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Cannes 2013. Gods and Men: A Conversation with Alain Guiraudie
21 May 2013 4:34 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake, which played in the Un Certain Regard section at the 66th Cannes Film Festival and which Mubi's Adam Cook has written about here, remains one of the early stand-out titles. Set in and around a southern French gay cruising spot that's situated on the banks of a lake, the film charts the romantic intrigues of a disparate group of men whose rampant lust and desire transport them to strange and dangerous places. Recalling Jarman and Fassbinder as much as more classical French dramatists such as Éric Rohmer, this is Guiraudie's sixth feature film.
David Jenkins: What were the literary and cinematic inspirations for Stranger by the Lake?
Alain Guiraudie: I'm not sure I had any direct cinematic influences, but before I wrote it I re-read Jean Genet's Querelle and also re-watched the film by Fassbinder. It was more to make »
- David Jenkins
Cannes Film Festival 2013: 'Jeune et Jolie' review
16 May 2013 4:06 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★☆☆ After a 10-year break from Cannes, French director François Ozon returns to the Croisette this year with Palme d'Or nominee Jeune et Jolie (Young & Beautiful, 2013), a stylish, well-crafted and intelligent character study of a young woman coming of age through the space of four seasons and to the soundtrack of four significant songs. Marine Vacth plays Isabelle, a 17-year-old of stunning beauty, enjoying a summer beach holiday with her family and family's friends. A romance with a young German boy leads to her first sexual experience, but she is almost immediately detached from any emotional reaction to what has happened.
As summer cuts to autumn, we find Isabelle using her new-found sexuality (and her matter-of-fact acceptance of it) to earn money via prostitution. There's no real economic need - a 'crisis' serves as a good cover story - nor does she seem to actually enjoy the sex. Rather, like Joseph Kessel's Belle de Jour, »
- CineVue UK
Cannes Honcho Thierry Fremaux Is Hollywood’s Inside Man
13 May 2013 7:57 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
When Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” raises the curtain on the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, it will serve, among other things, as an indication that the love affair between the festival and Hollywood is alive and well — much more than the last time Luhrmann opened Cannes, 12 years ago, with “Moulin Rouge.” Back then, relations between Cannes and Tinseltown had hit something of a low, with few studio films of the late ’90s making the trek to the Croisette (“Beyond Rangoon,” anyone?). When he joined Cannes in 2001, festival director Thierry Fremaux was immediately tasked by fest president Gilles Jacob with a peacemaking mission to the West Coast, and the decade since has been one of the richest for le cinema Americain on the Riviera — even if the biggest Cannes-launched Oscar winner of recent years was a French production: “The Artist.”
As opening night draws near, I asked Fremaux to reflect on »
- Scott Foundas
DVD Review: 'I Wish'
30 April 2013 3:07 PM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ Anyone even vaguely familiar with Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will know of his astute ability to excavate the emotions at the core of family life. His tenth feature, I Wish (Kiseki, 2011), feels a lot like a follow-up to Nobody Knows (2004) in which he tells of a young boy who cares for his siblings after their mother apparently deserts them. Here, he casts real-life brothers Koki and Ohshirô Maeda as Koichi and Ryunosuke who are split up after their parents separate. When Koichi overhears the plans for a new bullet train, he becomes convinced of the rumour that when the two trains pass each other, a raw bolt of energy will manifest and grant wishes.
The first act is very mindful and deliberate. Koichi ponders the significance of the erupted volcano that steals the horizon, asking why everyone is so calm when ash is falling from the sky. He quietly attends »
- CineVue UK
Rosario Dawson, Chris Rock team up for untitled comedy
24 April 2013 10:59 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Rosario Dawson will join Chris Rock on his untitled comedy.
The Trance actress will star in Rock's third outing as a writer-director, reports Deadline.
He will also star in the movie, which will be set in New York.
The plot details of the "edgy, showbiz-themed comedy" are yet to be revealed.
Rock's previous films were 2003's Head of State and 2007's I Think I Love My Wife, a remake of Eric Rohmer's French film.
Dawson was most recently seen in Danny Boyle's Trance and will next reprise her role as Gail in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
The film will begin shooting in June.
Watch the red band trailer for Trance below: »
Rosario Dawson and Chris Rock Team for Untitled Comedy
24 April 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Chris Rock has signed Rosario Dawson to play the female lead in his upcoming untitled comedy, which marks his third feature film as writer-director. Deadline has the news and, while plot details are not yet available, they note that the film takes place in New York City and pokes some fun at show business. Rock's previous writing and directing projects include 2003's Head of State and his 2007 remake of Eric Rohmer's Chloe in the Afternoon , I Think I Love My Wife . Dawson, meanwhile, recently starred in Danny Boyle's Trance and is set to reprise her role as Gail in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For . (Photo Credit: Ljt Images / Pnp / WENN.com) »
In the House – review
2 April 2013 8:21 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
François Ozon's clever psychological comedy about teaching and erotic obsession is his best work to date
The 45-year-old François Ozon has made a dozen feature-length films and several shorts over the past 15 years, and he has found a popular audience in France for stylish, sophisticated movies that often deal with gay themes. Unlike the work of most French mainstream directors, a fair proportion of his pictures have crossed the Channel. Moreover, he's worked with several prominent British actresses – most notably Charlotte Rampling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Romola Garai, the last named having appeared in his version of Elizabeth Taylor's novel Angel playing a romantic novelist in Edwardian England.
Ozon's new film, the teasing comedy In the House, touches on a number of his recurrent concerns, among them the nature of creativity and stories within stories, and it is, I think, his best work to date. Loosely based on »
- Philip French
François Ozon
28 March 2013 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
François Ozon's new film, In the House, looks set to be his international breakthrough. But has the erstwhile enfant terrible fallen for the bourgeois values he once satirised?
François Ozon has been knocking out roughly a film a year since the late 1990s: some camp and frivolous (Sitcom, Potiche), others intense (5x2, Time to Leave), each one zesty and provocative. Occasionally he will make something truly exceptional: Under the Sand, starring Charlotte Rampling as a woman falling apart after the disappearance of her husband, was rightly considered a masterpiece by the late Ingmar Bergman.
But though Ozon has had commercial success in France, he is still chasing the sort of career-changing international breakthrough on a par with, say, Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Michael Haneke's Hidden. If there is any justice, his new film In the House will change that. It's a witty, »
- Ryan Gilbey
'Wings Of Desire' & 'Downfall' Star Bruno Ganz Is The Pope...In Ridley Scott's Pilot 'The Vatican'
18 March 2013 1:33 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Over a storied and celebrated career, actor Bruno Ganz has logged time with a handful of famed filmmakers including Eric Rohmer, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and more, and is perhaps best known for his roles in international hits like "Wings Of Desire" (directed by the latter) and "Downfall." And now, it looks like he's found another role that could gain him all kinds of attention thanks to nothing more than some good timing. Ridley Scott has cast the actor in "The Vatican," the pilot he's directing for Showtime (he's also producing the series). Tackling the current hot button, headline grabbing topic of the Catholic Church, the show will center on Kyle Chandler's Cardinal Thomas Duffy, a charismatic and progessive Archbishop of New York, and the various political maneuverings within the halls of power. And it seems it will go all the way to Rome with Ganz to play the fictional Pope Sixtus, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
'Wings Of Desire' & 'Downfall' Star Bruno Ganz Is The Pope...In Ridley Scott's Pilot 'The Vatican'
18 March 2013 1:33 PM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Over a storied and celebrated career, actor Bruno Ganz has logged time with a handful of famed filmmakers including Eric Rohmer, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and more, and is perhaps best known for his roles in international hits like "Wings Of Desire" (directed by the latter) and "Downfall." And now, it looks like he's found another role that could gain him all kinds of attention thanks to nothing more than some good timing. Ridley Scott has cast the actor in "The Vatican," the pilot he's directing for Showtime (he's also producing the series). Tackling the current hot button, headline grabbing topic of the Catholic Church, the show will center on Kyle Chandler's Cardinal Thomas Duffy, a charismatic and progessive Archbishop of New York, and the various political maneuverings within the halls of power. And it seems it will go all the way to Rome with Ganz to play the fictional Pope Sixtus, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Filmmakers You Should Know: Dan Sallitt, America's Indie Answer to Eric Rohmer
28 February 2013 9:28 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
While widely acclaimed filmmakers like Richard Linklater and Quentin Tarantino routinely smuggle European influences into their work, the under-seen director Dan Sallitt does it in subtler fashion. A New York-based critic who has made four impressive features in a span of 26 years, Sallitt's subdued approach to compelling drama in contained scenarios reflects a cinephile's eye. Rather than paying outright homage, Sallitt channels some of his favorite directors into the texture of his narratives. The most obvious precedent for Sallitt's filmmaking is French New Wave figure Eric Rohmer, to whom he dedicates his latest and best movie, "The Unspeakable Act," opening at New York's Anthology Film Archives this week ahead of a DVD/VOD release through Cinema Guild this summer. Along with the theatrical premiere of "The Unspeakable Act," Anthology is also featuring a retrospective of Sallitt's earlier movies, providing an ideal opportunity to put this distinctive cinematic voice in the. »
- Eric Kohn
7 Great Criterion Films Featuring the Stars of ‘Amour’
25 February 2013 7:00 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Michael Haneke’s much-lauded Amour, which won Best Foreign Language Film last night at the Oscars, has at its center two powerhouses of modern European art cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest woman ever to be nominated for an acting Oscar. The two central faces of Amour, here aged and frail, have graced screens realized by the visions of master filmmakers like Alain Resnais, Eric Rohmer, Costa-Gavras, Krysztof Keislowski, Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Franju, and Bernardo Bertolucci among others. It’s fitting that Haneke picked Trintignant and Riva to make a film about aging, for these are two performers that can be seen aging and changing on celluloid through decades of incredible work. In some ways, it’s hard to imagine European art cinema, in its many transformations, without these two faces. Here are a few of their key performances in The Criterion Collection… Emmanuelle Riva Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais 1959) That other amour, Resnais »
- Landon Palmer
Vic + Flo Saw A Bear: Berlin Review
10 February 2013 1:00 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Berlin – The lesbian tough gals who used to be behind bars in 1970s exploitation movies are on the outside in tranquil Canadian forest land, suspended in a cinematic landscape someplace between Wes Anderson and Eric Rohmer in Vic + Flo Saw A Bear. Montreal critic-turned-filmmaker Denis Cote’s bizarre anti-melodrama of doomed love and gruesome revenge comes on strong with sharp visuals and eccentric humor. But its mannerisms become too studied and its pace stultifying, which makes the French-language film rarely as much fun as its title. However, anything this out-there is bound to
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- David Rooney
Emmanuelle Riva, 85, star of Amour, tells of her extraordinary life
10 February 2013 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The classic French film has made leading lady Emmanuelle Riva famous again. She is treating her acclaim with Gallic disdain…
Emmanuelle Riva is not given to sentimental nonsense. Finding herself an international star at 85, however, does have a fairytale element about it, admits the surprise star of the surprise hit French film Amour.
"This film is such a wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary gift. I cannot tell you how happy I am. Completely happy," Riva says. "The whole thing is like a fairytale. Everybody knows there are very few roles for older actresses. Almost none, in fact. And that is what makes all this so exceptional."
Riva will not be at the Bafta awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, where she is nominated for a best actress award. She is saving herself for the Gallic equivalent, the Césars, in a fortnight. Then the Oscars – on the day of her 86th birthday – beckon. »
- Kim Willsher
Emmanuelle Riva: the 85-year-old French actor making Oscar history
6 February 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Amour star who first captivated audiences in the 1950s is oldest acting nominee at Academy awards
Death shall have no dominion over Emmanuelle Riva, the French actor – and sometime poet – who we see winding down quite brilliantly over the course of Michael Haneke's harrowing Amour. "I can't go on," murmurs her character, Anne, as she finds herself unpicked by a series of strokes and retires to the confines of her book-lined Paris apartment.
The drama ushers her towards the deathbed and then beyond – all the way to the gaudy paradise of this month's Bafta and Oscar ceremonies. If such a thing as life after death exists, it can be found at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday and the Dolby theatre in Hollywood two weeks later.
The success of Amour (in general) and Riva (in particular) has caught Oscar pundits flat-footed: a topsy-turvy development for an industry »
- Xan Brooks
Love 'Amour'? Check Out These Classics Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva
3 January 2013 9:50 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Octogenarian French acting legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva give stunning, energetic performances as a married couple facing the bitter end in Michael Haneke's critically lauded, multi-awarded "Amour." Below, a look at some of the classic films that put Trintignant and Riva on the map. Our Toh! interview with Haneke is here, and the recent New York Times profile of Riva is here. 1. “My Night at Maud’s” (1969) Trintignant stars as Jean-Louis, an engineer loner living in the wintry bourgeois provinces in Eric Rohmer’s elegant, talky portrait of relationships and chance. A devout Catholic, Jean-Louis has his ideal future mapped out with alarming certitude -- right down to the pretty blonde stranger he plans to marry. His unshirking path is impeded, however, when he spends Christmas night with a sexually confident, cards-on-the-table divorcee (Francoise Fabian). Nestor Almendros’ crisp black-and-white cinematography »
- Beth Hanna
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