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Close up: Justice League gearing up for big screen heroics
7 March 2013 7:38 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The Oscars have been handed out, the awards race is done, studios are dumping their flops and failures on the market: March is cinema's dead zone, so the thinking goes. Time to look ahead once more… and what's this? A superhero movie? Whatever will they think of next? Perhaps one where superheroes, like, team up? No? This could catch on!
And so we come to the Justice League film, which has been in the pipeline since, ooh, 2007; and will see Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and some other crimefighting nobodies, get together to smash evildoers (we assume).
Now, the Justice League movie was no one's idea of a priority until The Avengers came along last year and pretty much smashed all other superhero movies out of the park, a key plank of a brilliant wheeze by »
This week's new films
1 March 2013 10:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Gangs Of Wasseypur Part 2 | Stoker | Arbitrage | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Caesar Must Die | The Bay | Sleep Tight | Broken City | Trashed | Safe Haven | Hi-So | Michael H. Profession: Director | The Gospel According To Matthew | The Attacks Of 26/11 | Acoustic Routes
Gangs Of Wasseypur Part 2 (18)
(Anurag Kashyap, 2012, Ind) Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Zeishan Quadri, Aditya Kumar, Huma Qureshi. 160 mins
It's over five hours long in all, but there's barely a slack moment in this exhilarating Indian epic as it races through generations of smalltown criminal, industrial and political enmity. Yes, it's violent, but like all great crime stories it's also a vibrant tapestry of family life and modern history, closer to Leone, Coppola or Tarantino than Bollywood.
Stoker (18)
(Park Chan-wook, 2013, Us/UK) Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode. 99 mins
The Oldboy director gives us a sensual, tantalisingly ambiguous thriller, centred on Wasikowska and her shifty smalltown family.
Arbitrage (15)
(Nicholas Jarecki, 2012, Us) Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling. »
- Steve Rose
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: 'For us it was cinema or death'
1 March 2013 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been unjustly overlooked for two decades. Now they're back with a prize-winning new film acted by a cast of prison inmates
The Taviani brothers are among the last titans of classic Italian cinema. They came of age in the era of Rossellini and Pasolini; they count Bertolucci among their contemporaries; they have been a nurturing influence on younger countrymen such as Nanni Moretti. They won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1977 for Padre Padrone, an odyssey of rural hardship shot through with transformative fantasy and theatricality. It begins with the Sardinian farmer's son, on whose memoir the film is based, handing a prop to the actor who will be playing him; another scene allows us access to the inner monologue of a goat with which a boy is having sex ("I am going to shit in your milk!"). That playfulness persists in the wartime »
- Ryan Gilbey
Caesar Must Die – review
28 February 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A docudrama about Italian prisoners putting on a production of Julius Caesar never fully ignites
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die is an intriguing pressure cooker of a movie, hissing and streaming and bubbling for an hour and a quarter, but never quite blowing its lid, either in terms of action or ideas. It has been widely and rightly admired on the festival circuit, and in fact won the Golden Bear at Berlin, and it's never anything less than interesting, though I felt it didn't quite fulfil its potential, and the repetition of material at the beginning and end is disconcerting. It is a docudrama about (genuine) prisoners in an Italian maximum-security jail who are putting on a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, though the female characters have been cut. (Maybe the director didn't want to have to tell some tough guy that he is playing Calpurnia or Portia. »
- Peter Bradshaw
Movie Review: How Can Anyone Not Adore the Taviani Brothers’ Caesar Must Die?
8 February 2013 11:45 AM, PST | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
How can anyone not adore Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die? In a scant hour and a quarter, it enlarges your notion of what theater and cinema, what art itself, can do — it dissolves every boundary it meets. Any attempt to pin the movie down reduces it, but this is the setup: A group of prisoners in an Italian maximum-security prison (most with sentences in the teens, some lifers) audition, are cast, and rehearse a production (heavily abridged) of Julius Caesar. Quickly, the roles take over, and we’re watching the play itself.But reality intrudes — a missed line, a suggestion from the director, a prisoner who breaks off to reflect on the connections between his character’s dilemmas and his own past or present. If that sounds schematic (it does), let me add that there’s little in the way of a one-to-one correspondence between Julius Caesar »
- David Edelstein
Review: In Tavianis' Dreamy, Meta Docudrama 'Caesar Must Die,' All the Prison's a Stage
6 February 2013 9:01 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s docudrama “Caesar Must Die,” Italy's Oscar entry that runs February 6-19 at Film Forum, takes place at Rome’s maximum-security Rebibbia Prison, and stars the facility’s actual inmates. Many of the men are serving life sentences, with a variety of high crimes on their records: drug trafficking, Cammora and Mafia affiliation, and murder. A highlight of the inmates’ year is the annual theater production, which the more dramatically inclined can audition for and perform in, perhaps as a way of dealing with the inner sagas they experience day in and out. When the Taviani brothers take their grainy digital cameras to the prison, the play that has been selected is William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Instead of making a traditional documentary interviewing the prisoners and following their personal conflicts and triumphs as they “put on a show,” the co-directors take a more meta »
- Beth Hanna
Berlinale 2013: The 10 Films We Want to See
6 February 2013 6:28 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The 63rd Berlin International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering dozens (and dozens) of world premieres across mutliple sections. By the time the festival's Golden and Silver Bears are handed out next weekend, we'll have a good idea as to some of the best world cinema coming to theaters near you (eventually, that is -- some of last year's program is just coming out Stateside now). In the past few years, the festival has proven itself -- perhaps more than it has in some time -- as an excellent platform for emerging and proven talent in world cinema to debut their work. The past two years have collectively offered the likes of Miguel Gomes' "Tabu," Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation," Wim Wenders' "Pina," Christian Petzold's "Barbara," Paolo & Vittorio Taviani's "Caesar Must Die," Michael R. Roskham's "Bullhead," Benoit Jacquot's "Farewell My Queen," Bela »
- Peter Knegt and Eric Kohn
Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this February: Caesar Must Die, Porfirio and No
31 January 2013 8:00 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Apart from some foreign items Lore (Music Box Films – 2/8/13) and Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love (Sundance Selects – 2/15/13), classic re-issue of Little Fugitive (Artists Public Domain – 2/1/13), a guilty pleasure in Soderbergh’s Side Effects (Open Road Films – 2/8/13) and experimental docu A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument (Factory 25 – 2/8/13), it’ll once again slim pickings in the month of February. Here our this month’s top 3 Critic’s Picks.
Caesar Must Die – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas & Film Forum on Wednesday the 6th – Adopt Films
Festival Awards: Golden Berlin Bear & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Berlin Film Festival – 2012)
What the critic’s are saying?: Screen Daily’s Lee Marshall appears to be much impressed stating “now into their eighties, the Taviani brothers show with this remarkable, fresh and moving drama-documentary they have lost none of that mix of observational rigour and sympathy for the underdog that marked early films like Padre Padrone, »
- Eric Lavallee
Caesar Must Die Movie Review
30 January 2013 3:22 AM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: Caesar Must Die Adopt Films Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani Screenwriter: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani Cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore, Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca, Juan Dario Bonetti, Vittorio Parrella, Rosario Majorana, Vincenzo Gallo Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 1/29/13 Opens: February 6, 2013 Blending documentary with fiction, Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani illustrate how creative prisoners can be. In this case a number of cons in Rome’s maximum security Rebibbia prison complex rehearse Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with the aim of performing before what appears to be a chic group of Rome’s citizenry. When the brief 76 minutes of the film is over, you might be tempted to reward these [ Read More ]
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- Harvey Karten
Steven Soderbergh Movie Gets Big Placement
28 January 2013 5:40 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Berlin — New movies from directors Steven Soderbergh and Gus Van Sant and a trio of films starring French divas will be competing this year at the Berlin International Film Festival.
A diverse selection of 19 movies, including films from Kazakhstan and Iran, will vie for the main Golden Bear prize at Europe's first major film festival of the year. The event runs from Feb. 7-17.
Van Sant's film about the shale gas industry, "Promised Land," starring Matt Damon, and Soderbergh's thriller "Side Effects," featuring Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones, are the most prominent U.S. offerings.
There's a strong contingent from eastern Europe, including Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic's "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker," about a poor Gypsy family; Calin Peter Netzer's "Child's Pose," which highlights corruption in Romania; and Malgoska Szumowska's "In the name of," a film about a gay priest in Poland. »
- AP
5 Broken Cameras Wins Best Doc at 2013 Cinema Eye Honors
10 January 2013 10:35 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Sorry Oscars. But after the Indie Spirit Awards, the number two spot in terms of Award Season importance are the Cinema Eye Honors. Seems like it was only yesterday when Aj Schnack & Thom Powers teamed up for one basic, logical concept: an event that would reward yearly output of documentary film in a rightfully sound manner. With the wind in their sails, the 6th annual edition was held last night and deservingly so, adding to its double wins at the Idfa and Sundance, it is 5 Broken Cameras that took the top honors for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. Co-directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi – political activism via you guessed it, five video cameras. The film was released via Kino Lorber.
The night’s only double winner, could be regarded as the silver medal doc film of the year: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia grabbed the Outstanding »
- Eric Lavallee
13 Comics, Graphic Novels, Plays and News Articles that were Adapted into Movies Releasing in 2013 Part One
2 January 2013 4:00 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Two thousand and twelve is over and it's on to the new year and while I'm busy preparing a list of 50 films I'm anticipating in 2013, I got to thinking it might be fun to also prepare a list of books, articles, plays, graphic novels, comics and more for you to read to prepare for the year's new films and I've come up with a total of 35 of them (give or take, considering some are based on comic book series and/or characters from novels). Today I am introducing Part One of the list, which includes the comic books, graphic novels, news articles and plays that were adapted into films while tomorrow I will feature over 25 books that were adapted into movies that will be hitting theaters this year. I have written a few words on each as well as links to purchase all of the titles available as well as »
- Brad Brevet
13 Articles, Plays and Comics to Read in Preparation for the Movies of 2013 Part One
2 January 2013 12:07 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Two thousand and twelve is over and it's on to the new year and while I'm busy preparing a list of 50 films I'm anticipating in 2013, I got to thinking it might be fun to also prepare a list of books, articles, plays, graphic novels, comics and more for you to read to prepare for the year's new films and I've come up with a total of 35 of them (give or take, considering some are based on comic book series and/or characters from novels). Today I am introducing Part One of the list, which includes the comic books, graphic novels, news articles and plays that were adapted into films while tomorrow I will feature over 25 books that were adapted into movies that will be hitting theaters this year. I have written a few words on each as well as links to purchase all of the titles available as well as »
- Brad Brevet
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