Shelly Johnson has been elected the 47th president of the American Society of Cinematographers. He succeeds Stephen Lighthill, who reached his term limit, having completed his second consecutive two-year term as president (and third overall).
The ASC Board also elected a slate of officers that includes VPs Charlie Lieberman, John Simmons and Patti Lee; treasurer Charles Minsky; secretary Dejan Georgevich; and sergeant-at-arms Chris Chomyn.
The members of the board, elected by the organization’s active membership, also include Mandy Walker (who became the first woman to win the ASC Award in features earlier this year for her lensing of Elvis), former Academy president John Bailey, Patrick Cady, Steven Fierberg, Michael Goi, Charles Minsky, Lowell Peterson, Lawrence Sher, Eric Steelberg, John Toll and Amy Vincent. Alternate members of the board are Karl Walter Lindenlaub, Georgevich, Denis Lenoir, Steven Poster and Mark Irwin.
Johnson, a California native, graduated from the Art Center College of Design...
The ASC Board also elected a slate of officers that includes VPs Charlie Lieberman, John Simmons and Patti Lee; treasurer Charles Minsky; secretary Dejan Georgevich; and sergeant-at-arms Chris Chomyn.
The members of the board, elected by the organization’s active membership, also include Mandy Walker (who became the first woman to win the ASC Award in features earlier this year for her lensing of Elvis), former Academy president John Bailey, Patrick Cady, Steven Fierberg, Michael Goi, Charles Minsky, Lowell Peterson, Lawrence Sher, Eric Steelberg, John Toll and Amy Vincent. Alternate members of the board are Karl Walter Lindenlaub, Georgevich, Denis Lenoir, Steven Poster and Mark Irwin.
Johnson, a California native, graduated from the Art Center College of Design...
- 5/22/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Highest honors go to this stylish, cinematically refined adaptation of a George Simenon thriller. Michel Blanc becomes a person of interest for a murder investigation mainly because he’s disliked and anti-social; Sandrine Bonnaire is the neighbor that he peeps at nightly, to stir his secret passion. Director Patrice Leconte directs with almost perfect control, turning the show into an emotional workout.
Monsieur Hire
Blu-ray
Cohen Film Collection
1989 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from / 29.95
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Bérenger, Marielle Berthon, Philippe Dormoy, Marie Gaydu, Michel Morano, Nora Noël.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Production Designer: Ivan Maussion
Costume designer: Elisabeth Tavernier
Film Editor: Joëlle Hache
Original Music: Michael Nyman
Scenario, adaptation and dialogue by Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf from the book Les fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon
Produced by Philippe Carcassonne, René Cleitman
Directed by Patrice Leconte
We’re fond...
Monsieur Hire
Blu-ray
Cohen Film Collection
1989 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from / 29.95
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Bérenger, Marielle Berthon, Philippe Dormoy, Marie Gaydu, Michel Morano, Nora Noël.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Production Designer: Ivan Maussion
Costume designer: Elisabeth Tavernier
Film Editor: Joëlle Hache
Original Music: Michael Nyman
Scenario, adaptation and dialogue by Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf from the book Les fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon
Produced by Philippe Carcassonne, René Cleitman
Directed by Patrice Leconte
We’re fond...
- 1/28/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Léa Seydoux stars with Melvil Poupaud, Pascal Greggory, and Camille Leban Martins in Mia Hansen-Løve’s spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) Photo: Carole Bethuel / Les Films Pelléas, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Mia Hansen-Løve once again turns the intimately personal into universally understood struggles and joys in her spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin). Well-chosen costumes by Judith de Luze, detailed sets (production design by Mila Preli), and carefully selected locations in and around Paris (plus a trip to Normandy for a Second World War Veteran’s celebration) with all the in-between places in focus, give us the picture of full lives.
Mia Hansen-Løve with Anne-Katrin Titze: “Léa Seydoux, I always had her in mind for the role.”
Hansen-Løve brings us into the world of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), mother of 8-year-old Linn (Camille Leban Martins) and a widow, who works as a translator/interpreter. Her father Georg...
Mia Hansen-Løve once again turns the intimately personal into universally understood struggles and joys in her spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin). Well-chosen costumes by Judith de Luze, detailed sets (production design by Mila Preli), and carefully selected locations in and around Paris (plus a trip to Normandy for a Second World War Veteran’s celebration) with all the in-between places in focus, give us the picture of full lives.
Mia Hansen-Løve with Anne-Katrin Titze: “Léa Seydoux, I always had her in mind for the role.”
Hansen-Løve brings us into the world of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), mother of 8-year-old Linn (Camille Leban Martins) and a widow, who works as a translator/interpreter. Her father Georg...
- 1/19/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After the success of 2021’s “Bergman Island,” it should be abundantly clear that when Mia Hansen-Løve releases a new relationship drama, cinephiles should take note. The auteur is returning to familiar territory with her latest work, the Léa Seydoux-led infidelity story “One Fine Morning,” which was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival and has now released a trailer ahead of its theatrical run.
According to the film’s official synopsis, Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their...
According to the film’s official synopsis, Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their...
- 12/1/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The permanence of love, passion, and marital stability is often questioned in the directorial offerings and screenplays of French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve. Blending the familiar themes and the photography of "Things to Come" and "Goodbye First Love," is Hansen-Løve's "One Fine Morning" which is effused with the creator's motif of plain shots and featherweight dramatic touches that serves to enhance, not dilute nor cheapen, its emotional focuses in 35mm. This has worked in Hansen-Løve's craft because she lets the emotions unravel naturally as players process their fate and their drudgery.
In conjunction with Hansen-Løve's usual collaborators, the cinematographer Denis Lenoir and editor Marion Monnier, the aesthetic of "One Fine Morning" is just as un-fancied as the editing and the cinematography. But those have been assets to her work in favor of gleaning humanity and the brisk pace of life. Like in her previous works, director Hansen-Løve has a gentleness when...
In conjunction with Hansen-Løve's usual collaborators, the cinematographer Denis Lenoir and editor Marion Monnier, the aesthetic of "One Fine Morning" is just as un-fancied as the editing and the cinematography. But those have been assets to her work in favor of gleaning humanity and the brisk pace of life. Like in her previous works, director Hansen-Løve has a gentleness when...
- 10/21/2022
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
Call it a remake, a reboot, or a rethinking, the “Irma Vep” series on HBO is above all meta. Start with Louis Feuillade’s 1915 French serial about a criminal gang, Les Vampires; jump eight decades into the future to 1996, when Olivier Assayas’ “Irma Vep” found Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung starring in a movie-within-a-movie adaptating the serial. Now, more than a quarter century later, the “Personal Shopper” director’s latest work both expands upon and in some ways contradicts the Cheung movie.
The fast-paced dialogue, twisty narratives, freewheeling soundtrack, and extraordinary visuals are back. Alicia Vikander plays Mira Harberg, a Swedish actor famous for American comic-book blockbusters, who arrives on set as director René Vidal (the remarkable Vincent Macaigne) is struggling with a special effects shot. As the series unfolds, relationships form and break, careers shift, and ghosts from the past haunt the set. But Assayas brings an honesty, sincerity...
The fast-paced dialogue, twisty narratives, freewheeling soundtrack, and extraordinary visuals are back. Alicia Vikander plays Mira Harberg, a Swedish actor famous for American comic-book blockbusters, who arrives on set as director René Vidal (the remarkable Vincent Macaigne) is struggling with a special effects shot. As the series unfolds, relationships form and break, careers shift, and ghosts from the past haunt the set. But Assayas brings an honesty, sincerity...
- 7/26/2022
- by Daniel Eagan
- Indiewire
Mia Hansen-Løve once spoke of her corpus like a home: “I think of my work on two levels: the film itself, and then the film as a part of a larger whole. A house that would be my work. Film by film, I’m trying to build my house higher and bigger.” In One Fine Morning she returns to Paris, the city where she was born, with a work as warm as a summer stroll and just as melancholic. Playing out on sunlit days and in casually cultivated Parisian apartments, it is yet another bittersweet slice of life from a director whose cinema has always felt at its most comforting, most profound in the familiar side-streets and boulevards of the French capital.
One year on from Bergman Island, her only title yet to have competed for the Palme d’Or, Hansen-Løve returned to Cannes this week in the more low-key...
One year on from Bergman Island, her only title yet to have competed for the Palme d’Or, Hansen-Løve returned to Cannes this week in the more low-key...
- 5/26/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
“One Fine Morning” sounds an innocuous title for a grownup relationship drama — destined, perhaps, to be confused on streaming menus with the George Clooney-Michelle Pfeiffer romcom “One Fine Day” — and in a sense, the mellow, melancholic cinema of French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is its own kind of comfort viewing. But as with many facets of her filmmaking, there’s a smarter, sadder, more literary undertow to the title’s sunny simplicity. “Un beau matin” in French, it’s lifted from a haunting poem by poetic realist Jacques Prévert, which describes in plain imagery the conflict of facing absence in your life, all while pretending there’s literally nothing there.
Suffice it to say, then, that Hansen-Løve’s latest is not a romantic comedy, except in the interludes when it is. At no cost to its calm, loping pace, “One Fine Morning” is about many things at once, in the way...
Suffice it to say, then, that Hansen-Løve’s latest is not a romantic comedy, except in the interludes when it is. At no cost to its calm, loping pace, “One Fine Morning” is about many things at once, in the way...
- 5/20/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a well-known fact that all French filmmakers are legally required to make at least one movie about an extramarital affair, but few such auteurs have been better-suited to the task than the great Mia Hansen-Løve, whose raw yet ravishingly urbane character dramas thrive in the messy spaces where fear and excitement overlap — where loss and possibility are as inseparable from each other as a movie and the screen onto which it’s being projected. In fact, the “One Fine Morning” isn’t even Hansen-Løve’s first crack at her national pastime, as the subject of infidelity has cropped up throughout her work, most notably in 2016’s exquisite “Things to Come.”
This time, however, she approaches that sticky situation through the eyes of the other woman, a widowed single mother whose stunning resemblance to Léa Seydoux could make any wedded man rethink their vows. A professional translator who’s...
This time, however, she approaches that sticky situation through the eyes of the other woman, a widowed single mother whose stunning resemblance to Léa Seydoux could make any wedded man rethink their vows. A professional translator who’s...
- 5/20/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose films are in awards contention and are among the most critically acclaimed films of the year to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the visual language of their respective films.
All films are listed alphabetically by title.
“Being the Ricardos”
Dir: Aaron Sorkin, DoP: Jeff Cronenweth
Format: 2:40 8k with a 10% reduction for frame adjustments and stabilization
Camera: Red Ranger 8k Vv
Lens: Arri DNA Primes
Cronenweth: It always starts with the story and with an Aaron Sorkin script you are going to be taken on a human rollercoaster of emotion and humor through challenging interpersonal relationships. Spherical 2:40 was the right choice in representing the scale (or lack of) and the era the film takes place during. The approach to “Being The Ricardos” was to capture the...
All films are listed alphabetically by title.
“Being the Ricardos”
Dir: Aaron Sorkin, DoP: Jeff Cronenweth
Format: 2:40 8k with a 10% reduction for frame adjustments and stabilization
Camera: Red Ranger 8k Vv
Lens: Arri DNA Primes
Cronenweth: It always starts with the story and with an Aaron Sorkin script you are going to be taken on a human rollercoaster of emotion and humor through challenging interpersonal relationships. Spherical 2:40 was the right choice in representing the scale (or lack of) and the era the film takes place during. The approach to “Being The Ricardos” was to capture the...
- 1/3/2022
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As we continue our year-end coverage, one aspect we must highlight is, indeed, cinematography. From talented newcomers to seasoned professionals, we’ve rounded up the examples that have most impressed us this year. Check out our rundown below.
About Endlessness (Gergely Pálos)
Working with close collaborator Gregory Palos, director Roy Andersson rids About Endlessness of any color contrast (there are almost no shadows too) to create a surreal but superficial uniformity implying the banality of everyday tasks. The film’s use of static one-shots over a series of vignettes paints life in a period of stasis. Andersson’s aesthetic choices give the film a sense of transcendence while uncovering the dark humor of everyday life while still looking gorgeous,...
About Endlessness (Gergely Pálos)
Working with close collaborator Gregory Palos, director Roy Andersson rids About Endlessness of any color contrast (there are almost no shadows too) to create a surreal but superficial uniformity implying the banality of everyday tasks. The film’s use of static one-shots over a series of vignettes paints life in a period of stasis. Andersson’s aesthetic choices give the film a sense of transcendence while uncovering the dark humor of everyday life while still looking gorgeous,...
- 12/22/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Mia Hansen-Løve’s wistful tale of escapism to the idyllic shores of Baltic Sea island Fårö, Sweden appears to be a tantalising holiday advert, as well as a great homage to legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. While the references are all there in new drama Bergman Island and will not be lost on fans of the iconic auteur, there are also many layers to unpeel, as we watch the trajectory of a relationship between two artists on their writing retreat. Only then does the striking setting revert to just that, and the focus sets on the pressures of career accomplishment within a marriage, coupled with writer’s block.
Tony (Tim Roth) is a successful and well-known filmmaker who arrives with wife and screenwriter Chris (Vicky Krieps) on the island with great expectations. Both are looking forward to being inspired by the very place Bergman shot his most famous movies, while soaking up the culture,...
Tony (Tim Roth) is a successful and well-known filmmaker who arrives with wife and screenwriter Chris (Vicky Krieps) on the island with great expectations. Both are looking forward to being inspired by the very place Bergman shot his most famous movies, while soaking up the culture,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Parenthood, relationships, and the creative process: three key elements of the cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve casually combine in Bergman Island, a playfully self-aware meta-portrait of the filmmaker and, indeed, of filmmaking itself. Introspective, inventive, and effortlessly calm; it follows a couple, both screenwriters, on an idyllic work retreat to Fårö, an island in the Baltic Sea (population: 498) just off the South East of Sweden. It’s the place Ingmar Bergman called home for the majority of his life, where he made many films and eventually died.
A story of prickly truths but no shortage of levity, it is a clear passion project for Hansen-Løve, a director whose work has always leaned as much toward the biographical as the cinephilic. Vicky Krieps stars as Chris, a filmmaker with a case of writer’s block, and Tim Roth is Tony, her older, more famous boyfriend. Hansen-Løve opens on their ferry ride to Fårö,...
A story of prickly truths but no shortage of levity, it is a clear passion project for Hansen-Løve, a director whose work has always leaned as much toward the biographical as the cinephilic. Vicky Krieps stars as Chris, a filmmaker with a case of writer’s block, and Tim Roth is Tony, her older, more famous boyfriend. Hansen-Løve opens on their ferry ride to Fårö,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose feature films are premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the look and visual language of these highly anticipated films.
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard and Critics’ Week
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
“Annette”
Dir: Leos Carax, DoP: Caroline Champetier
Format: Raw Xocn Xt 4K and 6K
Camera: 2 Sony Venice and 2 Sony Alpha 7Sii
Lens: Zeiss Supreme, Optimo Angenieux 48-76mm, Optimo Angenieux 25-250mm
Champetier: We needed a camera that was good with blacks and colors, and for now the Sony Venice is performing on both of these points. On a Carax movie, each...
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard and Critics’ Week
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
“Annette”
Dir: Leos Carax, DoP: Caroline Champetier
Format: Raw Xocn Xt 4K and 6K
Camera: 2 Sony Venice and 2 Sony Alpha 7Sii
Lens: Zeiss Supreme, Optimo Angenieux 48-76mm, Optimo Angenieux 25-250mm
Champetier: We needed a camera that was good with blacks and colors, and for now the Sony Venice is performing on both of these points. On a Carax movie, each...
- 7/8/2021
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The analog comeback continues for cinematography, as this week’s Cannes Film Festival boasts 19 titles shot on Kodak film, with eight competing for the Palme D’Or, highlighted by Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (Searchlight Pictures). The multi-layered ode to journalism, with an ensemble cast consisting ofTilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Timothee Chalamet, Lea Seydoux, Benicio del Toro, Elisabeth Moss, Owen Wilson, and Frances McDormand, was shot in both 35mm color and black-and-white by go-to cinematographer Robert Yeoman.
The other Palme D’Or entries shot on film include Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” (Dp Drew Daniels), Ildikó Enyedi’s “The Story of My Wife,” (Dp Marcell Rév), Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island” (Dp Denis Lenoir), Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” (Dp Jani-Petteri Passi), Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” (Dp Daniel Moder), Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” (Dp Kasper Tuxen), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” (Dp Sayombhu Mukdeeprom).
Additionally,...
The other Palme D’Or entries shot on film include Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” (Dp Drew Daniels), Ildikó Enyedi’s “The Story of My Wife,” (Dp Marcell Rév), Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island” (Dp Denis Lenoir), Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” (Dp Jani-Petteri Passi), Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” (Dp Daniel Moder), Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” (Dp Kasper Tuxen), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” (Dp Sayombhu Mukdeeprom).
Additionally,...
- 7/6/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Bergman Island Trailer: Mia Hansen-Løve Takes Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps on a Trip in Cannes Premiere
Hard, even indecent, to pick a single favorite from this year’s outstanding Cannes lineup, so we won’t do that… but we will suggest Mia Hansen-Løve’s long-developing Bergman Island has a particular glow about it. Which, I suppose, is what happens when one of our favorite directors finally debuts something of which we’ve heard word for years.
And its first trailer suggests—as trailers are explicitly designed to do, granted—that we’re in good hands: every shot is functionally perfect (note she’s reteamed with Eden Dp Denis Lenoir), every actor a beauty, and the last music cue a nice jolt. Let’s wait to see how reviews shake out, but with IFC set to release in the U.S., well, it’s hard to wait.
See below:
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And its first trailer suggests—as trailers are explicitly designed to do, granted—that we’re in good hands: every shot is functionally perfect (note she’s reteamed with Eden Dp Denis Lenoir), every actor a beauty, and the last music cue a nice jolt. Let’s wait to see how reviews shake out, but with IFC set to release in the U.S., well, it’s hard to wait.
See below:
The post Bergman Island Trailer: Mia Hansen-Løve Takes Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps on a Trip in Cannes...
- 6/4/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Mentoring emerging cinematographers has always been a key mission at the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival and this year’s online version of the event features a score of streaming master classes and seminars that inform and offer insights from top filmmakers and technology experts.
Streaming through the end of 2020 (online.energacamerimage.pl), the talks and teach-ins are, with rare exceptions, accessible without a password or online Camerimage entry card – unlike the usual live format of master classes at the festival, which invariably sell out if you don’t find a seat at least 20 minutes before the start.
One of the buzziest events from the festival, which officially ran Nov. 13-20, is the virtual career masterclass with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, in which he discusses his remarkable career, leading up to his latest feature, Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
The Netflix drama is built around the sensational political...
Streaming through the end of 2020 (online.energacamerimage.pl), the talks and teach-ins are, with rare exceptions, accessible without a password or online Camerimage entry card – unlike the usual live format of master classes at the festival, which invariably sell out if you don’t find a seat at least 20 minutes before the start.
One of the buzziest events from the festival, which officially ran Nov. 13-20, is the virtual career masterclass with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, in which he discusses his remarkable career, leading up to his latest feature, Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
The Netflix drama is built around the sensational political...
- 12/18/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The sunny subterfuge of Wasp Network, about a knotty web of anti-Castro groups and Cold War residuals, is a relief from the blue skin, suits and shadows of heavy political thrillers. It’s an Olivier Assayas film after all, shot in Cuba, Miami and the blue sky and ocean in between. As on Carlos, Assayas’ go-to DPs Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux shot their own half of Wasp Network. With Carlos, Le Saux started the film and chose the film stock, lenses, etc. On Wasp Network, Lenoir shot the first […]...
- 7/15/2020
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The sunny subterfuge of Wasp Network, about a knotty web of anti-Castro groups and Cold War residuals, is a relief from the blue skin, suits and shadows of heavy political thrillers. It’s an Olivier Assayas film after all, shot in Cuba, Miami and the blue sky and ocean in between. As on Carlos, Assayas’ go-to DPs Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux shot their own half of Wasp Network. With Carlos, Le Saux started the film and chose the film stock, lenses, etc. On Wasp Network, Lenoir shot the first […]...
- 7/15/2020
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
After last weekend’s influx of movies from big-name directors like Spike Lee and Judd Apatow, the landscape for movies looks to be comparatively calmer this weekend. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a fair share of worthwhile releases hitting VOD and streaming services this weekend, from studio movies with big stars, independently produced treasures coming off of buzzy festival runs and projects from major foreign filmmakers being distributed in the United States.
Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star in Blumhouse Productions’ latest thriller “You Should Have Left.” Following its release strategies for “Trolls World Tour” and “The King of Staten Island,” Universal has decided to give the movie a “home premiere” and price 48-hour digital rentals at $19.99.
Meanwhile, French director Olivier Assayas’ latest film “Wasp Network” is premiering on Netflix nine months after its debut at the Venice Film Festival last September. The primarily Spanish language film...
Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star in Blumhouse Productions’ latest thriller “You Should Have Left.” Following its release strategies for “Trolls World Tour” and “The King of Staten Island,” Universal has decided to give the movie a “home premiere” and price 48-hour digital rentals at $19.99.
Meanwhile, French director Olivier Assayas’ latest film “Wasp Network” is premiering on Netflix nine months after its debut at the Venice Film Festival last September. The primarily Spanish language film...
- 6/19/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Whenever you find out that a movie hitting theaters is one that played film festivals almost three years ago, it’s hard not to go in expecting a bust. After all, if the flick was so good, why didn’t it come out in 2017, or even 2018? Why the delay? Well, for whatever reason, Three Christs is only getting released this week, after a 2017 debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. In an interesting twist, however, this is a well acted and compelling drama. Sure, it’s a modest independent work, but with a top tier cast and an intriguing experiment at its core, it makes very little sense that the delay has been so long. The film is a drama, centered on a very unique medical experiment in the late 1950s. Specifically, things begin in 1959 at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan. There, Dr. Alan Stone (Gere) arrives, soon to...
- 1/9/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Olivier Assayas, Penélope Cruz, Édgar Ramírez, and producer Rodrigo Teixeira with Kent Jones at the New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Wasp Network, another highlight of this year's New York Film Festival, stars Penélope Cruz and Édgar Ramírez with Gael García Bernal, Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, and Leonardo Sbaraglia. Inspired by Fernando Morais’s book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War, the director/screenwriter Olivier Assayas announced that the film shot by Yorick Le Saux and Denis Lenoir, had been edited substantially since it was first shown at the Venice Film Festival on September 1. Assayas considered what we watched at the press screening on the afternoon of Friday, October 4 to be the film's new final cut world première.
Penélope Cruz: "I love babies. Once they get to the set they're mine!" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Wasp Network transports us into the realm of Cubans...
Wasp Network, another highlight of this year's New York Film Festival, stars Penélope Cruz and Édgar Ramírez with Gael García Bernal, Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, and Leonardo Sbaraglia. Inspired by Fernando Morais’s book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War, the director/screenwriter Olivier Assayas announced that the film shot by Yorick Le Saux and Denis Lenoir, had been edited substantially since it was first shown at the Venice Film Festival on September 1. Assayas considered what we watched at the press screening on the afternoon of Friday, October 4 to be the film's new final cut world première.
Penélope Cruz: "I love babies. Once they get to the set they're mine!" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Wasp Network transports us into the realm of Cubans...
- 10/6/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 2019 New York Film Festival kicks off tonight with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman — and do you really need us to recommend it to you? With our editorial staff seeing the film tonight, we’ve been avoiding Film Twitter, where extremely positive reactions have been leaking out from this morning’s press screening. But Scorsese’s long-anticipated, epic, effects-driven film is just one of many highlights we’re certain of as New York brings together some of the best out of Cannes, Venice, Telluride and Toronto along with some fantastic short-film premieres, talks, and new Vr […]...
- 9/27/2019
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The 2019 New York Film Festival kicks off tonight with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman — and do you really need us to recommend it to you? With our editorial staff seeing the film tonight, we’ve been avoiding Film Twitter, where extremely positive reactions have been leaking out from this morning’s press screening. But Scorsese’s long-anticipated, epic, effects-driven film is just one of many highlights we’re certain of as New York brings together some of the best out of Cannes, Venice, Telluride and Toronto along with some fantastic short-film premieres, talks, and new Vr […]...
- 9/27/2019
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Camerimage, the weeklong celebration of cinematography in Bydgoszcz, Poland, comes to a close today by handing out its prestigious Frog prizes. The big winner was South Korean drama “The Fortress,” which won the top prize, the Golden Frog, in the Main Competition. The film directed by Dong-Hyuk Hwang and lensed by Ji Yong Kim was a massive hit in its home country in late 2017 and has since been released in 28 countries, including the U.S., reaching 3.8 million viewers worldwide.
The competition jury gave the Silver Frog to cinematographer Łukasz Żal for “Cold War” and the Bronze Frog to director-cinematographer Alfonso Cuarón for “Roma.” With over 900 cinematographers from around the world in attendance, many voting members of the Asc, Camerimage is an important bellwether for the Oscar race for Best Cinematography. The silver and bronze prizes should be a big boost for the two black-and-white films angling for Oscar nominations.
Five years ago,...
The competition jury gave the Silver Frog to cinematographer Łukasz Żal for “Cold War” and the Bronze Frog to director-cinematographer Alfonso Cuarón for “Roma.” With over 900 cinematographers from around the world in attendance, many voting members of the Asc, Camerimage is an important bellwether for the Oscar race for Best Cinematography. The silver and bronze prizes should be a big boost for the two black-and-white films angling for Oscar nominations.
Five years ago,...
- 11/17/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Watch an auteur’s early short and it usually goes one of two ways: a) the pieces, or fragments, of directorial style and thematics are all there, and hindsight makes it no wonder that said auteur ended up a major figure; or b) they clearly found a different way down the road, and “minor anomaly” thus becomes the common response.
Olivier Assayas’ 1982 piece Left Unfinished in Tokyo, as its title may suggest, has a way of splitting the difference. Le CiNéMa Club continue their programming hot streak with this 20-minute film, available for free until Friday and something of a must-see for fans and skeptics alike. It will take all of a minute to recall the international cross-referencing and espionage(-ish) dealings of Demonlover, Boarding Gate, and Irma Vep, its narrative — wherein some academics in over their heads find the picturesque qualities of their adopted country are perhaps enough to maintain security — a neat supplement.
Olivier Assayas’ 1982 piece Left Unfinished in Tokyo, as its title may suggest, has a way of splitting the difference. Le CiNéMa Club continue their programming hot streak with this 20-minute film, available for free until Friday and something of a must-see for fans and skeptics alike. It will take all of a minute to recall the international cross-referencing and espionage(-ish) dealings of Demonlover, Boarding Gate, and Irma Vep, its narrative — wherein some academics in over their heads find the picturesque qualities of their adopted country are perhaps enough to maintain security — a neat supplement.
- 9/25/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, László Szabó, Smaïl Mekki | Written and Directed by Olivier Assayas
This 1994 film from Olivier Assayas (known recently for Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper) ends ambiguously, with a blank piece of paper. It’s an image that aptly sums up this intriguing yet frustrating film as a whole: a work of countless questions and precious few answers, as esoteric as something from the 1970s period of its setting. It’s like a Michelangelo Antonioni art piece, except shot by John Cassavetes. If we’re meant to come away feeling as ill-informed as its teenage antiheroes then I guess Cold Water has succeeded as art.
The production design and the film stock produces a stunning evocation of the early ‘70s. We’re never told the time period explicitly – we just know. Early on, Assayas shoots with handheld immediacy, employing close-ups and deliberately awkward framing,...
This 1994 film from Olivier Assayas (known recently for Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper) ends ambiguously, with a blank piece of paper. It’s an image that aptly sums up this intriguing yet frustrating film as a whole: a work of countless questions and precious few answers, as esoteric as something from the 1970s period of its setting. It’s like a Michelangelo Antonioni art piece, except shot by John Cassavetes. If we’re meant to come away feeling as ill-informed as its teenage antiheroes then I guess Cold Water has succeeded as art.
The production design and the film stock produces a stunning evocation of the early ‘70s. We’re never told the time period explicitly – we just know. Early on, Assayas shoots with handheld immediacy, employing close-ups and deliberately awkward framing,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
After a streak of five stellar features, Mia Hansen-Løve is getting ready to premiere her sixth film, Maya, at the Toronto International Film Festival. She’s also keeping up her prolific streak, embarking on her long-gestating project Bergman Island albeit with a few cast adjustments. Greta Gerwig, who was announced as part of the cast last summer, is jumping to her fast-tracked Little Women adaptation, and now a replacement has been found.
Vicky Krieps, coming off one of last year’s greatest performances in Phantom Thread, has joined the project, also starring Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie. Cinematographer Denis Lenoir explained the production updates in his Asc blog, revealing that part of the film would be shot shortly, while the rest will be shot next spring as the role of Krieps’ partner–previously occupied by John Turturro–also needs to be filled.
Check out the synopsis below:
The picture...
Vicky Krieps, coming off one of last year’s greatest performances in Phantom Thread, has joined the project, also starring Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie. Cinematographer Denis Lenoir explained the production updates in his Asc blog, revealing that part of the film would be shot shortly, while the rest will be shot next spring as the role of Krieps’ partner–previously occupied by John Turturro–also needs to be filled.
Check out the synopsis below:
The picture...
- 8/7/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Every generation loves a good revolution—stories of marches, graffiti, posters and picketings that changed the world. 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 protests in France: student protests against capitalism, American imperialism, and the general functioning of Charles De Gaulle’s government, that gained momentum when millions of striking workers joined the protests and successfully managed to bring the French economy to a standstill. Nostalgia seekers talk about the exuberance, the exhilaration, and the excitement of it all. Olivier Assayas, who grew up in the 70s, living through the aftermath of May ’68, is not one of them.In 1994, Assayas made L'eau froide (Cold Water) for the TV series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge, wherein every participating filmmaker—a list that included Chantal Akerman and Claire Denis, among others—was asked to make a film about their adolescent years using the music they listened to back then.
- 5/7/2018
- MUBI
Mia Hansen-Løve’s portrait of the travails of a middle-aged philosophy teacher is a plum acting vehicle for Isabelle Huppert It steers clear of crazy, extraordinary events to instead offer insights into how real people live and cope. The professor must dip into her subject matter to make sense of her life, and comes up sane. Folks expecting a feel-good satire about ‘goofy’ women can make do with Sally Field in Hello, My Name is Doris. Mia and Isabelle do well here.
Things to Come (2016)
Blu-ray
Mpi Media Group
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 102 min. / L’avenir / Street Date May 9, 2017 / 19.08
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray-Rabotnik.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Film Editor: Marion Monnier
Produced by Charles Gillibert
Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
French actress Isabelle Huppert had a great year in 2016, what with her Oscar nomination for Elle, a...
Things to Come (2016)
Blu-ray
Mpi Media Group
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 102 min. / L’avenir / Street Date May 9, 2017 / 19.08
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray-Rabotnik.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Film Editor: Marion Monnier
Produced by Charles Gillibert
Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
French actress Isabelle Huppert had a great year in 2016, what with her Oscar nomination for Elle, a...
- 5/23/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
John Waters, a big fan of Isabelle Huppert, star of Valley Of Love, Elle and Things To Come Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cristian Mungiu's (Beyond The Hills and 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)Graduation (Bacalaureat) with Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar and Malina Manovici; Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, starring Dave Johns and Hayley Squires; Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve's (Goodbye First Love and Eden) Things To Come (L’Avenir) are four early highlights of the 54th New York Film Festival.
In Elle, shot by Stéphane Fontaine (Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust And Bone written by Thomas Bidegain), Anne Consigny, Laurent Lafitte, Judith Magre, and Charles Berling make up a smashing ensemble cast. Things to Come features Edith Scob, André Marcon, and Roman Kolinka with costumes by Rachèle Raoult (Jalil Lespert's Yves Saint Laurent and Léos Carax's Holy Motors) filmed...
Cristian Mungiu's (Beyond The Hills and 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)Graduation (Bacalaureat) with Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar and Malina Manovici; Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, starring Dave Johns and Hayley Squires; Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve's (Goodbye First Love and Eden) Things To Come (L’Avenir) are four early highlights of the 54th New York Film Festival.
In Elle, shot by Stéphane Fontaine (Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust And Bone written by Thomas Bidegain), Anne Consigny, Laurent Lafitte, Judith Magre, and Charles Berling make up a smashing ensemble cast. Things to Come features Edith Scob, André Marcon, and Roman Kolinka with costumes by Rachèle Raoult (Jalil Lespert's Yves Saint Laurent and Léos Carax's Holy Motors) filmed...
- 9/4/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Eden is a low-key film about a high-energy musical genre, but its languid pace and episodic storytelling turn out to be entrancing rather than enervating. Appropriately, for a film tracking a French DJ’s rise and descent, it is sometimes more useful to pay attention to the beats and lyrics on the soundtrack than the dialogue in the screenplay. That the prose doesn’t rise to the level of the pulsating house music is a tad disappointing, considering that the story is loosely autobiographical: director Mia Hansen-Løve’s brother, Sven, was a disc jockey for two decades.
Sven also co-wrote the drama, which spans more than 20 years, beginning in November 1992. Eden focuses on Paul (newcomer Félix de Givry), a musician in the garage house subgenre trying to catch his big break in his hometown of Paris. One half of a musical duo named Cheers, he yearns to find an audience...
Sven also co-wrote the drama, which spans more than 20 years, beginning in November 1992. Eden focuses on Paul (newcomer Félix de Givry), a musician in the garage house subgenre trying to catch his big break in his hometown of Paris. One half of a musical duo named Cheers, he yearns to find an audience...
- 6/19/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
There are few filmmakers working today quite like Mia Hansen-Løve.
Starting off her career as an actress working with filmmakers like Olivier Assayas, Hansen-Love jumped behind the camera in 2007 with her debut writing-directing gig, Tout est pardonne. Evolving into one of today’s most interesting voices of human drama thanks to masterpieces like Goodbye First Love, Hansen-Love is a filmmaker unlike any other, not only becoming one of today’s great female voices, but one of the most interesting auteurs world cinema currently offers.
Eden is her latest effort, and sees her collaborating with someone close to her heart. Co-written by her brother Sven, this new film spins an epic yarn in a muted, human way, telling a roughly 20 year tale of one man’s journey through not only his life, but the electronic music scene that becomes it for much of the film’s run time. The film introduces...
Starting off her career as an actress working with filmmakers like Olivier Assayas, Hansen-Love jumped behind the camera in 2007 with her debut writing-directing gig, Tout est pardonne. Evolving into one of today’s most interesting voices of human drama thanks to masterpieces like Goodbye First Love, Hansen-Love is a filmmaker unlike any other, not only becoming one of today’s great female voices, but one of the most interesting auteurs world cinema currently offers.
Eden is her latest effort, and sees her collaborating with someone close to her heart. Co-written by her brother Sven, this new film spins an epic yarn in a muted, human way, telling a roughly 20 year tale of one man’s journey through not only his life, but the electronic music scene that becomes it for much of the film’s run time. The film introduces...
- 6/18/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
To watch Julianne Moore portray a 49-year-old woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s might be as close as one can get to understanding the disease and its effects on patient and family without having oneself received a positive diagnosis. Make no mistake, though: Still Alice is no downer. It is a closely observed and brilliantly performed story of struggle and — how can I write this out without appearing trite? — love. Director-driven it is not. Yes, it is nicely shot (by Olivier Assayas’s frequent Dp Denis Lenoir) and suitably edited. Filmmakers Richard Glatzer (whose battle with Als since 2011 became […]...
- 12/5/2014
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
To watch Julianne Moore portray a 49-year-old woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s might be as close as one can get to understanding the disease and its effects on patient and family without having oneself received a positive diagnosis. Make no mistake, though: Still Alice is no downer. It is a closely observed and brilliantly performed story of struggle and — how can I write this out without appearing trite? — love. Director-driven it is not. Yes, it is nicely shot (by Olivier Assayas’s frequent Dp Denis Lenoir) and suitably edited. Filmmakers Richard Glatzer (whose battle with Als since 2011 became […]...
- 12/5/2014
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Birdman, Fury and Leviathan among main competition titles; Roland Joffé to preside over main jury.
Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:
Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha
Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...
Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:
Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha
Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...
- 10/31/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Polish film festival sets competition juries; Roland Joffe to preside over main competition.
Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has set an impressive roster of jurors for its various competition categories.
The Killing Fields director Roland Joffe will preside over the main competition jury, which incldues cinematographers Christian Berger and Manuel Alberto Claro.
Caleb Deschanel has been appointed president of the Polish Films Competition.
The full list of jurors is below.
Main Competition
Roland Joffé – Jury President (director, producer; The Killing Fields, The Mission, Vatel)
Christian Berger (cinematographer; The Piano Teacher, Hidden, The White Ribbon)
Ryszard Bugajski (director, screenwriter; Interrogation, General Nil, The Closed Circuit)
Ryszard Horowitz (photographer)
David Gropman (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Life of Pi)
Arthur Reinhart (cinematographer, producer; Crows, Tristan + Isolde, Venice)
Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Pay It Forward, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark)
Manuel Alberto Claro (cinematographer; Reconstruction, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac...
Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has set an impressive roster of jurors for its various competition categories.
The Killing Fields director Roland Joffe will preside over the main competition jury, which incldues cinematographers Christian Berger and Manuel Alberto Claro.
Caleb Deschanel has been appointed president of the Polish Films Competition.
The full list of jurors is below.
Main Competition
Roland Joffé – Jury President (director, producer; The Killing Fields, The Mission, Vatel)
Christian Berger (cinematographer; The Piano Teacher, Hidden, The White Ribbon)
Ryszard Bugajski (director, screenwriter; Interrogation, General Nil, The Closed Circuit)
Ryszard Horowitz (photographer)
David Gropman (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Life of Pi)
Arthur Reinhart (cinematographer, producer; Crows, Tristan + Isolde, Venice)
Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Pay It Forward, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark)
Manuel Alberto Claro (cinematographer; Reconstruction, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac...
- 10/31/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Perhaps making a more robust offer than IFC Films (who released her last pair of features in Goodbye First Love and The Father of My Children), Gabriel and Daniel Hammond’s Broad Green Pictures have landed Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, a track-heavy fourth feature film which had it’s world premiere, not in Venice but at Tiff. Essentially building their 2015 calendar year with 2014 Toronto Film Fest preemed items, after picking up 99 Homes and Samba, this third grab in less than three weeks means the outfitter isn’t afraid of committing to auteur-driven art-house projects with perhaps a broader appeal. Bgp plans to release the film in Spring 2015.
Gist: This follows Paul (Félix de Givry), a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris. Rave parties dominate that culture, but he’s drawn to the more soulful rhythms of Chicago’s garage house. He forms a DJ collective named Cheers (as,...
Gist: This follows Paul (Félix de Givry), a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris. Rave parties dominate that culture, but he’s drawn to the more soulful rhythms of Chicago’s garage house. He forms a DJ collective named Cheers (as,...
- 9/23/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Toronto — Julianne Moore has already had quite a year. In May, she surprised many by taking the Best Actress honor at the Cannes Film Festival for David Cronenberg’s “Map to the Stars.” On Monday night, “Still Alice” premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and it may feature one of the finest performances of her already illustrious career. If you were to read a short synopsis of “Alice,” an adaptation of Lisa Genova’s 2007 novel, you might be slightly concerned. The film introduces us to Alice Howland, a Columbia University professor in linguistics who has balanced a successful career with a happy marriage and three grown children. She’s just turned 50, but notices that she’s starting to forget things. Specific words are dropping out of her mind. She’ll be in the middle of a lecture and forget a phrase or subject matter. Eventually she goes to a neurologist...
- 9/9/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Opening Night – World Premiere
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
- 8/20/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Hunger Games DoP Tom Stern and 12 Years a Slave cinematographer Sean Bobbitt among those chosen for jury duty.
The 21st Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Nov 16-23), has revealed the competition jurors who will judge entries at this year’s event in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jury members of the main competition jury are:
Tom Stern, cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Hunger Games);Ed Lachman, cinematographer (Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, I’m Not There);Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic;Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (Paris, je t’aime, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes);Adam Holender, cinematographer (Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh);Timo Salminen, cinematographer (The Man Without a Past, La Havre, The Match Factory Girl);Franz Lustig, cinematographer (Don’t Come Knocking, Land of Plenty, Palermo Shooting);Jeffrey Kimball, cinematographer (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible II, The Expendables).Polish Films Competition
Jost Vacano, the cinematographer behind several Paul Verhoeven films including Total Recall, RoboCop and [link...
The 21st Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Nov 16-23), has revealed the competition jurors who will judge entries at this year’s event in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jury members of the main competition jury are:
Tom Stern, cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Hunger Games);Ed Lachman, cinematographer (Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, I’m Not There);Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic;Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (Paris, je t’aime, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes);Adam Holender, cinematographer (Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh);Timo Salminen, cinematographer (The Man Without a Past, La Havre, The Match Factory Girl);Franz Lustig, cinematographer (Don’t Come Knocking, Land of Plenty, Palermo Shooting);Jeffrey Kimball, cinematographer (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible II, The Expendables).Polish Films Competition
Jost Vacano, the cinematographer behind several Paul Verhoeven films including Total Recall, RoboCop and [link...
- 11/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has announced today its full jury roster for the upcoming festival, running November 16 to 23 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The names include directors Jos Stelling and Albert Hughes, Oscar-nominated cinematographers Caleb Deschanel, Ed Lachman, Tom Stern, Stuart Dryburgh and Jost Vacano and many more. Jury members of the main competition jury are Oscar nominee Tom Stern, cinematographer ( Million Dollar Baby , Gran Torino , The Hunger Games ); Oscar nominee Ed Lachman, cinematographer ( Erin Brockovich , The Virgin Suicides , I.m Not There ); Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic ( Visions of Light , Corman.s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel ); Primetime Emmy nominee Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (...
- 11/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
The 5½ hour film/TV miniseries Carlos, an epic, intensely detailed biographical account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sanchez—also known as Carlos the Jackal—is coming to Blu-ray and DVD from Criterion on Sept. 27.
Ilich Ramírez Sanchez is international terrorist Carlos.
Directed by Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours), the film follows the life of the one of Carlos (Édgar Ramírez, The Bourne Ultimatum), one of the 20th Century’s most-wanted fugitives, as he commits himself to violent left-wing activism throughout the Seventies and Eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
Assayas portrays Carlos not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of political shifts around the world in the body of a swaggering global gangster.
The Blu-ray and DVD of the crime-drama movie—which carry the list prices of $49.95 each—will contain the following features:
• New digital transfer, supervised and...
Ilich Ramírez Sanchez is international terrorist Carlos.
Directed by Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours), the film follows the life of the one of Carlos (Édgar Ramírez, The Bourne Ultimatum), one of the 20th Century’s most-wanted fugitives, as he commits himself to violent left-wing activism throughout the Seventies and Eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
Assayas portrays Carlos not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of political shifts around the world in the body of a swaggering global gangster.
The Blu-ray and DVD of the crime-drama movie—which carry the list prices of $49.95 each—will contain the following features:
• New digital transfer, supervised and...
- 6/23/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
It's the middle of the month, so you know what that means: an announcement from The Criterion Collection about what they've got coming next, and September looks like yet another strong month from the boutique label. The big name title of the month is Olivier Assayas' "Carlos." The five-and-a-half hour epic about famed terrorist Carlos The Jackal--portrayed in a riveting lead performance by Edgar Ramirez--will be spread across two BluRays or four DVDs. Unfortunately, the extras are a little sparse with the set, featuring interviews with Assayas, Ramirez and DoPs Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux; a twenty minute making-of…...
- 6/15/2011
- The Playlist
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Hey there kids! Here is an updated list of releases for 2011 by Strand Releasing. Enjoy!
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Drama/Fantasy)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours). Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave . the birthplace of his first life. In his signature cinematic style, the acclaimed Thai filmmaker delivers a strange and mystical world of visionary beauty. Winner of the Palme d.Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Thailand.s Official Selection for Best Foreign Language Film for the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Drama/Fantasy)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours). Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave . the birthplace of his first life. In his signature cinematic style, the acclaimed Thai filmmaker delivers a strange and mystical world of visionary beauty. Winner of the Palme d.Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Thailand.s Official Selection for Best Foreign Language Film for the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
- 3/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2009 American Film Market today announced its schedule of seminars and conferences to be held between Nov. 4 and 11. Celebrating its 30th year, the Afm will showcase panels on film financing opportunities, local and international distribution trends, marketing strategies and digital technologies. The sessions will include film executives, producers, writers, directors, distributors, financiers and attorneys. This year’s seminars and conferences will include the annual “Afm Finance Conference” on Friday, Nov. 6; “Pitch Me!” on Saturday, Nov. 7; “No Direction Home – Changing Indie Distribution Strategies” on Sunday, Nov. 8; “Writing for the Genre World” on Monday, Nov. 9; “Case Study: How to Package and Finance Your Independent Project Overseas” on Monday, Nov. 9; and “The New Hollywood Movie Studio, New Media and Social Networking” on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Programming the seminars and conferences will be the American Society of Cinematographers, British Academy of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles, Directors Guild of America, Film Independent, Hong Kong Trade Development Council,...
Programming the seminars and conferences will be the American Society of Cinematographers, British Academy of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles, Directors Guild of America, Film Independent, Hong Kong Trade Development Council,...
- 10/16/2009
- by sean
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh, Comerica Bank's Morgan Rector and Media Rights Capital's Modi Wiczyk will discuss the current state of the indie film business at the opening panel of the American Film Market's finance conference on Nov. 6.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's P. John Burke will moderate the session to be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.
The conference will also include a session on foreign investment as a source of film financing, to be moderated by Kpmg's Benson R. Berro, and a look at Hong Kong as a co-production partner programmed by the Hong Kong Development Council.
Afm's lineup of panels, programmed by the Independent Film & Television Alliance, consists of:
Nov. 7
-- "Pitch Me!," moderated by Peggy Rajski; panelists, Caroline Baron and Ron Yerxa.
-- "Produce & Sell Your Film with Dov S-s Simens," presented by Dov S-s Simens.
Nov. 8
-- "No Direction Home - Changing Indie Distribution Strategies,...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's P. John Burke will moderate the session to be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.
The conference will also include a session on foreign investment as a source of film financing, to be moderated by Kpmg's Benson R. Berro, and a look at Hong Kong as a co-production partner programmed by the Hong Kong Development Council.
Afm's lineup of panels, programmed by the Independent Film & Television Alliance, consists of:
Nov. 7
-- "Pitch Me!," moderated by Peggy Rajski; panelists, Caroline Baron and Ron Yerxa.
-- "Produce & Sell Your Film with Dov S-s Simens," presented by Dov S-s Simens.
Nov. 8
-- "No Direction Home - Changing Indie Distribution Strategies,...
- 10/14/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I find Jeremie Renier to be a competent, talented and dedicated actor - I have the same sentiment when it comes to French mega-star Gaspard Ulliel. But in Niki Caro's The Vintner's Luck, I can't help but feel that both actors' 'sentiments', hard work and dedication to their characters were irrelevant and therefore immaterial because the filmmaker failed to transfer the essense of Elizabeth Knox's story into the big screen.
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Can you say, “Haaawwwwwwtt??” French actors Jeremie Renier and Gaspard Ulliel found themselves in a production of New Zealand director Niki Caro’s (“Wale Rider”) latest, “The Vintner’s Luck,” which is screening in the Special Presentations section of Tiff.
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Ulliel plays an Angel who sort of "guides" Renier's character, a struggling wine grower in early 19th century rural France. Their relationship is complicated, and at one...
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Can you say, “Haaawwwwwwtt??” French actors Jeremie Renier and Gaspard Ulliel found themselves in a production of New Zealand director Niki Caro’s (“Wale Rider”) latest, “The Vintner’s Luck,” which is screening in the Special Presentations section of Tiff.
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Ulliel plays an Angel who sort of "guides" Renier's character, a struggling wine grower in early 19th century rural France. Their relationship is complicated, and at one...
- 10/6/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
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