Also in the works is the next feature from ’Is There Anybody Out There?’ director and Screen Star of Tomorrow Ella Glendining.
UK production outfit Hot Property Films has unveiled a bustling slate of projects with partners and talent attached including The Worst Person In The World actor Anders Danielsen Lie and producer Emily Morgan.
Hot Property Films was set up in 1995 by producer Janine Marmot and writer-director Simon Pummell. Credits include Kieran Evans’ 2014 title Kelly + Victor, for which Evans won the Bafta for outstanding debut for a British writer, director or producer.
Lie is set to star in Grant Gee...
UK production outfit Hot Property Films has unveiled a bustling slate of projects with partners and talent attached including The Worst Person In The World actor Anders Danielsen Lie and producer Emily Morgan.
Hot Property Films was set up in 1995 by producer Janine Marmot and writer-director Simon Pummell. Credits include Kieran Evans’ 2014 title Kelly + Victor, for which Evans won the Bafta for outstanding debut for a British writer, director or producer.
Lie is set to star in Grant Gee...
- 12/7/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
’The Forgiven’ and ‘Fall’ are also out this weekend.
After last weekend’s UK-Ireland box office results proved rather muted – no film reached the £1m mark for the first time since December 2020 – exhibitors and distributors will be anticipating a boost from this Saturday’s National Cinema Day (September 3), in which 560 venues across the UK will be offering tickets at just £3, for all screenings.
This weekend’s widest release comes from Entertainment Film Distributors’ Three Thousand Years Of Longing, playing in 545 cinemas. The Cannes 2022 premiere unites Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba and is George Miller’s first feature since 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road.
After last weekend’s UK-Ireland box office results proved rather muted – no film reached the £1m mark for the first time since December 2020 – exhibitors and distributors will be anticipating a boost from this Saturday’s National Cinema Day (September 3), in which 560 venues across the UK will be offering tickets at just £3, for all screenings.
This weekend’s widest release comes from Entertainment Film Distributors’ Three Thousand Years Of Longing, playing in 545 cinemas. The Cannes 2022 premiere unites Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba and is George Miller’s first feature since 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road.
- 9/2/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Asako I & II (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)
Full-fledged, complicated, rapturous romance is relatively rare in cinema nowadays, and one of the very best examples is Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II, which uses its doubled lovers as a way to reflect back upon its main character, in all of her doubts and uncertainties. Deeply rooted in its present moment, yet prone to flights of fancy as transportive and unreal as any in contemporary filmmaking, the film delights as much as it aches, staying in close step with the turns caused by the whims of the self and the other, moving back and forth in rapture. – Ryan S.
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days)
Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti)
With Nanni Moretti’s latest film,...
Asako I & II (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)
Full-fledged, complicated, rapturous romance is relatively rare in cinema nowadays, and one of the very best examples is Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II, which uses its doubled lovers as a way to reflect back upon its main character, in all of her doubts and uncertainties. Deeply rooted in its present moment, yet prone to flights of fancy as transportive and unreal as any in contemporary filmmaking, the film delights as much as it aches, staying in close step with the turns caused by the whims of the self and the other, moving back and forth in rapture. – Ryan S.
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days)
Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti)
With Nanni Moretti’s latest film,...
- 7/16/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
If you’ve bothered to click on this post you’ve no doubt heard of Radiohead’s “Public Library,” an online depository for nearly everything official in their decades-long catalog. Like many a Thom Yorke-penned tune, what first appears clear–links to stream albums and EPs, PDFs of Stanley Donwood booklets, music videos upgraded from sometimes-abhorrent late-00s YouTube uploads–grows denser the longer you poke through, hence a glut of articles trying to lay it all out. Plus traffic easily incurred by mentioning any new Radiohead content in a headline. Not that we would ever do that.
We do at least hope to point you towards a sort-of-hidden gem: under the Ok Computer section resides Grant Gee’s beyond-essential 1998 documentary Meeting People is Easy, in which one will find a touring band pushed to their edges and a frontman at the limit of his sanity–a sort of...
We do at least hope to point you towards a sort-of-hidden gem: under the Ok Computer section resides Grant Gee’s beyond-essential 1998 documentary Meeting People is Easy, in which one will find a touring band pushed to their edges and a frontman at the limit of his sanity–a sort of...
- 1/23/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
It received development backing from Screen Ireland’s latest funding round.
Ireland’s Element Pictures is to reunite with author Emma Donoghue on The Wonder following their successful collaboration on the Oscar-winning Room.
Element will produce Donoghue’s 2016 novel set just after the Irish Famine in the late 1840s, about an 11 year-old girl who is rumoured to have survived without food for months. The project has received €50,000 in development funding from Screen Ireland in its latest round of awards.
Donoghue received one of four Oscar nominations for Room for her adapted screenplay, with the film winning best actress for Brie Larson...
Ireland’s Element Pictures is to reunite with author Emma Donoghue on The Wonder following their successful collaboration on the Oscar-winning Room.
Element will produce Donoghue’s 2016 novel set just after the Irish Famine in the late 1840s, about an 11 year-old girl who is rumoured to have survived without food for months. The project has received €50,000 in development funding from Screen Ireland in its latest round of awards.
Donoghue received one of four Oscar nominations for Room for her adapted screenplay, with the film winning best actress for Brie Larson...
- 11/5/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
It received development backing from Screen Ireland’s latest funding round.
Ireland’s Element Pictures is to reunite with author Emma Donoghue on The Wonder following their successful collaboration on the Oscar-winning Room.
Element will produce Donoghue’s 2016 novel set just after the Irish Famine in the late 1840s, about an 11 year-old girl who is rumoured to have survived without food for months. The project has received €50,000 in development funding from Screen Ireland in its latest round of awards.
Donoghue received one of four Oscar nominations for Room for her adapted screenplay, with the film winning best actress for Brie Larson...
Ireland’s Element Pictures is to reunite with author Emma Donoghue on The Wonder following their successful collaboration on the Oscar-winning Room.
Element will produce Donoghue’s 2016 novel set just after the Irish Famine in the late 1840s, about an 11 year-old girl who is rumoured to have survived without food for months. The project has received €50,000 in development funding from Screen Ireland in its latest round of awards.
Donoghue received one of four Oscar nominations for Room for her adapted screenplay, with the film winning best actress for Brie Larson...
- 11/5/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Buzz projects include Eurimages prize-winner Journey To Utopia.
Lars von Trier was the talk of Copenhagen on Thursday (March 22) – and for once not because of a film he’s directed but for a documentary that turns the cameras on him.
Producer Sigrid Dyekjaer of Danish Documentary unveiled footage at Cph:forum of The Missing Films, a portrait of von Trier directed by two of his long-time collaborators, Tomas Gislason and Jacob Thuesen.
Attending industry experts were buzzing about the footage shown, demonstrating an unprecedented level of intimacy and access to von Trier that among other sequences shows him in production on his new serial killer story,...
Lars von Trier was the talk of Copenhagen on Thursday (March 22) – and for once not because of a film he’s directed but for a documentary that turns the cameras on him.
Producer Sigrid Dyekjaer of Danish Documentary unveiled footage at Cph:forum of The Missing Films, a portrait of von Trier directed by two of his long-time collaborators, Tomas Gislason and Jacob Thuesen.
Attending industry experts were buzzing about the footage shown, demonstrating an unprecedented level of intimacy and access to von Trier that among other sequences shows him in production on his new serial killer story,...
- 3/22/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Works in progress to include ‘Reconstructing Utoya’; new science section includes portrait of Oliver Sacks.
Cph:Dox has unveiled the 26 projects to be presented in its Cph:Forum, its financing and co-production event (March 21-22) that works across creative filmmaking.
The projects are from the likes of established directors such as Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer), Guy Davidi (5 Broken Cameras), Camilla Nielsson (Democrats), Anna Eborn (Pine Ridge) and Grant Gee (Meeting People is Easy).
Topics range from a family trying to find their own utopia in an organic village; a portrait of Lee Miller; the filmic obsessions of Lars von Trier; and Chinese women trying to find a partner by age 27.
For the fifth year, the Forum projects are eligible for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of $18,400 €15,000 for the event’s best pitch. Kickstarter provides guidance and promotional support for the Forum projects as well.
More than 150 attending decision makers will include European broadcasters such as...
Cph:Dox has unveiled the 26 projects to be presented in its Cph:Forum, its financing and co-production event (March 21-22) that works across creative filmmaking.
The projects are from the likes of established directors such as Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer), Guy Davidi (5 Broken Cameras), Camilla Nielsson (Democrats), Anna Eborn (Pine Ridge) and Grant Gee (Meeting People is Easy).
Topics range from a family trying to find their own utopia in an organic village; a portrait of Lee Miller; the filmic obsessions of Lars von Trier; and Chinese women trying to find a partner by age 27.
For the fifth year, the Forum projects are eligible for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of $18,400 €15,000 for the event’s best pitch. Kickstarter provides guidance and promotional support for the Forum projects as well.
More than 150 attending decision makers will include European broadcasters such as...
- 2/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
News of Todd Haynes making his first documentary should’ve come as something of a curveball, but it was reported that the “Carol” director is planning a non-fiction project about the Velvet Underground, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world. Haynes’ “Velvet Goldmine” is such a knowing, textured, and vividly remembered reflection on the glam rock era that it can be easy to forget that its story merely alludes to the likes of Lou Reed.
But the fascination the Velvet Underground holds for Haynes isn’t the only thing that makes this newly announced documentary feel like such a perfect pairing between subject and storyteller. With the landmark “The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP, Reed and his cohorts effectively forged a new language for countercultural expression, synthesizing the subversive pop stylings of Andy Warhol into a rock movement that had already been neutered of its rebellious beginnings. With films like “Poison” and “Safe,...
But the fascination the Velvet Underground holds for Haynes isn’t the only thing that makes this newly announced documentary feel like such a perfect pairing between subject and storyteller. With the landmark “The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP, Reed and his cohorts effectively forged a new language for countercultural expression, synthesizing the subversive pop stylings of Andy Warhol into a rock movement that had already been neutered of its rebellious beginnings. With films like “Poison” and “Safe,...
- 8/8/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
However much you might hate Radiohead, nobody hated Radiohead as much as the band hated itself during the shooting of Grant Gee’s 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy. And however much you love, or hate, or even feel indifferent toward the group, it has very little to do with Gee’s film, in which Radiohead’s actual music—quite poignantly—becomes almost entirely beside the point, an afterthought to all the promotional demands that making successful art creates and, ultimately, something that takes on a burdensome and disparate life of its own. Nearly 20 years later, Meeting People Is Easy is still the best document of the band’s uniquely uncomfortable stardom. It may even be the best movie ever made about how shitty it is to be famous.
If your initial response to that is “Oh, boo hoo,” then the members of Radiohead would likely agree with you ...
If your initial response to that is “Oh, boo hoo,” then the members of Radiohead would likely agree with you ...
- 5/19/2017
- by Sean O'Neal
- avclub.com
Find out what made our top 10 films of 2016 - and which films feature on Team Screen’s overall top 10.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
- 12/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
Back in July, Radiohead announced a short film contest asking fans to submit vignettes using a new one-minute version of their song “Daydreaming.”
The band announced the winners of the contest last week with a video that features one of the figurines from their “Burn the Witch” video pulling names from a bush with a sword. Now, the quintet have released three shortlist submissions on their Instagram account that you can check out below.
Read More: Radiohead and ‘High-Rise’ Director Ben Wheatley Debut ‘Ful Stop’ Short Film — Watch
The prizes for the winners of the contest included a 35mm print of Paul Thomas Anderson’s video for “Daydreaming,” a limited edition screen print of Stanley Donwood’s “Wraith,” a special Radiohead disc, and a set of one-of-a-kind figurines that appeared in the music video for “Burn the Witch.”
Since the release of their album, “A Mood Shaped Pool,” Radiohead shared...
The band announced the winners of the contest last week with a video that features one of the figurines from their “Burn the Witch” video pulling names from a bush with a sword. Now, the quintet have released three shortlist submissions on their Instagram account that you can check out below.
Read More: Radiohead and ‘High-Rise’ Director Ben Wheatley Debut ‘Ful Stop’ Short Film — Watch
The prizes for the winners of the contest included a 35mm print of Paul Thomas Anderson’s video for “Daydreaming,” a limited edition screen print of Stanley Donwood’s “Wraith,” a special Radiohead disc, and a set of one-of-a-kind figurines that appeared in the music video for “Burn the Witch.”
Since the release of their album, “A Mood Shaped Pool,” Radiohead shared...
- 9/5/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Radiohead’s weekly sharing of artist-created vignettes has almost come to an end. Since the release of their album, “A Moon Shaped Pool,” the band has shared short films for each of their tracks on Instagram. The last one was for the song “The Numbers,” directed by Grant Gee and filmed in Port Talbot.
Now, to conclude this artistic production, Radiohead is asking fans to help finish the project by giving them a chance to create their own short film for “Daydreaming.” The group shared a new one-minute audio of the song, which features new strings that weren’t included in the original, to download and “complete Radiohead’s series of vignettes.”
“Download the music on the link an submit your video with the hashtag #RHVignette on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Radiohead will select their favorite and post on Radiohead.com,” states the announcement on their site.
Read More: Radiohead...
Now, to conclude this artistic production, Radiohead is asking fans to help finish the project by giving them a chance to create their own short film for “Daydreaming.” The group shared a new one-minute audio of the song, which features new strings that weren’t included in the original, to download and “complete Radiohead’s series of vignettes.”
“Download the music on the link an submit your video with the hashtag #RHVignette on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Radiohead will select their favorite and post on Radiohead.com,” states the announcement on their site.
Read More: Radiohead...
- 7/15/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
When you are Radiohead, you don’t just release an album. Following the bow of their ninth record, A Moon Shaped Pool, in early May, the band commissioned a set of short video vignettes to go alongside a number of the songs.
Featuring Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) directing Denis Levant, High-Rise‘s Ben Wheatley dragging a floating body across rocks, and Submarine director Richard Ayoade shooting what could’ve been a deleted scene from Trash Humpers, each present a distinct interpretation of the respective song.
They’ve now completed the vignettes, although they note that their latest is the final one in the “current series,” so perhaps we can expect another round soon, considering “Burn the Witch,” “Daydreaming,” “Decks Dark,” “Present Tense,” and “True Love Waits” aren’t represented here.
Check them all out in the order the songs appear on the album, followed by a full stream, below:
Desert...
Featuring Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) directing Denis Levant, High-Rise‘s Ben Wheatley dragging a floating body across rocks, and Submarine director Richard Ayoade shooting what could’ve been a deleted scene from Trash Humpers, each present a distinct interpretation of the respective song.
They’ve now completed the vignettes, although they note that their latest is the final one in the “current series,” so perhaps we can expect another round soon, considering “Burn the Witch,” “Daydreaming,” “Decks Dark,” “Present Tense,” and “True Love Waits” aren’t represented here.
Check them all out in the order the songs appear on the album, followed by a full stream, below:
Desert...
- 7/11/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Development titles revealed as sci-fi Identicals [pictured] picked up by Arrow Films for UK.
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
- 4/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Nobel Prize-winning author and screenwriter is refashioning his script for BFI-backed Venice title, originally adapted from his novel The Museum Of Innocence.
Nobel Prize-winning author and screenwriter Orhan Pamuk plans to novelise his screenplay for Grant Gee’s Innocence Of Memories.
Pamuk, whose books have sold more than 13 million copies and have been printed in 63 languages, scripted around 30 minutes of original narration for the documentary film, though only ten minutes of that made the final edit.
He will now add to the text before releasing the book in conjunction with the film’s Turkish release on March 25.
Speaking to ScreenDaily at the closing night of the !f Istanbul Indepedent Film Festival (Feb 18-28), the author said that he had spent the day writing an introduction to the book, which will also contain multiple images from Gee’s film, as well as extracts from interviews Pamuk has given for the film.
“I consider...
Nobel Prize-winning author and screenwriter Orhan Pamuk plans to novelise his screenplay for Grant Gee’s Innocence Of Memories.
Pamuk, whose books have sold more than 13 million copies and have been printed in 63 languages, scripted around 30 minutes of original narration for the documentary film, though only ten minutes of that made the final edit.
He will now add to the text before releasing the book in conjunction with the film’s Turkish release on March 25.
Speaking to ScreenDaily at the closing night of the !f Istanbul Indepedent Film Festival (Feb 18-28), the author said that he had spent the day writing an introduction to the book, which will also contain multiple images from Gee’s film, as well as extracts from interviews Pamuk has given for the film.
“I consider...
- 2/29/2016
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ Fans of Terence Davies' heartfelt ode to his hometown Liverpool in Of Time and the City will be drawn to Innocence of Memories, from fellow British filmmaker Grant Gee. A slow-paced yet mesmerising documentary, it interweaves an epic romance and nostalgic love letter to Istanbul to shed light on the past, present and future of its setting. Part alternative travelogue, part meditation on love and loss, it explores the nature of a great city as a living, breathing entity and how memory is inextricably linked to time and place. Gee collaborated in the writing of his latest endeavour with Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who also features throughout.
- 1/31/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
In today's roundup of current goings on: Early Soviet cinema, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining backwards and forwards, Kenneth Anger's Santa Monica workshop, David Bowie in Los Angeles, Fritz Lang in San Francisco, László Nemes in Chicago, Harun Farocki in São Paulo, Seijun Suzuki in Toronto, Guy Debord in Vienna, James Benning in Berlin, John Akomfrah, Grant Gee and Orhan Pamuk in London, Agnès Varda in Paris, and in Helsinki, "A Simple Event: Tales from Iranian New Wave Cinema." » - David Hudson...
- 1/30/2016
- Keyframe
In today's roundup of current goings on: Early Soviet cinema, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining backwards and forwards, Kenneth Anger's Santa Monica workshop, David Bowie in Los Angeles, Fritz Lang in San Francisco, László Nemes in Chicago, Harun Farocki in São Paulo, Seijun Suzuki in Toronto, Guy Debord in Vienna, James Benning in Berlin, John Akomfrah, Grant Gee and Orhan Pamuk in London, Agnès Varda in Paris, and in Helsinki, "A Simple Event: Tales from Iranian New Wave Cinema." » - David Hudson...
- 1/30/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Peter Bradshaw recommends Grant Gee’s absorbing meditation about the Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk’s multimedia creation The Museum of Innocence – and the novel of forbidden love that inspired it. Written in 2008, the book is about the affair between an engaged man and a shop girl; he obsessively collect objects associated with her – the real-life building was opened by the author in 2012.
Innocence of Memories is released in the UK on 29 January
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Innocence of Memories is released in the UK on 29 January
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- 1/29/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw and Jonross Swaby
- The Guardian - Film News
Istanbul event will host a total of 23 gala screenings, including the latest films from Charlie Kaufman and Jean-Marc Vallee, as well as a David Bowie tribute programme.Scroll down for the full line-up
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival has revealed its programme for the 2016 edition (February 18-28).
Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, which premiered at Telluride last year, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, will open and close the festival respectively.
!f Istanbul - in its 15th edition - will host screenings, competitions and events dedicated to bringing the best of independent film to the Turkish city.
Other gala presentations will include Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Gaspar Noé’s Love 3D, Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s BAFTA-nominated The Assassin.
In memory of the late musician David Bowie, the festival will show remastered versions of his films The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger...
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival has revealed its programme for the 2016 edition (February 18-28).
Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, which premiered at Telluride last year, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, will open and close the festival respectively.
!f Istanbul - in its 15th edition - will host screenings, competitions and events dedicated to bringing the best of independent film to the Turkish city.
Other gala presentations will include Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Gaspar Noé’s Love 3D, Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s BAFTA-nominated The Assassin.
In memory of the late musician David Bowie, the festival will show remastered versions of his films The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger...
- 1/29/2016
- ScreenDaily
Director Grant Gee presents a meditation on the Turkish writer’s Museum of Innocence and the novel of forbidden love that inspired it
But of course they are not innocent. Grant Gee’s absorbing essay-film is a meditation or reverie about the Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk and his multimedia creation The Museum of Innocence.
His 2008 novel of that title is about a forbidden love affair in 70s Istanbul between a man named Kemal and Füsun, the shopgirl he meets while buying a present for his fiancee. Kemal obsessively begins to collect objects associated with Füsun, with a view to creating a “museum of innocence” – and Pamuk did in fact open his associated Museum of Innocence in Istanbul in 2012.
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But of course they are not innocent. Grant Gee’s absorbing essay-film is a meditation or reverie about the Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk and his multimedia creation The Museum of Innocence.
His 2008 novel of that title is about a forbidden love affair in 70s Istanbul between a man named Kemal and Füsun, the shopgirl he meets while buying a present for his fiancee. Kemal obsessively begins to collect objects associated with Füsun, with a view to creating a “museum of innocence” – and Pamuk did in fact open his associated Museum of Innocence in Istanbul in 2012.
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- 1/28/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The 45th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam runs from January 27 through February 7 and in the past week or two, Iffr has rolled out lineups featuring new work by Takeshi Kitano, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jerzy Skolimowski, Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Billy Woodberry, Grant Gee, Philippe Grandrieux, Arturo Ripstein, John Gianvito, Ben Rivers, Philippe Garrel, Laurie Anderson, Brady Corbet, Claire Simon, Jeremy Saulnier, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nicolás Pereda, Ben Wheatley, Mike Ott and Nathan Silver—and many more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/16/2016
- Keyframe
The 45th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam runs from January 27 through February 7 and in the past week or two, Iffr has rolled out lineups featuring new work by Takeshi Kitano, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jerzy Skolimowski, Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Billy Woodberry, Grant Gee, Philippe Grandrieux, Arturo Ripstein, John Gianvito, Ben Rivers, Philippe Garrel, Laurie Anderson, Brady Corbet, Claire Simon, Jeremy Saulnier, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nicolás Pereda, Ben Wheatley, Mike Ott and Nathan Silver—and many more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/16/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
British film-maker Grant Gee has got together with Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning novelist, and the result is a mesmerising, original meditation on love and the city
Having cut his teeth on music videos (and then graduated to the cerebral Joy Division documentary, on which he collaborated with Jon Savage), Grant Gee has reinvented himself as a formidable force in the microgenre of literary travelogues, a space hitherto largely occupied by Patrick Keiller, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. Gee headed for Suffolk for Patience (After Sebald), a reconstruction and reinvestigation of Wg Sebald’s Rings of Saturn; now he has cast his net much further afield, to Istanbul, and a creative meeting of mind’s with Turkey’s Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
As with his Sebald film, Gee has here carefully assembled a collage of textual fragments, painterly visuals and mysterious voiceovers. The major difference of course, is that Pamuk is...
Having cut his teeth on music videos (and then graduated to the cerebral Joy Division documentary, on which he collaborated with Jon Savage), Grant Gee has reinvented himself as a formidable force in the microgenre of literary travelogues, a space hitherto largely occupied by Patrick Keiller, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. Gee headed for Suffolk for Patience (After Sebald), a reconstruction and reinvestigation of Wg Sebald’s Rings of Saturn; now he has cast his net much further afield, to Istanbul, and a creative meeting of mind’s with Turkey’s Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
As with his Sebald film, Gee has here carefully assembled a collage of textual fragments, painterly visuals and mysterious voiceovers. The major difference of course, is that Pamuk is...
- 9/10/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Luis Tosar thriller to open strand; Laurent Cantet to chair jury; programme includes Agnès Varda, Alice Rohrwacher shorts.Scroll down for full line-up
Dani de la Torre’s debut thriller Retribution, starring Luis Tosar, will open the 2015 Venice Days strand, which announced its line-up today.
The Venice Film Festival’s (September 2 - 12) independently run section will host 21 titles including 18 world premieres in its official selection.
The ten-title competition includes Matias Bize’s The Memory of Water, a drama about a young couple trying to rekindle their relationship after the death of their 4-year-old son, Vincenzo Marra’s fourth feature La Prima Luce, which stars Riccardo Scamarcio as an Italian lawyer tracking down his young son in Chile after an acrimonious divorce; Ascanio Celestini’s drama Long Live The Bride, starring Alba Rohrwacher, and Australian director Michael Rowe’s love drama Early Winter, featuring Suzanne Clement.
Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Sam Neill and Paul Schneider star in [link...
Dani de la Torre’s debut thriller Retribution, starring Luis Tosar, will open the 2015 Venice Days strand, which announced its line-up today.
The Venice Film Festival’s (September 2 - 12) independently run section will host 21 titles including 18 world premieres in its official selection.
The ten-title competition includes Matias Bize’s The Memory of Water, a drama about a young couple trying to rekindle their relationship after the death of their 4-year-old son, Vincenzo Marra’s fourth feature La Prima Luce, which stars Riccardo Scamarcio as an Italian lawyer tracking down his young son in Chile after an acrimonious divorce; Ascanio Celestini’s drama Long Live The Bride, starring Alba Rohrwacher, and Australian director Michael Rowe’s love drama Early Winter, featuring Suzanne Clement.
Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Sam Neill and Paul Schneider star in [link...
- 7/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
This year's Venice Days will open with Dani de la Torre’s car-chase thriller Retribution and close with theater director Simon Stone's feature film debut, The Daughter, based on his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and starring Geoffrey Rush. Highlights of the lineup include Carlos Saura's Argentina, a documentary on tango, and new shorts by Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher. Special events include Grant Gee's film about Orhan Pamuk and Istanbul and Alessandro Rossellini's Viva Ingrid! » - David Hudson...
- 7/24/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
This year's Venice Days will open with Dani de la Torre’s car-chase thriller Retribution and close with theater director Simon Stone's feature film debut, The Daughter, based on his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and starring Geoffrey Rush. Highlights of the lineup include Carlos Saura's Argentina, a documentary on tango, and new shorts by Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher. Special events include Grant Gee's film about Orhan Pamuk and Istanbul and Alessandro Rossellini's Viva Ingrid! » - David Hudson...
- 7/24/2015
- Keyframe
Asif Kapadia's breathtaking documentary Amy is already wowing critics and fans, so its official release this week makes it a good a time to be reminded of some other great music documentaries.
There's David Byrne's giant suit and Bob Dylan's oversize shades. Two films from Martin Scorsese but just one from Julien Temple. Punk rockers and pop superstars. We count through ten leading music documentaries below.
10. The Filth and The Fury (2000)
Julien Temple's first Sex Pistols film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren's make-it-up-as-you-go-along take on things. Twenty years on the same director gave the group the right to reply, including Sid Vicious with some beyond-the-grave archive footage.
9. In Bed with Madonna (1991)
Known as Madonna: Truth or Dare in the Us, this absurdly naughty chronicle of the Queen of Pop's infamous 'Blond Ambition' tour is arguably her greatest on-screen moment. Bitchiness, bottle-fellating...
There's David Byrne's giant suit and Bob Dylan's oversize shades. Two films from Martin Scorsese but just one from Julien Temple. Punk rockers and pop superstars. We count through ten leading music documentaries below.
10. The Filth and The Fury (2000)
Julien Temple's first Sex Pistols film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren's make-it-up-as-you-go-along take on things. Twenty years on the same director gave the group the right to reply, including Sid Vicious with some beyond-the-grave archive footage.
9. In Bed with Madonna (1991)
Known as Madonna: Truth or Dare in the Us, this absurdly naughty chronicle of the Queen of Pop's infamous 'Blond Ambition' tour is arguably her greatest on-screen moment. Bitchiness, bottle-fellating...
- 6/30/2015
- Digital Spy
Feature is based on Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum Of Innocence.
Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.
The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.
Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.
Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.
Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.
Brand New-u
Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.
“This...
Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.
The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.
Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.
Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.
Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.
Brand New-u
Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.
“This...
- 6/18/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
For years the essay film has been a neglected form, but now its unorthodox approach to constructing reality is winning over a younger, tech-savvy crowd
For a brief, almost unreal couple of hours last July, in amid the kittens and One Direction-mania trending on Twitter, there appeared a very surprising name – that of semi-reclusive French film-maker Chris Marker, whose innovative short feature La Jetée (1962) was remade in 1995 as Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam. A few months earlier, art journal e-flux staged The Desperate Edge of Now, a retrospective of Adam Curtis's TV films, to large audiences on New York's Lower East Side. The previous summer, Handsworth Songs (1986), an experimental feature by the Black Audio Film Collective Salman Rushdie had once attacked as obscurantist and politically irrelevant, attracted a huge crowd at Tate Modern when it was screened shortly after the London riots.
Marker, Curtis, Black Audio: all have...
For a brief, almost unreal couple of hours last July, in amid the kittens and One Direction-mania trending on Twitter, there appeared a very surprising name – that of semi-reclusive French film-maker Chris Marker, whose innovative short feature La Jetée (1962) was remade in 1995 as Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam. A few months earlier, art journal e-flux staged The Desperate Edge of Now, a retrospective of Adam Curtis's TV films, to large audiences on New York's Lower East Side. The previous summer, Handsworth Songs (1986), an experimental feature by the Black Audio Film Collective Salman Rushdie had once attacked as obscurantist and politically irrelevant, attracted a huge crowd at Tate Modern when it was screened shortly after the London riots.
Marker, Curtis, Black Audio: all have...
- 8/3/2013
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
A while back I wrote about Marten Persiel’s This Ain’t California, the Berlinale-winning “punk fairytale” about skateboarding in East Germany that caused a bit of a stir overseas for its liberal use of staged reenactments. Regardless of the controversy, Persiel’s film is like nothing I’ve seen in recent years, the closest comparison probably being Grant Gee’s 2007 Joy Division (written by Jon Savage), which employs a collage of images to conjure up the Manchester atmosphere during that music scene’s heyday. In fact, Manchester and East Berlin shared a similar aesthetic in the ’70s and ’80s, composed of drab grey buildings …...
- 4/10/2013
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
If one were to compare Corinna Belz's "Gerhard Richter Painting" to music documentaries, it would fall somewhere between Sam Jones' "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" and Grant Gee's "Meeting People Is Easy." Eschewing the standard biographical framework, the film instead offers up a slice-of-life look at the 79-year-old artist that largely forgoes any context (for better or worse) as it dips into the banality of various show openings (like the Radiohead doc) and the fascinating method he uses to create his work (like the Wilco film). But unlike those aforementioned movies, if you don't know anything about the life and career of Gerhard Richter, your appreciation of what's captured will vary. One of the most successful artists in the world, Richter is notable for not working in any one particular style or medium, moving from photo-realism to minimalism to sculpture and more throughout a career that has stretched more than five.
- 7/28/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
One of the great European literary figures of the past half century was the German writer W.G. “Max” Sebald (1944-2001), a late bloomer who fused essay, history, memoir, and meditative fiction into an unclassifiable weld of eloquently bewitching prose in four major works (Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz), all written over the last decade of his too-abbreviated life. Sebald’s solitary narrators, given lightly autobiographical shadings, wander landscapes as far-flung as the Suffolk coast or the Slovakian countryside like melancholic revenants dwelling on the fate of individuals lost to war or time, the operation of memory, and other seemingly arbitrary recollections triggered by the encounter with a physical environment. Although the surfeit of stories and micro histories in his work often return us in unanticipated ways to his principal preoccupations — the Holocaust and the Allied bombing raids that decimated Germany during World War II — Sebald’s...
- 5/9/2012
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Into the Abyss; The Lady; Patience (After Sebald); The Story of Film: An Odyssey
At a key moment in Into the Abyss (2011, Revolver, 12), a quietly metaphysical inquiry into the awful realities of senseless murder and state-sanctioned execution, an off-camera Werner Herzog asks an apparently self-possessed prison chaplain to "tell me about an encounter with a squirrel".
The question, delivered with Herzog's trademark deadpan Bavarian drawl, seems to come from nowhere and to bear little relation to the ongoing discussion about the last hours of condemned inmates facing death by lethal injection. Yet as always with Herzog, there is an insightful intuition at work behind the apparent absurdity of his approach and a moment later the formerly guarded reverend (whose duties on death row await him even as he speaks) is in tears, talking of the sanctity and preciousness of life, however great or small, and apparently confronting the "ecstatic truth...
At a key moment in Into the Abyss (2011, Revolver, 12), a quietly metaphysical inquiry into the awful realities of senseless murder and state-sanctioned execution, an off-camera Werner Herzog asks an apparently self-possessed prison chaplain to "tell me about an encounter with a squirrel".
The question, delivered with Herzog's trademark deadpan Bavarian drawl, seems to come from nowhere and to bear little relation to the ongoing discussion about the last hours of condemned inmates facing death by lethal injection. Yet as always with Herzog, there is an insightful intuition at work behind the apparent absurdity of his approach and a moment later the formerly guarded reverend (whose duties on death row await him even as he speaks) is in tears, talking of the sanctity and preciousness of life, however great or small, and apparently confronting the "ecstatic truth...
- 4/21/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The 55th San Francisco International Film Festival (site), opening tomorrow and running through May 3, "will seem comfortingly the same" to many in the Bay Area, writes G Allen Johnson in the Chronicle:
[A] lavish opening-night film and party, a rocking closing-night film and, in the two weeks between, 172 more films from 45 countries and tributes to distinguished celebrities... But behind the scenes, it's been the most challenging year in the festival's history. Two executive directors of the San Francisco Film Society have died — Graham Leggat, who lost a battle to cancer in August at 51; and his replacement, independent film maestro Bingham Ray, who had two strokes and died at 57 while attending the Sundance Film Festival in January. He had been on the job only 10 weeks.
"It sounds like a line, but it's actually true that for me personally it was a relief that I had something I could throw myself into that...
[A] lavish opening-night film and party, a rocking closing-night film and, in the two weeks between, 172 more films from 45 countries and tributes to distinguished celebrities... But behind the scenes, it's been the most challenging year in the festival's history. Two executive directors of the San Francisco Film Society have died — Graham Leggat, who lost a battle to cancer in August at 51; and his replacement, independent film maestro Bingham Ray, who had two strokes and died at 57 while attending the Sundance Film Festival in January. He had been on the job only 10 weeks.
"It sounds like a line, but it's actually true that for me personally it was a relief that I had something I could throw myself into that...
- 4/18/2012
- MUBI
Film Forum, one of NYC's finest art houses, has announced its Summer premieres slate. Highlights include Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Elena," Matthew Akers' "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present," and Mads Matthiesen's "Teddy Bear." Full preview reprinted below: May 9 – 15 Patience (After Sebald) Directed by Grant Gee UK 2011 82 Mins. In English Cinema Guild W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), one of the 20th century’s greatest literary figures, wrote evocatively of memory and exile, destruction and decay; his legion of fierce admirers compare him to Virginia Woolf, Proust, and Rousseau. A.O. Scott writes in The New York Times: “Patience (After Sebald) is, to some degree, a survey of the work of the German writer W.G. Sebald,...
- 4/3/2012
- by Austin Dale
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆ An anecdote, recounted early on in Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) (2012), regarding the German-born writer and scholar W.G. Sebald, refers to his response when asked which genres he wanted his books to listed in - biography, fiction, travel, criticism, etc. Sebald asked that his work be included in every section, because he felt that it belonged equally to every genre, and equally to none of them. Inevitably, Gee's film about the author defies labelling as much as its subject.
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- 3/22/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Director Grant Gee follows up his Joy Division documentary with a film about cult writer W G Sebald. Sebald's influential novel The Rings of Saturn is the subject of Patience (After Sebald). It looks at the life and work of the writer by retracing the journey at the heart of one his most celebrated books, in which Sebald embarks on a walk, spanning several days, along Suffolk's coastline.
- 2/24/2012
- The Independent - Film
The author's The Rings of Saturn starts as travelogue and ends in melancholy and horror – a new film, Patience (After Sebald) captures its mood admirably
I came late to Wg Sebald, in the early summer of 2010, although I'd known of him for years. He was one of those surname-only authors whose works it seemed everyone else had read – or else he would crop up stuffily in the footnotes of a certain sort of book.
So until I heard Will Self praising his work on the Today programme, he was simply a name on my to-do list. A task, you might say. Someone to read in hospital, if and when the time came.
But something about Self's enthusiasm persuaded me to buy The Rings of Saturn that lunchtime. Billed as an account of several days spent walking the Suffolk coast – territory I have known and loved since childhood – it ought to...
I came late to Wg Sebald, in the early summer of 2010, although I'd known of him for years. He was one of those surname-only authors whose works it seemed everyone else had read – or else he would crop up stuffily in the footnotes of a certain sort of book.
So until I heard Will Self praising his work on the Today programme, he was simply a name on my to-do list. A task, you might say. Someone to read in hospital, if and when the time came.
But something about Self's enthusiasm persuaded me to buy The Rings of Saturn that lunchtime. Billed as an account of several days spent walking the Suffolk coast – territory I have known and loved since childhood – it ought to...
- 2/8/2012
- by David Newnham
- The Guardian - Film News
Coldplay seem to be secret movie fans to some degree. Their new album Mylo Xyloto was apparently originally going to be the soundtrack to a movie they were writing, but never finished. And you might have forgotten, but last spring the band got into the film production game, co-finacing the film "Ashes" starring Jim Sturgess, Ray Winstone and Lesley Manville. That film has at the helm "Road To Guantanamo" co-director and Ian Dury biopic "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" helmer Mat Whitecross -- and he's been with with Chris Martin and the boys since day one. Whitecross was behind their first video "Bigger Stronger" and while the group have dabbled with other filmmakers over the years -- Anton Corbijn, Shynola, Grant Gee, Sophie Muller -- Mat has become a regular collaborator. The band have dropped "Charlie Brown," another single and video from the album, directed by Whitecross. But little did we know,...
- 2/3/2012
- The Playlist
This modest, immensely enjoyable documentary is about one of my favourite books, The Rings of Saturn by the German poet and critic Wg Sebald, who was born in 1944, taught for much of his adult life in this country, mainly at the University of East Anglia, and was killed in a motor accident in 2001. It was first published in German in 1995, translated into English three years later and is an account of a walking tour of Suffolk, the people he meets, the places he visits, and the historical and literary reflections prompted by what he sees and senses, taking his mind around the world. Suffolk becomes a sort of palimpsest for his eloquent, precise, lugubrious, often drily witty meditations about war, death, destruction and decay, about memories and continuities and the feeling that nothing entirely disappears.
The film is largely shot in grainy grey-and-white, which matches the photographs, etchings and documents that illustrate the author's text,...
The film is largely shot in grainy grey-and-white, which matches the photographs, etchings and documents that illustrate the author's text,...
- 1/29/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Descendants (15)
(Alexander Payne, 2011, Us) George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Robert Forster. 115 mins
A sideways move from Sideways takes Payne on another tour of masculine crises, though this has mellowed and matured for longer. Family issues jolt Clooney out of his Hawaiian comfort zone. His wife's sudden coma puts him in charge of their two daughters, and brings their marriage into perspective, while his control of the ancestral estate adds to the burden. It's a well-rooted drama of great performances and big themes (and probably big awards).
Like Crazy (12A)
(Drake Doremus, 2011, Us) Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence. 90 mins
Young love sees no colour, but it must abide by visa regulations in this cross-Atlantic romantic saga, which tests a couple's endurance in an offbeat, indie style.
The Grey (15)
(Joe Carnahan, 2012, Us) Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo. 117 mins
Liam Neeson v wolves – seems like a good match.
(Alexander Payne, 2011, Us) George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Robert Forster. 115 mins
A sideways move from Sideways takes Payne on another tour of masculine crises, though this has mellowed and matured for longer. Family issues jolt Clooney out of his Hawaiian comfort zone. His wife's sudden coma puts him in charge of their two daughters, and brings their marriage into perspective, while his control of the ancestral estate adds to the burden. It's a well-rooted drama of great performances and big themes (and probably big awards).
Like Crazy (12A)
(Drake Doremus, 2011, Us) Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence. 90 mins
Young love sees no colour, but it must abide by visa regulations in this cross-Atlantic romantic saga, which tests a couple's endurance in an offbeat, indie style.
The Grey (15)
(Joe Carnahan, 2012, Us) Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo. 117 mins
Liam Neeson v wolves – seems like a good match.
- 1/28/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Grant Gee's likably loquacious documentary elegantly re-traces Wg Sebald's steps through the Suffolk countryside
In the summer of 1992, the author Wg Sebald, "irradiated by melancholy", set off on a physical and philosophical wander through the Suffolk countryside – a route that he later re-traced in his landmark book The Rings of Saturn. Grant Gee's likably loquacious, digressive documentary re-traces that re-tracing, complete with handy page references ("pg 41: Lowestoft") and erudite talking heads (Andrew Motion, Adam Phillips, Tacita Dean) to guide us through the psycho-geography.
The way ahead touches on everything from the nature of walking to the tenor of depression; from silkworms to bombing raids. In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination. The answers, presumably, are out there somewhere; lying low in the flat, monochrome landscape, or hunched at a table at a Lowestoft pub.
In the summer of 1992, the author Wg Sebald, "irradiated by melancholy", set off on a physical and philosophical wander through the Suffolk countryside – a route that he later re-traced in his landmark book The Rings of Saturn. Grant Gee's likably loquacious, digressive documentary re-traces that re-tracing, complete with handy page references ("pg 41: Lowestoft") and erudite talking heads (Andrew Motion, Adam Phillips, Tacita Dean) to guide us through the psycho-geography.
The way ahead touches on everything from the nature of walking to the tenor of depression; from silkworms to bombing raids. In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination. The answers, presumably, are out there somewhere; lying low in the flat, monochrome landscape, or hunched at a table at a Lowestoft pub.
- 1/27/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Wg Sebald's sprawling novel The Rings of Saturn has inspired a movie. The composer of its soundtrack tells Ben Beaumont-Thomas why only mashed-up Schubert would do
"The book is very ghost-like," says Leyland James Kirby. "So the music is ghost-like too. It can be easily ignored." This seems a strange thing for a composer to say of his music, but then Kirby is talking about the soundtrack he has written for a film inspired by a very strange book: Wg Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, a sprawling work based around a walk Sebald took along the East Anglian coast and the thoughts it provoked in him. Taking in everything from the Holocaust to outer space, from Chinese trains to crappy hotels, the 1995 novel so struck film-maker Grant Gee that he retraced the writer's footsteps, talking to people along the way, and turned the results into a film called Patience (After...
"The book is very ghost-like," says Leyland James Kirby. "So the music is ghost-like too. It can be easily ignored." This seems a strange thing for a composer to say of his music, but then Kirby is talking about the soundtrack he has written for a film inspired by a very strange book: Wg Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, a sprawling work based around a walk Sebald took along the East Anglian coast and the thoughts it provoked in him. Taking in everything from the Holocaust to outer space, from Chinese trains to crappy hotels, the 1995 novel so struck film-maker Grant Gee that he retraced the writer's footsteps, talking to people along the way, and turned the results into a film called Patience (After...
- 1/26/2012
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
I’ll just fess up: Despite the fact that it’s in its 41st year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is something I’ve kind of never heard about until today. (Let’s blame it on a slip in my geography skills.) This ignorance on my part notwithstanding, taking a look at their initial lineup for this year — when the event runs from January 25th to February 5th — has left me mightily impressed.
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
- 1/6/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
This year's New York Film Festival seems to have fulfilled its brief so well you have to wonder what the programmers will come up with for its 50th anniversary edition next year. 2012 will also mark Richard Peña's 25th year as programming director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and chairman of the Nyff selection committee — and, as he's just announced, his last. "It's been a terrific ride," he told the New York Times' Larry Rohter on Saturday, "but I've had other interests, and it got to the point where I got to thinking about what I want to do with the rest of my working life. It's a good thing for me personally, and also for the organization, because change is good, and it will be good for the organization to have fresh eyes and ideas and new ways of doing things."
For now, though, the 49th edition.
For now, though, the 49th edition.
- 10/17/2011
- MUBI
At the top of its roundup of all things Farocki, Alt Screen notes that MoMA will be hosting An Evening with Harun Farocki tonight in conjunction with the exhibition Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance), on view through January 2. Farocki will then be at Anthology Film Archives tomorrow night for the launch of their retrospective, running through October 10.
Ben Rivers will be at the Harvard Film Archive this evening for a double bill: Slow Action (2010) and Sack Barrow (2011). His latest, Two Years at Sea, premiered in Venice, and Neil Young wrote: "This Is My Land (2006) was an intimate portrait of Jake Williams and his hermit-like existence in the middle of Aberdeenshire's forests, and Two Years at Sea, Rivers's first feature-length work, is a 90-minute variation on similar themes, with only one line of audible dialogue ('chesty cough,' mumbles Jake, examining a bottle of expectorant.) A hoarder of old photographs,...
Ben Rivers will be at the Harvard Film Archive this evening for a double bill: Slow Action (2010) and Sack Barrow (2011). His latest, Two Years at Sea, premiered in Venice, and Neil Young wrote: "This Is My Land (2006) was an intimate portrait of Jake Williams and his hermit-like existence in the middle of Aberdeenshire's forests, and Two Years at Sea, Rivers's first feature-length work, is a 90-minute variation on similar themes, with only one line of audible dialogue ('chesty cough,' mumbles Jake, examining a bottle of expectorant.) A hoarder of old photographs,...
- 10/3/2011
- MUBI
25 special programs and screenings have been added to the lineup for this year's New York Film Festival, running September 30 through October 26. The only secrets left are the 2011 Views from the Avant Garde lineup and a few free forums in the works.
Because this round is so heavy on the documentaries, I want to first revisit the lineup for Toronto's Real to Reel program in another entry and then return here to add further notes and linkage. For now, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Eugene Hernandez has a few more details, but here's the gist of today's announcement:
Masterworks Screenings
Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925), restored.
Hugo Santiago's Invasión (1969), restored.
Sara Driver's You Are Not I (1981), restored.
Special Presentations: Documentaries
Xan Aranda's Andrew Bird: Fever Year.
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Music According to Tom Jobim.
Because this round is so heavy on the documentaries, I want to first revisit the lineup for Toronto's Real to Reel program in another entry and then return here to add further notes and linkage. For now, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Eugene Hernandez has a few more details, but here's the gist of today's announcement:
Masterworks Screenings
Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925), restored.
Hugo Santiago's Invasión (1969), restored.
Sara Driver's You Are Not I (1981), restored.
Special Presentations: Documentaries
Xan Aranda's Andrew Bird: Fever Year.
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Music According to Tom Jobim.
- 8/24/2011
- MUBI
The 30th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) is starting to finally announce their roster of films with an outstanding line-up of documentaries that celebrate the power of cinema and the arts across the Dance, Music, Theatre and the Visual Arts mediums. Legendary filmmakers Wim Wenders , Frederick Wiseman, and Mike Figgis are among the talent presenting films at the festival this year which runs from September 29-October 14th. Here is a taste of what to expect so far:
Pina
Germany/France/UK | Director: Wim Wenders
One German master more than does justice to another as Wim Wenders fashions a kinetic and gorgeous tribute to the singular German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. “Entertainment that will send culture vultures swooning… the film lets the artist’s work speak for itself via big, juicy slabs of performance.” — Variety
Flamenco, Flamenco
Spain | Director: Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura continues to mine a rich vein...
Pina
Germany/France/UK | Director: Wim Wenders
One German master more than does justice to another as Wim Wenders fashions a kinetic and gorgeous tribute to the singular German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. “Entertainment that will send culture vultures swooning… the film lets the artist’s work speak for itself via big, juicy slabs of performance.” — Variety
Flamenco, Flamenco
Spain | Director: Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura continues to mine a rich vein...
- 8/18/2011
- by Gregory Ashman
- SoundOnSight
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