The Marrakech Film Festival celebrated its 20th edition this year, arriving at the landmark some 22 years after its 2001 launch due to the missed years of the pandemic.
Like its first year, which took place in the aftermath of the terror attacks of 9/11, the 2023 edition has unfolded in a geopolitically tense time due to the Israel-Hamas war.
The conflict, which prompted a number of Mena festivals to cancel or postpone their fall editions, came on top of the deadly earthquake in September in the nearby Atlas Mountains, which cast doubt on whether the festival would happen.
Festival director Mélita Toscan du Plantier says that once Morocco had taken the decision to continue with festival in the wake of the quake there was never any question of cancelling or postponing due to the conflict.
“I couldn’t sleep for days after October 7 and this is now a horrible war for both sides,...
Like its first year, which took place in the aftermath of the terror attacks of 9/11, the 2023 edition has unfolded in a geopolitically tense time due to the Israel-Hamas war.
The conflict, which prompted a number of Mena festivals to cancel or postpone their fall editions, came on top of the deadly earthquake in September in the nearby Atlas Mountains, which cast doubt on whether the festival would happen.
Festival director Mélita Toscan du Plantier says that once Morocco had taken the decision to continue with festival in the wake of the quake there was never any question of cancelling or postponing due to the conflict.
“I couldn’t sleep for days after October 7 and this is now a horrible war for both sides,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Melita Toscan du Plantier has been the driving force behind the Marrakech Film Festival ever since her late husband, revered French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, wrote to Morocco’s king two decades ago expressing “his ambition for a big international festival in Morocco,” as she recounts.
The festival’s 20th edition is currently underway in the ancient Moroccan city, despite the Israel-Hamas conflict that has caused cancellations of several other fests in the region as well as the earthquake that hit the country in September. Significantly, a slew of stars have turned up to support the event such as Tilda Swinton, Jessica Chastain (who is presiding over the main jury) and Isabelle Huppert.
Variety spoke to Melita Toscan du Plantier about navigating this year’s many challenges, including the increasingly crowded end-of-year Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region festival season.
You are the key figure behind this festival since its inception 20 years ago.
The festival’s 20th edition is currently underway in the ancient Moroccan city, despite the Israel-Hamas conflict that has caused cancellations of several other fests in the region as well as the earthquake that hit the country in September. Significantly, a slew of stars have turned up to support the event such as Tilda Swinton, Jessica Chastain (who is presiding over the main jury) and Isabelle Huppert.
Variety spoke to Melita Toscan du Plantier about navigating this year’s many challenges, including the increasingly crowded end-of-year Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region festival season.
You are the key figure behind this festival since its inception 20 years ago.
- 11/27/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Vicky Krieps, best performance prize winner in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for “Corsage,” will star as Sophie Toscan du Plantier in six time-Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “Re-creation,” which is being presented in the Venice Gap-Financing Market.
The docu-drama, which centers on the brutal murder in 1996 in Ireland of French film and TV producer Toscan du Plantier, has been co-written and will be co-directed by Sheridan, best known for “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father,” and Merriman. The unsolved crime was previously the subject of Sheridan’s documentary series “Murder at the Cottage.”
Krieps garnered widespread acclaim with her breakthrough performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” in 2017. As well as the Cannes prize, her performance in last year’s “Corsage” also won her the European Film Award for best European actress.
Jim Sheridan walks the red carpet for “The Secret Scripture” during the Rome Film Festival.
The docu-drama, which centers on the brutal murder in 1996 in Ireland of French film and TV producer Toscan du Plantier, has been co-written and will be co-directed by Sheridan, best known for “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father,” and Merriman. The unsolved crime was previously the subject of Sheridan’s documentary series “Murder at the Cottage.”
Krieps garnered widespread acclaim with her breakthrough performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” in 2017. As well as the Cannes prize, her performance in last year’s “Corsage” also won her the European Film Award for best European actress.
Jim Sheridan walks the red carpet for “The Secret Scripture” during the Rome Film Festival.
- 9/3/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Sheridan teams with writer-director David Merriman for hybrid docu-drama about unsolved Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case.
Irish co writer-directos Jim Sheridan and David Merriman have started production on hybrid docu-drama Re-creation about the unsolved murder of French producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Ireland in 1996.
Tina O’Reilly of Ireland’s Hell’s Kitchen and Fabrizio Maltese of Luxembourg’s Joli Rideau Media are producing the project that takes a deep dive into the 1996 murder case from a fresh angle blending a true crime story with an auteur approach, according to the filmmakers.
The documentary segments of Re-creation will be...
Irish co writer-directos Jim Sheridan and David Merriman have started production on hybrid docu-drama Re-creation about the unsolved murder of French producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Ireland in 1996.
Tina O’Reilly of Ireland’s Hell’s Kitchen and Fabrizio Maltese of Luxembourg’s Joli Rideau Media are producing the project that takes a deep dive into the 1996 murder case from a fresh angle blending a true crime story with an auteur approach, according to the filmmakers.
The documentary segments of Re-creation will be...
- 5/16/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Sheridan teams with writer-director David Merriman for hybrid docu-drama about unsolved Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case.
Six-time Academy award nominee Jim Sheridan and writer-director David Merriman have kicked off production on hybrid docu-drama Re-creation about the unsolved Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case.
Tina O’Reilly of Ireland’s Hell’s Kitchen and Fabrizio Maltese of Luxembourg’s Joli Rideau Media are partnering on the project that takes a deep dive into the 1996 murder case from a fresh angle blending a true crime story with an auteur approach.
The documentary segments of Re-creation will be shot starting this summer in Ireland,...
Six-time Academy award nominee Jim Sheridan and writer-director David Merriman have kicked off production on hybrid docu-drama Re-creation about the unsolved Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case.
Tina O’Reilly of Ireland’s Hell’s Kitchen and Fabrizio Maltese of Luxembourg’s Joli Rideau Media are partnering on the project that takes a deep dive into the 1996 murder case from a fresh angle blending a true crime story with an auteur approach.
The documentary segments of Re-creation will be shot starting this summer in Ireland,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Carole Scotta and Barbara Letellier, the French producers of Dominik Moll’s thriller “The Night of the 12th,” won the Toscan du Plantier Award at a Paris ceremony hosted by the Cesar Academie.
The pair, who produced the movie at Haut et Court (“The Class”), were voted on by 1,641 people, including artists and crew members who were previously nominated at the Cesar Awards, along with the governing body members of the Cesar Academie.
On stage with Letellier, Scotta praised Moll’s vision for the “The Night of the 12th” and said the film was “driven by the power of the collective effort. “That’s what we see with this group of cops working tirelessly to solve a case,” she continued.
“The Night of the 12th” is vying for 10 Cesar awards. The brooding topical procedural, which also opened as part of Cannes’ Premiere section, stars Bastien Bouillon and Bouli Lanners as...
The pair, who produced the movie at Haut et Court (“The Class”), were voted on by 1,641 people, including artists and crew members who were previously nominated at the Cesar Awards, along with the governing body members of the Cesar Academie.
On stage with Letellier, Scotta praised Moll’s vision for the “The Night of the 12th” and said the film was “driven by the power of the collective effort. “That’s what we see with this group of cops working tirelessly to solve a case,” she continued.
“The Night of the 12th” is vying for 10 Cesar awards. The brooding topical procedural, which also opened as part of Cannes’ Premiere section, stars Bastien Bouillon and Bouli Lanners as...
- 2/14/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The team from This is My Crime by François Ozon at the world premiere last night at the Balzac Cinema in Paris Photo: Richard Mowe Director François Ozon has an enviable track record in enticing audiences to le cinéma français (Photo Richard Mowe) Photo: Richard Mowe The 25th Rendez-vous with French Cinema has started in Paris under a good sign: a full house last night for François Ozon’s mystery drama/pastiche The Crime is Mine (Mon Crime) followed by a standing ovation by the attendees including film buyers from all over Europe and beyond.
Serge Toubiana, Unifrance’s president, underlined the pleasure of all those present to be back in a cinema setting after two years of the pandemic and the financial crisis. He paid tribute to the founder of the Rendezvous, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who died suddenly at the Berlin Film Festival some 20 years ago next month,...
Serge Toubiana, Unifrance’s president, underlined the pleasure of all those present to be back in a cinema setting after two years of the pandemic and the financial crisis. He paid tribute to the founder of the Rendezvous, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who died suddenly at the Berlin Film Festival some 20 years ago next month,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Nadia Tereszkieicz takes the stand accused of murder in François Ozon’s The Crime is Mine, (Mon Crime), alongside Rebecca Marder as her lawyer. The film is slated for the Berlin Film Festival and to open the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris Photo: © Foz – Mandarin Production Traditionally this is the time of year when lovers of French cinema from Europe and further afield gather in Paris to consider (and hopefully snap up) the offerings in prospect for the year ahead.
This will mark the 25th year of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which was started by the late Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the flamboyantly dynamic head of Unifrance (the export body for le cinéma français). Toscan du Plantier who passed away unexpectedly in 2003, and was president of Unifrance from 1988 until his death, will be given a special 20th anniversary tribute at the Ministry of Culture. He was mindful...
This will mark the 25th year of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which was started by the late Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the flamboyantly dynamic head of Unifrance (the export body for le cinéma français). Toscan du Plantier who passed away unexpectedly in 2003, and was president of Unifrance from 1988 until his death, will be given a special 20th anniversary tribute at the Ministry of Culture. He was mindful...
- 1/6/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Francois Ozon’s next film “My Crime,” a period film headlined by Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz, will world premiere on opening night of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, an annual showcase organized by the promotion org Unifrance.
The 25th edition of the Rendez-Vous festival, which will run Jan. 10-17 with industry professionals from around the world, will pay tribute to Daniel Toscan du Plantier. The beloved producer and former president of Unifrance, who died almost 20 years ago, was a driving force behind the creation of the Rendez-Vous, an event aimed at fast-tracking the export of French movies.
“My Crime” will mark the prolific French auteur’s follow up to “Peter von Kant” which premiered on opening night of this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
“My Crime” sees Ozon revisiting the period genre explored in some of his most successful films, such as “8 Women” – which sold nearly 5 million tickets outside...
The 25th edition of the Rendez-Vous festival, which will run Jan. 10-17 with industry professionals from around the world, will pay tribute to Daniel Toscan du Plantier. The beloved producer and former president of Unifrance, who died almost 20 years ago, was a driving force behind the creation of the Rendez-Vous, an event aimed at fast-tracking the export of French movies.
“My Crime” will mark the prolific French auteur’s follow up to “Peter von Kant” which premiered on opening night of this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
“My Crime” sees Ozon revisiting the period genre explored in some of his most successful films, such as “8 Women” – which sold nearly 5 million tickets outside...
- 11/29/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Melita Toscan du Plantier, the driving force behind the Marrakech Film Festival, is developing the next directorial outing of Fanny Ardant with Martin Scorsese attached to executive produce.
The movie will star Gerard Depardieu and revolve around an impossible relationship between siblings. Toscan du Plantier, who splits her time between production and the organization of the Marrakech Film Festival, is producing the film with Julien Madon whose banner Cheyenne Productions is owned by Federation.
The untitled project was penned by Ardant in collaboration with Jacques Fieschi, the co-screenwriter of “Lost Illusions” and “Mal de Pierres.” Toscan du Plantier said Scorsese will be creatively involved in the production, from the script – which was translated for him — to the editing.
The project is being developed by Toscan du Plantier and Julien Madon’s banner with whom Toscan du Plantier has a first look deal. The pair is already working with Scorsese on “Funny Birds,...
The movie will star Gerard Depardieu and revolve around an impossible relationship between siblings. Toscan du Plantier, who splits her time between production and the organization of the Marrakech Film Festival, is producing the film with Julien Madon whose banner Cheyenne Productions is owned by Federation.
The untitled project was penned by Ardant in collaboration with Jacques Fieschi, the co-screenwriter of “Lost Illusions” and “Mal de Pierres.” Toscan du Plantier said Scorsese will be creatively involved in the production, from the script – which was translated for him — to the editing.
The project is being developed by Toscan du Plantier and Julien Madon’s banner with whom Toscan du Plantier has a first look deal. The pair is already working with Scorsese on “Funny Birds,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Mélita Toscan du Plantier has spent the best part of two decades running Morocco’s Marrakech International Film Festival.
This work carries on the legacy of her late husband, influential French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was the driving force behind the festival’s launch in 2001, overseeing two editions before his death in 2003 at the Berlin Film Festival.
Famously well-connected within the film world, Mélita Toscan du Plantier has since put the event on the international film festival map, pulling together starry juries and guest lists that would not look out of place at Cannes.
This year’s edition, running November 11 to 19, featured Paolo Sorrentino, Vanessa Kirby, Diane Kruger, Justin Kurzel, Nadine Labaki, Laïla Marrakchi and Tahar Rahim in the jury while other guests included Jim Jarmusch, Julia Ducournau, Leos Carax, Paul Schrader and Indian mega-star Ranveer Singh.
During the pandemic, this work was put on hold after the...
This work carries on the legacy of her late husband, influential French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was the driving force behind the festival’s launch in 2001, overseeing two editions before his death in 2003 at the Berlin Film Festival.
Famously well-connected within the film world, Mélita Toscan du Plantier has since put the event on the international film festival map, pulling together starry juries and guest lists that would not look out of place at Cannes.
This year’s edition, running November 11 to 19, featured Paolo Sorrentino, Vanessa Kirby, Diane Kruger, Justin Kurzel, Nadine Labaki, Laïla Marrakchi and Tahar Rahim in the jury while other guests included Jim Jarmusch, Julia Ducournau, Leos Carax, Paul Schrader and Indian mega-star Ranveer Singh.
During the pandemic, this work was put on hold after the...
- 11/18/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
On the morning of Dec. 23, 1996, the Gardaí, or Irish police, discovered French producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier dead in the coastal outpost of West Cork. Now the subject of Netflix's true-crime documentary, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Toscan du Plantier had been residing in her holiday home in Ireland for a few days before she was found with severe and fatal blunt force trauma to her head. The police looked into a handful of suspects, including her husband, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, and former lover, Bruno Carbonnet. But for decades, the leading suspect in this tragic murder case has boiled down to one man: an English reporter named Ian Bailey. So, what happened to Bailey? While never tried in Ireland, he's technically convicted in France.
How Ian Bailey Became a Prime Suspect
A native Englishman, Bailey moved to Ireland in 1991 following a failed marriage, according to The Guardian.
How Ian Bailey Became a Prime Suspect
A native Englishman, Bailey moved to Ireland in 1991 following a failed marriage, according to The Guardian.
- 6/30/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Netflix's latest true-crime docuseries, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, transports us to a quiet little village in Ireland that's been haunted by a murder for over two decades. On Dec. 23, 1996, a 39-year-old French woman named Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found dead outside of her holiday home in West Cork, a place that otherwise had a reputation for its welcoming attitude toward foreigners. Toscan du Plantier suffered from blunt-force trauma, specifically severe head wounds that left her unrecognizable. So, who killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork? After all of these years, there's really only been one lingering murder suspect: Ian Bailey.
What Happened to Sophie Toscan du Plantier?
Toscan du Plantier was an established documentary producer married to Daniel Toscan du Plantier, another renowned producer in French cinema. Though associated with the social elite, Toscan du Plantier enjoyed time alone, settling briefly at her holiday home...
What Happened to Sophie Toscan du Plantier?
Toscan du Plantier was an established documentary producer married to Daniel Toscan du Plantier, another renowned producer in French cinema. Though associated with the social elite, Toscan du Plantier enjoyed time alone, settling briefly at her holiday home...
- 6/30/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Documentary
In a recent study conducted by Sky marking the one-year anniversary Sky Documentaries, two in five Brits admit to watching more documentaries over the last 12 months than ever before. With those numbers in mind, the broadcaster has unveiled five new original commissions and released a first trailer for its highly anticipated upcoming docuseries “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie,” announcing that the series will premiere on Sky Crime and streaming service Now on Sunday, June 20.
“Murder at the Cottage” is produced, directed and features six-time Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan, who spent more than a decade documenting the 25-year-old case of French film and TV producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, wife of filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered at her holiday home in Schull, West Cork.
New documentaries announced by Sky include:
“Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?”, a look at the...
In a recent study conducted by Sky marking the one-year anniversary Sky Documentaries, two in five Brits admit to watching more documentaries over the last 12 months than ever before. With those numbers in mind, the broadcaster has unveiled five new original commissions and released a first trailer for its highly anticipated upcoming docuseries “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie,” announcing that the series will premiere on Sky Crime and streaming service Now on Sunday, June 20.
“Murder at the Cottage” is produced, directed and features six-time Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan, who spent more than a decade documenting the 25-year-old case of French film and TV producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, wife of filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered at her holiday home in Schull, West Cork.
New documentaries announced by Sky include:
“Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?”, a look at the...
- 6/9/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Irish playwright and filmmaker’s new project delves into the murder of television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork. Oscar-nominated Irish playwright and filmmaker Jim Sheridan is now working on his first documentary series project, entitled Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie. The Dublin-born helmer is best known for his fiction films My Left Foot (1989), In the Name of the Father (1993), The Boxer (1997) and In America (2002). The five-part documentary series revolves around the murder of television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork, Ireland. In 1996, two days before Christmas, Sophie, the wife of French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, was killed at her holiday cottage in Schull. The murder rocked the quiet Irish town, and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. The key suspect, journalist Ian Bailey, was quickly arrested by local police following eye-witness reports,...
- 11/18/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan is to make his documentary series debut with “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie.”
The five-part series examines the murder of television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork, Ireland in 1996.
In 1996, two days before Christmas, Sophie, the wife of French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, was murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet, Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. The key suspect, English journalist Ian Bailey – the first reporter on the scene – was quickly arrested by local police following eye-witness reports, yet was never found guilty in Ireland, owing to a lack of reliable evidence. Despite this, Bailey was found guilty in absentia by the French courts in 2019 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Having successfully fought repeated extradition requests from the French authorities, Bailey still resides in...
The five-part series examines the murder of television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork, Ireland in 1996.
In 1996, two days before Christmas, Sophie, the wife of French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, was murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet, Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. The key suspect, English journalist Ian Bailey – the first reporter on the scene – was quickly arrested by local police following eye-witness reports, yet was never found guilty in Ireland, owing to a lack of reliable evidence. Despite this, Bailey was found guilty in absentia by the French courts in 2019 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Having successfully fought repeated extradition requests from the French authorities, Bailey still resides in...
- 11/16/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Jury Prize winner is also France’s submission to the Oscars this year.
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
- 12/3/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Robin Campillo's 120 Bpm (Beats Per Minute) won this year’s Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier prize, the French Academy’s top honor for producer of the year.
Marie-Ange Luciani and Hugues Charbonneau produced the AIDS activist drama, which also took the Grand Prize in Cannes, under their Films de Pierre banner.
Luciani acknowledged director Campillo, who also wrote the screenplay, and thanked him for sharing this "incredible thing that came out of [his] head."
The award was presented by Academy president Alain Terzian.
The gala dinner was held at Paris’ George V with the luminaries of French cinema attending, including Cannes Film Festival head...
Marie-Ange Luciani and Hugues Charbonneau produced the AIDS activist drama, which also took the Grand Prize in Cannes, under their Films de Pierre banner.
Luciani acknowledged director Campillo, who also wrote the screenplay, and thanked him for sharing this "incredible thing that came out of [his] head."
The award was presented by Academy president Alain Terzian.
The gala dinner was held at Paris’ George V with the luminaries of French cinema attending, including Cannes Film Festival head...
- 2/26/2018
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Update: Unifrance responds to sales outfit quitting French cinema promotion group.
Leading French sales company Wild Bunch has quit the country’s state-backed French cinema export and promotional body Unifrance in protest at the appointment of Serge Toubiana (pictured, top) as its new president.
It is the first time in Unifrance’s near 70-year history that a company of Wild Bunch’s magnitude has quit the body.
Unifrance announced on Thursday that former Cinématheque Française chief Serge Toubiana had been elected to the role by its 48-member executive committee, beating out producers Yves Marmion and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam who had also put themselves forward as candidates.
The appointment was greeted with surprise by many in the French film sales and production community who said Toubiana lacked the export and sales experience to take on such a role, even if they respected his track record as a journalist and at the helm of the Cinématheque.
Letter
In a...
Leading French sales company Wild Bunch has quit the country’s state-backed French cinema export and promotional body Unifrance in protest at the appointment of Serge Toubiana (pictured, top) as its new president.
It is the first time in Unifrance’s near 70-year history that a company of Wild Bunch’s magnitude has quit the body.
Unifrance announced on Thursday that former Cinématheque Française chief Serge Toubiana had been elected to the role by its 48-member executive committee, beating out producers Yves Marmion and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam who had also put themselves forward as candidates.
The appointment was greeted with surprise by many in the French film sales and production community who said Toubiana lacked the export and sales experience to take on such a role, even if they respected his track record as a journalist and at the helm of the Cinématheque.
Letter
In a...
- 7/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
Welcome to the final film of the aesthetically precise, rigorously austere Robert Bresson, an adaptation of a fateful tale by Leo Tolstoy visualized in Bresson’s frequently maddening personal style. An extreme artist makes a fascinatingly unyielding show: as with the classic paintings that Bresson admires, appreciation requires special knowledge.
L’argent
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 886
1983 / Color / 1:85 anamorphic 16:9 / 85 min. / Money / Street Date July 11, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Báatrice Tabourin, Didier Baussy.
Cinematography: Pasqualino De Santis, Emmanuel Machuel
Production Designer: Pierre Guffroy
Film Editor: Jean-Francois Naudon
Written by Robert Bresson from a short story by Leo Tolstoy
Produced by Antoine Gannagé, Jean-Marc Henchoz, Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Written and Directed by Robert Bresson
Some movies need disclaimers, and many of the pictures of Robert Bresson could use a caption reading, ‘not for beginners.’ Bresson’s filmography includes the spiritually mysterious Diary of a Country Priest...
L’argent
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 886
1983 / Color / 1:85 anamorphic 16:9 / 85 min. / Money / Street Date July 11, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Báatrice Tabourin, Didier Baussy.
Cinematography: Pasqualino De Santis, Emmanuel Machuel
Production Designer: Pierre Guffroy
Film Editor: Jean-Francois Naudon
Written by Robert Bresson from a short story by Leo Tolstoy
Produced by Antoine Gannagé, Jean-Marc Henchoz, Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Written and Directed by Robert Bresson
Some movies need disclaimers, and many of the pictures of Robert Bresson could use a caption reading, ‘not for beginners.’ Bresson’s filmography includes the spiritually mysterious Diary of a Country Priest...
- 7/1/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Brothers Eric and Nicolas Altmayer took home this year’s Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the French Academy’s honor for best producer of the year.
The Altmayers produced Francois Ozon’s Frantz, which collected 10 Cesar nominations, as well as Chocolat, which earned star Omar Sy a best actor nomination.
The pair were not initially on hand to accept the award, which was picked up by The Fabulous Patars director Sophie Reine. The two then made a late entrance storming the stage fresh from a film premiere across town, much to the delight of guests including Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux,...
The Altmayers produced Francois Ozon’s Frantz, which collected 10 Cesar nominations, as well as Chocolat, which earned star Omar Sy a best actor nomination.
The pair were not initially on hand to accept the award, which was picked up by The Fabulous Patars director Sophie Reine. The two then made a late entrance storming the stage fresh from a film premiere across town, much to the delight of guests including Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux,...
- 2/20/2017
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
That naughty boy Federico Fellini goes all out with this essay-hallucination about women, a surreal odyssey that hurls Marcello Mastroianni into a world in which women are no longer putting up with male nonsense. It's an honest (if still somewhat sexist) effort by an artist acknowledging illusions and pleasures that he knows are infantile. City of Women Blu-ray Cohen Media Group 1980 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 139 min. / La cittá delle donne / Street Date May 31, 2016 / 39.98 Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Iole Silvani, Donatella Damiani, Ettore Manni, Fiammetta Baralla, Catherine Carrel, Rose Alba. Cinematography Giuseppe Rotunno Film Editor Ruggero Mastroianni Original Music Luis Bacalov Written by Brunello Rondi, Bernardino Zapponi, Federico Fellini Produced by Franco Rossellini, Renzo Rossellini, Daniel Toscan du Plantier Directed by Federico Fellini
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Federico Fellini's 1980 City of Women was called 'wonderfully uninhibited' by The New York Times. Fellini's output slowed to a crawl in the 1970s,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Federico Fellini's 1980 City of Women was called 'wonderfully uninhibited' by The New York Times. Fellini's output slowed to a crawl in the 1970s,...
- 5/31/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Two Days, One Night, Mommy and Fevers nominated in French-language foreign film category.Scroll down for full list of nominations
The Lumière Awards, France’s version of the Golden Globes, has announced the nominations for its 20th anniversary edition. There is no clear front-runner this year.
Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent, Benoît Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, starring Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni as sisters who unwittingly fall for the same man, and Eric Lartigau’s Christmas hit La Famille Bélier, about an aspiring singer growing up in deaf family, lead the field with four nominations each including best film.
Céline Sciamma’s gritty urban drama Girlhood (Bande de Fille) and Lucas Belvaux’s chalk-and-cheese romance Not My Type(Pas Mon Genre) and, which were also nominated in the best film category, followed behind with three nominations.
Franco-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako Timbuktu about the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on a rural community in Mali, is the sixth...
The Lumière Awards, France’s version of the Golden Globes, has announced the nominations for its 20th anniversary edition. There is no clear front-runner this year.
Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent, Benoît Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, starring Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni as sisters who unwittingly fall for the same man, and Eric Lartigau’s Christmas hit La Famille Bélier, about an aspiring singer growing up in deaf family, lead the field with four nominations each including best film.
Céline Sciamma’s gritty urban drama Girlhood (Bande de Fille) and Lucas Belvaux’s chalk-and-cheese romance Not My Type(Pas Mon Genre) and, which were also nominated in the best film category, followed behind with three nominations.
Franco-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako Timbuktu about the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on a rural community in Mali, is the sixth...
- 1/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
Cecile Cassel and Naidra Ayadi attend Cesar Film Awards 2012 Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize Ceremony. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Cecile Cassel and Naidra Ayadi attend Cesar Film Awards 2012 Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize Ceremony. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Nathalie Rheims attends Cesar Film Awards 2012 Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize Ceremony. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Alain Atall attends Cesar Film Awards 2012 Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize Ceremony. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Jean-Pierre Mocky attends Cesar Film Awards 2012 Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize Ceremony. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. 02/20/2012 - Gregory Gadebois - Cesar Film Awards 2012 - Prix Daniel Toscan du...
- 2/22/2012
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
The Artist, Incendies, Maïwenn and the other winners for the 2012 Prix Lumière Awards have been announced. The 17th Annual Prix Lumière Awards are “The Price of Enlightenment international criticism, sometimes also called Enlightenment Trophies” and were “created by leading producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and U.S. journalist Edward Behr to honor French-language cinema from France and abroad. 200 journalists (international media correspondents in Paris) from around 50 countries vote each year to award their own prizes to members of the French film industry.”
The full listing of the 2012 Prix Lumière Awards winners is below.
Best Film
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
Best Foreign Film in French
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, Canada
Best Director
Maïwenn for Polisse
Best Screenplay
Jean-Louis Milesi, Robert Guediguian for Les Neiges de Kilimandjaro (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)
Best Actress
Bérénice Bejo in The Artist
Best Actor
Omar Sy in Intouchables
Best Female Newcomer
Alice Barnolle in L’Apollonide, souvenirs...
The full listing of the 2012 Prix Lumière Awards winners is below.
Best Film
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
Best Foreign Film in French
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, Canada
Best Director
Maïwenn for Polisse
Best Screenplay
Jean-Louis Milesi, Robert Guediguian for Les Neiges de Kilimandjaro (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)
Best Actress
Bérénice Bejo in The Artist
Best Actor
Omar Sy in Intouchables
Best Female Newcomer
Alice Barnolle in L’Apollonide, souvenirs...
- 1/14/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
House of Tolerance, The Artist, and the other nominations for the 2012 Prix Lumière Awards have been announced. The 17th Annual Prix Lumière Awards are “The Price of Enlightenment international criticism, sometimes also called Enlightenment Trophies” and were “created by leading producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and U.S. journalist Edward Behr to honor French-language cinema from France and abroad. 200 journalists (international media correspondents in Paris) from around 50 countries vote each year to award their own prizes to members of the French film industry.” This year’s ceremony “will take place on Friday, January 13, 2012.”
The full listing of the 2012 Prix Lumière Awards nominations is below.
Best Film
L’Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close (House of Tolerance), Bertrand Bonello
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
L’exercice de l’Etat (The Minister), Pierre Schoeller
Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki
Intouchables, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Best Foreign Film in French
Curling, Denis Cote, Canada
Et maintenant,...
The full listing of the 2012 Prix Lumière Awards nominations is below.
Best Film
L’Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close (House of Tolerance), Bertrand Bonello
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
L’exercice de l’Etat (The Minister), Pierre Schoeller
Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki
Intouchables, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Best Foreign Film in French
Curling, Denis Cote, Canada
Et maintenant,...
- 12/21/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
(Francesco Rosi, 1984, PG, Second Sight Films)
Though not as original in conception as Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni, which was also produced by Daniel Toscan du Plantier and conducted by Lorin Maazel, this wonderfully performed and staged version of Bizet's masterpiece is one of the great opera movies, the work of the distinguished Italian realist Francesco Rosi, director of Salvatore Giuliano and Three Brothers. Using the spoken dialogue of the original stage production, it is shot entirely on Andalucian locations with a magnificent central trio: the alluring, powerfully confident Julia Migenes, a sort of dark-haired Gypsy Streisand, as Carmen; Plácido Domingo, a painfully vulnerable (if perhaps slightly too old) Don José; and Ruggero Raimondo (Losey's Don Giovanni) as a wiry, proud Escamillo, who has the pained eyes of a man long used to facing death in the afternoon. Knowing that the ultimate emotional and psychological force comes from the music and singing,...
Though not as original in conception as Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni, which was also produced by Daniel Toscan du Plantier and conducted by Lorin Maazel, this wonderfully performed and staged version of Bizet's masterpiece is one of the great opera movies, the work of the distinguished Italian realist Francesco Rosi, director of Salvatore Giuliano and Three Brothers. Using the spoken dialogue of the original stage production, it is shot entirely on Andalucian locations with a magnificent central trio: the alluring, powerfully confident Julia Migenes, a sort of dark-haired Gypsy Streisand, as Carmen; Plácido Domingo, a painfully vulnerable (if perhaps slightly too old) Don José; and Ruggero Raimondo (Losey's Don Giovanni) as a wiry, proud Escamillo, who has the pained eyes of a man long used to facing death in the afternoon. Knowing that the ultimate emotional and psychological force comes from the music and singing,...
- 9/3/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Mrinal Sen’s Khandahar will be screened in Cannes Classics 2010. Cannes Classics, created in 2004, accompanies contemporary films from the Official Selection with a programme of restored films and lost films that have been found again, as part of their re-release in cinemas or on DVD.
The film has been restored by Reliance MediaWorks with the support of the National Film Archive of India. Mrinal Sen will attend the screening of Khandahar at Cannes.
Programme - La Bataille Du Rail (The Battle of the Rails) (France, 1946, 82’) by René Clément, awarded the Jury Prize in 1946, restored by Ina and Full Images, will be screened in the presence of Mrs. Johanna Clément.- Boudu Sauve Des Eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning) by Jean Renoir (France, 85’, 1932), a restoration presented by Pathé in a never-before-seen version that includes scenes that were cut in the original. A Pathé restoration in association with the laboratries L’immagine...
The film has been restored by Reliance MediaWorks with the support of the National Film Archive of India. Mrinal Sen will attend the screening of Khandahar at Cannes.
Programme - La Bataille Du Rail (The Battle of the Rails) (France, 1946, 82’) by René Clément, awarded the Jury Prize in 1946, restored by Ina and Full Images, will be screened in the presence of Mrs. Johanna Clément.- Boudu Sauve Des Eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning) by Jean Renoir (France, 85’, 1932), a restoration presented by Pathé in a never-before-seen version that includes scenes that were cut in the original. A Pathé restoration in association with the laboratries L’immagine...
- 4/27/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Paris -- Jacques Audiard's prison drama "A Prophet" (Un Prophete) won nine awards, including French film of the year and best director, during the 35th annual Cesar Awards ceremony.
"Prophet" star Tahar Rahim won the best actor and most promising actor prizes Saturday at the Chatelet Theatre for his role as a young Arab man sent to French prison who eventually gains power among the reigning Corsican mafia. "Long live French cinema," Rahim proclaimed as he accepted his second prize.
French actress-singer Vanessa Paradis presented the director prize to Audiard, who thanked the Academy before launching into a politically charged talk about France's immigrant population.
Niels Arestrup, no stranger to Audiard's films, was named best supporting actor for his performance in "Prophet."
Nominated in 13 categories, "Prophet" -- which Sony Pictures Classics opened Friday in the U.S., where it has been nominated for the foreign-language film Oscar -- also won Cesars for original screenplay,...
"Prophet" star Tahar Rahim won the best actor and most promising actor prizes Saturday at the Chatelet Theatre for his role as a young Arab man sent to French prison who eventually gains power among the reigning Corsican mafia. "Long live French cinema," Rahim proclaimed as he accepted his second prize.
French actress-singer Vanessa Paradis presented the director prize to Audiard, who thanked the Academy before launching into a politically charged talk about France's immigrant population.
Niels Arestrup, no stranger to Audiard's films, was named best supporting actor for his performance in "Prophet."
Nominated in 13 categories, "Prophet" -- which Sony Pictures Classics opened Friday in the U.S., where it has been nominated for the foreign-language film Oscar -- also won Cesars for original screenplay,...
- 2/27/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris -- Why Not Productions' Pascal Caucheteux and Gregoire Sorlat shared the prize for best producers at the third annual edition of France's Academy of Film Arts and Sciences' Daniel Toscan du Plantier prize held Monday night in Paris.
The award marked Caucheteux's second consecutive win after the superproducer shared the same prize last year with La Petite Reine's Thomas Langmann. Langmann's father Claude Berri, who died last January, received the award's inaugural prize the year before.
Caucheteux and Sorlat produced this year's awards season favorite "A Prophet" with Chic Films' Marco Cherqui. The prison drama, first screened at last year's Festival de Cannes, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Film and will vie for the same prize at the Oscars on March 7. The winning production duo were also behind 2009 titles Christophe Honore's "Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser," Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric" and Bruno...
The award marked Caucheteux's second consecutive win after the superproducer shared the same prize last year with La Petite Reine's Thomas Langmann. Langmann's father Claude Berri, who died last January, received the award's inaugural prize the year before.
Caucheteux and Sorlat produced this year's awards season favorite "A Prophet" with Chic Films' Marco Cherqui. The prison drama, first screened at last year's Festival de Cannes, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Film and will vie for the same prize at the Oscars on March 7. The winning production duo were also behind 2009 titles Christophe Honore's "Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser," Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric" and Bruno...
- 2/23/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris -- Why Not Productions' Pascal Caucheteux and Gregoire Sorlat shared the prize for best French producer of the year at the third annual edition of France's Academy of Film Arts & Sciences' Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize held Monday night in Paris.
The award marked Caucheteux's second consecutive win after the producer shared the same prize last year with La Petite Reine's Thomas Langmann. Langmann's father Claude Berri, who died last January, received the award's inaugural prize the year before.
Caucheteux and Sorlat produced this year's awards season favorite "A Prophet" with Chic Films' Marco Cherqui. The prison drama, first screened at last year's Festival de Cannes, won the BAFTA for best foreign film and will vie for the same prize at the Oscars on March 7.
The winning production duo were also behind 2009 titles Christophe Honore's "Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser," Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric...
The award marked Caucheteux's second consecutive win after the producer shared the same prize last year with La Petite Reine's Thomas Langmann. Langmann's father Claude Berri, who died last January, received the award's inaugural prize the year before.
Caucheteux and Sorlat produced this year's awards season favorite "A Prophet" with Chic Films' Marco Cherqui. The prison drama, first screened at last year's Festival de Cannes, won the BAFTA for best foreign film and will vie for the same prize at the Oscars on March 7.
The winning production duo were also behind 2009 titles Christophe Honore's "Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser," Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric...
- 2/23/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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