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The Forgotten: Stain-Resistant
2 May 2012 6:08 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi deserves attention. His chic revenger's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971) is one possible way in: you get Charlotte Rampling, an Ennio Morricone score that's just a Jacobean riff on his spaghetti western stylings, lashings of sex and gore, and a design sensibility which pays some kind of lip service to period while being deliriously seventies at all times, so that it would not be too surprising if Oliver Tobias donned a set of sixteenth century tinted shades, or a tie-dyed doublet.
An alternative entry point is Identikit (1974), Aka The Driver's Seat, from the novel of that name by Muriel Spark. It's the tale of a mysterious woman wandering through a nameless city, hoping to rendezvous with "a friend" whom she's apparently never met. In a parallel plot thread, apparently taking place a day or two later, the police are interrogating everyone she's come into contact with. »
Can Cannes keep on top?
19 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Cannes, which has announced its 2012 line-up, has some serious competition. As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuit
It has been a quiet few months on the film festival front. The last two biggies, Sundance and Berlin, were back in the depths of winter; but now things are suddenly getting interesting. Tribeca, the New York trendoid-magnet, has just started, and Cannes, the swanky Cote d'Azur schmoozathon, has reared its finely contoured head on the horizon. The UK is even getting in on the action, with the much-anticipated arrival next week of Sundance London, an offshoot of Robert Redford's indie-maven event in Park City, Utah.
Sundance London is an example of that industry buzzword "diffusion", whereby name events set up franchises overseas. Tribeca has been doing it since 2009 in Qatar, co-organising the Doha film festival. It's a byproduct of »
- Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard, Andrew Pulver, Wim Wenders
Why 'Littlerock' Tops This Week's 5 Blu-ray/DVD Picks
10 April 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
This week on Blu-ray/DVD: An award-winning breakout from the 2010 festival circuit; a revealing portrait of the iconic Charlotte Rampling; one of the most controversial films to play at last year's Cannes Film Festival; the biopic that won Meryl Streep her third Oscar; and the latest from Werner Herzog. #1. Critic's Pick: "Littlerock" Mike Ott's sophomore feature "Littlerock" (he made his debut with "Analog Days") was a hit on the 2010 film festival circuit, culminating in wins at the Gothams and Independent Spirt Awards. The quietly engaging, bittersweet film follows two Japanese youth (Rintaro Sawamoto and co-screenwriter Atsuko Okatsuka) stuck in a dead-end California town, coping with insurmountable language barriers. "Romance happens. Hearts get broken," Eric Kohn wrote in his review. "With a light, endearing touch, Ott navigates between the perspectives of the Japanese characters and their »
- Nigel M Smith
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Charlotte Rampling: 'I've lived with fear all my life'
7 April 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | The Independent | See recent The Independent news »
It was Dirk Bogarde who famously christened Charlotte Rampling's ice-cool gaze "the look". Even now, at 66, she has a way of transfixing you with a Medusa-like stare and sly smile that have bewitched so many men (her Stardust Memories director Woody Allen declared her "the ideal woman"). Today, she's hiding her glances behind a pair of designer sunglasses. I feel almost denied, until she removes them to reveal those feline eyes. »
Catch-up TV Guide: From Wtf to Firefly
6 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Podcast: Wtf
With the news that Marc Maron's reliably excellent interview-based podcast is being turned into a Curb Your Enthusiasm-style sitcom, it's worth having a rummage through the archives. Recent highlights include an in-depth chat with Portlandia creator and Wild Flag star Carrie Brownstein (pictured) on vegetarianism, Michael Cera on the Arrested Development film and Molly Shannon on Saturday Night Live.
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TV: Scott & Bailey
We're at the halfway point of the second run, and you can catch the series to date on the ITV Player until Monday. Though it started shakily, this cop-buddy-drama-com has really settled in this time around, with some zingy lines, a decent sense of plot and a healthy dose of scene-stealing from Amelia Bullmore (Alan Partridge, Jam, Twenty Twelve).
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He's back on Channel 4 this week with the odd comedy-drama Derek, but here's a chance to see »
- Rebecca Nicholson
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Charlotte Rampling: The Look
3 April 2012 10:05 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 10, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
The 2011 documentary film The Look focuses its eye on the brains and beauty of French actress Charlotte Rampling (Never Let Me Go).
Director Angelina Maccarone’s method finds Rampling engaging in candid conversations with many of her closest friends, including author Paul Auster and photographer Juergen Teller. Very much at ease with these old acquaintances, Rampling reveals her views on aging, beauty, desire and death with disarming frankness. Often these conversations veer into the questions raised by her films, like the taboo sexuality of The Night Porter (1974) and Max mon Amour (1986), or the tough moral choices of Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict (1982).
Featuring a number of clips from Rampling’s films (including Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories and Francois Ozon’s Swimming Pool), The Look played a limited run in a couple of U.S. theaters in November, 2011.
The Look is presented in English, »
- Laurence
Nd/Nf 2012. Ginzburg, Nikonova, Cortlund + Julia Halperin, Brügger, Landes
29 March 2012 1:53 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
First, indieWIRE's Eric Kohn hosted a "Meet the New Directors" panel at the Film Society of Lincoln Center earlier this week and you can watch it here. It runs 63'12" and the guests are Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin (Now, Forager); Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (5 Broken Cameras); Adam Leon (Gimme the Loot); Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighboring Sounds); Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty); Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat); Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st); and Clarissa Knoll (Street Vendor Cinema).
And the Fslc has posted separate Q&A sessions with Leon (Gimme), Pablo Giorgelli (Las Acacias) and Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption), all on one page.
Meantime, we've entered the home stretch. New Directors/New Films rolls on through the weekend and closes on Sunday night with a surprise — whatever it may be, it'll probably rank a roundup of its own. That aside, here's where we wrap it up. »
Blu-ray Review: Gorgeous Transfer For Lars Von Trier’s Incredible ‘Melancholia’
22 March 2012 2:29 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Lars Von Trier’s incredible “Melancholia” gets better both in memory and on repeat viewing, especially with a pristine, jaw-dropping transfer like the one granted it by Magnolia on their recently-released Blu-ray. It may have been left out of all Academy Award categories but this was easily one of the best movies of last year. And the few before that as well. Most people missed it in theaters. Catch up on Blu-ray.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Split evenly into two halves, the first fifty percent of “Melancholia” takes place at the wedding of Justine (Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard). What should be one of the happiest days of Justine’s life is presented not as a total disaster but as the story of someone increasingly aware that one is looming on the horizon. Through dialogue, we learn that Justine has dealt with the darkness of depression in the past and it seems like, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Director Fred Schepisi to Receive Vanguard Award at Vail Film Festival
20 March 2012 2:54 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Director Fred Schepisi will be honored with the Vail Film Festival’s Vanguard Award, while Krysten Ritter, who plays a lead role in the Starz series Gravity, has been chosen to receive the festival’s Excellence in Acting Award. The festival, which runs from March 29 to April 1 in Vail, Colorado, will present the honores at its awards ceremony on its closing night. Schepisi, whose credits include Six Degrees of Separation and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, most recently directed The Eye of the Storm, starring Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis. The film, which will be released in the
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- Gregg Kilday
SXSW '12 Interview: Guy Maddin Talks Making 100 Short Films In 100 Days In Four Countries With Current Project 'Spiritismes'
16 March 2012 1:04 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
If you've been at a film festival at the last few months, chances are you've bumped into Guy Maddin. The idiosyncratic Canadian director of "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs," "The Saddest Music In the World" and "My Winnipeg" has a new film, the offbeat haunted house tale "Keyhole" starring Jason Patric and Isabella Rossellini. And he's been on the festival circuit in a big way, debuting the film at Tiff (read our review from there), before heading to Halifax's Atlantic Film Festival, and then last month in Berlin (where we interviewed the director) before landing in the last week at SXSW.
We were able to talk to the filmmaker in Austin about the project, as well as what he's working on at the moment, an intriguing-sounding tribute to lost cinema named "Spiritismes." Maddin told us,"I just wrapped the first stage of an insanely over-ambitious project, the first eighteen days »
- Oliver Lyttelton
RiverRun Festival Announces Full Line-Up
13 March 2012 10:28 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The RiverRun International Film Festival has announced the full line-up for its 14th edition, which will run April 13-22. The festival will open with the Broadway documentary "One Night Stand" and close with Fred Schepsisi's "The Eye of the Storm," starring Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, and Judy Davis. Highlights include Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Elena," Ira Sachs's "Keep the Lights On," Philippe Falardeau's "Monsieur Lazhar" and Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights." Full press release reprinted below: Winston-salem, North Carolina – The RiverRun International Film Festival today announced the full lineup of films for the 14th annual Festival, running April 13-22, 2012. This year RiverRun will screen 140 films, which includes 59 features and 81 shorts. “We’ve put together a fantastic lineup of films for this year’s Festival, ranging from hysterically funny »
- Austin Dale
Contest: Melancholia (2011) Blu-ray: Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst
13 March 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Melancholia Contest Giveaway Sweepstakes. This Melancholia Blu-ray contest, giveaway, sweepstakes illustrates Melancholia‘s release on DVD and Blu-ray on March 13, 2012. Lars von Trier‘s Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling. Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård Melancholia photo: Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Melancholia Melancholia‘s plot synopsis: “Justine, a woman suffering from an extreme case of clinical [...]Continue reading: Contest: Melancholia (2011) Blu-ray: Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst »
- R.W.
Cleanskin Review: Brutal, Sombre Thriller That Doesn’t Quite Add Up To The Sum Of Its Parts
12 March 2012 2:25 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
It’s all in the edit they say, and having taken on the roles of writer, director, and producer, perhaps Hadi Hajaig, the man behind terrorism thriller Cleanskin, should have handed the reins of editor to someone else. Because buried within the somewhat messy cut we’re presented with is a more cohesive, and ultimately clearer film waiting to escape.
There are numerous illogical leaps and sequential mis-steps that create a mood of unreality at the very points that the story is trying to impress us with it’s hard-edged grit, and the inconsistent pacing from gratifyingly effective action to flashbacks that would try the patience of Basil Exposition leave you ultimately either questioning the story-tellers nous, or even more damning, wondering when the story’s going to end.
Hadi Hajaig’s professed intention was to make a commercial action thriller, a piece of populist genre entertainment, »
- Mark Clark
This week's new films
9 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
John Carter (12A)
(Andrew Stanton, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds. 132 mins
Despite the technological might of Pixar, this Martian epic still feels closer to retro fare such as Flash Gordon or Dune. It's a cumbersome hero's journey fully of silly names, skimpy costumes and princesses in peril – stuff we've seen recycled so many times since Edgar Rice Burroughs first wrote this, it now feels laughably quaint. Still, it's always fun to see an expensively rendered alien world, even if cheesy myth-making comes with the territory.
Trishna (15)
(Michael Winterbottom, 2011, UK) Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth. 113 mins
Hardy's Tess looks a comfortable fit with modern-day India in this naturalistic drama, which takes liberties with the text but finds new resonances, as Pinto's subdued villager struggles to find happiness with a wealthy young British-Indian.
The Raven (15)
(James McTeigue, 2012, Us) John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans. »
- Steve Rose
'Eye of the Storm' to Open Vail Film Fest
7 March 2012 9:09 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The 2012 Vail Film Festival will kick off on March 29th with the U.S. premiere of Fred Schepisi's family drama "The Eye of the Storm" starring Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis. The festival will close April 1st with Kat Coiro's comedy "L!fe Happens" starring Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth and Rachel Bilson. Also screening will be Blayne Weaver's "6 Month Rule," Adam and Mark Kassen's "Puncture" and Xan Aranda's "Andrew Bird: Fever Year." Currently, 58 films are scheduled to show at this year's festival, including 20 feature-length films and 38 shorts, student, adventure and animated films. Full press release and line-up below: 2012 Vail Film Festival Announces Film Program Line-Up Includes 58 Films From Around the World, Including the U.S. Premiere of ‘The Eye of the Storm.’ Vail, Co., March 6, 2012 – The 2012 Vail Film Festival »
- Devin Lee Fuller
DVD Playhouse--March 2012
6 March 2012 9:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Cleanskin (2012): First Five (5) Minutes Movie Clip: Sean Bean
6 March 2012 8:29 AM, PST | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Cleanskin First Five Minutes Clip. Hadi Hajaig‘s Cleanskin (2012) first five (5) minute movie clip stars Sean Bean, Abhin Galeya, Charlotte Rampling, Peter Polycarpou, and Tuppence Middleton. Cleanskin‘s plot synopsis: ” Sean Bean, who plays Ewan, a Secret Service Agent working undercover in the criminal underbelly of London. His mission is to pose as the body guard of a small time arms dealer and discover who he is selling the Semtex to.
However, when they are brazenly ambushed by a masked gunman in a West End hotel lobby, Ewan is shot and wounded and the dealer assassinated. The Semtex is stolen.
Days later, a suicide bomber detonates himself inside a busy London restaurant and the Secret Services worse fears are confirmed — the stolen Semtex was used in the bombing. There is a terrorist cell operating in London, hell bent on bringing death and destruction to the nation’s capital. Briefed by »
- R.W.
Daily Briefing. Hong Sang-soo, Claude Lanzmann, Josef von Sternberg, Pierre Étaix…
4 March 2012 7:41 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
In the new March 2012 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Colin Beckett previews a "five-film retrospective sampler" of work by Hong Sang-soo running at the Museum of the Moving Image from March 17 through 23: "Wherever his characters go, be it Paris or a Korean resort town, they do the same things: arrange themselves in complicated love triangles, treat others poorly, drink too much, then treat each other even worse. His deliberately artificial camera movements — long pans back and forth, and half-motivated zooms, mostly — treat real space the way a camera usually approaches a photograph or a painting: flattening it, drawing horizontal and diagonal lines to map its elements. He is concerned with atmosphere in the literal sense: the particular qualities of light and air in the types of spaces to which he obsessively returns: beaches, restaurants, apartments."
Hong's Tale of Cinema (2005) is not one of the five (which, by the way, »
CleanSkin review
2 March 2012 2:04 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Sean Bean brings his brooding charisma to CleanSkin, a drama thriller about terrorist attacks in the UK. Here’s Ryan’s review…
CleanSkin is the name given to a type of terrorist who works alone, without connections to overseas organisations. By a vaguely similar token, CleanSkin the movie is an action thriller drama made by UK independent filmmakers without the big money financing of overseas producers. And regrettably, its low-budget, independent status is frequently apparent.
Sean Bean stars as Ewan, a government agent who specialises in breaking arms and murdering people at close quarters. The death of his wife during an unspecified terrorist attack has left him with an almighty chip on his shoulder, which is something high-ranking, chain-smoking official Charlotte (played by Charlotte Rampling) exploits perfectly when a suitcase full of Semtex is stolen by a group of British terrorists. Ewan is paired with young agent Mark (Tom Burke »
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