By Terence Johnson
Managing Editor
The Oscar race is never a dull one and that couldn’t be any more apparent than in the race for Best Foreign Language film. This year is certainly shaping up to be a battle of David vs. Goliath if you looked at the histories of the countries competing. In one corner, you have Italy, with a whopping 12 wins in this category, facing off with a country like Cambodia, with no Oscar nominations. But such is the beauty of the awards season and the Oscars. So before the nominations come out, here’s an Oscar primer to get you caught up on the Foreign Language films.
Belgium – 2013 Nominee: The Broken Circle Breakdown
Logline/Synopsis: Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill,...
Managing Editor
The Oscar race is never a dull one and that couldn’t be any more apparent than in the race for Best Foreign Language film. This year is certainly shaping up to be a battle of David vs. Goliath if you looked at the histories of the countries competing. In one corner, you have Italy, with a whopping 12 wins in this category, facing off with a country like Cambodia, with no Oscar nominations. But such is the beauty of the awards season and the Oscars. So before the nominations come out, here’s an Oscar primer to get you caught up on the Foreign Language films.
Belgium – 2013 Nominee: The Broken Circle Breakdown
Logline/Synopsis: Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill,...
- 1/8/2014
- by Terence Johnson
- Scott Feinberg
A still from “The Importance of Being Chunky”
Berlin-based Primehouse has announced ten selected projects for this year’s Primexchange workshop, a 7-day professional training program at Film Bazaar in Goa from November 18 to 24 2013.
The projects selected are: Black Salt (Courtyard Entertainment, India); Figment (Rosemilk Ltd. Productions, UK); Guide (Vyjayanthi Entertainment, India); The Hermit (Louise Productions, Switzerland); The Importance of Being Chunky (Avatar Productions, UK); The Music Teacher (White Lotus Films, India); Nuclear Hearts (Overdose Art, India); Remember: Your Name is Freedom (Hip Film, Italy); Seven Stages (Aimimage Production, UK); and Sheen Wigne (Saffron Films/Anticlock Films, India).
The Primexchange workshop is a co-production forum for independent European and Indian producers aimed at initiating an exchange of ideas and providing practical guidance to foster cooperation between the two territories.
Primexchange is implemented by Berlin-based Primehouse in collaboration with India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) and is funded by the European Commission Media Mundus.
Berlin-based Primehouse has announced ten selected projects for this year’s Primexchange workshop, a 7-day professional training program at Film Bazaar in Goa from November 18 to 24 2013.
The projects selected are: Black Salt (Courtyard Entertainment, India); Figment (Rosemilk Ltd. Productions, UK); Guide (Vyjayanthi Entertainment, India); The Hermit (Louise Productions, Switzerland); The Importance of Being Chunky (Avatar Productions, UK); The Music Teacher (White Lotus Films, India); Nuclear Hearts (Overdose Art, India); Remember: Your Name is Freedom (Hip Film, Italy); Seven Stages (Aimimage Production, UK); and Sheen Wigne (Saffron Films/Anticlock Films, India).
The Primexchange workshop is a co-production forum for independent European and Indian producers aimed at initiating an exchange of ideas and providing practical guidance to foster cooperation between the two territories.
Primexchange is implemented by Berlin-based Primehouse in collaboration with India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) and is funded by the European Commission Media Mundus.
- 11/5/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai Mantra|Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab 2013 announced the eight fellows of the second edition of the lab on Sunday.
The creative advisers of the Lab are: Screenwriters Bill Wheeler (The Hoax, The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Anjum Rajabali (Ghulam, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Raajneeti), Malia Scotch Marmo (Hook, Jurrasic Park), Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Kaminey, Ishqiya); BAFTA award winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Senna); Mexican screenwriter, director and film producer Carlos Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Solo Con Tu Pareja); Indian screenwriter and director Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar, Ishaqzaade); writer-director Joshua Marston (The Forgiveness of Blood, Maria Full of Grace) and writer-producer Marti Noxon ( I Am Number Four, Fright Night).
Selected projects:
Betamax by Terrie Samundra
Betamax is set in the summer of 1976 in London on the brink of a youth uprising. The South Asian ghetto of Southall pulses with the sounds of dancehall, punk and bhangra. Gurmel, a Sikh cornershop owner,...
The creative advisers of the Lab are: Screenwriters Bill Wheeler (The Hoax, The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Anjum Rajabali (Ghulam, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Raajneeti), Malia Scotch Marmo (Hook, Jurrasic Park), Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Kaminey, Ishqiya); BAFTA award winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Senna); Mexican screenwriter, director and film producer Carlos Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Solo Con Tu Pareja); Indian screenwriter and director Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar, Ishaqzaade); writer-director Joshua Marston (The Forgiveness of Blood, Maria Full of Grace) and writer-producer Marti Noxon ( I Am Number Four, Fright Night).
Selected projects:
Betamax by Terrie Samundra
Betamax is set in the summer of 1976 in London on the brink of a youth uprising. The South Asian ghetto of Southall pulses with the sounds of dancehall, punk and bhangra. Gurmel, a Sikh cornershop owner,...
- 3/11/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Fruitvale became the first Sundance film to win the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic film since Precious in 2009. First-time director Ryan Coogler was inspired to write the film after 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot in the back and killed by Oakland transit police on New Year’s Day morning 2009. Fruitvale tells the story of Grant’s last 24 hours alive, as he attempts to become a better father, a better boyfriend, and a better son and friend. “It’s about human beings and how we treat each other,” said Coogler, “how we treat people that...
- 1/27/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Chicago – Joseph Gordon-Levitt presented the winners on Saturday evening, January 26, 2013 for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Past winners of the Grand Jury Prize for Drama include “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Winter’s Bone,” “Precious,” and “American Splendor.” This year’s winners are listed below.
U.S. Dramatic
Grand Jury Prize: “Fruitvale”
Directing: Jill Soloway, “Afternoon Delight”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: “In a World…” by Lake Bell
Cinematography: Bradford Young, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” & “Mother of George”
Special Jury Award For Acting: Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, “The Spectacular Now”
Special Jury Award For Sound Design: Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, “Upstream Color”
Audience Award: “Fruitvale”
U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury Prize: “Blood Brother”
Directing: Zachary Heinzerling, “Cutie and the Boxer”
Editing: “Gideon’s Army”
Cinematography: “Dirty Wars”
Special Jury Award: “American Promise”
Special Jury Award: “Inequality For All”
Audience Award: “Blood Brother”
World Cinema Dramatic
Grand Jury Prize: “Jiseul”
Directing: Sebastian Silva,...
U.S. Dramatic
Grand Jury Prize: “Fruitvale”
Directing: Jill Soloway, “Afternoon Delight”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: “In a World…” by Lake Bell
Cinematography: Bradford Young, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” & “Mother of George”
Special Jury Award For Acting: Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, “The Spectacular Now”
Special Jury Award For Sound Design: Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, “Upstream Color”
Audience Award: “Fruitvale”
U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury Prize: “Blood Brother”
Directing: Zachary Heinzerling, “Cutie and the Boxer”
Editing: “Gideon’s Army”
Cinematography: “Dirty Wars”
Special Jury Award: “American Promise”
Special Jury Award: “Inequality For All”
Audience Award: “Blood Brother”
World Cinema Dramatic
Grand Jury Prize: “Jiseul”
Directing: Sebastian Silva,...
- 1/27/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The problem with the top festivals is that no matter what you are doing, you feel you should be doing something else. Whether to stay home and write or be out seeing films or partying/ networking, sometimes you feel like you're missing out of the really important things. And I lost my hat! If any readers find my white Russian fox hat that I bought in a Berlin flea market, please return it to me! Yesterday I missed the inauguration brunch Acme PR hosted in conjunction with the film Citizen Koch about Mayor Koch because I was trying to send out photos from my camera to my new MacBook Pro to my blog! I also missed Occupy Wall Street. But the truth of that is I am no longer in the mood for issue docs. Inequality For All satisfied my need for understanding that issue, God Loves Uganda repelled me, though one of the volunteers I was talking to was so incensed at the film's message of homophobia that I realized its value. I am going to write more on the docs in the coming days, but now just for fun, I'm going to do a survey of how many deal with personal subjects and how many with social issues. I did find a great parking lot for $5, but it was so far away that I was unable to see the films Big Sur (sold out) and C.O.G., but I did catch the buzz film Fruitvale about the New Years Eve shooting of Oscar, a 22 year old Bay Area resident. Starring the superb Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer and Melonie Diaz and directed by Ryan Coogler, it captured the family life so beautifully, Oscar was so sympathetic, so human, so young that at its end, I was totally depressed by the gun violence done in this film and in so many incidents over this past year. Another film about guns, Valentine Road by Sasha Alpert is getting very good buzz as well. Seeing Fruitvale because it was a buzz film and was so easy to enter with my press pass meant missing out of Gideon's Army which I really wanted to see but did not realize a ticket had been reserved for me and so I missed out on seeing it. Gideon's Army follows three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. I wanted to share it with my Pd friends in L.A. And the issue of justice and idealism would have taken me out of the depression over Fruitvale where the security guard who shot Oscar twice got off after serving 18 months in prison. Since this doc is an HBO doc, I might not get another chance to see it. At 4:00pm in Sundance (and Berlin, Cannes and Afm), the cocktail hour begins and we put aside watching films and switch to networking, catching up with news, meeting new people, etc. and so I went off to parties: The Louisiana Film Festival , Ifp, Film Independent and Indiewire, Kofic (the Korean film organization) and "The Party" of Sundance hosted by John Sloss and Cinetic were all on the calendar. Starting at the Riverhorse on Main, the Film Independent / Indiewire party was so exciting that I missed the Ifp party up the street. At the Find/ Indiewire party, I got to catch up with so many people including Bob and Jeannie Berney who will be opening their new company Picturehouse (2) with a Metallica film in 3D which sounds like a perfect Bob Berney film. I met Adam Donaghey, a partner of Aviation Cinemas who had been at the Arthouse Convergence. His theater is where they arrested up Lee Harvey Oswald and was originally the flag ship theater created by Howard Hughes as part of the Rko Theaters chain. They also have started the Oak Cliff Film Festival which is a festival of festivals, much like Toronto was in its early days before becoming the showcase and discovery festival it is today. We spoke of a new sort of festival scam that filmmakers need to heed, called Awards Festivals. You can buy an award so you can show your film to be a winner of a festival where it never even needs to screen! Withoutabox even lists these festivals without warning. Adam wishes Withoutabox would curate chosen festivals a bit more. I agree because uneducated filmmakers often tend to think that quantity not quality of film festivals their films show at makes the look better than it might be. For uneducated audiences who might then watch the film, disappointment may result. For the trade, it gives the film a tawdry look.
Michele Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute and Paul Federbush, International Director of the Feature Film Program invited me to tomorrow's Mahinda Global Filmmaking Awards Reception which awards $10,000 to 4 filmmakers with projects which give voice to issues needing to be heard. Again I have to miss something if I go there…Narco Cultura plays at 6:30pm, the Awards ceremony starts at 6pm, And I have been invited to my host's dinner party. I hope I can catch Narco Cultura (Isa: K5) on Cinando! The winners are Sarthak Dasgupta,The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Dead Beloved from Brazil; and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name UK-Germany-us. See more here
Rick Allen, Founder and CEO of Snagfilms (the owner of Indiewire) and I spoke of their ever-growing developments and I was startled and very happy to hear him praise my blog. Stefanie Sharis, COO and Andrew Mer, VP Content Partnerships of Snagfilms and I spoke of our plans in Berlin and Cannes.
Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program party where, for the second time during this festival, I caught a fantastic musical performance. The first was at the New York Film Lounge. This one was a "love riot" performance by jazz pianist extraordinaire, actor and educator Jonathan Batiste . Both the groups are represented by N.Y. Attorney Stephen Beers . I was with Ula again, and Indiewire's James Israel, doing the party circuit. I hope Ula will bring this fine New Orleans jazz pianist Jon Batiste to The American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. He had the room rocking with a sax, drums and -- was that a tuba? -- backing him up. I have filmed both groups and hope I can upload them for your enjoyment! The Louisiana Film Festival will be held in April and includes a mentorship program. It is being organized by our friends Jeff Dowd and Dan Ireland. Dan is now working on his next feature which sounds great with a cast of great actors. I want to go to this new festival to celebrate my birthday especially since my parents met in New Orleans as university students there, married and moved to L.A. where I was born, so it means a lot to me. Coincidently, when I mentioned this to the Executive Director and filmmaker Chesley Heymsfield, telling her my father was in med school at Lsu, she told me her father was Chancellor of the Lsu Medical School. In addition I am thinking that perhaps we can join forces with their Mentorship Program with The Literacy Project, which I began 4 years ago at El Centro del Pueblo in Echo Park. Their Mentorship Program, from what I understood, is headed by a Nobel Prize Winning Scientist. I may have heard wrong however, because the noise at this party was horrendous and the speech given was too long for sustained silence. Ula, James and I proceeded to the Korean party was a different group of folks gathering of the trade. While there I could do some matchmaking, one of my favorite pastimes, introducing Ula to Kiril of the Moscow Film Festival, seeing Clay Epstein, party organizers Henry Eshelmann and Mark Rabinowitz, being introduced by Ula and Kiral to the Busan International Film Festival/ Asian Film Market's Steering Committee Deputy Director (who is responsible for international marketing of the market, Chanil Jeon, who then introduced me to the programmer for North American films, Dosin Pak whose email is "Program [At] biff.kr" for all you North American filmmakers looking to break into Asia. I have written about Busan several times because I think South Korea's development and support of filmmaking, film education and film financing through its pre-sales market is a model other countries would be wise to follow. I would personally love to create an educational initiative there about cross-cultural competence. During one Cannes Festival, I spoke to their education director about that. So perhaps, with a little more time, I will be able to speak of how to actualize this idea. From the Korean party we went (Early) to John Sloss's Cinetic party, The Hot Ticket party for me. I know I'll see old friends there and meet new and not only interesting but important people in the business, and sure 'nuff, I did. I also know that if you come late to this party you are liable to spend a long time shivering in the cold waiting to be admitted. There was Anne Thompson holding court, Christine Vachon holding court and I am sure many others. I got some good face time with Cotty Chubb who has 3 films nearing completion, and Carol (whose last name I have forgotten regrettably without her card to jolt my memory) whom I last saw in Paris many years ago and has now returned to filmmaking. She in turn introduced me to the L.A. Based Rio Film Commissioner who works with the Rio-based Steve Solet. We gathered with old friends Tom Davia (of Shoreline) and Rodrigo Bellot whose film he wrote, We Are What We Are (Isa: Memento), just sold to eOne for U.S. for a low 6 figures. Eone already has Canada and U.K. That's enough for now. See you tomorrow!!
Michele Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute and Paul Federbush, International Director of the Feature Film Program invited me to tomorrow's Mahinda Global Filmmaking Awards Reception which awards $10,000 to 4 filmmakers with projects which give voice to issues needing to be heard. Again I have to miss something if I go there…Narco Cultura plays at 6:30pm, the Awards ceremony starts at 6pm, And I have been invited to my host's dinner party. I hope I can catch Narco Cultura (Isa: K5) on Cinando! The winners are Sarthak Dasgupta,The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Dead Beloved from Brazil; and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name UK-Germany-us. See more here
Rick Allen, Founder and CEO of Snagfilms (the owner of Indiewire) and I spoke of their ever-growing developments and I was startled and very happy to hear him praise my blog. Stefanie Sharis, COO and Andrew Mer, VP Content Partnerships of Snagfilms and I spoke of our plans in Berlin and Cannes.
Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program party where, for the second time during this festival, I caught a fantastic musical performance. The first was at the New York Film Lounge. This one was a "love riot" performance by jazz pianist extraordinaire, actor and educator Jonathan Batiste . Both the groups are represented by N.Y. Attorney Stephen Beers . I was with Ula again, and Indiewire's James Israel, doing the party circuit. I hope Ula will bring this fine New Orleans jazz pianist Jon Batiste to The American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. He had the room rocking with a sax, drums and -- was that a tuba? -- backing him up. I have filmed both groups and hope I can upload them for your enjoyment! The Louisiana Film Festival will be held in April and includes a mentorship program. It is being organized by our friends Jeff Dowd and Dan Ireland. Dan is now working on his next feature which sounds great with a cast of great actors. I want to go to this new festival to celebrate my birthday especially since my parents met in New Orleans as university students there, married and moved to L.A. where I was born, so it means a lot to me. Coincidently, when I mentioned this to the Executive Director and filmmaker Chesley Heymsfield, telling her my father was in med school at Lsu, she told me her father was Chancellor of the Lsu Medical School. In addition I am thinking that perhaps we can join forces with their Mentorship Program with The Literacy Project, which I began 4 years ago at El Centro del Pueblo in Echo Park. Their Mentorship Program, from what I understood, is headed by a Nobel Prize Winning Scientist. I may have heard wrong however, because the noise at this party was horrendous and the speech given was too long for sustained silence. Ula, James and I proceeded to the Korean party was a different group of folks gathering of the trade. While there I could do some matchmaking, one of my favorite pastimes, introducing Ula to Kiril of the Moscow Film Festival, seeing Clay Epstein, party organizers Henry Eshelmann and Mark Rabinowitz, being introduced by Ula and Kiral to the Busan International Film Festival/ Asian Film Market's Steering Committee Deputy Director (who is responsible for international marketing of the market, Chanil Jeon, who then introduced me to the programmer for North American films, Dosin Pak whose email is "Program [At] biff.kr" for all you North American filmmakers looking to break into Asia. I have written about Busan several times because I think South Korea's development and support of filmmaking, film education and film financing through its pre-sales market is a model other countries would be wise to follow. I would personally love to create an educational initiative there about cross-cultural competence. During one Cannes Festival, I spoke to their education director about that. So perhaps, with a little more time, I will be able to speak of how to actualize this idea. From the Korean party we went (Early) to John Sloss's Cinetic party, The Hot Ticket party for me. I know I'll see old friends there and meet new and not only interesting but important people in the business, and sure 'nuff, I did. I also know that if you come late to this party you are liable to spend a long time shivering in the cold waiting to be admitted. There was Anne Thompson holding court, Christine Vachon holding court and I am sure many others. I got some good face time with Cotty Chubb who has 3 films nearing completion, and Carol (whose last name I have forgotten regrettably without her card to jolt my memory) whom I last saw in Paris many years ago and has now returned to filmmaking. She in turn introduced me to the L.A. Based Rio Film Commissioner who works with the Rio-based Steve Solet. We gathered with old friends Tom Davia (of Shoreline) and Rodrigo Bellot whose film he wrote, We Are What We Are (Isa: Memento), just sold to eOne for U.S. for a low 6 figures. Eone already has Canada and U.K. That's enough for now. See you tomorrow!!
- 1/24/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Filmmakers from Italy, Brazil and India are among the four directors honored with global filmmaking awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The honors carry a $10,000 cash prize and are designed to encourage emerging filmmakers from around the world. They are part of a three year partnership between the Sundance Institute and the Indian multi-national Mahindra Group that is now in its third year. The winning directors and projects are: Sarthak Dasgupta, "The Music Teacher" from India; Jonas Carpignano, "A Chjana" (pictured left) from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, "The Man Who Killed...
- 1/23/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Sundance Institute and India’s Mahindra Group today announced the four winners of the 2013 Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are: Sarthak Dasgupta, The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Beloved Dead from Brazil; and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Read More...
- 1/23/2013
- Bollywood Trade
Sundance Institute and India’s Mahindra Group announced the four winners of the 2013 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are: Sarthak Dasgupta, The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Beloved Dead from Brazil;and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name from UK-Germany-us.
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., by Rohit Khattar, Chairman, Mumbai Mantra, Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute, and Paul Federbush, International Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute.
Each of the four winning filmmakers will receive a cash award of $10,000, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival for targeted industry and creative meetings, year-round mentoring from Institute staff and creative advisors,...
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., by Rohit Khattar, Chairman, Mumbai Mantra, Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute, and Paul Federbush, International Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute.
Each of the four winning filmmakers will receive a cash award of $10,000, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival for targeted industry and creative meetings, year-round mentoring from Institute staff and creative advisors,...
- 1/23/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Looking to build on the success of Fox's Glee, the Hallmark Channel has set The Music Teacher, a two-hour movie set to star Annie Potts and feature original songs and lyrics from a former Madonna composer. Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because of district budget cuts. In an effort to spare the program, Daley's former students band together to stage a musical to raise money to keep the program alive. Composer Alan Ett, whose credits include Madonna: Truth or Dare
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- 2/21/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Grimm Episode 105 "Danse Macabre" Written By: David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf Directed By: David Solomon Original Airdate: 8 December 2011 In This Episode... The music teacher at an exclusive prep school is found dead in his car. He had been trapped in there with dozens of rats. It was a prank gone bad - the teacher had a heart attack when he saw swarms of rats coming after him. By morning, when he was discovered, the rats had eaten away large portions of the teacher's flesh. In the bushes nearby, Geiger Exterminator cages are found. Mr. Geiger is a crusty, agitated old man who lives and works out of trailers under a bridge. He lives with his son Rodney, a violin...
- 12/9/2011
- FEARnet
Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen and Cliff Curtis are all attached to star in Gérard Corbiau's "The Dreamers" reports Production Weekly.
The story follows an opera singer who loses her voice in a fire and decides to travel the world anonymously.
The project is based on a screenplay that the late Orson Welles and Oja Kodar penned together based on two stories from the 1934 novel "Seven Gothic Tales" by Isak Dinesen.
The script is described as one of Welles' most personal works and one of his last surviving unfilmed projects (funding was never quite forthcoming for the project).
Corbiau ("Farinelli," "Le maître de musique") will direct after more than a decade's absence from feature filmmaking.
The story follows an opera singer who loses her voice in a fire and decides to travel the world anonymously.
The project is based on a screenplay that the late Orson Welles and Oja Kodar penned together based on two stories from the 1934 novel "Seven Gothic Tales" by Isak Dinesen.
The script is described as one of Welles' most personal works and one of his last surviving unfilmed projects (funding was never quite forthcoming for the project).
Corbiau ("Farinelli," "Le maître de musique") will direct after more than a decade's absence from feature filmmaking.
- 4/19/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Britain's Got Talent's Tina Humphrey has claimed that men often feel threatened by her relationship with dog Chandi. The music teacher, 37, who appeared with her dancing pet on Saturday's opening episode of the reality series, admitted that she hasn't found the "right person" who can accept them as "a package". "It's not Chandi who has a problem with potential partners, it's the other way round. She loves humans so doesn't get jealous," she told the Daily Star Sunday. "It (more)...
- 4/19/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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