in 20 years where the main character is a male" and he found himself "very...
Christian Petzold joined me for a conversation at the Film Society of Lincoln Center when he was in New York for Carte Blanche: Christian Petzold Selects and a sneak preview screening of Transit. He brought up Claude Chabrol's work with Stéphane Audran and Isabelle Huppert. Julia Hummer and Nina Hoss, George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, Alex Brendemühl, a Franz Kafka-like "hell construction" in Anna Seghers' novel and the books of William Burroughs also emerged.
Marie (Paula Beer) with Georg (Franz Rogowski) in Transit
Shot by his longtime cinematographer Hans Fromm, Transit is Christian Petzold's "first movie in 20 years where the main character is a male" and he found himself "very...
- 2/1/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Flanked by UniFrance president Serge Toubiana and the National Orchestra of France, filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier stood before a rapt crowd at Paris’ Maison de la Radio this past Saturday to introduce an evening dedicated to French film scores called “May the Music Begin!”
That moniker – a reference to the original French title of his 1975 César winner “Let The Joy Reign Supreme” – highlighted Tavernier’s personal connection to this project.
“There are many unsung heroes of French cinema,” he explained, “but none more so than our composers.”
Working on a film and subsequent eight-part series, both titled “My Journey Through French Cinema,” the filmmaker became struck by the degree to which French composers had been overlooked in the official accounts of French film history – and spent many lonely years trying to rectify that.
“For five years I felt like I was wandering in the desert,” he reflected, “and then in one...
That moniker – a reference to the original French title of his 1975 César winner “Let The Joy Reign Supreme” – highlighted Tavernier’s personal connection to this project.
“There are many unsung heroes of French cinema,” he explained, “but none more so than our composers.”
Working on a film and subsequent eight-part series, both titled “My Journey Through French Cinema,” the filmmaker became struck by the degree to which French composers had been overlooked in the official accounts of French film history – and spent many lonely years trying to rectify that.
“For five years I felt like I was wandering in the desert,” he reflected, “and then in one...
- 1/21/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Harriet Walter, who appeared in “The Crown” and “Black Earth Rising,” and Frances O’Connor, who was Golden Globe nominated for “Madame Bovary” and “The Missing,” are set to star in “The End,” a co-production from pay-tv companies Sky in the U.K. and Foxtel in Australia.
The 10-part show is produced by the TV arm of See-Saw, which produced Jane Campion’s Emmy-nominated series “Top of the Lake,” and whose recent movies include Steve McQueen’s heist thriller “Widows.” See-Saw’s past movies include “The King’s Speech,” which won four Oscars, including best picture.
“The End,” described as “thought-provoking, darkly comic and full of heart” by Liz Lewin, executive producer for Sky, is about three generations of a family “with separate but intersecting obsessions – trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count,” according to a statement.
O’Connor plays Dr.
The 10-part show is produced by the TV arm of See-Saw, which produced Jane Campion’s Emmy-nominated series “Top of the Lake,” and whose recent movies include Steve McQueen’s heist thriller “Widows.” See-Saw’s past movies include “The King’s Speech,” which won four Oscars, including best picture.
“The End,” described as “thought-provoking, darkly comic and full of heart” by Liz Lewin, executive producer for Sky, is about three generations of a family “with separate but intersecting obsessions – trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count,” according to a statement.
O’Connor plays Dr.
- 9/26/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
To celebrate the release of Madame Bovary – on DVD 24th April – we are giving away a copy courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment. A lavish, sensuous and iconic adaptation of the classic novel by Gustav Flaubert, with a stunning all-star cast including Mia Wasikowska, Ezra Miller, Paul Giamatti and Rhys Ifans.
Young beauty Emma Bovary impulsively marries a small-town doctor in order to leave life on her father’s pig farm far behind. She soon becomes bored with her mundane life, and seeks prestige and excitement outside her marriage. Upon meeting the romantic Leon Dupuis, who infects her with wanderlust, and the seductive Marquis, who steals her heart, Emma recklessly pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever the price might be…
Order today: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madame-Bovary-dvd-Ezra-Miller/dp/B01N9TEE7X/ref=sr_1_2_twi_dvd_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492000385&sr=8-2&keywords=madame+bovary+dvd
To win a...
Young beauty Emma Bovary impulsively marries a small-town doctor in order to leave life on her father’s pig farm far behind. She soon becomes bored with her mundane life, and seeks prestige and excitement outside her marriage. Upon meeting the romantic Leon Dupuis, who infects her with wanderlust, and the seductive Marquis, who steals her heart, Emma recklessly pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever the price might be…
Order today: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madame-Bovary-dvd-Ezra-Miller/dp/B01N9TEE7X/ref=sr_1_2_twi_dvd_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492000385&sr=8-2&keywords=madame+bovary+dvd
To win a...
- 4/13/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
MaryAnn’s quick take… A gripping précis of what Edward Snowden learned at the CIA and Nsa, why he went public, and why it matters. Entertaining yet also deeply unsettling. I’m “biast” (pro): big fan of Oliver Stone, and of Edward Snowden; love the cast
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Snowden opens in June 2013, as journalists Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo: London Has Fallen, The Big Short) and Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto: Star Trek Beyond, Hitman: Agent 47) first meet and interview, over several days, Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt: The Night Before, The Walk), in a hotel in Hong Kong. My first thought upon my second viewing this weekend of Oliver Stone’s (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, W.) gripping docudrama about these shocking real-life events is...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Snowden opens in June 2013, as journalists Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo: London Has Fallen, The Big Short) and Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto: Star Trek Beyond, Hitman: Agent 47) first meet and interview, over several days, Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt: The Night Before, The Walk), in a hotel in Hong Kong. My first thought upon my second viewing this weekend of Oliver Stone’s (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, W.) gripping docudrama about these shocking real-life events is...
- 4/3/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Us theatrical distributor, with creditors in the Us and Europe, will “pursue an orderly liquidation.”
Troubled Us theatrical distributor Alchemy has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with estimated liabilities of between $50m and $100m and creditors in the Us and Europe.
In a statement on its web site Alchemy said it will “pursue an orderly liquidation” and has released its entire staff.
The company’s bankruptcy filing says Alchemy has estimated assets of between $10m and $50m and creditors including Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Wme Entertainment in the Us, Protagonist Pictures and The Works in the UK, Insomnia World Sales and Artedis in France and Adriana Chiesa Enterprises in Italy.
Alchemy has recently handled the Us distribution of films including Meet The Patels (pictured), with $1.7m the company’s highest grossing release, Gaspar Noe’s Love, Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary and Black Souls (Anime Nere).
At the 2015 Cannes festival Alchemy bought Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster (pictured...
Troubled Us theatrical distributor Alchemy has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with estimated liabilities of between $50m and $100m and creditors in the Us and Europe.
In a statement on its web site Alchemy said it will “pursue an orderly liquidation” and has released its entire staff.
The company’s bankruptcy filing says Alchemy has estimated assets of between $10m and $50m and creditors including Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Wme Entertainment in the Us, Protagonist Pictures and The Works in the UK, Insomnia World Sales and Artedis in France and Adriana Chiesa Enterprises in Italy.
Alchemy has recently handled the Us distribution of films including Meet The Patels (pictured), with $1.7m the company’s highest grossing release, Gaspar Noe’s Love, Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary and Black Souls (Anime Nere).
At the 2015 Cannes festival Alchemy bought Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster (pictured...
- 7/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Logan Marshall-Green has always seemed to be on the cusp of breaking out, alternating between blockbusters (“Prometheus“) and indie flicks (“Madame Bovary,” this year’s lean and mean thriller “The Invitation“) with nothing quite clicking. His time may come with upcoming Cinemax series “Quarry,” but whether or not that show connects, the folks at Sony and […]
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- 6/16/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Believes six impossible things — like implausible character motivations, or big emotions — because they’re in the script, without bothering to earn them. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): hated the first film
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Alice Through the Looking Glass may bear even less resemblance to anything Lewis Carroll wrote than its predecessor, Tim Burton’s 2010 flick Alice in Wonderland, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it follows up on the adventure that Burton’s adaptation hinted was in store for Alice, something that Carroll would never have imagined for her. Glass opens with adult Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska: Crimson Peak, Madame Bovary), now captain of an English merchant ship in 1847, executing a daring escape from pirates on the high seas. It’s a thrilling sequence, not least because Alice’s all-male crew appears to have no...
I’m “biast” (con): hated the first film
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Alice Through the Looking Glass may bear even less resemblance to anything Lewis Carroll wrote than its predecessor, Tim Burton’s 2010 flick Alice in Wonderland, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it follows up on the adventure that Burton’s adaptation hinted was in store for Alice, something that Carroll would never have imagined for her. Glass opens with adult Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska: Crimson Peak, Madame Bovary), now captain of an English merchant ship in 1847, executing a daring escape from pirates on the high seas. It’s a thrilling sequence, not least because Alice’s all-male crew appears to have no...
- 5/24/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Unfortunately, Guillermo Del Toro’s original Gothic romance Crimson Peak didn’t translate to box office gold, netting thirty one million at the domestic box office (it was budgeted at fifty-five million) and receiving criticism for a basic narrative failing to live up to the promise of inventive visuals. Still, one can appreciate Universal’s gambling on Del Toro’s vision and hope the property is considered lucrative enough to continue supporting unique visions from auteurs. Featuring a talented cast (despite the questionable casting of Jessica Chastain), Del Toro’s period suspense thriller collapses under close inspection, but is worth a glance as a piece of glossy strangeness.
Borrowing mercilessly from yellowed clichés of romantically inclined gothic literature, screenwriters Del Toro and Matthew Robins (whose last collaboration was the 1997 mutant insect thriller Mimic) plunder Edgar Allan Poe templates infused with the emotional melodrama oozing eternally from the pages of the...
Borrowing mercilessly from yellowed clichés of romantically inclined gothic literature, screenwriters Del Toro and Matthew Robins (whose last collaboration was the 1997 mutant insect thriller Mimic) plunder Edgar Allan Poe templates infused with the emotional melodrama oozing eternally from the pages of the...
- 2/9/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Nothing but atmosphere, albeit atmosphere that is more effective and elegant than the typical horror flick. But there’s almost no actual story here. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you’re playing the discouraging game of keeping track of all the male filmmakers who get handed the keys to big-budget films on the slimmest of recommendations (while experienced female filmmakers don’t get hired at all), here’s another name to add to the list: Corin Hardy. He was hired to direct a reboot of The Crow before The Hallow, his very first feature film, had even debuted at Sundance this past year. (Hardy had previously directed only a single short and some music videos.) Hardy has been “acclaimed” as a “visual stylist” — according to the press notes for The Hallow — and if...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you’re playing the discouraging game of keeping track of all the male filmmakers who get handed the keys to big-budget films on the slimmest of recommendations (while experienced female filmmakers don’t get hired at all), here’s another name to add to the list: Corin Hardy. He was hired to direct a reboot of The Crow before The Hallow, his very first feature film, had even debuted at Sundance this past year. (Hardy had previously directed only a single short and some music videos.) Hardy has been “acclaimed” as a “visual stylist” — according to the press notes for The Hallow — and if...
- 11/13/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Fall of the House of Cushing: Del Toro’s Haunted House Thriller Strangled by Frills
There’s much to admire within the crumbling facades of Guillermo Del Toro’s latest tantalizing film, Crimson Peak. But unlike its haunted familial mansion sinking slowly into the mire of wet red earth, the nonsensical and disappointingly basic narrative is consistent only in its utter transparency. Borrowing mercilessly from yellowed clichés of romantically inclined gothic literature, screenwriters Del Toro and Matthew Robins (whose last collaboration was the 1997 mutant insect thriller Mimic) plunder Edgar Allan Poe templates infused with the emotional melodrama oozing eternally from the pages of the Bronte sisters (while diegetic references to Jane Austen and Mary Shelley aren’t quite as effective in a film brimming with pointed symbolism). An overextended first half teases delectable weirdness to come, but beyond its brooding cinematography and expertly crafted ghostly visuals, Del Toro delivers...
There’s much to admire within the crumbling facades of Guillermo Del Toro’s latest tantalizing film, Crimson Peak. But unlike its haunted familial mansion sinking slowly into the mire of wet red earth, the nonsensical and disappointingly basic narrative is consistent only in its utter transparency. Borrowing mercilessly from yellowed clichés of romantically inclined gothic literature, screenwriters Del Toro and Matthew Robins (whose last collaboration was the 1997 mutant insect thriller Mimic) plunder Edgar Allan Poe templates infused with the emotional melodrama oozing eternally from the pages of the Bronte sisters (while diegetic references to Jane Austen and Mary Shelley aren’t quite as effective in a film brimming with pointed symbolism). An overextended first half teases delectable weirdness to come, but beyond its brooding cinematography and expertly crafted ghostly visuals, Del Toro delivers...
- 10/15/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A deliciously creepy haunted-house story. Oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make it as funny as it is scary. I’m “biast” (pro): love del Toro and the cast
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A few years ago, with Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro took the 1950s Japanese monster movie and made it his own by combining modern flash and up-to-date attitudes with old-fashioned pulp energy. Now he does the same for gothic horror in Crimson Peak, a deliciously creepy haunted-house story that oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make the movie as funny as it is scary. We may expect walls that drip blood, but do we expect a rational scientific reason for such a gruesome spectacle? We may expect ghosts to torment our hapless heroine,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A few years ago, with Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro took the 1950s Japanese monster movie and made it his own by combining modern flash and up-to-date attitudes with old-fashioned pulp energy. Now he does the same for gothic horror in Crimson Peak, a deliciously creepy haunted-house story that oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make the movie as funny as it is scary. We may expect walls that drip blood, but do we expect a rational scientific reason for such a gruesome spectacle? We may expect ghosts to torment our hapless heroine,...
- 10/15/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
New to Netflix in September are two kinds of undead: Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" and the revived-from-cancellation A&E series, "Longmire," which was saved by Netflix.
As far as movies, there's the restored version of the Oscar-winning 1962 epic "Lawrence of Arabia," Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the first three "Rambo" films, the terrific "The Bank Job" with Jason Statham and "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom" with Idris Elba.
There are also period dramas you might have missed from last year with Jessica Chastain ("Miss Julie") and Mia Wasikowska ("Madame Bovary") and hey, "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl!"
Available September 1
"72 Dangerous Animals Australia": Season 1 (2014)
"Combustión" (2013)
"Da Jammies": Season 1
"Giggle and Hoot's Best Ever!" (2014)
"Hamlet" (1990)
"Hardball" (2001)
"Heather McDonald: I Don't Mean To Brag" (2014)
"Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version" (1962)
"Los Hombres también lloran": Season 1
"Masters of the Universe" (1987)
"Mississippi Damned" (2009)
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood": Volume 1
"Mouk...
As far as movies, there's the restored version of the Oscar-winning 1962 epic "Lawrence of Arabia," Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the first three "Rambo" films, the terrific "The Bank Job" with Jason Statham and "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom" with Idris Elba.
There are also period dramas you might have missed from last year with Jessica Chastain ("Miss Julie") and Mia Wasikowska ("Madame Bovary") and hey, "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl!"
Available September 1
"72 Dangerous Animals Australia": Season 1 (2014)
"Combustión" (2013)
"Da Jammies": Season 1
"Giggle and Hoot's Best Ever!" (2014)
"Hamlet" (1990)
"Hardball" (2001)
"Heather McDonald: I Don't Mean To Brag" (2014)
"Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version" (1962)
"Los Hombres también lloran": Season 1
"Masters of the Universe" (1987)
"Mississippi Damned" (2009)
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood": Volume 1
"Mouk...
- 8/31/2015
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
The seething rage radiating from the screen elevates this above similar movies. But that rage is truncated in ways that are hard to ignore. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Even you don’t know anything about rap music, you might remember — if you’re old enough — all the late-80s national handwringing in the U.S. over the N.W.A. song “Fuck tha Police.” It’s an angry, incendiary piece of work, and whatever you may have thought about it at the time, or even still to this day, Straight Outta Compton will bring you completely to the side of the young black men who wrote and performed that song, much to the consternation of cultural watchdogs and scared white people. In this biopic of the group, director F. Gary Gray (Law Abiding Citizen, Be Cool...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Even you don’t know anything about rap music, you might remember — if you’re old enough — all the late-80s national handwringing in the U.S. over the N.W.A. song “Fuck tha Police.” It’s an angry, incendiary piece of work, and whatever you may have thought about it at the time, or even still to this day, Straight Outta Compton will bring you completely to the side of the young black men who wrote and performed that song, much to the consternation of cultural watchdogs and scared white people. In this biopic of the group, director F. Gary Gray (Law Abiding Citizen, Be Cool...
- 8/27/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, the fourth entry in the Jurassic Park franchise, took the top spot at the weekend box office, handily beating out competitors with a $204.6 million total over the weekend. The film’s number one opening continues the franchise’s streak, repeating a feat achieved by the previous three features. The film’s opening saw it run away with the box office for the weekend, as the closest competition, last week’s box office champion Spy, landed in second place with $16 million. The Dwayne Johnson-starring San Andreas rounded out the top three, finishing the weekend with $11 million.
Jurassic World was the only new opener to crack the top ten, as the rest of the list was populated by films that had been in theatres for a week or more already. In fifth place was another box office champion, Pitch Perfect 2, which finished the weekend with $6 million,...
Jurassic World was the only new opener to crack the top ten, as the rest of the list was populated by films that had been in theatres for a week or more already. In fifth place was another box office champion, Pitch Perfect 2, which finished the weekend with $6 million,...
- 6/15/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods The Duff (teen comedy; Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell; rated PG-13) Project Almanac (sci-fi/thriller; Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-d'Elia; rated PG-13) Madame Bovary (romantic drama; Mia Wasikowska, Ezra Miller; premieres 6/12 on cable Mod and in theaters; rated R) Pressure (sci-fi; Matthew Goode, Danny Huston; premieres 6/12 on cable Mod and in theaters; rated R) Digital HD: Rent from $4-$7 or own from $13-$20...
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- 6/10/2015
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer has hired the former Voltage Pictures senior executive as she seeks to broaden the company’s content creation mandate.
Short arrives as senior vice-president and will work on international sales in tandem with Steinbauer on a slate that includes imminent Tribeca world premiere The Driftless Area with Anton Yelchin and Zooey Deschanel and teen action-thriller Take Down, currently in post-production.
The new hire is also tasked with building his relationships in China and other Asian markets as Radiant Films International explores co-production and co-financing opportunities.
“John is the perfect addition to the Radiant team, bringing a wealth of experience in the foreign sales world having developed a strong network and relationships with buyers,” said Steinbauer.
“He is passionate and dedicated to what he does and is eager to grow and push the company forward as we enter this exciting phase of expansion.”
“I’m thrilled to be joining the team at Radiant...
Short arrives as senior vice-president and will work on international sales in tandem with Steinbauer on a slate that includes imminent Tribeca world premiere The Driftless Area with Anton Yelchin and Zooey Deschanel and teen action-thriller Take Down, currently in post-production.
The new hire is also tasked with building his relationships in China and other Asian markets as Radiant Films International explores co-production and co-financing opportunities.
“John is the perfect addition to the Radiant team, bringing a wealth of experience in the foreign sales world having developed a strong network and relationships with buyers,” said Steinbauer.
“He is passionate and dedicated to what he does and is eager to grow and push the company forward as we enter this exciting phase of expansion.”
“I’m thrilled to be joining the team at Radiant...
- 4/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mia Wasikowska’s Madame Bovary Sells For Radiant Films
Radiant Films International has completed multiple sales deals in territories worldwide for Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska including all French-speaking rights to Jour2Fête and Italy to Paco Pictures. Additional sales include Benelux to A-Film, Scandinavia to Svensk Filmindustri and Portugal to Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais, Latin America to Swen, Australia to Transmission Films, South Korea to Noori Pictures, Turkey to Aqua Pinema, Middle East to Gulf Film, Greece to Odeon and Iceland to Myndform. Radiant is handling all foreign sales on the project which they are actively selling at Efm.
The Solution Boards Tokyo Vice Starring Daniel Radcliffe
The Solution Entertainment Group is handling international rights to Tokyo Vice, produced by John Lesher’s Le Grisbi Productions. The Solution’s Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson will exec produce and present to buyers at the Efm. UTA is representing Us rights. Adam Kassan is also producing.
Radiant Films International has completed multiple sales deals in territories worldwide for Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska including all French-speaking rights to Jour2Fête and Italy to Paco Pictures. Additional sales include Benelux to A-Film, Scandinavia to Svensk Filmindustri and Portugal to Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais, Latin America to Swen, Australia to Transmission Films, South Korea to Noori Pictures, Turkey to Aqua Pinema, Middle East to Gulf Film, Greece to Odeon and Iceland to Myndform. Radiant is handling all foreign sales on the project which they are actively selling at Efm.
The Solution Boards Tokyo Vice Starring Daniel Radcliffe
The Solution Entertainment Group is handling international rights to Tokyo Vice, produced by John Lesher’s Le Grisbi Productions. The Solution’s Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson will exec produce and present to buyers at the Efm. UTA is representing Us rights. Adam Kassan is also producing.
- 2/7/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
Mia Wasikowska's Madame Bovary has found a home in numerous foreign markets, including France and Italy. Radiant Films International president-ceo Mimi Steinbauer revealed the deals at Berlin's European Film Market. Read more Berlin: Women Directors Grab the Spotlight Directed by Sophie Barthes, Madame Bovary made its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and quickly landed a U.S. home with Alchemy, formerly known as Millennium Entertainment. Felipe Marino adapted the screenplay from Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of the same name with Barthes. Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans and Ezra Miller also star. Radiant has sold Madame Bovary to
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- 2/7/2015
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After taking part in period dramas such as Albert Nobbs and Jane Eyre, young actress Mia Wasikowska is at it again with Madame Bovary, an adaptation of the classic novel of the same name. The film has played at Telluride, Toronto and London film festivals, and now it's hitting theaters sometime this year. The first trailer has just arrived following Emma Bovary, who is ready to get married to a nice doctor, but finds that life as a wife doesn't really agree her desires. Bored and lonely due to her lackluster marriage, she begins to challenge her role in society and also finds romance with another young man. Watch the trailer below! Here's the first trailer for Sophie Barthes Madame Bovary from Film Divider: Madame Bovary is directed by Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls) and written by Felipe Marino, adapting the classic book of the same name. Marriage is at first...
- 1/30/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Fast-rising British actor Henry Lloyd-Hughes has been set to play tech whiz kid Allen Scott-Frank in Lionsgate’s heist sequel Now You See Me: The Second Act. Production is underway on the Jon M Chu-helmed pic that stars returning cast Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, and Michael Caine along with Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan and Jay Chou who are new to the franchise.
Scripted by Pete Chiarelli and Ed Solomon, the sequel picks up a year after the Four Horseman outwitted the FBI with their mind-bending tricks and as they come face-to-face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet. The initial caper went on to gross over $350M worldwide in 2013. The Second Act has a June 2016 release date.
Lloyd-Hughes made a name for himself with the hugely popular UK TV comedy, The Inbetweeners, and also had a role in...
Scripted by Pete Chiarelli and Ed Solomon, the sequel picks up a year after the Four Horseman outwitted the FBI with their mind-bending tricks and as they come face-to-face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet. The initial caper went on to gross over $350M worldwide in 2013. The Second Act has a June 2016 release date.
Lloyd-Hughes made a name for himself with the hugely popular UK TV comedy, The Inbetweeners, and also had a role in...
- 1/28/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up, it is indeed the most wonderful, panic-filled and nerve racking time of the year. The 31st edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 22nd with Park City and Salt Lake City playing host to some of the more innovative, thought-provoking narrative and non-fiction films of 2015. Last year, a Jenga tall order of 4,057 features and 8,161 shorts were submitted. Now let’s think about those numbers for a second.
Twenty years ago, Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb claimed the Grand Jury Prize Documentary award, Living in Oblivion‘s Tom Dicillo was honored with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Edward Burns’ micro-budgeted The Brothers McMullen (there is a read-worthy, lively, eleventh hour account on how it was submitted to the fest in Ted Hope’s “Hope...
Twenty years ago, Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb claimed the Grand Jury Prize Documentary award, Living in Oblivion‘s Tom Dicillo was honored with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Edward Burns’ micro-budgeted The Brothers McMullen (there is a read-worthy, lively, eleventh hour account on how it was submitted to the fest in Ted Hope’s “Hope...
- 11/17/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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