The town in which Renata (Carmen Madonia) and her family vacation in Luis De Filippis’ assured debut, Something You Said Last Night, is sleepy — quiet and inert. The cottages, spaced out enough to give the idea of privacy, sit near a lake that glistens during the day. Boats can be rented and sailed out to the water, there’s a pool somewhere in the resort and a number of places for a person to retreat from the world.
Renata, a millennial writer grappling with a recent layoff, does a lot of hiding in De Filippis’ film. Some of it is out of necessity — she’s a trans woman navigating an often cruel world — and other times it’s for respite. Her mother, Mona (Ramona Milano), is a well-meaning Italian matriarch whose attempts to help her daughter can feel suffocating. Renata ducks behind doors and absconds to the lake to vape and contemplate.
Renata, a millennial writer grappling with a recent layoff, does a lot of hiding in De Filippis’ film. Some of it is out of necessity — she’s a trans woman navigating an often cruel world — and other times it’s for respite. Her mother, Mona (Ramona Milano), is a well-meaning Italian matriarch whose attempts to help her daughter can feel suffocating. Renata ducks behind doors and absconds to the lake to vape and contemplate.
- 9/29/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Red Skies star Annie Shapero has signed with Verve Talent and Literary Agency.
The Australian-uk actress’ first major role was in Red Skies, the Israeli drama from the team behind the original Euphoria, and is next up appearing in an FX pilot.
Red Skies debuted last month at Series Mania, where it was in International Competition. Shapero plays Jenny, an American journalist forced to pick a side when an unlikely friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian is tested when tragedy strikes. Euphoria‘s Ron Leshem and Daniel Amsel co-created the series with Amit Cohen.
The series comes from Yoav Gross Productions alongside U.S. firms Red82 and Nebo Content for Reshet 13, with Shistel’s Alon Zingman is set to direct. Amir Khoury, Maor Schwitzer and Alona Sa’ar are among the other stars.
Shapero is also set to star in the pilot of FX drama The Border, which is...
The Australian-uk actress’ first major role was in Red Skies, the Israeli drama from the team behind the original Euphoria, and is next up appearing in an FX pilot.
Red Skies debuted last month at Series Mania, where it was in International Competition. Shapero plays Jenny, an American journalist forced to pick a side when an unlikely friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian is tested when tragedy strikes. Euphoria‘s Ron Leshem and Daniel Amsel co-created the series with Amit Cohen.
The series comes from Yoav Gross Productions alongside U.S. firms Red82 and Nebo Content for Reshet 13, with Shistel’s Alon Zingman is set to direct. Amir Khoury, Maor Schwitzer and Alona Sa’ar are among the other stars.
Shapero is also set to star in the pilot of FX drama The Border, which is...
- 4/4/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Author Don Winslow has set his first three-book series since his bestselling Border Trilogy that focused on the battle between the DEA and Mexican cartels. Winslow’s City on Fire sets off a different criminal war, when it gets launched September. The sequel City of Dreams comes in September 2022, followed by the third and as-yet-untitled book that follows a year later in fall 2023, all from William Morrow/HarperCollins.
All three books are finished, and they will be shopped for screen shortly after the Memorial Day holiday.
The trilogy focuses on two criminal empires — one Irish, the other Italian — that control all of New England, until a modern-day Helen of Troy tears them apart and starts a brutal war. The main character, Danny Ryan, is forced to grow from a street soldier into a ruthlessly efficient leader to protect his friends, his family and the home he loves. Fighting the Mafia,...
All three books are finished, and they will be shopped for screen shortly after the Memorial Day holiday.
The trilogy focuses on two criminal empires — one Irish, the other Italian — that control all of New England, until a modern-day Helen of Troy tears them apart and starts a brutal war. The main character, Danny Ryan, is forced to grow from a street soldier into a ruthlessly efficient leader to protect his friends, his family and the home he loves. Fighting the Mafia,...
- 5/25/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Benett Vilmányi and Petra Hartai lead the cast of the filmmaker’s first feature, which is produced by Filmteam with the support of the Hungarian Nfi’s Incubator programme. If, upon closing your eyes, you could see through someone else’s and the world turned out to be a far better place, you’d be left with some far-reaching ethical dilemmas: such is the idea behind Mátyás Szabó’s Wandering Leaves (Vándorló levelek), whose filming has now entered the home straight having kicked off on 17 March in Budapest. Standing tall in the cast of this first feature film to come courtesy of Szabó (who previously turned heads with short films such as The Coming and The Border) are Benett Vilmányi (well-received in Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time and Guerilla), Petra Hartai (of the series Oltári csajok), Mari Nagy (at her best in Those Who Remained among other works,...
For 25 years, from 1992’s “La Frontera” through 2017’s ”A Fantastic Woman,” a subsequent Oscar winner, the Berlinale has prized a rich trove of Chilean movies.
Now, in sync with industry change, Berlin will celebrate the country’s TV with a Chilean Series on the Rise showcase, part of its Country Focus.
“When I started at CinemaChile, one mandate was to achieve the same sense of a phenomenon for Chilean series that had happened in film,” says Constanza Arena, executive director.
Berlin lifts the curtain on early success. “TV is the future of content,” says Matías Cardone, producer of “Dignity,” as the showcase comes in as a Country Focus’ centerpiece.
The five series presented have won big prizes, struck high-profile deals and helped bow original series investment and marked a major strategic departure at some of the world’s most energetic drama series players.
Haunting vignettes of desaparecidos under Pinochet and...
Now, in sync with industry change, Berlin will celebrate the country’s TV with a Chilean Series on the Rise showcase, part of its Country Focus.
“When I started at CinemaChile, one mandate was to achieve the same sense of a phenomenon for Chilean series that had happened in film,” says Constanza Arena, executive director.
Berlin lifts the curtain on early success. “TV is the future of content,” says Matías Cardone, producer of “Dignity,” as the showcase comes in as a Country Focus’ centerpiece.
The five series presented have won big prizes, struck high-profile deals and helped bow original series investment and marked a major strategic departure at some of the world’s most energetic drama series players.
Haunting vignettes of desaparecidos under Pinochet and...
- 2/20/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Filles de joie
French director Frédéric Fonteyne breaks an eight-year hiatus with his fifth feature Filles de joie aka Working Girls (initially titled The Border) in 2020, produced by Jacques-Henri and Olivier Bronckart, Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez. Sara Forestier, Noemie Lvovsky and Annabelle Legronne headline the film. Previously, Fonteyne competed in Venice with his 1999 sophomore film An Affair of Love (aka A Pornographic Affair) and returned to Venice in the Horizons sidebar with 2004’s Gille’s Wife (which won the C.I.C.A.E. Award in the sidebar) and 2012’s Tango Libre (which won a Special Jury Prize in the sidebar).
Gist: Co-written by his Tango libre scribe Anne Paulicevich, is about three women who, everyday cross the border from France to Belgium, where they carry out their secret professions as sex workers.…...
French director Frédéric Fonteyne breaks an eight-year hiatus with his fifth feature Filles de joie aka Working Girls (initially titled The Border) in 2020, produced by Jacques-Henri and Olivier Bronckart, Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez. Sara Forestier, Noemie Lvovsky and Annabelle Legronne headline the film. Previously, Fonteyne competed in Venice with his 1999 sophomore film An Affair of Love (aka A Pornographic Affair) and returned to Venice in the Horizons sidebar with 2004’s Gille’s Wife (which won the C.I.C.A.E. Award in the sidebar) and 2012’s Tango Libre (which won a Special Jury Prize in the sidebar).
Gist: Co-written by his Tango libre scribe Anne Paulicevich, is about three women who, everyday cross the border from France to Belgium, where they carry out their secret professions as sex workers.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Finalists have been revealed for the 2020 Humanitas Prize, which honors film and television writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family. Titles include awards-season heavies Bombshell, It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and The Farewell on the film side and When They See Us, Pose, This Is Us and The Handmaid’s Tale on the small-screen side.
It’s the 45th year for the honors that hands out awards in 10 categories — two new categories, Limited Series, TV Movie or Special and Short Film, are newcomers this year.
Winners will be announced at the 45th annual Humanitas Prize ceremony January 24, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Drama Feature Film
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; inspired by the article “Can You Say… Hero?” by Tom Junod
A Hidden Life
Written and directed by Terrence Malick...
It’s the 45th year for the honors that hands out awards in 10 categories — two new categories, Limited Series, TV Movie or Special and Short Film, are newcomers this year.
Winners will be announced at the 45th annual Humanitas Prize ceremony January 24, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Drama Feature Film
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; inspired by the article “Can You Say… Hero?” by Tom Junod
A Hidden Life
Written and directed by Terrence Malick...
- 11/15/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Don Winslow, the bestselling author of The Cartel and The Force, has thrown a surprise at his publishers at HarperCollins and made a multimillion-dollar worldwide deal for his trouble. Winslow just got an April 2020 publication date for Broken, a book that contains five novellas and one short story. Four of those novellas and the short story will be shopped soon to studios, networks and streamers. The book is being edited by Jennifer Brehl.
This is just part of a set of moves that Winslow and Shane Salerno’s The Story Factory have quietly made to better control the destiny of his terrific fiction as it gets turned into film and TV adaptations. These moves come at a time when The Irishman director Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are often telling the story of trading a Paramount green light on The Winter of Frankie Machine to instead tell the...
This is just part of a set of moves that Winslow and Shane Salerno’s The Story Factory have quietly made to better control the destiny of his terrific fiction as it gets turned into film and TV adaptations. These moves come at a time when The Irishman director Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are often telling the story of trading a Paramount green light on The Winter of Frankie Machine to instead tell the...
- 10/29/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Middle East premiere of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” will open the Cairo Film Festival, which has assembled a rich lineup of international and Arabic titles for its 41st edition. “The Irishman” will screen in the Egyptian capital Nov. 20 prior to being dropped globally by Netflix onto its service Nov. 27.
Scorsese’s mob epic is among 150 films from 63 countries set to screen during the 10-day fest, which this year has also secured several world premieres, such as Palestinian director Najwa Nadir’s divorce amid diaspora drama “Between Heaven and Earth”; the latest feature from Romanian auteur Anrdrei Gruzsniczk (“The Escape”), titled “Zavera”; and Colombian helmer David David’s “The Border,” about a pregnant indigenous woman living on the Colombian-Venezuelan border who is forced to fend for herself when her husband and her brother are killed.
The competition also comprises the international bows of “The Fourth Wall” by Chinese directorial...
Scorsese’s mob epic is among 150 films from 63 countries set to screen during the 10-day fest, which this year has also secured several world premieres, such as Palestinian director Najwa Nadir’s divorce amid diaspora drama “Between Heaven and Earth”; the latest feature from Romanian auteur Anrdrei Gruzsniczk (“The Escape”), titled “Zavera”; and Colombian helmer David David’s “The Border,” about a pregnant indigenous woman living on the Colombian-Venezuelan border who is forced to fend for herself when her husband and her brother are killed.
The competition also comprises the international bows of “The Fourth Wall” by Chinese directorial...
- 10/22/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rodney Crowell, who has chronicled his Texas roots in song as well as in print, has enlisted a host of fellow Texans, including Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Lee Ann Womack, Ronnie Dunn, Steve Earle, Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons and Randy Rogers, for Texas, an album of collaborations. The project will also feature such non-Texans as Vince Gill and Ringo Starr, the latter of whom was the first to reach out to Crowell to express interest in recording with the Houston native.
“For the last few years, I’d been...
“For the last few years, I’d been...
- 4/11/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
While the international media industry grapples with the tectonic shifts triggered by the growing proliferation of streaming services, Zdf Enterprises is riding the wave of change by seizing opportunities, creating new business models and forging partnerships with the likes of Netflix and other digital players.
As the world sales, licensing and co-production arm of German broadcaster Zdf, Zdfe has long established itself as an independent player in both domestic and global markets and it is quickly adapting to the sector’s new reality.
The company has also expanded its sales and production operations through key acquisitions as part of its overall growth strategy.
“We have tried to embrace the changes, the disruption that these platforms have brought to the market through digitization and streaming possibilities, to recognize the opportunities rather than the threat,” Zdfe President and CEO Fred Burcksen tells Variety. “We have so far been able to profit from that.
As the world sales, licensing and co-production arm of German broadcaster Zdf, Zdfe has long established itself as an independent player in both domestic and global markets and it is quickly adapting to the sector’s new reality.
The company has also expanded its sales and production operations through key acquisitions as part of its overall growth strategy.
“We have tried to embrace the changes, the disruption that these platforms have brought to the market through digitization and streaming possibilities, to recognize the opportunities rather than the threat,” Zdfe President and CEO Fred Burcksen tells Variety. “We have so far been able to profit from that.
- 4/8/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon has set Friday, June 14 for the season 2 premiere of thriller Absentia, starring and executive produced by Castle alumna Stana Katic. All ten episodes of season two will debut to Prime members in the Us, UK, Germany, Australia, Austria, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, and other select territories globally. You can watch a teaser trailer above.
Created by Gaia Violo (Blood & Treasure) and Matt Cirulnick (South Beach) and based on a pilot script originally written by Violo, Absentia centers on FBI agent Emily Byrne (Katic), who had disappeared without a trace and was declared dead after hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers. Six years later, Emily was found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive, and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband, Special Agent Nick Durand (Patrick Heusinger), had remarried and her son, Flynn...
Created by Gaia Violo (Blood & Treasure) and Matt Cirulnick (South Beach) and based on a pilot script originally written by Violo, Absentia centers on FBI agent Emily Byrne (Katic), who had disappeared without a trace and was declared dead after hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers. Six years later, Emily was found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive, and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband, Special Agent Nick Durand (Patrick Heusinger), had remarried and her son, Flynn...
- 3/14/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: FX Networks has landed the rights to turn Don Winslow’s acclaimed Cartel Trilogy into a TV series. The series will encompass Winslow’s 2005 novel The Power of the Dog, the 2015 followup The Cartel, and the just published conclusion, The Border. Latter book, which The New York Times called “a hybrid of The Godfather and War and Peace,” and “this generation’s defining work of American mass-culture storytelling on the border,” just debuted on the Nyt bestseller lists in the number three slot. The deal was made by John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions.
Winslow and Shane Salerno will be Executive Producers. Salerno will co-write the pilot with a writer/showrunner to be set shortly. FX is producing with The Story Factory. Ridley Scott will also serve as an Executive Producer. While Winslow and Salerno will not be day-to-day showrunners, they will be closely involved in shaping and sustaining the series.
Winslow and Shane Salerno will be Executive Producers. Salerno will co-write the pilot with a writer/showrunner to be set shortly. FX is producing with The Story Factory. Ridley Scott will also serve as an Executive Producer. While Winslow and Salerno will not be day-to-day showrunners, they will be closely involved in shaping and sustaining the series.
- 3/7/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
FX has landed the rights to author Don Winslow's best-selling Cartel Trilogy of novels and will develop them for TV.
The project will be based on the three books in the series — 2005's The Power of the Dog, 2015's The Cartel and the just-published The Border. The books follow a DEA agent named Art Keller across the sprawling canvas of a 45-year war on drugs at the U.S.-Mexico border, encompassing power struggles in the cartels, cops in both countries, political corruption and the collateral damage caused by the drug trade.
Winslow and Shane Salerno (the Avatar sequels) ...
The project will be based on the three books in the series — 2005's The Power of the Dog, 2015's The Cartel and the just-published The Border. The books follow a DEA agent named Art Keller across the sprawling canvas of a 45-year war on drugs at the U.S.-Mexico border, encompassing power struggles in the cartels, cops in both countries, political corruption and the collateral damage caused by the drug trade.
Winslow and Shane Salerno (the Avatar sequels) ...
Novelist Don Winslow has spent the last 20 years of his life absorbing more news about Mexico’s narco wars than most of us could stomach. This month he delivers the Border, the fiery conclusion of his sweeping drug-war trilogy. Clocking in at over 700 pages, it is his most overtly political installment yet. He takes on the Trump administration directly, creating a fictional candidate, then president, who stokes racist fears of Mexicans, campaigns on “building the wall” and, along with his venal son-in-law, gets caught up in a shady real estate deal involving Cartel money.
- 2/18/2019
- by Sean Woods
- Rollingstone.com
By Todd Garbarini
Film historian Douglas Dunning has informed Cinema Retro that Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 and Ahrya Fine Arts will be presenting the 50th anniversary screening of Sam Peckinpah’s influential 1969 film The Wild Bunch and special guests are scheduled to appear at both locations. The film stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones, Jaime Sanchez, Bo Hopkins, Strother Martin, Albert Decker, Emilio Fernandez, and Alfonso Arau and runs 145 minutes.
Please Note:
Screening #1 is on February 26th at the Playhouse 7 at 7:00 pm, and at press time W.K. Stratton, the author of a new book, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film, will participate in a discussion after the screening. He will also sign copies of his book at the theater.
Screening #2 is at the Ahrya Fine Arts on March 2nd at 7:30 pm.
Film historian Douglas Dunning has informed Cinema Retro that Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 and Ahrya Fine Arts will be presenting the 50th anniversary screening of Sam Peckinpah’s influential 1969 film The Wild Bunch and special guests are scheduled to appear at both locations. The film stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones, Jaime Sanchez, Bo Hopkins, Strother Martin, Albert Decker, Emilio Fernandez, and Alfonso Arau and runs 145 minutes.
Please Note:
Screening #1 is on February 26th at the Playhouse 7 at 7:00 pm, and at press time W.K. Stratton, the author of a new book, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film, will participate in a discussion after the screening. He will also sign copies of his book at the theater.
Screening #2 is at the Ahrya Fine Arts on March 2nd at 7:30 pm.
- 2/14/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Santiago, Chile –- The second feature from Argentina’s Agustín Tsocano, “The Snatch Thief,” was the big winner at this year’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), snagging best picture and two best actor plaudits.
The closing ceremonies were held Saturday night at Chile’s CorpArtes Cultural Center.
The Argentina, Uruguay and France co-production, sold by The Match Factory, participated in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where the tale of a guilt-ridden purse snatcher received unanimous strong reviews, including one by Variety’s Jay Weissberg who described it as a “a nicely plotted, unpretentious film… exactly the type of small-scale Latin American indie product that sees significant festival play.”
Marcelo Martinessi, one of Paraguay’s most high-profile filmmakers, won best director for his latest feature “The Heiresses,” which won the Silver Bear for best picture at Berlin in February. Eliran Elya’s “Doubtful” received a special mention.
In the Chilean competition,...
The closing ceremonies were held Saturday night at Chile’s CorpArtes Cultural Center.
The Argentina, Uruguay and France co-production, sold by The Match Factory, participated in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where the tale of a guilt-ridden purse snatcher received unanimous strong reviews, including one by Variety’s Jay Weissberg who described it as a “a nicely plotted, unpretentious film… exactly the type of small-scale Latin American indie product that sees significant festival play.”
Marcelo Martinessi, one of Paraguay’s most high-profile filmmakers, won best director for his latest feature “The Heiresses,” which won the Silver Bear for best picture at Berlin in February. Eliran Elya’s “Doubtful” received a special mention.
In the Chilean competition,...
- 8/26/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Santiago-based international film festival, Sanfic, has shared with Variety its list of seven films set to participate in the 2018 Sanfic Industria Latin American Works in Progress section.
The films will compete for the following prizes: The Chemistry Award – $50,000 worth of post-production services towards color correction in HD or 2k resolution; the Avid Media Composer Licensing Software Award – a license for perpetual access to the Avid Media Composer post-production editing software valued at $1,800; Yagan Films Award – sound post-production services valued at $23,000; and the new-to-this-year Malaga Festival Award – guaranteed participation at the 2019 Malaga Festival to be held next March.
A highly-anticipated entry at this year’s Wip is the latest from Chile’s Alejandro Fernández Almendras. Produced by Jirafa Films in Chile, one of the country’s very top film outfits, Paris-based Arizona Films and Film & Roll in the Czech Republic, “Hra” (“The Play”) tells the tale of a small-town Czech playwright,...
The films will compete for the following prizes: The Chemistry Award – $50,000 worth of post-production services towards color correction in HD or 2k resolution; the Avid Media Composer Licensing Software Award – a license for perpetual access to the Avid Media Composer post-production editing software valued at $1,800; Yagan Films Award – sound post-production services valued at $23,000; and the new-to-this-year Malaga Festival Award – guaranteed participation at the 2019 Malaga Festival to be held next March.
A highly-anticipated entry at this year’s Wip is the latest from Chile’s Alejandro Fernández Almendras. Produced by Jirafa Films in Chile, one of the country’s very top film outfits, Paris-based Arizona Films and Film & Roll in the Czech Republic, “Hra” (“The Play”) tells the tale of a small-town Czech playwright,...
- 7/31/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
21Cf Global Inclusion, which nurtures diverse voices and stories in front of and behind the camera, announced today that Tesia Walker has been selected as this year’s Fox Writers Lab Fellow. Out of the seventh annual group of Fox Writers Lab writers, she has landed a script development deal with Fox Broadcasting Company.
Originally from New York, Walker graduated from Columbia University’s Film M.F.A. program, where she won Best Teleplay Pilot for her drama script, The Border and received the Jesse Thompkins III Writing Fellowship. Her short film, Search Party, was awarded an HBO Production Grant, and also was a semi-finalist in NBC Universal’s 2016 Shorts Fest. Her pilot, The Line, was a recipient of the 2017 Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition for Best One-Hour Teleplay.
The Fox Writers Lab (Fwl) program includes a four-month curriculum which writers re-write an original comedy or drama pilot script and...
Originally from New York, Walker graduated from Columbia University’s Film M.F.A. program, where she won Best Teleplay Pilot for her drama script, The Border and received the Jesse Thompkins III Writing Fellowship. Her short film, Search Party, was awarded an HBO Production Grant, and also was a semi-finalist in NBC Universal’s 2016 Shorts Fest. Her pilot, The Line, was a recipient of the 2017 Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition for Best One-Hour Teleplay.
The Fox Writers Lab (Fwl) program includes a four-month curriculum which writers re-write an original comedy or drama pilot script and...
- 7/25/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Iran, Australia and Poland among countries represented in Competition.
Cannes Film Festival has revealed the selection for its short film Competition and Cinéfondation sections at the 2018 event, ahead of the Official Competition press conference tomorrow (April 12) at 10am BST.
The Short Films Competition comprises eight films (seven fiction and one animation) chosen from 3,943 submissions, including titles from Iran (Umbra), Australia (All These Creatures) and Poland (III).
In the Cinéfondation Selection, 17 films (14 live action and three animations) have been chosen from 2,426 submissions from film schools worldwide. Among those represented are Israel’s Steve Tisch School of Film & Television, Italy’s...
Cannes Film Festival has revealed the selection for its short film Competition and Cinéfondation sections at the 2018 event, ahead of the Official Competition press conference tomorrow (April 12) at 10am BST.
The Short Films Competition comprises eight films (seven fiction and one animation) chosen from 3,943 submissions, including titles from Iran (Umbra), Australia (All These Creatures) and Poland (III).
In the Cinéfondation Selection, 17 films (14 live action and three animations) have been chosen from 2,426 submissions from film schools worldwide. Among those represented are Israel’s Steve Tisch School of Film & Television, Italy’s...
- 4/11/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Creator of The Wire David Simon is back making television, and he has yet another new drama on the way about the Spanish Civil War. Variety reports the drama, tentatively called A Dry Run, is planned to be a six-hour miniseries about the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and George Washington Battalion fighting fascism during the Spanish Civil War.
Specifically, this drama will detail the account of those two American battalion's lodged in an international conflict from 1937 to 1939. Simon has reportedly been researching the event quite extensively and visiting the battle sites, so authenticity for this series should be high. Of course, we can only assume as much, as who would do such an oddly specific period piece and not shoot for authenticity?
I love The Wire and The Deuce, so I'm sure I'll love whatever this new series becomes. Can I suggest though that as opposed to "A Dry Run," we...
Specifically, this drama will detail the account of those two American battalion's lodged in an international conflict from 1937 to 1939. Simon has reportedly been researching the event quite extensively and visiting the battle sites, so authenticity for this series should be high. Of course, we can only assume as much, as who would do such an oddly specific period piece and not shoot for authenticity?
I love The Wire and The Deuce, so I'm sure I'll love whatever this new series becomes. Can I suggest though that as opposed to "A Dry Run," we...
- 4/9/2018
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Tony Richardson’s look at corruption in the border patrol service is both sensational and insightful, and Jack Nicholson gives a committed performance as a downtrodden functionary who finds himself in a major moral and humanitarian catastrophe. The problem is still there today, with no consensus on the right diagnosis or solution. The action melodrama costars Harvey Keitel & Valerie Perrine, and introduces (to the U.S.) the impressive Elpidia Carrillo.
The Border (1982)
Region B Blu-ray
Indicator
1982 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date January 22, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Shannon Wilcox, Manuel Viescas, Jeff Morris, Lonny Chapman, Alan Fudge.
Cinematography: Ric Waite, Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Robert K. Lambert
Original Music: Ry Cooder
Written by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
Produced by Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Directed by Tony Richardson
It’s no surprise that Tony Richardson’s 1982 The Border is indeed more relevant now,...
The Border (1982)
Region B Blu-ray
Indicator
1982 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date January 22, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Shannon Wilcox, Manuel Viescas, Jeff Morris, Lonny Chapman, Alan Fudge.
Cinematography: Ric Waite, Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Robert K. Lambert
Original Music: Ry Cooder
Written by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
Produced by Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Directed by Tony Richardson
It’s no surprise that Tony Richardson’s 1982 The Border is indeed more relevant now,...
- 2/9/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
“Il Bello Marcello” highlights Italy’s greatest actor and, in turn, its greatest filmmakers.
Stalker continues its run.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Caan Film Festival is underway! Films from Michael Mann, Coppola, Hawks, and more kick it off.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari plays on Sunday.
Metrograph
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Film Society of Lincoln Center
“Il Bello Marcello” highlights Italy’s greatest actor and, in turn, its greatest filmmakers.
Stalker continues its run.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Caan Film Festival is underway! Films from Michael Mann, Coppola, Hawks, and more kick it off.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari plays on Sunday.
Metrograph
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- 5/18/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
There can be little doubt that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest movie stars in the history of the medium. He's had more Oscar nominations (twelve) and wins (three) than any other actor and has been an A-list star for over forty years now, remaining a legitimate box office draw in films like "Something's Gotta Give" and "The Departed" even in his seventh decade. He's worked with everyone from Antonioni to Scorsese, and given some of the most iconic screen performances ever, from "Easy Rider" to "The Shining."
Indeed, ask a cinephile for their favorite Nicholson performance, and the same few films are likely to come up: "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Last Detail," "Chinatown," "The Passenger" (an amazing, nearly back-to-back six-year-run), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," "The Shining." But this means that some of the actor's equally strong performances never quite made it into the canon,...
Indeed, ask a cinephile for their favorite Nicholson performance, and the same few films are likely to come up: "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Last Detail," "Chinatown," "The Passenger" (an amazing, nearly back-to-back six-year-run), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," "The Shining." But this means that some of the actor's equally strong performances never quite made it into the canon,...
- 4/23/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
The programme for the 55th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, celebrates the imagination and excellence of international filmmaking from both established and emerging talent. Over 16 days the Festival will screen a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres . There will also be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Many of the films will be presented by their directors, cast members and crew, some of whom will also take part in career interviews, masterclasses, and other special events. The 55th BFI London Film Festival will run from 12-27 October.
Special Screenings
Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
Special Screenings
Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
- 9/7/2011
- by John
- SoundOnSight
From the 12th to the 27th of October the 55th BFI London Film Festival brings its annual box of delights to the capital. Earlier today the full programme was announced, and it look like being another fine year.
We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.
There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...
We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.
There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...
- 9/7/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Artistic director Sandra Hebron has announced the line-up for the 55th BFI London Film Festival this morning where they will screen “a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres” plus “110 live action and animated shorts”.
We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;
George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...
We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;
George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...
- 9/7/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
For the past year Warner Bros. has been moving forward with development [1] of Tales From the Gangster Squad, a movie based on La Times reports about attempts to curtail the movement of organized crime into La in the '40s. A litany of possible directors [2] was considered last year, including Ben Affleck, Paul Greengrass, Darren Aronofsky and more. Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) finally got the job [3], and WB has now greenlit the film and casting is in progress. No one is cast yet, but Deadline [4] reports that Ryan Gosling has been offered one of two key cop roles, and Sean Penn has been offered the role of La crime kingpin Mickey Cohen. I don't know enough about the cop roles to do more than accept that Ryan Gosling will quite possibly be a solid lead lawman. But Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen could be beautiful. So many of the actor's roles...
- 3/30/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Non-sequential Ideas about Inception I’d Like to Implant Directly into Your Subconscious While You Think You’re Dreaming
by Jon Zelazny
What the hell happened to Tom Berenger? Did you know he used to be a leading man back in the eighties? He peaked with Platoon (1986) and then I heard he hit the sauce and went downhill pretty quick. Then you’ve got Michael Caine. Seventy-seven years old, a king-hell boozehound for decades, and he looks fucking fantastic! Go figure.
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How can Dom meet Saito as an ancient man in the prologue if the operation that puts Saito in limbo hasn’t even happened yet? Does that mean the whole rest of the movie is a flashback? If so, then when we finally get back to Saito the ancient man at the end of the story, why does the scene unfold differently? Does that mean… ? Oh, forget it.
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I...
by Jon Zelazny
What the hell happened to Tom Berenger? Did you know he used to be a leading man back in the eighties? He peaked with Platoon (1986) and then I heard he hit the sauce and went downhill pretty quick. Then you’ve got Michael Caine. Seventy-seven years old, a king-hell boozehound for decades, and he looks fucking fantastic! Go figure.
****
How can Dom meet Saito as an ancient man in the prologue if the operation that puts Saito in limbo hasn’t even happened yet? Does that mean the whole rest of the movie is a flashback? If so, then when we finally get back to Saito the ancient man at the end of the story, why does the scene unfold differently? Does that mean… ? Oh, forget it.
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I...
- 7/26/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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