IndieWire reached out to the cinematographers whose films are in awards contention and 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.
“Ammonite”
Dir: Francis Lee, DoP: Stéphane Fontaine
Format: Redcode Raw 7K and 8K
Camera: Red Monstro
Lens: Canon K35
Fontaine: From my very first conversations with Francis Lee, it was quite obvious that our main characters were a bit reluctant to express their emotions with words, and that the camera had to find a way to capture their feelings without being intrusive. Using a camera with a big sensor such as the Red Monstro allowed us to photograph them as if using a medium-format still camera, focusing on their faces and also giving a painterly quality to the background.
All films are listed alphabetically by title.
“Ammonite”
Dir: Francis Lee, DoP: Stéphane Fontaine
Format: Redcode Raw 7K and 8K
Camera: Red Monstro
Lens: Canon K35
Fontaine: From my very first conversations with Francis Lee, it was quite obvious that our main characters were a bit reluctant to express their emotions with words, and that the camera had to find a way to capture their feelings without being intrusive. Using a camera with a big sensor such as the Red Monstro allowed us to photograph them as if using a medium-format still camera, focusing on their faces and also giving a painterly quality to the background.
- 2/24/2021
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Today, the London Critics Circle announced the nominations for the 41st annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards which saw Rose Glass’ dramatic horror, ‘Saint Maud’, out in front with 8 nominations.
Other leading contenders include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story ‘Rocks’ with 6 nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie ‘Nomadland’ with 5, and Emerald Fennell’s provocative blackly comical thriller ‘Promising Young Woman’ with 4. Also earning 4 nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic ‘Mank’ and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama ‘Lovers Rock’. McQueen is up for Director of the Year for his five Small Axe films.
The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations both for his lead role in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and his supporting role in ‘Da 5 Blood’s. Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and ‘Rocks‘ newcomer Bukky Bakray.
Due to the pandemic, more films released...
Other leading contenders include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story ‘Rocks’ with 6 nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie ‘Nomadland’ with 5, and Emerald Fennell’s provocative blackly comical thriller ‘Promising Young Woman’ with 4. Also earning 4 nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic ‘Mank’ and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama ‘Lovers Rock’. McQueen is up for Director of the Year for his five Small Axe films.
The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations both for his lead role in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and his supporting role in ‘Da 5 Blood’s. Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and ‘Rocks‘ newcomer Bukky Bakray.
Due to the pandemic, more films released...
- 1/12/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Films by women writer-directors including Rose Glass, Sarah Gavron, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell scored the most nominations for the 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which were announced on Tuesday.
Glass’s horror film “Saint Maud” earned eight nominations, including film, director, screenwriter, actress (Morfydd Clark), supporting actress (Jennifer Ehle) and British/Irish film of the year, while Clark is also nominated for British/Irish actress.
Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age tale “Rocks” scored six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s road movie “Nomadland” five, and Emerald Fennell’s black comedy “Promising Young Woman” four. David Fincher’s biopic “Mank” and Steve McQueen’s house-party film “Lovers Rock” also had four nominations each.
The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations for his lead role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and his supporting role in “Da 5 Bloods.” Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and Bukky Bakray.
Glass’s horror film “Saint Maud” earned eight nominations, including film, director, screenwriter, actress (Morfydd Clark), supporting actress (Jennifer Ehle) and British/Irish film of the year, while Clark is also nominated for British/Irish actress.
Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age tale “Rocks” scored six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s road movie “Nomadland” five, and Emerald Fennell’s black comedy “Promising Young Woman” four. David Fincher’s biopic “Mank” and Steve McQueen’s house-party film “Lovers Rock” also had four nominations each.
The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations for his lead role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and his supporting role in “Da 5 Bloods.” Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and Bukky Bakray.
- 1/12/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Films by writer-directors Rose Glass, Sarah Gavron, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell earned the most nominations for the 41st London Critics‘ Circle Film Awards, which will be presented virtually in early February. Scroll down for full list of nominees.
Glass’ dramatic horror Saint Maud was out front with eight nominations, including Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress (Morfydd Clark) and Supporting Actress (Jennifer Ehle). In addition, the film is nominated for British/Irish Film of the Year, and Clark is nominated for British/Irish Actress, a body-of-work award that includes her appearance in Eternal Beauty.
Other leading contenders include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story Rocks with six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie Nomadland with five, and Emerald Fennell’s provocative blackly comical thriller Promising Young Woman with four.
Also earning four nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic Mank and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama Lovers Rock. McQueen...
Glass’ dramatic horror Saint Maud was out front with eight nominations, including Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress (Morfydd Clark) and Supporting Actress (Jennifer Ehle). In addition, the film is nominated for British/Irish Film of the Year, and Clark is nominated for British/Irish Actress, a body-of-work award that includes her appearance in Eternal Beauty.
Other leading contenders include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story Rocks with six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie Nomadland with five, and Emerald Fennell’s provocative blackly comical thriller Promising Young Woman with four.
Also earning four nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic Mank and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama Lovers Rock. McQueen...
- 1/12/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Francis Lee’s “Ammonite” might be the biggest study in contrasts that you’ll find at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. The story of a passionate, almost desperate romance between two women in 19th century Britain, it sets that passion in an austere, minimalist frame; it’s either the most reserved passionate movie you’ll ever see, or the most passionate reserved one.
The upcoming Neon release is also a beautiful, deeply-felt character study of the women marvelously played by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. But it’s so quiet that it makes you lean into the narrative and strain for the details that come out slowly — and even its most charged love scene grounds sexual pleasure deeply in pain, longing and separation.
The film comes a year after Celine Sciamma’s gorgeous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” another period drama that focused on the romantic and...
The upcoming Neon release is also a beautiful, deeply-felt character study of the women marvelously played by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. But it’s so quiet that it makes you lean into the narrative and strain for the details that come out slowly — and even its most charged love scene grounds sexual pleasure deeply in pain, longing and separation.
The film comes a year after Celine Sciamma’s gorgeous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” another period drama that focused on the romantic and...
- 12/4/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
‘Ammonite’, ‘Nomadland’ to play in main competition.
Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival has revealed the main competition lineup for its 28th edition, which is set to go ahead as a mix of physical and online events.
Scroll down for full list of titles
A total of 12 films will compete for the festival’s Golden Frog, which will take place in Torun, Poland from November 13 to 21.
They include Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, Francis Lee’s Ammonite and Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
The festival, which focuses on the art of cinematography, also announced that Andrew Levitas’ war photographer drama Minamata...
Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival has revealed the main competition lineup for its 28th edition, which is set to go ahead as a mix of physical and online events.
Scroll down for full list of titles
A total of 12 films will compete for the festival’s Golden Frog, which will take place in Torun, Poland from November 13 to 21.
They include Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, Francis Lee’s Ammonite and Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
The festival, which focuses on the art of cinematography, also announced that Andrew Levitas’ war photographer drama Minamata...
- 10/27/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Johnny Depp will be awarded the Camerimage Award for “an actor with unique visual sensitivity” at the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival. “Minamata,” starring Depp, will be the closing film of the 28th edition of the event, which focuses on cinematography.
Due to the pandemic, Depp will be unable to accept the award in person, but will connect to the ceremony remotely from the U.S. Depp has appeared in person at other fall festivals, including Zurich and San Sebastian, but Covid-19 levels have now risen across Europe.
The screening of “Minamata,” which was directed by Andrew Levitas and shot by cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, will take place on Nov. 21 in Toruń’s Jordanki Festival Center, following the closing gala and awards ceremony. The festival announced its competition lineup at the weekend, which includes critics’ favorites “Ammonite” and “Nomadland.”
“Minamata,” Levitas’ sophomore feature, tells the story of how war photographer W. Eugene Smith...
Due to the pandemic, Depp will be unable to accept the award in person, but will connect to the ceremony remotely from the U.S. Depp has appeared in person at other fall festivals, including Zurich and San Sebastian, but Covid-19 levels have now risen across Europe.
The screening of “Minamata,” which was directed by Andrew Levitas and shot by cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, will take place on Nov. 21 in Toruń’s Jordanki Festival Center, following the closing gala and awards ceremony. The festival announced its competition lineup at the weekend, which includes critics’ favorites “Ammonite” and “Nomadland.”
“Minamata,” Levitas’ sophomore feature, tells the story of how war photographer W. Eugene Smith...
- 10/27/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The EnergaCamerimage Festival of the art of cinematography revealed its main competition lineup, with 12 films vying for the event’s Golden Frog from Nov. 14-21 in Torun, Poland.
The list includes Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, lensed by Joshua James Richards; and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, Dp’ed by Stéphane Fontaine. Respected three-time Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro returns to the event with Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
This competition has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race. In three of the past five years, the winners of Camerimage’s Golden Frog have gone on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography....
The list includes Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, lensed by Joshua James Richards; and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, Dp’ed by Stéphane Fontaine. Respected three-time Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro returns to the event with Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
This competition has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race. In three of the past five years, the winners of Camerimage’s Golden Frog have gone on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography....
- 10/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The EnergaCamerimage Festival of the art of cinematography revealed its main competition lineup, with 12 films vying for the event’s Golden Frog from Nov. 14-21 in Torun, Poland.
The list includes Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, lensed by Joshua James Richards; and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, Dp’ed by Stéphane Fontaine. Respected three-time Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro returns to the event with Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
This competition has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race. In three of the past five years, the winners of Camerimage’s Golden Frog have gone on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography....
The list includes Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, lensed by Joshua James Richards; and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, Dp’ed by Stéphane Fontaine. Respected three-time Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro returns to the event with Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
This competition has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race. In three of the past five years, the winners of Camerimage’s Golden Frog have gone on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography....
- 10/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Calling a Kate Winslet performance career-best is no easy statement, but her turn as 19th-century English paleontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite is certainly in consideration. Few writer-directors trust their actors to do so much with so little dialogue as Francis Lee. Like Josh O’Connor’s Johnny in Lee’s debut, God’s Own Country, Mary is inward and stoic; we learn about her through her work rather than through her words. The opening scenes of Ammonite are Mary on the beaches of Lyme, scratching mud off of stones, then hitching up her skirt to climb a rock face, her face set but warming slightly at the sight of a challenge.
Lee quickly establishes that—more than anything else, including the romance that will follow—Mary’s work is her whole world. Paleontology is a skill she’s possessed and adored since childhood. As in the film, the real-life Mary Anning was a pioneer in her field,...
Lee quickly establishes that—more than anything else, including the romance that will follow—Mary’s work is her whole world. Paleontology is a skill she’s possessed and adored since childhood. As in the film, the real-life Mary Anning was a pioneer in her field,...
- 10/17/2020
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
Indie distributor Neon has shown the power of storytelling in three short, but very successful years. Starting in 2017 with “I, Tonya,” which earned an Oscar for Allison Janney in the supporting actress category, it continued its hot streak in 2019, when Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” made history by winning best picture. The movie took home three additional prizes, including director, original screenplay and international feature.
“Parasite” was not only the distributor’s first best picture win, but it became the first foreign-language picture to win Oscar’s most coveted prize. It was also a massive box office victor and Neon’s highest-grossing film to date. Co-founders Tom Quinn and Tim League may not have envisioned the production company would be a catalyst in breaking down cultural barriers for the industry, but the trend continues with their newest drama, “Ammonite.” Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday night, the...
“Parasite” was not only the distributor’s first best picture win, but it became the first foreign-language picture to win Oscar’s most coveted prize. It was also a massive box office victor and Neon’s highest-grossing film to date. Co-founders Tom Quinn and Tim League may not have envisioned the production company would be a catalyst in breaking down cultural barriers for the industry, but the trend continues with their newest drama, “Ammonite.” Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday night, the...
- 9/12/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
‘Ammonite’ Review: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan Can’t Spark a Fire in Francis Lee’s Chilly Romance
We meet palaeontologist Mary Anning’s work first, a giant fossil hustled into a museum, shoved brusquely past a working woman, and delivered to a place of honor among a pack of nattering white men. It’s a fitting start for “Ammonite,” a film about the kind of people who spend their lives searching out the giant ribbed and spiraled fossils of the extinct underwater mollusks and the kind of people trapped in shells of their own making. In Francis Lee’s “Ammonite,” those people are one and the same, care of fictitious spins on Mary (Kate Winslet) and her geologist friend Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan). , a film about restrained people that itself is so buttoned-up as to be impenetrable.
It offers a strong start, as Lee layers key observations about both of his leads and the town of Lyme Regis on the coast of the English Channel, a desolate...
It offers a strong start, as Lee layers key observations about both of his leads and the town of Lyme Regis on the coast of the English Channel, a desolate...
- 9/12/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
From the director of God’S OWN Country, Francis Lee, comes his new film Ammonite.
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell torich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they...
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell torich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they...
- 8/25/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One of the more highly anticipated titles of the 2020 awards season is undoubtedly Francis Lee’s Ammonite, a romantic drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet. All of those ingredients clearly spells out Oscar player. However, we’d been speculating about its Academy Award prospects based on just reputation alone. Now, a Trailer has debuted for the movie, and guess what? It’s still clearly a contender for all of the major awards. You can see the Trailer at the end of this post, but first…a little bit about the flick, as per the usual for us. The film is a romantic drama and a period piece. This is the long form synopsis from IMDb: “In 1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the rugged Southern coastline. With the days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now searches for common...
- 8/25/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
There are two films in Julie Delpy’s ambitious, sharply-made but unbalanced “My Zoe.” There’s the scabrous relationship melodrama, about bitter exes sharing custody of a beloved child, which contains the story’s most potent emotions. And there’s the sci-fi-inflected ethical-dilemma grief movie, which houses its most provocative ideas. Both have much to recommend them, not least Delpy’s lithe filmmaking, polished over her now seven features to a consummate, unobtrusive sheen. But the transition between the two halves or, more appropriately, the cloning of the second from a tissue sample of the first, plays awkwardly, and suggests that Delpy’s screenwriting, while studded with moments of shrewd insight, as yet lags some way behind her standards as director and actress.
Shot in bright, fresh tones by “Jackie” and “Captain Fantastic” Dp Stéphane Fontaine, the film’s near-future setting is subtly indicated by tech only slightly advanced from...
Shot in bright, fresh tones by “Jackie” and “Captain Fantastic” Dp Stéphane Fontaine, the film’s near-future setting is subtly indicated by tech only slightly advanced from...
- 12/14/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff) is ready to go into the army. In his spare time, the young man works out and moves around his room as if avoiding enemy fire. He’s still boyish in these moments — hitting his head on a toy basketball hoop in his room and using his skateboard as a stand-in rifle. He thinks he’s ready for war and to follow in his father’s footsteps into service. However, Dan Krauss’ sobering drama “The Kill Team” shows that there’s nothing to prepare a young soldier for when your commander leads you and your brothers-in-arms astray.
That sense of Andrew’s promising energy fades quickly once the story shifts to Afghanistan in 2009. The cinematography imagines a color-drained horizon, a place where everything is dusty and the brightest pop of color is the overhanging pale sky. The War on Terror is still claiming lives on both sides,...
That sense of Andrew’s promising energy fades quickly once the story shifts to Afghanistan in 2009. The cinematography imagines a color-drained horizon, a place where everything is dusty and the brightest pop of color is the overhanging pale sky. The War on Terror is still claiming lives on both sides,...
- 10/23/2019
- by Monica Castillo
- The Wrap
In 2001, the United States began to wage the endless War in Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army retired the most enduring slogan it had ever used — “Be All that You Can Be” — and replaced it with “Army of One.” It didn’t take. So the marketing team went back to the drawing board and came back with a tagline so popular that it would be in active service for the next 12 years: “Army Strong.”
It was short, it was aspirational, and — unlike the two previous slogans — it shifted focus away from the soldier. “Army Strong” wasn’t about self-improvement or individual power, even if it subtly promised to confer those things on all who heeded the call. It was saying, in brute terms, that the Army is strength. That must have been a difficult message to internalize for the soldiers who were sent halfway across the world just to flex their country’s muscles.
It was short, it was aspirational, and — unlike the two previous slogans — it shifted focus away from the soldier. “Army Strong” wasn’t about self-improvement or individual power, even if it subtly promised to confer those things on all who heeded the call. It was saying, in brute terms, that the Army is strength. That must have been a difficult message to internalize for the soldiers who were sent halfway across the world just to flex their country’s muscles.
- 10/23/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Atrocities don’t exist in a vacuum, and “The Kill Team” is most valuable — and chillingly effective — as an exposé of the means by which honorable young military men grow comfortable with perpetrating heinous crimes. Based on his 2013 documentary of the same name, writer-director Dan Krauss’ narrative retelling depicts the methodical murderous inculcation of a young American soldier in 2010 Afghanistan, led by a committed performance from Nat Wolff and a scarily sociopathic Alexander Skarsgård. Those star turns should help make the difficult film an easier sell to mainstream audiences when, after its Tribeca Film Festival premiere, it receives a theatrical release courtesy of A24.
As with the earlier nonfiction version, Krauss’ film concerns the Maywand District murders, in which a “kill team” of U.S. soldiers stationed in the Kandahar Valley executed a number of Afghan civilians and then covered up their crimes by staging the scenes to look like attacks.
As with the earlier nonfiction version, Krauss’ film concerns the Maywand District murders, in which a “kill team” of U.S. soldiers stationed in the Kandahar Valley executed a number of Afghan civilians and then covered up their crimes by staging the scenes to look like attacks.
- 5/2/2019
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Her seventh feature film since 2002’s Looking for Jimmy, Julie Delpy went into production My Zoe back in May in Berlin and Moscow. Of her filmography as a director, only 2012’s 2 Days in New York preemed in Park City, while her last film 2015’s Lolo was a Venice Film Festival entry. Richard Armitage, Gemma Arterton, Lindsay Duncan, Daniel Brühl and Delpy herself star and Dp duties went to Stéphane Fontaine.
Gist: Isabelle (Julie Delpy), a scientist and divorcée who has difficult contact with her ex-husband James (Richard Armitage) due to their co-parenting of daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally).…...
Gist: Isabelle (Julie Delpy), a scientist and divorcée who has difficult contact with her ex-husband James (Richard Armitage) due to their co-parenting of daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally).…...
- 11/22/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Who better to adapt non-fic to fiction than …. the filmmaker himself. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013, Dan Krauss moved into the 2015 June Screenwriters Lab to climb onto the fiction version of The Kill Team with casting taking place in October of 2016, and production beginning in September of 2017. Teamed with the exceptional cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine (Jackie), Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff and Adam Long boarded the project before A24 swooping in for distrib rights this past month.
Gist: Based on the true story told in the docu, The Kill Team centers on Adam (Wolff), an eager American soldier who doesn’t fit in with his rowdy, trigger-happy squad and is coerced by his new sergeant (Skarsgård) into killing civilians against his will — or be killed by his own comrades if he blows the whistle on the scheme.…
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Gist: Based on the true story told in the docu, The Kill Team centers on Adam (Wolff), an eager American soldier who doesn’t fit in with his rowdy, trigger-happy squad and is coerced by his new sergeant (Skarsgård) into killing civilians against his will — or be killed by his own comrades if he blows the whistle on the scheme.…
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- 11/21/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Elle
Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2017 / Color / 2.40:1 widescreen / Street Date March 14, 2017
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling.
Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editor: Job Ter Burg
Written by David Birke
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend has given birth to another man’s child, an employee is stalking her with anime porn and her botox-ridden mother is betrothed to a male prostitute.
In the face of all this outrageous fortune, Michèle remains cool, calm and collected, even in the aftermath of her own harrowing sexual assault.
Elle, the new film from the Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, begins with that already infamous assault, our heroine struggling under the weight of her attacker while an unblinking cat perches nearby, watching.
Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2017 / Color / 2.40:1 widescreen / Street Date March 14, 2017
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling.
Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editor: Job Ter Burg
Written by David Birke
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend has given birth to another man’s child, an employee is stalking her with anime porn and her botox-ridden mother is betrothed to a male prostitute.
In the face of all this outrageous fortune, Michèle remains cool, calm and collected, even in the aftermath of her own harrowing sexual assault.
Elle, the new film from the Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, begins with that already infamous assault, our heroine struggling under the weight of her attacker while an unblinking cat perches nearby, watching.
- 3/27/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Off the back of a wave of rave reviews, Jackie has landed in UK cinemas, with Natalie Portman in the lead. So: any good?
It was almost a little too on-the-nose for Entertainment One to release Jackie last Friday, given that it's a film about mourning for a political figure lost in the wake of a terrible tragedy as the peaceful transfer of power takes precedence over anyone's feelings. Then again, the film itself, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, is so much a callback to a bygone age that any comparisons to current affairs are moot.
The film dramatises a pivotal Life magazine interview by reporter Theodore H. White (here represented by Billy Crudup as an unnamed character), which took place in the week following John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. Mrs. Kennedy reserves strict editorial control over the cover story, but insists on fulfilling her duty...
It was almost a little too on-the-nose for Entertainment One to release Jackie last Friday, given that it's a film about mourning for a political figure lost in the wake of a terrible tragedy as the peaceful transfer of power takes precedence over anyone's feelings. Then again, the film itself, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, is so much a callback to a bygone age that any comparisons to current affairs are moot.
The film dramatises a pivotal Life magazine interview by reporter Theodore H. White (here represented by Billy Crudup as an unnamed character), which took place in the week following John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. Mrs. Kennedy reserves strict editorial control over the cover story, but insists on fulfilling her duty...
- 1/24/2017
- Den of Geek
And the winners are…
Best Picture: Moonlight
Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings
Best Director: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Best Actor: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Best Actress: Natalie Portman – Jackie
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay: Hell or High Water – Taylor Sheridan
Best Adapted Screenplay: Arrival – Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang
Best Editing: La La Land – Tom Cross
Best Cinematography: La La Land – Linus Sandgren
Best Film Not in the English Language: The Handmaiden – South Korea
Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America
Previous: 12.28.16:
The Online Film Critics Society — of which I am a member — has announced the nominees for its 2016 awards. Links here go to my reviews, with reviews to come for most if not all those I haven’t yet reviewed. Winners will be announced Tuesday, January 3rd.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
Arrival
The Handmaiden...
Best Picture: Moonlight
Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings
Best Director: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Best Actor: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Best Actress: Natalie Portman – Jackie
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay: Hell or High Water – Taylor Sheridan
Best Adapted Screenplay: Arrival – Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang
Best Editing: La La Land – Tom Cross
Best Cinematography: La La Land – Linus Sandgren
Best Film Not in the English Language: The Handmaiden – South Korea
Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America
Previous: 12.28.16:
The Online Film Critics Society — of which I am a member — has announced the nominees for its 2016 awards. Links here go to my reviews, with reviews to come for most if not all those I haven’t yet reviewed. Winners will be announced Tuesday, January 3rd.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
Arrival
The Handmaiden...
- 1/3/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards:
Best Picture
The Handmaiden
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight -- winner
Best Director
Damien Chazelle (-) La La Land
Barry Jenkins (-) Moonlight -- winner
Pablo Larraín (-) Jackie
Kenneth Lonergan (-) Manchester by the Sea
Chan-wook Park (-) The Handmaiden
Best Actor
Casey Affleck (-) Manchester by the Sea -- winner
Adam Driver (-) Paterson
Joel Edgerton (-) Loving
Colin Farrell (-) The Lobster
Denzel Washington (-) Fences
Best Actress
Amy Adams (-) Arrival
Rebecca Hall (-) Christine
Isabelle Huppert (-) Elle
Natalie Portman (-) Jackie -- winner
Emma Stone (-) La La Land
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (-) Moonlight -- winner
Alden Ehrenreich (-) Hail, Caesar!
Ben Foster (-) Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges (-) Manchester by the Sea
Trevante Rhodes (-) Moonlight
Michael Shannon (-...
Best Picture
The Handmaiden
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight -- winner
Best Director
Damien Chazelle (-) La La Land
Barry Jenkins (-) Moonlight -- winner
Pablo Larraín (-) Jackie
Kenneth Lonergan (-) Manchester by the Sea
Chan-wook Park (-) The Handmaiden
Best Actor
Casey Affleck (-) Manchester by the Sea -- winner
Adam Driver (-) Paterson
Joel Edgerton (-) Loving
Colin Farrell (-) The Lobster
Denzel Washington (-) Fences
Best Actress
Amy Adams (-) Arrival
Rebecca Hall (-) Christine
Isabelle Huppert (-) Elle
Natalie Portman (-) Jackie -- winner
Emma Stone (-) La La Land
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (-) Moonlight -- winner
Alden Ehrenreich (-) Hail, Caesar!
Ben Foster (-) Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges (-) Manchester by the Sea
Trevante Rhodes (-) Moonlight
Michael Shannon (-...
- 12/21/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Austin Film Critics Association (Afca) has announced the nominees for its yearly awards. Winners will be revealed on Dec. 28. Here's the complete list of nominees:
Best Film:
Arrival
The Handmaiden
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director:
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden
Best Actor:
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Denzel Washington, Fences
Joel Edgerton, Loving
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Best Actress:
Amy Adams, Arrival
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Ruth Negga, Loving
Best Supporting Actor:
Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress:
Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Min-hee Kim, The Handmaiden
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Viola Davis,...
Best Film:
Arrival
The Handmaiden
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director:
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden
Best Actor:
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Denzel Washington, Fences
Joel Edgerton, Loving
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Best Actress:
Amy Adams, Arrival
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Ruth Negga, Loving
Best Supporting Actor:
Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress:
Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Min-hee Kim, The Handmaiden
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Viola Davis,...
- 12/21/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Here's the complete list of nominees, winners will be announced on Dec. 15:
Best Picture
The Handmaiden
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director
Damien Chazelle (-) La La Land
Barry Jenkins (-) Moonlight
Pablo Larraín (-) Jackie
Kenneth Lonergan (-) Manchester by the Sea
Chan-wook Park (-) The Handmaiden
Best Actor
Casey Affleck (-) Manchester by the Sea
Adam Driver (-) Paterson
Joel Edgerton (-) Loving
Colin Farrell (-) The Lobster
Denzel Washington (-) Fences
Best Actress
Amy Adams (-) Arrival
Rebecca Hall (-) Christine
Isabelle Huppert (-) Elle
Natalie Portman (-) Jackie
Emma Stone (-) La La Land
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (-) Moonlight
Alden Ehrenreich (-) Hail, Caesar!
Ben Foster (-) Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges (-) Manchester by the Sea
Trevante Rhodes (-) Moonlight
Michael Shannon (-) Nocturnal Animals
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (-) Fences
Lily Gladstone (-) Certain Women...
Best Picture
The Handmaiden
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director
Damien Chazelle (-) La La Land
Barry Jenkins (-) Moonlight
Pablo Larraín (-) Jackie
Kenneth Lonergan (-) Manchester by the Sea
Chan-wook Park (-) The Handmaiden
Best Actor
Casey Affleck (-) Manchester by the Sea
Adam Driver (-) Paterson
Joel Edgerton (-) Loving
Colin Farrell (-) The Lobster
Denzel Washington (-) Fences
Best Actress
Amy Adams (-) Arrival
Rebecca Hall (-) Christine
Isabelle Huppert (-) Elle
Natalie Portman (-) Jackie
Emma Stone (-) La La Land
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (-) Moonlight
Alden Ehrenreich (-) Hail, Caesar!
Ben Foster (-) Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges (-) Manchester by the Sea
Trevante Rhodes (-) Moonlight
Michael Shannon (-) Nocturnal Animals
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (-) Fences
Lily Gladstone (-) Certain Women...
- 12/13/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
I am a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca), which means I vote for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The winners will be revealed live from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on A&E on Sunday, December 11 at 8Pm Et/ 5Pm Pt. T.J. Miller will return as the show’s host.
Here are my official choices. They have been bolded and italicized.
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Lion
Loving
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Sully
Best Actor
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton – Loving
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Tom Hanks – Sully
Denzel Washington – Fences
Best Actress
Amy Adams – Arrival
Annette Bening – 20th Century Women
Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Ruth Negga – Loving
Natalie Portman – Jackie
Emma Stone – La La Land
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Ben Foster...
Here are my official choices. They have been bolded and italicized.
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Lion
Loving
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Sully
Best Actor
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton – Loving
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Tom Hanks – Sully
Denzel Washington – Fences
Best Actress
Amy Adams – Arrival
Annette Bening – 20th Century Women
Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Ruth Negga – Loving
Natalie Portman – Jackie
Emma Stone – La La Land
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Ben Foster...
- 12/8/2016
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Image via the Critics' Choice Awards
Goodbye, 2016, hello, awards season! Man, what a year it’s been! A year with a lot of highs and a lot of lows. But like clockwork, just prior to the New Years bell ringing, members of various different groups sit down and vote on some of the standouts of the year in terms of film achievement. Just this past Monday, The Annie Awards released their big nominations for the year, and now, the Critics’ Choice Awards have done the same!
Read: Annie Awards 2017: Zootopia And Kubo Top This Year's Nominations!
As expected, coming out of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone vehicle La La Land is at the top of the nominations list with 12 nominations.Tied for second are the amazing sci-fi film Arrival, and the hard-hitting drama film, Moonlight, who each have 10 nominations.
One of the...
Goodbye, 2016, hello, awards season! Man, what a year it’s been! A year with a lot of highs and a lot of lows. But like clockwork, just prior to the New Years bell ringing, members of various different groups sit down and vote on some of the standouts of the year in terms of film achievement. Just this past Monday, The Annie Awards released their big nominations for the year, and now, the Critics’ Choice Awards have done the same!
Read: Annie Awards 2017: Zootopia And Kubo Top This Year's Nominations!
As expected, coming out of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone vehicle La La Land is at the top of the nominations list with 12 nominations.Tied for second are the amazing sci-fi film Arrival, and the hard-hitting drama film, Moonlight, who each have 10 nominations.
One of the...
- 12/1/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
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The 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards nominations are in and, somewhat unsurprisingly, Damien Chazelle’s old-timey musical La La Land has emerged as an early frontrunner.
It bagged 12 nominations in total, including nods in some of the more prestigious categories – Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Actor, Emma Stone for Best Actress, Chazelle for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It’s an impressive haul for the Oscar-tipped drama, and one that will surely strengthen its status as the one candidate to beat as the weeks wear on.
Elsewhere, other films to score big in the list of nominations include acclaimed sci-fi Arrival and Fences, Denzel Washington’s adaptation that sees him in the role of a former baseball star struggling to find meaning in 1950s Pittsburgh.
Due to take place on December 11, the Critics’ Choice Awards will get underway on A...
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The 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards nominations are in and, somewhat unsurprisingly, Damien Chazelle’s old-timey musical La La Land has emerged as an early frontrunner.
It bagged 12 nominations in total, including nods in some of the more prestigious categories – Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Actor, Emma Stone for Best Actress, Chazelle for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It’s an impressive haul for the Oscar-tipped drama, and one that will surely strengthen its status as the one candidate to beat as the weeks wear on.
Elsewhere, other films to score big in the list of nominations include acclaimed sci-fi Arrival and Fences, Denzel Washington’s adaptation that sees him in the role of a former baseball star struggling to find meaning in 1950s Pittsburgh.
Due to take place on December 11, the Critics’ Choice Awards will get underway on A...
- 12/1/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (of which I'm a proud member) has revealed the nominations for the 22nd Critics' Choice Awards! And I'm loving that my favorite film of the year, "La La Land," led the pack with 12 nominations including Best Picture. "Moonlight" and "Arrival" followed with 10 noms each. The three films will compete with "Fences," "Hacksaw Ridge," "Hell or High Water," "Lion," "Loving," "Manchester by the Sea," and "Sully" for the Best Picture trophy. Winners will be announced live on A&E on Sunday, December 11th and I will be there!
Before I give you the nominations, how cool is it that August Wilson, who wrote the play "Fences" that Denzel Washington faithfully adapted, received a Best Adapted Screenplay nod? The best part? The great playwright has been gone for 11 years! Kudos to Washington for handling Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece with love!
Here's the complete nominations list of...
Before I give you the nominations, how cool is it that August Wilson, who wrote the play "Fences" that Denzel Washington faithfully adapted, received a Best Adapted Screenplay nod? The best part? The great playwright has been gone for 11 years! Kudos to Washington for handling Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece with love!
Here's the complete nominations list of...
- 12/1/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
La La Land is dancing its way to Oscar gold!
The Critics’ Choice Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, and the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-led musical topped the list with a whopping 12 nods, including best picture, best actor, best actress, best director (Damien Chazelle), and two nominations for best song.
Gosling also scored a second Best Actor nomination for his turn in The Nice Guys.
Moonlight and Arrival trailed close behind, tying for second place with 10 nominations each. Other early Oscar contenders like Manchester By the Sea and Jackie were also singled out.
Marvel films also came out on top,...
The Critics’ Choice Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, and the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-led musical topped the list with a whopping 12 nods, including best picture, best actor, best actress, best director (Damien Chazelle), and two nominations for best song.
Gosling also scored a second Best Actor nomination for his turn in The Nice Guys.
Moonlight and Arrival trailed close behind, tying for second place with 10 nominations each. Other early Oscar contenders like Manchester By the Sea and Jackie were also singled out.
Marvel films also came out on top,...
- 12/1/2016
- by jodiguglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
The Critics Choice Awards have gone gaga for “La La Land.”
Damien Chazelle’s big-hearted Hollywood musical leads the pack of nominations this year, pulling in an enviable 12 nods, including Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Actor, Emma Stone for Best Actress, Chazelle for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Linus Sandgren for Best Cinematography, David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco for Best Production Design, Tom Cross for Best Editing, Mary Zophres for Best Costume Design, Two Best Song Nominations for “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” and “City of Stars,” and Justin Hurwitz for Best Score.
Read More: Gotham Awards 2016: Complete Winners List
That’s something to sing about for the perceived Oscar frontrunner, which now heads into December with a major boost.
This morning’s nomination announcement also heaped big love on “Arrival” and “Moonlight,” with ten nominations each, putting both films in the running for Best Picture, Best Director,...
Damien Chazelle’s big-hearted Hollywood musical leads the pack of nominations this year, pulling in an enviable 12 nods, including Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Actor, Emma Stone for Best Actress, Chazelle for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Linus Sandgren for Best Cinematography, David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco for Best Production Design, Tom Cross for Best Editing, Mary Zophres for Best Costume Design, Two Best Song Nominations for “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” and “City of Stars,” and Justin Hurwitz for Best Score.
Read More: Gotham Awards 2016: Complete Winners List
That’s something to sing about for the perceived Oscar frontrunner, which now heads into December with a major boost.
This morning’s nomination announcement also heaped big love on “Arrival” and “Moonlight,” with ten nominations each, putting both films in the running for Best Picture, Best Director,...
- 12/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Damien Chazelle’s lavish musical La La Land topped the list with a whopping 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Director, and two separate nominations for Best Song. (Gosling also scored a second nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy for The Nice Guys.)
Moonlight and Arrival tied for second place with 10 nods apiece, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay — Moonlight for original screenplay, Arrival for adapted.
Other big nominees include awards season favorites like Manchester by the Sea, Fences, and Jackie, while Captain America: Civil War, Deadpool, and Doctor Strange...
Moonlight and Arrival tied for second place with 10 nods apiece, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay — Moonlight for original screenplay, Arrival for adapted.
Other big nominees include awards season favorites like Manchester by the Sea, Fences, and Jackie, while Captain America: Civil War, Deadpool, and Doctor Strange...
- 12/1/2016
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Peter Sarsgaard on Jackie composer Mica Levi: "She is incredible. She did the score for [Jonathan Glazer's] Under the Skin." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
- 11/28/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
One of my favorite things about the final section of a calendar year is how amazing the films tend to get. This week, one of the best movies I’ve seen in 2016 opens in Jackie. This is a tremendously compelling character study, one that grabs your attention and neve lets go. To be sure, one of the main selling points is the transcendently good central performance from Natalie Portman, but everyone pulls their weight here. It’s a special flick, one that will definitely get Academy Award attention in multiple categories. At the moment, it’s my third favorite movie of 2016 so far. High praise, I know, but well deserving of it. Jackie is something special, plain and simple. The film is a look at Jacqueline Kennedy (Portman), centered on the days following the assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy. Scenes are set either before the murder, showing life in the White House,...
- 11/28/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Is Paul Verhoeven cinema’s most successful mimic? When he went to Hollywood for 1987’s RoboCop, the Dutch director integrated himself so well in his host culture that 1995’s showbiz melodrama Showgirls is still taken by many as foolhardy trash rather than a corrosive critique so intimate with its subject as to appear nearly—or in fact be—indistinguishable. After a return to his home country to make Black Book, one of the 2000s best thrillers and most devilishly twisted recreations of World War 2, and an experiment with a crowd-sourced screenplay in the unusual 2012 short feature Tricked, Verhoeven has changed host bodies yet again, this time to French cinema. Therefore, of course, he mimics the most perfect of French films: a thriller focused on sexual politics and starring Isabelle Huppert.The premise of Elle, adapted from from Philippe Djian's book Oh..., has a horrible come-on: from the director of Basic Instinct,...
- 11/8/2016
- MUBI
With Cannes and New York Film Festival entry “Elle,” Paul Verhoeven’s first French-language film (and France’s foreign-language Oscar submission), the director combines his fascination with sex and violence in a throwback to his early Dutch period. Thus the rape revenge thriller (Sony Pictures Classics, November 16) is more character-driven than “Basic Instinct,” yet has wry humor like “RoboCop.”
Isabelle Huppert, in a tour-de-force performance, plays Michelle, the owner of a video game company who’s attacked in her home by a masked assailant, which unravels a complicated web of personal and professional relationships, and a horrifying past that has made her family a pariah in the community.
For Dutch editor Job ter Burg, who doesn’t speak French and communicated with Verhoeven mostly in English, it was an opportunity to explore an ambiguous character and immerse the viewer in her social network. But without eroticism.
“I think what drew...
Isabelle Huppert, in a tour-de-force performance, plays Michelle, the owner of a video game company who’s attacked in her home by a masked assailant, which unravels a complicated web of personal and professional relationships, and a horrifying past that has made her family a pariah in the community.
For Dutch editor Job ter Burg, who doesn’t speak French and communicated with Verhoeven mostly in English, it was an opportunity to explore an ambiguous character and immerse the viewer in her social network. But without eroticism.
“I think what drew...
- 10/18/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Pablo Larraín on Natalie Portman's Jackie: "She had an identity crisis. She would try different dresses for him. And he was not there anymore." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the 50th New York Film Festival, Pablo Larraín presented No, starring Gael García Bernal. For the 54th edition he and Gael García Bernal are back for Neruda with Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda. A Special Us première presentation of Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, stars Natalie Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy. The film shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle starring Isabelle Huppert), also features Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, with Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President Kennedy. Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel and Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan.
Natalie Portman as...
In the 50th New York Film Festival, Pablo Larraín presented No, starring Gael García Bernal. For the 54th edition he and Gael García Bernal are back for Neruda with Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda. A Special Us première presentation of Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, stars Natalie Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy. The film shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle starring Isabelle Huppert), also features Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, with Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President Kennedy. Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel and Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan.
Natalie Portman as...
- 10/16/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Every once in a blue moon, a hunch of mine seems to pay off. A few times over the past month or so, I’ve listed Jackie as a dark horse Academy Award contender across the board, and not just for Natalie Portman’s turn as the former First Lady. It has a chance to go real far, something that the festival reviews so far have confirmed. Now, they also claim that it’s a little on the unusual side, which makes certain honors harder, but Portman in Best Actress seems like a likely occurrence at least. With Fox Searchlight having acquired it and officially dated it for a December release, it’s in the running, no doubt about that. The question is just how far it can go? Tomorrow when I drop new Oscar predictions, you’ll get a sense, but until then, we can discuss a bit now.
- 9/15/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula announced today that the company has acquired Us rights to Jackie, directed by Pablo Larraín (No; Neruda) and written by Noah Oppenheim, from Ld Entertainment. The film stars Academy Award winner Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Academy Award nominee John Hurt, and Peter Sarsgaard. Jackie is produced by Juan De Dios Larraín, Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, and Ari Handel. The filmmaking team includes cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine (Rust And Bone), editor Sebastián Sepúlveda (The Club), production designer Jean Rabasse (The Dreamers), costume designer Madeline Fontaine (Amelie) and music by Mica Levi (Under The Skin). The film is scheduled to open on December 9, 2016. Oppenheim?s original script won Best Screenplay at this year?s Venice International Film Festival. “Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie” is a daring, one-of-a-kind cinematic portrayal of a beloved icon. Led by an indelible performance from Natalie Portman...
- 9/13/2016
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
As expected, Fox Searchlight Pictures took advantage of its first and last dibs on Pablo Larraín’s hot acquisition title “Jackie” to acquire U.S. rights. “Jackie,” which tells the JFK assassination aftermath from the perspective of widow Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman), was not a Tiff debut; that honor went to Venice, where it was a hit and Noah Oppenheim won for best screenplay. However, it was Tiff’s Sunday night screening where the bidding began in earnest — and with it, the possibility that the Chilean filmmaker’s film would be an Oscar contender. (Chile has submitted his Tiff title “Neruda” as its official foreign language Oscar contender.)
Fox Searchlight will push the film into the awards season on December 9th, as they did in 2008 with “Jackie” producer Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler.” (Aronofsky developed “Jackie” with Searchlight before passing the reins to Larraín.) Other distribs were bidding Sunday night...
Fox Searchlight will push the film into the awards season on December 9th, as they did in 2008 with “Jackie” producer Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler.” (Aronofsky developed “Jackie” with Searchlight before passing the reins to Larraín.) Other distribs were bidding Sunday night...
- 9/13/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
As expected, Fox Searchlight Pictures took advantage of its first and last dibs on Pablo Larraín’s hot acquisition title “Jackie” to acquire U.S. rights. “Jackie,” which tells the JFK assassination aftermath from the perspective of widow Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman), was not a Tiff debut; that honor went to Venice, where it was a hit and Noah Oppenheim won for best screenplay. However, it was Tiff’s Sunday night screening where the bidding began in earnest — and with it, the possibility that the Chilean filmmaker’s film would be an Oscar contender.
Fox Searchlight will push the film into the awards season on December 9th, as they did in 2008 with “Jackie” producer Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler.” (Aronofsky developed “Jackie” with Searchlight before passing the reins to Larraín.) Other distribs were bidding Sunday night as Portman and other Oscar entrants — including Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”) and...
Fox Searchlight will push the film into the awards season on December 9th, as they did in 2008 with “Jackie” producer Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler.” (Aronofsky developed “Jackie” with Searchlight before passing the reins to Larraín.) Other distribs were bidding Sunday night as Portman and other Oscar entrants — including Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”) and...
- 9/13/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín certainly isn’t beating around the bush with his latest film, Jackie, a strange, refreshingly cynical, and unexpectedly cerebral account of former First Lady’s Jacqueline Kennedy’s actions in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. It’s one of three films to be released by the prolific director in 2016 (alongside El Club and Neruda), as well as his first to be made in the United States and English. Such changes in surroundings might have thrown a lesser director off, or at least compromised their style, but Larraín’s conviction, signature moves, and leftward-leaning politics appear to have remained intact. Produced by Darren Aronofsky and boasting a staggering, disorientating string-based soundtrack from Mica Levi (Under the Skin), Jackie has the sophisticated psychological aesthetic of a Jonathan Glazer movie but focuses on one of the most contentious and traumatic events in U.S.
- 9/7/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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
You often have to take praise that comes from the Sundance Film Festival with a grain of salt. That being said, when a title goes from Sundance to the Cannes Film Festival, that’s a sign that we have quality on our hands. This movie wound up blowing me away when I saw it last month, and this week it hits theaters. Not only did it surprise me with how tremendous it was, I was absolutely thrilled with how it even exceeded the reviews that had come previously. Filmmaker Matt Ross has something pretty special on his hands here, and I really hope that it gets properly appreciated by audiences. The film is an often funny drama about a pseudo survivalist named Ben (Viggo Mortensen) and his very unusual family. Hidden away in a remote part of the pacific northwest, Ben and his wife Leslie (Trin Miller) are raising six kids decidedly off the grid.
- 7/7/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The first time Viggo Mortensen surfaces in “Captain Fantastic,” he’s covered in mud, presenting a trophy to his shirtless son moments after the teen butchers a wild deer with his bare hands. It’s a spellbinding image that epitomizes the oddball tribalism that Mortensen’s character, Ben, has developed with his isolated clan of six children in the Pacific Northwest, and immediately establishes the striking intelligence of actor-director Matt Ross’ feature-length debut. Despite a premise that could easily turn hokey or farcical — radical parent raises kids in the woods, then suddenly must face reality when he takes them back to civilization — “Captain Fantastic” manages to inhabit the utopian highs of Ben’s unorthodox world even as it falls apart.
At first, the family’s idyllic existence seems untouchable. Ross imbues Ben’s self-contained universe with a magical atmosphere expertly captured by cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine (“A Prophet”). The deep greens...
At first, the family’s idyllic existence seems untouchable. Ross imbues Ben’s self-contained universe with a magical atmosphere expertly captured by cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine (“A Prophet”). The deep greens...
- 7/5/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Captain Fantastic’s Matt Ross wins director prize; animation The Red Turtle wins special prize.Scroll down for full list of winners
Finnish boxer drama The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Review: The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki
After two Cinefondation-selected shorts, Kuosmanen has made his feature debut with this film inspired by the real life of Olli Maki, the first Finn to fight for the world championship in featherweight boxing, who is distracted by his first love on the day of the big fight.
Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola and Eero Milonoff star in the black-and-white film, which shot on 16mm. B-Plan will release in Finland in September, with theatrical releases also secured for Germany, France and Denmark.
The Finland-Germany-Sweden co-production is produced by Aamu Film Company, One Two Films...
Finnish boxer drama The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Review: The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki
After two Cinefondation-selected shorts, Kuosmanen has made his feature debut with this film inspired by the real life of Olli Maki, the first Finn to fight for the world championship in featherweight boxing, who is distracted by his first love on the day of the big fight.
Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola and Eero Milonoff star in the black-and-white film, which shot on 16mm. B-Plan will release in Finland in September, with theatrical releases also secured for Germany, France and Denmark.
The Finland-Germany-Sweden co-production is produced by Aamu Film Company, One Two Films...
- 5/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ Ostensibly a remake of James Toback's 1978 film Fingers, The Beat That My Heart Skipped sees an electric Romain Duris fill Harvey Keitel's boots as livewire musician and borderline crook, Thomas Seyr. The fourth feature from French director Jacques Audiard, it is a vibrant, kinetic depiction of obsession, desire and filial responsibility which freewheels around the City of Lights, largely at night. At its heart a tale of fathers and sons, Beat takes place at the intersection of the bourgeoisie, a real estate racket and the more dangerous elements of Paris' criminal underworld. Built around a stellar lead performance, it is a dynamic film, constantly on the move and tightly coiled with the ever present threat of violence. Backed up by an eclectic score that veers from electro to acid jazz to classical and superbly framed by cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine - who would go on to collaborate with Audiard...
- 3/23/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Building upon Canadian author Craig Davidson’s short story of the same title, Rust and Bone sees director Jacques Audiard in search of amourous authenticism between lives initially divided by ego, affluence and acumen. He calls the film ‘melo-trash’, a description somewhere between ‘realist’ and ‘expressionist’ that initially seems a harsh critique, but after being baptized in the toiling ground zero world that his characters inhibit, it seems a fitting delineation that explores side dealings and back alleys while shouldering the weight of bracingly exposed emotion. With this in mind, Audiard’s, Cannes selected sixth feature film is often hard to watch. It’s raw portrayal of physical bereavement centers a densely layered narrative that rests on the question of where trust and friendship bleed into love.
Anchoring the film with a pair of the best performances of last year, Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts are shallowly set as opposing attractions.
Anchoring the film with a pair of the best performances of last year, Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts are shallowly set as opposing attractions.
- 3/20/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The nominations for the César Awards aka the French Oscars were announced. "Farewell, My Queen," "Amour," "Camille Redouble," "In the House," "Rust & Bone," "Holy Motors," and "What's My Name" are competing for the Best Picture category. We'll find out the winners on February 22nd.
Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What.s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What...
Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What.s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What...
- 1/27/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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