The Belgian director is taking temporary leave of the younger viewers to whom he owes his success in order to shoot his new film. Belgian director Olivier Ringer and his producer brother Yves Ringer have been enjoying success for several years now in the domain of live action films for young audiences, offering up movies which have made their way around the world, including Pom, le poulain, On The Sly and Birds of Passage. They’ve also found themselves on the receiving end of the European Best Children's Film Award on two separate occasions. With Les Gentils, the directors are changing register to try their hand at a social comedy, examining the scars and after-effects of globalisation within a small community. When their biggest client relocates, Michel and Blandine’s small business slowly begins to sink, dragging its staff down with it. Just when they’re losing everything, including their house and their.
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Full Lineup Announcements
– “3-D Auteurs,” a 19-day, 34-film festival spotlighting stereoscopic movies by some of history’s most distinguished directors, will run at Film Forum November 11 – 29. The festival spans 3-D’s earliest days (including some turn-of-the-century films by pioneer Georges Méliès) to the present, and represents virtually every genre, including Westerns, Film Noir, and Science Fiction. Hollywood’s first big 3-D craze (sometimes called 3-D’s “golden era”), intended to offset the threat of television, came in the early 1950s, with such movies as Hitchcock’s “Dial M For Murder,” André De Toth’s “House of Wax” and Jack Arnold’s “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (all included in the series).
Hollywood produced roughly 50 movies in the process from 1952 to 1954, before fizzling out and being overtaken by...
Full Lineup Announcements
– “3-D Auteurs,” a 19-day, 34-film festival spotlighting stereoscopic movies by some of history’s most distinguished directors, will run at Film Forum November 11 – 29. The festival spans 3-D’s earliest days (including some turn-of-the-century films by pioneer Georges Méliès) to the present, and represents virtually every genre, including Westerns, Film Noir, and Science Fiction. Hollywood’s first big 3-D craze (sometimes called 3-D’s “golden era”), intended to offset the threat of television, came in the early 1950s, with such movies as Hitchcock’s “Dial M For Murder,” André De Toth’s “House of Wax” and Jack Arnold’s “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (all included in the series).
Hollywood produced roughly 50 movies in the process from 1952 to 1954, before fizzling out and being overtaken by...
- 10/20/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Dubai Film Festival will be showing five films for children, including The Peanuts Movie.
The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff), which runs Dec 9-16 this year, has released the lineup for its ‘Cinema for Children’ programme.
The list of five films includes The Peanuts Movie, which brings back Charlie Brown and the gang for a new 3D animated adventure.
The Peanuts Movie will be released in the Us on Nov 6 and in the UK on Dec 21. Read Screen’s review here.
As previously reported, the festival’s Muhr feature film competition will feature 18 titles selected from across the Arab world.
The lineup:
The Peanuts Movie, dir. Steve Martino
Valley of the Knights; Mira’s Magical Christmas, dir. Thale Persen
Rainbow, dir. Nagesh Kukunoor
Savva. Heart of the Warrior, dir. Maksim Fadeev
Birds of Passage, dir. Olivier Ringer...
The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff), which runs Dec 9-16 this year, has released the lineup for its ‘Cinema for Children’ programme.
The list of five films includes The Peanuts Movie, which brings back Charlie Brown and the gang for a new 3D animated adventure.
The Peanuts Movie will be released in the Us on Nov 6 and in the UK on Dec 21. Read Screen’s review here.
As previously reported, the festival’s Muhr feature film competition will feature 18 titles selected from across the Arab world.
The lineup:
The Peanuts Movie, dir. Steve Martino
Valley of the Knights; Mira’s Magical Christmas, dir. Thale Persen
Rainbow, dir. Nagesh Kukunoor
Savva. Heart of the Warrior, dir. Maksim Fadeev
Birds of Passage, dir. Olivier Ringer...
- 11/5/2015
- ScreenDaily
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Probing into the mind of a child through the medium of cinema is a challenge at the best of times, but when you remove almost all peripheral elements and make the child the trained focal point, it becomes a filmmaking task of surely self-destructive proportions. Olivier Ringer’s On the Sly, a quaint, breezy tale about the unfettered imaginative capacity of one neglected young girl, is a little too cutesy but ultimately worth it for the strong central performance and calming tone.
Firmly steeped in a healthy air of ambiguity, we don’t know much about Cathy (the director’s daughter, Wynona Ringer) or her family. There are hints at a depressed mother, and both parents seem distant, leaving Cathy confused and trying to understand the complexities of adult life. Pondering her place in their lives and resolving that they are ignoring her, she decides to...
Probing into the mind of a child through the medium of cinema is a challenge at the best of times, but when you remove almost all peripheral elements and make the child the trained focal point, it becomes a filmmaking task of surely self-destructive proportions. Olivier Ringer’s On the Sly, a quaint, breezy tale about the unfettered imaginative capacity of one neglected young girl, is a little too cutesy but ultimately worth it for the strong central performance and calming tone.
Firmly steeped in a healthy air of ambiguity, we don’t know much about Cathy (the director’s daughter, Wynona Ringer) or her family. There are hints at a depressed mother, and both parents seem distant, leaving Cathy confused and trying to understand the complexities of adult life. Pondering her place in their lives and resolving that they are ignoring her, she decides to...
- 6/5/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
The Angels' Share (15)
(Ken Loach, 2012, UK/Fra) Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, Roger Allam, William Ruane. 101 mins
If anyone can cut it at Cannes, Ken can, and this recent surprise Jury Prize-winner sees Loach doing what he does so well: dignifying ordinary lives and chronicling social history as it happens. The tone is a little lighter this time, though, as we follow a violent young offender's potentially fruitful encounter with the whisky industry, thus bringing together the best and worst of Scotland.
Prometheus (15)
(Ridley Scott, 2012, Us) Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron. 124 mins
With all the zealous promotion and yet tight secrecy, this long-awaited Alien prequel couldn't live up to fans' expectations, could it? There's no way of telling at the time of writing, so let's just say it'll be a brilliant triumph, and a complete disaster.
The Turin Horse (15)
(Béla Tarr, 2011, Hun/Fra/Ger/Swi/Us) János Derszi,...
(Ken Loach, 2012, UK/Fra) Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, Roger Allam, William Ruane. 101 mins
If anyone can cut it at Cannes, Ken can, and this recent surprise Jury Prize-winner sees Loach doing what he does so well: dignifying ordinary lives and chronicling social history as it happens. The tone is a little lighter this time, though, as we follow a violent young offender's potentially fruitful encounter with the whisky industry, thus bringing together the best and worst of Scotland.
Prometheus (15)
(Ridley Scott, 2012, Us) Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron. 124 mins
With all the zealous promotion and yet tight secrecy, this long-awaited Alien prequel couldn't live up to fans' expectations, could it? There's no way of telling at the time of writing, so let's just say it'll be a brilliant triumph, and a complete disaster.
The Turin Horse (15)
(Béla Tarr, 2011, Hun/Fra/Ger/Swi/Us) János Derszi,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The European Children’s Film Association (Efca) has selected the Belgian family feature “A pas de Loup” (“On the Sly”) for the inaugural Efca Award for Best European Children’s Film of the Year. Directed by Olivier Ringer, “A pas de Loup” was selected for the prize by 60 members of the Efca who are active in the children’s film industry -- the award was announced yesterday at the Berlin International Film Festival. “A pas de Loup” follows Cathy, a young girl ignored by her parents, who decides to run away into a nearby forest. “We are very happy to announce that the first-ever Ecfa Award went to the beautiful,...
- 2/13/2012
- Thompson on Hollywood
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