Basil Da Cunha’s third feature, “Manga d’Terra,” bowed in Locarno’s main Competition on Friday, a strand that highlights contemporary cinema and innovative global debuts from established and emerging cineasts.
His debut, “After the Night,” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013, while his follow-up, “The End of the World,” screened in Locarno’s main competition in 2019.
A Swiss-Portuguese co-production that teams Da Cunha with Palmyre Badnier and Nicolas Wadimoff of Geneva-based Akka Films (“The Hunter’s Son”), “Manga d’Terra” continues his fervent dive into Lisbon’s Reboleira district and its rich Cape Verdean culture.
“Working with Basil Da Cunha, accompanying him in his creative process, means embracing a singular way of doing things which calls on a number of parameters, human as well as technical and economic, far removed from those usually used in the world of cinema,” Wadimoff told Variety.
“It’s a very...
His debut, “After the Night,” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013, while his follow-up, “The End of the World,” screened in Locarno’s main competition in 2019.
A Swiss-Portuguese co-production that teams Da Cunha with Palmyre Badnier and Nicolas Wadimoff of Geneva-based Akka Films (“The Hunter’s Son”), “Manga d’Terra” continues his fervent dive into Lisbon’s Reboleira district and its rich Cape Verdean culture.
“Working with Basil Da Cunha, accompanying him in his creative process, means embracing a singular way of doing things which calls on a number of parameters, human as well as technical and economic, far removed from those usually used in the world of cinema,” Wadimoff told Variety.
“It’s a very...
- 8/6/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Erige Sehiri’s coming-of-age story world premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight.
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has secured key sales for Tunisian Oscar submission Under The Fig Trees, with Modern Films acquiring UK-Ireland rights and Trent Film picking up the film for Italy.
Erige Sehiri’s coming-of-age story about a group of rural youths picking figs over a summer world premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight in May before a North American premiere in Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section and world tour at festivals including Karlovy Vary, Melbourne and Sarajevo.
Luxbox has previously sold the title to North...
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has secured key sales for Tunisian Oscar submission Under The Fig Trees, with Modern Films acquiring UK-Ireland rights and Trent Film picking up the film for Italy.
Erige Sehiri’s coming-of-age story about a group of rural youths picking figs over a summer world premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight in May before a North American premiere in Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section and world tour at festivals including Karlovy Vary, Melbourne and Sarajevo.
Luxbox has previously sold the title to North...
- 11/9/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Tunisia has submitted Erige Sehiri’s bucolic coming-of-age tale Under the Fig Trees, about a group of teenagers working as fig pickers over the summer, as its entry for the Best International Film Oscar.
News of the selection came ahead of the feature’s North American premiere Friday in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema program.
The work had its world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in May and since has played at a host of festivals including Karlovy Vary, Melbourne and Sarajevo.
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has unveiled a clutch of new deals to coincide with the Oscar announcement.
Fresh sales include to Benelux (Liberation), Portugal (Nitrato), Spain (Atalante), Turkey (Bir Film) and Eastern Europe (HBO), adding to previously announced deals to France (Jour2Fête) and the Middle East (Mad Solutions).
The film marks Sehiri’s debut fiction feature after a number of award-winning medium and long-length documentaries including the 2018 work Railway Men,...
News of the selection came ahead of the feature’s North American premiere Friday in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema program.
The work had its world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in May and since has played at a host of festivals including Karlovy Vary, Melbourne and Sarajevo.
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has unveiled a clutch of new deals to coincide with the Oscar announcement.
Fresh sales include to Benelux (Liberation), Portugal (Nitrato), Spain (Atalante), Turkey (Bir Film) and Eastern Europe (HBO), adding to previously announced deals to France (Jour2Fête) and the Middle East (Mad Solutions).
The film marks Sehiri’s debut fiction feature after a number of award-winning medium and long-length documentaries including the 2018 work Railway Men,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The production is Sehiri’s first fiction feature after her 2018 award-winning documentary Railway Men and short work My Father’s Facebook.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s Under The Fig Trees ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The film revolves around young women and men working the summer harvest in rural Tunisia as they develop new feelings, flirt, and try to understand each other.
The production is Sehiri’s first fiction feature after her 2018 award-winning documentary Railway Men and short work My Father’s Facebook.
It is produced by Sehiri’s...
Screen can reveal the first trailer for French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s Under The Fig Trees ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The film revolves around young women and men working the summer harvest in rural Tunisia as they develop new feelings, flirt, and try to understand each other.
The production is Sehiri’s first fiction feature after her 2018 award-winning documentary Railway Men and short work My Father’s Facebook.
It is produced by Sehiri’s...
- 5/16/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s first fiction feature follows youngsters working in the fig harvest in Tunisia.
French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s Under The Fig Trees has sold to France and the Middle East ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight later this month.
Jour2Fête will distribute the film in France and Mad Solutions has taken rights for the Middle East and North Africa. Paris-based Luxbox is handling international sales.
The film revolves around young women and men working the summer harvest in rural Tunisia as they develop new feelings, flirt, and try to understand each other.
The production...
French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s Under The Fig Trees has sold to France and the Middle East ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight later this month.
Jour2Fête will distribute the film in France and Mad Solutions has taken rights for the Middle East and North Africa. Paris-based Luxbox is handling international sales.
The film revolves around young women and men working the summer harvest in rural Tunisia as they develop new feelings, flirt, and try to understand each other.
The production...
- 5/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Linking to Paris-based Nadia Turincev and her producer partner Omar El Kadi to develop and produce two new Swiss films, Geneva-based Akka Films is also ramping up TV production, with Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, writer-directors of the acclaimed “My Little Sister,” Switzerland’s Oscar submission, teaming to create a new TV series .
Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013. Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019.
Presented at 2021’s online Industry Village, part of France’s Les Arc Film Festival, “O Jacaré” concludes Da Cunha’s trilogy set in the humble district of Reboleira on the outskirts of Lisbon. Described by its producers as a breathless ensemble thriller in the line of his previous features,...
Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013. Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019.
Presented at 2021’s online Industry Village, part of France’s Les Arc Film Festival, “O Jacaré” concludes Da Cunha’s trilogy set in the humble district of Reboleira on the outskirts of Lisbon. Described by its producers as a breathless ensemble thriller in the line of his previous features,...
- 3/2/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The winners of the 16th edition of Armenia's biggest festival include Beanpole, Horizon and Midnight Traveler, while Carlos Reygadas was honoured with the Parajanov's Thaler Award. The 16th Golden Apricot International Film Festival (8-14 July) wrapped with a closing ceremony that saw Richard Billingham's slow-burning festival hit Ray & Liz pick up the main award, the Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film. The jury, presided over by veteran Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Mindadze (who was himself honoured with the "Let There Be Light" Prize of the Armenian Apostolic Church), and comprising Swiss director Nicolas Wadimoff, Iranian filmmaker and head of Tehran's Fajr International Film Festival Reza Mirkarimi, Tribeca executive producer Amy Hobby, Venice Film Festival programmer Paolo Bertolin, British producer Elizabeth Karlsen, and French actress and director of Georgian descent Nino Kirtadze, gave the trophy for second place, the Silver Apricot Award, to the Russian historical drama Beanpole, which previously garnered.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 34th edition, which takes place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 9. Sixty-three world premieres will debut at the California fest, which is also hosting 59 U.S. premieres from 48 countries. “Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy” will open the festival, with “Spoons: A Santa Barbara Story” closing it.
Sbiff also serves as an awards-season stop, and this year’s honorees include Viggo Mortensen, Glenn Close, Melissa McCarthy, Yalitza Aparicio, Sam Elliott, Elsie Fisher, Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Thomasin McKenzie, John David Washington, Steven Yeun, and Michael B. Jordan.
Here’s the lineup:
Babysplitters, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sam Friedlander
Better Together, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Isaac Hernández
The Bird Catcher, Norway, UK – World Premiere
Directed by Ross Clarke
Cemetery Park, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Alvis
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy,...
Sbiff also serves as an awards-season stop, and this year’s honorees include Viggo Mortensen, Glenn Close, Melissa McCarthy, Yalitza Aparicio, Sam Elliott, Elsie Fisher, Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Thomasin McKenzie, John David Washington, Steven Yeun, and Michael B. Jordan.
Here’s the lineup:
Babysplitters, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sam Friedlander
Better Together, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Isaac Hernández
The Bird Catcher, Norway, UK – World Premiere
Directed by Ross Clarke
Cemetery Park, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Alvis
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy,...
- 1/12/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
© (C) Fotopedrazzini.ch / Massimo PedrazziniBelow you will find our favorite films of the 69th Locarno Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Jorge MOURINHAConnections in Invisible Ink: A Look Back at Locarno 69On the International CompetitionCELLULOID Liberation Frontcoveragea Circus, a Wedding, and an Anti-ImperialistOn Tizza Covi & Reiner Frimmel's Mister Universo, Yousry Nasrallah's Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces, and Nicolas Wadimoff's Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of WillpowerFilmmakers of the Present & Signs of LifeOn Kris Avedisian's Donald Cried, Júlio Bressane's Beduino, and Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, the Sun Blinded MeINTERVIEWSTalking to Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop CinemaGUSTAVO BECKINTERVIEWSInviting Chance: An Interview with Matías PiñeiroEmbracing Uncertainty: An Interview with Eduardo WilliamsLanguage As a Rehearsal Space: An Interview with Nele Wohlatz...
- 8/19/2016
- MUBI
What on paper might have looked like a “weaker” edition of the Locarno Film Festival is shaping up as perhaps a more adventurous one, with illustrious names (last year Chantal Akerman and Andrzej Żuławski were in Locarno) having made way to less eminent but equally stimulating selections. In line with its mandate, the festival cultivates what is vital, or considered to be so, about contemporary cinema while casting a retrospective glance at what may have been forgotten or underestimated, or is simply in need of rediscovery. That some, if not several of the filmmakers whose work Locarno has championed throughout the years keep returning is proof that its artistic identity is somewhat congenital rather than contingent to ephemeral trends or artistic directions. More than a passageway to the upper echelons of the film (post-)industry, Locarno remains a safe-house for those clandestine dreamers committed to a certain idea of cinema,...
- 8/8/2016
- MUBI
The 17th Montreal International Documentary Festival runs Nov 12-23 and opens with the world premiere of Kim Nguyen’s Le Nez [pictured].
The full programme for the 17th annual Montreal International Documentary Festival (Ridm) has been unveiled.
This year’s festival will feature 141 films from 44 countries, including 21 world premieres, 19 North American premieres and 21 Canadian premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of Quebec filmmaker Kim Nguyen’s Le Nez, a journey through the mysterious world of the sense of smell. Nguyen’s War Witch was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars in 2013.
Nicolas Wadimoff’s Spartiates also receives its world premiere as the festival’s closing film. The Swiss filmmaker travels to the outskirts of Marseille, where a mixed martial arts instructor is struggling to keep his school open.
Eleven awards will be presented to the winning films in the Ridm’s four competitive sections: Official Competition, Canadian Feature...
The full programme for the 17th annual Montreal International Documentary Festival (Ridm) has been unveiled.
This year’s festival will feature 141 films from 44 countries, including 21 world premieres, 19 North American premieres and 21 Canadian premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of Quebec filmmaker Kim Nguyen’s Le Nez, a journey through the mysterious world of the sense of smell. Nguyen’s War Witch was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars in 2013.
Nicolas Wadimoff’s Spartiates also receives its world premiere as the festival’s closing film. The Swiss filmmaker travels to the outskirts of Marseille, where a mixed martial arts instructor is struggling to keep his school open.
Eleven awards will be presented to the winning films in the Ridm’s four competitive sections: Official Competition, Canadian Feature...
- 11/4/2014
- ScreenDaily
Pacha, a Bolivian film by Héctor Ferreiro will open the first edition of the Kochi International Film Festival today. The festival that will run from December 16-23 will be inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy.
The festival will screen films from Latin America, Europe, Asia and USA, apart from films on the 100 Years of Indian Cinema and Centenary of Masters.
A total of 50 international films and 24 Indian films will be screened. Five films from Thailand, eight from Poland six films from Iran will be a part of the international section. While 18 Malayalam, one Tulu film and three Hindi films are in the line-up.
Line up of films:
100 Years of Indian Cinema
Malayalam Golden 10:
Elippathayam (The Rat Trap) by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Chidambaram by G. Aravindan
Danny by T. V. Chandran
Amma Ariyan by John Abraham
Oppol by K. S. Sethumadhavan
Nirmalyam by M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Uppu by Pavithran
Olavum Theeravum by P.
The festival will screen films from Latin America, Europe, Asia and USA, apart from films on the 100 Years of Indian Cinema and Centenary of Masters.
A total of 50 international films and 24 Indian films will be screened. Five films from Thailand, eight from Poland six films from Iran will be a part of the international section. While 18 Malayalam, one Tulu film and three Hindi films are in the line-up.
Line up of films:
100 Years of Indian Cinema
Malayalam Golden 10:
Elippathayam (The Rat Trap) by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Chidambaram by G. Aravindan
Danny by T. V. Chandran
Amma Ariyan by John Abraham
Oppol by K. S. Sethumadhavan
Nirmalyam by M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Uppu by Pavithran
Olavum Theeravum by P.
- 12/16/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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As I predicted earlier this week, a five-member jury in Switzerland has chosen, from a shortlist of five options, Ursula Meier‘s Sister (L’enfant d’en haut) as its submission to the Academy for consideration in the best foreign language Oscar race. The French-language film, a gripping and beautifully-made drama with a third-act twist, revolves around a 12-year-old thief (Kacey Mottet Klein in only his second film), his mysterious guardian (Léa Seydoux from Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol), and his victims (including Gillian Anderson of The X-Files). It premiered at February’s Berlin Film Festival, where Meier won a prestigious Silver Bear Award. It subsequently played at many film festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. And it will go into limited release — courtesy of Jeff Lipsky‘s new distribution operation Adopt Films limited — on October 5.
Meier’s last film Home,...
The Hollywood Reporter
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As I predicted earlier this week, a five-member jury in Switzerland has chosen, from a shortlist of five options, Ursula Meier‘s Sister (L’enfant d’en haut) as its submission to the Academy for consideration in the best foreign language Oscar race. The French-language film, a gripping and beautifully-made drama with a third-act twist, revolves around a 12-year-old thief (Kacey Mottet Klein in only his second film), his mysterious guardian (Léa Seydoux from Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol), and his victims (including Gillian Anderson of The X-Files). It premiered at February’s Berlin Film Festival, where Meier won a prestigious Silver Bear Award. It subsequently played at many film festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. And it will go into limited release — courtesy of Jeff Lipsky‘s new distribution operation Adopt Films limited — on October 5.
Meier’s last film Home,...
- 9/22/2012
- by Melissa Buckman
- Scott Feinberg
Edouard Waintrop, Artistic Director of Directors' Fortnight, has presented the lineup for this year's edition, running from May 17 through 27.
Features
Merzak Allouache's El Taaib. Evene claims it's an angry film aimed at the malaise of Algerian society.
Rodney Ascher's Room 237. A documentary about the plethora of theories that have sprung up over the years regarding just what Stanley Kubrick was up to when he made The Shining (1980). More here. IFC Midnight picked up North American rights just yesterday.
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner's Ernest et Célestine. From the makers of A Town Called Panic, this is an animated adaptation of a series of books about a little mouse who doesn't want to become a dentist and a big bear who doesn't want to become a notary. Site.
Benjamin Ávila's Infancia clandestina. From the San Sebastian Film Festival: "Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum,...
Features
Merzak Allouache's El Taaib. Evene claims it's an angry film aimed at the malaise of Algerian society.
Rodney Ascher's Room 237. A documentary about the plethora of theories that have sprung up over the years regarding just what Stanley Kubrick was up to when he made The Shining (1980). More here. IFC Midnight picked up North American rights just yesterday.
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner's Ernest et Célestine. From the makers of A Town Called Panic, this is an animated adaptation of a series of books about a little mouse who doesn't want to become a dentist and a big bear who doesn't want to become a notary. Site.
Benjamin Ávila's Infancia clandestina. From the San Sebastian Film Festival: "Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum,...
- 4/25/2012
- MUBI
We’ve already got a great line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but a few more quality films have been added to the Directors’ Fortnight section. Most notably is the latest film from Michel Gondry, The We and the I (more details on that one here). Then we’ve got Sightseers, the next film from Ben Wheatley, who gave us the frightening Kill List earlier this year. There’s also two Sundance films, one the excellent documentary on Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining, Room 237, as well as the absurdly funny Wrong, from Quentin Dupieux (update: looks like it’s actually a brand-new short titled Wrong Cops, starring Marilyn Manson). Check out the line-up below.
Longs Metrages / Feature Films
3 de / by Pablo Stoll Ward (Uruguay, Allemagne, Argentine / Uruguay, Germany, Argentina) – Première internationale
Adieu Berthe, l’enterrement de mémé / Granny’s Funeral de / by Bruno Podalydès (France) – Première mondiale...
Longs Metrages / Feature Films
3 de / by Pablo Stoll Ward (Uruguay, Allemagne, Argentine / Uruguay, Germany, Argentina) – Première internationale
Adieu Berthe, l’enterrement de mémé / Granny’s Funeral de / by Bruno Podalydès (France) – Première mondiale...
- 4/24/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers is selected for Directors' Fortnight special screening, while British theatre director Rufus Norris's debut Broken will open Critics' Week
The Cannes film festival's two major independent sidebars have announced their lineup for the forthcoming festival, providing UK and Us film-makers with a considerable boost to their presence on the Croisette.
Ben Wheatley, who has impressed critics and fans alike with his first two films, Down Terrace and Kill List, has seen his third, Sightseers, selected for a special screening in the Directors' Fortnight event, while British theatre director Rufus Norris's debut feature, Broken, has been given the opening slot for the Critics' Week section. Sightseers is described as a "pitch-black comedy" about a caravan trip around the north of England, while Broken is an adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel, and stars Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth.
Us film-makers have added to their total...
The Cannes film festival's two major independent sidebars have announced their lineup for the forthcoming festival, providing UK and Us film-makers with a considerable boost to their presence on the Croisette.
Ben Wheatley, who has impressed critics and fans alike with his first two films, Down Terrace and Kill List, has seen his third, Sightseers, selected for a special screening in the Directors' Fortnight event, while British theatre director Rufus Norris's debut feature, Broken, has been given the opening slot for the Critics' Week section. Sightseers is described as a "pitch-black comedy" about a caravan trip around the north of England, while Broken is an adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel, and stars Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth.
Us film-makers have added to their total...
- 4/24/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Yes, there's even more. With the lineup at the Cannes Film Festival already boasting a plethora of top-tier talent and highly anticipated films, the sidebar Directors' Fortnight is not to be outdone, and today they have unveiled their unusually name-brand-heavy lineup.
Michel Gondry's "The We & The I," Ben Wheatley's "Sightseers," plus new films by Pablo Lorrain, Quentin Dupieux and the late Raoul Ruiz will the lead the charge in 2012. Gondry's film has been rumored for south of France for a while now, but when it didn't show up in the Cannes lineup, and with the director already lensing his next effort "Mood Indigo," we figured we'd have to wait until the fall for "The We And The I." But the feature, which has been kept under wraps, and stars a cast of unknowns, will get a grand bow as the Opening Night film.
Elsewhere in the lineup: "Kill List...
Michel Gondry's "The We & The I," Ben Wheatley's "Sightseers," plus new films by Pablo Lorrain, Quentin Dupieux and the late Raoul Ruiz will the lead the charge in 2012. Gondry's film has been rumored for south of France for a while now, but when it didn't show up in the Cannes lineup, and with the director already lensing his next effort "Mood Indigo," we figured we'd have to wait until the fall for "The We And The I." But the feature, which has been kept under wraps, and stars a cast of unknowns, will get a grand bow as the Opening Night film.
Elsewhere in the lineup: "Kill List...
- 4/24/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Michael Haneke, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant
on the set of Amour
It's been a couple of weeks since the French magazine Premiere posted "Cannes 2012: Le buzzomètre," a list of over 30 films, each of which were assigned a numerical probability of its making the lineup at Cannes this year. Speculation has only grown hotter, of course, with an official announcement slated for April 19; Critics' Week and the Directors' Fortnight will follow on April 23 and 24, respectively. "Paris is rife with rumors about who will make it," reports Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa. "Several films by 'big fish' have not been seen yet, and many who have already shown their film are eagerly awaiting news."
A few days ago, a French blog pulled an April Fools' Day prank that thoroughly ticked off Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux. The blog claimed to have seen the full lineup, "briefly published on the official Cannes Film Festival...
on the set of Amour
It's been a couple of weeks since the French magazine Premiere posted "Cannes 2012: Le buzzomètre," a list of over 30 films, each of which were assigned a numerical probability of its making the lineup at Cannes this year. Speculation has only grown hotter, of course, with an official announcement slated for April 19; Critics' Week and the Directors' Fortnight will follow on April 23 and 24, respectively. "Paris is rife with rumors about who will make it," reports Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa. "Several films by 'big fish' have not been seen yet, and many who have already shown their film are eagerly awaiting news."
A few days ago, a French blog pulled an April Fools' Day prank that thoroughly ticked off Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux. The blog claimed to have seen the full lineup, "briefly published on the official Cannes Film Festival...
- 4/5/2012
- MUBI
With Berlinale wrapped, let's take one last looksie at random celebs working the premieres and photo ops. Part of our irregular red carpet lineup tradition. And then the awardage.
From left to right: I didn't know what Michael Winterbottom looked like, so I've included him here. He's a boyish 48. I think his career is pretty fascinating because it covers so much global ground and differing genre terrain. He's so prolific while still making intelligent films. I'm impatient so prolific works for me. That said, his new noir The Killer Inside Me might be one I'll have to skip. If festival types are so horrified by the violence I'm sure it's more than I can take.
Julianne Moore looking foxy on her way to fifty. She's gone a bit goth here with smoky eyes, black dress and black fingernails. More on her in a bit.
Two-time Oscar nominee Isabelle Adjani, who hasn't been working much,...
From left to right: I didn't know what Michael Winterbottom looked like, so I've included him here. He's a boyish 48. I think his career is pretty fascinating because it covers so much global ground and differing genre terrain. He's so prolific while still making intelligent films. I'm impatient so prolific works for me. That said, his new noir The Killer Inside Me might be one I'll have to skip. If festival types are so horrified by the violence I'm sure it's more than I can take.
Julianne Moore looking foxy on her way to fifty. She's gone a bit goth here with smoky eyes, black dress and black fingernails. More on her in a bit.
Two-time Oscar nominee Isabelle Adjani, who hasn't been working much,...
- 2/21/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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