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"There's Freedom In Bondage": 12 Things Learned At Cannes About 'Moonrise Kingdom' & Wes Anderson's Hyper-Controlled Style
24 May 2012 12:21 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Having received some of his best reviews in years, Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" made a grand debut opening the Cannes Film Festival in style last week. By all accounts (including one very positive review of our own), Anderson's latest picture and first live-action film in five years, is a pleasant, charming and enchanting return to form that's both nostalgic for those early pre-teen years and emotional in its exploration of adolescent angst and early love. Starring newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward with an excellent supporting cast featuring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman, Playlist contributor Aaron Hillis got a chance to sit down with some of the cast at the press conference in Cannes.
What ensued was an entertaining conversation with Anderson, co-writer Roman Coppola, the narrator in the film Bob Balaban, plus Norton, Schwartzman, Gilman and Hayward. Here's twelve »
- Edward Davis
Wes Anderson Doesn't Think Much About People Who Call Him 'Twee'
24 May 2012 12:21 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Wes Anderson may have assembled his best cast yet for "Moonrise Kingdom": Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel and Tilda Swinton joined Anderson mainstays Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman on the roster. Yet, it was finding the film's young leads, Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, that proved most difficult.
"With this kind of movie -- you're working on other fronts at the same time, but in the back of your mind, you're kind of thinking, 'If you don't find them, you can't make the movie,'" Anderson told HuffPost Entertainment.
The 13-year-old neophyte actors were hired by Anderson after eight months of searching to play Suzy and Sam, two New England tweens who fall in love and run away during the summer of 1965.
"I didn't have any real preconceived notions about what they ought to be like -- I didn't really picture anything," Anderson said. "I was »
- The Huffington Post
'Me and You' Movie Review - 2012 Cannes Film Festival
23 May 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
In the press notes for Me and You (Io e Te) director and co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci says that since coming to terms with the fact he will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life he wasn't sure if he'd ever be able to make another film. Serving as his first in nine years, and reading between the lines, Me and You plays like a film from a director merely trying to figure out if he can still do it. As such, he's managed to prove he can still make a film, but not a very compelling film.
Me and You is based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti, centering on Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori), a 14-year-old outsider who skips out on a school field trip to live in the basement of his apartment building for a week to get away from those that just don't seem to understand him. »
- Brad Brevet
Girls on film: how Tim Burton finally got his vamp right
18 May 2012 2:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
You can't really be an auteur until you've got your type – and that's just as true for the women directors
Tim Burton's Dark Shadows may have received a kicking from critics, but one person has emerged from the dust-up unscathed: Eva Green, the French actress who plays the evil witch Angelique Bouchard. With her red-lacquered lips, her crazy-beautiful eyes and possessed-marionette limbs, Green's lolling vamp represents the perfection of a type Burton has long been trying to get right – from Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in Batman Returns, to Lisa Marie Smith's bosomy Martian in Mars Attacks!, to Anne Hathaway's White Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
Critics may be tired of the rest of Burton's directorial signatures – the ornate production designs, the seventies kitsch, the collaboration with Johnny Depp – but he's finally perfected his vamps: peroxide-blonde, big-chested, cinch-waisted, eyes like Bambi's.
All film directors have their types. Everyone »
- Tom Shone
French Film Festival reveals key elements of line-up
17 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
The French Film Festival UK celebrates its 20th anniversary from November 8 to 29 2012. Already the programme has started to come together and the festival's co-founder and director Richard Mowe revealed a few appetisers at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
Olivier Assayas - Special focus in his presence on the work of the Carlos director, who emerged as a filmmaker in the second half of the 1980s after starting as a critic on Cahiers du Cinema in the same way as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Many of his earlier films including Paris s’Eveille have been shown in previous festivals. The festival expects to screen his new film Something in the Air.
Chantal Akerman - An influential figure in feminist film-making, straddling genres from romantic comedy to documentary and musical to installation art, Akerman has confirmed her attendance for workshops, screenings and seminars in partnership with Wallonie–Bruxelles and the. »
- Amber Wilkinson
Tumblr Round-Up: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ – ‘Avengers’ – ‘The Expendables Two’ – ‘Amazing Spiderman’ and more
13 May 2012 11:01 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the stuff we love.
If you have any interesting items that you think we should plug, please email us at admin@soundonsight.org
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NextMovie.com recently posted 10 of this summer’s Blockbusters re-imagined as indie films. Here are four examples. You can check out all the posters at NextMovie.com
The Dirty Dozen poster by Grzegorz Domaradzki
Poster for Shame by Zoe Jones
Check out this Tintin/Indiana Jones mash-up poster by Vesa Lehtimäki.
Doctor Who fans will appreciate this Dogtor Woof photo by Cosplay
The #Avengers are just a bunch of jocks.
Animator Mr. Whaite made this Batman, »
- Ricky
'Birds' Actress Tippi Hedren Says Hitchcock Cost Her an Oscar Nomination
9 May 2012 1:41 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
A screening of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was held at New York's Cinema Village last night after which star Tippi Hedren told interviewer Robert Milazzo, "Apparently I was up for a nomination for Marnie, and Hitchcock killed it." Hedren made only two films with Hitchcock -- The Birds and Marnie -- and according to the Village Voice's Michael Musto, writing about Hedren's Cinema Village appearance, the reason it was only two films is because she tired of Hitch's increasingly obsessive possessiveness and wanted out of any dealings with him. As Hedren tells it, he then threatened to destroy her career, which included kibboshing the nomination and keeping her under contract for two more years so she couldn't work. Hedren said she would later learn that during that time Francois Truffaut wanted her for Fahrenheit 451. As far as The Birds is concerned, Hedren said she'd been promised she'd work with mechanical birds. »
- Brad Brevet
5 Things You Might Not Know About Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpiece 'Vertigo'
9 May 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Voting is currently underway on the Sight & Sound poll for the greatest film ever made, which takes place every ten years, and is generally seen as one of the most definitive of such polls. And one film that's near-certain to place in the top ten, given that it's been there in every poll since 1982 (and placed second in 2002) is Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." The film was relatively poorly received on release, and indeed, remained unseen for twenty years, one of the five films to which Hitchcock bought back the rights to leave to his daughter (the so-called Five Lost Hitchcocks, which also include "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window," "Rope" and "The Trouble With Harry"). But since its re-release in 1984, the film has grown into the great director's most acclaimed masterpiece, and is now one of the most examined, deconstructed and written about films in the history of the medium. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
AFI's Master Class Looks at Art of Collaboration with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg
8 May 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
TCM Presents AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg is filmed in front of an audience of AFI fellows studying at the AFI Conservatory. It's the second in AFI's series exploring artistic film collaborations; the first was between Steven Spielberg and John Williams. TCM will air the special on May 8 (10pm Et). The pair will discuss their meeting, their collaborative process and some of the films that have inspired them, including two films with James Cagney that will bookend the special's screening on TCM; "The Roaring Twenties" (1939; with Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Priscilla Lane) and "Man of a Thousand Faces" (1957, also with Cagney), as well as Frank Capra's Jimmy stewart-starrer "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) and François Truffaut's New Wave classic "The 400 Blows" (1959). Russell and Wahlberg's collaborations include "Three Kings"...
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- Sophia Savage
Movie Poster of the Week: “Jules et Jim” and an Interview with Designer Christian Broutin
5 May 2012 6:40 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
One of my earliest Movie Posters of the Week, a few years ago, was for a stunning poster for Bresson’s Pickpocket. Back then I noted that it was “designed by one Christian Broutin. It turns out that Broutin (who was born in 1933 and only 26 when he designed this) also designed the conceptually similar poster for Jules and Jim, another of my all-time favorite French affiches.” In the comments somebody asked if I knew anything else about Broutin but I did not and could not find out much more on the web other than that he was also a children’s book illustrator.
A few months ago I came across another great poster attributed to Broutin and in my search for a better quality image for the poster I discovered his website (“Welcome to the site of Christian Broutin, maxi-realist painter, illustrator, creator of stamps”) which told me that Christian Broutin is alive and well, »
Domestic goddess wanted: who's going to be the next Nigella Lawson?
27 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Once, Nigella ruled. Now there's a battle for her domestic goddess crown – and style is just as important as the ability to whip up a crème brûlée. Meet the contenders…
Rachel Khoo
Style From her immaculately painted lips (often pink, but best when they're true red) to her chunky short fringe (all the better for showing off her inquisitively coquettish brows), the look is pure Amélie. Khoo's clothes underline what her make-up bag is getting at. The obligatory Nigella-ish cropped cardigans are present and correct in powder blues and hot pinks. The dresses hint at that carefree-girl-on-a-push-bike-shopping-at-a-vegetable-market cliché, but on closer inspection those polka-dot dresses with elasticated belts are more likely from the vintage rails at Topshop (cross-back spot dress, £52) or the sanitised online vintage boutiques found in the "marketplace" section of asos.com. But there's nothing wrong with that.
Background Most cookery shows sell viewers the dream of a »
- Imogen Fox, Hannah Booth
Review: The Five-year Engagement Stalls At The Altar
27 April 2012 12:16 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
François Truffaut echoed Jean Renoir when he explained the virtues of filming reality, stating that there is nothing more magical to him than reality. Interesting sentiment, especially coming from Truffaut, but he obviously wasn't made to sit through The Five-year Engagement, a Hollywood relationship drama disguised as a raunchy comedy that one sometimes gets the impression doesn't unfold in real time only because it can't. »
Amos Vogel, New York Film Fest Co-Creator, Dies at 91
25 April 2012 10:35 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Amos Vogel, who made a sophisticated mark on the American film scene by co-creating Cinema 16 and the New York Film Festival, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 91. Vogel emphasized experimental and independent fare in his programming for Cinema 16, an influential forum he launched with his wife, Marcia, in 1947. During Cinema 16’s 17-year run, Vogel zoomed in on the work of directors like Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Kenneth Anger and Francois Truffaut. Audiences for the cinema club’s screenings topped 1,000 during its height. In 1963, he brought the same »
- Kasia Anderson
Claude Miller’s last film to close 65th Festival de Cannes
18 April 2012 10:02 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller will be screened at the closing ceremony of the 65th Festival de Cannes on 27 May.
The film features Audrey Tautou in the title role with Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
Claude Miller’s final film is an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”.
Miller died on April 4, 2012 in Paris at the age of 70 shortly after finishing this film. It is the final piece in his immense body of work, to which the Festival de Cannes will pay tribute.
“What thrills me in the filmmaking process is to focus on the interplay of appearances, gestures, looks, behaviour and to use them to try to intimate the inner lives of people, their secret garden, even though we only see them from the outside,” said Miller.
Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut. He »
- NewsDesk
The Late Claude Miller's 'Therese D' to Close 2012 Cannes Film Festival
18 April 2012 11:27 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It was just announced via Twitter that the late Claude Miller's Therese D starring Audrey Tautou will serve as the closing night film at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in honor of the director's April 4 passing. The announcement came saying, "Tribute to Claude Miller: Therese D. will be the film of the 65th Festival de Cannes closing Ceremony." The above photo accompanied the announcement and here is the film's official synopsis: France, late 1920's. Lovely and free-spirited, Therese marries her neighbor Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their respective properties in one vast estate. Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate young wife's strong character and opinions, but she soon finds herself suffocated by the boredom of her provincial life and her husband's intellectual mediocrity. She dreams of Paris, longs for stimulation and culture and, despite herself, starts to seek a way out. Until the day Bernard gets intoxicated with deadly arsenic... What starts »
- Brad Brevet
Audrey Tautou/THÉRÈSE Desqueyroux: Cannes Closing Film
18 April 2012 11:23 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Audrey Tautou, Thérèse Desqueyroux Claude Miller's Thérèse Desqueyroux (formerly known as Thérèse D.), starring Audrey Tautou, will close the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The 70-year-old Miller died in Paris last April 4. Based on the 1927 novel by Nobel Prize winner François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux tells the story of Thérèse Desqueyroux (Tautou), an unhappily married woman who struggles to break free from her drab provincial existence in 1920s France. Gilles Lellouche co-stars. In 1962, Georges Franju directed Thérèse Desqueyroux / Therese, starring Hiroshima, Mon Amour's Emmanuelle Riva as Thérèse and Cinema Paradiso's Philippe Noiret as her husband. Thérèse Desqueyroux is scheduled to open in France and Belgium in November. The information below on director Claude Miller is from the Cannes Film Festival press release: Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut, “the filmmaker of the intimate.” Through the evolution of his work, »
- Anna Robinson
Wes Anderson Shares Global Inspirations for ‘Moonrise Kingdom’
10 April 2012 7:54 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
His output can sometimes be a little too “American Apparel” (if you know what I mean), but you’d be hard-pressed to argue Wes Anderson lacks cinephilia. And since his filmography has markings that range from Jean Vigo (Rushmore) to British ’60s animation (Fantastic Mr. Fox), it’s a given that his next, Moonrise Kingdom, will also be taking some high-brow cues. (You can glean it just from the trailer, for God’s sake.)
When speaking with EW, the corduroy-loving filmmaker revealed such influences in a rather open, expected fashion. This time out, the map-hopping titles we can try and (inevitably) cite are Ken Loach‘s 1979 film Black Jack, the Alan Parker-scripted Melody, and François Truffaut‘s Small Change. (Fun fact: Steven Spielberg convinced his Close Encounters actor to alter the film’s proper American title, Pocket Money, since it was already taken by a little-seen Paul Newman vehicle »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Wes Anderson Says Francois Truffaut's 'Small Change,' Ken Loach's 'Black Jack' & Alan Parker's 'Melody' Are Influences On 'Moonrise Kingdom'
10 April 2012 2:46 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While we had our ideas about the possible influences on Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" after watching and deconstructing the trailer -- Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Pierrot Fou" and "Little Fugitive" -- the director himself has gone ahead and cleared up the movies that were in his mind when he set out to make the film.
“There’s two movies that I really love that were both kind of huge inspirations for 'Moonrise Kingdom,' ” Anderson told EW. “One is a movie called 'Black Jack' that’s directed by Ken Loach. The other one is another British movie that’s the first thing Alan Parker ever did. He wrote the script. It’s called 'Melody.' They’re both movies that I only found as I worked on this story. I was looking for movies that are about pre-teenage romance. And there’s a Truffaut movie 'Small Change. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Stanley Kubrick: Master of Contradictions
9 April 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned, »
- Graham Daseler
Ian Christie on Claude Miller, 'a true man of the cinema'
6 April 2012 7:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Claude Miller played an important role as the president of Europa Cinemas. This network of European exhibitors committed to showing work from outside their own country and the Us celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and Claude will be missed by everyone who worked with him on its committees, or who hosted one of his many visits to cinemas around the world. He was a film-maker who really knew and cared about where his films were shown, and believed in the value of the cinema experience. Like his mentor François Truffaut, he also welcomed innovation, and shot in digital before this was widely accepted, while fully supporting Europa Cinema members moving into digital projection.
He was a popular figure within French cinema, taking on many responsibilities in addition to his own steady output as a director. He had wide enthusiasms in film history, including classic Hollywood. I remember we were »
- Ian Christie
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