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Win Casa De Mi Padra Poster & DVD Bundle!
31 May 2012 3:12 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
To mark the release of Will Ferrell’s new comedy, Casa De Mi Padre in cinemas across the UK on June 8th, we’re offering our lucky readers the opportunity to win:
A Spanish Language DVD Bundle (featuring Cell 211, Rudo and Cursi, and Amores Perros)
Casa De Mi Padre Film Poster
Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father’s ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul’s success as an international businessman means the ranch’s troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul’s business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord, »
- Matt Holmes
Cannes: Walter Salles Talks The Long Journey To Make 'On The Road'
27 May 2012 10:17 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Given that the source material was once described by Truman Capote with the immortal epithet "That's not writing, that's typing," and has generally been considered as "unfilmable," it's not surprising that it's taken the best part of half-a-century to make a film of Jack Kerouac's beat classic "On the Road." Plans were in the works as early as the publication date in 1957 (Kerouac wanted to co-star in the film with Marlon Brando), and documentarian D.A. Pennebaker came close, but it's Francis Ford Coppola who's been the driving force, developing the project since the release of "Apocalypse Now" in 1979.
And finally, the film has been finished, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival last week, thanks to Coppola, who ended up producing the film, and Walter Salles, the director of "The Motorcycle Diaries." The helmer has assembled an impressive cast, including Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Garret Hedlund as Dean Moriarty, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
26 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Artist; Martha Marcy May Marlene; Carancho; Chronicle; Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
At a time when eye-straining, ear-bashing, hi-tech 3D movies are being drearily touted as the inevitable "future of cinema", Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011, Entertainment, PG) reminds us that great movies – and great movie-making techniques – are timeless. An affectionate homage to the early days of cinema, this wonderful near-silent black-and-white beauty about a matinee idol threatened by the arrival of sound tips its cine-literate hat towards everything from the swashbuckling romps of Douglas Fairbanks to the pathos of Chaplin and the slapstick of Keaton. Narratively, the film intelligently acknowledges the die-hard templates of Singin' in the Rain and A Star is Born, while an hallucinogenic dream sequence in which our hero is haunted by the spectre of sound would not look out of place in a David Lynch movie. Hazanavicius's best picture Oscar-winner is no mere genre pastiche, »
- Mark Kermode
Slumdog's dissenters: poverty on film in India
15 May 2012 7:02 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
How does India, assertively taking its place on film's pop culture world map, deal with outsiders' portrayals of its social woes?
• What global box-office stories would you like to see in After Hollywood? Let us know in the comments below
A few weeks ago, Joss Whedon scored all the smart cultural points by taking us on an abridged world tour of horror in The Cabin in the Woods. But he seemed to trip up after putting superherodom on long-haul in Avengers Assemble – the Kolkata slum scenes (where Black Widow finds Bruce Banner on an indefinite gap year) were criticised by Indian actors for dealing in stereotypes and fixating on poverty in the country. "There are two scenes about India, and they only show slums," the Bengali star Rituparna Sengupta told the Hindustan Times. "It could have been done in better taste."
The Brits love carping about the Big-Ben-and-double-decker-bus shorthand that »
- Phil Hoad
P&G says ‘thank you mum’ as 100 day countdown to Olympics begins
17 April 2012 7:54 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Procter & Gamble has launched a global campaign to say ‘thank you mum’ as the countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games begins.
With 100 days until the games begin, the Fmcg giant behind brands like Gillette, Pantene, Oral-b, Vicks, Fairy and Ambi Pur is running its first-ever dedicated corporate brand campaign in Australia.
The campaign celebrates mums, and particularly the mums of athletes by thanking them for doing “The best job in the world,” and is a part of P&G’s worldwide partnership with the International Olympic Committee.
The 30 and 60-second TVCs were created by the director of Babel, Amores Perros and 21 Grams, Alejandro González Iñárritu and will first air in Australia on Sunday.
The campaign in Australia will also include activations in shopping centres, which will ask people to upload a thank you message to their own mothers through image, video or text to be displayed on in-centre screens and »
- Cathie McGinn
How to polish your screenplay: notes from Mahindra–Sundance Screenwriters Lab
12 April 2012 10:39 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Vikas Chandra was selected for the inaugural edition of Mumbai Mantra—Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab in India for his script ‘Toothache’. He, along with seven other screenplay writers, participated in a 5 day- workshop in Lonavla. Vikas Chandra sums up his learning from the workshop in this article:
Your donkeys are not carrying enough load!
In the beginning I had no clue on how to prepare or even what to expect from the lab. Worse, I was gripped with the fear that in no time I would be exposed as a writer!
I expected to be bombarded with questions I had no answers to, at least not at that moment. With such apprehensions, I approached my first session, which was with Audrey Wells.
Thankfully – nothing of the above happened.
We started talking about the central character in my script. Why did I choose my protagonist? What do I like about her? »
- Vikas Chandra
Boca Do Lixo – Blu-ray Review
2 April 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
After becoming drawn to Sao Paulo’s burgeoning red light district in the mid-1950s, Hiroito (Daniel de Oliveira) grows up to snort, shoot, and shag his way through Boca Do Lixo (Sao Paolo’s nightclub, prostitution, and drugs district). As he increasingly indulges in his own product and butts up against competing organised criminals, Hiroito begins to simultaneously unravel and escalate in his violence and criminality.
*****
Boasting “based on a true story” credentials, covering a similar time-frame to Goodfellas and portraying one man’s descent into a way of life that entices him from his youth, this could have been Brazil’s answer to Scorsese’s crime epic. That it isn’t and not by some distance is a shame and the question then becomes one of where the blame should lie.
Hiroito is an enigmatic character, his father brutally murdered (Hiroito may have been responsible, we are never »
- Dave Roper
Whatever happened to non-linear films?
21 March 2012 2:19 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A decade ago, a caper like Contraband might have been in line for a fashionably fragmentary narrative treatment – so why not now?
It's a berth on the USS Contemporary all the way for Mark Wahlberg in his new thriller Contraband, with its story about the counterfeit-money supply lines between Panama and the United States. In fact, the film is a testament to the glories of (above board) free trade: once known as 2008 Icelandic production Reykjavik-Rotterdam, this piece of intellectual property has crossed the Atlantic with star Baltasar Kormákur, who, as the new film's director, ushered it smoothly into the Hollywood warehouse.
Contraband is a solid enough 110 minutes, a bit like a lengthy episode of the Crystal Maze set in a sweating central American metropolis overseen by some crazed Ups official. But its feverish overplotting made me think it had missed a trick. It might have benefitted from stringing together some elegant non-linear connections, »
- Phil Hoad
Photos: How Diego Luna And Gael Garcia Bernal Crossed Over
19 March 2012 2:54 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
This past weekend, Mexican actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna co-star alongside comedian Will Ferrell in his subtitled, todo en espanol, satirical latest: Casa De Mi Padre, (Spanish for My Father’s House).
A rip on telenovelas -- a “soap opera” staple of Spanish language television -- the love triangles, backstabbing family members and overacting provides plenty of material for parody.
And, like a handful of Latin American actors who have successfully crossed over into the U.S. mainstream (i.e. Sofia Vergara, Salma Hayek, and Penelope Cruz to name a few) -- Bernal and Luna are no strangers to cinema.
Real-life childhood friends, Garcia and Luna are most recognized for their steamy roles in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age film Y Tu Mama Tambien, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.
Individually, Luna has appeared to U. »
- The Huffington Post
Cs Video: Gael Garcia Bernal on Casa de mi Padre
16 March 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
When comedian Will Ferrell decided to make the comedy Casa de mi Padre as his first Spanish language film, he called upon one of Mexico's finest exports, Gael Garcia Bernal, to play La Onza, the merciless druglord who plagues Ferrell's naïve young rancher, Armando Alvarez, while also reuniting him with his childhood friend Diego Luna for the third time on screen since they first got attention with Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien . Bernal himself appeared in similar Telenovellas as the ones "Casa" spoofs as a child before breaking out in Alejandro Iñárritu's 2000 debut Amores Perros and going on to work with some of Latin and South America's top filmmakers including Cuaron, Walter Salles and Fernando Meirelles. Recently, Bernal was pegged to join many great »
Trailers: Kate Hudson in 'Heaven,' Johnny Depp's 'Dark Shadows,' and Behind the Scenes at 'Comic Con'
15 March 2012 3:24 PM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
In what has to be one of the oddest romantic pairings, A Little Bit of Heaven stars Kate Hudson as a terminally ill woman who falls in love with Gael Garcia Bernal. Sure ladies love Ggb and this movie's making no attempts to entice guys to watch it, but still, you have to wonder why Bernal signed on for this movie. An excellent actor who generally picks solid material ranging from early stuff like Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien to more recent fare like Rudo y Cursi and Casa de Mi Padre which hits theaters tomorrow. Maybe there's more to this movie than meets the eye. Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp reunite to adapt the popular cult sci-fi television series from the 1960s and early '70s into a feature length...
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Sean Penn Circling Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s ‘Red Flag’
15 March 2012 3:07 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Late last year we got word that Sean Penn was looking to re-team with his 21 Grams director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and bring Leonardo DiCaprio along with him, for The Revenant. But then just last week the director jumped to another project, based on Jennifer Vogel’s crime drama Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. And today we got word that DiCaprio will actually be collaborating with Martin Scorsese for his next project. So, where does this leave Sean Penn?
Vulture has the full story, which goes into all the details, but for the basic gist, DiCaprio was passionate about The Revenant, whereas Penn was more attracted to Flim-Fam Man (now being titled Red Flag). As financing geared up for the latter film, it gave DiCaprio a reason to exit for his Scorsese project and Penn could step in on this new Inarritu feature, where he »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Mumbai Mantra launches Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab 2012
14 March 2012 1:01 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Mumbai Mantra, the media and entertainment division of the Mahindra Group, is collaborating with Sundance Institute for the inaugural Mumbai Mantra Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab 2012. Eight feature film projects have been selected through a rigorous evaluation process of submissions from Indian screenwriters from around the world . These Screenwriting Fellows will have the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film scripts with the support of Creative Advisors (established Screenwriters and Directors) in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. Through one-on-one story sessions with the Creative Advisors, the Screenwriting Fellows will engage in an artistically demanding process that offers indispensable lessons in craft, a fresh perspective on their work and a platform to fully realize their material.This year.s Screenwriting Fellows who will go through an immersive five day workshop (March 11-16) at a Club Mahindra Resort are: . Charudutt Acharya (Sonali Cable Centre). Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar (Margarita, »
8 Projects Chosen for Inaugural Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab
12 March 2012 12:19 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Sundance Institute and Mumbai Mantra, the media and entertainment division of the Majindra Group, have selected eight feature film projects by Indian screenwriters for the inaugual Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. The Screenwriting Fellows will work on their scripts with the support of established screenwriters and directors during a five day workshop at a Club Mahindra resort. The Creative Advisors will include Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth"), Michael Goldenberg ("Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"), Marcos Bernstein ("Central Station") and Guillermo Arriaga ("Amores Perros"). "We are at an exciting storytelling stage in the history of Independent Cinema in India," said Rohit Khattar, chairman of Mumbai Mantra. "With the help of our exceptional partners, Sundance Institute, we are keen to recognize, nurture and hone talent in India and across the world. We welcome to the lab the »
- Devin Lee Fuller
Anusha Rizvi, Shonali Bose among 8 selected for Mahindra Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab 2012
11 March 2012 10:31 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab 2012 announced eight feature-film projects for its inaugural edition. Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui’s Opium and Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar’s Margarita, With a Straw are two of them.
The selected 8 Screenwriting Fellows will get an opportunity to develop their works under the guidance of Creative Advisors at a workshop for 5 days from March 11-16, at Club Mahindra Resort in Lonavala.
The selected 8 projects are:
• Charudutt Acharya (Sonali Cable Centre)
• Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar (Margarita, With a Straw)
• Vikas Chandra (Toothache)
• Rajnesh Domalpalli (Avani)
• Prashant Nair (Umrica)
• Anusha Rizvi & Mahmood Farooqui (Opium)
• Ajitpal Singh (Manjhi)
• Kartik Singh (Public School).
The group of Creative Advisors include Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), Marcos Bernstein (Central Station, Foreign Land), Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact),Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Senna), Shekhar Kapur (Bandit Queen, Elizabeth), Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me, Eve’s Bayou), Anjum Rajabali (Rajneeti, »
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Sundance Institute comes to India: boost for scriptwriting - Realbollywood.com News
11 March 2012 6:57 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Mumbai, March 11: Creative filmmaking in India got a big shot in the arm as the Holy Grail of the global independent cinema movement - Sundance Institute - has walked into the cinema capital with the inaugural of Mumbai Mantra Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab 2012 Sunday.
Under this, the writers of the best final eight scripts selected from a total of 500 applications and a shortlist of 94 screenplays, will be mentored for a gruelling five days by some of the best names of international cinema - Guillermo Arriaga ("Amores Perros", "21 Grams"), Marcos Bernstein ("Central Station", "Foreign Land"), Michael Goldenberg ("Harry Potter. »
- Arun Pandit
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu To Direct Crime Drama Based On ‘Flim-Flam Man’
8 March 2012 8:35 PM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
After his excellent debut Amores Perros, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has been a slight downward spiral with each new project. I’m not talking a M. Night Shyamalan-level descent, but each new film has found lesser levels of success with his Javier Bardem-starring Biutiful barely making an impact, even with two top Oscar nominations. Regardless, as a big fan of the director I look forward to anything he does next and tonight, we have an idea of what that may be.
Variety reports that Inarritu has climbed aboard a new drama based on Jennifer Vogel’s Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life, with New Regency set to finance the film. Following the true story of Vogel’s father experiences in the criminal underworld, this film is set to shoot before his other planned film The Revenant, which has Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio attached. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Gael Garcia Bernal Signs Up For Blockbuster Film
23 February 2012 2:15 PM, PST | CineMovie | See recent CineMovie news »
Indie-darling Gael Garcia Bernal finally takes the plunge with a big-budgeted film with franchise potential as the new Zorro in Zorro Reborn. The Mexican-born star has shied away from mainstream Hollywood fare until now.
Set in the future, Zorro Reborn will be a reboot of the successful franchise starring Antonio Banderas. The 20th Century Fox-produced film will be set outside Mexico and California but the story will remain the same as the masked vigilante takes revenge in a new setting.
The news of the casting came to a surprise for many who have yet to see Gael Garcia Bernal take a lead role in a big Hollywood movie. Since breaking out in Amores Perros in 2000, the Mexican star has focused his acting career in foreign films wth award-winning directors such as Pedro Almodovar,
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Guillermo Arriaga And Carlos Carrera Team For Documentary Santo, El Enmascarado De Plata
19 February 2012 2:43 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Mexico's favorite son is returning to the big screen.Timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the creation of Santo - the enormously popular masked wrestler who made as big a mark on the big screen as in the ring - Babel and Amores Perros writer Guillermo Arriaga and The Crime Of Father Amaro director Carlos Carrera are teaming to create documentary feature Santo, El Enmascadoro De Plata.Arriaga has penned the script for the film, which Carrera directs with narration by El Hijo de El Santo - The Son Of Santo. The film promises rare footage, including shots of Javier Solis - the man under the mask - singing and shots of the secret mausoleum where he is buried. »
Gael Garcia Bernal to Star in Zorro Reborn
17 February 2012 9:24 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
We're jumping on board the remake train again as it's been announced that the Zorro films will receive an update, although this one comes with a twist. While the Zorro of old was always based in a historical setting, the good people at Fox have decided to send the masked hero into a post-apocalyptic future for a film entitled Zorro Reborn. Not only will the setting undergo a massive change, but the character himself will also be portrayed differently than before, with more motivation for revenge than justice. The man behind the mask this time out will be Gael Garcia Bernal (Amores Perros, The Motorcycle Diaries), a name that film enthusiasts will know fairly well, but one that mainstream audiences probably don't recognize. Perhaps this project will be the one to introduce him to a wider range of viewers. Zorro Reborn is not to be confused with another Zorro film »
- Aaron
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