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Juliette Binoche Wants to Seduce You But Not Because She’s French
27 April 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Juliette Binoche at the premiere of ‘Elles’ during the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22.
French actress Juliette Binoche takes a walk on the wild side in “Elles,” the new film from Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska that premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival and opens in New York theaters Friday.
Binoche, 48, plays Anne, a successful journalist drawn into the lives of her latest subjects: two young college students who work as call girls. Anne’s »
- Steve Dollar
Predicting the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Line-Up 24 Hours Before It's Revealed
18 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: Cannes Film Festival Update: The full line-up is now available right here. We are now less than 24 hours away from the official 2012 Cannes Film Festival line-up announcement and I have to admit, my excitement for what may come is hitting overload. As much as the Toronto Film Festival has come to be the place where several films begin their Oscar run, there simply is nothing better than the international cinematic prestige of attending the Cannes Film Festival each year and this will mark my third year attending. With that in mind, late last night I added an additional nine films to the RopeofSilicon database that have the potential of being named during tomorrow's (April 19) announcement, which should come sometime around 2 or 3 Am Pst. After doing so I felt it wouldn't hurt to take one last look at what films have the strongest chance of showing up at the festival this year. »
- Brad Brevet
Tim Roth to head Un Certain Regard jury at Cannes Film Festival
12 April 2012 11:42 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Most regard the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival as a kind of B-league to the Competition, populated with smaller films and names that aren't quite ready for primetime. In truth, however, the section's selections of late have established that there's very little to distinguish Un Certain Regard from the Competition on the grounds of quality: with major Competition alumni like Gus van Sant, Jean-Luc Godard and Bruno Dumont having accepted Ucr berths in recent years, the increasing sense of the strand is one of mere spillover. Consider this list of films to have played in Un Certain »
- Guy Lodge
Gaspar Noé’s ‘Irreversible’ and ‘Enter the Void’: ‘Extremity’ or Corner?
29 March 2012 1:52 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Gaspar Noé has made his mark in a cinema which has generally gone under the name ‘New French Extremism’, a body of films which mark French cinema’s attempts to rehabilitate itself after being virtually done in by Hollywood’s continued success in Europe. Some of the other directors held as belonging to this group are Francois Ozon, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Patrice Chereau, Jean-Claude Brisseau and Leos Carrax. While the complex eco-system of French cinema has also been cited as the cause of this cinema – which has been deliberately transgressive and determined to break all taboos – a simpler explanation is that this body has arisen as a direct consequence of Hollywood’s (and America’s) cultural hegemony.
The relation between American cinema and French art cinema was a much friendlier one in the 1950s and 1960s when directors like Godard, Truffaut and Chabrol were even inspired by Hollywood. The Auteur Theory, »
- MK Raghvendra
This week's cultural highlights: Feist and Anne Boleyn
18 March 2012 9:31 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov's poetic maelstrom is transferred from page to stage by Simon McBurney and Complicite. The devil is abroad in a godless Ussr. Barbican, London EC2 (0845 120 7550), to 7 April.
Anne Boleyn
The Globe goes out on tour with Howard Brenton's delightful and intelligent look at English Protestantism and the woman who furthered its cause. New Alexandra, Birmingham (0844 871 3011), 20-24 March, then touring.
Samantha Spiro stars as the canny Neapolitan woman who has been a mistress for 25 years but is determined to be a wife. Michael Attenborough directs this new version of Eduardo de Filippo's lively comedy. Almeida, London N1 (012 7359 4404), to 12 May.
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan »
Daily Briefing. Denis, Guerín, Straub @ Exit Art; New Cinema Lucida
28 February 2012 11:39 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Every year since 2000, the Jeonju International Film Festival has commissioned three short works for its Jeonju Digital Project and, about a month ago now, the festival announced it'd selected Raya Martin, Vimukthi Jayasundara and Ying Liang for this year's edition (you may remember the three directors' video messages). The 2011 films are still making the rounds, and in fact, when they screen tomorrow at Exit Art, two of them — Claire Denis's To the Devil and José Luis Guerín's Memories of a Morning, both 45 minutes — will be seeing their NYC premieres. The third is Jean-Marie Straub's An Heir (22 mins, image above). If you're planning on being there, you'll want to read Robert Koehler's dispatch from Locarno last summer, touching briefly on the Denis and Guerín films but really digging into the Straub.
Reading. "With the main focus on African and Asian cinema and documentary film, Camera Lucida no 7 also »
Watch: Eerie Nsfw Trailer For Bruno Dumont's 'Hors Satan'
23 February 2012 9:23 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
To say that director Bruno Dumont is divisive would be an understatement, but the two-time Cannes Jury Prize winner ("Flanders," "L'humanité") certainly has his fans, but even they might be tested with his latest effort "Hors Satan" ("Outside Satan"). Premiering at Cannes last year, it's a ridiculously minimal and frustratingly enigmatic film that we didn't care for that much as we found it mysterious nature dull rather than compelling. This trailer over at Cineuropa is a few months old, but it's the first time it's coming ot our attention, and it's certainly worth a peek. That said, if you want to go in fresh, this trailer does seem to go out of its way to spoil the few "events" in the movie that are there, so proceed with caution. So what is it all about? Well it follows an unwashed drifter (David Dewaele) who orms a friendship with an unnamed »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Watch: Eerie Nsfw Trailer For Bruno Dumont's 'Hors Satan'
23 February 2012 9:23 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
To say that director Bruno Dumont is divisive would be an understatement, but the two-time Cannes Jury Prize winner ("Flanders," "L'humanité") certainly has his fans, but even they might be tested with his latest effort "Hors Satan" ("Outside Satan"). Premiering at Cannes last year, it's a ridiculously minimal and frustratingly enigmatic film that we didn't care for that much as we found it mysterious nature dull rather than compelling. This trailer over at Cineuropa is a few months old, but it's the first time it's coming ot our attention, and it's certainly worth a peek. That said, if you want to go in fresh, this trailer does seem to go out of its way to spoil the few "events" in the movie that are there, so proceed with caution. So what is it all about? Well it follows an unwashed drifter (David Dewaele) who orms a friendship with an unnamed »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Hadewijch – review
18 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hadewijch was an obscure 13th-century poet and mystic from the Dutch province of Brabant, whose name is taken by the 20-year-old French novice Céline (the non-professional actress Julie Sokolowski) in this characteristically inert film by the French moviemaker Bruno Dumont, a Robert Bresson follower of a religious bent. Céline is kicked out of her convent for excessive zealotry, which involves going without food and drink, and returns to study theology in Paris where her haut-bourgeois family (her father is in the government) lives in some style on the Ile St-Louis.
Having been rejected by the church she falls in with some young Arabs, who introduce her to a charismatic Muslim religious teacher and political activist. He takes her to witness the persecution of his people in an unnamed Middle Eastern country where she is apparently persuaded to participate in a terrorist action.
It's rather like a version of Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien, »
- Philip French
This week's new films
17 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Woman In The Fifth (15)
(Pawel Pawlikowski, 2011, Fra/Pol/UK) Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig. 84 mins.
Mysteries abound in this sombre, 1970s-style drama, and so do women. Hawke's emotionally wracked American in Paris is plagued by them – not just the seductress of the title (Scott Thomas) but also his estranged wife and daughter, and the pretty Polish waitress. Plus some dodgy (male) gangster types. If it all seems too good to be true, it is, but this doesn't show its hand till very late on – maybe too late – and maybe too many cards, or too few.
Hadewijch (12A)
(Bruno Dumont, 2009, Fra) Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime, Karl Sarafidis. 105 mins.
Boldly drawing connections between (Christian) religious devotion and (Muslim) religious extremism, this radical but naturalistic drama follows a rejected nun whose search for spiritual solace takes her far out of her central Paris comfort zone, and deep into the paradoxes of faith. »
- Steve Rose
UK Cinema Release Round-up – 17th February
17 February 2012 6:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
After being spoiled last week with a whole plethora of cinematic delights, it’s a slightly more low-key affair this time out.
There’s only a couple of major releases hitting the screens but there’s several smaller independent features which may well prove worthy of seeking out, particularly when you consider the critical reception of what’s on offer.
If you want to check to see if any of these films are playing near you you can visit Find Any Film and they’ll be able to help.
Without further ado, here we go…
Ghost Rider : Spirit of Vengeance in 3D Iframe Embed for Youtube
Nic Cage is back as Johnny Blaze, the former stunt driver turned demonic avenger. Having sold his soul to the devil, Blaze now takes on the mantle of the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of the damned. In this follow up to the poorly received 2007 original, »
- Rob Keeling
Hadewijch – review
16 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bruno Dumont is back on form with this mysterious and unsettling film about a fiercely devout twentysomething
The disturbing, violent, neo-Bressonian work of the French film-maker Bruno Dumont has waxed and waned in potency over the years: his Life of Jesus (1997) and the bizarrely compelling Humanity (1999) established his vision. There is a social-realist aesthetic, and a stark, islanded beauty and bleakness in the areas of northern France where Dumont prefers to film; there is an enigmatic mysticism amid explicit brutality, and a distinctive use of non-professional actors encouraged to maintain an unsmiling blankness and transcendental ordinariness. (To the astonishment of some, Emmanuel Schotté won the best actor prize at Cannes for a deadpan, untutored, almost childlike performance as the troubled police officer in Humanity, his single screen credit to this day. He was certainly an eerily powerful presence.)
Dumont has begun to repeat himself lately, but Hadewijch, made three years »
- Peter Bradshaw
Sundance 2012: Shadow Dancer – review
25 January 2012 5:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Andrea Riseborough stars in a slow-burning but brilliant thriller about an Ira sympathiser forced to become an informant by MI5
"The Troubles" is a euphemistic phrase for a still-raw piece of modern British history. Director James Marsh has decided not to excavate the specifics of the period for his second dramatic feature, in which a Northern Irish woman is forced to choose between her (presumably) Ira-supporting family and the British secret services trying to recruit her. Instead, it is a film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs.
Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as Colette McVeigh, whom we first meet as a child in the early 70s in a suburban Belfast family setting. Her father needs some cigarettes and asks his daughter to get them, »
- Damon Wise
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #36. Bruno Dumont's La Créatrice
7 January 2012 8:00 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
#36. La Créatrice Director/Writer: Bruno Dumont Producers: Rachid Bouchareb and Jean BréhatDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: This is about the tragic destiny of the sculptor Camille Claudel (Binoche) who in 1914 was committed by her family to a mental asylum in the South of France where she spent the last 30 years of her life and never sculpted again...(more) Cast: Juliette Binoche and Denis Podalydès List Worthy Reasons...: Unlike Gérard Depardieu, I can only picture a select few A-level French actresses who would be up to the challenge of working with someone such as Bruno Dumont and his emotionally devastating texts. It'll be a first for him (he usually works with non-pros) and in an odd karma alignment, Binoche is playing the same role that Isabelle Adjani played in 1988's titular Camille Claudel. Adjani's co-star was Depardieu. Binoche will kick butt. Release Date/Status?: The project was announced late »
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