Having championed the cause of animals in farmyard doc Gunda, Victor Kossakovsky is making a fresh appeal to the world through new work Architecton: stop using concrete.
The visually arresting documentary, world premiering in Competition at the Berlinale, explores how unsustainable modern building practices relying on concrete are destroying the planet and suggests there are lessons to be learned from ancient constructions.
Without explanation or commentary, the work juxtaposes mesmerizing images of mountains being dug out for raw materials; vast landfill sites, bombed-out, collapsed apartment blocks in Ukraine and quake-hit towns in Turkey, with the majestic remains of the 2,000-year-old Roman temple complex of Baalbeck in Lebanon, which still puzzles archaeologists to this day on how it was built.
“Buildings made from concrete are lasting 40, 50 years. In the UK, you destroyed 50,000 buildings last year, imagine what is happening in the rest of Europe,” says Russian-documentarian Kossakovsky, in a timely comment...
The visually arresting documentary, world premiering in Competition at the Berlinale, explores how unsustainable modern building practices relying on concrete are destroying the planet and suggests there are lessons to be learned from ancient constructions.
Without explanation or commentary, the work juxtaposes mesmerizing images of mountains being dug out for raw materials; vast landfill sites, bombed-out, collapsed apartment blocks in Ukraine and quake-hit towns in Turkey, with the majestic remains of the 2,000-year-old Roman temple complex of Baalbeck in Lebanon, which still puzzles archaeologists to this day on how it was built.
“Buildings made from concrete are lasting 40, 50 years. In the UK, you destroyed 50,000 buildings last year, imagine what is happening in the rest of Europe,” says Russian-documentarian Kossakovsky, in a timely comment...
- 2/18/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Match Factory has acquired the international rights to the Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary “Architecton,” which world premieres in the competition section of the Berlinale. A24 financed the film and will distribute it in North America.
“Architecton” follows Kossakovsky’s highly acclaimed “Gunda,” which played in Berlinale Encounters in 2020, and “Aquarela,” which screened in Venice’s out of competition section in 2018.
“Architecton” is described as “an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.”
The film centers on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele de Lucci, which Kossakovsky uses to reflect on the rise and fall of civilizations. He captures breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to 60 Ad, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following...
“Architecton” follows Kossakovsky’s highly acclaimed “Gunda,” which played in Berlinale Encounters in 2020, and “Aquarela,” which screened in Venice’s out of competition section in 2018.
“Architecton” is described as “an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.”
The film centers on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele de Lucci, which Kossakovsky uses to reflect on the rise and fall of civilizations. He captures breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to 60 Ad, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following...
- 1/31/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Match Factory has acquired international sales rights to Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary Architecton which world premieres next month in the Berlinale’s Competition section
Architecton is billed as a meditation on architecture and how the design and the construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.
Kossakovsky’s previous films include 2020 Berlinale Encounters title Gunda and Aquarela, which played out of competition at Venice in 2018.
Architecton is produced by Heino Deckert for Germany’s Ma.ja.de. A24 financed and will distribute the film in North America.
Architecton is billed as a meditation on architecture and how the design and the construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.
Kossakovsky’s previous films include 2020 Berlinale Encounters title Gunda and Aquarela, which played out of competition at Venice in 2018.
Architecton is produced by Heino Deckert for Germany’s Ma.ja.de. A24 financed and will distribute the film in North America.
- 1/31/2024
- ScreenDaily
‘When Pomegranates Howl’.
Adelaide Film Festival has revealed its full program for 2020, including the world premieres of local titles When Pomegranates Howl, Yer Old Father, This is Port Adelaide, ShoPaapaa, and more, as well as a special strand dedicated to Australian indies.
Overall, the biennial festival – due to be an entirely physical event thanks to dedicated Covid-Safe plans – has snared a total of 54 features from more than 40 countries, including 22 world premieres and 27 Australian premieres.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Seth Larney’s sci-fi thriller 2067, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten and Deborah Mailman, and will close out with the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner, Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari.
Stephen Johnson’s High Ground, which bowed in Berlinale, will vie in the festival’s official competition, up against Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Christos Nikou’s Apples, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, Yolqin Tuychiev’s 2000 Songs of Farida,...
Adelaide Film Festival has revealed its full program for 2020, including the world premieres of local titles When Pomegranates Howl, Yer Old Father, This is Port Adelaide, ShoPaapaa, and more, as well as a special strand dedicated to Australian indies.
Overall, the biennial festival – due to be an entirely physical event thanks to dedicated Covid-Safe plans – has snared a total of 54 features from more than 40 countries, including 22 world premieres and 27 Australian premieres.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Seth Larney’s sci-fi thriller 2067, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten and Deborah Mailman, and will close out with the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner, Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari.
Stephen Johnson’s High Ground, which bowed in Berlinale, will vie in the festival’s official competition, up against Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Christos Nikou’s Apples, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, Yolqin Tuychiev’s 2000 Songs of Farida,...
- 9/9/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Notturno (Nocturne) director Gianfranco Rosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Christian Petzold’s Undine, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran with Kim Minhee, Eugène Green’s Atarrabi & Mikelats with brothers Saia Hiriart and Lukas Hiriart, and Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno (Nocturne) will be among the Main Slate selections of the 58th New York Film Festival.
Undine director Christian Petzold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
These highlights join the Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing selections Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, and Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, Song Fang’s The Calming, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella, Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings, Philippe Garrel’s The Salt Of Tears,...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Christian Petzold’s Undine, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran with Kim Minhee, Eugène Green’s Atarrabi & Mikelats with brothers Saia Hiriart and Lukas Hiriart, and Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno (Nocturne) will be among the Main Slate selections of the 58th New York Film Festival.
Undine director Christian Petzold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
These highlights join the Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing selections Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, and Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, Song Fang’s The Calming, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella, Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings, Philippe Garrel’s The Salt Of Tears,...
- 8/13/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Moments ago, the 2020 New York Film Festival announced their Main Slate, coming after the big three announcements recently. NYFF will be different, obviously, given the pandemic, but there’s still 25 movies that will make up the fest. They may not be some of the films speculated about, but many of them help to make for a really interesting festival. The collection includes several Steve McQueen flicks, in addition to the higher profile ones mentioned in the prior weeks. Read on below for the lineup… Here is the full slate for NYFF: New York, NY – Film at Lincoln Center announces the 25 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 58th New York Film Festival, September 17 – October 11. “The disorientation and uncertainty of this tough year had the effect of returning us to core principles,” said Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for NYFF. “To put it simply, the Main Slate is our collective...
- 8/13/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The New York Film Festival has finalized its main slate of 25 films and expanded the dates of this year’s event in order to accommodate drive-in screenings.
The 58th edition of the festival will start a week earlier than it had planned, on September 17, and run through October 11. Drawing from 19 countries, the slate includes Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall; Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Garrett Bradley’s Time, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, and Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters.
Hong Sangsoo will have his 15th film screen at NYFF, The Woman Who Ran. Other returning filmmakers include Rosi, Jia and Pollard as well as Christian Petzold, Song Fang, Eugène Green, Cristi Puiu, Matías Piñeiro, Tsai Ming-liang, Philippe Garrel and Chloé Zhao.
The festival previously announced Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock as the Opening...
The 58th edition of the festival will start a week earlier than it had planned, on September 17, and run through October 11. Drawing from 19 countries, the slate includes Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall; Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Garrett Bradley’s Time, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, and Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters.
Hong Sangsoo will have his 15th film screen at NYFF, The Woman Who Ran. Other returning filmmakers include Rosi, Jia and Pollard as well as Christian Petzold, Song Fang, Eugène Green, Cristi Puiu, Matías Piñeiro, Tsai Ming-liang, Philippe Garrel and Chloé Zhao.
The festival previously announced Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock as the Opening...
- 8/13/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Animal rights campaigner and Ep Joaquin Phoenix to support Us release.
Cinephil has announced major sales led by the UK, France and Germany on Gunda, one of the most lauded films of the Berlinale’s Encounters selection, as it prepares to continue talks on outstanding territories at the Cannes virtual market.
Neon acquired North American rights to Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary and meditation on animal consciousness following the world premiere, and Tel Aviv-based Cinephil has maintained momentum with a set of deals that underscores the film’s global appeal.
Gunda has sold in the UK (Altitude), France (Metropolitan), Germany (Filmwelt...
Cinephil has announced major sales led by the UK, France and Germany on Gunda, one of the most lauded films of the Berlinale’s Encounters selection, as it prepares to continue talks on outstanding territories at the Cannes virtual market.
Neon acquired North American rights to Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary and meditation on animal consciousness following the world premiere, and Tel Aviv-based Cinephil has maintained momentum with a set of deals that underscores the film’s global appeal.
Gunda has sold in the UK (Altitude), France (Metropolitan), Germany (Filmwelt...
- 6/22/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Like so many of its festival brethren, this year’s Hot Docs Festival has pivoted into online-only spaces, turning its (initially postponed) 2020 edition into an entirely virtual affair. But while the beloved documentary festival won’t have the usual physical gathering, this year’s full lineup is a robust one, with over 140 films and online events. Those titles include both world premieres unique to Hot Docs, along with some of the year’s best new docs getting another platform.
The festival has preserved one aspect of its existence in that not everyone will be able to access this year’s lineup: The program can only be streamed by audiences in Hot Docs’ native province of Ontario (through individual tickets and package deals) right here. For everyone else, we’ve noted other festivals and venues where these Hot Docs selections will be playing in the coming weeks. Here are 10 Hot Docs...
The festival has preserved one aspect of its existence in that not everyone will be able to access this year’s lineup: The program can only be streamed by audiences in Hot Docs’ native province of Ontario (through individual tickets and package deals) right here. For everyone else, we’ve noted other festivals and venues where these Hot Docs selections will be playing in the coming weeks. Here are 10 Hot Docs...
- 5/28/2020
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
U.S.-based distributor Neon, which handled best picture winner “Parasite,” has closed on a revolving credit facility with Mufg Union Bank.
The three-year-old company did not disclose the dollar amount of the facility. Neon said it will use the capital to continue building upon its core film business, as well as to expand its production slate.
“Parasite” landed four Academy Awards and grossed over $54 million at the domestic box office, the third-best result ever for a foreign-language film in the U.S. Neon recently launched Matt Wolf’s Sundance documentary “Spaceship Earth” across traditional and non-traditional venues, as a way to address current social-distancing limitations due to Covid-19.
Neon has amassed a library of titles that include Todd Douglas Miller’s “Apollo 11,” the highest grossing documentary of 2019; Tim Wardle’s Sundance special jury award winner “Three Identical Strangers,” which made $13 million at the box office; and Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya,...
The three-year-old company did not disclose the dollar amount of the facility. Neon said it will use the capital to continue building upon its core film business, as well as to expand its production slate.
“Parasite” landed four Academy Awards and grossed over $54 million at the domestic box office, the third-best result ever for a foreign-language film in the U.S. Neon recently launched Matt Wolf’s Sundance documentary “Spaceship Earth” across traditional and non-traditional venues, as a way to address current social-distancing limitations due to Covid-19.
Neon has amassed a library of titles that include Todd Douglas Miller’s “Apollo 11,” the highest grossing documentary of 2019; Tim Wardle’s Sundance special jury award winner “Three Identical Strangers,” which made $13 million at the box office; and Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya,...
- 5/13/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Tom Quinn and Tim League’s Neon has partnered with Mufg Union Bank on a new revolving credit facility that will help the 3-year-old film company continue to grow its film footprint, Neon announced Wednesday.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but a studio spokesperson described it is “significant.” The “Parasite” studio will use the capital to build upon its core film business and expand its production slate.
Tom Quinn, Jessica Nickelsberg, Jeff Deutchman and Jim Wehrfritz negotiated the deal on behalf of the studio along with Mufg Director Matt Rosenberg and Managing Director Tony Beaudoin. Neon is represented by Sidley Austin and Mufg Union Bank by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp.
Also Read: Neon to Release 'Spaceship Earth' Via Pop-Up Projections and Virtual Cinemas Amid Coronavirus
Like all others in Hollywood has seen the effects of Covid-19, Neon has sought fresh ways to release content.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but a studio spokesperson described it is “significant.” The “Parasite” studio will use the capital to build upon its core film business and expand its production slate.
Tom Quinn, Jessica Nickelsberg, Jeff Deutchman and Jim Wehrfritz negotiated the deal on behalf of the studio along with Mufg Director Matt Rosenberg and Managing Director Tony Beaudoin. Neon is represented by Sidley Austin and Mufg Union Bank by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp.
Also Read: Neon to Release 'Spaceship Earth' Via Pop-Up Projections and Virtual Cinemas Amid Coronavirus
Like all others in Hollywood has seen the effects of Covid-19, Neon has sought fresh ways to release content.
- 5/13/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Neon, distributor of multi-Oscar winning and Best Picture Parasite, has inked a revolving credit facility with Mufg Union Bank.
Neonwill use the capital to continue building upon its core film business, and to expands its production slate.
Tom Quinn, Jessica Nickelsberg, Jeff Deutchman, and Jim Wehrfritz negotiated the deal on behalf of Neon along with Mufg Director Matt Rosenberg and Managing Director Tony Beaudoin. Neon is repped by Sidley Austin and Mufg Union Bank by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp.
Parasite, which was the first South Korean movie to take home the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or a year ago, went on to win four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Bong Joon Ho, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature. Within a three year span, Neon has built a 50 film library, which has yielded $150M at the box office, plus 12 Oscar noms and five wins.
Last Friday,...
Neonwill use the capital to continue building upon its core film business, and to expands its production slate.
Tom Quinn, Jessica Nickelsberg, Jeff Deutchman, and Jim Wehrfritz negotiated the deal on behalf of Neon along with Mufg Director Matt Rosenberg and Managing Director Tony Beaudoin. Neon is repped by Sidley Austin and Mufg Union Bank by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp.
Parasite, which was the first South Korean movie to take home the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or a year ago, went on to win four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Bong Joon Ho, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature. Within a three year span, Neon has built a 50 film library, which has yielded $150M at the box office, plus 12 Oscar noms and five wins.
Last Friday,...
- 5/13/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Joaquin Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor this year thanks to his performance in “Joker,” in which he starred as an early iteration of the infamous Batman villain, but it turns out once upon a time the actor could’ve played the Caped Crusader himself. In a new interview with Empire magazine, Darren Aronofsky looks back at his failed comic book film “Batman: Year One” and reveals it was his desire to have Phoenix star as Bruce Wayne that got the project killed by Warner Bros. studio executives. Aronofsky has said he was interested in casting Phoenix in the past, but this is the first time the director has shared the studio’s refusal to hire the actor.
“The studio wanted Freddie Prinze Jr and I wanted Joaquin Phoenix,” he recalls. “I remember thinking, ‘Uh oh, we’re making two different films here.’ That’s a true story.
“The studio wanted Freddie Prinze Jr and I wanted Joaquin Phoenix,” he recalls. “I remember thinking, ‘Uh oh, we’re making two different films here.’ That’s a true story.
- 4/17/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
As a four-year-old boy, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky fell in love with a piglet when he spent some time in a remote Russian village. “He became my closest friend and was killed by Christmastime,” Kossakovsky told me at the Berlinale after-party for his nonfiction film “Gunda,” which debuted Sunday in the “Encounters” section. “I became probably the first vegetarian in the Soviet Union. I always wanted to make a movie about pigs.”
Finally financed after decades of no interest, the movie is fascinating and immersive, and critics are raving, even if it took IndieWire’s Eric Kohn three viewings to figure out what he thought of it. “Gunda” couldn’t be more unlike the entertaining 2019 doc “The Biggest Little Farm,” with its colorful anthropomorphic animal characters and voiceover narration and perky, manipulative soundtrack.
“Gunda” is a documentary with no dialogue that follows around a bunch of farm animals in natural light,...
Finally financed after decades of no interest, the movie is fascinating and immersive, and critics are raving, even if it took IndieWire’s Eric Kohn three viewings to figure out what he thought of it. “Gunda” couldn’t be more unlike the entertaining 2019 doc “The Biggest Little Farm,” with its colorful anthropomorphic animal characters and voiceover narration and perky, manipulative soundtrack.
“Gunda” is a documentary with no dialogue that follows around a bunch of farm animals in natural light,...
- 2/23/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
On the eve of the festival, Cinephil also picked up Love, It Was Not.
Tel Aviv-based documentary powerhouse Cinephil has taken on world sales (excluding North America) on hit Sundance film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, directed by Bill and Turner Ross and screening in the Efm and in Panorama. Cinetic is handling North America.
Buyers are circling the film, which unfolds over the last night for a dive bar called the Roaring 20s in Las Vegas before it has to close. It’s a mixed genre project which straddles the lines between documentary and fiction.
On the eve of the festival,...
Tel Aviv-based documentary powerhouse Cinephil has taken on world sales (excluding North America) on hit Sundance film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, directed by Bill and Turner Ross and screening in the Efm and in Panorama. Cinetic is handling North America.
Buyers are circling the film, which unfolds over the last night for a dive bar called the Roaring 20s in Las Vegas before it has to close. It’s a mixed genre project which straddles the lines between documentary and fiction.
On the eve of the festival,...
- 2/22/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
“The fact the section is compact and competitive helps.”
French distributor Arp has acquired Slovakian filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovsky’s drama Servants from Paris-based sales company Loco Films in one of the first major deals for a title world premiering in the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition as professionals take stock of its inaugural edition.
Set in Czechoslovakia in 1980, the film explores the then ruling Communist Party’s infiltration of the Catholic Church, through the tale of two seminarians agonising over whether to collaborate with the authorities.
It is a second feature for Ostrochovsky who also co-wrote the screenplay with Rebecca...
French distributor Arp has acquired Slovakian filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovsky’s drama Servants from Paris-based sales company Loco Films in one of the first major deals for a title world premiering in the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition as professionals take stock of its inaugural edition.
Set in Czechoslovakia in 1980, the film explores the then ruling Communist Party’s infiltration of the Catholic Church, through the tale of two seminarians agonising over whether to collaborate with the authorities.
It is a second feature for Ostrochovsky who also co-wrote the screenplay with Rebecca...
- 2/22/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
New Republic eyeing 2020 production start.
Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton will reunite for the first time since 1996 hit The First Wives Club in Family Jewels, which 1917 producer New Republic Pictures has won in auction from a pitch by screenwriter Peter Hoare.
The multigenerational family comedy sees the three stars play women forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer will produce, along with Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg will serve as executive producer.
Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton will reunite for the first time since 1996 hit The First Wives Club in Family Jewels, which 1917 producer New Republic Pictures has won in auction from a pitch by screenwriter Peter Hoare.
The multigenerational family comedy sees the three stars play women forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer will produce, along with Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg will serve as executive producer.
- 2/20/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Circle of Confusion, Patriot Pictures dark comedy heist thriller set to go before cameras in spring / summer.
John Cusack is in talks to star alongside J.K. Simmons in the dark comedy heist thriller My Only Sunshine from Circle of Confusion and Michael Mendelsohn’s Patriot Pictures which Xyz Films is introducing to Efm buyers this week.
Production is scheduled to start in spring / summer this year, with Patriot Pictures head Michael Mendelsohn’s Union Patriot Capital Management fully financing.
Mark Palansky (Penelope) will direct from a screenplay by J.T. Petty and K. Reed Petty about a dysfunctional couple who orchestrate...
John Cusack is in talks to star alongside J.K. Simmons in the dark comedy heist thriller My Only Sunshine from Circle of Confusion and Michael Mendelsohn’s Patriot Pictures which Xyz Films is introducing to Efm buyers this week.
Production is scheduled to start in spring / summer this year, with Patriot Pictures head Michael Mendelsohn’s Union Patriot Capital Management fully financing.
Mark Palansky (Penelope) will direct from a screenplay by J.T. Petty and K. Reed Petty about a dysfunctional couple who orchestrate...
- 2/20/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Joslyn Barnes and Chien’s first collaboration is an upcoming installation project by Academy Award nominee RaMell Ross.
Us independent producer Karin Chien is joining forces with New York-based Louverture Films.
Louverture was co-founded by Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover along with partners Susan Rockefeller, Bertha Foundation and Sawsan Asfari; the company’s credits include Hale County This Morning, This Evening and Strong Island.
Chien has previously won the Cinereach Producing Award and Piaget Independent Spirit Producers Award and has worked on films including Circumstance, The Exploding Girl and Stones In The Sun.
The first collaboration planned between Barnes and...
Us independent producer Karin Chien is joining forces with New York-based Louverture Films.
Louverture was co-founded by Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover along with partners Susan Rockefeller, Bertha Foundation and Sawsan Asfari; the company’s credits include Hale County This Morning, This Evening and Strong Island.
Chien has previously won the Cinereach Producing Award and Piaget Independent Spirit Producers Award and has worked on films including Circumstance, The Exploding Girl and Stones In The Sun.
The first collaboration planned between Barnes and...
- 2/18/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Farm animal documentary to screen in Berlin’s new Encounters competition.
Cinephil has boarded international sales for Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, which will receive its world premiere in the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition this month.
UTA Independent Film Group will handle Us rights on the Norwegian-us co-production.
Kossakovsky observes farm animals – protagonist Gunda the pig, two cows and a one-legged chicken – to offer new perspective on the way animals live their lives and our relationship to them.
Anita Rehoff Larsen of Norway’s Sant & Usant produces in co-production with New York-based Louverture Films.
The film was previously pitched at...
Cinephil has boarded international sales for Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, which will receive its world premiere in the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition this month.
UTA Independent Film Group will handle Us rights on the Norwegian-us co-production.
Kossakovsky observes farm animals – protagonist Gunda the pig, two cows and a one-legged chicken – to offer new perspective on the way animals live their lives and our relationship to them.
Anita Rehoff Larsen of Norway’s Sant & Usant produces in co-production with New York-based Louverture Films.
The film was previously pitched at...
- 2/7/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Films that gained a ‘cult following’ over the years,despite being unnoticed on release
Silsila
Yash Chopra is looked upon as the grandfather of candyfloss romance, an antithesis to the more ‘artistic’ genre of films. One wonders why. Here’s what his early films were about:
Unwed mothers and illegitimate children – Dhool ka Phool (1959)
Partition and the rise of Hindu fundamentalism – Dharmputra (1961)
Taut, song less thriller about a fugitive, a lone woman and a corpse – Ittefaq (1969)
A man who lives with his wife and the ‘other woman’, Hindi Cinema’s first Ménage à trois- Daag (1973)
In 1981, we had another of his equally risqué works, Silsila. Expectedly, sparks flew when the Screen God of the time shared screen space with the reigning diva. Rekha and Amitabh were quite an item on screen and allegedly, off screen too. The grapevine has it that Chopra was inspired to make Silsila on this relationship...
Silsila
Yash Chopra is looked upon as the grandfather of candyfloss romance, an antithesis to the more ‘artistic’ genre of films. One wonders why. Here’s what his early films were about:
Unwed mothers and illegitimate children – Dhool ka Phool (1959)
Partition and the rise of Hindu fundamentalism – Dharmputra (1961)
Taut, song less thriller about a fugitive, a lone woman and a corpse – Ittefaq (1969)
A man who lives with his wife and the ‘other woman’, Hindi Cinema’s first Ménage à trois- Daag (1973)
In 1981, we had another of his equally risqué works, Silsila. Expectedly, sparks flew when the Screen God of the time shared screen space with the reigning diva. Rekha and Amitabh were quite an item on screen and allegedly, off screen too. The grapevine has it that Chopra was inspired to make Silsila on this relationship...
- 9/5/2012
- by Amborish Roychoudhury
- DearCinema.com
Film: 'With Love, Delhi'; Actors: Ashish Lal, Pariva Pranati, Tom Alter, Kiran Kumar;
Director: Nikhil Singh; Rating: *
Mithun Chakravarty's film 'Gunda' is a cult classic among IITians because it is so full of cliches and stretches them so much that it becomes a delightful watch. After many attempts, IITians have finally made a film - 'With Love, Delhi' - that could have matched 'Gunda's' low standards.
Sadly, this one is so pretentiously serious that Bollywood would be proud they finally have an 'English' film made by 'intelligent' IITians to match their worst products.
After her father is kidnapped, Priyanka (Pariva.
Director: Nikhil Singh; Rating: *
Mithun Chakravarty's film 'Gunda' is a cult classic among IITians because it is so full of cliches and stretches them so much that it becomes a delightful watch. After many attempts, IITians have finally made a film - 'With Love, Delhi' - that could have matched 'Gunda's' low standards.
Sadly, this one is so pretentiously serious that Bollywood would be proud they finally have an 'English' film made by 'intelligent' IITians to match their worst products.
After her father is kidnapped, Priyanka (Pariva.
- 12/17/2011
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
Rami Reddy, the man who became famous with his role of 'Spot Nana' in the famous film Pratibandh that starred the southern superstar Chiranjeevi and the petite Juhi Chawla, passed away yesterday afternoon, while undergoing treatment for a kidney transplant. He was 52. Not many know that this dreaded (on screen) villain was a graduate in journalism and has acted in over 250 films spanning many languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bhojpuri and Hindi of course! Not just that, he has even worked as a journalist with a Hindi and Urdu newspaper, post which he made his screen debut with the southern film Ankusam. In Hindi, Reddy went onto do films like Gunda, Waqt Hamaara Hai, Talaash, Khuddar etc. Bollywood Hungama prays that his soul rests in peace.
- 4/15/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Udaan Director: Vikramaditya MotwaneActors: Rajat Bharmecha, Ronit RoyRating: ***1/2Master director Kanti Shah’s unique contribution to the warped Indian male hormone, I’m afraid, will remain under-rated forever. I don’t know how many of you’ve heard of Mr Shah’s grind-house classics – Gunda, Loha, Phoolan Haseena Ramkali…. Video generation of the early ‘90s is likely to know him better, and perhaps relate to the four Bishop Cotton schoolboys in this film, caught at a late night show of Kanti Shah’s Angoor at Shimla’s Rivoli cinema. That Rivoli, I suppose, could well be in Delhi’s Cannaught Place. The title of the ...
- 7/16/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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