Towards the beginning of Soccer Mommy’s new album, Color Theory, she gives a startling confession: “I am the princess of screwing up.” The singer-songwriter, real name Sophie Allison, is just two years into her twenties, but she sounds as if she’s been navigating early adulthood for decades, wading through the waters of depression and sadness while fighting a few demons along the way. “My world is sinking,” she sings on “Royal Screw Up,” “and I am the captain of it all.”
Some of the album’s tracks share...
Some of the album’s tracks share...
- 3/2/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Cha In-ha, a young Korean actor who was known for his roles in The Banker and Miss Independent Ji Eun 2, has died. He was 27.
Cha’s talent agency, Fantagio, confirmed the devastating news on Tuesday in a statement obtained by the Korean daily newspaper Hankook Ilbo.
“We’re sincerely hurt that we’re sending this sad news to the people who have given Cha In-ha so much love and supported him until now,” said a spokesperson from the entertainment agency.
The spokesperson urged fans to refrain from speculating about the circumstances around Cha’s death while his family copes with the unimaginable tragedy.
Cha’s talent agency, Fantagio, confirmed the devastating news on Tuesday in a statement obtained by the Korean daily newspaper Hankook Ilbo.
“We’re sincerely hurt that we’re sending this sad news to the people who have given Cha In-ha so much love and supported him until now,” said a spokesperson from the entertainment agency.
The spokesperson urged fans to refrain from speculating about the circumstances around Cha’s death while his family copes with the unimaginable tragedy.
- 12/4/2019
- by Joelle Goldstein
- PEOPLE.com
Gaumont has come on board “#iamhere,” a romantic comedy that will be directed by Eric Lartigau (“La Famille Belier”) with Alain Chabat (“Valerian”) and Bae Doona (“Sense8”) attached to star. Screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, whose credits include Jacques Audiard’s “Sisters Brothers,” co-wrote the script with Lartigau.
“#iamhere” will mark Lartigau’s follow up to “La Famille Belier” (pictured), the smash hit French comedy-drama that was France’s top-grossing local film in 2015 and took $80 million worldwide.
“#iamhere” will follow Chabat as Stéphane, a prominent French chef with two kids and an ex-wife who falls in love with a mysterious Korean woman (Doona) whom he meets on Instagram. On a whim, Stéphane decides to visit her in Seoul but when she doesn’t show up at the airport, he sets off to find her and spends the next 10 days searching for her . Filled with adventure, his journey allows him to open up...
“#iamhere” will mark Lartigau’s follow up to “La Famille Belier” (pictured), the smash hit French comedy-drama that was France’s top-grossing local film in 2015 and took $80 million worldwide.
“#iamhere” will follow Chabat as Stéphane, a prominent French chef with two kids and an ex-wife who falls in love with a mysterious Korean woman (Doona) whom he meets on Instagram. On a whim, Stéphane decides to visit her in Seoul but when she doesn’t show up at the airport, he sets off to find her and spends the next 10 days searching for her . Filled with adventure, his journey allows him to open up...
- 9/7/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Soccer Mommy amplifies the melancholy in Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” in her mournful cover of the 1984 song. Sophie Allison reframes the soft-rock single in a ghostly indie-rock atmosphere, elongating every syllable over a strummed electric guitar.
The revamped song, a longtime Soccer Mommy setlist staple, will highlight an upcoming seven-inch single, out October 5th via Fat Possum. The release will also feature a re-recording of Allison’s original track “Henry,” which appeared on her 2016 LP, For Young Hearts.
In a statement about the cover, Allison said she...
The revamped song, a longtime Soccer Mommy setlist staple, will highlight an upcoming seven-inch single, out October 5th via Fat Possum. The release will also feature a re-recording of Allison’s original track “Henry,” which appeared on her 2016 LP, For Young Hearts.
In a statement about the cover, Allison said she...
- 8/22/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Daryl Hall and John Oates, El-p and Soccer Mommy are among the artists set to reissue their albums on pink vinyl as part of the fifth annual charity initiative, Ten Bands One Cause, which benefits Gilda’s Club NYC.
The limited edition records will be released between September 25th and October 26th via the Orchard. They’ll be available at vinyl-selling retailers across the United States.
Hall and Oates will reissue their classic 1975 self-titled record, while rapper El-p will re-release his third studio album, Cancer 4 Cure (El-p’s duo with Killer Mike,...
The limited edition records will be released between September 25th and October 26th via the Orchard. They’ll be available at vinyl-selling retailers across the United States.
Hall and Oates will reissue their classic 1975 self-titled record, while rapper El-p will re-release his third studio album, Cancer 4 Cure (El-p’s duo with Killer Mike,...
- 8/7/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift danced in the rain with 82,500 of her closest friends on Saturday. The recent show during her Reputation tour took place at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey over the weekend, and it happened to be a stormy night at the outdoor venue. That certainly didn't stop the 28-year-old from performing her entire set in the rain and giving it as much energy as her previous shows. Her fans didn't seem to mind, either - in fact, they loved it. "Seeing Taylor Swift in the pouring rain is something you didn't know was on your bucket list until it happens," one attendee wrote on Twitter.
Witnessing Taylor sing "Fearless" and "Clean" in the rain is something thousands of people won't soon forget. Even if you didn't see the concert in person, you'll agree the photos of a drenched Taylor clutching her microphone and guitar for a poncho-clad audience are pretty epic.
Witnessing Taylor sing "Fearless" and "Clean" in the rain is something thousands of people won't soon forget. Even if you didn't see the concert in person, you'll agree the photos of a drenched Taylor clutching her microphone and guitar for a poncho-clad audience are pretty epic.
- 7/27/2018
- by Erin Cullum
- Popsugar.com
When Gus Van Sant began working on Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot more than 20 years ago, the movie looked a whole lot different. Back then, Robin Williams, at the height of his considerable fame, had optioned the memoir of the same name by John Callahan and was set to star as the quadriplegic, recovering-alcoholic Portland cartoonist. And when Robin Williams is in your movie, it looks different.
“It was always thought of, I think, as a Robin Williams film – people, including Robin, thought of it...
“It was always thought of, I think, as a Robin Williams film – people, including Robin, thought of it...
- 7/24/2018
- by Kevin Lincoln
- Rollingstone.com
SunnyMarch, the production banner founded by Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland, has acquired the TV rights to “The Gender Games,” the memoir by best-selling author and trans activist Juno Dawson. The book will serve as a jumping off point to create an original half-hour series picking up Dawson’s journey post-transition.
A playful manifesto on womanhood and a celebration of female friendship, the series will tell Dawson’s story as she learns how to live, love, and date as a woman. Having built a career, relationships and identity on the other side of the gender divide, Dawson is constantly coming up against everyone’s expectations of what being a woman means, including her own. Surrounded by her close-knit group of straight, gay, cis and trans friends, Juno’s journey into womanhood makes for funny, poignant, and often profound moments of self-discovery.
“I was surprised and delighted when Sunnymarch wanted to adapt my life story,...
A playful manifesto on womanhood and a celebration of female friendship, the series will tell Dawson’s story as she learns how to live, love, and date as a woman. Having built a career, relationships and identity on the other side of the gender divide, Dawson is constantly coming up against everyone’s expectations of what being a woman means, including her own. Surrounded by her close-knit group of straight, gay, cis and trans friends, Juno’s journey into womanhood makes for funny, poignant, and often profound moments of self-discovery.
“I was surprised and delighted when Sunnymarch wanted to adapt my life story,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
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
'In the Fade' with Diane Kruger: Fatih Akin's German-language Avenging Woman drama may give its star the chance to become next awards season Isabelle Huppert. Diane Kruger: 2017–2018 awards season's Isabelle Huppert? The 2003 Cannes Film Festival's Female Revelation Chopard Trophy winner, Diane Kruger was Cannes' 2017 Best Actress winner for Fatih Akin's In the Fade / Aus dem Nichts. If Akin's German drama finds a U.S. distributor before the end of the year, Kruger could theoretically become the Isabelle Huppert of the 2017–2018 awards season – that is, in case the former does become a U.S. critics favorite while we stretch things a bit regarding the Kruger-Huppert commonalities. Just a bit, as both are European-born Best Actress Cannes winners who have been around for a while (in Huppert's case, for quite a while). Perhaps most importantly, like Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle, Kruger plays a woman out for revenge in In the Fade. Diane Kruger-Isabelle Huppert 'differences' There is, however, one key difference between the two characters: in Elle, Huppert wants to avenge her own rape; in In the Fade, Kruger wants to avenge the death of her Turkish husband (Numan Acar) and their son (Rafael Santana) at the hands of white supremacist terrorists. Another key difference, this time about the Kruger-Huppert Cannes Film Festival connection: although Isabelle Huppert became a U.S. critics favorite – and later a Best Actress Oscar nominee – for her performance in Elle, her (unanimous) Best Actress Cannes win was for another movie, Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher / La pianiste back in 2001. At that time, Huppert also became a U.S. critics favorite (winning Best Actress honors in San Diego and San Francisco; a runner-up in Los Angeles and New York), but, perhaps because of the psychological drama's sexually charged nature, she failed to receive a matching Oscar nod. Last year's Cannes Best Actress, by the way, was Jaclyn Jose for Brillante Mendoza's Philippine drama Ma' Rosa. Huppert had been in contention as well, as Elle was in the running for the Palme d'Or. Diane Kruger Best Actress Oscar nomination chances? A Best Actress nomination for Diane Kruger at the German Academy Awards (a.k.a. Lolas) – for her first German-language starring role – is all but guaranteed. Curiously, that would be her first. As for a Best Actress Oscar nod, that's less certain. For starters, unlike the mostly well-reviewed Elle, In the Fade has sharply divided critics. The Hollywood Reporter, for one, summarized Akin's film as a “thriller made riveting by an emotional performance from Diane Kruger,” while The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it a “mediocre revenge drama” with “a not particularly good” star turn. Besides, since the year 2000 just one “individual” Best Actress Cannes winner has gone on to receive an Oscar nomination for the same performance: Rooney Mara*, who, though one of the two leads in Todd Haynes' Carol (2011), was shortlisted in the Oscars' Best Supporting Actress category so as not to compete with her co-star and eventual Best Actress nominee Cate Blanchett. Then there's the special case of Penélope Cruz; the 2006 Best Actress Oscar nominee – for Pedro Almodóvar's Volver – was a Cannes winner as part of that family comedy-drama ensemble†. And finally, despite their Cannes Best Actress win for performances in (at least partly) English-language films, no less than seven other actresses have failed to be shortlisted for the Academy Awards this century. Björk, Dancer in the Dark (2000). Maggie Cheung, Clean (2004). Hanna Laslo, Free Zone (2005). Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist (2009). Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy (2010). Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia (2011). Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars (2014). Coincidentally, that same year Moore starred in Still Alice, which eventually earned her the Best Actress Oscar. Warner Bros. will be distributing In the Fade in Germany later this year. Regarding the Oscars, whether late in 2017 or late in 2018, seems like it would be helpful if Diane Kruger got a hold of Isabelle Huppert's – and/or Marion Cotillard's and Jean Dujardin's – U.S.-based awards season publicists. * Rooney Mara shared the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award with Emmanuelle Bercot for My King / Mon roi. † Also in the Cannes-winning Volver ensemble: Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Chus Lampreave, and Yohana Cobo. 'The Beguiled' trailer: Colin Farrell cast in the old Clint Eastwood role in Sofia Coppola's readaptation of Civil War-set, lust & circumstance drama. Sofia Coppola ends Cannes female drought About 13 years ago, Sofia Coppola became the first American woman to be shortlisted for the Best Director Academy Award – for the Tokyo-set drama Lost in Translation, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. Coppola eventually lost in that category to Peter Jackson for the blockbuster The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but she did take home that year's Best Original Screenplay Oscar statuette. There haven't been any other Oscar nominations since, but her father-daughter drama Somewhere, toplining Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, was the controversial Golden Lion winner at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. This year, Coppola has become only the second woman to win the Cannes Film Festival's Best Director Award – for The Beguiled, an American Civil War-set drama based on Thomas P. Cullinan's 1966 novel of the same name (originally published as A Painted Devil). With shades of Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus, The Beguiled follows a wounded Union soldier as he finds refuge at a girls' boarding school in Virginia. Sexual tension and assorted forms of pathological behavior ensue. Tenuous Cannes-Oscar Best Director connection From 2000 to 2016, 20 filmmakers† have taken home the Cannes Film Festival's Best Director Award. Of these, only four have gone on to receive matching Best Director Oscar nominations – but no wins: David Lynch, Mulholland Dr. (2001). Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel (2006). Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher (2014). Four other Cannes Best Director winners were bypassed by the Academy even though their movies featured – at least a sizable chunk of – English-language dialogue: Joel Coen, The Man Who Wasn't There§ (2001). Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love (2002). Gus Van Sant, Elephant (2004). Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (2011). In other words, a Best Director Cannes Film Festival win is no guarantee of a Best Director Academy Award nomination. Ultimately, Sofia Coppola's chances of an Oscar nod in the Best Director category depend on how well The Beguiled is received among Los Angeles and New York film circles, and how commercially successful – for an “arthouse movie” – it turns out to be. † During that period, there were three Cannes Film Festival Best Director ties: 2001: Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There§ & David Lynch for Mulholland Dr. 2002: Im Kwon-taek for Painted Fire & Paul Thomas Anderson for Punch-Drunk Love. 2016: Cristian Mungiu for Graduation & Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper. Both films opened in the U.S. in spring 2017 and may thus be eligible for the upcoming awards season. § Ethan Coen co-directed The Man Who Wasn't There, but didn't receive credit in that capacity. 'The Beguiled' with Nicole Kidman. The Best Actress Oscar winner ('The Hours,' 2002) had two movies in the Cannes Film Festival's Official Competition; the other one was 'The Killing of the Secret Deer,' also with Colin Farrell. Moreover, Kidman was the recipient of Cannes' special 70th Anniversary Prize. 'Sly' & 'elegant' Also adapted by Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled will be distributed in the U.S. by Oscar veteran Focus Features (Brokeback Mountain, The Danish Girl). The film has generally received positive notices – e.g., “sly” and “elegant” in the words of Time magazine's Stephanie Zacharek – and could well become a strong awards season contender in various categories. The cast includes The Killing of a Sacred Deer actors Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, in addition to Kirsten Dunst (the star of Coppola's Marie Antoinette), Somewhere actress Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Addison Riecke, Angourie Rice, and Emma Howard. As an aside, Cullinan's novel also served as the basis for Don Siegel's The Beguiled (1971), a Southern Gothic effort adapted by Irene Kamp and former Hollywood Ten member Albert Maltz. In the cast of what turned out to be a major box office flop: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, and Jo Ann Harris. Women directors at Cannes & the Oscars For the record, Soviet filmmaker Yuliya Solntseva was the Cannes Film Festival's first Best Director winner, for The Story of the Flaming Years back in 1961. The only woman to have directed a Palme d'Or winner is Jane Campion, for The Piano (1993). Early in 1994, Campion became the second woman to be shortlisted for an Academy Award in the Best Director category. The first one was Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976). 'A Gentle Night' & 'Montparnasse Bienvenue' Qiu Yang's short film Palme d'Or winner A Gentle Night should be automatically eligible for the 2018 Academy Awards. But competition, as usual, will be fierce. In the last decade, the only short film Palme d'Or winner to have received an Oscar nomination is Juanjo Giménez Peña's Timecode (2016), in the Best Live Action Short Film category. This article was originally published at Alt Film Guide (http://www.altfg.com/).
- 6/21/2017
- by Steph Mont.
- Alt Film Guide
The French film director on the magic of Nick Cave, his fascination with Theodor Adorno and his favourite Paris market
Writer and director Olivier Assayas was born in Paris and grew up during the aftermath of the civil unrest of 1968. Assayas directed his first film, Nuit féline, in 1978, after a varied cinematographic apprenticeship that included working as an editor for Cahiers du Cinéma and ghostwriting episodes of Maigret for his father, the director Jacques Rémy. His 17 feature films include Clean (2004), Something in the Air (2012) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), and cover subjects as diverse as youthful rebellion, the life of a Protestant minister, and corporate battles over anime pornography. Assayas’s latest film, Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart as a fashion Pa trying to make contact with her dead twin, is out on 17 March.
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Writer and director Olivier Assayas was born in Paris and grew up during the aftermath of the civil unrest of 1968. Assayas directed his first film, Nuit féline, in 1978, after a varied cinematographic apprenticeship that included working as an editor for Cahiers du Cinéma and ghostwriting episodes of Maigret for his father, the director Jacques Rémy. His 17 feature films include Clean (2004), Something in the Air (2012) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), and cover subjects as diverse as youthful rebellion, the life of a Protestant minister, and corporate battles over anime pornography. Assayas’s latest film, Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart as a fashion Pa trying to make contact with her dead twin, is out on 17 March.
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- 3/12/2017
- by Anthony Adler
- The Guardian - Film News
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out….but mostly movies.
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
- 3/8/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
I’ve sought out nearly all of his films, but even that level of knowledge and admiration couldn’t prepare me for what Olivier Assayas concocted with Personal Shopper. Part-ghost story, part-rumination on grief, part-exploration of contemporary technology’s shaping of our relationship with the physical world, part-excuse to see Kristen Stewart wear very nice clothing, and a very fruitful joining of those potentially disparate parts, it proved one of my favorite viewing experiences of last year and is likely to be a highlight of (theatrically released) 2017 cinema.
“Be excited,” I guess is what I mean to say, no less so when Personal Shopper‘s U.S. release is right around the corner. In anticipation of as much, IFC have released a new trailer. As we said in our review, “After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart.
“Be excited,” I guess is what I mean to say, no less so when Personal Shopper‘s U.S. release is right around the corner. In anticipation of as much, IFC have released a new trailer. As we said in our review, “After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart.
- 2/3/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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
Above: Japanese poster for In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2000). It’s no secret that Mubi—the site you are on right now—owes its existence partly to Maggie Cheung. In an oft-told story, its founder Efe Çakarel was killing time in a cafe in Tokyo in 2007 when he sensed that he was in the mood for Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. Finding that there was no way to stream that movie right there and then, he resolved to start his own global arthouse movie streaming service, and thus Mubi, or The Auteurs as it was initially known, was born. Now I’m not saying that Maggie Cheung herself was the main reason Efe wanted to watch In the Mood for Love, but she is such a major part of the allure of that film that I am giving her the credit, especially on...
- 12/8/2016
- MUBI
If we were to bestow the title of The Queen of New York Film Festival, it would certainly go to Kristen Stewart. (Although Isabelle Huppert is a strong second choice.) With three films at the festival, this generation’s best actress (at least according to Olivier Assayas) continues to prove her talents. Her latest film with the director, the ghost story Personal Shopper, finds her reeling from the death of her brother. Ahead of a March release, IFC Films has now released the first U.S. trailer.
We said in our review, “After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart. Here she follows in the footsteps of Maggie Cheung and Asia Argento, actors whose exceptional central performances prevented fundamentally flawed films by Assayas – Clean and Boarding Gate, respectively – from foundering altogether. Stewart’s achievement is...
We said in our review, “After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart. Here she follows in the footsteps of Maggie Cheung and Asia Argento, actors whose exceptional central performances prevented fundamentally flawed films by Assayas – Clean and Boarding Gate, respectively – from foundering altogether. Stewart’s achievement is...
- 9/29/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart. Here she follows in the footsteps of Maggie Cheung and Asia Argento, actors whose exceptional central performances prevented fundamentally flawed films by Assayas – Clean and Boarding Gate, respectively – from foundering altogether. Stewart’s achievement is arguably even more remarkable considering that for the bulk of Personal Shopper’s running time, her only co-actor is an iPhone.
En route to London from Paris to buy clothes for her employer Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten), a high-profile celebrity too busy to do her own shopping, Stewart’s character Maureen starts receiving text messages from an unknown number. As transpired earlier in the film, Maureen is still grieving over the death of her twin brother Lewis three months prior and has since been trying to make contact with his spirit – while he was still alive,...
En route to London from Paris to buy clothes for her employer Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten), a high-profile celebrity too busy to do her own shopping, Stewart’s character Maureen starts receiving text messages from an unknown number. As transpired earlier in the film, Maureen is still grieving over the death of her twin brother Lewis three months prior and has since been trying to make contact with his spirit – while he was still alive,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
David Byrne is all smiles as Bill Ross lV and Turner Ross' Contemporary Color captures two awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Contemporary Color, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne's color guard extravaganza, has scored twice at this year's Tribeca Film Festival awards.
Us Narrative Competition winners
Dean, directed by Demteri Martin; Actor Dominic Rains in Ian Olds' The Fixer; Actress Mackenzie Davis in Sophia Takal's Always Shine; Cinematography - Michael Ragen for Justin Tipping's Kicks; Screenplay - Ingrid Jungermann for her Women Who Kill. The Nora Ephron Prize - Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills; Albert Maysles Award - David Feige for Untouchable. Best New Narrative Director - Priscilla Anany for Children Of The Mountain.
Contemporary Color, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne's color guard extravaganza, has scored twice at this year's Tribeca Film Festival awards.
Us Narrative Competition winners
Dean, directed by Demteri Martin; Actor Dominic Rains in Ian Olds' The Fixer; Actress Mackenzie Davis in Sophia Takal's Always Shine; Cinematography - Michael Ragen for Justin Tipping's Kicks; Screenplay - Ingrid Jungermann for her Women Who Kill. The Nora Ephron Prize - Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills; Albert Maysles Award - David Feige for Untouchable. Best New Narrative Director - Priscilla Anany for Children Of The Mountain.
- 4/23/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Watching a film by Olivier Assayas is a little like wandering into the bedroom of a teenager, taking in the aesthetic décor that clings to his or her walls and bookshelves—posters, pop records, hastily cut-out collages of idols, and literature—and being left to draw a logical conclusion based on these ephemeral scraps. This idea of collage, assembling or reinventing an identity, has always been a concept inherent to punk and youth culture: British punk historian Jon Savage coined the term “living collage” to describe European teenagers in the 1970s who tore apart thrifted vintage clothing at the seams to fuse and repurpose them with safety pins. Assayas’ work is essentially the filmic equivalent of that same idea: he populates his frames with torrents of ideas and surfaces and lets loose cinematographers Yorick Le Saux and Eric Gautier to pan wildly, struggling to encapsulate everything into their widescreen, handheld compositions.
- 5/8/2015
- by Mark Lukenbill
- MUBI
Catherine Deneuve: César Award Besst Actress Record-Tier (photo: Catherine Deneuve in 'In the Courtyard / Dans la cour') (See previous post: "Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.") Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César nominations to date. Deneuve's nods were for the following movies (year of film's release): Pierre Salvadori's In the Courtyard / Dans la Cour (2014). Emmanuelle Bercot's On My Way / Elle s'en va (2013). François Ozon's Potiche (2010). Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme (1998). André Téchiné's Thieves / Les voleurs (1996). André Téchiné's My Favorite Season / Ma saison préférée (1993). Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992). François Dupeyron's Strange Place for an Encounter / Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988). Jean-Pierre Mocky's Agent trouble (1987). André Téchiné's Hotel America / Hôtel des Amériques (1981). François Truffaut's The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980). Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Le sauvage (1975). Additionally, Catherine Deneuve was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category...
- 1/30/2015
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
It’s been a decade since French director Olivier Assayas had a film in competition – his epic Carlos was controversially plucked from a competition berth at the last minute in 2010. He’s known for his masterful work with actresses; Clean took home the best actress prize for Maggie Cheung in 2004, and his Sils Maria is one of the most anticipated films of this festival with what early buzz is calling masterful performances from Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart. He spoke to THR about returning to Cannes after the controversy, independent film making and the French funding system. How does
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- 5/21/2014
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Croisette regulars veterans Jean Luc Godard, Ken Loach and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will compete alongside Competition first-timers Alice Rohrwacher, Xavier Dolan and Damian Szifron at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced the Official Selection of the 67th edition on Thursday (17) at a packed press conference at the Normandie Cinema on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
“Anyone who makes a film of more than one hour in duration, has the right to submit a film to Cannes… this year we received some 1,800 films in total – all of which were screened,” said Fremaux.
He announced 49 titles in total from 28 countries and hinted a further two or three could be announced ahead of Cannes. [Click here for the full list.]
Fremaux, who tied up the line-up at 1am local time ahead of the announcement, said films were arriving later and later for consideration due to digitisation of filmmaking.
“It used to be that January was late,” he said. “Now...
Artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced the Official Selection of the 67th edition on Thursday (17) at a packed press conference at the Normandie Cinema on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
“Anyone who makes a film of more than one hour in duration, has the right to submit a film to Cannes… this year we received some 1,800 films in total – all of which were screened,” said Fremaux.
He announced 49 titles in total from 28 countries and hinted a further two or three could be announced ahead of Cannes. [Click here for the full list.]
Fremaux, who tied up the line-up at 1am local time ahead of the announcement, said films were arriving later and later for consideration due to digitisation of filmmaking.
“It used to be that January was late,” he said. “Now...
- 4/17/2014
- ScreenDaily
Olivier Assayas's new film is set amid the fallout of the May 68 uprising and the rebellious antics of its hero recall the director's own youthful protests. He talks about adrenaline rushes and breaking rules
Olivier Assayas, the writer, director and former film critic, is truly cool. He is the maker of some of the most playful, intellectual French cinema of the past two decades. His tastes are eclectic, his skill-set vast: he can move confidently between witty romps (such as his 1996 breakthrough, Irma Vep, one of the cleverest of all films about film-making, or the techno-thriller Demonlover) and lavish, patient period pieces (Les Destinées Sentimentales) or slow-burn emotional studies (Summer Hours). His most formidable achievement is the five-and-a-half-hour Carlos, a painstaking recreation of the rise of Carlos the Jackal made for television in 2010 but mounted with a scope and handsomeness to shame any Hollywood equivalent.
Separated from the actor Maggie Cheung,...
Olivier Assayas, the writer, director and former film critic, is truly cool. He is the maker of some of the most playful, intellectual French cinema of the past two decades. His tastes are eclectic, his skill-set vast: he can move confidently between witty romps (such as his 1996 breakthrough, Irma Vep, one of the cleverest of all films about film-making, or the techno-thriller Demonlover) and lavish, patient period pieces (Les Destinées Sentimentales) or slow-burn emotional studies (Summer Hours). His most formidable achievement is the five-and-a-half-hour Carlos, a painstaking recreation of the rise of Carlos the Jackal made for television in 2010 but mounted with a scope and handsomeness to shame any Hollywood equivalent.
Separated from the actor Maggie Cheung,...
- 5/16/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a good reason why Olivier Assayas is one of my favorite French filmmakers. Partially, it's because he has never made the same movie twice while he always seems to be veering away from his fellow country men to do things that are edgy and modern and different, whether it's Irma Vep and Clean or the craziness of Demonlover . Following the 5 ½ hour Golden Globe-winning epic Carlos , Assayas is back with Something in the Air (Apres mai) , a coming-of-age tale set in the early '70s that's a surprisingly fitting follow-up to a mini-series about a terrorist, this time making his most personal and autobiographical film to date as well as his most youthful. The film follows Gilles, an ambitious shaggy-haired high school student played by newcomer Clément Métayer, who could...
- 5/3/2013
- Comingsoon.net
From Palme d’Or winner “Amour” to the latest offerings from some of the biggest names of world cinema such as Alain Resnais, Abbas Kiarostami, Bernando Bertoluci, Manoel de Oliveira , Brillante Mendoza, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, 14th Mumbai Film Festival has a lot to offer to the filmbuffs.
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
- 9/27/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Olivier Assayas has been in high regard for over a decade, yet any director who just made Carlos — and, before that, the even-better Summer Hours — still has some big expectations to meet for his next effort. This was reflected, I think, in our top-ten placement of his “loosely autobiographical drama,” Something in the Air, on our most anticipated of the year list before we had any proper details. Now, however, it’s finally starting to come into focus.
With a Venice premiere slated for next month, PalaceFilms (via ThePlaylist), MK2, and Allocine have debuted some of the first new stills — a few small and blurry shots being the sole and, obviously, inferior exception — emanating a vibe that recalls Carlos more than I had expected. Granted, this is simply based on shots wherein teenagers run down the streets with nightsticks — of which we don’t know the true context — but, hey,...
With a Venice premiere slated for next month, PalaceFilms (via ThePlaylist), MK2, and Allocine have debuted some of the first new stills — a few small and blurry shots being the sole and, obviously, inferior exception — emanating a vibe that recalls Carlos more than I had expected. Granted, this is simply based on shots wherein teenagers run down the streets with nightsticks — of which we don’t know the true context — but, hey,...
- 8/2/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Every once in a while I remember to miss Maggie Cheung muchly. But she's been gone so long now. We haven't seen her onscreen since 2004 when she cameo'ed in 2046 and grunged her way through Clean as a drug addicted wife in the rock scene. I understand she returned to screens briefly for two Chinese films in 2010 but neither of them crossed the pond.
Well yesterday in Taipei she cut the ribbon at the new Louis Vitton flagship and look how fresh and kicky she looks ===>
Tony, one of my most trusted reader sources for international film star news, pointed this story out to me and translated a bit of the attached video. I'll let him explain from here:
She even served as DJ of the evening! Wouldn't you just Love to know
what kind of music she plays?!
The host of the event very tentatively asks her about when we...
Well yesterday in Taipei she cut the ribbon at the new Louis Vitton flagship and look how fresh and kicky she looks ===>
Tony, one of my most trusted reader sources for international film star news, pointed this story out to me and translated a bit of the attached video. I'll let him explain from here:
She even served as DJ of the evening! Wouldn't you just Love to know
what kind of music she plays?!
The host of the event very tentatively asks her about when we...
- 5/4/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Robert De Niro
The 64th festival de Cannes announced its Jury on Wednesday. No Indian follows in the footsteps of actress Sharmila Tagore and director Shekhar Kapoor who served on the Cannes Jury in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The Jury of the Competiton presided over by Robert De Niro will comprise Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina), Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China), Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA), Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway), Olivier Assayas (director, France), Jude Law (actor, producer, UK), Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) and Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China).
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury presided by Michel Gondry will comprise Julie Gaynet (Actress and Producer, France), Jessica Hausner (Director and Producer, Austria), Corneliu PorumBoiu (Director, Romania and João Pedro Rodrigues (Director, Portugal).
Brief introduction of the Main Jury as stated on Cannes official website:
Martina Gusman created Matanza Cine, a production company with...
The 64th festival de Cannes announced its Jury on Wednesday. No Indian follows in the footsteps of actress Sharmila Tagore and director Shekhar Kapoor who served on the Cannes Jury in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The Jury of the Competiton presided over by Robert De Niro will comprise Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina), Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China), Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA), Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway), Olivier Assayas (director, France), Jude Law (actor, producer, UK), Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) and Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China).
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury presided by Michel Gondry will comprise Julie Gaynet (Actress and Producer, France), Jessica Hausner (Director and Producer, Austria), Corneliu PorumBoiu (Director, Romania and João Pedro Rodrigues (Director, Portugal).
Brief introduction of the Main Jury as stated on Cannes official website:
Martina Gusman created Matanza Cine, a production company with...
- 4/20/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Source Code
Opens: April 1st 2011
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Duncan Jones
Summary: A decorated soldier discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. The experiment is a program that enables him to re-live another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life which he must do repeatedly to find the truth.
Analysis: Two years ago British filmmaker Duncan Jones delivered his indie debut feature "Moon", a little seen but critically acclaimed sci-fi tale that was essentially Sam Rockwell acting alone or against himself. It was fresh, innovative, somber and overall heralded the arrival of a director to watch out for. After failing to secure funding for his next project, Jones quickly hopped onto the helm of this high-concept action/time travel blockbuster.
Naturally came the calls of Jones being a sell out, after all the...
Opens: April 1st 2011
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Duncan Jones
Summary: A decorated soldier discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. The experiment is a program that enables him to re-live another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life which he must do repeatedly to find the truth.
Analysis: Two years ago British filmmaker Duncan Jones delivered his indie debut feature "Moon", a little seen but critically acclaimed sci-fi tale that was essentially Sam Rockwell acting alone or against himself. It was fresh, innovative, somber and overall heralded the arrival of a director to watch out for. After failing to secure funding for his next project, Jones quickly hopped onto the helm of this high-concept action/time travel blockbuster.
Naturally came the calls of Jones being a sell out, after all the...
- 3/20/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Back for its third year (see the 2010 edition) and bigger than ever, today kicks off the first in a fifteen-part look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2011. Each 'part' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of varying length covering twenty films. Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first major releases in mid-January.
Like all cinematic lists set within a timeframe, there's some overlap. Some films here have already opened worldwide but have yet to hit the U.S., some upcoming films you'd expect to be here aren't because they're either still in development or have already announced 2012 release dates, some were on last year's list but got delayed so have been included again (but with all new analysis).
I confined my list to films that have either set 2011 release dates or had begun/completed production, and only films that have...
Like all cinematic lists set within a timeframe, there's some overlap. Some films here have already opened worldwide but have yet to hit the U.S., some upcoming films you'd expect to be here aren't because they're either still in development or have already announced 2012 release dates, some were on last year's list but got delayed so have been included again (but with all new analysis).
I confined my list to films that have either set 2011 release dates or had begun/completed production, and only films that have...
- 12/13/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Back for its third year (see the 2010 edition) and bigger than ever, today kicks off the first in a fifteen-part look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2011. Each 'part' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of varying length covering twenty films. Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first major releases in mid-January.
Like all cinematic lists set within a timeframe, there's some overlap. Some films here have already opened worldwide but have yet to hit the U.S., some upcoming films you'd expect to be here aren't because they're either still in development or have already announced 2012 release dates, some were on last year's list but got delayed so have been included again (but with all new analysis).
I confined my list to films that have either set 2011 release dates or had begun/completed production, and only films that have...
Like all cinematic lists set within a timeframe, there's some overlap. Some films here have already opened worldwide but have yet to hit the U.S., some upcoming films you'd expect to be here aren't because they're either still in development or have already announced 2012 release dates, some were on last year's list but got delayed so have been included again (but with all new analysis).
I confined my list to films that have either set 2011 release dates or had begun/completed production, and only films that have...
- 12/13/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
While starting to gather up the best movie posters of the year and looking for anything I might have missed I came across these two canny posters for a documentary I had never heard of (even though it played for a week at the IFC Center in New York in August). Directed by Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, The Tracey Fragments), Music from the Big House follows singer Rita Chiarelli on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, which, according to this film, is the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary, better known as Angola Prison (a point of no return already memorably documented in Liz Garbus's devastating doc The Farm).
As little known as this film is (the film’s website has no information on upcoming screenings or DVD release) it is blessed with two superbly conceptual posters: one in which the strings of a guitar are transformed...
As little known as this film is (the film’s website has no information on upcoming screenings or DVD release) it is blessed with two superbly conceptual posters: one in which the strings of a guitar are transformed...
- 11/21/2010
- MUBI
The Jackal's exploits are soundtracked by Wire and New Order in an epic biopic of a dark-side James Bond who had 'pop star moments'
Apparently it's all the Guardian's fault. In 1975, shortly after the international terrorist now known as "Carlos" first gained notoriety by shooting two French detectives and an informer in Paris, Barry Woodhams, boyfriend of an ex-girlfriend of Carlos's, found a bag of weapons belonging to the trigger-happy terrorist in their London apartment. Not trusting the police, he called the Guardian, whose reporter Peter Niesewand came round to inspect, spied a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day Of The Jackal on a bookshelf, and concluded that Carlos had been reading it. The next day, in its front-page world scoop, the Guardian christened Carlos "The Jackal". The rest is history. Except the book didn't belong to Carlos at all; it belonged to Woodhams. Carlos The Jackal...
Apparently it's all the Guardian's fault. In 1975, shortly after the international terrorist now known as "Carlos" first gained notoriety by shooting two French detectives and an informer in Paris, Barry Woodhams, boyfriend of an ex-girlfriend of Carlos's, found a bag of weapons belonging to the trigger-happy terrorist in their London apartment. Not trusting the police, he called the Guardian, whose reporter Peter Niesewand came round to inspect, spied a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day Of The Jackal on a bookshelf, and concluded that Carlos had been reading it. The next day, in its front-page world scoop, the Guardian christened Carlos "The Jackal". The rest is history. Except the book didn't belong to Carlos at all; it belonged to Woodhams. Carlos The Jackal...
- 10/22/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Before descending into the mad horse race of Oscar season, we here at Little Gold Men needed one more indulgent weekend of art for art’s sake. So, we booked an entire quarter of our day to watch all 319 minutes of French auteur Olivier Assayas’s breathtaking international terrorist epic Carlos. Although any 5.5 hour endeavor takes a certain level of stamina, Assayas’s film, aided by Édgar Ramírez’s intoxicating performance as the Venezuelan terrorist, flew by like a hijacked DC-9—who knew 70s European leftist terrorism could be so fun? Unfortunately, you won’t be hearing about Carlos come Oscar time because its unusual release model precludes it from competition: the full epic has been showing on the Sundance Channel (an abridged version is available on demand), concurrent with a New York theatrical release, and screenings this weekend at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. For those who don’t know his work,...
- 10/19/2010
- Vanity Fair
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Olivier Assayas has made a fascinating career out of veering radically through some of the most opposite genres known to man - one day exploring web companies that deal in bizarre pornography (Demonlover), another conducting a character study of an ex-junkie (Clean). Mostly, however, Assayas seems to veer back and forth between two sorts of films that seemingly couldn't be further apart: sexy international espionage thrillers (Boarding Gate, the aforementioned Demonlover) and intimate studies of character and relationships (Late August, Early September and the sublime Summer Hours, his best film). As Summer Hours was Assayas' most recent effort, it only makes sense that he's back with yet another sexy international espionage thriller, and this time he's embracing the genre more than ever before (while at the same time, he subtly undermines it). Carlos, which is more of a trilogy than a single film,...
- 10/11/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Have you heard about Carlos yet? Having already garnered some attention at Cannes, it's now set to wow a few more here at the London Film Festival – and we've got an exclusive poster of it to wet your proverbial whistle with.And just so you know, it's a TV movie. Wait, don't go! It's much better than that makes it sound – it's actually a cinematically shot uber-movie, a 5-and-a-half hour, three part goliath from French director Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Clean) about the infamous international terrorist known as 'Carlos the Jackal'.And it's because his story is too big for just one movie (think Mesrine here) that it's been spread out this way.Alas, because of this, it's not going to be on general nationwide release anytime soon, but it's still worth keeping an eye open for, if only to see relative unknown, Edgar Ramirez, embodying such a huge ego,...
- 9/24/2010
- EmpireOnline
A very happy birthday to the incomparable and elusive Maggie Cheung who turns 46 today. We haven't seen her mysterious mojo onscreen in about six years -- since Clean and 2046 hit and she announced that unfortunate retirement -- but she did do a cameo earlier this year in the Chinese film Hot Summer Days (pictured left), an all star ensemble romance about a heatwave.
Here in this ancient clip from the Golden Horse Awards, you can see Maggie winning one of her four Golden Horse Best Actress awards for Comrades a Love Story (1996) aka Tian Mi Mi... good flick - rent it. And who is presenting this award but Sigourney Weaver herself! It's an Ang Lee connection since Sigweavie was doing The Ice Storm round about that time. They switch to English about a minute into the clip.
Leslie Cheung (Rip) is also in the clip. *sniffle*
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Here in this ancient clip from the Golden Horse Awards, you can see Maggie winning one of her four Golden Horse Best Actress awards for Comrades a Love Story (1996) aka Tian Mi Mi... good flick - rent it. And who is presenting this award but Sigourney Weaver herself! It's an Ang Lee connection since Sigweavie was doing The Ice Storm round about that time. They switch to English about a minute into the clip.
Leslie Cheung (Rip) is also in the clip. *sniffle*
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- 9/20/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
With his latest cinematic outing, the five hour long epic Carlos, making the festival rounds, director Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours) will be the subject of a new restrospective thanks to BAMcinematek in Brooklyn in October.
Entitled Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas, the complete retrospective will run from October 9, until October 29, and will star on Saturday, October 9, with his latest film, and Criterion release, Summer Hours.
Among films showing, Carlos will show on October 23 and 24, with a special screening of his film Demonlover, which will include a Q&A with the auteur following the screening.
As with most retrospectives, this will offer a fantastic, all encompassing view of one of today’s most gifted filmmakers, and one who doesn’t seem like he’ll be slowing down anytime soon. While I’m not massively familiar with his filmography, I have seen a few of his films, such as the aforementioned Summer Hours,...
Entitled Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas, the complete retrospective will run from October 9, until October 29, and will star on Saturday, October 9, with his latest film, and Criterion release, Summer Hours.
Among films showing, Carlos will show on October 23 and 24, with a special screening of his film Demonlover, which will include a Q&A with the auteur following the screening.
As with most retrospectives, this will offer a fantastic, all encompassing view of one of today’s most gifted filmmakers, and one who doesn’t seem like he’ll be slowing down anytime soon. While I’m not massively familiar with his filmography, I have seen a few of his films, such as the aforementioned Summer Hours,...
- 9/15/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Inside the Internet's first financial-news network -- a mashup of CNBC, the Bloomberg terminal, and the real-time Web.
There's an old saying on Wall Street: When you have something good, you're not going to share it. "But you can't develop good ideas without collaboration," counters Howard Lindzon, CEO and cofounder of StockTwits, referring to the traders who use his social stock-picking site. "From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., we're all in the trenches together." Lindzon's 17-person team has spent more than a year building the Web's most comprehensive -- and accessible -- virtual trading floor, letting users share ideas and data in real time without paying or registering (premium services deliver most of StockTwits' revenue). The site, which attracts 300,000-plus unique visitors a month, has expanded to include its own news feed, user-generated charts, and Web TV channel. Here's how it works.
1. Virtual Traders
Every day, the platform receives roughly 12,000 postings,...
There's an old saying on Wall Street: When you have something good, you're not going to share it. "But you can't develop good ideas without collaboration," counters Howard Lindzon, CEO and cofounder of StockTwits, referring to the traders who use his social stock-picking site. "From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., we're all in the trenches together." Lindzon's 17-person team has spent more than a year building the Web's most comprehensive -- and accessible -- virtual trading floor, letting users share ideas and data in real time without paying or registering (premium services deliver most of StockTwits' revenue). The site, which attracts 300,000-plus unique visitors a month, has expanded to include its own news feed, user-generated charts, and Web TV channel. Here's how it works.
1. Virtual Traders
Every day, the platform receives roughly 12,000 postings,...
- 6/9/2010
- by Dan Macsai
- Fast Company
Olivier Assayas‘ Carlos will screen at this year’s Festival de Cannes! But, this movie wasn’t on the initial list of named films, and is not included In Competition!
Instead, it will be screened Out of Competition, due to the fact it is reportedly set to play on French cable network Canal+ and the Cannes committee didn’t want what appears to be a “TV movie” screening In Competition.
Interesting story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the Opec headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
If you prefer the official Carlos synopsis part, than check this out: “His name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, but everybody calls him Carlos. For two decades, he was the most wanted terrorist on earth. Manipulated by Arab secret services, protected by the Eastern bloc, in various disguises and under many pseudonyms, he headed...
Instead, it will be screened Out of Competition, due to the fact it is reportedly set to play on French cable network Canal+ and the Cannes committee didn’t want what appears to be a “TV movie” screening In Competition.
Interesting story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the Opec headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
If you prefer the official Carlos synopsis part, than check this out: “His name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, but everybody calls him Carlos. For two decades, he was the most wanted terrorist on earth. Manipulated by Arab secret services, protected by the Eastern bloc, in various disguises and under many pseudonyms, he headed...
- 5/3/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Craig here, taking a look at a recent DVD release.
L'heure d'été. Or, more precisely, how about Summer Hours? A title that rolls delectably off the tongue, eh? Either way, it's a title that conjures up a certain, almost sensory, feeling. There's something nostalgic about it, as if it might recall a specific time in the distant past when warm days and lighter evenings were what you all lived for.
This week saw the Criterion DVD release of Olivier Assayas' beguiling 2008 film, and indeed several scenes, especially the very last one, come almost perfectly close to approximating that wistful, aerated feeling brought on as the remnants of summer fade away. Although, perhaps the title of another recent French film, Private Property, is also apt to describe the overriding themes of Assayas' film. Summer Hours is about the very things given, taken, held close or that may get passed down the family line: objects,...
L'heure d'été. Or, more precisely, how about Summer Hours? A title that rolls delectably off the tongue, eh? Either way, it's a title that conjures up a certain, almost sensory, feeling. There's something nostalgic about it, as if it might recall a specific time in the distant past when warm days and lighter evenings were what you all lived for.
This week saw the Criterion DVD release of Olivier Assayas' beguiling 2008 film, and indeed several scenes, especially the very last one, come almost perfectly close to approximating that wistful, aerated feeling brought on as the remnants of summer fade away. Although, perhaps the title of another recent French film, Private Property, is also apt to describe the overriding themes of Assayas' film. Summer Hours is about the very things given, taken, held close or that may get passed down the family line: objects,...
- 4/24/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
Edgar Ramirez (right) in Carlos
Photo: Canal+ via The Playlist The complete Cannes line-up is expected to be finalized over the coming days, and perhaps by the end of today, but a pair of films have just been added to the list including French film director Olivier Assayas's crime drama Carlos telling the story of Venezuelan revolutionary/terrorist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (a.ka. Carlos the Jackal) played by Edgar Ramirez (The Bourne Ultimatum and Che). The film was expected by most to be included In Competition considering Assayas is a three-time Golden Palm nominee with Clean (2004), Demonlover (2002) and Sentimental Destinies (2000). His last film, Summer Hours, comes out on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow.
Carlos wasn't on the initial list of named films, and is not included In Competition, but instead will be screened Out of Competition, due to the fact it is reportedly set to play on French cable...
Photo: Canal+ via The Playlist The complete Cannes line-up is expected to be finalized over the coming days, and perhaps by the end of today, but a pair of films have just been added to the list including French film director Olivier Assayas's crime drama Carlos telling the story of Venezuelan revolutionary/terrorist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (a.ka. Carlos the Jackal) played by Edgar Ramirez (The Bourne Ultimatum and Che). The film was expected by most to be included In Competition considering Assayas is a three-time Golden Palm nominee with Clean (2004), Demonlover (2002) and Sentimental Destinies (2000). His last film, Summer Hours, comes out on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow.
Carlos wasn't on the initial list of named films, and is not included In Competition, but instead will be screened Out of Competition, due to the fact it is reportedly set to play on French cable...
- 4/19/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Paris -- Olivier Assayas' "Carlos" about Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez will screen out of Competition at this year's Festival de Cannes, fest organizers confirmed Monday.
The film has been part of a film biz brouhaha in Gaul this week after not having been announced during festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux's official selection press conference last Thursday.
Co-produced and co-financed by Gallic pay TV group Canal Plus, "Carlos" is a made-for-tv miniseries that runs 5h30. Assayas has chopped his opus to a more festival-friendly 2h20 running time.
The film stars Edgar Ramirez as the Venezuelan revolutionary who was arrested by French police after leading a terrorist op that raided the Opec headquarters in 1975.
Assayas will be back in Cannes after screening three of his films In Competition there, namely "Les Destinees Sentimentales" in 2000, "Demonlover" in 2002 and "Clean" in 2004.
Also new to the shifting Cannes lineup is a special screening of "5 X Favela,...
The film has been part of a film biz brouhaha in Gaul this week after not having been announced during festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux's official selection press conference last Thursday.
Co-produced and co-financed by Gallic pay TV group Canal Plus, "Carlos" is a made-for-tv miniseries that runs 5h30. Assayas has chopped his opus to a more festival-friendly 2h20 running time.
The film stars Edgar Ramirez as the Venezuelan revolutionary who was arrested by French police after leading a terrorist op that raided the Opec headquarters in 1975.
Assayas will be back in Cannes after screening three of his films In Competition there, namely "Les Destinees Sentimentales" in 2000, "Demonlover" in 2002 and "Clean" in 2004.
Also new to the shifting Cannes lineup is a special screening of "5 X Favela,...
- 4/19/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I've decided to come up with not a "revised" list of predictions per se, but instead, an updated list of 20 films that I both expect to announced in two weeks from now and that I'm especially looking forward in covering for this site. - Last week, the IndieWIRE crew decided to put together a Croisette wish list comprised of 40 New Films to Hope For where they mention Ioncinema.com and point to several items that I listed in my Cannes predictions the week after Berlin: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. I've decided to come up with not a "revised" list of predictions per se, but instead, an updated list of 20 films that I both expect to announced in two weeks from now and that I'm especially looking forward in covering for this site...; e.g. the pic above (Antoine Blossier's Prey). Decade's Best: Apichatpong Weerasethakul...
- 4/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Halfway through the day freeze a movie halfway through. What do we see?
I haven't done a bang up job keeping track of Olivier Assayas career. Quelle dommage. I had loved two of three films of his that I'd seen. Clean, about the misadventures of a recovering addict rock star (Maggie Cheung) did little for me but the diamond hard Demonlover and the layered Irma Vep (also with Cheung) both thrilled me. After numerous reader pleas, and the not so minor matter of those Nyfcc and Lafca foreign film prizes, I finally got around to L'heure d'été / Summer Hours (2009). It's three for four now.
51 minutes into Summer Hours, pragmatism triumphs over sentiment.
Halfway through this rich film, the three heirs to a family fortune decide to sell all of their newly departed mother's estate. It's largely composed of furniture, art and real estate. Their decision may make absolute real-life sense but -- Metaphor Alert!
I haven't done a bang up job keeping track of Olivier Assayas career. Quelle dommage. I had loved two of three films of his that I'd seen. Clean, about the misadventures of a recovering addict rock star (Maggie Cheung) did little for me but the diamond hard Demonlover and the layered Irma Vep (also with Cheung) both thrilled me. After numerous reader pleas, and the not so minor matter of those Nyfcc and Lafca foreign film prizes, I finally got around to L'heure d'été / Summer Hours (2009). It's three for four now.
51 minutes into Summer Hours, pragmatism triumphs over sentiment.
Halfway through this rich film, the three heirs to a family fortune decide to sell all of their newly departed mother's estate. It's largely composed of furniture, art and real estate. Their decision may make absolute real-life sense but -- Metaphor Alert!
- 12/19/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Before the Palme D'Or is handed out, I've got two last bits from our buddy in Cannes but first (sigh) a big old frowny face in regards to the following nugget.
Maggie Cheung's scene in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds was cut before the Cannes opening and will not be restored even though Tarantino is returning to the editing room. Presumably he's tinkering for maximum audience playability. The cutting room floor is a regular habitat for actors with small roles but this time it really hurts: Maggie still works the red carpet, but never the silver screen. She retired from movies after Clean and 2046 five long years ago. Basterds was going to provide us with a rare chance to see one of the most bewitching living actresses on the big screen again. Damn!
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On to cheerier topics.
The generous take on Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock appears to be that it's a "minor" effort.
Maggie Cheung's scene in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds was cut before the Cannes opening and will not be restored even though Tarantino is returning to the editing room. Presumably he's tinkering for maximum audience playability. The cutting room floor is a regular habitat for actors with small roles but this time it really hurts: Maggie still works the red carpet, but never the silver screen. She retired from movies after Clean and 2046 five long years ago. Basterds was going to provide us with a rare chance to see one of the most bewitching living actresses on the big screen again. Damn!
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On to cheerier topics.
The generous take on Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock appears to be that it's a "minor" effort.
- 5/23/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A chamber piece resolutely devoid of flash and glitter, "Summer Hours" isn't a film one would have anticipated from the director of such disparate provocations as "Irma Vep," "Clean," Demonlover" and "Boarding Gate." Then again, Olivier Assayas' new release is subtly provocative in its own right. Its willingness to lay out ideas about art and life in the age of globalization makes it his biggest dare yet. What distinguishes this Assayas movie from the others is the manner with which it sustains an unspoiled blend of the intimately emotional with the unequivocally intellectual. The cumulative strengths of "Summer Hours" as a philosophic elegy and a generational saga are powerful enough to throw everything else Assayas has done in illuminated relief.
The movie's first summer dream is an idyllic one, with children playing on the grounds of an old country house whose widowed owner Hélène (Edith Scob) is celebrating her...
The movie's first summer dream is an idyllic one, with children playing on the grounds of an old country house whose widowed owner Hélène (Edith Scob) is celebrating her...
- 5/14/2009
- by Gene Seymour
- ifc.com
I'm currently overseas right now, but I prepared this earlier so y'all can be kept abreast of all the goings-on in my corner of the globe.
Cinema Releases for the Week 02/04/09
Inkheart - Brendan Fraser stars in this fantasy adventure movie. Or, I think that's what it is. Somehow Helen Mirren got herself involved with this. Somehow.
Monsters vs Aliens - I am hoping that Monsters vs Aliens becomes only the third Dreamworks Animation title that I actually like (after Antz and Over the Hedge - everything else is garbage). I think I will like it, but I've been proven wrong before plenty of times.
The Pink Panther 2 - Even Beyonce knew when to jump ship on this one. Just say no!
Summer Hours - The latest from Olivier Assayas (Clean, demonlover) stars Juliette Binoche. The only person I know to have seen it, Paul at MelbFilmBlog, really liked it.
Cinema Releases for the Week 02/04/09
Inkheart - Brendan Fraser stars in this fantasy adventure movie. Or, I think that's what it is. Somehow Helen Mirren got herself involved with this. Somehow.
Monsters vs Aliens - I am hoping that Monsters vs Aliens becomes only the third Dreamworks Animation title that I actually like (after Antz and Over the Hedge - everything else is garbage). I think I will like it, but I've been proven wrong before plenty of times.
The Pink Panther 2 - Even Beyonce knew when to jump ship on this one. Just say no!
Summer Hours - The latest from Olivier Assayas (Clean, demonlover) stars Juliette Binoche. The only person I know to have seen it, Paul at MelbFilmBlog, really liked it.
- 4/2/2009
- by Kamikaze Camel
- Stale Popcorn
Chicago – The final week of the 12th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center perfectly illustrates the main strength of this festival - amazing diversity. From what we had time to see of the final stretch of films, the four highlights couldn’t be more diverse, featuring movies from four different countries with four completely different tones and styles.
The highlights of the first three weeks of EU included a coming-of-age drama from Ireland (“Kisses”), a sexy romantic comedy from France (“The Girl From Monaco”), an amazing Danish drama (“Worlds Apart”), and a very interesting horror film from Belgium (“Left Bank”). Read more here, here, and here)
The final week takes us back to two of those countries - Belgium and France - and also features a fascinating Finnish shocker before closing with a gentle and sweet film from Sweden. Overall, it’s been a fantastic festival for...
The highlights of the first three weeks of EU included a coming-of-age drama from Ireland (“Kisses”), a sexy romantic comedy from France (“The Girl From Monaco”), an amazing Danish drama (“Worlds Apart”), and a very interesting horror film from Belgium (“Left Bank”). Read more here, here, and here)
The final week takes us back to two of those countries - Belgium and France - and also features a fascinating Finnish shocker before closing with a gentle and sweet film from Sweden. Overall, it’s been a fantastic festival for...
- 3/25/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This week's indie film feature is IFC Films' "Summer Hours" (a.k.a. L' Heure d'été). Renowned filmmaker Olivier Assayas ("Clean," "Paris je t'aime") directs the drama from his own writing the drama which stars Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valérie Bonneton and Kyle Eastwood. Produced by Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz and Nathanaël Karmitz, the film is due for release on May 8th this year. See the official site here. What's it about? The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle's exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), a successful New York designer, Frederic (Charles Berling), an economist and university professor in Paris, and Jeremie (Jeremie Renier), a dynamic businessman in China, confront the end of childhood, their shared memories, background and unique vision of the future.
- 2/16/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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