Exclusive: UK deal in place for Andrew Kotting’s film from Salon Pictures.
UK production outfit Salon Pictures has entered pre-production on Andrew Kötting’s feature adaptation of Hattie Naylor’s stage play Ivan and the Dogs.
Written by Naylor and produced by Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon, Soda Pictures has boarded UK distribution of the experimental film, which is based on the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who in 1996 walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
The shoot is due to get underway in early 2015 and will take in London, Moscow and Chile with casting currently underway.
Funding comes from the BFI - who also gave development support - and Seis Salon Workshop.
Artist and filmmaker Kotting previously directed 2012 doc Swandown, which played at Cph: Dox, and 2009 drama...
UK production outfit Salon Pictures has entered pre-production on Andrew Kötting’s feature adaptation of Hattie Naylor’s stage play Ivan and the Dogs.
Written by Naylor and produced by Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon, Soda Pictures has boarded UK distribution of the experimental film, which is based on the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who in 1996 walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
The shoot is due to get underway in early 2015 and will take in London, Moscow and Chile with casting currently underway.
Funding comes from the BFI - who also gave development support - and Seis Salon Workshop.
Artist and filmmaker Kotting previously directed 2012 doc Swandown, which played at Cph: Dox, and 2009 drama...
- 12/11/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK deal in place for Andrew Kotting’s adaptation of play.
UK production outfit Salon Pictures has entered pre-production on Andrew Kötting’s feature adaptation of Hattie Naylor’s stage play Ivan and the Dogs.
Written by Naylor and produced by Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon, Soda Pictures has boarded UK distribution of the film, which is based on the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who in 1996 walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
The shoot is due to get underway in early 2015 and will take in London, Moscow and Chile with casting currently underway.
Funding comes from the BFI - who also gave development support - and Seis Salon Workshop.
Artist and filmmaker Kotting previously directed 2012 doc Swandown, which played at Cph: Dox, and 2009 drama...
UK production outfit Salon Pictures has entered pre-production on Andrew Kötting’s feature adaptation of Hattie Naylor’s stage play Ivan and the Dogs.
Written by Naylor and produced by Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon, Soda Pictures has boarded UK distribution of the film, which is based on the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who in 1996 walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
The shoot is due to get underway in early 2015 and will take in London, Moscow and Chile with casting currently underway.
Funding comes from the BFI - who also gave development support - and Seis Salon Workshop.
Artist and filmmaker Kotting previously directed 2012 doc Swandown, which played at Cph: Dox, and 2009 drama...
- 12/11/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
On the eve of the release of his most personal film to date, This Our Still Life, the avant garde director talks to Sukhdev Sandhu
"Central heating is my biggest enemy," declares the film-maker Andrew Kötting. "I'm not a big fan of double glazing. Or the Shopping Channel. Or sweet-smelling perfumes. Vanilla living is always something that makes me physically sick." He pauses for thought. "Actually, the biggest enemy is often myself. I get angry with the voices in my head: I want to shut them up."
Coming from any other director, these words could easily sound abrasive or disturbing. From Kötting, they're absolutely normal, almost reassuring. In 2001, he issued a Dogme 95-inspired manifesto entitled eArthouse Declaration of Spurious Intent that not only urged "All film-makers to have spent time with their arms or feet inside another sentient being, alive or dead", but also that "The film should show signs...
"Central heating is my biggest enemy," declares the film-maker Andrew Kötting. "I'm not a big fan of double glazing. Or the Shopping Channel. Or sweet-smelling perfumes. Vanilla living is always something that makes me physically sick." He pauses for thought. "Actually, the biggest enemy is often myself. I get angry with the voices in my head: I want to shut them up."
Coming from any other director, these words could easily sound abrasive or disturbing. From Kötting, they're absolutely normal, almost reassuring. In 2001, he issued a Dogme 95-inspired manifesto entitled eArthouse Declaration of Spurious Intent that not only urged "All film-makers to have spent time with their arms or feet inside another sentient being, alive or dead", but also that "The film should show signs...
- 11/19/2011
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done; The Horde (La Horde); Cherry Tree Lane; The Killer Inside Me; Ivul
Bavarian director Werner Herzog describes his "non-remake" of Abel Ferrara's incendiary Bad Lieutenant as being less about the "burden of guilt" than the "bliss of evil". In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009, Lions Gate, 18) Nic Cage plays the increasingly addled detective for whom painkillers pave the way to narcotic addiction, launching him on a downward spiral into criminality and madness. Visions of iguanas and crazed monologues about the dancing dead ensue, with Herzog stopping occasionally to give us an alligator's eye view of a crumbling world – a trope you sense he was itching to use more liberally. It's a strange and ultimately slight movie; whereas Ferrara's visceral tract had a clearly tortured Catholic morality underlying its extreme cinema traits, Herzog's...
Bavarian director Werner Herzog describes his "non-remake" of Abel Ferrara's incendiary Bad Lieutenant as being less about the "burden of guilt" than the "bliss of evil". In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009, Lions Gate, 18) Nic Cage plays the increasingly addled detective for whom painkillers pave the way to narcotic addiction, launching him on a downward spiral into criminality and madness. Visions of iguanas and crazed monologues about the dancing dead ensue, with Herzog stopping occasionally to give us an alligator's eye view of a crumbling world – a trope you sense he was itching to use more liberally. It's a strange and ultimately slight movie; whereas Ferrara's visceral tract had a clearly tortured Catholic morality underlying its extreme cinema traits, Herzog's...
- 9/25/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Innovative film-makers have fallen by the wayside in the search for box-office success. This is our chance to rethink UK cinema
Whichever way you look at it, the announcement by the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt that the UK Film Council is to be abolished makes for uncomfortable reading. The organisation, which employs 75 people, has funded over 900 productions since its formation in 2000. Andrew Pulver, over at the Guardian's film blog, rightly describes the announcement as a "hammer blow" to the country's film industry, one that seems particularly bizarre as it was one of the few areas of the arts that actually saw a return on its investment. While the government has said it will continue to make lottery money available for films, it is not clear who will distribute this money, or how it will be distributed.
We should not, though, let the shock of this announcement stop us seeing the...
Whichever way you look at it, the announcement by the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt that the UK Film Council is to be abolished makes for uncomfortable reading. The organisation, which employs 75 people, has funded over 900 productions since its formation in 2000. Andrew Pulver, over at the Guardian's film blog, rightly describes the announcement as a "hammer blow" to the country's film industry, one that seems particularly bizarre as it was one of the few areas of the arts that actually saw a return on its investment. While the government has said it will continue to make lottery money available for films, it is not clear who will distribute this money, or how it will be distributed.
We should not, though, let the shock of this announcement stop us seeing the...
- 7/27/2010
- by Daniel Trilling
- The Guardian - Film News
Splice (15)
(Vincenzo Natali, 2009, Us) Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac. 104 mins
In case anyone thought mucking around with animal genes then raising the resultant mutant as your own child was a good idea, here's a strong warning. Scientists Brody and Polley initially enthuse over their secret breakthrough/lovechild, but several "do you really think we should be doing this?" moments later, they're living out every parent's worst nightmare: that your child grows wings and a venomous tail and turns on you. It's not up to Cronenberg standards, but it's smarter, less predictable and much funnier than it sounds.
Toy Story 3 (U)
(Lee Unkrich, 2010, Us) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack. 109 mins
Plaything perils at the daycare centre become a lesson in mortality, comradeship, prison-breaking and waste management in this near-perfect sequel. As usual, it's packed with thrills and gags, but as with Pixar's Up, there are moments when grown-ups...
(Vincenzo Natali, 2009, Us) Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac. 104 mins
In case anyone thought mucking around with animal genes then raising the resultant mutant as your own child was a good idea, here's a strong warning. Scientists Brody and Polley initially enthuse over their secret breakthrough/lovechild, but several "do you really think we should be doing this?" moments later, they're living out every parent's worst nightmare: that your child grows wings and a venomous tail and turns on you. It's not up to Cronenberg standards, but it's smarter, less predictable and much funnier than it sounds.
Toy Story 3 (U)
(Lee Unkrich, 2010, Us) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack. 109 mins
Plaything perils at the daycare centre become a lesson in mortality, comradeship, prison-breaking and waste management in this near-perfect sequel. As usual, it's packed with thrills and gags, but as with Pixar's Up, there are moments when grown-ups...
- 7/23/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
An unusual, semi-autobiographical film by English director Andrew Kotting. By Peter Bradshaw
Here is a strange film whose strangeness is disguised – though only at first, and not for long – by the mannerisms of documentary realism. It is avowedly based on director Andrew Kotting's own childhood, and as with all autobiographical works, some of the incidental interest lies in wondering which parts come directly from real life, and which are wish-fulfilment inventions, intended to correct the past and alleviate its pain. Jean-Luc Bideau plays Ivul, an elderly, and somewhat cantankerous Franco-Russian patriarch who owns a handsome manor house in France with extensive woodland – but who was evidently even richer back in his native Russia. His younger wife Marie (Aurélia Petit) has provided him with four children: Alex (Jacob Auzanneau) and Freya (Adélaïde Leroux) are in their late teens, Capucine (Capucine Aubriot) and Manon (Manon Aubriot) are hardly more than toddlers.
Here is a strange film whose strangeness is disguised – though only at first, and not for long – by the mannerisms of documentary realism. It is avowedly based on director Andrew Kotting's own childhood, and as with all autobiographical works, some of the incidental interest lies in wondering which parts come directly from real life, and which are wish-fulfilment inventions, intended to correct the past and alleviate its pain. Jean-Luc Bideau plays Ivul, an elderly, and somewhat cantankerous Franco-Russian patriarch who owns a handsome manor house in France with extensive woodland – but who was evidently even richer back in his native Russia. His younger wife Marie (Aurélia Petit) has provided him with four children: Alex (Jacob Auzanneau) and Freya (Adélaïde Leroux) are in their late teens, Capucine (Capucine Aubriot) and Manon (Manon Aubriot) are hardly more than toddlers.
- 7/22/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Inception (12A)
(Christopher Nolan, 2010, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard. 148 mins
Nolan pushes the mega-budget cerebral action thriller to its limits here, and possibly beyond, with a multilayered onslaught that could leave you exhilarated, exhausted, or possibly in need of a new brain. The fiendishly complex plot imagines a world where corporate spies can raid your dreams to steal, or plant, ideas. Thus, DiCaprio assembles his team and orchestrates a risky psychic heist involving dreams within dreams within dreams; something like Ocean's Eleven meets Synecdoche, New York, multiplied by James Bond. Even if it follows the logic of the Hollywood blockbuster more than an actual dream, this boldly goes where no blockbuster has gone before. And there's nothing your brain can do to stop it.
Bluebeard (15)
(Catherine Breillat, 2009, Fra) Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Dominique Thomas. 80 mins
Charles Perrault's wife-slaying fairytale has been rich territory...
(Christopher Nolan, 2010, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard. 148 mins
Nolan pushes the mega-budget cerebral action thriller to its limits here, and possibly beyond, with a multilayered onslaught that could leave you exhilarated, exhausted, or possibly in need of a new brain. The fiendishly complex plot imagines a world where corporate spies can raid your dreams to steal, or plant, ideas. Thus, DiCaprio assembles his team and orchestrates a risky psychic heist involving dreams within dreams within dreams; something like Ocean's Eleven meets Synecdoche, New York, multiplied by James Bond. Even if it follows the logic of the Hollywood blockbuster more than an actual dream, this boldly goes where no blockbuster has gone before. And there's nothing your brain can do to stop it.
Bluebeard (15)
(Catherine Breillat, 2009, Fra) Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Dominique Thomas. 80 mins
Charles Perrault's wife-slaying fairytale has been rich territory...
- 7/16/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Who is he?
A French teenager who trained as an acrobat at circus school, and whose feet don't touch the ground in his first acting role, almost literally.
What do you mean?
The film, Ivul, is set in the French Pyrenees where a Russian emigre is imperiously raising his family – with a bit of machismo where son Alex (Auzanneau) is concerned, moulding him into a man. After a huge fight, Alex takes off into the forest living in the trees, more monkey than boy. The director is artist-film-maker Andrew Kötting, who says the film is vaguely autobiographical.
Hang on a minute, isn't Kötting English?
Oui. And at one point Ivul was a BBC Scotland project set on Jura, with Anthony Hopkins and Tilda Swinton mooted as the parents. When that fell through, it was picked up by a French producer. There's a lot of it about at the moment: Brit directors going abroad.
A French teenager who trained as an acrobat at circus school, and whose feet don't touch the ground in his first acting role, almost literally.
What do you mean?
The film, Ivul, is set in the French Pyrenees where a Russian emigre is imperiously raising his family – with a bit of machismo where son Alex (Auzanneau) is concerned, moulding him into a man. After a huge fight, Alex takes off into the forest living in the trees, more monkey than boy. The director is artist-film-maker Andrew Kötting, who says the film is vaguely autobiographical.
Hang on a minute, isn't Kötting English?
Oui. And at one point Ivul was a BBC Scotland project set on Jura, with Anthony Hopkins and Tilda Swinton mooted as the parents. When that fell through, it was picked up by a French producer. There's a lot of it about at the moment: Brit directors going abroad.
- 7/15/2010
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Year: 2009
Directors: Andrew Kotting
Writers: Andrew Kotting & John Cheetham
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 3 out of 10
This film of the "Filmmakers of the Present Competition" was hard to sit through, not knowing what to expect> I just knew that the director, Andrew Kötting, was a well-known video- and performance artist from England. "Ivul" is inspired by Kötting's own childhood, when he used to hide up in the trees due to his difficult relationship with his father. The poster might give the impression that is a comedy – it is not. There are some absurd formalistic ideas, but if you are looking for an entertaining collection of curiosities like "The Royal Tenenbaums", this is not the right movie for you.
The story takes place at an old manor house in the French countryside. Far from any big cities, it is surrounded by a mysterious forest. Although the...
Directors: Andrew Kotting
Writers: Andrew Kotting & John Cheetham
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 3 out of 10
This film of the "Filmmakers of the Present Competition" was hard to sit through, not knowing what to expect> I just knew that the director, Andrew Kötting, was a well-known video- and performance artist from England. "Ivul" is inspired by Kötting's own childhood, when he used to hide up in the trees due to his difficult relationship with his father. The poster might give the impression that is a comedy – it is not. There are some absurd formalistic ideas, but if you are looking for an entertaining collection of curiosities like "The Royal Tenenbaums", this is not the right movie for you.
The story takes place at an old manor house in the French countryside. Far from any big cities, it is surrounded by a mysterious forest. Although the...
- 8/17/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Locarno, a Swiss fest dedicated to indie arthouse fair, especially with an arthouse lilt, has unveiled its lineup and it includes 10 world premiers. Locarno premiers serious weirdness (and awesomeness) like David Manuli's Beket (review here) which bowed last year.
I have yet to go through everything, so I'm just posting this as of now.
Check the full lineup after the break.
The Locarno Film Festival
Piazza Grande
"500 Days of Summer," Marc Webb, U.S. (opener)
"Blue Sofa" (short), Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono, Lara Fremder, Italy
"The Two Horses of Genghis Khan" (closer), Byambasuren Davaa, Germany
"Giulias Verschwinden," Christoph Schaub, Switzerland
"La Guerre des fils de la lumiere contre les fils des tenebres," Amos Gitai, France
"The Valley," Mihaly Gyorik, Switzerland-Italy-Hungary
"Les Derniers jours du monde," Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France-Spain-Taiwan
"Les Yeux de Simone" (short), Jean-Louis Porchet, Switzerland-France
"My Sister's Keeper," Nick Cassavetes, U.S.
"Petit Indi," Marc Recha,...
I have yet to go through everything, so I'm just posting this as of now.
Check the full lineup after the break.
The Locarno Film Festival
Piazza Grande
"500 Days of Summer," Marc Webb, U.S. (opener)
"Blue Sofa" (short), Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono, Lara Fremder, Italy
"The Two Horses of Genghis Khan" (closer), Byambasuren Davaa, Germany
"Giulias Verschwinden," Christoph Schaub, Switzerland
"La Guerre des fils de la lumiere contre les fils des tenebres," Amos Gitai, France
"The Valley," Mihaly Gyorik, Switzerland-Italy-Hungary
"Les Derniers jours du monde," Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, France-Spain-Taiwan
"Les Yeux de Simone" (short), Jean-Louis Porchet, Switzerland-France
"My Sister's Keeper," Nick Cassavetes, U.S.
"Petit Indi," Marc Recha,...
- 7/15/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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