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DVD Release: Attenberg
21 May 2012 10:12 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
Friends Ariane Labed (l.) and Evangelia Randou get friendly in Attenberg.
Greece’s official entry for the Academy Awards, 2010’s Attenberg is a deadpan comedy-drama film by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari.
The coming-of-age story concerns plucky Marina (Ariane Labed), a 23-year-old woman who lives in a small factory town by the sea where she passes her time watching Sir David Attenborough’s nature programs, listening to the proto-punk songs of Suicide, goofing with her only friend Bella (Evangelia Randou), and tending to her ailing father (Vangelis Mourikis). When a visiting engineer (Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the Academy Award-nominated Dogtooth) comes to town, the two form a tentative relationship that pushes Marina into contact with the strange and complex world of adulthood.
Rolled out to dozens of film festivals and theatrical screenings across Europe and South American, Attenberg had a »
- Laurence
Curzon on Demand: Attenberg
17 April 2012 2:43 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Henry Barnes reveals the fifth of seven films to be offered for free to Guardian Extra members through Curzon on Demand
Athina Rachel Tsangari's beautiful tale of a father-daughter relationship turns the microscope on humans' animal behaviour
• Click here for details on the Curzon on Demand streaming scheme
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The elaborate slurp of the opening kiss, the wacky walks, lonely 23-year-old Mariana (Ariane Labed) and her dad, Spyros (Vangelis Mourikis) pretending to be gorillas on their hotel bed: there's moments in Attenberg that are kooky, quirky and all the other labels that director Athina Rachel Tsangari hates. They're the bits that singled the film out on its cinematic release last year, but caught alone they're red herrings, eye-catching add-ons to a beautifully told story about a father-daughter relationship that's coming into bloom just a little too late. »
- Henry Barnes
In Theaters: Take Some 'Friends With Kids' To See 'John Carter' Or Get Out Of The 'Silent House' For Some 'Salmon Fishing In The Yemen'
9 March 2012 10:03 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Tgif bitches! I set off for the magical land of queso and breakfast tacos tonight -- yep! Going to Austin for SXSW. But not without a little Friday In Theaters to set you off right. It just wouldn't be right to depart without a mild rant about the "John Carter" marketing campaign! Yes, this weekend the questionable Civil War/Sci-Fi "John Carter" muscles its way into theaters, as well as Elizabeth Olsen spooky movie "Silent House," and funny attractive people with problems rom-com "Friends with Kids."
Time for a quiz! Based off the "John Carter" billboards and posters plastered about your town, what do you think the movie is about? A) a caveman hunting elephants B) a Roman slave forced to fight prehistoric creatures in the Coliseum C) a Confederate soldier who gets beamed to Mars after finding a medallion in a cave, where he befriends some aliens, gets a princess humanoid girlfriend, »
- Katie Walsh
Attenberg
8 March 2012 5:36 PM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
On the heels of Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal Oscar-nominated family drama about teenagers sealed off from the outside world, comes Athina Rachel Tsangari’s contribution to the new, some say “weird,” wave of Greek cinema. The connection between these two films isn’t tangential: Tsangari served as associate producer on Dogtooth, and Lanthimos produces and appears in Attenberg. Both feature protagonists with strong family ties who are cut off from the rest of society—in Dogtooth literally, here emotionally. And both highlight behavior that is head-scratchingly strange. »
Twitch's Attenberg Review Roundup
8 March 2012 9:30 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Giorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari, the creative team behind Dogtooth, switched roles for their project, and the result is Attenberg, produced by Lanthimos and directed by Tsangari, and poised to begin a limited theatrical engagement in the U.S. tomorrow. The film has been dividing critics since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010, and, as Attenberg made the festivals rounds, that divisiveness was manifested in the reviews we published last year, which ranged from positive to ... not so positive. The story was nicely summed up by Ard Vijn when he saw it last year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam: "Twenty-three year old Marina is close to exactly two people: her father Spyros and her friend Bella. But as her »
Daily Briefing. New Film Comment, News, Photos and More
7 March 2012 12:56 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"The agony and perverse ecstasy of unrequited love permeate Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea," writes Graham Fuller at the top of his interview with the director. Also in the new March/April 2012 issue of Film Comment: Jonathan Rosenbaum remembers Gilbert Adair (plus a few online exclusives: Adair on Mae West and his "Cliché Expert's Guide to the Cinema"), Anton Dolin examines "The Strange Case of Russian Maverick Aleksei German" (see, too, J Hoberman's 1990 piece for Fc on German) and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life tops the Reader's "20 Best Films of 2011" Poll — plus comments.
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film »
“Attenberg” — A Hammer To Nail Review
7 March 2012 8:08 AM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
(Attenberg world premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and is being distributed in America by Strand Releasing. It opens on Friday, March 9, 2012, at the IFC Center in NYC. Visit the film’s official page at the Strand website to learn more.)
The world would be a much less grating place if certain cinematic sub-genres were to be banned from the table immediately. Reading a description of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg, one might worry that she has committed the double-sin of embracing two of the more increasingly overused and deplorable ones: 1) the “stunted-to-the-point-of-retarded adult-child;” and 2) the “quirky art film for quirky art film’s sake.” But from the startlingly unbroken first shot of this film, in which one 20-something female friend teaches her innocent 20-something female friend how to tongue kiss, it’s readily apparent that we are in the hands of a filmmaker who is going to instead use »
- Michael Tully
Review: 'Attenberg' Is A Strange And Unique Experience
6 March 2012 9:04 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The following is a reprint of our review from 2011.
Thanks to the hard-working welcoming committee of Athina Rachel Tsangari's "Attenberg," we are at first introduced to a white wall, where cracks and stains abound. Two young women, Marina (Ariane Labed) and Bella (Evangelina Randou, "Kinetta") dip into the frame, briefly conversing before launching into an unattractive and aggressive tongue union. They detach, with Bella asking if Marina would like to continue her lesson -- but the student claims to no longer have any "spit left." Smelling bullshit from a mile away, Bella teases her but is unsuccessful in her attempt to persuade her friend to resume education. Instead, they get on all fours and act like animals, swiping at one another before finally walking out of the shot. We're left, again, with that bland wall, only now the camera has pulled out a bit further to reveal some small windows and not-particularly-healthy grass. »
- Christopher Bell
'Attenberg' Is the Death Drama That 'The Descendants' Haters Will Love
5 March 2012 6:38 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
It might seem unfair to compare Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari's innovative sophomore feature "Attenberg" to Alexander Payne's "The Descendants." The latter is a polished Hollywood excursion starring one of the most famous actors in the world, while "Attenberg" hails from a marginalized cinema and sports a vastly different storytelling mentality. However, with the memory of last year's "The Descendants" amplified by its recent prominence in Oscar season just as "Attenberg" finally arrives in U.S. theaters, I find it hard to ignore the connections between the two movies. Although they deal with similar material in fundamentally separate ways, seen together they illuminate the supreme originality of Tsangari's approach as well as the familiarity of Payne's. First of all, both involve a young woman coming to grips with the imminent death of a parent. In "The Descendants," that would be »
- Eric Kohn
‘The Raid’ and Its New Title Get U.S. Poster; ‘Attenberg,’ ‘Starlet,’ and ‘Pilgrim Song’ One-Sheets Arrive
24 February 2012 1:10 PM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Okay… by this point, we can all acknowledge that The Raid‘s Redemption subtitle is silly and unneeded — in spite of whatever future plans Sony may have — so we can either a) get used to it, or b) just call it The Raid, nothing more and nothing less. I’m opting for the latter.
With that unnecessary intrusion out of the way, I can also tell you that a new, redemptive (I’ll stop now) U.S. poster has come in from Collider; if you’ve seen the initial piece by this point, however, it should look mighty familiar. (Save for a new tint, some nice quotes, and ten extra letters at the bottom.)
Take a look below, read our Sundance review here, and see the film when it opens on March 23rd:
Taking us further down the line of festival alumni is FilmSchoolRejects, who’ve landed the exclusive poster »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Exclusive Poster Premiere for Festival Favorite ‘Attenberg’
23 February 2012 5:50 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
New Greek cinema is a bit of a personal favorite of mine, what with my deep love of Dogtooth and my near-terrifying excitement for Alps, but I’ve somehow managed to miss yet another entry into the new wave – Attenberg. I have no excuse for missing the film – it’s shown at a number of film festivals over the past two years, including Venice, Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam, London, SXSW, and AFI Fest, and I’ve tried to make screenings at at least three of those festivals. But now that Strand Releasing is giving the film a limited release, I can finally catch it and presumably add it to my little pocket of Greek darlings. Written and directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, the film has a solid pedigree for anyone interested in emerging Greek cinema. The film features a performance by none other than Yorgos Lanthimos, who also produced the project. You »
- Kate Erbland
Greek invasion goes scifi with bionic bunnies and grumpy astronauts in Duncharon
9 February 2012 1:38 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Athena Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg) is running the funding circuit right now for her next flick which revolves around grumpy astronauts, bionic bunnies, and tiny robots. The "bionic bunnies" are a race of absurd alien bunny rabbits with radio-antenna ears and gigantic feet than can bring down a mountain. If you guessed this is a comedy, you're half right. It's a dark comedy.
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Rotterdam 2012. Awards
5 February 2012 4:07 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Sentimental Animal
The International Film Festival Rotterdam held its 2012 awards ceremony this evening and has just announced the winners:
"The three Hivos Tiger Awards were granted to feature débuts Egg and Stone by Huang Ji (China), Hubert Bals Fund-supported film Thursday Till Sunday by Dominga Sotomayor (Chile/Netherlands) and Clip by Maja Miloš (Serbia), which also took the Knf Award of the Dutch film critics. Hubert Bals Fund-supported and competing film Neighbouring Sounds by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil) took the Fipresci Award and Chinese film Sentimental Animal by Wu Quan was awarded by the Netpac Jury."
And on Monday, "Makino Takashi’s Generator (Japan), Mati Diop’s Big in Vietnam (France) and Jeroen Eisinga’s Springtime (Netherlands) were awarded the three equal Tiger Awards for Short Films 2012. The jury gave a Special Mention to Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen for her short film I’m Lisa (Malaysia)."
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Ritesh Batra’s ‘The Lunchbox’ wins Special Mention at Cinemart, Rotterdam
2 February 2012 9:21 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
The Lunchbox, a project by Ritesh Batra won a Jury Special Mention at the 29th CineMart, co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The project is a co-production between Anurag Kashyap Productions Pvt Ltd (India) and Cine Mosaic (USA).
Cinemart concluded on February 1 in Rotterdam with the announcement of the two awards for best CineMart Projects 2012.
The Arte France Cinéma Award (10,000 Euro) for the Best CineMart 2012 Project was given to Duncharon by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece), a co-production of Haos Films and Faliro House Productions (Greece), Maharaja Films (France) and The Match Factory GmbH (Germany).
The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (30,000 Euro) for the Best CineMart 2012 Project with a European partner went to Humidity by Nikola Ljuca (Serbia), a co-production of Dart Film (Serbia) and zischlermann filmproduktion GbR (Germany).
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- NewsDesk
Rotterdam 2012
1 February 2012 9:49 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
We have a report or two from the International Film Festival Rotterdam on the way, so this'll be something of a supplementary roundup, collecting reviews, impressions and so on from the festival that runs through Sunday. The first main event would have to be the world premiere of the film Takashi Miike is now calling Ace Attorney. The Iffr has posted a video record of Gawie Keyser's "Big Talk" with Miike that took place on Saturday. The introduction's in Dutch, and it's followed by a trailer with English subtitles (much longer, too, than the first trailer) and the conversation itself is a mingling of questions in English and answers in Japanese with Dutch subtitles. Miike obsessives, though, will be able to sort out what's being said.
"The Iffr and Miike have been friendly towards each other ever since Audition had a few legendary screenings over here back in 2000, and it »
Theo Angelopoulos: one last unfinished tale for chronicler of modern Greece
25 January 2012 3:35 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Incompleteness was a recurrent theme for a film-maker who thought closure out of reach, always searching for the lost idyll of a nation torn apart by the 20th century
Theo Angelopoulos has been killed in a traffic accident while crossing a busy street in the middle of filming. This very fact has an enormous irony and poignancy: so much of his work is about the unfinished story, the unfinished journey, the unfinished life, and the realisation that to be unfinished is itself part of the human mystery and an essential human birthright and burden. This was part of what he conveyed to audiences, in a cinematic style that was poetry and epic poetry, steeped in the tumult of Greek history from the time of the second world war, and yet his movies were anything but frenzied or dramatic. They addressed not history's surface action but its spiritual causes and effects; he created long, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Critic's Notebook: How to Tackle the Palm Springs Film Festival's Massive Program
18 January 2012 7:47 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Confronted with a massive lineup of some 187 films, what's the festivalgoer to do? If you're at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which just concluded in the balmy Southern California low desert, you pick carefully. But what does this mean? Aim for the foreign-language Oscar submissions, all 40 of them, of which this festival is best known? Go for the big-name directors from Cannes, some in the "Modern Masters" section, such Lynne Ramsay with "We Need to Talk About Kevin," the Dardennes with "The Kid With a Bike," Nanni Moretti with "Habemus Papam" or Robert Guédiguian with "The Snows of Kilamanjaro"? Maybe target those films set for upcoming release, and see them before your friends, like Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," Bela Tarr’s "The Turin Horse" (which won the Fipresci jury’s prize), Athina Rachel Tsangari’s "Attenberg," »
Greek invasion contines with first teaser for Babis Makridis' L
12 January 2012 10:51 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
I want some of what the Greeks are smoking. It must be something really special because the new wave of Greek filmmakers are all working in a category clearly marked "Odd" and revelling in it. First it was Giorgos Lanthimos, then Athina Rachel Tsangari and now Babis Makridis. The trio are like a little gang and their films share similar aesthetics and style so it's no surprise that Makridis' L is every bit as strange as the Greek exports of the last few years.
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18 items from 2012
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