They were producers on Sian Heder’s Oscar best-picture winner ‘Coda’
Need to know: Co-CEOs Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are currently flying high as the producers of Sian Heder’s Oscar best-picture winner Coda. They were the first European producers to achieve this feat since Thomas Langmann with The Artist in 2011. Paris-born Rousselet, who has had a foot on both sides of the Atlantic since early in his career, created the group in the early 1990s. He was joined by Gianfermi in 2000. It produces French-language films under the banners of Vendôme Films and subsidiaries Jerico Films and Prelude,...
Need to know: Co-CEOs Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are currently flying high as the producers of Sian Heder’s Oscar best-picture winner Coda. They were the first European producers to achieve this feat since Thomas Langmann with The Artist in 2011. Paris-born Rousselet, who has had a foot on both sides of the Atlantic since early in his career, created the group in the early 1990s. He was joined by Gianfermi in 2000. It produces French-language films under the banners of Vendôme Films and subsidiaries Jerico Films and Prelude,...
- 5/15/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sophie Lellouche’s love letter to Woody Allen and directorial debut Paris-Manhattan, begins with a homage to the great filmmakers familiar opening titles, with a simplistic white writing against a plain, black background. However they aren’t presented in the same, infamous Windsor font, and it’s this slight indifference which sets the precedence for how the rest of this picture will play out, as although certainly a charming and genial tribute to Allen, it just isn’t quite as accomplished or ingenious as his work.
Alice Taglioni plays Alice, a Woody Allen obsessive who runs the family owned pharmacy, where she believes that classic movies such as Manhattan and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) are the perfect remedy to her customers conditions. However such films can’t cure herself of loneliness, as she struggles to find a partner – despite her father...
Alice Taglioni plays Alice, a Woody Allen obsessive who runs the family owned pharmacy, where she believes that classic movies such as Manhattan and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) are the perfect remedy to her customers conditions. However such films can’t cure herself of loneliness, as she struggles to find a partner – despite her father...
- 7/4/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Russia’s St Petersburg, the “Venice of the North”, is set to join Paris, New York and Berlin celebrated in the Cities of Love omnibus franchise.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily in St Petersburg during the city’s famous White Nights this week, producers Vitaly Eroshenya and Ilya Zofin of Lyceum Production explained that shooting on Saint Petersburg, I Love You is slated to begin in autumn 2014.
Although the producers stress they have not yet signed any concrete deals, initial interest in directing one of the planned 12 short love stories has been expressed by such film-makers as Jaco van Dormael, Sophie Lellouche, Anne Fontaine, Til Schweiger and Dito Tsintsadze.
Eroshenya had made contact with some of the film-makers as the programmer of closed screenings called ¨Cinema With Taste¨ where around 20 people are invited to see interesting new foreign films with the directors attending.
In the case of Schweiger, the German actor-director-producer had shown interest in being involved when asked...
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily in St Petersburg during the city’s famous White Nights this week, producers Vitaly Eroshenya and Ilya Zofin of Lyceum Production explained that shooting on Saint Petersburg, I Love You is slated to begin in autumn 2014.
Although the producers stress they have not yet signed any concrete deals, initial interest in directing one of the planned 12 short love stories has been expressed by such film-makers as Jaco van Dormael, Sophie Lellouche, Anne Fontaine, Til Schweiger and Dito Tsintsadze.
Eroshenya had made contact with some of the film-makers as the programmer of closed screenings called ¨Cinema With Taste¨ where around 20 people are invited to see interesting new foreign films with the directors attending.
In the case of Schweiger, the German actor-director-producer had shown interest in being involved when asked...
- 7/2/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A documentary celebrating the eccentric master of fish flies, Megan Boyd; how Mamma Mia! star Dominic Cooper got a taste for real ale; and Woody Allen steps out from behind the camera
Fishing for film gold
The Edinburgh international film festival starts this week, casting its net wide with Korean films and American indies. But this 67th edition might be remembered for a very local tale and one of the unlikeliest documentaries that's ever hooked me. It's called Kiss the Water: A Love Story, a portrait of an eccentric, almost hermit-like woman called Megan Boyd who became the world's foremost maker of salmon flies. Seriously. Prince Charles was one of her loyal clients, even delivering her OBE to her cottage because Boyd couldn't be bothered with the fuss of going to the palace to accept it from the Queen.
The film is by American doc maker Eric Steel, whose last film,...
Fishing for film gold
The Edinburgh international film festival starts this week, casting its net wide with Korean films and American indies. But this 67th edition might be remembered for a very local tale and one of the unlikeliest documentaries that's ever hooked me. It's called Kiss the Water: A Love Story, a portrait of an eccentric, almost hermit-like woman called Megan Boyd who became the world's foremost maker of salmon flies. Seriously. Prince Charles was one of her loyal clients, even delivering her OBE to her cottage because Boyd couldn't be bothered with the fuss of going to the palace to accept it from the Queen.
The film is by American doc maker Eric Steel, whose last film,...
- 6/15/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
"Paris-Manhattan" is an amusing little nothing of a movie built around the wit and wisdom of Woody Allen. First-time writer-director Sophie Lellouche has taken bon mots from Allen's movies and used them to create nothing less than a philosophy of life for her heroine,"Why is life worth living? ... I would say ... Groucho Marx, to name one thing ... the 2nd movement of the Jupiter Symphony ... Swedish movies, naturally."
Alice (Alice Togliani), whose name was the title of a 1990 Woody film and who is a dead ringer for Julie Hagerty of "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," has been obsessed with the "handsome" director, "the one who makes me laugh," since college. She's never married, works as a pharmacist with her worrywart father in Paris, and hands out DVDs of Woody's films in lieu of medicine, on occasion.
"Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" is a particular favorite.
Alice (Alice Togliani), whose name was the title of a 1990 Woody film and who is a dead ringer for Julie Hagerty of "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," has been obsessed with the "handsome" director, "the one who makes me laugh," since college. She's never married, works as a pharmacist with her worrywart father in Paris, and hands out DVDs of Woody's films in lieu of medicine, on occasion.
"Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" is a particular favorite.
- 4/18/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Unless you watch Nancy Meyers's romantic-comedy oeuvre strictly for the interior design and decor, there's little to note about Sophie Lellouche's shallow, witless but pretty enough French ode to Woody Allen, couched in a loose revision of 1972's Play It Again, Sam. A model-thin blond beauty with perfect cheekbones, Alice Taglioni is unconvincingly cast as Alice, a lovelorn loner (perhaps we're meant to see her as drab because she's styled like a tomboy?) who has been obsessed since a teenager with, not Humphrey Bogart, but the Woodman himself. She even gets relationship advice from a vintage poster of Allen in her bedroom, imagined as voiceover line readings from his films, and when in doubt Lellouche cues up funnier clips from yesteryear, like Gene Wilder in bed with a sheep f...
- 4/12/2013
- Village Voice
Paris-Manhattan
Written and directed by Sophie Lellouche
France, 2012
Concerning a Woody Allen obsessive, Paris-Manhattan borrows a central conceit from one of the man’s most beloved writing and acting efforts, albeit not one he directed himself. Instead of the apparition of Humphrey Bogart appearing to deliver advice like in Play It Again, Sam, Allen himself, in the form of a life-size poster and extracts from his films, is the maxim-dispenser of Sophie Lellouche’s debut feature.
In the film’s opening, protagonist Alice (Alice Taglioni) explains in voice-over that she and Woody Allen formed a connection when she first saw one of his films (Hannah and Her Sisters) at age fifteen, and that, in reference to Allen’s prolific work-rate, the two have maintained an annual “relationship” ever since. In the narrative’s present, Alice is single and working at her father’s pharmacy. Having found all answers to her...
Written and directed by Sophie Lellouche
France, 2012
Concerning a Woody Allen obsessive, Paris-Manhattan borrows a central conceit from one of the man’s most beloved writing and acting efforts, albeit not one he directed himself. Instead of the apparition of Humphrey Bogart appearing to deliver advice like in Play It Again, Sam, Allen himself, in the form of a life-size poster and extracts from his films, is the maxim-dispenser of Sophie Lellouche’s debut feature.
In the film’s opening, protagonist Alice (Alice Taglioni) explains in voice-over that she and Woody Allen formed a connection when she first saw one of his films (Hannah and Her Sisters) at age fifteen, and that, in reference to Allen’s prolific work-rate, the two have maintained an annual “relationship” ever since. In the narrative’s present, Alice is single and working at her father’s pharmacy. Having found all answers to her...
- 11/24/2012
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Judy Ironside is the Founder and Executive Director of UK Jewish Film, which explores Jewish and interfaith cinema with an annual two-week festival in London, as well as special events and screenings throughout the year. Rapidly increasing in scale and popularity, the 16th UK Jewish Film Festival will also be screening simultaneously in Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester this year, with films on show including Cate Shortland's acclaimed Second World War drama Lore (2012), Zaytoun (2012) and Sophie Lellouche's Paris Manhattan (2012). CineVue caught up with Judy Ironside, Founder and Executive Director of UK Jewish Film, to find out a bit more about the organisation.
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- 10/26/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Photos of Jeremy Renner sliding down a wall in The Bourne Legacy, several shots from Snow White and the Huntsman, three shots of Josh Brolin and Will Smith in the 1960's scenes of Men in Black 3, a trio of heroes walk a hall in The Avengers, the first shot of Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Won't Back Down, and Judi Dench on the set of Skyfall.
Posters for Piranha 3Dd, A Thousand Words, The Cold Light of Day, Mirror Mirror, The Hunger Games, Now is Good.
"New Blu-ray release dates are up - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" on March 27th, "We Bought a Zoo" on April 3rd, "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol" on April 17th, "Contraband" and "The Artist" on April 24th, "New Year's Eve" on May 1st, "Underworld Awakening" on May 8th, "Rampart" on May 15th, "Perfect Sense" on May 22nd, "The Woman in the Fifth" on June 11th,...
Posters for Piranha 3Dd, A Thousand Words, The Cold Light of Day, Mirror Mirror, The Hunger Games, Now is Good.
"New Blu-ray release dates are up - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" on March 27th, "We Bought a Zoo" on April 3rd, "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol" on April 17th, "Contraband" and "The Artist" on April 24th, "New Year's Eve" on May 1st, "Underworld Awakening" on May 8th, "Rampart" on May 15th, "Perfect Sense" on May 22nd, "The Woman in the Fifth" on June 11th,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With reports out of France that Woody Allen is shooting a cameo for the film "Paris Manhattan," a comedy from first-time director Sophie Lellouche in which part of the plot revolves around a pharmacist (Alice Taglioni) so obsessed with his work she prescribes DVDs of his films to patients, the 75-year-old filmmaker continues a tradition of picking peculiar projects to appear in outside of his own.
In a career that's entering its fifth decade, Allen has starred in just six films he hasn't directed ("Play It Again, Sam," "The Front," "Scenes From a Mall," the 1996 "Sunshine Boys" TV remake, "Antz" and "Picking Up the Pieces") and limited himself to a handful of other uncredited cameos. Though he's scarcely performed in anything in recent years - his last role as an actor was in 2006's "Scoop" - some of his most intriguing roles have come in the films in which he's scarcely seen,...
In a career that's entering its fifth decade, Allen has starred in just six films he hasn't directed ("Play It Again, Sam," "The Front," "Scenes From a Mall," the 1996 "Sunshine Boys" TV remake, "Antz" and "Picking Up the Pieces") and limited himself to a handful of other uncredited cameos. Though he's scarcely performed in anything in recent years - his last role as an actor was in 2006's "Scoop" - some of his most intriguing roles have come in the films in which he's scarcely seen,...
- 4/5/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Some spectacular vintage-style posters for X-Men: First Class, the logo artwork for Monsters University, and the first photos of the titular employers in the comedy Horrible Bosses,
Watch Neil Gaiman, Mark Sheppard and Chris Hardwick in the full 41-minute WonderCon panel over the weekend for the upcoming season of Doctor Who. Gaiman in particular slays the crowd.
"AMC's much hyped new thriller series "The Killing" averaged 4.7 million total viewers for the various airings on its first night - the second highest-rated series premiere for AMC behind "The Walking Dead"..." (full details)
"A purported synopsis of the "Superman" reboot indicates the main antagonists will be Metallo and General Sam Lane..." (full details)
""Heroes" co-stars Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia are set to voice Iron Man and Wolverine respectively in two new animated series based on the Marvel superheroes that will air on G4 next year..." (full details)
"Marvel comics legend Stan Lee...
Watch Neil Gaiman, Mark Sheppard and Chris Hardwick in the full 41-minute WonderCon panel over the weekend for the upcoming season of Doctor Who. Gaiman in particular slays the crowd.
"AMC's much hyped new thriller series "The Killing" averaged 4.7 million total viewers for the various airings on its first night - the second highest-rated series premiere for AMC behind "The Walking Dead"..." (full details)
"A purported synopsis of the "Superman" reboot indicates the main antagonists will be Metallo and General Sam Lane..." (full details)
""Heroes" co-stars Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia are set to voice Iron Man and Wolverine respectively in two new animated series based on the Marvel superheroes that will air on G4 next year..." (full details)
"Marvel comics legend Stan Lee...
- 4/4/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Woody Allen will be gracing our screens once again, but not in one of his own pictures. The diminutive auteur been noticeably absent from his recent directorial output, last appearing in 2006's little-seen Scoop. French newspaper Le Parisien report that Woody will be starring in the debut feature by French short-filmmaker Sophie Lellouche, entitled Paris Manhattan. A very Woody-sounding title, no? Lellouche's film focuses on a thirty-something pharmacist, played by Alice Taglioni, and her family's attempts to cure her of her Woody Allen...
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- 4/4/2011
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
Woody Allen has taken a break from directing to return to acting. The 75-year-old filmmaker filmed a scene on April 2 for the upcoming movie ‘Paris Manhattan’ in front of the Plaza Athenee hotel on Avenue Montaigne in the city of lights, collider.com is reporting. Allen plays himself in ‘Paris Manhattan,’ his first acting role since he starred in his own movie ‘Scoop’ in 2006. ‘Paris Manhattan’ is a romantic comedy, and is the first movie to be helmed by French director Sophie Lellouche. It follows a young pharmacist, played by Alice Taglioni, who is obsessed with Allen. Her family hopes another man, played by Patrick Bruel, will get her mind [...]...
- 4/4/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
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