Christian Petzold’s Afire and Celine Song’s Past Lives are among the titles set to screen at this year’s scaled-down Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 18-23), which is being mounted as part of Edinburgh’s wider cultural Festival.
The full programme announced includes 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, and a five pic short film programme. Five feature films will be presented as World Premieres, including the opening film Silent Roar. The festival closes with British Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali’s well-received Sundance pic Fremont.
The festival also today announced its new venue partners. Vue Edinburgh Omni and Everyman Edinburgh at the St James Quarter will host indoor festival screenings while the Old College Quad at the University of Edinburgh will be the site for a weekend of outdoor screenings titled Cinema Under the Stars.
Edinburgh had previously been based out of the Edinburgh Filmhouse cinema, which was sold...
The full programme announced includes 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, and a five pic short film programme. Five feature films will be presented as World Premieres, including the opening film Silent Roar. The festival closes with British Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali’s well-received Sundance pic Fremont.
The festival also today announced its new venue partners. Vue Edinburgh Omni and Everyman Edinburgh at the St James Quarter will host indoor festival screenings while the Old College Quad at the University of Edinburgh will be the site for a weekend of outdoor screenings titled Cinema Under the Stars.
Edinburgh had previously been based out of the Edinburgh Filmhouse cinema, which was sold...
- 7/6/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Before Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” there was “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.”
“Mattel did pay a visit to our office,” said acclaimed producer Christine Vachon during an onstage interview with Deadline at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Back in 1987, she was helping out on the Todd Haynes and Cynthia Schneider-produced movie. The now-banned film, dedicated to Carpenter’s tragic life and her untimely passing, featured dolls instead of actors.
“Todd bought all these toys in garage sales. There were Barbies, but also all these Barbie rip-offs, so he was able to prove to Mattel that it was off brand,” Vachon said.
While he appeased the famous company, Carpenter’s family was less pleased, filing a lawsuit against the director.
“The reason he didn’t seek permission for these songs was because he didn’t expect it would blow up the way it did,” Vachon said. “The movie made a tremendous splash,...
“Mattel did pay a visit to our office,” said acclaimed producer Christine Vachon during an onstage interview with Deadline at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Back in 1987, she was helping out on the Todd Haynes and Cynthia Schneider-produced movie. The now-banned film, dedicated to Carpenter’s tragic life and her untimely passing, featured dolls instead of actors.
“Todd bought all these toys in garage sales. There were Barbies, but also all these Barbie rip-offs, so he was able to prove to Mattel that it was off brand,” Vachon said.
While he appeased the famous company, Carpenter’s family was less pleased, filing a lawsuit against the director.
“The reason he didn’t seek permission for these songs was because he didn’t expect it would blow up the way it did,” Vachon said. “The movie made a tremendous splash,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Christine Vachon and her Killer Films productions are regulars on the festival circuit, with 2023 being no different. Vachon started the year at Sundance, with festival break-out Celine Song’s Past Lives, and then headed to Cannes with her latest collaboration with director Todd Haynes, May December, which screened in competition at the Palais.
At 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, it isn’t just one film, but Vachon’s career and her status as one of the film industry’s preeminent independent producers that will be feted. The festival is honoring Vachon with a screenings of Past Lives and You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, starring Ewan McGregor, who will also be honored by the fest.
Vachon talked to The Hollywood Reporter about her relationship with Haynes, having her films picketed, and why she isn’t a fan of looking back: “I’m not nostalgic.”
You have movies out this year...
At 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, it isn’t just one film, but Vachon’s career and her status as one of the film industry’s preeminent independent producers that will be feted. The festival is honoring Vachon with a screenings of Past Lives and You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, starring Ewan McGregor, who will also be honored by the fest.
Vachon talked to The Hollywood Reporter about her relationship with Haynes, having her films picketed, and why she isn’t a fan of looking back: “I’m not nostalgic.”
You have movies out this year...
- 7/1/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Audiences may see Love Again stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heughan in several scenes with Celine Dion, but what they see may not be all that it seems.
The duo recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly that they never actually filmed any scenes in person with the Grammy-winning artist in their latest rom-com due to Covid-19. “We shot during the pandemic, and it was obviously very difficult for people to travel at the time, so we did shoot a lot of it on sound stages and on green screen,” Heughan said. “That was one of the challenges of working during the pandemic.”
The Outlander actor explained that he and Chopra Jonas were filming in the U.K. while Dion was in Canada, which made it difficult. The Citadel actress noted that they filmed the movie when Hollywood was figuring out “how to navigate Covid. All of us couldn’t travel,...
The duo recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly that they never actually filmed any scenes in person with the Grammy-winning artist in their latest rom-com due to Covid-19. “We shot during the pandemic, and it was obviously very difficult for people to travel at the time, so we did shoot a lot of it on sound stages and on green screen,” Heughan said. “That was one of the challenges of working during the pandemic.”
The Outlander actor explained that he and Chopra Jonas were filming in the U.K. while Dion was in Canada, which made it difficult. The Citadel actress noted that they filmed the movie when Hollywood was figuring out “how to navigate Covid. All of us couldn’t travel,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The “Love Again” main cast didn’t actually all film together in person.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars as Mira, a woman grieving the death of her fiancé. She tries to cope with his death by texting his old phone number, unaware it’s been reassigned to Sam Heughan’s journalist Rob. He falls in love with her beautiful poems and messages.
The journalist is eventually assigned to cover Celine Dion, played by the singer herself, who tries to convince Rob to pursue this woman.
Despite being at the center of their romance, Dion never actually filmed with the stars, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Read More: Céline Dion’s ‘Love Again’ Co-Stars Priyanka Chopra And Sam Heughan Praise ‘Wonderful’ And ‘Gracious’ Singer Amid Health Issues
“We shot during the pandemic, and it was obviously very difficult for people to travel at the time, so we did shoot a lot of it...
Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars as Mira, a woman grieving the death of her fiancé. She tries to cope with his death by texting his old phone number, unaware it’s been reassigned to Sam Heughan’s journalist Rob. He falls in love with her beautiful poems and messages.
The journalist is eventually assigned to cover Celine Dion, played by the singer herself, who tries to convince Rob to pursue this woman.
Despite being at the center of their romance, Dion never actually filmed with the stars, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Read More: Céline Dion’s ‘Love Again’ Co-Stars Priyanka Chopra And Sam Heughan Praise ‘Wonderful’ And ‘Gracious’ Singer Amid Health Issues
“We shot during the pandemic, and it was obviously very difficult for people to travel at the time, so we did shoot a lot of it...
- 5/4/2023
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Emily May Jampel is a filmmaker from Oʻahu, Hawai'i, based in New York City. “Lucky Fish” is her debut short, and has already played at festivals including Palm Springs International Film Festival, Champs-Élysées, Outfest L.A., Frameline, Inside Out and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia.
“Lucky Fish” is screening at Busan International Short Film Festival
The movie begins inside a Chinese restaurant where Maggie, an Asian-American girl who is about to go to college, is “suffering” through her family's condescension, cliched-thinking and intrusiveness, as her younger sister has caught her looking at another Asian-American girl, across their table. Frustrated, Maggie goes to the bathroom, where she meets the aforementioned, Celene, with the two eventually moving to the upper floor of the restaurant, where an impressive fish tank is lying. Gradually, word by word, agreement by agreement, the two come closer.
Within the 8 minutes of the short's duration, Emily May Jampel...
“Lucky Fish” is screening at Busan International Short Film Festival
The movie begins inside a Chinese restaurant where Maggie, an Asian-American girl who is about to go to college, is “suffering” through her family's condescension, cliched-thinking and intrusiveness, as her younger sister has caught her looking at another Asian-American girl, across their table. Frustrated, Maggie goes to the bathroom, where she meets the aforementioned, Celene, with the two eventually moving to the upper floor of the restaurant, where an impressive fish tank is lying. Gradually, word by word, agreement by agreement, the two come closer.
Within the 8 minutes of the short's duration, Emily May Jampel...
- 5/2/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
We learned back in March that Charlotte Regan's Scrapper would serve as the kick-off film for this year's Sundance Film Festival: London. The full programme has now been announced, including the fact that Nicole Holofcener's You Hurt My Feelings will close out the festival on 9 July.
Holofcener's latest stars regular collaborator Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth, a writer whose marriage is put to the test when she overhears her husband Don's (Tobias Menzies) honest opinion of her new book.
Among the other films screening during the event attendees can expect to see Ira Sachs' Passages starring Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos and
Franz Rogowski, Andrew Durham’s Fairyland and Celine Song's Past Lives.
Besides that, there is a curated selection of short films and special screenings of Gregg Araki's films, with Araki in attendance for Q&As.
Sundance Film Festival: London Ticket Passes are on sale now, with priority...
Holofcener's latest stars regular collaborator Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth, a writer whose marriage is put to the test when she overhears her husband Don's (Tobias Menzies) honest opinion of her new book.
Among the other films screening during the event attendees can expect to see Ira Sachs' Passages starring Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos and
Franz Rogowski, Andrew Durham’s Fairyland and Celine Song's Past Lives.
Besides that, there is a curated selection of short films and special screenings of Gregg Araki's films, with Araki in attendance for Q&As.
Sundance Film Festival: London Ticket Passes are on sale now, with priority...
- 5/2/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
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