Festivals
American narrative feature projects in rough or final cut seeking finishing funds are now invited to submit to the 2022 edition of U.S. in Progress, which takes place Nov. 9-11 during the 13th American Film Festival (Nov.8-13) in Wroclaw, Poland. The strand pairs American projects in final production stages with European buyers and top Polish image and sound post-production companies and provides awards worth totally $100,000. The head of the Polish Film Institute, Radosław Śmigulski, will award one project with a $50,000 cash award to be spent on post-production, image, sound and/or VFX in Poland and Polish post-production companies Fixafilm, Orka Studio, Black Photon, Xanf and Soundflower Studio are each offering a $10,000 in-kind award.
There is no entry fee, and films can be submitted through the U.S. in Progress website. The final deadline is September 11.
The program’s objective is to inspire U.S. producers to work with Poland,...
American narrative feature projects in rough or final cut seeking finishing funds are now invited to submit to the 2022 edition of U.S. in Progress, which takes place Nov. 9-11 during the 13th American Film Festival (Nov.8-13) in Wroclaw, Poland. The strand pairs American projects in final production stages with European buyers and top Polish image and sound post-production companies and provides awards worth totally $100,000. The head of the Polish Film Institute, Radosław Śmigulski, will award one project with a $50,000 cash award to be spent on post-production, image, sound and/or VFX in Poland and Polish post-production companies Fixafilm, Orka Studio, Black Photon, Xanf and Soundflower Studio are each offering a $10,000 in-kind award.
There is no entry fee, and films can be submitted through the U.S. in Progress website. The final deadline is September 11.
The program’s objective is to inspire U.S. producers to work with Poland,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Kool Shen as Vilko and Isabelle Huppert as Maud: 'He is a swindler but not violent.' When I met Catherine Breillat for breakfast the morning after her New York Film Festival Us premiere of Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De Faiblesse) at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Nougatine on Central Park West, it had been a dozen years since we last spoke. This time we discussed how to twist Isabelle Huppert's arms, Bad Love in a lighthouse with Naomi Campbell, colours, numbers, and clocks.
Maud (Isabelle Huppert) sees a man being interviewed in a talk show on TV and can't take her eyes off him. She wants to cast this man, Vilko Piran (Kool Shen), in her next film. With Abuse Of Weakness, Breillat follows up brilliantly on the fairy tale promises of her previous two films after her stroke, The Sleeping Beauty (La Belle Endormie, 2010) and Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue, 2009). A sleeping beauty,...
Maud (Isabelle Huppert) sees a man being interviewed in a talk show on TV and can't take her eyes off him. She wants to cast this man, Vilko Piran (Kool Shen), in her next film. With Abuse Of Weakness, Breillat follows up brilliantly on the fairy tale promises of her previous two films after her stroke, The Sleeping Beauty (La Belle Endormie, 2010) and Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue, 2009). A sleeping beauty,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sparkle
Directed by: Salim Akil
Cast: Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Whitney Houston
Running Time: 1 hr 56 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Plot: A girl group forms in Detroit in the ’60s. They hope to be a Motown hit, but the chance of fame tests the family.
Who’S It For? People who want some melo with their drama. Sure, the Motown music has its moments, but you’d be better served to open up your vinyl collection and stay home.
Overall
They called it Sparkle because they were worried there wasn’t enough shine on this film. I’m sure of it. It oddly goes beyond that, as what looks like a family film, something that might be safe and sweet gives way to rapid-fire chaos. The melodrama that spews in the middle hour of this film isn’t tender, sweet, or poignant. It’s just...
Directed by: Salim Akil
Cast: Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Whitney Houston
Running Time: 1 hr 56 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Plot: A girl group forms in Detroit in the ’60s. They hope to be a Motown hit, but the chance of fame tests the family.
Who’S It For? People who want some melo with their drama. Sure, the Motown music has its moments, but you’d be better served to open up your vinyl collection and stay home.
Overall
They called it Sparkle because they were worried there wasn’t enough shine on this film. I’m sure of it. It oddly goes beyond that, as what looks like a family film, something that might be safe and sweet gives way to rapid-fire chaos. The melodrama that spews in the middle hour of this film isn’t tender, sweet, or poignant. It’s just...
- 8/17/2012
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Like many other great directors, Catherine Breillat returns repeatedly to the same themes and subject matter. But her followers know that she likes to throw curveballs, and her latest, The Sleeping Beauty (La belle endormie), is one of her biggest surprises. Breillat plans a trilogy of fairy tales, and the film that started the series, 2009's Blue Beard (Barbe Bleue), stuck reasonably close to genre, providing a good opportunity to assess her filmmaking personality against the backdrop of a traditional story. I expected the same of The Sleeping Beauty, but the game has changed radically. This time, Breillat is not content to refract the fairy tale through the prism of her temperament: instead, she uses the pretext of children's storytelling as camouflage to enable one of her most daring leaps into abstraction.
In retrospect, the first clue that Breillat is after bigger game is that, whereas Blue Beard maintains a...
In retrospect, the first clue that Breillat is after bigger game is that, whereas Blue Beard maintains a...
- 7/18/2011
- MUBI
Make this 2 for 2 for French author Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) and Catherine Breillat. The controversial French filmmaker is presenting La Belle endormie (Sleeping Beauty) in Venice Film Festival this year and is tipped for Tiff directly after. She mentions that “unlike Barbe Bleue, I would like to consider this fairytale not as a story that two girls tell each other, but as the story of a girl being born (she does not yet know into what world), and creates her own little girl’s world. Childhood is a long and ruthless limbo that precedes adolescence – even if that is precisely when the fairytale beginning of the story is set. Hence the girl grows little by little and becomes an adolescent, who naively believes that she knows everything about life. But life is not a fairytale, and love during adolescence is like early motherhood, which leads to a different life reality. It “brings...
- 8/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Catherine Breillat sets aside her characteristic dans ton visage eroticism, but clings to her usual feminism to retell with crisp dispatch Perrault's blood-curdling, much-analysed fairy tale of how a medieval virgin did for the serial uxoricide, Barbe Bleue. Breillat's tactic is to have the story read in a cosy attic in a modern French chateau by an eight-year-old girl (by implication Breillat herself) to her slightly older sister as a way of terrifying her. An interesting conceit, a clever film but somewhat perfunctory and altogether less interesting than, for instance, Neil Jordan and Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves.
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- 7/17/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, it appears as though the Tiff Cinematheque is set to pull out all the stops.
According to Criterion, the Tiff, formerly known as the Cinematheque Ontario, will be bringing out a rather superb and cartoonishly awesome summer schedule, that will include films ranging from Kurosawa pieces, to films from Pier Paolo Pasolini. Other films include a month long series dedicated to James Mason, Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, a tribute to Robin Wood, and most interesting, a retrospective on the works of one Catherine Breillat.
Personally, while the Kurosawa, Pasolini, and Rohmer collections sound amazing, the Breillat series is ultimately the collective that I am most interested in. Ranging from films like the brilliant Fat Girl, to the superb and underrated Anatomy of Hell, these are some of the most interesting and under seen pieces of cinema of recent memory, and are more than...
According to Criterion, the Tiff, formerly known as the Cinematheque Ontario, will be bringing out a rather superb and cartoonishly awesome summer schedule, that will include films ranging from Kurosawa pieces, to films from Pier Paolo Pasolini. Other films include a month long series dedicated to James Mason, Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, a tribute to Robin Wood, and most interesting, a retrospective on the works of one Catherine Breillat.
Personally, while the Kurosawa, Pasolini, and Rohmer collections sound amazing, the Breillat series is ultimately the collective that I am most interested in. Ranging from films like the brilliant Fat Girl, to the superb and underrated Anatomy of Hell, these are some of the most interesting and under seen pieces of cinema of recent memory, and are more than...
- 5/26/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Catherine Breillat’s films bring with them an unshakeable sense of dread, a ticking timebomb sensation that erupts in quiet devastation—hold the wide-scale destruction. The French button-pusher, operating with over 30 years of filmmaking experience, seems to relish in punishing a viewer’s comfort level. The most scathing example is her 2001 shocker Fat Girl, a meditative study of an insecure teenager’s grappling with sensuality that takes a hard, visceral left-turn in its final section. Breillat’s latest picture, Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue), doesn’t hit with as strong a late-game blow as Fat Girl, but it certainly earns intelligent discussion once the credits roll. Breillat, who also wrote the script, turns her lifelong fascination with Charles Perrault’s same-named fairy tale into a nightmare fable remix. While not as universally known as other entries into the 17th century author’s oeuvre, including “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty,” “Bluebeard” is coated in malice,...
- 4/9/2010
- ReelLoop.com
There's an interesting battle shaping up at the box office this weekend as Alice in Wonderland faces a serious threat from the DreamWorks animated film How to Train Your Dragon, a movie being hailed as the next film to truly use 3-D in unique ways and currently sitting at a staggering 95% on Rotten Tomatoes [1]. Meanwhile, Hot Tub Time Machine has been building some good buzz from a number of early advance screenings and is hoping to be a surprise hit as well. In limited release, we also have the Disney documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, Atom Egoyan's Chloe, and the crime flick Ca$h starring Sean Bean and Chris Hemsworth. Will you be checking out any new movies this weekend? How to Train Your Dragon [2] Hot Tub Time Machine [3] Chloe [4] (limited) Ca$h [5] (limited) Waking Sleeping Beauty [6] (limited) Dancing Across Borders [7] (limited) The Eclipse [8] (limited) Godspeed [9] (limited) Bluebeard [10] (limited) [1] http://www.
- 3/26/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Quickcard Review
Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue)
Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Dominique Thomas
Running Time: 1 hr 20 min
Rating: unrated
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Plot: Two little girls read the horrifying fairytale “Bluebeard” while hidden away in an attic, framing the story that’s being lived by two sisters in 18th century France.
Who’S It For? Do you like seeing fairytales re-imagined, like the films In the Company of Wolves and Freeway? Then this should be right up your alley.
Overall
Breillat’s 1999 film Romance traumatized me in a good way; I loved it, but it was a horrible spectacle to sit through. If I had this as a DVD from Netflix it would have taken me forever to watch it, but as I had to write a review I didn’t have the same luxury of procrastination. Turns out I didn’t need...
Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue)
Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Dominique Thomas
Running Time: 1 hr 20 min
Rating: unrated
Complete Coverage – 33rd Portland International Film Festival
Plot: Two little girls read the horrifying fairytale “Bluebeard” while hidden away in an attic, framing the story that’s being lived by two sisters in 18th century France.
Who’S It For? Do you like seeing fairytales re-imagined, like the films In the Company of Wolves and Freeway? Then this should be right up your alley.
Overall
Breillat’s 1999 film Romance traumatized me in a good way; I loved it, but it was a horrible spectacle to sit through. If I had this as a DVD from Netflix it would have taken me forever to watch it, but as I had to write a review I didn’t have the same luxury of procrastination. Turns out I didn’t need...
- 2/12/2010
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
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