Normally, the fourth entry in an action franchise isn't the most anticipated of the series. That's simply not the case with "John Wick: Chapter 4," which by the way, is only the working title for the new movie due out in theaters March 24, 2023. "We still have the proper title to come out yet," director Chad Stahleski recently told Collider. The original "John Wick" set a new high bar for American action films, blending close-quarter fighting styles with a sleek art film appeal that's now referred to as "neon-noir." To keep raising the stakes, "John Wick: Chapter 4" has to be bigger, grittier, and longer than its predecessors.
There are at least a third more scenes in the new film, so expect "Chapter 4" to be somewhere over the two-hour mark. Moving way beyond the New York City limits, the world is expanding to feature exotic locales in Aqaba, Jordan (the setting for the opening sequence), Paris,...
There are at least a third more scenes in the new film, so expect "Chapter 4" to be somewhere over the two-hour mark. Moving way beyond the New York City limits, the world is expanding to feature exotic locales in Aqaba, Jordan (the setting for the opening sequence), Paris,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
Adrien Brody, the modern Renaissance man? The Oscar-winning actor, who also has credits as a director, producer and composer, has added painter to his impressive resumé. Brody, 43, took a year and a half off from acting to focus on art, and has been showcasing his paintings as of late. On Wednesday, the creative auctioned off his "Tiger on Last Legs" artwork at the third-annual Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala in St. Tropez. The actor-turned-painter was in esteemed company as famed pieces from Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Urs Fischer, Olafur Eliasson and Adrian Villar Rojas were also up for bid. Impressively, Brody's...
- 7/22/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Adrien Brody, the modern Renaissance man? The Oscar-winning actor, who also has credits as a director, producer and composer, has added painter to his impressive resumé. Brody, 43, took a year and a half off from acting to focus on art, and has been showcasing his paintings as of late. On Wednesday, the creative auctioned off his "Tiger on Last Legs" artwork at the third-annual Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala in St. Tropez. The actor-turned-painter was in esteemed company as famed pieces from Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Urs Fischer, Olafur Eliasson and Adrian Villar Rojas were also up for bid. Impressively, Brody's...
- 7/22/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Stories are certainly significant in Claire Denis‘ films, though their role is often to be a vehicle for her significant skills as a visual storyteller. (I can tell you what The Intruder‘s story is, but I couldn’t lay out the “plot” unless I’d just seen it. Even then…) And so while I’d normally hesitate to read a synopsis for any film as anticipated as her next, High Life, I figure this is a safe territory. Start playing the Tindersticks score and then we’ll talk about spoilers.
As it were, Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Screen Daily, somewhat counter to earlier reports, that the picture — which is set to star Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth — concerns “a group of convicts duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful.” But this will not happen...
As it were, Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Screen Daily, somewhat counter to earlier reports, that the picture — which is set to star Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth — concerns “a group of convicts duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful.” But this will not happen...
- 2/8/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Company also reveals more details about Claire Denis’s High Life and will show fresh footage of Emir Kusturica’s On The Milky Road.
Wild Bunch will kick-off sales on an authorised, no-holds-barred documentary about legendary Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi at the upcoming Efm.
Simply entitled Rocco, the documentary features a candid interview with the star in which he speaks about his true life, touching on his early career, fame and life with his wife of 20 years, Rosa Caracciolo, who he co-starred with in Tarzan X: Shame Of Jane- before they married and went on to have two children together.
Sometimes referred to as the “Italian stallion”, Siffredi has appeared in more than 1,500 films over his 30-year career and also dabbled briefly in the French arthouse cinema world, appearing in Catherine Breillat’s Romance and Anatomy Of Hell.
The film also follows Siffredi’s recent decision to quit the porn business for good, shortly after appearing...
Wild Bunch will kick-off sales on an authorised, no-holds-barred documentary about legendary Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi at the upcoming Efm.
Simply entitled Rocco, the documentary features a candid interview with the star in which he speaks about his true life, touching on his early career, fame and life with his wife of 20 years, Rosa Caracciolo, who he co-starred with in Tarzan X: Shame Of Jane- before they married and went on to have two children together.
Sometimes referred to as the “Italian stallion”, Siffredi has appeared in more than 1,500 films over his 30-year career and also dabbled briefly in the French arthouse cinema world, appearing in Catherine Breillat’s Romance and Anatomy Of Hell.
The film also follows Siffredi’s recent decision to quit the porn business for good, shortly after appearing...
- 2/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
High Life
Director: Claire Denis
Writers: Claire Denis, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird
French auteur Claire Denis is back with sci-fi tale High Life, co-written by novelists Zadie Smith and Nick Laird. Notably, this is Denis’ twelfth feature and her English language debut, which concerns ‘a galactic journey beyond our solar system.’ Intriguingly, French philosopher and physicist Aurelien Barrau was consulted on the project while Danish-Icelandic sculptor Olafur Eliasson is involved. Most headlines about the project concern Robert Pattinson and Patricia Arquette among the main cast members, which will certainly heighten Denis’ reputation abroad.
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, Mia Goth.
Production Co.: Alcatraz Films, Apocalypse, Pandora
U.S. Distributor: Rights available. Tbd (domestic) Wild Bunch (international).
Release Date: Denis’ has played twice at Cannes, in the main competition with her stellar 1988 debut Chocolat and in Ucr with 2013’s Bastards. She’s won Locarno’s top prize for Nenette et...
Director: Claire Denis
Writers: Claire Denis, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird
French auteur Claire Denis is back with sci-fi tale High Life, co-written by novelists Zadie Smith and Nick Laird. Notably, this is Denis’ twelfth feature and her English language debut, which concerns ‘a galactic journey beyond our solar system.’ Intriguingly, French philosopher and physicist Aurelien Barrau was consulted on the project while Danish-Icelandic sculptor Olafur Eliasson is involved. Most headlines about the project concern Robert Pattinson and Patricia Arquette among the main cast members, which will certainly heighten Denis’ reputation abroad.
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, Mia Goth.
Production Co.: Alcatraz Films, Apocalypse, Pandora
U.S. Distributor: Rights available. Tbd (domestic) Wild Bunch (international).
Release Date: Denis’ has played twice at Cannes, in the main competition with her stellar 1988 debut Chocolat and in Ucr with 2013’s Bastards. She’s won Locarno’s top prize for Nenette et...
- 1/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The arrival of a new Claire Denis film is enough itself to incur anticipation, but when it seems to be an unexpected, outside-the-box project, we’re even more intrigued. Such is the case for her follow-up to Bastards, a science-fiction drama now revealed to be titled High Life. Written by Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, Robert Pattinson is set to lead as an astronaut, and now we have our first substantial plot details and additional cast members.
ScreenDaily reports Patricia Arquette, who won an Oscar last year for Boyhood, and Mia Goth (Nymphomaniac) have joined the cast. Denis’s English-language debut follows “a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.” It sounds like a fascinating change-up for the director and we can’t wait to see the results.
Additional collaborators...
ScreenDaily reports Patricia Arquette, who won an Oscar last year for Boyhood, and Mia Goth (Nymphomaniac) have joined the cast. Denis’s English-language debut follows “a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.” It sounds like a fascinating change-up for the director and we can’t wait to see the results.
Additional collaborators...
- 10/26/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Oscar-winner joins sci-fi alongside Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth.
Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) has joined Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Mia Goth (The Survivalist) in the cast of Claire Denis’ anticipated untitled sci-fi, written by UK novelist Zadie Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
Denis’ English-language debut, due to shoot next year, is understood to follow a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.
The project, which ScreenDaily first reported in June, marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director.
The story is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and [link=nm...
Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) has joined Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Mia Goth (The Survivalist) in the cast of Claire Denis’ anticipated untitled sci-fi, written by UK novelist Zadie Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
Denis’ English-language debut, due to shoot next year, is understood to follow a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.
The project, which ScreenDaily first reported in June, marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director.
The story is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and [link=nm...
- 10/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Director Claire Denis is putting the pieces together for her surprising and enticing science fiction English-language debut. She already has Robert Pattinson and Mia Goth in the cast and has now added Patricia Arquette.The film, which has yet to lock down a title, features a script by White Teeth author Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, based on an idea conceived by Denis and regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau. And with Screen International’s latest report on the film comes a few more details on what we can expect from the story, which had already been mentioned as taking place in space, in a future time that feels like the present. Now we know that the idea will be a Suicide Squad-style mission for skilled criminals facing death sentences or life behind bars who are offered a potentially fatal space mission to find new energy sources in...
- 10/26/2015
- EmpireOnline
Anne Wivel’s Mand Falder will open the festival, which will screen 200 docs including 60 world premieres.
Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the programme for its 13th edition, which runs Nov 5-15.
The line-up features 200 documentaries including 60 world premieres, 18 European premieres and 14 international premieres.
Danish film Mand Falder, directed by Anne Wivel, will open the festival. The film centres around the artist Per Kirkeby and his recovery after suffering from a brain hemorrhage.
16 documentaries will compete in the main competition for the Dox:award, including Friedrich Moser’s journalistic docu-thriller A Good American about William Binney’s programme ‘Thinthread’ that could have prevented 9/11, but was cancelled by the Nsa, and Aslaug Holm’s Norwegian documentary Brodre, which was shot over 8 years and centres around two boys growing up.
Helena Trestikova’s Czech documentary Mallory about life at the bottom of Czech society also features in the competition, which was won last year by Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence.
Sean McAllister...
Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the programme for its 13th edition, which runs Nov 5-15.
The line-up features 200 documentaries including 60 world premieres, 18 European premieres and 14 international premieres.
Danish film Mand Falder, directed by Anne Wivel, will open the festival. The film centres around the artist Per Kirkeby and his recovery after suffering from a brain hemorrhage.
16 documentaries will compete in the main competition for the Dox:award, including Friedrich Moser’s journalistic docu-thriller A Good American about William Binney’s programme ‘Thinthread’ that could have prevented 9/11, but was cancelled by the Nsa, and Aslaug Holm’s Norwegian documentary Brodre, which was shot over 8 years and centres around two boys growing up.
Helena Trestikova’s Czech documentary Mallory about life at the bottom of Czech society also features in the competition, which was won last year by Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence.
Sean McAllister...
- 10/16/2015
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
Naomi Klein and Olafur Eliasson will both curate programmes at this year’s festival.
This year’s Cph:dox festival (Nov 5-15) will put a special emphasis on the topic of climate change.
The decision is partially due to the proximity of the COP21 gathering – where 196 countries will get together to discuss the challenges of climate change - in Paris on November 30.
There will be two guest-curated programmes placing special emphasis on the topic.
The first will be overseen by Canadian journalist, author and filmmaker Naomi Klein, who is a renowned social commentator and is a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org, and her partner, the filmmaker Avi Lewis.
They have selected ten documentaries that all have a political focus, including classics such as Hour Of The Furnaces and Harlan County USA.
The second programme will be curated by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who is noted for his installation The Weather Project...
This year’s Cph:dox festival (Nov 5-15) will put a special emphasis on the topic of climate change.
The decision is partially due to the proximity of the COP21 gathering – where 196 countries will get together to discuss the challenges of climate change - in Paris on November 30.
There will be two guest-curated programmes placing special emphasis on the topic.
The first will be overseen by Canadian journalist, author and filmmaker Naomi Klein, who is a renowned social commentator and is a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org, and her partner, the filmmaker Avi Lewis.
They have selected ten documentaries that all have a political focus, including classics such as Hour Of The Furnaces and Harlan County USA.
The second programme will be curated by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who is noted for his installation The Weather Project...
- 10/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
Robert Pattinson: Actor to play E.T. astronaut. Robert Pattinson to star for Claire Denis If all goes as planned, Robert Pattinson will get to star in French screenwriter-director Claire Denis' recently announced – and as yet untitled – English-language sci-fier, penned by Denis and White Teeth author Zadie Smith and her novelist husband Nick Laird, from an original idea by Denis and writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau. Among Claire Denis' credits are the interracial love story Chocolat (1988), the sociopolitical drama White Material (2009), and the generally well-regarded Billy Budd reboot Beau Travail (1999), winner of the César Award for Best Cinematography (Agnès Godard). Robert Pattinson, for his part, is best known for playing the veggie vampire in the wildly popular Twilight movies costarring Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Robert Pattinson, astronaut In Claire Denis' film, Robert Pattinson is slated to play an E.T. astronaut. But what happens to said astronaut? Does...
- 8/27/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
In June, word arrived that Beau Travail director Claire Denis was planning an ambitious film to mark her English-language debut: an untitled science fiction project. She’s now locked in a star, with Robert Pattinson confirmed for a lead role.The script comes from White Teeth author Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, though the specifics of the idea (conceived by Denis and regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau) are being held back for now. We do know, however, that it will take place beyond the solar system in a future time that nevertheless feels like the present. Pattinson is attached to play the lead, an astronaut. There is an eclectic group collaborating on the design and development of the new film including artist Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote tracks for White Material and another Denis project,...
- 8/26/2015
- EmpireOnline
Robert Pattinson is attached to play the lead role in Claire Denis’ upcoming English-language sci-fi film, written with British writer Zadie Smith.
Pattinson is set to play the astronaut lead role in the as-yet-untitled film, which Screen first reported on in June.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Paris-based producers...
Pattinson is set to play the astronaut lead role in the as-yet-untitled film, which Screen first reported on in June.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Paris-based producers...
- 8/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Hopefully, you’ve had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we’ll be breaking them out separately. Here’s a look at fall classical music and dance performances.September 9/11“Arvo Pärt at Eighty” The Metropolitan MuseumThe New Juilliard Ensemble will perform his shimmeringly ethereal works, and City Ballet dancers will perform Christopher Wheeldon’s Liturgy, set to Pärt’s Fratres. 9/14Tree of Codes Through Sept. 21, Park Avenue Armory How’s this for brand extension: Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Tree of Codes inspires a dance, with choreography by Wayne McGregor for his own dancers and an original score by Jamie xx, along with an installation by Olafur Eliasson. 9/17Run Time Error Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversityI’m a sucker for the unpredictable, and the Danish composer Simon...
- 8/25/2015
- by Rebecca Milzoff
- Vulture
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.
Vanity Fair has an oral history celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the 1990s best films, Clueless.The line-up for the 2015 Locarno Film Festival has yet to be revealed, but the fest has just announced the news that new films by Hong Sang-soo (Right Now, Wrong Then) and Andrej Zulawski (Cosmos) will be shown.Ace electronica musician Nicolas Jaar has released a free download of his re-scoring of Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates.One of our very favorite filmmakers, Claire Denis, is set to make her English-language feature debut, collaborating with writer Zadie Smith and artist Olafur Eliasson. Denis and Eliasson previously collaborated on the above short film.The A.V. Club has an essential interview exploring a side of filmmaking rarely talked about in public, asking...
Vanity Fair has an oral history celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the 1990s best films, Clueless.The line-up for the 2015 Locarno Film Festival has yet to be revealed, but the fest has just announced the news that new films by Hong Sang-soo (Right Now, Wrong Then) and Andrej Zulawski (Cosmos) will be shown.Ace electronica musician Nicolas Jaar has released a free download of his re-scoring of Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates.One of our very favorite filmmakers, Claire Denis, is set to make her English-language feature debut, collaborating with writer Zadie Smith and artist Olafur Eliasson. Denis and Eliasson previously collaborated on the above short film.The A.V. Club has an essential interview exploring a side of filmmaking rarely talked about in public, asking...
- 7/1/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Transgressive French director Claire Denis (Trouble Everyday, White Material) is making her English language debut with a space drama that is said to "take place beyond the solar system in a future time that nevertheless feels like the present."
Denise has teamed up with English novelist Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird who will write the screenplay for the project that comes from an original idea conceived by Denis and her writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Hard science fiction nerds will be happy hear that this female power-team has also brought in an interesting group to help on the project including astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, artist Olafur Eliasson and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote tracks for White Ma [Continued ...]...
Denise has teamed up with English novelist Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird who will write the screenplay for the project that comes from an original idea conceived by Denis and her writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Hard science fiction nerds will be happy hear that this female power-team has also brought in an interesting group to help on the project including astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, artist Olafur Eliasson and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote tracks for White Ma [Continued ...]...
- 6/29/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Novelist Zadie Smith will be writing her first screenplay with the acclaimed French director Claire Denis. They'll be co-writing the script with Smith's husband, the poet Nick Laird. According to Screen Daily, the as-yet-untitled film will be Denis's first English-language film, and will be a sci-fi adventure set in another solar system beyond ours in a "future that seems like the present." Besides the famous writing couple, Denis has enlisted other creative geniuses in the project, including the installation artist Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, and Stuart Staples of the British rock band Tindersticks, who did some music for Denis’s 2004 drama The Intruder. We expect to see a lot of beautiful mixed-race space aliens dancing in kaleidoscopic rooms.
- 6/29/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
Denis is once again collaborating with artist Olafur Eliasson, which should make this a spectacular-looking sci-fi adventure
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- 6/29/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It’s not every director who choses to make their English-language debt by venturing into the wilds of science fiction. But that’s exactly the plan for Beau Travail/ White Material filmmaker Claire Denis, who is developing an untitled drama set in space. Denis is keeping most of the plot details sealed behind an airlock for now, but Screen International has been able to discover that it will take place beyond the solar system in a future time that nevertheless feels like the present.She’s working on the project with writer Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, working from an original idea conceived by Denis and regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau. And there is an eclectic group also collaborating on the design and development of the new film including artist Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote...
- 6/29/2015
- EmpireOnline
Claire Denis, who has gifted us challenging French features including "Beau Travail," "35 Shots of Rum," "White Material" and most recently "Bastards," is set to make her English-language debut with a yet-to-be-titled science fiction film. Screen International reports that the film, set in outer space, is being written by Denis, British novelist Zadie Smith and Smith's writer husband Nick Laird. Based on an idea by Denis and her longtime writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, the film's plot remains under wraps "but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’." The project also marks Smith's screenwriting debut, though her luminous first novel "White Teeth" (2000) was reborn as a British miniseries in 2002. The rest of Denis' menagerie of unusual collaborators on this film include Danish-Icelandic installation artist Olafur Eliasson—with whom Denis made a short film to accompany a...
- 6/29/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Whether you're an arthouse fan or literature lover, this news is going to be a pretty exciting. And if you have a foot in each camp, then today is truly one that edges toward being mindblowing, because no one could have guessed this kind of collaboration was coming. Screen Daily reports that French auteur Claire Denis will make her English language debut with a sci-fi film set in space, co-penned by the filmmaker with acclaimed author Zadie Smith ("White Teeth," "On Beauty") and Nick Laird. Plot details aren't being shared just yet, except that the story will be set "beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present.’ " So yes, we're already totally on board. And the list of collaborators is even more fascinating with Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, and astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau lending their skills, with Stuart Staples of Tindersticks one again reteaming with Denis to score the movie.
- 6/29/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
"Claire Denis is teaming with British writer Zadie Smith on her first English-language film, which is set in space," reports Screen's Andreas Wiseman. She'll also be working with Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau and, once again, with Stuart Staples of Tindersticks. Also in the works: Todd Solondz's Wiener-Dog, a sort-of sequel to Welcome to the Dollhouse, with Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Brie Larson, Ellen Burstyn, Zosia Mamet and Tracy Letts. William Friedkin will direct and executive produce a TV adaptation of his 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A. Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's followup to The Tribe, Luxembourg, gets funding. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/29/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Claire Denis is teaming with British writer Zadie Smith on her first English-language film, which is set in space," reports Screen's Andreas Wiseman. She'll also be working with Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau and, once again, with Stuart Staples of Tindersticks. Also in the works: Todd Solondz's Wiener-Dog, a sort-of sequel to Welcome to the Dollhouse, with Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Brie Larson, Ellen Burstyn, Zosia Mamet and Tracy Letts. William Friedkin will direct and executive produce a TV adaptation of his 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A. Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's followup to The Tribe, Luxembourg, gets funding. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/29/2015
- Keyframe
Exclusive: French director’s first English-language film is set in space; artist Olafur Eliasson among collaborators.
French director Claire Denis is teaming with British writer Zadie Smith on her first English-language film, which is set in space.
Plot details are being kept under wraps on the as-yet untitled adventure-sci-fi but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Alcatraz and Pandora produced Denis’ most recent feature Bastards, which debuted...
French director Claire Denis is teaming with British writer Zadie Smith on her first English-language film, which is set in space.
Plot details are being kept under wraps on the as-yet untitled adventure-sci-fi but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Alcatraz and Pandora produced Denis’ most recent feature Bastards, which debuted...
- 6/29/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Now that summer's here, school is getting out, and temperatures have finally topped 80 degrees in New York, one thing is inevitable: Tourists are about to flock to the High Line in hordes. But there are some appealing things to see from the High Line, and we’re not (just) talking about exhibitionist hanky-panky in the Standard Hotel. We’re talking about the extensive, expertly curated group of works part of High Line Art, the initiative that commissions pieces specifically for the elevated park, and switches up the roster of artists each season. It makes for some lovely things to look at while dodging taco stands and lost French people.Olafur Eliasson’s The collectivity project invites visitors to play with the big pile of Lego blocks he’s left out on the High Line, hoping they can create a fantastical future skyline, perhaps one akin to the actual future skyline...
- 5/26/2015
- by Nate Freeman
- Vulture
Past the Bonfire of the Exes and Mount Amazon, take a shortcut through The Atwoods, avoiding the Reef of Pretension and the Twitter whirlpool – the picture above is a map of the modern writer’s mind. It was drawn by Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, who is one of 16 high-profile contributors to Where You Are. A box-set of “personal maps” by Alain de Botton, Tao Lin, Adam Thirlwell and Olafur Eliasson among others, it will be published by Visual Editions in December; an interactive website is live now at www.where-you-are.com.
- 11/14/2013
- The Independent - Film
The trailer for the new Jeff Buckley film, Dan Algrant's "Greetings from Tim Buckley," has finally arrived on YouTube, showing a flannel-clad Penn Badgley belting it out on stage.
The movie, which lands at Tribeca Film Festival this month, centers on the younger Buckley's breakout 1991 performance -- a tribute show to his father and American avant-garde musician, Tim Buckley. The concert is widely viewed as the start of the younger Buckley's stint in show business, a career tragically cut short by his death at the age of 30.
So what do we think of Badgley, the former "Gossip Girl" actor, as the leading man? Well, he has received surprisingly positive reviews since clips of him singing signature Buckley tunes surfaced online last year. Spin went so far as to call the impersonator "decent" while Fuse noted, "Badgley's voice does Jeff Buckley justice, and that's no small feat." He did seem to nail "Once I was,...
The movie, which lands at Tribeca Film Festival this month, centers on the younger Buckley's breakout 1991 performance -- a tribute show to his father and American avant-garde musician, Tim Buckley. The concert is widely viewed as the start of the younger Buckley's stint in show business, a career tragically cut short by his death at the age of 30.
So what do we think of Badgley, the former "Gossip Girl" actor, as the leading man? Well, he has received surprisingly positive reviews since clips of him singing signature Buckley tunes surfaced online last year. Spin went so far as to call the impersonator "decent" while Fuse noted, "Badgley's voice does Jeff Buckley justice, and that's no small feat." He did seem to nail "Once I was,...
- 4/2/2013
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights, from the Misanthrope to Johnny Marr, Lulu to Lichtenstein, H7steria to Hitchcock. What are you most looking forward to? Add your comments below and download a pdf of the calendar here
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
- 12/2/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Confused by the Cultural Olympiad? With the 2012 Games just 100 days away, Alex Needham reveals the 10 things you need to know
1 Some of it's already over
The Cultural Olympiad (Co) kicked off in 2008, described by the government as "a four-year programme of cultural activity" intended to showcase the best of British art in the run-up to the Olympic Games. Some projects have launched already, like the celebrations for Charles Dickens's 200th anniversary. And one event has not only opened but closed: David Hockney's landscapes at the Royal Academy. Ruth Mackenzie, the programme director, cleverly got round this by badging it "a countdown event".
2 London is everywhere
Even to seasoned observers, the Co can be confusing. But all will become clear (hopefully) on 26 April, when the final programme will be announced for the big finale. This is called the London 2012 festival (21 June to 9 September) even though it encompasses events all over the country.
1 Some of it's already over
The Cultural Olympiad (Co) kicked off in 2008, described by the government as "a four-year programme of cultural activity" intended to showcase the best of British art in the run-up to the Olympic Games. Some projects have launched already, like the celebrations for Charles Dickens's 200th anniversary. And one event has not only opened but closed: David Hockney's landscapes at the Royal Academy. Ruth Mackenzie, the programme director, cleverly got round this by badging it "a countdown event".
2 London is everywhere
Even to seasoned observers, the Co can be confusing. But all will become clear (hopefully) on 26 April, when the final programme will be announced for the big finale. This is called the London 2012 festival (21 June to 9 September) even though it encompasses events all over the country.
- 4/18/2012
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
Leading names from the worlds of contemporary art, design, fashion and film donated a record 2,900 postcard size artworks to the Royal College of Arts annual RCA Secret event, which culminated in a massive sale in London in the weekend.
Artists including Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, John Baldessari, Richard Wilson, Jeremy Deller and Christo; designers Sir James Dyson and Kenneth Grange; fashion designers Sir Paul Smith, Erdem, Manolo Blahnik and Dries Van Noten and film-makers Nick Park and Mike Leigh all produced mini masterpieces that went up for sale at just £45. The only twist was that buyers didn’t know who had designed the postcards until after they purchased one!
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Artists including Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, John Baldessari, Richard Wilson, Jeremy Deller and Christo; designers Sir James Dyson and Kenneth Grange; fashion designers Sir Paul Smith, Erdem, Manolo Blahnik and Dries Van Noten and film-makers Nick Park and Mike Leigh all produced mini masterpieces that went up for sale at just £45. The only twist was that buyers didn’t know who had designed the postcards until after they purchased one!
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- 11/28/2011
- Look to the Stars
"The old men I film," Tacita Dean tells Simon Schama in the Financial Times, "with witchily dark merriment," he notes, "as we sit on the terrace of her Berlin studio, 'seem to die just afterwards.' And indeed they do depart: the poet Michael Hamburger; the artists Mario Merz and Cy Twombly; the choreographer Merce Cunningham. But they will never be granted more subtly revelatory obituaries. Now Dean is facing an extinction against which she is fighting with everything she has: the death of film – real film, that is; 16mm celluloid, the indispensable medium of her work, the material that gives her art its uncanny presence. The laws of the marketplace have decreed that digital rules supreme; that film is no more than a quaint relic, and the champions of its immeasurable distinctiveness are deluded romantics. Dean grieves and rages against this smug indifference…. It strikes her as an appalling irony that Edwin Parker,...
- 10/12/2011
- MUBI
Iceland's annual celebration of young film-makers is local and low-key – but attracts some of the world's hottest names
Imagine how you'd feel if, for 10 days a year, some of the world's most exciting, innovative and revered film-makers descended on your small, provincial town for an enormous party. That's more or less what the Reykjavík international film festival feels like. The cinemas are tiny, there are no red carpets. The closest thing to a designer label is Gore or Berghaus. This is partly through necessity – you'd be pretty uncomfortable baring too much skin at 66 degrees north – but partly because the festival has been set up in the least pretentious way possible. It's a long way, both physically and metaphorically, from Cannes, Venice, Toronto or Berlin. Even the award is modest: the main prize on offer at the festival is the Golden Puffin.
Yet, despite all of this, the festival attracts some seriously big names.
Imagine how you'd feel if, for 10 days a year, some of the world's most exciting, innovative and revered film-makers descended on your small, provincial town for an enormous party. That's more or less what the Reykjavík international film festival feels like. The cinemas are tiny, there are no red carpets. The closest thing to a designer label is Gore or Berghaus. This is partly through necessity – you'd be pretty uncomfortable baring too much skin at 66 degrees north – but partly because the festival has been set up in the least pretentious way possible. It's a long way, both physically and metaphorically, from Cannes, Venice, Toronto or Berlin. Even the award is modest: the main prize on offer at the festival is the Golden Puffin.
Yet, despite all of this, the festival attracts some seriously big names.
- 10/3/2011
- by Alan Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
A spiky new bank headquarters that bleeds green.
3Xn--which, along with Snøhetta and Big is one of the three most buzzed-about architects currently working in Scandinavia--has just completed its latest project, a headquarters for the Middelfart Savings Bank on the sleepy Danish island of Fyn. You'd never guess by looking at it, but the building is deep green.
The most obvious feature, the spiky window awnings, are canted at a very specific angle to lend shade during summer months, when the sun is high, and to let the sun in during the winter, when the sun swings low. But they're also angled to frame the most impressive views of the surrounding waterfront.
Meanwhile, the biggest energy savings in the building come from prefab concrete blocks, shot through with plastic piping. In the winter, the pipes circulate warm air gathered by heat pumps; in the summer, cool sea water is circulated.
3Xn--which, along with Snøhetta and Big is one of the three most buzzed-about architects currently working in Scandinavia--has just completed its latest project, a headquarters for the Middelfart Savings Bank on the sleepy Danish island of Fyn. You'd never guess by looking at it, but the building is deep green.
The most obvious feature, the spiky window awnings, are canted at a very specific angle to lend shade during summer months, when the sun is high, and to let the sun in during the winter, when the sun swings low. But they're also angled to frame the most impressive views of the surrounding waterfront.
Meanwhile, the biggest energy savings in the building come from prefab concrete blocks, shot through with plastic piping. In the winter, the pipes circulate warm air gathered by heat pumps; in the summer, cool sea water is circulated.
- 4/22/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
The new car will be the 17th in BMW's fabled "Art Car" series.
Last month, we brought you news that BMW had tapped art star Jeff Koons to design its latest "Art Car." Today, Koons dropped the veil on his upcoming design. This one is meant to be driven, too: The car, after an unveiling on June 1st at Paris's Pompidou Center, will then be driven in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, from June 12 to 13. For BMW, those moves are calculated to highlight the history of the series. The first Art Car by sculptor Alexander Calder raced in Le Mans, in 1975. And Roy Lichtenstein signed his Art Car at the Pompidou Center in 1977.
At the press event, Koons stepped to the podium with his signature high-wattage smile and investment-banker suit, and explained that the design was inspired by the look of sonic booms, light explosions, and Christmas lights. "These cars have no outside purpose,...
Last month, we brought you news that BMW had tapped art star Jeff Koons to design its latest "Art Car." Today, Koons dropped the veil on his upcoming design. This one is meant to be driven, too: The car, after an unveiling on June 1st at Paris's Pompidou Center, will then be driven in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, from June 12 to 13. For BMW, those moves are calculated to highlight the history of the series. The first Art Car by sculptor Alexander Calder raced in Le Mans, in 1975. And Roy Lichtenstein signed his Art Car at the Pompidou Center in 1977.
At the press event, Koons stepped to the podium with his signature high-wattage smile and investment-banker suit, and explained that the design was inspired by the look of sonic booms, light explosions, and Christmas lights. "These cars have no outside purpose,...
- 4/6/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Jean Nouvel, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2008, is to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London. For the past decade, the gallery, situated in Hyde Park, has been home to some of the most innovative pop-up structures designed by a whole raft of architectural luminaries, including Zaha Hadid, Olafur Eliasson, and Frank Gehry, whose 2008 structure of timber and glass was absolutely breathtaking.
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Previous pavilions have--with the exception, perhaps, of Oscar Niemeyer and Rem Koolhaas' designs--blended in with the Serpentine's bucolic surroundings, particularly Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, aka Sanaa, with their delicate open-sided glass and chrome structure.
Not Nouvel's. The architect, who famously wears only black in winter, and white in summer, has gone for the brightest shade of red imaginable with his design, which incorporates a 12 meter-high freestanding wall which juts out of the ground at a hairy angle. It will be fascinating to find...
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Previous pavilions have--with the exception, perhaps, of Oscar Niemeyer and Rem Koolhaas' designs--blended in with the Serpentine's bucolic surroundings, particularly Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, aka Sanaa, with their delicate open-sided glass and chrome structure.
Not Nouvel's. The architect, who famously wears only black in winter, and white in summer, has gone for the brightest shade of red imaginable with his design, which incorporates a 12 meter-high freestanding wall which juts out of the ground at a hairy angle. It will be fascinating to find...
- 3/23/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
Using just a series of colored lights and basic principles of optics, Eliasson makes magic.
The artist Olafur Eliasson--probably best known for installating four 90-foot artifical waterfalls on New York's rivers--is out with his newest work, Multiple Shadow House. It's a doozy.
On view (for free) at the Tonya Bonakdar Gallery through March 20, it consists of a simple series of rooms, each one lit by a bank of lights. Here's the optical trick: The individual lights are all different colors, but the create white light when they all blend on a single wall. As visitors walk in front of the light sources, that hides certain colors--thus freeing the rest to reveal themselves as colored shadows.
You'd think something like this would only be reserved for CGI--but it's amazing to interact with:
Eliasson is a polymath who's designed everything from bridges (which we covered here) to cars (which we covered...
The artist Olafur Eliasson--probably best known for installating four 90-foot artifical waterfalls on New York's rivers--is out with his newest work, Multiple Shadow House. It's a doozy.
On view (for free) at the Tonya Bonakdar Gallery through March 20, it consists of a simple series of rooms, each one lit by a bank of lights. Here's the optical trick: The individual lights are all different colors, but the create white light when they all blend on a single wall. As visitors walk in front of the light sources, that hides certain colors--thus freeing the rest to reveal themselves as colored shadows.
You'd think something like this would only be reserved for CGI--but it's amazing to interact with:
Eliasson is a polymath who's designed everything from bridges (which we covered here) to cars (which we covered...
- 2/26/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
The pop artist has been tapped to create the latest in a long line of "art cars." Should be wild, judging from recent history.
Last night, Jeff Koons threw a party in his Manhattan studio to announce his latest flashy adventure in art and commerce: He'll be designing the next installment in BMW's long-running "Art Car" series. He's in good company--Since 1975, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, and Robert Rauschenberg have all designed Art Cars. (That's Koons pictured above at last night's event, looking like a stock broker surrounded by ex-wives (his real ex-wife is a Hungarian-born porn star-turned-Italian parliament member). And come to think of it, Koons actually was a stockbroker in his 20's--that's how he funded his early works.
The details of the design will be announced sometime this year. But if the recent past is any judge, it should be pretty wild--and wildly expensive. The most recent...
Last night, Jeff Koons threw a party in his Manhattan studio to announce his latest flashy adventure in art and commerce: He'll be designing the next installment in BMW's long-running "Art Car" series. He's in good company--Since 1975, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, and Robert Rauschenberg have all designed Art Cars. (That's Koons pictured above at last night's event, looking like a stock broker surrounded by ex-wives (his real ex-wife is a Hungarian-born porn star-turned-Italian parliament member). And come to think of it, Koons actually was a stockbroker in his 20's--that's how he funded his early works.
The details of the design will be announced sometime this year. But if the recent past is any judge, it should be pretty wild--and wildly expensive. The most recent...
- 2/3/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Olafur Eliasson's design for a Copenhagen footbridge hides a subtle social agenda.
Recently it was announced that Olafur Eliasson--a giant of contemporary art--was set to design a bridge in Copenhagen, and we've just received pictures of the project.
When it's completed in 2012, the 32-meter Cirkelbroen ("circle bridge") will connect Christianshavns Kanal and Applebys Plads, via a loopy, winding path. The span will also provide the final link across the many canals of Copenhagen's inner harbour. Thus, the entire route will become traversable by foot or bike.
Eliasson might be best known for his Waterfalls project in New York, which was up last summer. But that project didn't give a very clear idea of what his main obsessions are--he's less into creating public spectacle than tweaking our perceptions in subtle ways.
For the bridge, his idea was to create a span with no straight path through--instead, it's a series of five circular platforms.
Recently it was announced that Olafur Eliasson--a giant of contemporary art--was set to design a bridge in Copenhagen, and we've just received pictures of the project.
When it's completed in 2012, the 32-meter Cirkelbroen ("circle bridge") will connect Christianshavns Kanal and Applebys Plads, via a loopy, winding path. The span will also provide the final link across the many canals of Copenhagen's inner harbour. Thus, the entire route will become traversable by foot or bike.
Eliasson might be best known for his Waterfalls project in New York, which was up last summer. But that project didn't give a very clear idea of what his main obsessions are--he's less into creating public spectacle than tweaking our perceptions in subtle ways.
For the bridge, his idea was to create a span with no straight path through--instead, it's a series of five circular platforms.
- 11/11/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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