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10 articles from 2009

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Sophie Barthes' Top Ten Films of All Time

6 July 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (interview with filmmaker with an upcoming theatrical release), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month, Sophie Barthes (the filmmaker behind Cold Souls - Samuel Goldwyn Films 08/07/2009) gave her top ten as of July 2009. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)"Watching Cléo from 5 to 7 is like strolling for a day in Paris in the summer. This film is so charming in its simplicity and it’s beautifully shot. It goes from light and frivolous moments to extremely moving sequences. Another poetic and powerful insight in the feminine psyche." The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)"I love the story and its execution. It’s a fascinating character study. The production design and locations are incredible. A happy marriage between cinema and architecture.

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The Conformist: Godard Meets Freud

16 June 2009 12:17 AM, PDT | From DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970) is everything that a viewer could ask for - a great story, interesting characters, stylish visuals and a purely cinematic language to convey them all. Using images that possess the judiciousness of a Tati, meaning of an Antonioni and elegance of an Ophuls, Bertolucci, not even 30 at that time, conjures up a film of both high mojo-quotient and long "shelf-life". Evidently inspiring The Godfather series, The Conformist is the kind of film that persuades you to understand what the difference between direction and visual illustration is.

Srikanth Srinivasan

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iReel Gets Real With Major Releases

6 June 2009 9:16 AM, PDT | From HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news

iReel is a new web-based streaming VOD, Svod, Dto service, offering HD movies viewable directly from a special player on site. The iReel service, available in Canada and the Us, is noted as the only online movie service that does not require a downloadable player. With no cost to join, film content includes major studio, classic and independent features, with a "focus on ease of use and high quality..." This week's major studio iReel pick is Revolutionary Road , directed by Sam "American Beauty" Mendes, starring actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet of Titanic fame. Screenplay by Justin Haythe is based on the 1961 novel by author Richard Yates, set in 1955, following 'Frank' (Leonardo DiCaprio) and 'April Wheeler '(Kate Winslet) as they move to 'Revolutionary Road' located in one of New York City's wealthiest Connecticut suburbs, where they live a life, raise a family and challenge each other with bitter arguments and physical abuse.

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Takashi Miike's Samurai Film 'Thirteen Assassins' Gets a Greenlight

11 May 2009 6:38 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Beloved cult Japanese director Takashi Miike has gotten the funding and producers needed to finally make Thirteen Assassins, his samurai film. Based on Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name, the film is set in the shogun era and follows 13 assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. Producers Jeremy Thomas and Toshiaki Nakazawa are teaming up to fund and produce the project, both of whom have a glowing background. Nakazawa produced this year's foreign language film Oscar winner Departures, Thomas produced Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which also won Best Picture. For those unfamiliar with Miike, the filmmaker broke into the cult side of things here in the Us with crazy films like Audition, Dead or Alive, Ichi the Killer, and the original One Missed Call. He most recently directed the spaghetti western Sukiyaki Western Django, that Quentin Tarantino had a cameo in,

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Alex Billington

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Blu-Ray Review: Criterion Continues Blu-Ray Expansion With Pair of Truffaut Classics

26 March 2009 1:20 PM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0 Chicago – The Criterion Collection continues its foray into the world of HD with one of the most beloved directors of all time, taking a film already in the collection and giving it the HD treatment while simultaneously releasing a new edition of one of his later films. The legend is Francois Truffaut and the films are “The 400 Blows” and “The Last Metro”.

The “continuing series of important classic and contemporary films” has long-included “The 400 Blows” but this marks the first time that the film has been available on Blu-Ray. Criterion just started doing Blu-Ray and they are wisely alternating bringing some of their most popular films to the format along with issuing new releases on it.

The 400 Blows was released on Blu-Ray on March 24th, 2009.

Photo credit: Courtesy of the Criterion Collection

“The 400 Blows” is actually Truffaut’s first film. Released in 1959, this classic

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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Producer Shepherd Dies

11 March 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Film producer Peter Shepherd has died at the age of 68.

The filmmaker and writer passed away of an aneurysm on 18 February, in Normandy, France.

British-born Shepherd began his career as an assistant director on Italian films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, before he moved on to write and produce the 1981 horror movie There Was A Little Girl.

He also served as producer on the film Desperate Moves, the TV series Tequila and Bonetti as well as the 1997 biopic Mother Teresa: In The Name Of God's Poor.

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Producer Bellville Dies

24 February 2009 8:10 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Roman Polanski's movie producer pal Hercules Bellville has died after losing his battle with cancer at the age of 69.

The star, who suffered a relapse in his fight against the disease at the start of this year, passed away in London on Saturday.

Bellville served closely as producer to directors like Polanski, Bernardo Bertolucci and Michelangelo Antonioni, and was considered to be producer Jeremy Thomas' right hand man for many years.

He scored his big break in 1964 at the age of 24, when he met Polanski on the eve of making the film Repulsion.

Although initially hired as a runner for Polanski, with whom he worked for over a decade, Bellville would eventually go on to become a well-known figure on the European and American film circuits, working on movies like 1975's The Passenger and 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice.

His more recent projects include 2000's Sexy Beast and 2003's The Dreamers.

Bellville is survived by his wife Ilana Shulman, whom he married just 48 hours before his death.

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Tanovic Joins the 'Cirkus'

9 February 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- No Man's Land was a satire on how people had the ability to lose focus, Danis Tanovic's explores the same problem with his upcoming next project currently being pre-sold by The Match Factory in Berlin. An adaptation of the debut novel by Croatian journalist Ivica Djikic, Cirkus Columbia will look at the new rise of nationalism and facism in Bosnia. This would mark the first time the filmmaker shoots in his own backyard. Shooting will being in June. Tanovic recently finished shooting Triage with Colin Farrell (look for the film to make it into Cannes). Tanovic told Screen Daily that the novel "reminded him of Novecento (1900) by Bernardo Bertolucci--  "which is about the beginning of the (last) century whereas this book is talking about the end of the century in the Balkans. It almost seems that the book was written to be filmed because it is so visual.

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Being Sexy Embarrasses Emma Watson

2 February 2009 7:20 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Though her Harry Potter costar Daniel Radcliffe has bared all in London and New York stage productions of Equus, Hermione Granger is content to remain the clean-cut belle of Hogwarts. "I have no plans to do anything for the sake of it, or to shock people," the actress, 18, tells the U.K.'s Mail on Sunday's Live magazine. "I might be willing to take my clothes off for a Bernardo Bertolucci film, if it was a part that really made sense as part of my character. But I wouldn't do it just to make a point, to move on from Hermione.

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Simon Perry

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Blu-ray Review: The Last Emperor (The Criterion Collection)

5 January 2009 2:26 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

An Italian film director sets out to recreate an epic Chinese story as an independent film and entirely in English and goes on to win nine Oscars. Sound unlikely? Well, in most cases it probably would be, but Bernardo Bertolucci did just that with The Last Emperor in 1987 as he set out to tell the story of a 3-year-old boy who became Emperor of China with 400 million people as his subjects on an unlikely path to becoming a gardener in Peking. The success of the film is almost as unimaginable as the story behind it and Criterion has set out to ensure you know Everything there is to know about this movie and its place in history with a Blu-ray edition that takes three (of the four) DVDs worth of material and places it all on one disc. Speak ill of the high-definition format no more as the thought of

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Brad Brevet

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10 articles from 2009

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