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Amour conquers all
3 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
'Men In Black 3,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' And More: Double Feature Friday!
25 May 2012 11:05 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
This week in theaters, Tommy Lee Jones gets a little help from Josh Brolin, letting him do most of the Tommy Lee Jones-ing in "Men In Black 3," and Wes Anderson unveils his ode to Wes Anderson with "Moonrise Kingdom." If you're looking for wonderful cinematic pairings then look no further than Double Feature Friday!
"Men In Black 3" & "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
Tommy Lee Jones doesn't like a lot of things. I doubt he likes making "Men In Black" movies. He probably doesn't like you very much, but he does like making westerns. Tlj even directed his very own western in 2005 with "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada." Very much in the vein of a novel by Jones' favorite writer, Cormac McCarthy, "Three Burials" follows Pete Perkins, a rancher, who must fulfill a promise he made to his former employee Melquiades. When a border patrol agent kills old Mel, »
- Kevin P. Sullivan
Kermode Launches Online Film Club with McBride's Breathless
22 May 2012 7:38 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Renowned British film critic Mark Kermode today launches an intriguing new online film club concept on his blog over at the BBC's website. Inspired by questions about the relevance of film festivals for the general public and the dying art of film introductions, Kermode endeavours to re-introduce a little bit of community into the film-watching experience in these days of home cinema. He will choose a film and then record a video introduction for participants to watch before they enjoy their own private screening. He then invites his audience to share their thoughts on his blog to feed a future discussion.For the inaugural film, Kermode's choice is predictably off-kilter: Jim McBride's 1983 re-make of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, starring Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky. It is »
Cannes: 'Beyond the Hills' wants to be the art-house 'Exorcist.' Plus, Tom Hardy in 'Lawless'
19 May 2012 9:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
At Cannes, the fabled Palme d’Or isn’t like any other Best Picture award. Unlike, say, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, or even the Oscar, it is conferred with a reverence that says: This film is a work of art — and the person who made it has been ushered into the pantheon. He (or she) is now one of the initiated, recognized in the shimmering galaxy of the international film world to be a major artist, a saint of the cinema, a wearer of the supreme auteur merit badge. There have been 65 Palme d’Or winners (the award »
- Owen Gleiberman
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
Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Claudine Nougaret & Raymond Depardon’s Journal de France
15 May 2012 7:08 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Journal de France – Claudine Nougaret & Raymond Depardon
Buzz: In many ways, Depardon is to French cinema and cinéma vérité what Michel Brault is to Quebec’s Direct Cinema movement. While Depardon isn’t a pioneer of the essayistic vérité style the way Brault is for Direct Cinema, he’s still seen as a huge player in the field, having contributed major works that have helped to define it (Les années déclic, 10e chambre). Depardon’s legacy won’t solely be from his cinema; he’s perhaps even more dedicated to his practice in photography, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. This collaborative autobiographical survey of Depardon looks to be the ultimate culmination of his two passions.
The Gist: Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing his home country with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for »
- Blake Williams
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.
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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
Tumblr Round-Up: ‘Avengers’ – Hitchcock – ‘Drive’ – ‘Dark Shadows’ – ‘A Fantastic Fear of Everything’ and more
13 May 2012 10:14 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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The Smile in the Mirror, by Ethan Graham Peacock
Drive poster by Joel Amat Güell
The Hitchcock Collection by Adam Armstrong
Here is the Mondo poster for Dark Shadows by artist Ghostco (aka Matthew Woodson).
Snatch poster by I Imagine, I Believe
Trainspotting poster by 3ftDeep
Here is a poster for one of my favorite French films, Band of Outsiders by director Jean-Luc Godard
A poster for A Fantastic Fear of Everything, »
- Ricky
'Star Trek 2' Wraps, Russell Out of 'Django Unchained,' Polanski Takes 'D,' Del Toro Tackles 'Pinocchio' and More
10 May 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Zachary Quinto tweeted out the picture you see to the right noting principal photography on Star Trek 2 has wrapped. If you check out his Twitter pics here you'll see more pics, many of him, Simon Pegg, Benedict Cumberbatch and Chris Pine hanging out in various locations and occasionally a few fans. Star Trek 2 hits theaters on May 17, 2013. [source] Roman Polanski will direct D as his next project. Written by Robert Harris, the film centers on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish officers on the General Staff of the French Army, who in December 1894 was subjected to a secret court martial for passing secrets to the Germans. Found guilty, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Devil's Island. The independently financed film will begin casting shortly and currently plans to be in production in Paris by the end of this year. Lionsgate/Summit International will represent the film's international sales. »
- Brad Brevet
Kristen Stewart Did 'On The Road' For The Price Of A Beatles Song On 'Mad Men' & More About The Walter Salles Adaptation
10 May 2012 6:03 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The long, difficult journey from page to screen for Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" has been well-documented over the years, and one thing that has been consistent throughout is the passion and love evinced for the novel by all involved --particularly the godfather of it all, Francis Ford Coppola, who acquired the novel's rights back in 1978 at the height of his success.
Now, fifty-one years after the novel was first published, we're on the eve of the film adaptation's unveiling at the Cannes Film Festival. Little word has spilled about the final product, however, the cast and crew's experience is seemingly personified (for better or worse) by an email sent by Walters Salles when things had wrapped, which explained that "being in a movie is like being in a war: when you come back home, it is difficult to tell that story to others."
Perhaps most indicative of just »
- Simon Dang
Jean Luc-Godard's 'Goodbye To Language 3D' Currently Shooting, Will Have A Talking Dog Or Something
9 May 2012 9:17 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While Jean-Luc Godard's most recent effort, 2010's "Film Socialisme," wasn't met with the warmest of receptions, that hasn't put off the legendary French director. That came after a six-year gap, but Godard is reportedly already in production on his latest, titled "Goodbye To Language 3D," and according to the production company Wild Bunch he'll be shooting in 3D. Could this be the arthouse alternative to "Hugo"?
Godard has gone on the record expressing his interest in 3D in the past, saying that he likes "when new techniques are introduced" because "it doesn't have any rules yet." The cast is made up of entirely French actors (Heloise Godet, Zoe Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier and Jessica Erickson), and while there's no official synopsis -- not that it would help -- this one seems to be taking the themes of "Film Socialisme" (which featured fractured, limited captions) to the next logical step. »
- Joe Cunningham
Jean-Luc Godard Shooting Next Film In 3D; First Poster and Cast Assemble
8 May 2012 1:33 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Coming off the divisive Film Socialisme, French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard is not simply resting on his laurels. The Breathless director is already in production in his next film, titled Goodbye to Language and the production company Wild Bunch have revealed the currently shooting film will be in 3D, along with information on the cast and first sales poster for the film they’re taking to the Cannes market.
The cast is made up of French actors Héloise Godet, Zoe Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier and Jessica Erickson. While there is no official synopsis, Godard previously expressed interest in 3D back in 2010, saying he likes “when new techniques are introduced. Because it doesn’t have any rules yet.” He went on to say this film will be about ”a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Review: Elles - Fifty Shades of Binoche?
28 April 2012 3:55 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Jean-Luc Godard made Vivre Sa Vie in 1962, at the relative beginning of his feature film career as a French New Wave icon and cinema provocateur. It stars his then-wife, the beautiful Anna Karina, as a Paris hooker who famously "sells her body but not her soul." As this hails from Godard's insanely prolific "cinephile period", it's no stretch to acknowledge that premise the stuff of silver screen fantasy. He walks the line between objectification and awe as he lovingly lingers on shots of Karina's face, her hair, her essence. She is alive' vibrant through and through. A creature of pure romanticism. Naturally, one would do well to think twice before considering this an authentic portrait of a typical French prostitute, but this is »
2012 Migrating Forms: Official Lineup
26 April 2012 10:23 AM, PDT | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
The fourth annual Migrating Forms media festival, which will run May 11-20 at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, is a compelling mix of political films, pop culture explorations, ethnographic exposés and collections of new media art.
The fest begins and ends with political films directed and curated by Eric Baudelaire. His latest work, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images, opens the festival on May 11; while a pair of films – Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu’s Red Army/Pflp: Declaration of World War and The Dziga Vertov Group’s Ici et Ailleurs closes it on May 20.
Some of the special events sprinkled throughout the event include Ed Halter‘s survey of faux experimental films made for mainstream movies and TV shows that should prove to be an amazingly entertaining and enlightening discussion; a retrospective of the highly influential animation by Chuck Jones; the interactive »
- Mike Everleth
Daily Briefing. Hitchcock, Borzage, Ozu, More
24 April 2012 1:42 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Farley Granger "didn't fear the homoerotic subtext of either of the films he did for Hitchcock," writes Farran Nehme in the run-up to the For the Love of Film III Blogathon. "Mind you, in his autobiography Granger says he spent years disappointing critics and interviewers when asked about discussions with Hitchcock about just what was going on between Rope's two main characters: 'What discussions? It was 1948.' That didn't mean, though, that Granger himself and co-star John Dall were clueless." And as for Strangers on a Train (1951): "Given a role of ambiguous morality, he increases the questions about the character, rather than trying to emphasize the good-Guy qualities."
Charles Lyons for Filmmaker on Annette Insdorf's Philip Kaufman: "The first book-length assessment of Kaufman's oeuvre, which will reach 14 films when Hemingway and Gellhorn premieres on HBO in May [it also screens Out of Competition at Cannes], Philip Kaufman is a shrewd and very readable study. »
Rolling Stones’ Recording of ‘Exile on Main St.’ Getting Narrative Treatment
23 April 2012 12:21 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
The Rolling Stones are no strangers to film, be it powerful uses of their music in the films of Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Terry Gilliam, or their own presence in, among others, Gimme Shelter and Jean-Luc Godard‘s essay-like Sympathy for the Devil. But, though Mad Men flirted with a direct onscreen portrayal just a few weeks back, the project at hand might be their first onscreen appearance in a (slightly) fictional capacity.
Deadline reports that Richard Branson and his film arm, Virgin Produced, have landed film rights to Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, Robert Greenfield‘s recount of the recording process behind their legendary 1972 album, Exile on Main St. Like that tome, the untitled movie — set to be scripted by Phil and Brandon Murphy — shines a light (get over it) on “the professional and personal relationship between head Stones Mick Jagger »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Susan Sontag and the Yom Kippur war
23 April 2012 1:04 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In 1973, Susan Sontag travelled to post-war Israel to film a documentary. As Promised Lands returns to the big screen, Steve Rose finds out how the movie holds up today
Did Susan Sontag enjoy making Promised Lands, her fragmented documentary about the 1973 Yom Kippur war? Shortly after its completion, and its less than enthusiastic reception, she wrote: "Film-making is nitpicking, anxiety, fights, claustrophobia, exhaustion, euphoria. Film-making is catching inspiration out on the wing. Film-making is flubbing the catch, and sometimes knowing the fool that's to blame is yourself. Film-making is blind instinct, petty calculations, smooth generalship, daydreaming, pigheadedness, grace, bluff, risk."
It can't have been easy for her. Sontag, who died in 2004, was best known as the "dark lady of American letters", the producer of influential essays, novels, short stories and plays. But in writing so authoritatively about culture, photography and every aspect of cinema, from sci-fi to the nouvelle vague, »
- Steve Rose
Robert Bresson's "The Devil, Probably"
21 April 2012 5:01 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"The Devil, Probably [1977], one of the great Robert Bresson's greatest, and least-seen, movies gets a week-long run (April 20-26) in the midst of BAMcinématek's Bresson retrospective — resplendent in a new 35mm print and hailed by no less an authority than Richard Hell as 'the most punk movie ever made.'" J Hoberman for Artinfo: "Like all Bresson's movies, The Devil, Probably is a drama of faith so formally rigorous and uncompromising as to border on the absurd — a Dostoyevskian story of a tormented soul presented in the stylized manner of a medieval illumination. At once chic and austere, The Devil, Probably is a generic youth movie set in a Parisian student milieu where long-haired panhandlers play their bongos by the Seine while sinister nihilists mock religion by planting pornographic photos in church documents. Opening with a newspaper headline (Youth Kills Self In PÈRE Lachaise Cemetery), it unfolds in flashback »
The Films Of Robert Bresson: A Retrospective
18 April 2012 10:40 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
“We are still coming to terms with Robert Bresson, and the peculiar power and beauty of his films,” Martin Scorsese said in the 2010 book “A Passion For Film,” describing the often overlooked French filmmaker as “one of the cinema’s greatest artists.”
But while he may be revered by some as the finest French filmmaker bar Jean Renoir, outside hardcore cinephile circles he and his films are virtually unknown (perhaps regarded as too opaque or nebulous). Just consider the fact that almost every definitive book on the elusive director was published during the aughts to feel the full truth of Scorsese's statement about how we're still in the process of appreciating and understanding his life and work. Even Bresson’s actual birthdate is contested, adding further the ambiguities surrounding the director.
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen,” the meticulous Bresson once famously said, hinting at »
- The Playlist
5 Things You May Not Know About Douglas Sirk's 'Imitation Of Life,' 53 Years Since Since It Was First Released
17 April 2012 7:02 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The Oscar-winning success of last year's "The Help" was a throwback in many ways, principally to the socially-conscious melodramas of Stanley Kramer, like "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." Another comparison point that came up frequently in reviews of Tate Taylor's film was "Imitation Of Life," the 1959 film by director Douglas Sirk, but it's scarcely fair: over fifty years on, Sirk's picture stands head and shoulders above virtually every other melodrama.
The story follows widow and aspiring actress Lora (Lana Turner), whose daughter Susie goes missing at the beach, and is found by an African-American divorcee, Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), there with her own light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane. The two become friends, Lora taking Annie in as a housekeeper, and Annie's care helping Lora achieve her dream of becoming a Broadway star. Eleven years later, however, their children have grown up, and Susie (Sandra Dee) develops a crush on her mother's boyfriend Steve, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
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