Erin Patterson has been charged with five counts of murder after her beef Wellington killed three people.
Patterson, 49, cooked lunch for her estranged husband’s parents, Gail and Don, and his aunt and uncle, Heather and Ian, on July 29. Heather, Gail and Don all died days later, and Ian spent almost two months in the hospital before making a full recovery.
The mom-of-two from Australia was taken into custody on Thursday and appeared in court on Friday. Investigators believe that the group ate death cap mushrooms, which are responsible for 90% of mushroom poisoning deaths.
Patterson has insisted that she did not intentionally poison her in-laws and said that she also fell ill after the meal.
“Over the last three months, this investigation has been subjected to incredibly intense levels of public scrutiny and curiosity,” said Detective Dean Thomas in a statement. “I cannot think of another investigation that has generated...
Patterson, 49, cooked lunch for her estranged husband’s parents, Gail and Don, and his aunt and uncle, Heather and Ian, on July 29. Heather, Gail and Don all died days later, and Ian spent almost two months in the hospital before making a full recovery.
The mom-of-two from Australia was taken into custody on Thursday and appeared in court on Friday. Investigators believe that the group ate death cap mushrooms, which are responsible for 90% of mushroom poisoning deaths.
Patterson has insisted that she did not intentionally poison her in-laws and said that she also fell ill after the meal.
“Over the last three months, this investigation has been subjected to incredibly intense levels of public scrutiny and curiosity,” said Detective Dean Thomas in a statement. “I cannot think of another investigation that has generated...
- 11/24/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
Exclusive: Company will aim to attract international productions to Sri Lanka.
Cannes Camera d’Or winner Vimukthi Jayasundara [pictured] and his fellow Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage are among the co-founders of a new production and distribution company, Film Island, which aims to bring international productions to Sri Lanka.
Vithanage and Jayasundara are working with a team of producers and strategic business partners to promote Sri Lanka as a shooting destination and offer production services for international shoots.
“As filmmakers ourselves we can answer any questions that filmmakers coming from Paris to Beijing might have about shooting in the country,” said Jayasundara, who won the Camera d’Or in 2005 for The Forsaken Land and returned to Cannes in 2011 with Mushrooms.
The new outfit has already signed four MOUs with overseas partners, including France’s Les Films de l’Etranger, which will represent Film Island in the global market.
Film Island has also signed two agreements with India’s Drishyam...
Cannes Camera d’Or winner Vimukthi Jayasundara [pictured] and his fellow Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage are among the co-founders of a new production and distribution company, Film Island, which aims to bring international productions to Sri Lanka.
Vithanage and Jayasundara are working with a team of producers and strategic business partners to promote Sri Lanka as a shooting destination and offer production services for international shoots.
“As filmmakers ourselves we can answer any questions that filmmakers coming from Paris to Beijing might have about shooting in the country,” said Jayasundara, who won the Camera d’Or in 2005 for The Forsaken Land and returned to Cannes in 2011 with Mushrooms.
The new outfit has already signed four MOUs with overseas partners, including France’s Les Films de l’Etranger, which will represent Film Island in the global market.
Film Island has also signed two agreements with India’s Drishyam...
- 5/15/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Newsroom (Real and Algerian): Malek Bensmail’s Checks and BalancesOn the eve of the general election for President of the Algerian Republic in 2014, Algerian filmmaker Malek Bensmail set off to Algiers to document the campaign that will eventually lead to the 4th mandate of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. As he did in 2004 for his Le grand jeu, Bensmail uses documentary cinema to examine the struggle of his country to conquer real democracy, come out of an infernal cycle of political crisis and civil conflicts, and to break with the "old ways" (structured by corruption, confiscation of power by a caste and the lack of a modern project).In 2004, Bouteflika campaigned for his second mandate and Bensmail was in the "war room," examining the mechanisms of control and corruption under the mask of a civilian regime. This time, the campaign is seen from the offices of the most important and respected independent French-speaking daily,...
- 8/16/2015
- by Marie-Pierre Duhamel
- MUBI
Although it has existed for more than six decades now, the film industry in Sri Lanka is still struggling to find its footing. A particularly poor last decade has thrown Sri Lankan cinema on a downward spiral except for a few films that made their presence felt at international film festivals. Theatres recorded 5.5 million admissions in 2010 against 17 million in 2001.
Even though the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009, with only 168 theatres left in the country, the film industry is far from recovery.
Reasons behind this downfall range from government apathy to the absence of an organized film industry in the country. The National Film Corporation, which was instrumental in bringing about a boom in local cinema during the 70s by handing out no-interest loans to filmmakers, completely stopped funding films by 2010.
Even though the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009, with only 168 theatres left in the country, the film industry...
Even though the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009, with only 168 theatres left in the country, the film industry is far from recovery.
Reasons behind this downfall range from government apathy to the absence of an organized film industry in the country. The National Film Corporation, which was instrumental in bringing about a boom in local cinema during the 70s by handing out no-interest loans to filmmakers, completely stopped funding films by 2010.
Even though the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009, with only 168 theatres left in the country, the film industry...
- 6/16/2014
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Is Somebody Looking For His Stuffed Toy Octopus? Does Anybody Know A Man Missing A Plushy Darling?
We found this poor creature in the men's room of Rotterdam's Cinerama right after a screening of some serious Brazilian smut-fest, Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986). It was lying around there looking lost. There was nobody else at the pissoirs. The stalls proved empty. Someone was obviously so lost in his own sweet or sour self that he forgot his stuffed toy octopus! What could he have been thinking about for this to happen?
Could he have contemplated the programmers' collective nastiness which made them select a film in which, as we were told, a donkey gets slaughtered en detail and for an extended period of running time? And no, we won't mention the title here knowing only too well that this might encourage some sickos to search out this...this.
We found this poor creature in the men's room of Rotterdam's Cinerama right after a screening of some serious Brazilian smut-fest, Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986). It was lying around there looking lost. There was nobody else at the pissoirs. The stalls proved empty. Someone was obviously so lost in his own sweet or sour self that he forgot his stuffed toy octopus! What could he have been thinking about for this to happen?
Could he have contemplated the programmers' collective nastiness which made them select a film in which, as we were told, a donkey gets slaughtered en detail and for an extended period of running time? And no, we won't mention the title here knowing only too well that this might encourage some sickos to search out this...this.
- 8/27/2012
- MUBI
Anurag Kashyap
After Vasan Bala’s Peddlers at Cannes Critics Week comes another good news for Indian cinema. Anurag Kashyap’s latest directorial venture Gangs of Wasseypur will screen at Directors’ Fortnight at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Gangs of Wasseypur, a gangster revenge drama features Jaideep Ahlawat, Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Richa Chadda.
Directors Fortnight is a non-competitive section at the Cannes Film Festival. Since its inception, it has showcased the first films of Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach among others.
Indo-France co-production Chhatrak(Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara was part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight last year.
After Vasan Bala’s Peddlers at Cannes Critics Week comes another good news for Indian cinema. Anurag Kashyap’s latest directorial venture Gangs of Wasseypur will screen at Directors’ Fortnight at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Gangs of Wasseypur, a gangster revenge drama features Jaideep Ahlawat, Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Richa Chadda.
Directors Fortnight is a non-competitive section at the Cannes Film Festival. Since its inception, it has showcased the first films of Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach among others.
Indo-France co-production Chhatrak(Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara was part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight last year.
- 4/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai, April 20: She is as bold as one can get. But Paoli Dam, who did a full frontal nudity scene in Bengali movie "Chatrak" last year, says boldness is all in the head.
"What is bold for you may not be bold for me. Boldness is a state of mind," Paoli, now the lead actress of Bollywood film "Hate Story", said to be topped with dollops of sex and violence, told Ians in an interview.
No wonder she picks roles that most other actresses would think about twice before giving the nod to.
"As an actor I am choosy about the script and the projects that I do. But.
"What is bold for you may not be bold for me. Boldness is a state of mind," Paoli, now the lead actress of Bollywood film "Hate Story", said to be topped with dollops of sex and violence, told Ians in an interview.
No wonder she picks roles that most other actresses would think about twice before giving the nod to.
"As an actor I am choosy about the script and the projects that I do. But.
- 4/20/2012
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Kolkata: Paoli Dam, Bengali actress, who has recently taken her first steps in the Bollywood industry, is one brave and reckless personality.
The film makers of the Hindi movie ‘Hate Story’ directed by Vikram Bhatt recently released a poster showing a half- nude girl posing with her back turned towards the camera. The poster was shrouded in mystery for some time. It was not revealed who the mystery girl was; it is only now that the news is out that the girl is none other than Paoli.
When asked about posing in the buff, Paoli says that she has no qualms about shedding her clothes in front of the camera. She says that she has no inhibitions whatsoever and will always do justice to her characters even if it requires her to bare it all.
In fact, it was a Bengali movie named ‘Chatrak’ (in which.
The film makers of the Hindi movie ‘Hate Story’ directed by Vikram Bhatt recently released a poster showing a half- nude girl posing with her back turned towards the camera. The poster was shrouded in mystery for some time. It was not revealed who the mystery girl was; it is only now that the news is out that the girl is none other than Paoli.
When asked about posing in the buff, Paoli says that she has no qualms about shedding her clothes in front of the camera. She says that she has no inhibitions whatsoever and will always do justice to her characters even if it requires her to bare it all.
In fact, it was a Bengali movie named ‘Chatrak’ (in which.
- 4/12/2012
- by Rahul Kapoor
- GoBollywood
Vikram Bhatt's hottest new find Paoli Dam has taken Bollywood by storm with her bold and raunchy acts in upcoming film Hate Story. But before stepping in Bollywood, the dusky bong beauty did her stint in Bengali cinema. Though she made her debut with Bengali film Agnipariksha in 2006. However she came into prominence with her 2009 Bengali film - Kaalbela, directed by notable Director Gautam Ghose. She hit the headlines with her dare bare act in 2011 Bengali film Chatrak.
- 3/28/2012
- GlamSham
New Delhi, March 6: The mystery around the girl in the poster of Vikram Bhatt's production "Hate Story" has been solved. She is Bengali actress Paoli Dam, who created a stir with a nude scene in a movie last year.
She stirred up a buzz with the poster of "Hate Story", showing a tattooed bare back and a gun placed strategically to titillate the viewers.
Paoli, who received flak for her bold scene in Bengali film "Chatrak" in 2011, is making her foray into Bollywood with "Hate Story".
Directed by Vivek Agnihotri, the movie, which also features Nikhil Dwivedi and Gulshan Devaiah, is based on a woman's vengeance and.
She stirred up a buzz with the poster of "Hate Story", showing a tattooed bare back and a gun placed strategically to titillate the viewers.
Paoli, who received flak for her bold scene in Bengali film "Chatrak" in 2011, is making her foray into Bollywood with "Hate Story".
Directed by Vivek Agnihotri, the movie, which also features Nikhil Dwivedi and Gulshan Devaiah, is based on a woman's vengeance and.
- 3/6/2012
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
New Delhi, Feb 22: A mystery girl with her bare back visible and a titillating setting of a gun and a tattoo -- the poster of Vikram Bhatt's "Hate Story" is bold and daring.
The identity of the girl is so far being kept under wraps.
The movie, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, features Nikhil Dwivedi, Paoli Dam and Gulshan Devaiya.
Bengali actress Paoli is known to have done one of the boldest scenes in Bengali cinema in "Chatrak". But it is not clear whether the girl in the picture is Paoli or not.
However, if one goes by the first look of "Hate Story" alone, the audiences can hope for a steamy affair by Bhatt this time.
Ians...
The identity of the girl is so far being kept under wraps.
The movie, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, features Nikhil Dwivedi, Paoli Dam and Gulshan Devaiya.
Bengali actress Paoli is known to have done one of the boldest scenes in Bengali cinema in "Chatrak". But it is not clear whether the girl in the picture is Paoli or not.
However, if one goes by the first look of "Hate Story" alone, the audiences can hope for a steamy affair by Bhatt this time.
Ians...
- 2/22/2012
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
I would not have guessed I would gain easy access to good seats for a Gus van Sant film. Turned out the seats were much better then the film. Sentimental stuff about a girl with three months to live and her boyfriend who has an imaginary friend and a fascination for gate-crashing memorial services. A few scenes worked, most others were trite. Just how many retreads of Love Story can you take? Made me Restless.
Robert Guediguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro was so much talked about, it became the natural choice for the second film. For the first 20 minutes it was the story of an ageing plant worker who is retrenched and looks to spending a quiet life with family and friends. But then the tale takes an unexpected turn which changes your perception about the film. I felt the film could have been much better with a brisker ending.
Robert Guediguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro was so much talked about, it became the natural choice for the second film. For the first 20 minutes it was the story of an ageing plant worker who is retrenched and looks to spending a quiet life with family and friends. But then the tale takes an unexpected turn which changes your perception about the film. I felt the film could have been much better with a brisker ending.
- 10/22/2011
- by Devang Ghia
- DearCinema.com
On the last day of the Mumbai Film Festival, I spotted Salim Ahamed, the director of Adaminte Makan Abu standing in a corner all by himself and the temptation to go chat with him (after having seen and praised the film here) was too much to resist. Aware of the problems language may pose, I walked upto him and was surprised when he agreed to spare some time. We were limited by his knowledge of Malayalam only and my lack of it, which prevented this from being a full-fledged interview. Nevertheless, here we go:
Salim Ahamed got the seed of the idea of the film while working in a travel
Salim Ahamed receiving the national award
agency ten years back. He had known right from his college days that he wanted to make films, but kept on working in sundry places after leaving college. He already has a bank of...
Salim Ahamed got the seed of the idea of the film while working in a travel
Salim Ahamed receiving the national award
agency ten years back. He had known right from his college days that he wanted to make films, but kept on working in sundry places after leaving college. He already has a bank of...
- 10/21/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
French auteur Jean Luc Godard once quipped, “Cinema doesn’t query the beauty of the woman, it only doubts her heart”. Can we replace ‘Cinema’ with ‘Society’ here? Molly Haskell argued in her ground-breaking From Reverence to Rape: The treatment of women in the Movies (1974)–”Film reflects the ideological and social construction of women who are either revered as the virgin or reviled (as the whore).”
From time immemorial, the patriarchal society marks the meaning and the importance of the female in her association with the male. This lack of identification has been central in the prevalent phallo-centric society which perceives ‘male’ as physically and symbolically dominant over ‘female’. So it never comes as a surprise that a woman who is beautiful, confident and desiring will be trampled aside by an unprepared society.
The entire preamble is with respect to a small video clip which was on youtube for sometime,...
From time immemorial, the patriarchal society marks the meaning and the importance of the female in her association with the male. This lack of identification has been central in the prevalent phallo-centric society which perceives ‘male’ as physically and symbolically dominant over ‘female’. So it never comes as a surprise that a woman who is beautiful, confident and desiring will be trampled aside by an unprepared society.
The entire preamble is with respect to a small video clip which was on youtube for sometime,...
- 9/26/2011
- by Amitava Nag
- DearCinema.com
Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now?, a Lebanese drama about the lengths a group of women will go to in order protect their village won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award, the top award at the festival.
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its audience award winners on Sunday.
The award for best documentary went to Jon Shenk’s The Island President while The Raid directed by Gareth Huw Evans won the Midnight Madness Award. Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar won the City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian feature.
The three Indian films that were presented at the festival are Ribhu Dasgupta’s Michael, Suseendran’s Azhagarsamy’s Horse and Vimukthi Jayasundara’s Chatrak (Mushrooms). Pankaj Kapoor’s Mausam could not be screened at the festival due to regulatory delays.
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its audience award winners on Sunday.
The award for best documentary went to Jon Shenk’s The Island President while The Raid directed by Gareth Huw Evans won the Midnight Madness Award. Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar won the City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian feature.
The three Indian films that were presented at the festival are Ribhu Dasgupta’s Michael, Suseendran’s Azhagarsamy’s Horse and Vimukthi Jayasundara’s Chatrak (Mushrooms). Pankaj Kapoor’s Mausam could not be screened at the festival due to regulatory delays.
- 9/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Toronto International Film Festival, running from September 9 through 18, has released some of its most anticipated lineups today: Wavelengths, Visions, Contemporary World Cinema, Future Projections, Galas and Special Presentations. We're taking them one at a time, first posting them program by program with descriptions provided by the festival — and then returning over the coming hours and days to add links and further notes. First up: Visions.
Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr's Fable of the Fish. A couple, Lina and Miguel, move into a dumpsite in Catmon, Malabon. As they adjust to their new abode and surroundings, Lina's longing to have a child intensifies. One day, Lina learns that she is pregnant. She gives birth in the middle of a storm, and those who witness the birth are shocked – her son is a fish. While Miguel cannot accept it, Lina embraces what has happened and treats the fish as her son. What...
Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr's Fable of the Fish. A couple, Lina and Miguel, move into a dumpsite in Catmon, Malabon. As they adjust to their new abode and surroundings, Lina's longing to have a child intensifies. One day, Lina learns that she is pregnant. She gives birth in the middle of a storm, and those who witness the birth are shocked – her son is a fish. While Miguel cannot accept it, Lina embraces what has happened and treats the fish as her son. What...
- 8/16/2011
- MUBI
Alright now here is the program everyone should be keeping a close eye on. Yorgos Lanthimos, Bertrand Bonello, Shinya Tsukamoto and Toshiaki Toyoda all have films lined up for the Toronto International Film Festival this year. The fest has announced the complete lineup for Visions programme and it is pretty awesome. We also recently posted the complete line-up for the gala, special presentations and the World Cinema programs as well. Here is the press release:
Toronto – The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® announces a strong line-up of 18 films in this year’s Visions programme. Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who challenge audiences’ notions of mainstream cinema.
Alps Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France (North American Premiere)
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and her coach have formed a secret, illegal company. The service they provide is to act as stand-ins for the recently deceased,...
Toronto – The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® announces a strong line-up of 18 films in this year’s Visions programme. Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who challenge audiences’ notions of mainstream cinema.
Alps Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France (North American Premiere)
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and her coach have formed a secret, illegal company. The service they provide is to act as stand-ins for the recently deceased,...
- 8/16/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Veteran actor Pankaj Kapur’s directorial debut Mausam (Seasons of Love) is one among the four films that will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival 2011. The other three films are Ribhu Dasgupta’s Michael, Suseendran’s Azhagarsamy’s Horse and Vimukthi Jayasundara’s Chatrak (Mushrooms). The festival announced its international line-up today.
Pankaj Kapur’s Mausam is a love story between a proud Punjabi Air Force Officer and an innocent Kashmiri refugee, starring Shahid Kapur, Sonam Kapoor and Anupam Kher.
Debutant director Ribhu Dasgupta has teamed up with producer Anurag Kashyap and veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah for the psychological drama around an ex-cop called Michael.
Suseendran’s Azhagarsamy’s Horse is described on the official website of the festival as “In a small Tamil village, a ceremonial wooden-horse statue goes missing. With a crucial holy symbol suddenly gone, the village falls into recriminations and comic chaos. At the same time,...
Pankaj Kapur’s Mausam is a love story between a proud Punjabi Air Force Officer and an innocent Kashmiri refugee, starring Shahid Kapur, Sonam Kapoor and Anupam Kher.
Debutant director Ribhu Dasgupta has teamed up with producer Anurag Kashyap and veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah for the psychological drama around an ex-cop called Michael.
Suseendran’s Azhagarsamy’s Horse is described on the official website of the festival as “In a small Tamil village, a ceremonial wooden-horse statue goes missing. With a crucial holy symbol suddenly gone, the village falls into recriminations and comic chaos. At the same time,...
- 8/16/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
After three separate announcements (here, here and here), the Toronto International Film Festival has announced the final line-up for their Galas and Special Presentations, as well as a few other categories. Most notable is Andrea Arnold‘s Fish Tank follow-up Wuthering Heights, the next film from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo, as well as Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps.
We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.
We also get Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini. In what should be a little fun we have Gary McKendry‘s Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham. We also get Owen’s horror flick Intruders and Joel Schumacher‘s Trespass starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. Check out the full line-ups below.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Page Eight David Hare, United Kingdom
International Premiere
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving M15 officer.
- 8/16/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The fourth and much delayed part of a video interview series from Cannes by myself and Daniel Kasman. We sat down with Vimukthi Jayasundara, director of Chatrak (Mushrooms) in Directors' Fortnight, on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The delay was due, at least in part, to the atrocious sound recording conditions in which the inteview took place. We hope the video gives some sense of the filmmaker's charming character; we've included a transcript of the video interview below. For the Notebook's coverage on the film, see Marie-Pierre Duhamel's snapshot from Cannes.
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The Notebook: How did making your first feature in another country come about?
Vimukthi Jayasundara: …it's quite crazy, you know. Normally, you know, when you do an art house movie you have to write something, a synopsis, and then you're in the process of a screenplay and then you pitch that—you know, you have to get a producer—it's very complicated.
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The Notebook: How did making your first feature in another country come about?
Vimukthi Jayasundara: …it's quite crazy, you know. Normally, you know, when you do an art house movie you have to write something, a synopsis, and then you're in the process of a screenplay and then you pitch that—you know, you have to get a producer—it's very complicated.
- 7/3/2011
- MUBI
To follow up on yesterday's roundup of Un Certain Regard remainders...
"The Tati-inspired dance trio of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are at it again, crafting an awfully similar follow-up to their previous feature, Rumba." Blake Williams for Ioncinema: "The Fairy is light on magic and the supernatural, but flutters breezily along with joke-a-minute fluff…. As in their other films, the 'plot' — this one involving a wish-granting fairy — is only really a conceit by which to give the illusion of continuity to what is essentially a string of short films." Screen's Fionnuala Halligan's enjoyed it, though: "Theirs is an old-fashioned, almost silent, routine (their first feature L'Iceberg was virtually wordless) blended beautifully with an arresting dance element." In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer notes that "Tati's hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork by regulars Nicholas Girault and Claire Childeric."
"The Silver Cliff was...
"The Tati-inspired dance trio of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are at it again, crafting an awfully similar follow-up to their previous feature, Rumba." Blake Williams for Ioncinema: "The Fairy is light on magic and the supernatural, but flutters breezily along with joke-a-minute fluff…. As in their other films, the 'plot' — this one involving a wish-granting fairy — is only really a conceit by which to give the illusion of continuity to what is essentially a string of short films." Screen's Fionnuala Halligan's enjoyed it, though: "Theirs is an old-fashioned, almost silent, routine (their first feature L'Iceberg was virtually wordless) blended beautifully with an arresting dance element." In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer notes that "Tati's hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork by regulars Nicholas Girault and Claire Childeric."
"The Silver Cliff was...
- 6/1/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 5/28.
The titles below will take you to the roundups, that is, the coverage of the coverage of each film screening in the 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Click the names after the titles for our own reviews, whether they be quick takes or longer considerations. And finally, pointers to assessments of this year's edition, made both before and after the awards are announced, will collect at the bottom of this page.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In.
Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance. Daniel Kasman.
Alain Cavalier's Pater.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike. Daniel Kasman.
Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist.
Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre. Daniel Kasman.
Naomi Kawase's Hanezu.
Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty.
Maïwenn's Poliss. Daniel Kasman.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.
The titles below will take you to the roundups, that is, the coverage of the coverage of each film screening in the 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Click the names after the titles for our own reviews, whether they be quick takes or longer considerations. And finally, pointers to assessments of this year's edition, made both before and after the awards are announced, will collect at the bottom of this page.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In.
Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance. Daniel Kasman.
Alain Cavalier's Pater.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike. Daniel Kasman.
Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist.
Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre. Daniel Kasman.
Naomi Kawase's Hanezu.
Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty.
Maïwenn's Poliss. Daniel Kasman.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.
- 5/28/2011
- MUBI
Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury President Michel Gondry, Copyright C. Fitte/Getty Images
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury President Michel Gondry, Copyright C. Fitte/Getty Images
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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