Memento International has boarded “The Ugly Stepsister,” the ambitious feature debut of Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt. The company will kick off sales at this year’s Cannes.
Combining comedy and horror, the film is a daring and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira.
The gory film follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.
“The Ugly Stepsister” is produced by Maria Ekerhovd in Norway for Mer Film, and is co-produced by Lizette Jonjic for Zentropa Sweden (“Another Round”), Mariusz Włodarski for Poland’s Lava Films (“The Girl With The Needle”), Theis Nørgaard for Denmark’s Motor (“The Dead Don’t Hurt”), Zefyr and Film i Väst. With support from the Norwegian Film Institute, the Polish Cash...
Combining comedy and horror, the film is a daring and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira.
The gory film follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.
“The Ugly Stepsister” is produced by Maria Ekerhovd in Norway for Mer Film, and is co-produced by Lizette Jonjic for Zentropa Sweden (“Another Round”), Mariusz Włodarski for Poland’s Lava Films (“The Girl With The Needle”), Theis Nørgaard for Denmark’s Motor (“The Dead Don’t Hurt”), Zefyr and Film i Väst. With support from the Norwegian Film Institute, the Polish Cash...
- 4/29/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
It’s striking how often the word “removal” comes up in various governments’ official policies regarding refugees and asylum seekers — a pointedly chosen term that conjures images of inanimate refuse or clutter awaiting collection, rather than human lives in desperate limbo. Fail to make your case to officials and you’ll be “removed,” a near-literally dehumanizing threat that hangs over Milad Alami’s tense, bristling social thriller “Opponent” like a pounding migraine. Following an Iranian wrestler and father whose urgent reasons for fleeing his homeland aren’t entirely what he claims them to be, this is a tightly wound affair that unravels an obscured past and an uncertain future neatly in tandem. Alami maintains suspense at both ends of his narrative without making a blank cypher of his protagonist, played with seething specificity by an electrifying Payman Maadi.
That galvanizing lead performance — by an actor who hasn’t attained quite...
That galvanizing lead performance — by an actor who hasn’t attained quite...
- 3/11/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Milad Alami’s Opponent begins with an Audre Lorde quote: “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” The Black lesbian poet wrote eloquently about the violence of silence, arguing that breaking through silence and speaking out is a radical act, as essential to self-knowledge as it is to communication. The protagonist of this tightly knotted drama — played in a knockout performance by Payman Maadi, churning with rage, desire and pained vulnerability — is imprisoned by his silence, literally wrestling with himself, to use the metaphor that gives the film its bristling vitality.
Maadi plays Iman, who fled Tehran with his family and is seeking asylum in the far north of Sweden. The reasons for that abrupt flight are revealed only later, but there are clues in a prologue that starts effectively with a blank screen and the sounds of body slams and grunts of wrestlers training hard in a gym.
Maadi plays Iman, who fled Tehran with his family and is seeking asylum in the far north of Sweden. The reasons for that abrupt flight are revealed only later, but there are clues in a prologue that starts effectively with a blank screen and the sounds of body slams and grunts of wrestlers training hard in a gym.
- 2/25/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSUncut Gems.According to Adam Sandler in a new Vanity Fair profile, he will be shooting a new film with the Safdie brothers this winter. Not much is known about the project, but Sandler had previously mentioned that the film would take place in “the world of sports.” Artist-filmmaker Sky Hopinka has been named as one of 25 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship’s prestigious “genius grant.” (Michael Sicinski interviewed Hopinka for Notebook in 2020.)A new TV series based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York has been announced. Martin Scorsese, who directed the book’s 2002 feature film adaptation, is attached as executive producer of the series and director of the first two episodes.Recommended Viewinga trailer has arrived for Laura Poitras’s latest feature All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...
- 10/21/2022
- MUBI
It is hard to watch the brutalization of women on screen, especially when you know it is a re-creation of an actual crime. But it is harder still — rightly, valuably so — if you’ve been made to notice the way this woman’s lipstick is smeared over her cracked lips, if you’ve seen the old bruises that mottle that woman’s body beneath her chador, or watched her carefully stash her flats in a crinkled plastic bag as she switches into heels in a dingy bathroom. Saeed Hanaei, the real-life serial killer reimagined in Ali Abbasi’s tense and convincing procedural, believed that God was behind his grand mission to rid his city of prostitutes. But in “Holy Spider,” the devil is in those devastating details.
Hanaei, here portrayed with brave understatement by affable Iranian actor Mehdi Bajestani, was a builder, a family man, a resident of Iran’s...
Hanaei, here portrayed with brave understatement by affable Iranian actor Mehdi Bajestani, was a builder, a family man, a resident of Iran’s...
- 5/22/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Danish filmmaker Olivia Neergaard-Holm was one of three directors on last year’s Criterion-anointed documentary David Lynch: The Art Life. Neergaard-Holm has edited a dozen shorts and features since 2010, including the single-take German thriller Victoria and the Danish horror drama Shelley. She most recently edited Holiday, the debut feature from director Isabella Eklöf, which appears in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Neergaard-Holm spoke with Filmmaker about Holiday‘s tricky gender politics and why it was important for the film to maintain a “cold, cynical and misogynistic vibe.” Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the editor of your film? What were the […]...
- 1/24/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
David Lynch: The Art Life Hero David Lynch: The Art Life Blu-ray Review David Lynch: The Art Life (2017) Blu-ray Review, a movie directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, starring David Lynch. Release Date: September 26, 2017. Plot “Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.” Disc Specifications Run Time: 88 min Format: [...]
Continue reading: Blu-Ray Review: David Lynch: The Art Life (2017): A Grainy Look At Lynch’s Own Dreamscape...
Continue reading: Blu-Ray Review: David Lynch: The Art Life (2017): A Grainy Look At Lynch’s Own Dreamscape...
- 9/20/2017
- by Marco Margaritoff
- Film-Book
David Lynch: The Art Life
Blu-ray
Criterion
2016 / 1:75 / Street Date September 26, 2017
Starring the One and Only David Lynch
Cinematography: Jason S.
Film Editor: Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Produced by Josefine Bothe
Music: Jonatan Bengta
Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Twin Peaks: The Return recently ended its 18 hour run on Showtime and with that it can be said that the 41 year old cable channel finally made good on its name. Directed by David Lynch and co-written with Mark Frost, The Return see-sawed from soaring fly-overs of Manhattan and Vegas to suffocating dungeons infested with oily-skinned ghosts. It was pictorial storytelling on a grand scale, a work of epic surrealism that challenged the capabilities of any ordinary television screen.
If Lynch and Frost viewed the 1990 incarnation of Twin Peaks as a relatively benign first draft populated by lovable eccentrics, Twin Peaks: The Return could be seen as a take-no-prisoners revision,...
Blu-ray
Criterion
2016 / 1:75 / Street Date September 26, 2017
Starring the One and Only David Lynch
Cinematography: Jason S.
Film Editor: Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Produced by Josefine Bothe
Music: Jonatan Bengta
Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Twin Peaks: The Return recently ended its 18 hour run on Showtime and with that it can be said that the 41 year old cable channel finally made good on its name. Directed by David Lynch and co-written with Mark Frost, The Return see-sawed from soaring fly-overs of Manhattan and Vegas to suffocating dungeons infested with oily-skinned ghosts. It was pictorial storytelling on a grand scale, a work of epic surrealism that challenged the capabilities of any ordinary television screen.
If Lynch and Frost viewed the 1990 incarnation of Twin Peaks as a relatively benign first draft populated by lovable eccentrics, Twin Peaks: The Return could be seen as a take-no-prisoners revision,...
- 9/9/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...
David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...
- 6/30/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
While the vast majority of our favorite films of last year have been treated with Blu-ray releases, one title near the top of the list we’ve been waiting the longest for is Kelly Reichardt‘s Certain Women. It looks like it’s been worth the wait as The Criterion Collection have unveiled their September releases and it’s leading the pack (with special features also an interview with the director and Todd Haynes!).
Also getting a release in September, is Michael Haneke‘s Isabelle Huppert-led The Piano Teacher and the recent documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (arriving perfectly-timed to the end of the new Twin Peaks). There’s also Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic psychodrama Rebecca and the concert film Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Check out the high-resolution cover art and full details on the releases below, with more on Criterion’s site.
Also getting a release in September, is Michael Haneke‘s Isabelle Huppert-led The Piano Teacher and the recent documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (arriving perfectly-timed to the end of the new Twin Peaks). There’s also Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic psychodrama Rebecca and the concert film Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Check out the high-resolution cover art and full details on the releases below, with more on Criterion’s site.
- 6/16/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Five new movies are joining the Criterion Collection in September, two of which were released in the last year: Kelly Reichardt’s spare, moving “Certain Women” and the documentary “David Lynch: The Art Life.” Also getting the Criterion treatment are Michael Haneke’s “The Piancho Teacher,” starring Isabelle Huppert; “Rebecca,” Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel and his first American production; and Murray Lerner’s documentary “Festival,” which features performances by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, among others.
It isn’t Criterion’s most exciting month, but there’s still much to look forward to. Details below, including Criterion’s own descriptions:
Read More: Criterion Collection Announces August 2017 Additions, Including Restored ‘Sid & Nancy’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Meantime’
“Rebecca”
“Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted ‘Rebecca,’ his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film...
It isn’t Criterion’s most exciting month, but there’s still much to look forward to. Details below, including Criterion’s own descriptions:
Read More: Criterion Collection Announces August 2017 Additions, Including Restored ‘Sid & Nancy’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Meantime’
“Rebecca”
“Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted ‘Rebecca,’ his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film...
- 6/16/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Twin Peaks Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering David Lynch and Mark Frost's limited, 18-episode continuation of the Twin Peaks television series.What's an FBI Special Agent to do after being locked away for 25 years in unearthly purgatory? Episodes three and four of Mark Frost and David Lynch's revived Twin Peaks, which aired on Showtime this past Sunday in a two-hour block (aside from September's two-part finale, it's all single, hour-long episodes from hereon out), follow our besuited, Black Lodge-incarcerated hero Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) as he reintegrates into modern terrestrial society. So this is basically Peaks doing Rectify, just with a sterile death row replaced by an infernal hellscape out of Clive Barker. Or David Lynch, really. What's becoming more and more evident as the new Peaks progresses is that the series is, in large part, a repository for Lynch's subconscious, past and present.
- 5/30/2017
- MUBI
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Berlin Syndrome (Cate Shortland)
While the recent 10 Cloverfield Lane and Room told stories of captivity with various hooks — science-fiction and the process of healing, respectively — Cate Shortland’s approach in her latest, harrowing drama Berlin Syndrome makes room for more nuance and depth. Locked in a Berlin apartment, there is little hope for our protagonist for nearly the entire runtime. And while some of the story’s turns can feel overtly manipulative,...
Berlin Syndrome (Cate Shortland)
While the recent 10 Cloverfield Lane and Room told stories of captivity with various hooks — science-fiction and the process of healing, respectively — Cate Shortland’s approach in her latest, harrowing drama Berlin Syndrome makes room for more nuance and depth. Locked in a Berlin apartment, there is little hope for our protagonist for nearly the entire runtime. And while some of the story’s turns can feel overtly manipulative,...
- 5/26/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Jon Nguyen on David Lynch: "Eraserhead, he says, is his Philadelphia story."
David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks is back with Sheryl Lee, Kyle MacLachlan, Sherilyn Fenn, Mädchen Amick, Peggy Lipton, Kimmy Robertson, Grace Zabriskie, Russ Tamblyn, Ray Wise, Everett McGill, Harry Goaz, Catherine E Coulson, James Marshall, and upcoming guest appearances by Laura Dern, Naomi Watts, David Duchovny, Julee Cruise, Balthazar Getty, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Cera, Monica Bellucci, Richard Chamberlain, Amanda Seyfried, Jim Belushi and Eddie Vedder.
Splitting Naomi Watts in two, a Bob Dylan memory, understanding Mulholland Drive, the air in Eraserhead, the lines of Lost Highway, Oscar Kokoschka and how David Lynch: The Art Life all came together for Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm are unearthed.
Jon Nguyen: "Of course, the woman is the Blue Velvet scene." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Do you remember the name of the neighbour's child you...
David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks is back with Sheryl Lee, Kyle MacLachlan, Sherilyn Fenn, Mädchen Amick, Peggy Lipton, Kimmy Robertson, Grace Zabriskie, Russ Tamblyn, Ray Wise, Everett McGill, Harry Goaz, Catherine E Coulson, James Marshall, and upcoming guest appearances by Laura Dern, Naomi Watts, David Duchovny, Julee Cruise, Balthazar Getty, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Cera, Monica Bellucci, Richard Chamberlain, Amanda Seyfried, Jim Belushi and Eddie Vedder.
Splitting Naomi Watts in two, a Bob Dylan memory, understanding Mulholland Drive, the air in Eraserhead, the lines of Lost Highway, Oscar Kokoschka and how David Lynch: The Art Life all came together for Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm are unearthed.
Jon Nguyen: "Of course, the woman is the Blue Velvet scene." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Do you remember the name of the neighbour's child you...
- 5/22/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It would seem there’s no need for another documentary about David Lynch, among the most well-documented filmmakers of this or any other era and subject of at least two previous films, Lynch and Lynch 2. Good news, then: David Lynch: The Art Life finds new ground in both story and form, alternating between his California workspace as he lovingly crafts any number of unclassifiable objects before our eyes and a series of archival materials — including, as far as I can tell, Lynch-shot material that’s never been publicly released — complemented by Lynch’s genteel exposition on his younger years.
Jon Nguyen, the film’s co-director (credited alongside Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Rick Barnes) sat down with us to get into the finer points of his project, its visual and emotional complexities being further revealed in our talk. But don’t just take my word for it. As went our review...
Jon Nguyen, the film’s co-director (credited alongside Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Rick Barnes) sat down with us to get into the finer points of his project, its visual and emotional complexities being further revealed in our talk. But don’t just take my word for it. As went our review...
- 4/4/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
It may have taken a handful of decades, but it appears as though director David Lynch is finally garnering the critical appreciation that he so rightly deserves. Be it the brilliant Dennis Lim-penned biography/critical meditation The Man From Another Place or the pending revival of his cult hit Twin Peaks television series, Lynch has gone from cult icon to something far more influential and genuinely important. As singular and esoteric a voice as film has seen since he began working in film, Lynch is also now the subject of a superlative biographical documentary.
Entitled David Lynch: The Art Life, the film comes to us from directors Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, and is a breathlessly intimate look at the filmmaker’s life from birth and childhood to his journey to Philadelphia and ultimately how he ended up getting behind the camera for what would become one of...
Entitled David Lynch: The Art Life, the film comes to us from directors Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, and is a breathlessly intimate look at the filmmaker’s life from birth and childhood to his journey to Philadelphia and ultimately how he ended up getting behind the camera for what would become one of...
- 4/3/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Jon Nguyen on first meeting David Lynch: "In Poland, when he was making Inland Empire." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Connecting a Mr Smith in Boise, Idaho, to Winkie's diner, splitting Naomi Watts in two, a Bob Dylan memory turned into Jeanne Bates and Dan Birnbaum coming out of a bag, and The Cowboy Monty Montgomery in Mulholland Drive, the air in Eraserhead, a Blue Velvet moment, the lines of Lost Highway, David Lynch's daughters Lula (Laura Dern's name in Wild At Heart) and Jennifer (voice in The Alphabet, starring Peggy Lynch) as bookends, cinematographer Jason S on call to film Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch - The Art Life - all this and more came into my conversation with one of the directors.
On Mr. Smith: "I think the only person that knows is David. Just as he's the only one who...
Connecting a Mr Smith in Boise, Idaho, to Winkie's diner, splitting Naomi Watts in two, a Bob Dylan memory turned into Jeanne Bates and Dan Birnbaum coming out of a bag, and The Cowboy Monty Montgomery in Mulholland Drive, the air in Eraserhead, a Blue Velvet moment, the lines of Lost Highway, David Lynch's daughters Lula (Laura Dern's name in Wild At Heart) and Jennifer (voice in The Alphabet, starring Peggy Lynch) as bookends, cinematographer Jason S on call to film Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch - The Art Life - all this and more came into my conversation with one of the directors.
On Mr. Smith: "I think the only person that knows is David. Just as he's the only one who...
- 4/2/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Beijing International Film Festival has added some iconic art house fare to its lineup.
The government-backed event announced this week that it will screen a special retrospective of the work of David Lynch during its 7th edition, which runs April 16-23 in the Chinese capital.
Lynch films to be included in the program include Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire — none of which were previously exhibited theatrically in the country. The documentary, David Lynch: The Art Life, by directors Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm will also be...
The government-backed event announced this week that it will screen a special retrospective of the work of David Lynch during its 7th edition, which runs April 16-23 in the Chinese capital.
Lynch films to be included in the program include Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire — none of which were previously exhibited theatrically in the country. The documentary, David Lynch: The Art Life, by directors Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm will also be...
- 3/23/2017
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Continuing their relationship with David Lynch, Janus Films recently acquired David Lynch: The Art Life, a documentary about the artist’s early days and, in particular, relationship with painting. Directors Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, and Rick Barnes seemingly succeeded: our review out of last year’s London Film Festival called it a “wonderful” picture, and one fans can’t afford to miss.
Thankfully, its theatrical rollout kicks off next month, ahead of which there’s an intriguing trailer that gives some taste of its archival wealth and Lynch’s own narration. There should be plenty more of that to come: as we said in our review, “The way the film focuses on these intriguing snippets that left a mark on the director is this film’s greatest strength. There’s much to interest the Lynch fan here, but it also might be an unparalleled assessment of the artistic learning of a great American filmmaker.
Thankfully, its theatrical rollout kicks off next month, ahead of which there’s an intriguing trailer that gives some taste of its archival wealth and Lynch’s own narration. There should be plenty more of that to come: as we said in our review, “The way the film focuses on these intriguing snippets that left a mark on the director is this film’s greatest strength. There’s much to interest the Lynch fan here, but it also might be an unparalleled assessment of the artistic learning of a great American filmmaker.
- 2/9/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Last September, we learned that Janus Films had picked up the theatrical distribution rights to the new documentary, David Lynch: The Art Life which had opened at the Venice Film Festival. The film, directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, is a feature length interview with the director and will open at the IFC Center in New York on March 31st.
From the press release:
In advance of the release of David Lynch: The Art Life, IFC Center will present a comprehensive retrospective of Lynch’s films, including a new 4K restoration of his groundbreaking feature debut, Eraserhead, landmark works like Wild At Heart and Mulholland Dr., rare shorts and more, March 24th-30th.
David Lynch: The Art Life is infused with Lynch’s own art, music and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world, and giving audiences a...
From the press release:
In advance of the release of David Lynch: The Art Life, IFC Center will present a comprehensive retrospective of Lynch’s films, including a new 4K restoration of his groundbreaking feature debut, Eraserhead, landmark works like Wild At Heart and Mulholland Dr., rare shorts and more, March 24th-30th.
David Lynch: The Art Life is infused with Lynch’s own art, music and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world, and giving audiences a...
- 2/9/2017
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
All caught up with our top 50 films of 2016? It’s now time to look to the new year, and, ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films, we’re highlighting 50 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year (and beyond) that will likely see a release in 2016. While the first batch have confirmed dates all the way through the summer, we’ve also included a handful that are awaiting a date and some we’re hopeful will get a release by year’s end pending acquisition. U.S. distributors: take note!
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie; Jan. 20)
Those only familiar with Alain Guiraudie’s sublime Stranger By the Lake, which finally brought the gifted French director to a (relatively) wider audience following a laureled Un Certain Regard premiere in 2013, will likely find themselves confounded by its follow-up, Staying Vertical. With his first entry in Cannes’ main competition, Guiraudie returns to the...
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie; Jan. 20)
Those only familiar with Alain Guiraudie’s sublime Stranger By the Lake, which finally brought the gifted French director to a (relatively) wider audience following a laureled Un Certain Regard premiere in 2013, will likely find themselves confounded by its follow-up, Staying Vertical. With his first entry in Cannes’ main competition, Guiraudie returns to the...
- 1/4/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Milad Alami makes feature debut on film whose DoP Sophia Olsson previously shot Sparrows and Volcano.
Swedish-Iranian director Milad Alami has started principal photography on his debut feature The Charmer in Copenhagen.
The film will also shoot at undisclosed locations in the Middle East with a second unit.
The feature is “an intense psychological drama” about a young Iranian man who wants to meet women who can help him stay in Denmark; he falls in love with one woman while another woman’s husband seeks revenge on him.
After a five-week shoot, The Charmer will be delivered in spring 2017.
Alami, who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011, won the Danish Robert award for his short Mommy; and his previous short Void starring Lars Mikkelsen played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
The script is co-written by Alami with Ingeborg Topsøe, an Nfts graduate who previously wrote Sundance-selected Volume.
“I’ve always...
Swedish-Iranian director Milad Alami has started principal photography on his debut feature The Charmer in Copenhagen.
The film will also shoot at undisclosed locations in the Middle East with a second unit.
The feature is “an intense psychological drama” about a young Iranian man who wants to meet women who can help him stay in Denmark; he falls in love with one woman while another woman’s husband seeks revenge on him.
After a five-week shoot, The Charmer will be delivered in spring 2017.
Alami, who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011, won the Danish Robert award for his short Mommy; and his previous short Void starring Lars Mikkelsen played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
The script is co-written by Alami with Ingeborg Topsøe, an Nfts graduate who previously wrote Sundance-selected Volume.
“I’ve always...
- 11/15/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Brett Berns and Bob Sarles's Bang! The Bert Berns Story narrator Steven Van Zandt Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions' Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale and Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game; Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life and the making of Eraserhead; Claire Simon's Venezia Classici Award winner Le Concours; Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Food Evolution, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bang! The Bert Berns Story (featuring Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Cissy Houston, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jerry Ragovoy, Ronald Isley), and the voice of Steven Van Zandt come up in my conversation with Thom Powers.
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale
Jimm Lasser and Biff Butler's Long Live Benjamin (about a Capuchin monkey and artist Allen Hirsch) and Markie Hancock's Feral Love (on Central...
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions' Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale and Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game; Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life and the making of Eraserhead; Claire Simon's Venezia Classici Award winner Le Concours; Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Food Evolution, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bang! The Bert Berns Story (featuring Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Cissy Houston, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jerry Ragovoy, Ronald Isley), and the voice of Steven Van Zandt come up in my conversation with Thom Powers.
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale
Jimm Lasser and Biff Butler's Long Live Benjamin (about a Capuchin monkey and artist Allen Hirsch) and Markie Hancock's Feral Love (on Central...
- 11/10/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: The Vancouver-based distributor has picked up all Canadian rights to the documentary by Rick Barnes, Jon Nguyen, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm.
Pacific Northwest Pictures (Pnp) plans a spring release for the film, which chronicles the artist and filmmaker’s life from his roots in small town America.
David Lynch: The Art Life infuses Lynch’s own art, music and early films to reveal the creative forces that drove him from an early age.
The film premiered in Venice last September and will open in the Us theatrically in spring through Janus Films and proceed to the small screen in the summer via Amazon Studios and Criterion Collection.
Pnp negotiated the Canadian deal with Fabien Westerhoff’s Film Constellation.
The distributor’s slate includes Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Lavender starring Abbie Cornish, A Perfect Day starring Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins, Julie Delpy’s French rom-com Lolo, and The Legend Of Barney Thomson starring Robert Carlyle, [link...
Pacific Northwest Pictures (Pnp) plans a spring release for the film, which chronicles the artist and filmmaker’s life from his roots in small town America.
David Lynch: The Art Life infuses Lynch’s own art, music and early films to reveal the creative forces that drove him from an early age.
The film premiered in Venice last September and will open in the Us theatrically in spring through Janus Films and proceed to the small screen in the summer via Amazon Studios and Criterion Collection.
Pnp negotiated the Canadian deal with Fabien Westerhoff’s Film Constellation.
The distributor’s slate includes Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Lavender starring Abbie Cornish, A Perfect Day starring Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins, Julie Delpy’s French rom-com Lolo, and The Legend Of Barney Thomson starring Robert Carlyle, [link...
- 11/10/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tilda Swinton flawlessly communicates Gertrude Bell in Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's astute Letters From Baghdad Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life with Lynch's memories including his Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story production designer Jack Fisk; Claire Simon's Le Concours (The Graduation) on the admission process to enter La Fémis; Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game which takes off from Simon Trevor's wake-up call White Gold; Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad, executive produced by Martin Scorsese's favourite editor Thelma Schoonmaker with Tilda Swinton are four more highlights of this year's Doc NYC.
David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life
Although the world of his childhood was no larger than two blocks, it contained it all. There is the traumatic, "otherworldly" encounter with...
Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life with Lynch's memories including his Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story production designer Jack Fisk; Claire Simon's Le Concours (The Graduation) on the admission process to enter La Fémis; Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game which takes off from Simon Trevor's wake-up call White Gold; Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad, executive produced by Martin Scorsese's favourite editor Thelma Schoonmaker with Tilda Swinton are four more highlights of this year's Doc NYC.
David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life
Although the world of his childhood was no larger than two blocks, it contained it all. There is the traumatic, "otherworldly" encounter with...
- 11/9/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Doc NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers at the IFC Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio, composing transgressive abstract artwork. Bookmarked by footage of Lynch working on his latest paintings in his Hollywood Hills penthouse, the wonderful new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life showcases the artistic developments of one of America’s most singular directors.
Lynch’s childhood was in not-so-different a setting of one of his trademark films. He moved around small-town America wherever the Us Department of Agriculture sent his father, a research scientist, growing up in rural Montana, or Spokane, Idaho (near the setting of Twin Peaks), before moving to Virginia near DC. He...
Lynch’s childhood was in not-so-different a setting of one of his trademark films. He moved around small-town America wherever the Us Department of Agriculture sent his father, a research scientist, growing up in rural Montana, or Spokane, Idaho (near the setting of Twin Peaks), before moving to Virginia near DC. He...
- 10/24/2016
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Amazon on verge of streaming deal for Venice premiere; Janus Films nabs theatrical.
Screen understands that Amazon is close to finalizing a deal for North American streaming rights to Venice and Toronto documentary David Lynch: The Art Life.
Amazon is lining up the well-received Venice Classics title for a 2017 release on its Amazon Prime service following a separate theatrical run via art-house specialists Janus Films. The film’s blu-ray release will be through the Criterion Collection.
Fabien Westerhoff’s Film Constellation is handling the movie, described by Screen as “an essential picture” for Lynch fans. Wanted Cinema snapped up Italian rights last week.
David Lynch: The Art Of Life is the third in a trio of documentaries about Lynch by filmmaker Jon Nguyen who collaborated on this third instalment with Olivia Neergaard-Holm (Victoria) and Rick Barnes.
Made over four years, the film-makers filmed and recorded more than 20 audio conversations with Lynch at his home. During...
Screen understands that Amazon is close to finalizing a deal for North American streaming rights to Venice and Toronto documentary David Lynch: The Art Life.
Amazon is lining up the well-received Venice Classics title for a 2017 release on its Amazon Prime service following a separate theatrical run via art-house specialists Janus Films. The film’s blu-ray release will be through the Criterion Collection.
Fabien Westerhoff’s Film Constellation is handling the movie, described by Screen as “an essential picture” for Lynch fans. Wanted Cinema snapped up Italian rights last week.
David Lynch: The Art Of Life is the third in a trio of documentaries about Lynch by filmmaker Jon Nguyen who collaborated on this third instalment with Olivia Neergaard-Holm (Victoria) and Rick Barnes.
Made over four years, the film-makers filmed and recorded more than 20 audio conversations with Lynch at his home. During...
- 9/9/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: World sales deal for Venice-bound film in which the iconic director discusses his formative years.
UK sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded world sales rights to documentary David Lynch The Art Of Life ahead of the film’s Venice Classics world premiere.
Made over four years, the filmmakers filmed and recorded more than 20 audio conversations with Lynch at his home, during which the iconic director discusses the formative years of his life and retells personal stories from his past including key events and inspirations.
The film will also take viewers into Lynch’s painting studio in the hills above Hollywood and retrace his steps “from an idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia.”
Lynch states about the film project, which was backed through Kickstarter: “I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas and sometimes the past can conjure those ideas and color them, even...
UK sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded world sales rights to documentary David Lynch The Art Of Life ahead of the film’s Venice Classics world premiere.
Made over four years, the filmmakers filmed and recorded more than 20 audio conversations with Lynch at his home, during which the iconic director discusses the formative years of his life and retells personal stories from his past including key events and inspirations.
The film will also take viewers into Lynch’s painting studio in the hills above Hollywood and retrace his steps “from an idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia.”
Lynch states about the film project, which was backed through Kickstarter: “I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas and sometimes the past can conjure those ideas and color them, even...
- 8/18/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Earning about as much praise as criticism (including tying for the Silver Berlin Bear in 2015) is actor/director Sebastian Schipper’s fourth feature, Victoria, the impressively formulated, single take romance/bank heist thriller. Completed after three attempts and largely improvised (the initial script was only twelve pages), it’s a testament to the ambitious possibilities of cinema, and potentially an argument for the necessity for multiple takes in the first place. Although its limited Us theatrical release in October, 2015 courtesy of distributor Adopt Films didn’t garner the same excited response it received on the international circuit (it was actually bypassed by the Toronto International Film Festival), this will be a title now referenced as the gold standard for narratives transpiring within a single take.
Opening in the throes of a dance floor of a packed techno club, Victoria (Costa), makes her way to the exit. Dawn is approaching, and she’s scheduled to work,...
Opening in the throes of a dance floor of a packed techno club, Victoria (Costa), makes her way to the exit. Dawn is approaching, and she’s scheduled to work,...
- 2/9/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sleepless Night: Schipper’s Audacious, Single Take Heist Thriller
Actor turned director Sebastian Schipper makes major headway with his fourth effort behind the camera, Victoria. Premiering at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival where it snagged an award for cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grovlen (who also lensed Anders Morgenthaler’s The 11th Hour, which starred Schipper, as well as the 2015 Un Certain Regard winner, Rams), this two hour plus blend of romantic drama and heist thriller was filmed in one, single take, shot in the wee morning hours on the streets of Berlin. Technically accomplished and satisfying as a narrative, the film provides lead actress Laia Costa, playing the titular protagonist, with a spectacular role that should see her international career boom a bit like Franka Potente’s following Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (1998).
Opening in the throes of a dance floor of a packed techno club, Victoria (Costa), makes her way to the exit.
Actor turned director Sebastian Schipper makes major headway with his fourth effort behind the camera, Victoria. Premiering at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival where it snagged an award for cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grovlen (who also lensed Anders Morgenthaler’s The 11th Hour, which starred Schipper, as well as the 2015 Un Certain Regard winner, Rams), this two hour plus blend of romantic drama and heist thriller was filmed in one, single take, shot in the wee morning hours on the streets of Berlin. Technically accomplished and satisfying as a narrative, the film provides lead actress Laia Costa, playing the titular protagonist, with a spectacular role that should see her international career boom a bit like Franka Potente’s following Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (1998).
Opening in the throes of a dance floor of a packed techno club, Victoria (Costa), makes her way to the exit.
- 10/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Victoria
Sebastian Schipper
Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Eike Frederik Schulz
Germany, 2015
Victoria is a movie with a gimmick. This is not to say that Victoria isn’t a worthwhile film or that it’s a film that can’t stand on its own, but the gimmick it carries is undeniable or rather, the gimmick carries the film. The gimmick of this German crime thriller is that it weighs in at nearly two-and-a-half hours, and the entire movie takes place over one long take. This is to say that there are no cuts, no multiple shots, no scene breaks. The entire plot of the film unfolds, as it happens, in real time, and the camera never cuts or looks away.
This is, in and of itself, an achievement worthy of praise. Victoria isn’t a bottle movie. It’s not one location with four characters. This film takes place on a city-wide scale,...
Sebastian Schipper
Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Eike Frederik Schulz
Germany, 2015
Victoria is a movie with a gimmick. This is not to say that Victoria isn’t a worthwhile film or that it’s a film that can’t stand on its own, but the gimmick it carries is undeniable or rather, the gimmick carries the film. The gimmick of this German crime thriller is that it weighs in at nearly two-and-a-half hours, and the entire movie takes place over one long take. This is to say that there are no cuts, no multiple shots, no scene breaks. The entire plot of the film unfolds, as it happens, in real time, and the camera never cuts or looks away.
This is, in and of itself, an achievement worthy of praise. Victoria isn’t a bottle movie. It’s not one location with four characters. This film takes place on a city-wide scale,...
- 9/29/2015
- by Trevor Trujillo
- SoundOnSight
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Minus the six minutes of credits, Sebastian Schipper's amazing Victoria is a single 134-minute shot. Now, if you're going to pull a stunt like this, you'd damn well better dream up, construct and hone a project that warrants the gimmick. And Schipper, with his co-writers Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Eike Schulz, most certainly have. Also in today's Berlinale Diary: Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul Volcano, in which ancient Mayan traditions run up against the contemporary world. And Benoît Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid: After adaptations by Jean Renoir (1946) and Luis Buñuel (1964), is this one really necessary? » - David Hudson...
- 2/7/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Minus the six minutes of credits, Sebastian Schipper's amazing Victoria is a single 134-minute shot. Now, if you're going to pull a stunt like this, you'd damn well better dream up, construct and hone a project that warrants the gimmick. And Schipper, with his co-writers Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Eike Schulz, most certainly have. Also in today's Berlinale Diary: Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul Volcano, in which ancient Mayan traditions run up against the contemporary world. And Benoît Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid: After adaptations by Jean Renoir (1946) and Luis Buñuel (1964), is this one really necessary? » - David Hudson...
- 2/7/2015
- Keyframe
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