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Mads Mikkelsen, Carlos Reygadas: Cannes Winners
27 May 2012 3:24 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Carlos Reygadas‘ Post Tenebras Lux Cannes 2012 Winners Pt.1: Michael Haneke’s Amour, Matteo Garrone’s Reality, Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond The Hills The Best Actor was Mads Mikkelsen, who late last year received the European Film Award for European Achievement in World Cinema. (Among Mikkelsen’s future World Cinema "achievements" may be one of the villainous roles in Thor 2.) Mikkelsen’s Cannes victory was for his performance as a man (falsely) accused of sexually molesting a child — and the inevitable hysteria that ensues — in Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish psychological drama The Hunt. Carlos Reygadas cosmically surrealist family drama, Post Tenebras Lux ("Light After Darkness") earned the Mexican filmmaker the Best Director Award. In 2007, Reygadas’ Silent Night tied with Persepolis for the Jury Prize. And just a few days ago, Post Tenebras Lux was greeted by loud boos. And finally, the socially conscious British filmmaker Ken Loach won the »
- Andre Soares
The Flamenco Trilogy – DVD Review
24 May 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Consisting of 1981′s Bodas De Sangre (Blood Wedding), 1983′s Carmen and 1986′s El Amor Brujo (Love, The Magician) the Flamenco Trilogy from director Carlos Saura comprise a curious set. Linked by a common cast (Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos and Laura del Sol) and all of them shot with a deliberately stagey feel, they will doubtless appeal to fans of vigorous and passionate Spanish dancing but may struggle to find an audience outside of those admittedly narrow tramlines.
Blood Wedding begins with the cast of a dance production applying their make-up before they launch into an energetic rehearsal under the tutelage of Antonio Gades’ choreographer (who assisted with the choreography for the entire trilogy). The wedding of the title is spoiled by the bride running off with Gades’ Leonardo, who the groom must track down and confront. In the end, this is an impressive showcase for vibrant Latin dancing, but pretty »
- Dave Roper
Day three - live!
18 May 2012 2:10 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette
10.04am: Day three of Cannes 2012 rolls round. If you want to catch up with what happened yesterday (whenever that was), here's yesterday's blow-by-blow live blog.
But as is the way with Cannes, it's history already; all that's left is to pick over the bones. And that will assuredly be happening in the video we'll post later this morning, when Peter, Xan and Catherine run the rule over Rust and Bone, last night's biggie. We'll also have a gallery of red carpet pictures, featuring star Marion Cotillard and ice-cold director Jacques Audiard. (I've said it before, I'll say it again: he's the person I want to be when I grow up.)
So what to look forward to today? The line-up is perhaps a tad less starry that on days one and two: the competition films are Reality, from Italian director »
- Andrew Pulver
Gwyneth Paltrow to Join Antonio Banderas in Guernica 33 Days
18 May 2012 11:55 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
In case you’re not so familiar with the upcoming Carlos Suara‘s project, titled Guernica 33 Days, I will first inform you that it will be one of the biggest Spanish films going into production this year. Then, you should also know that Antonio Banderas is already on board to play the lead (always a good [...]
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Related posts: Antonio Banderas Will Direct Solo Antonio Banderas In New “Dali” Biopic Banderas to Play Picasso in Carlos Saura’s 33 Dias
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- Fiona
'Magic Mike' Star Alex Pettyfer To Lead 'Diamond Dogs,' Gwyneth Paltrow & Antonio Banderas Star In Picasso Biopic 'Guernica 33 Days'
18 May 2012 8:30 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Alex Pettyfer, star of failed franchise starter “I Am Number Four,” and Steven Soderbergh's upcoming "Magic Mike," has found a new starring role in the new film from “Heartbreaker” helmer Pascal Chaumeil. “Diamond Dogs” is based on an Alan Watt novel that is described as a crime thriller. Pettyfer will play the son of a Nevada sheriff who makes a life-changing mistake, and his father is forced to cover it up. Casting is currently underway for the father and no start date has been set. [Variety]
Meanwhile, Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks to co-star in the Carlos Saura (“Raise Ravens,” “The Hunt”) directed “Guernica 33 Days.” The film, co-written by Suara with Elias Querejeta, and Louis-Charles Sirjacq, will follow Pablo Picasso’s emotional turmoil as he painted the famous artwork referenced in the title.
Antonio Banderas stars as Picasso, and Paltrow would play his lover, a Spanish-speaking French photographer named Dora Maar. »
- Cain Rodriguez
Casting News: Pettyfer, Roth, Paltrow
18 May 2012 1:43 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Diamond Dogs
Alex Pettyfer is set to play the lead in "Heartbreaker" director Pascal Chaumeil's new English-language thriller "Diamond Dogs" for Quad Films.
An adaptation of a novel by Alan Watt, Pettyfer will play a popular Nevada high school quarterback whose life is turned upside down after he accidentally kills someone, a crime his local sherrif father is covering up. [Source: Variety]
Mobius
Tim Roth, Jean Dujardin and Cecile de France have joined Eric Rochant's spy thriller "Mobius" for EuropaCorp and Axel Films. Set in the world of high finance, Roth plays a Russian oligarch suspected of laundering money through his bank.
Shooting kicks off later this year Belgium, Luxembourg, Ukrania, Russia and Monaco with the film aiming to be completed and ready for release by early 2013. [Source: Variety]
Guernica 33 Days
Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to play opposite Antonio Banderas in Carlos Saura's $10 million-budget "Guernica 33 Days" which deals with Pablo Picasso »
- Garth Franklin
Gwyneth Paltrow in Talks to Join Antonio Banderas in Pablo Picasso Film Guernica 33 Days
17 May 2012 3:35 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Though we’ve most recently only seen her in brief roles in both Contagion and The Avengers, Gwyneth Paltrow is lining up a major role in the drama Guernica 33 Days. The story centers on Pablo Picasso’s emotional turmoil as he painted his masterpiece, with Antonio Banderas onboard to play the legendary artist. Variety reports that Paltrow is in talks to play Picasso’s lover Dora Maar, a Spanish-speaking French photographer who snapped the stages of “Guernica’s” creation. Paltrow speaks Spanish, having lived as an exchange student in Spain during her teenage years, and she recently flaunted her Español skills as a substitute Spanish teacher on Glee (for which she actually won an Emmy for some reason). Paltrow’s a strong actress when given the right material, so hopefully she can shine in Guernica. Carlos Saura (The Hunt) is set to direct, and production will begin in mid-September. The »
- Adam Chitwood
Gwyneth Paltrow Negotiating for Picasso Film ‘Guernica’
17 May 2012 2:44 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
A long-gone time (February) brought news that Antonio Banderas was set for the coveted Picasso role in 33 Days, a semi-biographical depiction of the beloved painter and the effort expended to craft one of his masterpieces, Guernica. The uptake has been a little slow on this one in the time sense — or, nothing has actually happened, save for a title change that reflects the aforementioned painting — but Variety now has news of a big casting grab — one that could also mean things are really snapping together.
They’re reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow is currently in talks for Guernica 33 Days, having been pegged for the crucial role of Dora Maar; in real life — and in the actual film — Maar was a French photographer who acted as Picasso’s lover during the painting’s months-long creation. Along with her, Imanol Arias and Bárbara Goenaga have also boarded, being hired to play José Bergamín and his assistant, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
DVD Review: The Flamenco Trilogy, Carmen (1983)
2 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Watching Carlos Saura's Carmen (1983) nearly thirty years after it was originally released is not unlike listening to a scratchy old recording of a favourite song, where every click, pop and flutter boots you out of the zone and reminds you how much time has passed since then. For the second film in his Flamenco Trilogy, Saura evidently wanted to give the same dance company who starred in Blood Wedding (1981) a bigger stage on which to perform - not an unreasonable idea, at least on paper.But Blood Wedding's stripped-down, minimalist central performance was part of the attraction, not least for the way removing any distractions let you appreciate the almost magical way Saura's cast appeared to go straight from practising dance steps to living »
DVD Review: The Flamenco Trilogy, Blood Wedding (1981)
2 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
If you had to pick one reason why Carlos Saura is such a great director it would probably be how much the man can convey in a single scene while doing what seems like virtually nothing at all. He shows you a handful of people, no props, no set dressing, practically bare walls - then without warning something changes. There's nothing obvious to mark the transition, but suddenly these aren't actors going through the motions. They've become their roles, stepped into another world in the process, and yanked you along with them.The Flamenco Trilogy is Saura's first series of films where he used variations on this technique to explore ways of presenting Spain's extensive musical legacy on screen. These ranged from stripped-down, intimate acappella renditions »
Daily Briefing. Buñuel, Saura, Pialat, Preminger
27 April 2012 10:59 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"With regard to longevity and productivity, not to mention talent, the only peers of the great Spanish director Luis Buñuel (1900–83) are his contemporaries Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock," writes J Hoberman, opening a review of Román Gubern and Paul Hammond's Luis Buñuel: The Red Years 1929-1939 for the Nation. Read of the day, obviously.
More reading. Carlos Saura on the five films that have most influenced his own work (via Criterion Cast).
Ed Howard on four shorts by Maurice Pialat.
Pat Jordan for the New York Times Magazine on "How Samuel L Jackson Became His Own Genre."
For the Wall Street Journal, John Jurgensen talks with Sissy Spacek about her forthcoming memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life (via Movie City News).
In Reverse Shot, David Ehrlich argues that Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) is "a vital (if imperfect) chapter of this beloved saga, as »
DVD Review: Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy
23 April 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ During the 1980s - and as one of Spain's most influential directors - Carlos Saura moved away from his Franco-era political films such as Ana y Los Lobos (1973) and the sensational Cria Cuervos (Raise Ravens, 1976) to focus on his lifelong passion for flamenco. Saura created a sumptuous trilogy examining this quintessentially Spanish element of Hispanic culture, using flamenco's rigidly choreographed dance routines and vibrant music to depict the powerfully emotive themes of romance and unrequited love.
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- CineVue
Don Giovanni - hero or villain?
12 April 2012 2:44 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sex-crazed business man? Gay icon? Drug addict or anti-imperialist cipher? The many faces of Don Giovanni
In the Don Giovanni that has just opened in Paris, the eponymous hero has become an irredeemable sex pest of a businessman. Too much power and sex has corroded his soul. Perhaps you work with him. Perhaps you are him. At the end, in his nocturnal office, Giovanni is stabbed through the heart by the co-worker he sexually assaulted in act one, thrown through a window by a crowd of downtrodden cleaners, at least one of whom he tried to grope, and then accompanied to hell by the rotting corpse of the CEO he murdered at the outset. Twenty-first century moral? Don't stay late at the office.
The desperate Don's comeuppance, though, strikes me as unfair. As Kierkegaard noted in Either/Or, Don Giovanni is the opera's erotically animating presence. "His passion resonates everywhere »
- Stuart Jeffries
Daily Briefing. Peter Cook @BFI, Hoberman on "Zona"
3 March 2012 6:02 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Peter Cook: Genius at Work opens tomorrow at BFI Southbank in London and runs through March 21. "Although Cook has had his tributes before on the South Bank — there was a special Pete and Dud night in 2004, celebrating his legendary double-act with Dudley Moore — none has been as extensive as this, timed to coincide with what would have been Cook's 75th birthday year," writes Dominic Cavendish in the Telegraph. "Curator Dick Fiddy has lined up a rare old bag of treats. There's a BBC recording of the final performance of Beyond the Fringe, the groundbreaking sketch show that made his name and that of Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller — filmed in the West End in 1964 and never screened in the UK in its extended form…. And there will be screenings of his two major films: Bedazzled (1967), in which Cook plays the debonair Devil to Moore's bumbling Faust as relocated to Swinging Sixties London, »
Olé for 33 Dias if it shows the heroism of Pablo Picasso's Guernica
23 February 2012 7:52 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Thanks to surviving photographs and preliminary sketches, this film has the chance to really capture how the artist made Guernica
Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso? Cool. The casting of the star of Desperado, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and, er, Puss in Boots as the greatest artist of the 20th century is very promising. I mean, he's not simply Spanish but Andalusian. What's more, Banderas was born in Picasso's own birthplace, Malaga. That has to be better than the Welsh Picasso of a previous biopic.
Plausible casting is not the only promising thing about 33 Dias, to be directed by Carlos Saura. It sounds as if it will be a potentially insightful view of an artist at work. For it is all about the making of Guernica – not simply the most powerful political work of art of modern times, but also the outcome of an unusually well-documented creative process. »
- Jonathan Jones
Antonio Banderas is Pablo Picasso in 33 Days
21 February 2012 4:43 PM, PST | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Antonio Banderas will play Pablo Picasso in Carlos Saura's upcoming "33 Dias (33 Days)," about the painter's emotional turmoil as he worked on masterpiece "Guernica." "33 Dias" refers to the time Picasso spent on the mural, which captured his reaction to the destruction of Basque town of Guernica in 1937 by the Nazi Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War. "[Picasso] is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected," said Banderas. "He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born." The French and Spanish language film will begin shooting next summer in Paris and Guernica. The budget is set around $8 million. »
Antonio Banderas To Play Picasso
21 February 2012 8:52 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Antonio Banderas will play Pablo Picasso in Carlos Saura's upcoming $8 million biopic "33 dias" (33 Days) at Idem 4 and Cinevedas says Variety.
The story refers to the emotionally turbulent time Picasso spent on "Guernica", his famed mural showing the destruction of Basque town of Guernica in 1937 by the Nazi Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War.
Saura and Elias Querejeta penned the script alongside French writer Louis-Charles Sirjacq. The French and Spanish language-production will shoot next summer in Paris and Guernica. »
- Garth Franklin
Antonio Banderas To Play Picasso
21 February 2012 8:43 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
What, was Marcial Di Fonzo Bo unavailable? ("Midnight in Paris" joke for you guys, right there.) According to Variety, Antonio Banderas is set to play Pablo Picasso in the upcoming docudrama, "33 Dias" ("33 Days").
The film follows Picasso during the 33 days it took him to paint the masterpiece "Guernica," which captured the destruction of the town during the Spanish Civil War.
"[Picasso] is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born," Banderas told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
"33 Dias" will be directed by Carlos Saura. It will start shooting next summer in Paris and Guernica.
[via Variety and El Pais] »
- Alex Suskind
Antonio Banderas To Play Pablo Picasso In '33 Days'
21 February 2012 8:42 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
What, was Marcial Di Fonzo Bo unavailable? ("Midnight in Paris" joke for you guys, right there.) According to Variety, Antonio Banderas is set to play Pablo Picasso in the upcoming docudrama, "33 Dias" ("33 Days"). The film follows Picasso during the 33 days it took him to paint the masterpiece "Guernica," which captured the destruction of the town during the Spanish Civil War. "[Picasso] is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born," Banderas told Spanish newspaper El Pais. "33 Dias" will be directed by Carlos Saura. It will start shooting next summer in Paris and Guernica. [via Variety and El Pais] »
- Alex Suskind
Antonio Banderas to play Pablo Picasso in 33 Days
21 February 2012 7:11 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Antonio Banderas has signed on to play Pablo Picasso in Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura's 33 Dias (33 Days), about the famed artist’s emotional turmoil as he worked on the painting "Guernica," which was his reaction to the destruction of the Basque town of Guernica in 1937 by the Nazi Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War. 'Guernica' is one of Picasso's most renowned works and stands as a symbol for the casualties of war, particularly innocent civilians. It has »
- Paul Shirey
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