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Latest MPAA Ratings: Bulletin No: 2222
8 May 2012 10:09 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This has to be one of the biggest MPAA rating bulletins I've ever had to put together with 11 prominent films getting new ratings or amended ratings. Included is Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York co-starring Chris Rock, Pixar's Brave, the upcoming dramedy Celeste and Jesse Forever, Marjane Satrapi's Chicken with Plums, William Friedkin's Killer Joe which gets an updated Nc-17 rating reason, an R-rating for Ridley Scott's Prometheus, Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection, the horror collaboration V/H/S, The Words starring Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper, the R-rated rom-com Ruby Sparks and Sylvester Stallone's newly dated Bullet to the Head. Like I said, it is packed and if you're wondering what that film called Kiara the Brave is considering its similar rating to Pixar's Brave, just click here and bask in the glory of some of the best animation you've ever seen. Evar! »
- Brad Brevet
Prosecuted over Persepolis
7 May 2012 8:20 AM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a controversial depiction of life in Iran after the 1979 revolution, has hit the headlines once again, this time in Tunis. Nabil Karoui, owner of the Nessma TV network, has been fined for screening the film last October on grounds that it "disrupts public morals" and risks triggering disorder.
The film is controversial for several reasons, with Sunni Muslims considering it blasphemous because it includes a visual representation of Allah. It is a particularly sensitive subject for the Iranian Ministry of Culture and post-revolutionary Tunisia has been working hard to forge a stronger relationship with Iran, with an Iranian film week showcased in the capital last month. The inclusion of A Separation in this event, however, itself risked creating diplomatic difficulties, as the Iranian regime is divided over its relationship to the Oscar-winning film.
Reactions to the fine have been mixed, with some commentators arguing that it is far. »
- Jennie Kermode
Prosecuted over Persepolis
7 May 2012 8:20 AM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a controversial depiction of life in Iran after the 1979 revolution, has hit the headlines once again, this time in Tunis. Nabil Karoui, owner of the Nessma TV network, has been fined for screening the film last October on grounds that it "disrupts public morals" and risks triggering disorder.
The film is controversial for several reasons, with Sunni Muslims considering it blasphemous because it includes a visual representation of Allah. It is a particularly sensitive subject for the Iranian Ministry of Culture and post-revolutionary Tunisia has been working hard to forge a stronger relationship with Iran, with an Iranian film week showcased in the capital last month. The inclusion of A Separation in this event, however, itself risked creating diplomatic difficulties, as the Iranian regime is divided over its relationship to the Oscar-winning film.
Reactions to the fine have been mixed, with some commentators arguing that it is far. »
- Jennie Kermode
Prosecuted over Persepolis by Jennie Kermode - 2012-05-07 16:20:57
7 May 2012 8:20 AM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a controversial depiction of life in Iran after the 1979 revolution, has hit the headlines once again, this time in Tunis. Nabil Karoui, owner of the Nessma TV network, has been fined for screening the film last October on grounds that it "disrupts public morals" and risks triggering disorder.
The film is controversial for several reasons, with Sunni Muslims considering it blasphemous because it includes a visual representation of Allah. It is a particularly sensitive subject for the Iranian Ministry of Culture and post-revolutionary Tunisia has been working hard to forge a stronger relationship with Iran, with an Iranian film week showcased in the capital last month. The inclusion of A Separation in this event, however, itself risked creating diplomatic difficulties, as the Iranian regime is divided over its relationship to the Oscar-winning film.
Reactions to the fine have been mixed, with some commentators arguing that it is far. »
- Jennie Kermode
Prosecuted over Persepolis
7 May 2012 8:20 AM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
A TV station owner is fined as Tunisia aims to build links with Iran.
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a controversial depiction of life in Iran after the 1979 revolution, has hit the headlines once again, this time in Tunis. Nabil Karoui, owner of the Nessma TV network, has been fined for screening the film last October on grounds that it "disrupts public morals" and risks triggering disorder.
The film is controversial for several reasons, with Sunni Muslims considering it blasphemous because it includes a visual representation of »
- Jennie Kermode
Tunisian court fines TV station boss for airing animated film Persepolis
3 May 2012 9:55 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Nessma TV chief convicted of disrupting public order and violating morals by showing prize-winning Iranian film
A Tunisian court has convicted the head of a private TV station for disrupting public order and violating moral values by airing an animated film that some religious leaders say insults Islam.
The court in Tunis ordered Nabil Karoui to pay a 2,400 dinar (£964) fine because his station, Nessma TV, aired the animated film Persepolis in October.
The case has pitted liberals and defenders of media freedom against hardline Islamic groups who say that the film, which includes a depiction of God, is sacrilegious. The legal battle has underscored a struggle between secularists and Islamists in the north African country after its longtime dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown last year in the first Arab spring uprising.
In its ruling on Thursday, the court convicted Karoui of causing "troubles to the public order" and »
Tribeca Film Festival 2012
25 April 2012 2:37 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Following up on last week's preview of the Tribeca Film Festival (site), this'll be the entry that'll carry us through to Sunday. Introducing Slant's package of reviews, Ed Gonzalez argues that Tribeca "has blossomed from a celebration of the Big Apple as a filmmaking center into a great facilitator and promoter of international film and video culture." The Los Angeles Times' Steven Zeitchik agrees that it's "a prime venue to discover international films." More packages and lists: Smithsonian Magazine's Daniel Eagan ("What to See"), indieWIRE ("12 New Films We're Excited For"), Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay ("25 Films I'm Looking Forward To"), Movies.com ("20 Most Anticipated Movies"), Time's Lily Rothman ("Top 15 Chatter-Worthy Films"), Time Out New York and Twitch ("Top 15 Picks").
Having previewed "30-odd films" for the Voice, Eric Hynes recommends 14, and Take This Waltz is one of them: "Sarah Polley's follow-up to her moving directorial debut, Away From Her, is a modern »
Daily Briefing. Hitchcock, Borzage, Ozu, More
24 April 2012 1:42 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Farley Granger "didn't fear the homoerotic subtext of either of the films he did for Hitchcock," writes Farran Nehme in the run-up to the For the Love of Film III Blogathon. "Mind you, in his autobiography Granger says he spent years disappointing critics and interviewers when asked about discussions with Hitchcock about just what was going on between Rope's two main characters: 'What discussions? It was 1948.' That didn't mean, though, that Granger himself and co-star John Dall were clueless." And as for Strangers on a Train (1951): "Given a role of ambiguous morality, he increases the questions about the character, rather than trying to emphasize the good-Guy qualities."
Charles Lyons for Filmmaker on Annette Insdorf's Philip Kaufman: "The first book-length assessment of Kaufman's oeuvre, which will reach 14 films when Hemingway and Gellhorn premieres on HBO in May [it also screens Out of Competition at Cannes], Philip Kaufman is a shrewd and very readable study. »
‘Persepolis’ Directors Charm Once Again With Whimsical, Wonderful ‘Chicken With Plums’ [Tribeca Review]
24 April 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
In 2007, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi made a splash with their acclaimed feature debut Persepolis, an adaptation of Satrapi’s autobiographical comic. For their new follow-up Chicken With Plums, the pair have drawn upon another of Satrapi’s tomes, this one the true-ish tale of Satrapi’s renowned musician uncle. Superficially, the two projects seem like opposites. Where Persepolis was animated in [...] »
- Angie Han
Tribeca Review: 'Persepolis' Follow-Up 'Chicken With Plums' Is Amiable & Pretty, But Twee & Thin
24 April 2012 7:40 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
This is a reprint of our review from the Venice Film Festival.
It can be difficult to shift from animation to live-action direction; the processes are very different, and even an accomplished animation helmer can sometimes be undone once they're faced with cameras, actors and the breakneck schedule of a feature film shoot, as opposed to the multi-year process that produces a feature cartoon. Some have managed it, Tim Burton being the most obvious example (at first, anyway...) and Pixar dons Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton are both hoping to make the leap in the next few months. It's got to be even harder to go from working in graphic novels, to animation, to live-action, but that's been the path for Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud in the last few years.
Satrapi is the Iranian-born author of "Persepolis," the best-selling, award-winning graphic novel that was adapted in 2007 into the Oscar-nominated »
- Oliver Lyttelton
'Chicken With Plums' Filmmaker Marjane Satrapi Has Next Film in the Can
23 April 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Even as Marjane Satrapi is unveiling her new film “Chicken With Plums” for North American audiences at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Iranian-born French filmmaker already has her next project wrapped. And its style and substance is a direct result of the complicated “puzzle” that making “Plums” represented. This surprising news came during an intimate dinner at Bottino hosted by Michael Barker of Sony Pictures Classics, which will release “Plums” in the States, for Satrapi and collaborator Vincent Paronnaud before the film’s premiere at the Svs Theater Sunday night. Satrapi said that she shot her new film in Spain on the fly, with just a few friends and mostly improvised dialogue over 12 days in January. Its straightforward live-action narrative was a creative reaction to the complications of “Plums,” a visually stunning storybook about lost love that took years to make before finally having its premiere in »
- Jay A. Fernandez
Tribeca 2012: ‘Chicken With Plums’ returns Marjane Satrapi’s work to the big screen
21 April 2012 8:22 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Chicken With Plums (Poulet aux Prunes)
Written by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
France, 2011
The last time she adapted her own graphic novel into a film, Marjane Satrapi deftly translated her memoir Persepolis into an animated feature that struck a careful balance between poignant coming-of-age realizations and the often-harsh political and social realities that are part and parcel of growing up amidst political and religious turmoil. This time around, once again joined by co-conspirator Vincent Paronnaud (with whom she shares writing and directing duties), Satrapi tackles what would seem to be nearly as personal a project, a tribute to her great-uncle, but Chicken With Plums doesn’t aim for the kind of cultural specificity and political import of Persepolis; instead, it feels as much a film about the possibilities of film, specifically live-action film, which she here tackles for the first time.
In fact, »
- Simon Howell
Enjoying Chicken with Plums
20 April 2012 11:03 AM, PDT | MovieMaker.com | See recent Movie Maker news »
Co-directors of the Oscar-nominated Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud have tackled another one of graphic novelist Satrapi's works for their second collaboration, the dreamy, fairy tale-esque Chicken with Plums, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year and is having its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. In advance of the film's first Tribeca screening this Sunday, the duo took the time to chat with MovieMaker about their second collaboration and the source of their visual inspiration for this truly stunning film. »
12 Films We've Already Seen Playing The Tribeca Film Festival
17 April 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It's been a whole month since SXSW but the next fest is just a day away, with the 11th installment of the Tribeca Film Festival, the New York-based celebration of the movies set up by Robert De Niro and producing partner Jane Rosenthal, kicking off this Wednesday, April 18th.
Running to the end of the month, this year's festival is bookended by a pair of particularly high-profile pictures: opening with "The Five-Year Engagement," the latest Judd Apatow-produced rom-com from Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel (the team behind "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "The Muppets") and closing with Joss Whedon's Marvel superhero team-up "The Avengers." And yesterday, we ran down our most anticipated titles from the fest, many of which are making their world premiere or stateside debuts.
However, a number of films playing Tribeca are highlights from major festivals across the last year, from Cannes to Sundance. We've caught »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Chiara Mastroianni: I only saw my parents together on screen
10 April 2012 1:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Her father, Marcello Mastroianni, was Italy's biggest film star, while her mother, Catherine Deneuve, was the queen of French cinema. As her latest film is released, Chiara Mastroianni reveals the artistic secrets she inherited from Europe's golden couple
When you've grown up as the daughter of not one but two screen icons, you might be fed up with talking about how great your parents are. Especially when you're in the same business. Not so with Chiara Mastroianni. "I hate talking about myself," the actor tells me very early into our interview. "So, you know, I can just bury all that quite easily. If someone wants to know about my mother and father, I tell them – everyone thinks they know them better than I do anyway."
In mainland Europe that may be true, though they are perhaps less revered in modern-day Britain. Mastroianni's parents are Catherine Deneuve, still the grande dame of the French screen, »
- Jason Solomons
Alfonso Cuaron, Michel Gondry, Sara Driver, Marjane Satrapi, and Emir Kusturica to Direct Animated Anthology Tales From The Hanging Head
29 March 2012 3:24 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
A curious little project has come to our attention, and it’s quite exciting. A number of international directors are coming together to helm segments of an animated folk tale anthology called Tales from the Hanging Head. Filmmaker Sara Driver spilled the details on the project, revealing that she’ll be directing a story alongside Alfonso Cuaron, Michel Gondry, Marjane Satrapi, and Emir Kusturica. It’s a series of folk tales for children, linked together by the common thread of metamorphosis. Hit the jump for more. Driver spoke with the Huffington Post and the Columbia Spectator (via The Playlist) about the anthology, giving up a few interesting details: They’re from different countries, and the stories are from different countries, and Marjane is going to tie it all together with her incredible animation… The directors have to do every effect in camera or by light and shadow or in very »
- Adam Chitwood
Anthology Picture ‘The Hanging Head’ Comes Together With Alfonso Cuaron, Michel Gondry, Marjane Satrapi and More
29 March 2012 11:25 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Filmmakers have got that anthology fever. Just look toward the next couple of years, which are set to present the multi-story format from Woody Allen, V/H/S, the Stephen King-written Reaper’s Image, The Turning, and Sydney Unplugged. Now it’s time to throw one more into the fray — possibly the most enticing of them all, too.
And it’s all thanks to independent artist Sara Driver, who told The Huffington Post (via ThePlaylist) that she’s wrangled together a tidy collection of talent for her folk tale project Tales from the Hanging Head. Along with herself, the “European production for children” will see contributions from Alfonso Cuarón, Michel Gondry, Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), and Emir Kusturica (Underground).
Connected via a “common thread of metamorphosis,” Hanging Head will, as told to The Columbia Spectator, feature modern reworkings of Serbian folk tales, suited for each director’s native country; while live-action, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Cuaron, Gondry Are "Hanging Head"
29 March 2012 10:30 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Michael Gondry and Alfonso Cuaron along with several other filmmakers are teaming up for the new European kiddie-oriented anthology feature "Tales from the Hanging Head" according to The Huffington Post (via The Playlist)
Frequent Jim Jarmusch collaborator Sara Driver along with Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis") and Emir Kusturica ("Underground") also helm segments, based on a series of folk tales, which will have the "common thread of metamorphosis".
Driver tells The Columbia Spectator that "They’re from different countries, and the stories are from different countries, and Marjane is going to tie it all together with her incredible animation. The directors have to do every effect in camera or by light and shadow or in very tangible ways so that it brings magic to children. I also made all the fairy tales—I adapted them and brought them up to the present, so it’s also about bringing magic into the present day, »
- Garth Franklin
Alfonso Cuaron, Emir Kusturica, Michel Gondry, Marjane Satrapi & Sara Driver Team For Anthology 'Tales From The Hanging Head'
29 March 2012 6:41 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
So, just who is Sara Driver? She's a filmmaker who worked the New York scene, collaborating with Jim Jarmusch (producing "Stranger Than Paradise," working on "Permanent Vacation" and inspiring the story behind "Broken Flowers") and also made her own movies through the '80s and '90s. But as these stories sometimes go, while the indie movie world moved forward, she was left behind. However, a resurgence of appreciation for her contributions and her work have put her name back in the spotlight thanks to a recent retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City and new boxset of her films, and she's going to strike while the iron is hot.
Doing the interview rounds, she tells the Huffington Post that her next endeavor will find her working alongside some pretty big names. "[It's] a European production for children, a series of folk tales to be called 'Tales from the Hanging Head, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
"Sleepwalking: The Films of Sara Driver"
24 March 2012 2:56 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Showcasing a free-form approach to narrative that you'll wish wasn't all but extinct in American independent cinema," writes Benjamin Mercer in the L, "Sara Driver's long-unavailable (and too small) body of work constitutes a minor revelation. In her 1981 debut, You Are Not I — recently rediscovered and refurbished, providing the impetus for Anthology's retrospective — Driver laid the groundwork for her eerily dissonant overlay of enchantment, terror, and tedium: Adapting a Paul Bowles story with longtime collaborator (and partner) Jim Jarmusch, who also shot the film on black-and-white 16mm, You Are Not I is an outer-boundary study in the mind's capacity to project its disturbance." Suzanne Fletcher plays Ethel, "who has somehow escaped from a nearby mental hospital in the flaming aftermath of a several-car pileup. She travels through a derelict zone to her sister's house, where the 'inconvenient' Ethel winds up in an unnervingly clenched domestic showdown. »
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