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Casting: Rahim, Negga, Holbrook, T.I.
23 May 2012 4:07 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Untitled Asghar Farhadi Project
French actor Tahar Rahim ("A Prophet") will star opposite Marion Cotillard in the new French-language feature by Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi ("A Separation")
His first pic set outside his native Iran, details of the storyline are under wraps. Shooting kicks off in Paris in the Fall. [Source: Variety]
Twelve Years a Slave
Ruth Negga ("Misfits") and Scoot McNairy ("Monsters") are set to star in Steve McQueen's upcoming feature "Twelve Years A Slave" which also stars Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Paul Dano.
Negga will play a runaway slave while McNairy plays a circus employee. Shooting kicks off in June. [Source: The Associated Press]
Boyd Holbrook ("Higher Ground," "The Big C") have joined the cast of Naomi Foner’s "Very Good Girls" for Herrick Entertainment and Groundswell Productions
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen play lifelong best friends both determined to lose their virginity, Holbrook will play the »
- Garth Franklin
Tahar Rahim To Star Opposite Marion Cotillard In 'A Separation' Helmer Asghar Farhadi's Upcoming French-Language Effort
21 May 2012 5:40 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Merely days after "A Separation" helmer Asghar Farhadi cast fellow Oscar winner Marion Cotillard in his mysterious French-language feature, the Iranian has added another prestigious Gallic talent to the project in actor Tahar Rahim.
Details of the story remain under wraps but the pic will see Rahim unite with fellow Jacques Audiard collaborator Cotillard for what Farhadi has described as an "emotional social thriller" in the vein of 'A Separation,' with multiple twists aimed at keeping the audience in suspense from the first frame to the last. It'll also mark the first time Farhadi has shot a film outside his native Iran with lensing to begin this fall on an €11 million budget.
After breaking out at Cannes three years ago with his award-winning role in Audiard's "A Prophet," Rahim has pretty much avoided the allure Hollywood and the bigger pay checks (aside from a part in Kevin MacDonald's »
- Simon Dang
Asghar Farhadi Recruits Tahar Rahim for French-Language Feature
20 May 2012 4:57 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
It’s still so early into this film’s development, yet I still find myself immeasurably excited with each passing development. But, having seen (and being blown back by) A Separation, that’s just the sort of weight Asghar Farhadi now carries. Even if that wasn’t one of the best films I’ve seen in the past five years, the casting on his next effort — a currently-untitled transition to the world of French-language cinema — would be enough to generate some real interest on the part of yours truly. When you combine all of it, though? I’m thrilled at this project’s very existence.
Variety reports that A Prophet star Tahar Rahim (and an unnamed Iranian actor) will join a fellow Jacques Audiard veteran, Marion Cotillard, for the drama, which we only know as an “emotional social thriller” — which, while similar to A Separation, is said to have a twistier screenplay. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Asghar Farhadi takes Cannes prize
20 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
Asghar Farhadi, whose sensitive drama A Separation won eight major international awards, has today made history by becoming the first non-European to win the coveted EU Media funding prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Although he hails from Iran, Farhadi is keen to work in Europe and impressed the judges with his proposals.
The €60,000 prize will enable Farhadi to shoot a thriller in Paris with stars Marion Cotillard and Tahar Rahim. Alexandre Mallet-Guy from Memento Films will produce. “I am proud to give this award to Mr. Farhadi today for this film project which has a strong cultural identity and illustrates the openness of European culture,” said EU commissioner Androulla Vassiliou.
For Farhadi, who is experiencing dwindling support from the Iranian regime, the award may represent a pathway to greater creative freedom. He stressed, however, that he sees it as an opportunity to build bridges between cultures, celebrating diversity rather. »
- Jennie Kermode
Live blog - day two
17 May 2012 4:57 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette
10.07am: That was then, this is now. Day one of Cannes 2012 is so over, drifting off on the breeze of yesterday. We're all about today, day two.
If, like me, you find yesterday is so far away that you've forgotten what happened, here's Charlotte Higgins' summary from last night. And as Cannes is nothing if not about fancy frocks and smirking A-listers, we'll be posting a gallery of the red-carpet show before the festival opener, Moonrise Kingdom. Meanwhile, we'll soon have a video review of the film from Peter, Xan and Catherine.
But let's look forward. The big film today is Rust & Bone, the new one from Jacques Audiard. Now, if anyone is due a Palme d'Or it's him: his awesome A Prophet was unlucky to come up against the terrifyingly brilliant White Ribbon in 2010, and his previous work »
- Andrew Pulver
Marion Cotillard Will Lead Next Film From ‘A Separation’ Director Asghar Farhadi
17 May 2012 8:36 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
If he wasn’t previously on your radar, director Asghar Farhadi should surely gain a spot following his staggering drama A Separation last year. Easily one of my favorite films of 2011, the helmer is already crafting his follow-up, which is set to shoot in Paris this fall. We now have our first bit of casting, thanks to Screen Daily.
With her drama Rust & Bone premiering this morning at the Cannes Film Festival, it comes with perfect timing that Marion Cotillard has been announced to lead the film. Marking Farhadi’s first production outside Iran, details are still sparse, only that it will be an “emotional social thriller in the vein of A Separation.” Also added is the film will include many twists and turns for added suspense. I’m not expecting M. Night Shyamalan‘s antics, but I suppose Farhadi is stretching his style just a bit for this.
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- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Memento Films Int.
17 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
We Laurent Cantet’s Foxfire pegged for Tiff, Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are slotted for Sundance 2013 and Under the Rainbow being an obvious choice for Cannes, one might overlook the fact that this year Emilie Georges’ Memento Films Int. are repping the Critics’ Week selected Los Salvajes and Un Certain Regard chosen The Pirogue. Breaking news for today is that the company will back Asghar Farhadi’s next project to star Marion Cotillard. Filming beings this fall in Paris.
The Pirogue by Moussa TOURÉ
We Are What We Are by Jim Mickle
Bad Seeds (Comme Un Homme) by Safy Nebbou
Foxfire (Foxfire: Confessions D’Un Gang De Filles) by Laurent Cantet
Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Kids Of Today (Des Jeunes Gens MÖDERNES 2.0) by Jérôme De Missolz
- Eric Lavallee
Marion Cotillard To Star In A Separation Director's Follow-up
17 May 2012 7:13 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
After the impeccable Iranian drama A Separation won worldwide notice and Oscar acclaim, concern arose that its director, Asghar Farhadi, could face obstacles producing future films within Iran, as his native land is infamous for censorship of cinema. Some felt that the film, which centered on two families struggling within the country's troubled legal system, portrayed Iran in a negative light, which is an offense that could get Farhadi's works banned if not getting him exiled. This may be why he's making his next film in Paris, France. The untitled drama will be Farhadi's first feature to shoot outside of Iran, and will get the boost of some serious star power as Oscar-winning French starlet Marion Cotillard has signed on to headline. Plot details are presently under wraps as Farhadi finalizes the script, but producer Alexander Mallet-Guy (Cold Souls) revealed to Le FilmFrançais via Screen Daily that like A »
Marion Cotillard To Star In 'A Separation' Helmer Asghar Farhadi's Next; Matthias Schoenaerts Lines Up Thriller 'The Treatment'
17 May 2012 5:19 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
One of the most anticipated features at Cannes this year is Jacques Audiard's return to the Croisette with "Rust & Bone," an adaptation of Craig Davidson's short story starring Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. The last time the helmer was here for "A Prophet," he earned immense critical acclaim for himself and his film's star, Tahar Rahim, leading to the film's eventual Oscar-nomination in the Foreign Film category. From the sounds of our review this morning, "Rust & Bone" is another huge success for both the director and his lead actress.
Marion Cotillard is set to continue her amazing run of collaborations (which includes Audiard, husband Guillaume Canet, Chris Nolan, James Gray, Steven Soderbergh and Woody Allen), now teaming with Iranian helmer Asghar Farhadi, hot off his Oscar-winning family drama "A Seperation." Details about the film are being kept under wraps, but the project will be Farhadi's first shoot outside Iran, »
- Simon Dang
Can Cannes keep on top?
19 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Cannes, which has announced its 2012 line-up, has some serious competition. As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuit
It has been a quiet few months on the film festival front. The last two biggies, Sundance and Berlin, were back in the depths of winter; but now things are suddenly getting interesting. Tribeca, the New York trendoid-magnet, has just started, and Cannes, the swanky Cote d'Azur schmoozathon, has reared its finely contoured head on the horizon. The UK is even getting in on the action, with the much-anticipated arrival next week of Sundance London, an offshoot of Robert Redford's indie-maven event in Park City, Utah.
Sundance London is an example of that industry buzzword "diffusion", whereby name events set up franchises overseas. Tribeca has been doing it since 2009 in Qatar, co-organising the Doha film festival. It's a byproduct of »
- Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard, Andrew Pulver, Wim Wenders
Cool Clicks: The Many Faces of James Franco
19 April 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
We scour the interwebs for the coolest movie news and more so you don't have to ...
We're glad you were born, James Franco! Celebrate the 34th birthday of the "127 Hours" star with BuzzSugar's collection of photos featuring his many smoldering scowls and intense faces.
Let their influence be felt! Asghar Farhadi, Chelsea Handler, Claire Danes, E.L. James, Harvey Weinstein, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Louis C.K., Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Stephen Colbert, Tilda Swinton and Viola Davis are among the artsy-types who made this year's The Time 100: The 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Ufc member Jon 'Bones' Jones could become one of the greatest fighters of all time. Jon discusses his road to success and his journey as a son, brother, fighter and father in the documentary, "The Real Jon Jones," available for your viewing pleasure at Heavy.
Which tear-jerking, heart-breaking, relationship-comparison-inducing Nicholas Sparks romance makes you the most crazy in the best possible way? »
- Bryan Enk
Jessica Chastain: Most Influential People in the World?
18 April 2012 2:01 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jessica Chastain, The Help Did you know that Jessica Chastain is one of the Most Influential People in the World? No? You're not alone. Most people around the world don't know that fact, either. In fact, most people around the world have never seen or heard of the 30-year-old American actress. But that's a minor detail, at least as far as Time is concerned, as the magazine has included Chastain, along with a handful of film personalities, on their 2012 list of Most Influential People in the World. Now, Chastain's place on the — as always, ludicrous — list may be highly questionable, but her publicist(s) should definitely be included among the most influential in the world, or at the very least the most influential in the American show business / publishing world. Other film personalities on Time's list are Chastain's The Help co-star Viola Davis, Bridesmaids' Kristen Wiig, Homeland's Claire Danes, »
- Zac Gille
Did The Time 100 Really List Hollywood's Most Influential People?
18 April 2012 11:33 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Time Magazine has a habit of making decisions or lists that pretty much just exist to drive you crazy-- what, did you already forget when they put a mirror on their Person of the Year issue and declared it was "you"? But today's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World seems specially designed to push buttons, with choices that seem totally reasonable-- Barack Obama, Harvey Weinstein, Stephen Colbert, Warren Buffett, Princess Kate-- and then picks that are just a way to get someone famous on the list. It's most egregious when they include people in Hollywood, people whose names have been bandied about in the last year but who, thus far at least, are more "popular" than "influential." Here's the list of Hollywood people who made the list; see if you can figure out who I mean. Viola Davis Louis Ck Kristen Wiig Jessica Chastain Asghar Farhadi Chelsea »
Massacre Film Leads Italy's Donatello Awards Nominations
12 April 2012 6:31 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Director Marco Tulio Giordana's Romanzo Di Una Strage has landed 16 nominations for Italy's David di Donatello Awards just two weeks after the film's release.
The stirring movie, which chronicles the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Producer nods, while leading man Valerio Mastandrea was nominated among the Best Actor hopefuls.
The film was released in Italy on 30 March to huge national acclaim.
Close behind Giordana's film among the nominees announced on Thursday, were Nanni Moretti's comedy Habemus Papam (15 nods) and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place (14 nods), which features Sean Penn as a fallen rock star.
Also up for Best Film: Cesare deve moriere and Terraferma, while Mastandrea will fight it out with Frenchman Michel Piccoli (Habemus Papam), Elio Germano (Magnifica presenza), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Scialla!) and Marco Giallini (Posti in piedi in paradiso) for the Best Actor award.
The Best Actress nominees are: Donatella Finocchiaro (Terraferma), Micaela Ramazzoti (Posti in piedi in paradiso), Claudia Gerini (Il mio domani), Valeria Golino (La kryptonite nella borsa) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Io sono Li).
Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Melancholia, Le Havre, Oscar winner The Artist and Intouchables are all up for the Best European Union film trophy, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Ides of March, The Tree of Life and Asghar Farhadi’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner A Separation will compete for the Best Foreign Film prize.
The awards will be announced on 4 May. »
Review: 'Monsieur Lazhar' A Meek & Restrained Crowd Pleaser
11 April 2012 10:03 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
When "A Separation" won the Academy Award for best foreign language film last month, I was thrilled -- Asghar Farhadi's splendid domestic drama is one of the best things I've seen in the past few years. But it also came as a genuine surprise, because I was convinced the Canadian film "Monsieur Lazhar" was going to win. Gentle and understated, Philippe Falardeau's film is a classy crowd-pleaser, the kind of mild effort that makes people shake their heads imagining what awfulness would be done to it in an American remake. It is also nothing to write home about, though it features a strong turn from Mohamed Saïd Fellag, who plays the title character, and some very good child performances.
"Monsieur Lazhar" is adapted from a play by Évelyne de la Chenelière about an Algerian immigrant, Bachir Lazhar, who's hurriedly hired at an elementary school to take the place of Martine, »
- Alison Willmore
The Bermuda International Film Festival
10 April 2012 5:33 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
“Location, location, location” could very well serve as the tagline for the Bermuda International Film Festival. Set on a paradise island surrounded by spectacular pink sand and Technicolor-blue waters in the North Atlantic, it’s only a couple hours’ plane trip from NYC (or less if you can hitch a ride with the private-jetting Mayor Mike). This gracious and warmly welcoming fest – a reflection of the country’s unbelievably gregarious and helpful population (pull out a map and you’re just as likely to have a total stranger walk you to your destination as point the way) – is now in its 15th year yet exhibits the vitality of a young up-and-comer. Due to an economic crunch that nearly wiped out the 2012 edition, this Biff was a scaled down version of former incarnations that still managed to screen over 80 flicks from around the world, mostly in a single venue (the Liberty Theatre, »
- Lauren Wissot
Daily Briefing. Bergman's Videos, Antonioni's Docs and More
6 April 2012 10:11 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Both the Directors' Fortnight (May 17 through 27) and Critics' Week (May 17 through 25) have presented the posters for their 2012 editions — here and here, respectively. Neither is quite as classy as the poster for the Cannes Film Festival itself (May 16 through 27), but each captures the spirit of its strand pretty well.
In the works. Ingmar Bergman left behind a VHS collection of more than 1500 titles, including works by the likes of Tarkovsky, Buñuel and Truffaut but also more popular fare such as The Blues Brothers, Jurassic Park and Ghostbusters. As Jorn Rossing Jensen reports at Cineuropa, film critics Hynek Pallas and Jane Magnusson and journalist Fatima Varhos "are currently finishing Bergman's Video, a 90-minute documentary (for theatrical) and a 6x60-minute television series which will offer 'a new insight into the genius of Bergman and portraits of great filmmakers of today.' With focus on six themes: fear, silence, comedy, death, adventure and »
Daily Briefing. Mohammad Rasoulof, Ken Jacobs, Claude Lanzmann
29 March 2012 3:02 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Like Jafar Panahi, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof is awaiting "execution of the verdict," a sentence of one year in jail delivered in December 2010. Unlike Panahi, whose sentence is six years, Rasoulof is free to travel in the meantime, a luxury — or, as many would see it, a right — denied Panahi for, foreseeably, 20 years. Rasoulof is currently a jury member at the Fribourg International Film Festival, running through Saturday, which has given Regula Fuchs an opportunity to interview him for the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger (thanks to Film-Zeit for the tip).
Fuchs first asks about the potential impact of the Oscar for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation on the Iranian film scene. Rasoulof: "The authorities see this Oscar as a confirmation of their policies toward filmmakers: By exercising their influence on Iranian cinema, they've made this foreign award possible."
On how one goes about making a film in Iran these days: »
Introducing the films of Ebertfest 2012
27 March 2012 12:21 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Something nice happened to us while we were preparing the schedule for Ebertfest 2012, which plays April 25-29 at the Virginia Theater (above) in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. We'd invited Patton Oswalt to attend with his "Big Fan. He agreed and went one additional step: "I'd like to personally choose a film to show to the students, and discuss it." That sounded to me like a splendid idea, embodying the spirit of this festival, which combines the love of good films with volunteerism. This is a rare festival where no business takes place. No films are bought or sold. No deals are signed. It's simplicity itself: We join in a classic 1920 palace, 1,600 of us, and watch a film as it should be seen, on a vast screen with perfect sound. Then we talk about them afterwards. The festival and the theater come to us through the work of countless volunteers from the University and the community of Champaign-Urbana. »
- Roger Ebert
Daily Briefing. Spielberg, Solomon, Mitchum, Lucas
27 March 2012 2:47 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Even as Reverse Shot carries on working its way through the Spielberg oeuvre for the second time — the latest entry comes from Eric Hynes: "His cinema telescopes and microscopes, making big what's small, and near what's far, and always making you feel — both physically and emotionally — the ingenious contraption at work. Rarely has his marriage of form and feeling worked as fluidly and guilelessly as it did in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film of colossal ambition that plays as intimate, of heart-thumping sensations that register as cosmic, of wondrous spectacle that in the end just sings" — the new Film Quarterly features Jonathan Rosenbaum on what more than a few believe to be Spielberg's best work: "A.I. is a film about having been programmed emotionally — something that the cinema does to us all, and a subject that my first book, Moving Places, attempted to explore. This is one reason why, »
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