Sakamoto Scores Again
Celebrated composer Sakamoto Ryuichi has been tapped to provide the score of “Monster,” the previously announced upcoming film by Japan’s Kore-eda Hirokazu (“Shoplifters”). The film has been in post-production since November last year, but only now is the cast being unveiled. It includes Ando Sakura Nagayama Eita (“Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai”) and Tanaka Yuko (“Backwater”). Two children actors Kurokawa Soya and Hiiragi Hinataare were also revealed. The film, handled jointly by Toho and Gaga, is set for a June 2, 2023 release, making it a favorite for selection at the Cannes festival in May.
Close Encounter
Lukas Dhont’s “Close” added to its awards haul with the announcement that it had earned two more prizes at China’s Silk Road International Film Festival. The festival in Xi’an concluded on Tuesday with prizes for best film and best film going to the Belgium-France-Netherlands co-production. The best screenplay...
Celebrated composer Sakamoto Ryuichi has been tapped to provide the score of “Monster,” the previously announced upcoming film by Japan’s Kore-eda Hirokazu (“Shoplifters”). The film has been in post-production since November last year, but only now is the cast being unveiled. It includes Ando Sakura Nagayama Eita (“Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai”) and Tanaka Yuko (“Backwater”). Two children actors Kurokawa Soya and Hiiragi Hinataare were also revealed. The film, handled jointly by Toho and Gaga, is set for a June 2, 2023 release, making it a favorite for selection at the Cannes festival in May.
Close Encounter
Lukas Dhont’s “Close” added to its awards haul with the announcement that it had earned two more prizes at China’s Silk Road International Film Festival. The festival in Xi’an concluded on Tuesday with prizes for best film and best film going to the Belgium-France-Netherlands co-production. The best screenplay...
- 1/5/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
I have been invited to Locarno this year and am looking forward to going once more.
It is an amazing locale at the Swiss tip of Italy's Lago Maggiore. While the town sure looks old Italian to me people there tend to speak German.
Very charming. Their grand outdoor theater in a big piazza is rare in our film world and quite magnificent. I look forward to the films and seeing old friends.
Just announced the 20-film competition lineup features 18 world premieres and represents 16 countries, while the Piazza Grande selections run from big budget to art house films.
The Locarno Film Festival, in its first edition under the new artistic director Carlo Chatrian, on Wednesday revealed an eclectic and international lineup.
The 8,000-seat Piazza Grande, the largest silver screen in Europe and Locarno’s signature venue, this year illustrates the mixed genres Locarno traditionally features, with a lineup that includes Quentin Dupieux’s crime comedy Wrong Cops, with a cast that includes celebrity goth Marilyn Manson.
“I want the Piazza Grande selection to feature a sampling of what the festival has to offer in its various sections and tributes, and I think we made a big step in this direction,” said Chatrian, a veteran festival programmer and author who took over direction of the lakeside festival after the unexpected departure of Olivier Pere last year.
Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, a drama from Sandra Nettelbeck that stars Michael Cain as a retired professor who finds a connection with a young Parisian woman.
We’re the Millers, a comedy from Rawson Marshall Thurber with a cast that includes Jennifer Aniston and Ed Helms.
Also scheduled to screen in the picturesque Piazza Grande: 1981 classic Rich and Famous, part of the festival’s retrospective dedicated to director George Cukor (the film's star, Jacqueline Bisset, will be in Locarno to introduce the film)
Werner Herzog’s great Fitzcarraldo, the director’s 1982 biopic about Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald that will screen as part of the festival’s homage to Herzog, who will be honored with a lifetime achievement prize.
The Piazza Grande will also feature an Italian film -- La Variabile Umana (The Human Factor), the feature film debut from acclaimed documentary maker Bruno Oliviero -- for the first time in six years.
The festival previously announced that much-heralded blockbuster 2 Guns, from Baltasar Kormákur -- which stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg -- would open the festival August 7.
The competition lineup, which includes 18 world premieres and two international premieres, is nearly as varied as the selection showing in the Piazza Grande.
Among the highlights: E Agora? Lembra-me (What Now? Remind Me) from Portugal’s Joaquim Pinto, the director’s touching and vibrant telling of his battle with HIV.
Albert Serra's Historia de la Meva Mort (Story of My Death), which had been tabbed by the European press as a likely Cannes selection.
Real, the first film from Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa in five years.
U Ri Sunhi (Our Sunhi) by South Kore's acclaimed Sangsoo Hong.
Sangue (Blood) from Italy’s Pippo Delbono, which explores Italy’s Red Brigade insurgency.
Short Term 12, a remake of a 2008 short (both directed by Destin Cretton), is the only U.S. film screening in competition.
“There’s an intriguing mix of young director and first time works with more experienced talent in the competition lineup,” Chatrian said. “I’m eager to see how the public will react to these films we’ve chosen.”
Piazza Grande selections:2 Guns by Baltasar Kormákur (United States)Vijay and I by Sam Garbarski (Belgium/Luxembourg/Germany)La Variabile Umana (The Human Factor) by Bruno Oliviero (Italy) Wrong Cops by Quentin Dupieux (United States)We’re the Millers by Rawson Marshall Thurber (United States)The Keeper of Lost Causes by Mikkel Nørgaard (Denmark/Germany/Sweden)Les Grandes Ondes (Longwave) by Lionel Baier (Switzerland/France/Portugal) Rich and Famous by George Cukor (United States)Gabrielle by Louise Archambault (Canada)L’Experience Blocher by Jean-Stéphane Bron (Switzerland/France)Gloria by Sebastián Lelio (Chile) Mr. Morgan’s Last Love by Sandra Nettelbeck (Germany/Belgium)Blue Ruin by Jeremy Saulnier (United States)About Time by Richard Curtis (United Kingdom)Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog (Germany/Peru) Sur le Chemin de l’École by Pascal Plisson (France) International competition lineup:Când se lasă seara peste Bucureşti sau metabolism (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism) by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania) E Agora? Lembra-me (What Now? Remind Me) by Joaquim Pinto (Portugal)Educacão Sentimental (Sentimental Education) by Júlio Bressane (Brazil)El Mudo by Daniel and Diego Vega (Peru/France/Mexico) Exhibition by Joanna Hogg (United Kingdom)Feuchtgebiete by David Wnendt (Germany)Gare du Nord by Claire Simon (France/Canada)Historia de la Meva Mort (Story of My Death) by Albert Serra (Spain/France) L’Étrange Couleur des Larmes de Ton Corps (The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears) by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Belgium/France/Luxembourg)Mary, Queen of Scots by Thomas Imbach (Switzerland/France) Pays Barbare by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (France)Real by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)Sangue (Blood) by Pippo Delbono (Italy/Switzerland)Short Term 12 by Destin Cretton (United States) Shu Jia Zuo (A Time in Quchi) by Tso chi Chang (Taiwan)Tableau Noir (Black Board) by Yves Yersin (Switzerland)Tomogui (Backwater) by Shinji Aoyama (Japan)Tonnerre by Guillaume Brac (France) U Ri Sunhi (Our Sunhi) by Sangsoo Hong (South Korea)Une Autre Vie by Emmanuel Mouret (France)...
It is an amazing locale at the Swiss tip of Italy's Lago Maggiore. While the town sure looks old Italian to me people there tend to speak German.
Very charming. Their grand outdoor theater in a big piazza is rare in our film world and quite magnificent. I look forward to the films and seeing old friends.
Just announced the 20-film competition lineup features 18 world premieres and represents 16 countries, while the Piazza Grande selections run from big budget to art house films.
The Locarno Film Festival, in its first edition under the new artistic director Carlo Chatrian, on Wednesday revealed an eclectic and international lineup.
The 8,000-seat Piazza Grande, the largest silver screen in Europe and Locarno’s signature venue, this year illustrates the mixed genres Locarno traditionally features, with a lineup that includes Quentin Dupieux’s crime comedy Wrong Cops, with a cast that includes celebrity goth Marilyn Manson.
“I want the Piazza Grande selection to feature a sampling of what the festival has to offer in its various sections and tributes, and I think we made a big step in this direction,” said Chatrian, a veteran festival programmer and author who took over direction of the lakeside festival after the unexpected departure of Olivier Pere last year.
Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, a drama from Sandra Nettelbeck that stars Michael Cain as a retired professor who finds a connection with a young Parisian woman.
We’re the Millers, a comedy from Rawson Marshall Thurber with a cast that includes Jennifer Aniston and Ed Helms.
Also scheduled to screen in the picturesque Piazza Grande: 1981 classic Rich and Famous, part of the festival’s retrospective dedicated to director George Cukor (the film's star, Jacqueline Bisset, will be in Locarno to introduce the film)
Werner Herzog’s great Fitzcarraldo, the director’s 1982 biopic about Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald that will screen as part of the festival’s homage to Herzog, who will be honored with a lifetime achievement prize.
The Piazza Grande will also feature an Italian film -- La Variabile Umana (The Human Factor), the feature film debut from acclaimed documentary maker Bruno Oliviero -- for the first time in six years.
The festival previously announced that much-heralded blockbuster 2 Guns, from Baltasar Kormákur -- which stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg -- would open the festival August 7.
The competition lineup, which includes 18 world premieres and two international premieres, is nearly as varied as the selection showing in the Piazza Grande.
Among the highlights: E Agora? Lembra-me (What Now? Remind Me) from Portugal’s Joaquim Pinto, the director’s touching and vibrant telling of his battle with HIV.
Albert Serra's Historia de la Meva Mort (Story of My Death), which had been tabbed by the European press as a likely Cannes selection.
Real, the first film from Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa in five years.
U Ri Sunhi (Our Sunhi) by South Kore's acclaimed Sangsoo Hong.
Sangue (Blood) from Italy’s Pippo Delbono, which explores Italy’s Red Brigade insurgency.
Short Term 12, a remake of a 2008 short (both directed by Destin Cretton), is the only U.S. film screening in competition.
“There’s an intriguing mix of young director and first time works with more experienced talent in the competition lineup,” Chatrian said. “I’m eager to see how the public will react to these films we’ve chosen.”
Piazza Grande selections:2 Guns by Baltasar Kormákur (United States)Vijay and I by Sam Garbarski (Belgium/Luxembourg/Germany)La Variabile Umana (The Human Factor) by Bruno Oliviero (Italy) Wrong Cops by Quentin Dupieux (United States)We’re the Millers by Rawson Marshall Thurber (United States)The Keeper of Lost Causes by Mikkel Nørgaard (Denmark/Germany/Sweden)Les Grandes Ondes (Longwave) by Lionel Baier (Switzerland/France/Portugal) Rich and Famous by George Cukor (United States)Gabrielle by Louise Archambault (Canada)L’Experience Blocher by Jean-Stéphane Bron (Switzerland/France)Gloria by Sebastián Lelio (Chile) Mr. Morgan’s Last Love by Sandra Nettelbeck (Germany/Belgium)Blue Ruin by Jeremy Saulnier (United States)About Time by Richard Curtis (United Kingdom)Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog (Germany/Peru) Sur le Chemin de l’École by Pascal Plisson (France) International competition lineup:Când se lasă seara peste Bucureşti sau metabolism (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism) by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania) E Agora? Lembra-me (What Now? Remind Me) by Joaquim Pinto (Portugal)Educacão Sentimental (Sentimental Education) by Júlio Bressane (Brazil)El Mudo by Daniel and Diego Vega (Peru/France/Mexico) Exhibition by Joanna Hogg (United Kingdom)Feuchtgebiete by David Wnendt (Germany)Gare du Nord by Claire Simon (France/Canada)Historia de la Meva Mort (Story of My Death) by Albert Serra (Spain/France) L’Étrange Couleur des Larmes de Ton Corps (The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears) by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Belgium/France/Luxembourg)Mary, Queen of Scots by Thomas Imbach (Switzerland/France) Pays Barbare by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (France)Real by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)Sangue (Blood) by Pippo Delbono (Italy/Switzerland)Short Term 12 by Destin Cretton (United States) Shu Jia Zuo (A Time in Quchi) by Tso chi Chang (Taiwan)Tableau Noir (Black Board) by Yves Yersin (Switzerland)Tomogui (Backwater) by Shinji Aoyama (Japan)Tonnerre by Guillaume Brac (France) U Ri Sunhi (Our Sunhi) by Sangsoo Hong (South Korea)Une Autre Vie by Emmanuel Mouret (France)...
- 7/21/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
British-produced rom-com added to festival along with new film from Archipelago director Joanna Hogg
UK film-makers Richard Curtis and Joanna Hogg have joined the line-up for the 66th edition of the Locarno international film festival, held in the lakeside Swiss city.
The Balthasar Kormákur action comedy 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg had already been announced as the opening film, as well as a retrospective of golden-age Hollywood director George Cukor.
Curtis' new time-travel romantic comedy About Time, starring Domnhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams has been invited to screen in the 8000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue, alongside the award-winning Chilean film Gloria, and the much-admired Us indie Blue Ruin, fresh from the Director's Fortnight at Cannes.
Hogg's latest film, her third, will have its world premiere at Locarno in the festival's international competition line-up. Previously known as London Project, it has been given the title Exhibition, and stars Viv Albertine...
UK film-makers Richard Curtis and Joanna Hogg have joined the line-up for the 66th edition of the Locarno international film festival, held in the lakeside Swiss city.
The Balthasar Kormákur action comedy 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg had already been announced as the opening film, as well as a retrospective of golden-age Hollywood director George Cukor.
Curtis' new time-travel romantic comedy About Time, starring Domnhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams has been invited to screen in the 8000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue, alongside the award-winning Chilean film Gloria, and the much-admired Us indie Blue Ruin, fresh from the Director's Fortnight at Cannes.
Hogg's latest film, her third, will have its world premiere at Locarno in the festival's international competition line-up. Previously known as London Project, it has been given the title Exhibition, and stars Viv Albertine...
- 7/17/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
A total of 18 world premieres feature in the main Competition line-up of this year’s Locarno Film Festival.Scroll down for full lists
The programme for the 66th Locarno Film Festival has been unveiled and was compiled with “diversity” in mind, according to new artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
“The only categorical imperative was to work with diversity, take it to extremes,” said Chatrian.
“For years, the festival’s policy has been to position its mission of discovery within a programme that includes mainstream cinema, but only of the kind that, despite its high production values, is not just pure spectacle, the kind that doesn’t see entertainment and intelligence as incompatible.”
As previously announced, the Swiss festival will open at the open-air Piazza Grande on August 7 with the international premiere of 2 Guns, the action film starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as cops, directed by Baltasar Kormakur (The Deep).
Other films to screen at the 8,000 seater venue include...
The programme for the 66th Locarno Film Festival has been unveiled and was compiled with “diversity” in mind, according to new artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
“The only categorical imperative was to work with diversity, take it to extremes,” said Chatrian.
“For years, the festival’s policy has been to position its mission of discovery within a programme that includes mainstream cinema, but only of the kind that, despite its high production values, is not just pure spectacle, the kind that doesn’t see entertainment and intelligence as incompatible.”
As previously announced, the Swiss festival will open at the open-air Piazza Grande on August 7 with the international premiere of 2 Guns, the action film starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as cops, directed by Baltasar Kormakur (The Deep).
Other films to screen at the 8,000 seater venue include...
- 7/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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