It is my experience that one gets a far richer, stranger cinema education in pursuing the careers of actors, that group defined first by (assuming luck shines upon them) two or three era-defining films and then so much that dictates their industry—pet projects, contractual obligations, called-in favors alimony payments, auteur one-offs, and on and on. Few embody that deluge of circumstance better than Michelle Yeoh and Isabelle Huppert, both of whom are receiving spotlights in March. The former’s is a who’s-who of Hong Kong talent, new favorites (The Heroic Trio), items we can at least say are of interest (Trio‘s not-great sequel Executioners), etc.
Huppert’s series runs longer, and notwithstanding certain standards that have long sat on the channel it adds some heavy hitters: Hong’s In Another Country, Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness, Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come. And, of course,...
Huppert’s series runs longer, and notwithstanding certain standards that have long sat on the channel it adds some heavy hitters: Hong’s In Another Country, Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness, Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come. And, of course,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
White NoiseCOMPETITIONWhite Noise (Noah Baumbach)Il Signore Delle Formiche (Gianni Amelio)The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)L’Immensita (Emanuele Crialese)Saint Omer (Alice Diop)Blonde (Andrew Dominik)Tár (Todd Field)Love Life (Koji Fukada)Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Alejandro G. Inarritu)Athena (Romain Gavras)Bones & All (Luca Guadagnino)The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)Beyond The Wall (Vahid Jalilvand)The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)Chiara (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Monica (Andrea Pallaoro)No Bears (Jafar Panahi)All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)The Son (Florian Zeller)Our Ties (Roschdy Zem)Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)Out Of COMPETITIONFictionThe Hanging Sun (Francesco Carrozzini)When The Waves Are Gone (Lav Diaz)Living (Oliver Hermanus)Dead For A Dollar (Walter Hill)Call Of God (Kim Ki-duk)Dreamin’ Wild (Bill Pohlad)Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)Siccità (Paolo Virzi)Pearl (Ti West)Don’t Worry Darling...
- 7/28/2022
- MUBI
While the new premieres at the world’s greatest film festivals usually garner much of the spotlight, the lineup of restorations should be equally as exciting to any cinephile. Venice Film Festival, which kicks off its 79th edition from August 31-September 10, has now unveiled the lineup of the Classics section.
Featuring Jacques Tourner’s Canyon Passage, Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill, Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion, plus films by Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yasujirō Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, and more, it’s an embarrassment of riches. If you don’t happen to be in Venice later next month, hopefully we’ll get news of home video releases for these in the coming year.
See the lineup below via Screen Daily.
Teresa The Thief (Teresa La Ladra)(Italy, 1973)
Dir. Carlo Di Palma
Restored by: Cineteca Nazionale
My Little Loves (Mes Petites Amoureuses) (France, 1974)
Dir. Jean Eustache
Restored...
Featuring Jacques Tourner’s Canyon Passage, Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill, Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion, plus films by Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yasujirō Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, and more, it’s an embarrassment of riches. If you don’t happen to be in Venice later next month, hopefully we’ll get news of home video releases for these in the coming year.
See the lineup below via Screen Daily.
Teresa The Thief (Teresa La Ladra)(Italy, 1973)
Dir. Carlo Di Palma
Restored by: Cineteca Nazionale
My Little Loves (Mes Petites Amoureuses) (France, 1974)
Dir. Jean Eustache
Restored...
- 7/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The section returns to the lido after two years.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem and Yasujiro Ozu’s A Hen In The Wind are among the 18 films selected for the Venice Classics strand of the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10).
Pasolini’s Italian drama screened in competition at Venice in 1968 and received a special award from the International Catholic Film Office which was later revoked after the Vatican complained. It is restored by Cineteca di Bologna.
A Hen In The Wind is one of three Japanese films in selection. The other two are Profound Desires of the Gods by...
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem and Yasujiro Ozu’s A Hen In The Wind are among the 18 films selected for the Venice Classics strand of the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10).
Pasolini’s Italian drama screened in competition at Venice in 1968 and received a special award from the International Catholic Film Office which was later revoked after the Vatican complained. It is restored by Cineteca di Bologna.
A Hen In The Wind is one of three Japanese films in selection. The other two are Profound Desires of the Gods by...
- 7/19/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The section returns to the lido after two years.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem and Yasujiro Ozu’s A Hen In The Wind are among the 18 films selected for the Venice Classics strand of the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
Pasolini’s Italian drama screened in competition at Venice in 1968 and received a special award from the International Catholic Film Office which was later revoked after the Vatican complained. It is restored by Cineteca di Bologna.
A Hen In The Wind is one of three Japanese films in selection. The other two are Profound Desires of the Gods...
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem and Yasujiro Ozu’s A Hen In The Wind are among the 18 films selected for the Venice Classics strand of the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
Pasolini’s Italian drama screened in competition at Venice in 1968 and received a special award from the International Catholic Film Office which was later revoked after the Vatican complained. It is restored by Cineteca di Bologna.
A Hen In The Wind is one of three Japanese films in selection. The other two are Profound Desires of the Gods...
- 7/19/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Milan Kundera’s first novel, “The Joke,” won him critical praise and set the tone for a robust career in the spring of 1967, debuting just in time to catch the rising tide of freedom of expression that would reach its peak with the Prague Spring movement just a year later. Jaromil Jires crafted a screen adaptation of the book, in collaboration with the writer, which became one of the iconic films of the Czech New Wave.
The digital restoration of the film, part of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s program of preserving and promoting classic films, alongside the Czech National Film Archive, brings a crisp new copy of the film to audiences this summer. The chance to experience “The Joke” in a pristine state after extensive work by Prague post house Upp and studio Soundsquare has been a long-time coming.
When the Soviet crackdown, known as Normalization, rolled into...
The digital restoration of the film, part of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s program of preserving and promoting classic films, alongside the Czech National Film Archive, brings a crisp new copy of the film to audiences this summer. The chance to experience “The Joke” in a pristine state after extensive work by Prague post house Upp and studio Soundsquare has been a long-time coming.
When the Soviet crackdown, known as Normalization, rolled into...
- 7/2/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
‘A Perfect Planet’ Goes Global
BBC One and Discovery’s latest David Attenborough epic, A Perfect Planet, has secured a raft of international sales. The natural history series has pre-sold to Australia (Nine), Croatia (Hrt), Czech Republic (Czech TV), Denmark (Dr), Lithuania (Lrt), New Zealand (Tvnz), Norway (Nrk), Russia (Friday! and United Media Group), Spain (Movistar+), Slovenia (Rtvs) and Sweden (Svt). BBC Earth channels across Africa, Asia, Canada, Cee, Medme, Nordics and Poland will also premiere the series. Attenborough will use A Perfect Planet to explain how weather, ocean currents, the sun and volcanoes foster and shape the natural world. Made by Silverback Films, the series is co-produced with Tencent Penguin Pictures, Zdf German Television, China Media Group CCTV9, France Télévisions and The Open University.
‘Midsomer Murders’ Restarts Filming
Season 22 of hit British crime drama Midsomer Murders has gone into production in the pandemic era. Made by Bentley Productions, the...
BBC One and Discovery’s latest David Attenborough epic, A Perfect Planet, has secured a raft of international sales. The natural history series has pre-sold to Australia (Nine), Croatia (Hrt), Czech Republic (Czech TV), Denmark (Dr), Lithuania (Lrt), New Zealand (Tvnz), Norway (Nrk), Russia (Friday! and United Media Group), Spain (Movistar+), Slovenia (Rtvs) and Sweden (Svt). BBC Earth channels across Africa, Asia, Canada, Cee, Medme, Nordics and Poland will also premiere the series. Attenborough will use A Perfect Planet to explain how weather, ocean currents, the sun and volcanoes foster and shape the natural world. Made by Silverback Films, the series is co-produced with Tencent Penguin Pictures, Zdf German Television, China Media Group CCTV9, France Télévisions and The Open University.
‘Midsomer Murders’ Restarts Filming
Season 22 of hit British crime drama Midsomer Murders has gone into production in the pandemic era. Made by Bentley Productions, the...
- 10/7/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Czech Republic’s premiere industry event, announced Wednesday it will launch in abridged form Nov. 18 in the spa town where it had to be canceled in July due to Covid-19 restrictions.
With a non-competitive program and screening top titles from other major fests, Karlovy Vary will run for four days with physical screenings at four cinemas in the historic west Bohemian resort hamlet where it has been based since the post-wwii era.
By running its first fractional event, organizers say, Karlovy Vary Iff 54 ½ will offer audiences the Czech premieres of “an exclusive selection of the most distinctive films to have aroused positive responses at their premieres at Sundance, Berlin or Venice, or that bear the Cannes Label.”
The fest announced it will screen a digitally restored print of the 1966 Czech classic “Kocar do Vidne” (Carriage to Vienna) by Karel Kachyna, said fest artistic director Karel Och.
With a non-competitive program and screening top titles from other major fests, Karlovy Vary will run for four days with physical screenings at four cinemas in the historic west Bohemian resort hamlet where it has been based since the post-wwii era.
By running its first fractional event, organizers say, Karlovy Vary Iff 54 ½ will offer audiences the Czech premieres of “an exclusive selection of the most distinctive films to have aroused positive responses at their premieres at Sundance, Berlin or Venice, or that bear the Cannes Label.”
The fest announced it will screen a digitally restored print of the 1966 Czech classic “Kocar do Vidne” (Carriage to Vienna) by Karel Kachyna, said fest artistic director Karel Och.
- 10/7/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Here are a handful of links that I think are worth reading today, for discerning Criterion Collection fan.
Articles
Over on his Criterion Reflections blog, David has just posted his review of Mikio Naruse’s Scattered Clouds:
Since a couple years have passed between my last viewing of a Naruse film (1964’s Yearning, back in 2013, though not reviewed anywhere), I was thus quite eager to sit down and take in Scattered Clouds, available on Criterion’s Hulu channel (and only there, as no version of it on disc is anywhere to be found for the Region 1 market, anyway.)
Don’t miss the Criterion Collection As Haiku blog’s latest entry, on Lonesome.
Jonathan Rosenbaum has republished his review of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan on his blog, adding:
Even though this is favorable, I think I underestimated the achievement of this first feature; reseeing it a quarter of a century later,...
Articles
Over on his Criterion Reflections blog, David has just posted his review of Mikio Naruse’s Scattered Clouds:
Since a couple years have passed between my last viewing of a Naruse film (1964’s Yearning, back in 2013, though not reviewed anywhere), I was thus quite eager to sit down and take in Scattered Clouds, available on Criterion’s Hulu channel (and only there, as no version of it on disc is anywhere to be found for the Region 1 market, anyway.)
Don’t miss the Criterion Collection As Haiku blog’s latest entry, on Lonesome.
Jonathan Rosenbaum has republished his review of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan on his blog, adding:
Even though this is favorable, I think I underestimated the achievement of this first feature; reseeing it a quarter of a century later,...
- 10/6/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Edinburgh exhibitor Filmhouse is to tour a season of films about childhood across the UK, curated by documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins.
The season will comprise 17 films about childhood (see below for full list).
Most of the titles in the season are featured in Cousins’ documentary A Story of Children and Film, which premiered at Cannes last year.
The April-June tour will take in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Brighton, Bristol and Sheffield among other cities.
The season is managed by Filmhouse, which has also licensed VoD rights to a number of the titles.
The project is backed by the BFI’s Programming Development Fund. Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell, who also produced A Story of Children and Film, are producers.
The full list of titles screening in the Cinema of Childhood season are:
• “Willow and Wind” (Bid-o Baad). Iran, Japan, 1999. D. Mohammad-Ali Talebi. 77 mins. A boy breaks a school window, and must mend...
The season will comprise 17 films about childhood (see below for full list).
Most of the titles in the season are featured in Cousins’ documentary A Story of Children and Film, which premiered at Cannes last year.
The April-June tour will take in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Brighton, Bristol and Sheffield among other cities.
The season is managed by Filmhouse, which has also licensed VoD rights to a number of the titles.
The project is backed by the BFI’s Programming Development Fund. Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell, who also produced A Story of Children and Film, are producers.
The full list of titles screening in the Cinema of Childhood season are:
• “Willow and Wind” (Bid-o Baad). Iran, Japan, 1999. D. Mohammad-Ali Talebi. 77 mins. A boy breaks a school window, and must mend...
- 2/4/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
I know that many of you who read GeekTyrant are interested in becoming future filmmakers, which is awesome! It should come as no surprise to you that since I run a movie blog that I too would like to get into the business of making movies.
The Hollywood Reporter has come up with their list of 25 best film schools with basic details for each one. For those of you wanting to study the art of filmmaking, and wondering what the best schools for this are then this list should come in handy. Check out the full list below, and tell us what you think!
1. American Film Institute
Among the most selective film schools in America, AFI's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies in Los Angeles offers a two-year conservatory program where students specialize in fields including directing, producing and writing, often coming to the institute after working in the...
The Hollywood Reporter has come up with their list of 25 best film schools with basic details for each one. For those of you wanting to study the art of filmmaking, and wondering what the best schools for this are then this list should come in handy. Check out the full list below, and tell us what you think!
1. American Film Institute
Among the most selective film schools in America, AFI's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies in Los Angeles offers a two-year conservatory program where students specialize in fields including directing, producing and writing, often coming to the institute after working in the...
- 7/27/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
(''The Ear'' opened Wednesday Film Forum. It was orginally reviewed May 15, 1990, at the Cannes Film Festival.)
A legend in its own time, Karel Kachyna's ''The Ear'' was personally disliked by former Czechoslovak premier Gustav Husak for its naked criticism of methods used by the secret police for spying on its own government officials.
Shot in 1969 during the waning days of the Alexander Dubcek regime, it's been shelved for 20 years. Its screenplay was written by a man who knew well the Machiavellian machinations of the Czech secret police: Jan Prochazka, who before his death from cancer in 1971, formulated the protest declaration signed by leading Czech and Slovak intellectuals against the 1968 invasions by its Warsaw Pact neighbors.
''The Ear'' begins on a melodramatic note. The period is the Stalinist '50s: At a state reception, Ludvik, a deputy underling in a government office, discovers that his superior and other colleagues have been arrested, indicating a show trial is in the offing. Upset, and with his tipsy wife, Anna, on his arm, he leaves the party and heads for his suburban home, only to find that the house keys have mysteriously disappeared from his wife's purse.
The mystery deepens when the couple then discovers that the door to the house is actually unlocked. And there's no electricity, although the neighboring house is fully lit.
When they notice a car parked in front of their house, Anna and Ludvik begin to panic: their arrest is now a strong probability.
''The Ear'' has weathered the interim two decades due mostly to Josef Illik's striking black-and-white images, but acting and directing are also major pluses. It also tops the list of a fine crop of two dozen Czechoslovak films dating from 1968-70 that has stayed in the vaults.
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
A legend in its own time, Karel Kachyna's ''The Ear'' was personally disliked by former Czechoslovak premier Gustav Husak for its naked criticism of methods used by the secret police for spying on its own government officials.
Shot in 1969 during the waning days of the Alexander Dubcek regime, it's been shelved for 20 years. Its screenplay was written by a man who knew well the Machiavellian machinations of the Czech secret police: Jan Prochazka, who before his death from cancer in 1971, formulated the protest declaration signed by leading Czech and Slovak intellectuals against the 1968 invasions by its Warsaw Pact neighbors.
''The Ear'' begins on a melodramatic note. The period is the Stalinist '50s: At a state reception, Ludvik, a deputy underling in a government office, discovers that his superior and other colleagues have been arrested, indicating a show trial is in the offing. Upset, and with his tipsy wife, Anna, on his arm, he leaves the party and heads for his suburban home, only to find that the house keys have mysteriously disappeared from his wife's purse.
The mystery deepens when the couple then discovers that the door to the house is actually unlocked. And there's no electricity, although the neighboring house is fully lit.
When they notice a car parked in front of their house, Anna and Ludvik begin to panic: their arrest is now a strong probability.
''The Ear'' has weathered the interim two decades due mostly to Josef Illik's striking black-and-white images, but acting and directing are also major pluses. It also tops the list of a fine crop of two dozen Czechoslovak films dating from 1968-70 that has stayed in the vaults.
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 3/28/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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