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Amour conquers all
5 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From the bonkers Holy Motors to the disappointing On the Road, Cannes offered plenty of breadth, but only Michael Haneke's exquisite tale of an elderly man caring for his frail wife in their Paris apartment ticked all the boxes
Michael Haneke is too good. Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision. It's like the days when Beethoven was around and everyone else gave up composing. Haneke's Amour, about an elderly man looking after his frail wife (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both utterly captivating) when a stroke confines her to their Paris apartment, was by some stretch the finest film at Cannes. It was the only piece to be exquisitely acted, composed, paced and pitched, as well as »
- Jason Solomons
More glitz on Cannes red carpet than on screen
5 hours ago | The Independent | See recent The Independent news »
The Cannes Film Festival ends tonight, after 12 days that have seen major star power on the red carpet, several revered auteurs booed, and a perplexing and under-par competition line-up. At tonight's closing ceremony, the jury – led by the Italian director Nanni Moretti and including Ewan McGregor, Diane Kruger, Jean-Paul Gaultier and the British director Andrea Arnold – will announce their decision on the Palme d'Or, although they won't be choosing from an embarrassment of riches. »
Kashish 2012 starts on peaceful note
25 May 2012 8:11 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The organizers of 'Kashish 2012', India's only Lgbt (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) festival, are not just gay, but also happy and gay (no pun intended). The reason? Well, the said festival that started from May 23-27 has been received without any protest by anyone so far.
The organizers claim that even if protests do happen at the film festival site, they would reserve seats for the protestors so that they 'understand' what queer is all about. Pallav Patankar (one of the festival directors) said that this year, despite the fact that they have acquired permissions even from the Maharashtra Government's State Secretariat and the local police, they have not encountered any major homophobia. He also added that many government agencies were curious about the film festival. And when they understand the meaning of 'queer', they were more than happy to accept the same. While the theme of 'Kashish 2012' is 'For Everyone', »
- Bollywood Hungama News Network
3 Actual Scottish Actors Who Would Make Excellent Highlanders
24 May 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | The Movie Pool | See recent The Movie Pool news »
Last week, word came out that the studios behind the Highlander remake were wanting Ryan Reynolds to play the lead role of Connor MacLeod. This didn't sit too well with me as I feel there are other actors (ones who are actually Scottish too) who would be far better suited to the role of the immortal bad ass.
Let me say this to begin with, this article is Not a Ryan Reynolds bashing article. Truth be told, I like Ryan Reynolds and think he's a good actor, who sometimes gets caught in terrible films (yet I never blame him for those films). However, I just don't feel he's right for the part of the Highlander.
Even though I love the original films (that's right, I enjoyed All of them on some level), Christopher Lambert's accent in the films has always struck me as kind of humorous. He's French trying to play a Scott, »
- feeds@themoviepool.com (Jordan Maison)
Austin in Cannes So Far ... and Vice Versa
24 May 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
When Slackerwood listed all the Texas-connected features that would screen at the Cannes International Film Festival this year, we forgot one aspect of the festival. We didn't mention the local journalists who would travel to the French Riviera to cover the festival's films and celebrity attendees.
But several intrepid Austinites are currently in Cannes, or have been there in the past week:
Charles Ealy, Austin American-Statesman -- Ealy is a Cannes veteran, and is posting dispatches regularly (sometimes several times in a day) to Austin Movie Blog. He's recently written about the premiere of The Paperboy, in which Austin actor Matthew McConaughey co-stars with Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron; Garland native Caleb Landry Jones starring in Brandon Cronenberg's movie Antiviral, which Ealy thinks would be a good Fantastic Fest selection; and Houston-raised Wes Anderson's latest film Moonrise Kingdom, which opened Cannes. Vincent Van Horn, Austin Chronicle -- Van »
- Jette Kernion
Moushumi Chatterjee and Sai Paranjpye inaugurate 3rd Kashish International Queer Film Fest in Mumbai
24 May 2012 1:43 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Veteran actress Moushumi Chatterjee and noted filmmaker Sai Paranjpye threw open the 3rd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival at Cinemax Versova on Wednesday.
Moushumi Chatterjee also inaugurated an art exhibition “Celebrating the lost art of Bollywood billboards with a queer twist’’.
Sai Paranjpye said that she was part of the festival for the second consecutive year– in 2011 she headed the jury – and was impressed with the strides that the festival had taken in the last three years.
The opening ceremony was followed by the screening of Beginners starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Plummer won the 2012 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in which he essays the role of an elderly man who comes out of the closet.
The jury for the festival comprises actor-director Renuka Shahane and Parvin Dabas, theatre actor Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, television actress Mona Ambegaonkar, and film critic Mayank Shekhar.
This year the festival received »
- NewsDesk
DVD Blu-Ray: 'The Secret World of Arrietty,' 'Lethal Weapon' Collection
22 May 2012 9:07 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "The Secret World of Arrietty" What's It About? This adaptation of the beloved fantasy series "The Borrowers" deals with a young sick boy named Sho, who befriends Arrietty, a member of a secret race of little people that live underneath the floorboards. Sho and Arrietty must preserve their friendship while also protecting the family of Borrowers from suspicious humans. See It Because: Studio Ghibli, the world renowned Japanese animation studio behind "Arrietty," have never made a bad movie. Seriously. "Arrietty" is an adorably cute modern fairy tale that never feels saccharine, and features lush atmospheric animation. Moviefone's Blu-ray Pick of the Week The "Lethal Weapon" Collection What's It About? The entire Riggs-Murtaugh saga is packaged together in one convenient box set, bringing "I'm getting too old for this sh*t," Jet Li's kicks, "It's just been revoked" and Gary Busey into the world of glorious high definition. »
- Eric Larnick
'Great Gatsby' Trailer: Five Roaring Scenes
22 May 2012 8:24 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Leonardo DiCaprio revisits his matinee-idol days and Baz Luhrmann recalls his previous work in sizzling new sneak peek.
By Kara Warner
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Great Gatsby"
Photo: Warner Bros.
Anyone who doubted the cinematic treat director Baz Luhrmann will deliver this Christmas in the form of his "Great Gatsby" need only watch the first teaser trailer to have their curiosity decidedly piqued. The visually stunning two-and-a-half-minute trailer features stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan in all their glamorous, early 20th-century-styled glory.
Here are five key elements to look out for:
Leonardo DiCaprio Reclaims Matinee-Idol Status
There's no doubt Leonardo DiCaprio is a gifted, serious actor; just look to his impressive and Oscar-nominated body of work for proof. And while his careful and calculated decisions with regard to his gritty and more art-house-oriented film roles over the years are indeed admirable, there's part of his fanbase dying »
Why 'Certified Copy' Tops Indiewire's 5 DVD/Blu-ray Picks for the Week
22 May 2012 7:32 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
This week on DVD/Blu-ray: Abbas Kiarostami's most accessible film to date; season two of one of Britain's finest exports; a sci-fi romance starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green; Ed Burn's lowest-budget film to date; and a loving tribute of the one and only Carol Channing. #1. "Certified Copy" With Abbas Kiarostami's latest "Like Someone In Love" having just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, his last film "Certified Copy," finally makes it way to DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of The Criterion Collection. The romance marks a big departure for the Iranian director; it's his first film to be shot outside of Iran, and his first to feature an accomplished actress like the incomparable Juliette Binoche. The Tuscany set romantic dramedy pits Binoche and British opera star William Shimell together, as a pair who seemingly meet for the first time during a book conference in which Shimell's character lectures on the validity. »
- Nigel M Smith
This Week In DVD: A Giant Intellect! A Giant Forehead! A Giant Shlong!
22 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! Some great releases hit shelves today with two of the best hailing from the UK. Also out this week are the McG misfire This Means War, the classic TV series Route 66, the hilarious tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen Red Tails, Daniel Radcliffe’s creepy period piece The Woman In Black, and many more. Bonus points to anyone who can match the three ‘giant’ items from this week’s title above to the three characters/performers below. As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Perfect Sense A chef (Ewan McGregor) and an epidemiologist (Eva Green) meet and fall in love just as a strange new disease begins to spread worldwide. People are struck with a strong emotional response immediately followed by the loss of one of their senses. It’s like Contagion but with heart and personality. This »
- Rob Hunter
Petra Nemcová and Karolina Kurková Join Hot Guys Adrien and Ewan For Cannes Bash
22 May 2012 1:19 AM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
The stars came out to celebrate during the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. Gerard Butler, Adrien Brody, and Karolina Kurková were just a few of the guests at Iwc and Finch's Quarterly Review filmmakers dinner, which was held at the Hotel Du Cap. Model Karolina - who tweeted of the event, "What a night!" - and Petra Nemcová got together for a playful photo, while Gerard met up with pals Robert De Niro, Ewan McGregor, and Adrien. Petra's boyfriend, Sean Penn, wasn't by her side for this bash, though they were together for the Haiti: Carnival in Cannes event. There's been so much excitement at Cannes so far, but there's even more to come, as both Brad Pitt and Kristen Stewart are still expected to hit the red carpet this week. View Slideshow › »
- Lauren Turner
Love is in the air for film festival jury
21 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | The Independent | See recent The Independent news »
Members of the jury, from left, Haitian director Raoul Peck, British actor Ewan McGregor, Palestinian actress and director Hiam Abbass, Us director and producer Alexander Payne, Italian director and president of the jury Nanni Moretti, French actress Emmanuelle Devos, British director and scriptwriter Andrea Arnold, French designer Jean Paul Gaultier and German actress Diane Kruger arrive for the screening of Amour (Love) presented in competition at the 65th Cannes film festival. »
DVD Review - Haywire (2011)
21 May 2012 2:18 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Haywire, 2011.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano and Michael Douglas.
Synopsis:
Betrayed by her employers, agent Mallory Kane must fight to clear her name.
Part two of Stephen Soderbergh’s speedy return to filmmaking post-Che, Haywire has very little in common with Contagion. Testament, maybe, to the director’s ability to transcend genres, although if Haywire is anything to go by, this jack of all trades approach can yield mixed results.
Former ‘Gladiator’ and Mma fighter Gina Carano, as Mallory Kane, an agent double-crossed by Ewan McGregor’s agency boss Ken, is the heart of the film, and given her lack of experience she does rather well. Casting a non-actor in the lead role of a major Hollywood production was always going to be a risky move, but in this case it seems to have paid off. »
- flickeringmyth
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
21 May 2012 1:25 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 17, 2012
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is one of those quiet films with heaps of charm, and with Ewan McGregor (The Ghost Writer) and Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau) heading up the cast, what’s not to like?
Based on the novel by Paul Torday, the movie tells the story of a scientist (McGregor) who’s asked to fulfill a sheikh’s (Amr Waked, Syriana) dream of bringing fly-flishing to his homeland in Yemen. It starts out as a political opportunity for Kristin Scott Thomas (Sarah’s Key), but turns into a love story for Blunt and McGregor.
Lasse Halstrom, director of other quiet, charismatic movies including Chocolat, helmed Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which was written by Oscar-winner Simon Beaufoy of the awesome Slumdog Millionaire.
Rated PG-13, the comedy romance film was only released in limited theaters, »
- Sam
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Blu-ray Release Date and Details
21 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Director Lasse Hallstrom's comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on July 17 via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and CBS Films.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is written by Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy and stars Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ewan McGregor. It is the story of a scientist determined to fulfill a sheikh's dream of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the sheikh's homeland in Yemen, based on the novel by Paul Torday.
The Blu-ray edition of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen will be presented in 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio. An UltraViolet digital copy will be included.
A pair of bonus features included are 'Miracles Happen: Making Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' and 'The Fisherman in the Middle East: Novelist Paul Torday.'
Click here to pre-order Salmon Fishing in the Yemen on Blu-ray for $25 at Amazon.com, 30% off the $35.99 list price. »
The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 21st May
21 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
After last week’s brilliant new releases in the home entertainment market, headed up by Steve McQueen’s Shame and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (I bought them both on Blu-ray, the latter in HMV’s exclusive steelbook special edition), this week sees another great slew of titles for us to add to our collections.
As ever, we have not just the brand new films and TV shows making their way to shelves for the first time, but also single-disc Blu-ray editions (which we’re increasingly seeing within a few months of the Double / Triple Play versions), and a host of films getting the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time, with Disney releasing a handful of old titles in the visually beautiful format.
Stay tuned for next week (and be sure to get your pre-orders in early), which will see Chornicle, Coriolanus, Martha Marcy May Marlene, »
- Kenji Lloyd
Ewan McGregor's Emotional Trip To India
21 May 2012 5:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Ewan McGregor has recalled his heartache following an emotional visit to one of the poorest parts of India.
The actor visited the city of Patna in the state of Bihar in November to record a short film for charity Unicef's Soccer Aid project.
And the Trainspotting star, who describes the culture shock after arriving in the country as "a real assault on the senses", admits he found it difficult to believe families can live in such squalid conditions.
In article for Scotland on Sunday, he writes, "I expected to be overwhelmed by the poverty and I was. It is difficult to comprehend, seeing people living and sleeping on the streets everywhere you look. As we were driving through the city I saw children everywhere, playing in places that children should not be playing. Places covered in rubbish and faeces. It made me realise how incredibly difficult these children's lives are."
McGregor visited the region to see Unicef's work helping to lower the rate of child death in the area, where almost half the population lives below the poverty line, and he also took a trip to a local hospital.
He adds, "The unit I was visiting was at the end of a short, traffic-choked lane in the centre of the town. I had expected the whole place to be filled with the noises of babies crying, but as soon as we stepped inside I was taken aback by the silence. All the babies were so fragile that their tiny bodies didn't have the energy to make any noise...
"It's terrible. Some babies don't make it. That's what happened for one mum I met in the centre, Musken. She was barely older than a child herself, but she had waited four weeks: 28 long days and nights, without leaving that bus shelter of a waiting room to find out if her baby Munna would survive, only for him to finally lose his struggle for life. It shouldn't be like that. No baby should lose their life in that way." »
DVD Review: Haywire – Authentic and Well-paced Action Thriller
21 May 2012 3:41 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
With the most wafer thin of plots and a refreshingly slender running time, Steven Soderbergh’s action-thriller Haywire feels like little more than a star vehicle for its authentic female action star: Gina Carano – a former champion mixed martial artist in her first major film role. Its perfunctory story can basically be boiled down to: CIA operative is betrayed by her bosses and becomes determined to get revenge. But this is no bad thing, simply creating a framework in which the star gets to beat up beat up the male-dominated supporting cast in a series a fast, brutal and imaginatively choreographed set pieces – flooring the likes of Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum and Ewan McGregor along the way.
As hired killer Mallory Kane, Carano is the most capable and interesting action heroine in recent memory, largely down to the fact that her fighting background lends great authenticity »
- Robert Beames
Carnival in Cannes with Gerard Buttler, Paul Haggis, Robert De Niro and Sean Penn
20 May 2012 11:20 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: The Festival de Cannes celebrated Haiti: Carnival in Cannes Friday night, a benefit event presented by Giorgio Armani in support of Sean Penn’s J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P Hro), Paul Haggis’ Artists for Peace and Justice (Apj) and Petra Nemcova’s Happy Heart’s Fund (Hhf), for their united and extraordinary work in Haiti. The charities? unity reflects their collective belief that more can be accomplished by working in partnership than alone. This event is the first of its kind for the Festival de Cannes since holding benefit screenings in 1984 and 1996. Additionally, this is the first time that three charities have come together with the support of the festival for one very important cause. Preliminary calculations of money raised total over $2 million.
An A-list crowd “the sort only the Festival de Cannes can procure” joined Penn, Haggis and Nemcova to offer their support. Guests included Gerard Butler, »
- Josh Abraham
DVD Review: Haywire
20 May 2012 9:18 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Stars: Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton | Written by Lem Dobbs | Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Mixed Martial Arts (Mma) is a sport that is becoming more and more popular. Some of its biggest stars such as Randy Couture, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and even Tito Ortiz have made their way into the film world to use their fighting skills on the big screen. The big muscular high testosterone fighters ready to do their own fight scenes and kick ass all for the big bucks. The only real problem is some don’t actually seem to have that much acting talent, see Tito’s attempt in The Crow: Wicked Prayer as an example (I’m sure he’s improved).
It’s refreshing that one fighter from the Mma world has made the move and impressed a lot more than the others, and guess what? »
- Pzomb
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