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Cannes Film Festival 2013: 'Miele' review
18 May 2013 5:04 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★☆☆☆ Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino - perhaps most familiar to international audiences as Tom Cruise's girlfriend in Rain Man - makes her directorial debut in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes with Miele (2013). Irene (Jasmine Trinca) lives a double life. To her father and her boyfriend she 's a university student, endlessly working on her thesis with a professor in Padua. However, she also has another mobile phone and another name - Miele or 'honey'. She flies to the United States and then enters Mexico by bus. With her short punkish haircut she looks like Anne Parillaud from Luc Besson's Nikita. Could she be a hitwoman?
It turns out that Irene/Miele has been helping terminally ill people end their lives, painlessly and with dignity. The topic of euthanasia has been a recurring one in Italy, with Marco Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty (2012) covering the infamous Eluana Englaro case »
- CineVue UK
Rezo Takes on ‘Two Women’ with Ralph Fiennes
16 May 2013 1:28 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris-based arthouse shingle Rezo has come on board to co-produce, distribute and handle international sales on Ralph Fiennes starrer “Two Women,” a Russian costume drama that will be helmed by Vera Glagoleva.
Now in pre-production, the pic is based on a play by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. Set in the Russian countryside at the end of the 19th century, drama turns on the wife of a rich landowner who falls in love with her son’s tutor.
“Ralph Fiennes is the Hollywood star who stars in a Russian film, and that’s speaks volume about the universal quality of the script and the creative vision of Vera Glagoleva,” said Laurent Danielou, managing director at Rezo.
French thesp Sylvie Testud (“La Vie en Rose”) has also joined the cast.
Pic is produced Russia’s Horosho Prod.,U.K. distributor Soda Pictures and UK producer David P. Kelly, Gvi Group, Jps. Russian »
- Elsa Keslassy
Cultural Exception Petition Hits 5,000 Names
15 May 2013 2:25 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A petition that wants film and TV industries excluded from trade talks between the European Union and the U.S. — known as the “cultural exception” — has reached 5,000 names.
It includes filmmakers Michael Haneke, (pictured) Aki Kaurismaki, Marco Bellocchio and Pedro Almodovar.
A statement issued Tuesday by bodies repping all sectors of the industry, including Eurocinema, Europa Cinemas, Europa Distribution and Europa Intl., said the European Commission “continues to maintain a dangerous position for the future of culture in Europe. These European organizations encourage (EU) member states and European leaders to take into account the issues and risks such a large negotiation mandate holds for cultural diversity.”
They also called on members of the European Parliament to adopt a draft opinion voted on by the European Parliament’s Intl. Trade Committee that excludes the cultural and audiovisual sectors from the trade negotiations.
Parliament is due to vote on the issue on »
- Leo Barraclough
Marco Bellocchio Takes Orders for Nun Drama (Exclusive)
15 May 2013 2:01 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Italo auteur Marco Bellocchio will be back behind the camera this summer to shoot “La prigione di Bobbio,” which Gaul’s Rezo Films is selling at Cannes.
Bellocchio’s long-gestating project is based on the true tale of a 17th century noblewoman forced to become a nun, but whose free-spirited love affairs inside the convent lead to incarceration.
It’s Bellocchio’s first collaboration with Rezo, which has listed the pic as “La Monaca,” its international title.
Bellocchio said “Monaca” will be shot in “the free-flowing spirit” of his “Sorelle Mai,” which screened at Venice in 2010 and starred both pro and non-pro actors. Ukrainian thesp Lidia Liberman, a graduate of Rome’s Centro Sperimentale Film School, will play the lead.
Pic will be a costumer, but will shift into present-day mode in the epilogue “underlining its contemporary relevance,” Bellocchio said.
Low-budget passion project is being produced by Bellocchio’s Kavac »
- Elsa Keslassy and Nick Vivarelli
‘The Way, Way Back’ to Close Los Angeles Film Festival
1 May 2013 10:24 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Los Angeles Film Festival has tapped Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s “The Way, Way Back” as the closing night film on June 23.
The coming-of-age story stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Annasophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph and Liam James. Fox Searchlight, which acquired the comedy at Sundance, is releasing “The Way, Way Back” on July 5.
The festival, now in its 19th year, also announced Wednesday gala screenings for Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” from the Weinstein Co. and the North American premiere of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives” from Radius-twc. James Ponsoldt’s “The Spectacular Now,” David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, ” Ava DuVernay’s “Venus Vs.” and Lake Bell’s “In a World …” will also screen as part of the summer showcase series.
The festival had previously announced that Pedro Almodovar’s “I’m So Excited!” will be its opening-night selection on June 13.
The festival, »
- Dave McNary
Celluloid Dreams, uMedia Tie Knot
1 May 2013 1:03 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris — Hengameh Panahi’s Paris-based Celluloid Dreams, one of Europe’s most respected sales companies, and Brussels’ uMedia, a burgeoning Euro mini-studio, have tied the knot on an alliance that ranges across film financing, production, acquisition and international sales.
The partnership marks out uMedia’s status as one of the Europe’s fastest-growing go-to movie companies for European and U.S. indies alike. It also gives Celluloid Dreams the bigger company backing that specialty film sales agents, however well connected, now crave in tougher times.
UMedia’s sales arm uConnect and Celluloid shared offices at Berlin, with uConnect taking joint responsibility with Celluloid Dreams for the sale of Celluloid Dreams’ slate. Now sealing a long-term expanded alliance, uMedia and Celluloid Dreams can explore fully the options on an enviable range of film operations.
Raising a reported Euros110 million ($145 million) in tax shelter coin last decade, uMedia has diversified rapidly from 2010 into production, »
- John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
This week's new film events
5 April 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Page To Screen | Bradford International Film Festival | Belfast International Film Festival | Italian Film Festival
From Page To Screen, Bridport
Curated by novelist Joe Dunthorne, this festival of literary adaptations takes in everything from Patricia Highsmith thrillers (Plein Soleil, Strangers On A Train) to comic-book films American Splendor and Ghost World, and films based on plays, like new vampire flick Byzantium, which comes with a masterclass from producer Stephen Woolley. Dunthorne introduces Richard Ayoade's adaptation of his own Submarine, and its key influence The Graduate, and there's a special screening of Kubrick's The Shining at the precarious, disused Burton Cliff Hotel.
Various venues, Wed to 14 Apr
Bradford International Film Festival
Bradford is rarely the first city that springs to mind when you think of British cinema, but it's home to our National Media Museum and is a Unesco City of Film, no less. And its festival is an embarrassment »
- Steve Rose
NYC Happenings: Film Comment Selects Starts Tonight
18 February 2013 7:30 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
...And it runs through the 28th. An eclectic selection from old guard masters and young upstarts the world over, with a few little seen oldies in the mix, the 2013 edition of Film Comment Selects at The Film Society of Lincoln Center is bound to have something for every kind of Twitch reader. On one end of the spectrum there's Ben Wheately's Sightseers and on the other end we have the U.S. premiere of Phillipe Grandrieux's White Epilepsy, which on the title alone piques my interest. Dustin Chang was fortunate enough to catch the selections Gebo And The Shadow, from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveria, as well as Marco Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty. Here are his thoughts on both: 105 year old Manoel de Oliveira's latest...
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Notebook's 5th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2012
9 January 2013 9:40 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Looking back at 2012 on what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2012—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2012 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2012 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How would you program some »
- Daniel Kasman
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