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Gems of the 1980's: Susan Seidelman Remembers Desperately Seeking Susan
22 November 2009 8:01 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Filmmaker Susan Seidelman, above.)
by Jon Zelazny
In the early 80’s NYC cultural lull between Patti Smith’s retirement and Jay McInerney’s breakout, Nyu film school graduate Susan Seidelman did the scrappy shoestring indie film thing, resulting in her acclaimed feature debut Smithereens (1982).
Best known for her hit sophomore effort, Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Seidelman continues to direct movies and TV shows featuring female protagonists… including the pilot for “Sex and the City” and her Oscar nominated short film The Dutch Master (1994), about a shy dental technician who ventures “into” a museum painting for flights of erotic fantasy.
Susan Seidelman: My husband Jonathan Brett—who co-wrote and produced The Dutch Master—and I had committed to living in Paris for a year because I was set to direct a feature for Polygram, a company that unfortunately went bankrupt. So we were kind of in a funk over there, and »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
53rd London Film Festival: "La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
4 November 2009 8:41 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Revelations were thin on the ground at London Film Festival this year. Despite the exhibition of almost three hundred new films, no cinema turned out to be as exciting, or vital, than that from some of its oldest hands: Jacques Rivette’s 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup, Manoel de Oliveira’s Eccentricities of a Blond Haired Girl, and Frederick Wiseman’s latest masterpiece, La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris. The latter screened at the very beginning of the festival, just before the onset of the shuffle of the new, and cast the longest shadow over everything that followed.
Wiseman’s rigorous investigation into the civic structures of American and global society, varying little in method or form since his second feature, High School (1968), has by now developed into something of an institution itself. This consistency, and ever-presentness, is both a blessing and a curse—on the one hand, »
Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Joan The Maid: The Battles/The Prisons" (Jacques Rivette, 1994)
12 October 2009 12:15 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Artificial Eye's recent release, on two separate discs, of Jacques Rivette's 1994 two-part film on (obviously) two parts of the life of Joan of Arc, ought to qualify as a major cinephilic event. But given the general tenor and the packaging of the actual discs, I'm not sure that Artificial Eye sees it that way. Each disc boasts precisely zero extras. And the critical blurbs chosen to adorn the packages are almost commonly understated: "A good introduction into the early years of Joan of Arc." Oh, do tell. "Thought-provoking." No kidding. "An excellent central performance." Well, it is Sandrine Bonnaire.
Anyway, I was hoping for something a little more enthusiastic, like "At last! The full five-hour plus version of one of Rivette's most intense, and intensely concentrated, later works!" That would do it. But that hadn't been written yet. In any case, that is the signal strength of this »
Full Programme announced for the 2009 London Film Festival
9 September 2009 3:57 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
The programme for The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival, has been announced today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron. The line-ip includes a diverse selection of world and international premieres with a total of 191 features and 113 shorts screening alongside an exciting line-up of special events and expected guests. Opening Night film, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, is one of the Festival's 15 world premieres and will be presented by the director and cast members including Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Helen McCrory. Other films celebrating their world premieres include Sam Taylor-Wood's Closing Night Gala Nowhere Boy and the Festival's first ever Archive Gala, the BFI's new restoration of Anthony Asquith's Underground, with live music accompaniment by the Prima Vista Social Club, led by Neil Brand. The Festival will also host 23 European premieres, including Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs, Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back and Robert Connolly's Balibo, »
- Paul
A Cannes Heavy Nyff Puts Resnais, Lee Daniels and Almodovar in the Spotlight
11 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Film Society program director Richard Pena and critics Melissa Anderson, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman and Dennis Lim have curated another edition that borrows heavily from the festival circuit. Freshly picked from Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto slates, the 47th edition of the New York Film Festival will commence the festivities (Sept. 25-Oct. 11) with Alain Resnais' Wild Grass – the just acquired film from Sony Pictures Classics. Among the 29 titles announced, the “centerpiece” spot is given to Lee Daniels' Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - he must be tripping from having of showing off the brutal drama at Sundance, Cannes, Tiff and now Nyff. The fest closes out with a familiar guest in Almodovar and Broken Embraces. A quick glance at the list, and if I were attending the festival, I'd focus on Maren Ade's Everyone Else (Kent Jones wrote an essay in this month's »
66th Annual Venice Film Festival Line-Up Announced
31 July 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Venice Film Festival has announced it's 2009 line-up this week, showing off the films that will make-up it's 66th annual fest. The significance of this announcement is in the fact that Venice, which takes place from September 2 to September 12, shares a lot of premieres with the Toronto Film Festival. And it takes place the week before, as Toronto doesn't get underway until September 10th. Audiences in Venice will be treated to the premieres of films such as Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Michael Moore's financial crisis documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, Joe Dante's The Hole, Steven Soderbergh's espionage comedy The Informant and Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare at Goats before their potential Toronto debuts. Also notable is the premiere of John Hillcoat's post-apocalyptic thriller The Road, which is at the top of our watch-list. See below for a full listing of films for this year's Venice »
- Neil Miller
Venice Film Festival Announced 2009 Line-Up
30 July 2009 9:08 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Which films are included in the 66th Venice International Film Festival's line-up have been unveiled. On Thursday, July 30, Paolo Baratta, the President of the Venice Biennale, and Marco Muller, the Director of the Cinema section, announced the festival's selection, which included 71 world premieres, at a press conference in Rome's Excelsior Hotel on the Via Veneto.
Listed among the movies vying for a Golden Lion are six U.S. feature films. They are Michael Moore's global meltdown documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story", John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road", Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant" remake "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans", George Romero's horror flick "Survival of the Dead", and Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man".
For the out of competition section, four U.S. movies added the line-up. Steven Soderbergh's thriller comedy "The Informant!", Grant Heslov's military mind-control satire "The »
- AceShowbiz.com
Venice film fest unveils lineup which includes 86 world premiers
30 July 2009 1:50 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
The 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival lineup includes the main festival plus the sidebar which will be playing films like Yannick Dahan's gangster zombie flick The Horde.
In competition we have the long awaited scifi awesomeness from Jaco Van Dormael, Mr. Nobody and Shinya Tsukamoto's trfiecta Tetsuo the Bulletman.
Out of competition has [Rec] 2 and the Midnight section has Nicolas Refn's long awaited Valhalla Rising which was actually made before Bronson.
Man I wish I could go! Anyone want to cover the fest for us? Use the contact link at the bottom of the page. We'd be happy to do cross-posted reviews.
Full list after the break.
66Th Annual Venice Film Festival Lineup
Competition
"36 vues du Pic Saint Loup," Jacques Rivette (France)
"Accident," Cheang Pou-Soi (China-Hong Kong)
"Baaria," Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) – Opening Film
"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog (U.S.)
"Between Two Worlds, »
66th Annual Venice Film Festival Line-Up
30 July 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The complete line-up for the 66th Annual Venice Film Festival has been announced. The big news is that Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story will premiere at the fest, over a month before its U.S. premiere. The festival includes 71 world premieres, notable additions include: Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant, The Road, Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, Steven Soderbergh's The Informant, Joe Dante's The Hole and Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare at Goats. Read the full list after the jump. 66Th Annual Venice Film Festival Lineup Competition "36 vues du Pic Saint Loup," Jacques Rivette (France) "Accident," Cheang Pou-Soi (China-Hong Kong) "Baaria," Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) – Opening Film "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog (U.S.) "Between Two Worlds," Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka) "Capitalism: A Love Story," Michael Moore (U.S.) "La Doppia Ora," Giuseppe Capotondi (Italy) "Il Grande Sogno," Michele Placido (Italy) "Lebanon, »
- Peter Sciretta
Denis, Rivette, and Moore!: Venice Lineup Announced
30 July 2009 1:10 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, noticing that the Venice Film Festival announced the lineup for it's 66th installment on Thursday. Here's the in-competition list, with a few bits I managed to find about each film.
Baaria (Opening Film) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
The director of Cinema Paradiso gives us a three-generation spanning epic about his Italian hometown.
Soul Kitchen dir. Fatih Akin (pictured)
Akin directed the terrific Head-On and The Edge of Heaven (if you haven't seen either or both, do now). He re teams with Birol Unel from Head-On for a comedy about culture and gender clash.
La Doppia Ora dir. Giuseppe Capotondi
It's been tough finding information on this as Venice's website (nor IMDb) has much at the moment. I can tell tell you is that it's a freshman effort, it's Italian, and it's fun to say... La Doppio Ora!
Yi ngoi (Accident) dir. Cheang Pou-Soi
A Hong Kong crime film about »
- Robert
Tom Ford to Unveil Filmmaking Debut in Venice
30 July 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Yes, that Tom Ford -- the ex-Gucci captain, Keira Knightley-nuzzler and now writer-director whose A Single Man will have its world premiere (in competition, no less) at next month's Venice Film Festival. Ford adapted Christopher Isherwood's acclaimed novel about an English college professor (played by Colin Firth) who quietly attempts to go about his business unaffected after his partner's sudden death; Julianne Moore, Ginnifer Goodwin and Matthew Goode co-star. Among Ford's peers also chasing the festival's Golden Lion? Just some schlubs named Werner Herzog, Michael Moore, Jacques Rivette, Giuseppe Tornatore, Todd Solondz and John Hillcoat, whose The Road will also have its long-awaited debut. [indieWIRE] »
The Road to resurface in Venice
30 July 2009 7:49 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
The Road, the troubled adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel that was bumped from its original fall 2008 release date, has been announced as part of the lineup of the 2009 Venice Film Festival. It'll screen alongside new films by (take a deep breath) Jacques Rivette, Abel Ferarra, Werner Herzog, Michael Moore, Claire Denis, fashion designer Tom Ford, Joe Dante, and Oliver Stone. The full lineup is here. ... »
- Karina Longworth
Confirmed: Akin, Denis, Moore, Solondz, van Dormael and Hillcoat Heading to Venice
30 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Can't say there are many surprises with today's list, we discussed possible spots for Jacques Rivette, Michael Moore, Werner Herzog, Michele Placido, Todd Solondz, Jaco van Dormael, Patrice Chereau, Fatih Akin, Claire Denis and John Hillcoat's The Road (yes, there is a Santa Clause) beforehand. No disrespect, but I'm surprised that George Romero's Survival of the Dead receives a competition slot. At first glance, what I notice are the number of works from China and Hong Kong, India and a pair from Egypt. We see where the whole 3D appreciation thing is leading towards (they announced a yearly 3D award would be given out at the festival - regardless if the film was even at the festival) and perhaps its not milan, but it makes sense that American fashion designer Tom Ford to preem his directorial debut A Single Man in Italy. One more inclusion that I'm pleased to see, »
Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview
14 July 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Divas and Lions and Moons, Oh My!
By Alex Simon
The Noveulle Vague, or “French New Wave” was launched by a group of film critics and cinefiles who began France’s legendary Cahiers du Cinéma magazine in the 1950s. With Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in 1959, the movement was launched, emphasizing behavior over aesthetics, content over form, and pastiche of other film genres (particularly those born in the U.S., with a healthy dollop of Italian neorealism) over the more traditional narratives of French films from years past. Francois Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda (see our interview with her below) Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette all fell under the spell of magazine co-founder and theorist Andre Bazin, laying the groundwork for a series of articles, monographs and critiques that formed the so-called “auteur theory,” (or more specifically “"La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Little Scene : Céline and Julie Go Boating
8 July 2009 2:35 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
(Rivette, 1974) I saw David Lynch's Inland Empire, on release, with a good friend and fellow fan one rainy night at the Ritzy in Brixton, South London. We had dodged the reviews and the hype and those ugly screen shots of Laura Dern's grimaced face and made it through all 180 chaotic, muddled minutes... only to be totally devastated. We hated it. What had we missed? After all, Lynch had already attacked the darker realms of Tinsel town once before in the dark wonderland of Mullholland Drive. Why was he retreading his own path? I admired some of the ideas, I respected the free thinking way Lynch conceived and wrote the film day by day, on set, allowing actors and to be involved, I thought some of the moments in it were very powerful and that the dirty Dv shooting worked to highlight the "its only skin deep" beauty of film. »
- Neil Innes
Michele Placido, Jacques Rivette and Christophe Honoré headed to Venice?
2 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Add Michele Placido’s Il Grande Sogno, Jacques Rivette’s 36 Vues du Pic Saint-Loup and Christophe Honoré’s Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras Pas Danser to the list of possible titles that will compete at the Venice Film Festival. I speculated on plenty of titles what we should be seeing at the Lido in late August, and these three titles will surely be added to the usual cluster of Euro titles. Christophe Honoré’s Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras Pas Danser (No, My Daughter, You Won’t Go Dancing) once again sees Louis Garrel make a contribution to an Honoré film -- but this time the ensemble pic sees Chiara Mastroianni showcased in the lead role. This would be the filmmaker's first time in Venice. Fellow French filmmaker Rivette would bring his France-Italian co-production to Venice with Italian actor Sergio Castellitto playing alongside Jane Birkin. Speaking of Italy, veteran »
Claude Chabrol Takes The Girl Cut In Two
1 June 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
The Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupée en deux) is a French comedy directed by Claude Chabrol, starring actors Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand and Benoît Magimel. The film revolves around two men who vie for the love of single, local TV weather girl 'Gabrielle Deneige'. Chabrol is noted as a core member of the 'French New Wave' group of filmmakers who first came to prominence in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Like French directors Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol also worked as a critic for film magazine Cahiers du Cinema before pursuing a career in movies. Often characterized as the most 'mainstream' of the New Wave directors, Chabrol at the age of 78, with The Girl Cut In Two, remains a prolific film-making auteur at the height of his 50-year career... »
Minority View: The Green Ray by Eric Rohmer
21 May 2009 12:30 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Eric Rohmer is, apart from Jacques Rivette, the only filmmaker from the French New Wave whose films have remained true to the filmmaker's original vision. Rohmer's films are distinguished by their ‘smallness' and their disinclination to depart from the one subject that concerns the filmmaker - the relationship between people, especially between young men and women. Rohmer's films are always ‘light' in as much as he does not claim to have great truths to offer either about the world or about the human soul but his efforts are always dazzling and his delineation of social behavior inevitably precise... »
- M. K. Raghavendra
Summer Preview: Repertory Calendar for the Coasts
5 May 2009 1:32 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
James Cameron in Los Angeles with 70Mm prints of "Aliens" and "The Abyss"?!?! The Dardenne brothers in New York for a career retrospective?!?! The instant cult classic "The Room" with Tommy Wiseau live in Austin?!?! Be still my heart. There's something for all tastes this summer on the West Coast, the East Coast and as you'll notice, the Third Coast on our calendar of the must-see events on the repertory theater circuit in May, June and July. And don't miss our look at the indie films that are hitting theaters or headed to online, VOD or DVD premiere this summer.
With the New York Polish Film Festival (May 6-10) and first-runs of the docs "Ice People" (May 1-7) and "Audience of One" (May 8-14) and Ken Jacobs' reinvention of his 1969 work "Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son" with the 3D "Anaglyph Tom" (May 15-21) taking up the Anthology's screens, »
- Stephen Saito
SXSW Review: For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
20 March 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
(Full disclosure: current Cinematical Managing Editor Scott Weinberg and Cinematical co-founder Karina Longworth, now editor of Spout.com, make brief appearances in this film.)
Some documentaries demand to be seen on the big screen; others are best discovered while channel surfing. Gerald Peary's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism falls into the latter category.
On the film's official site, Peary declares his doc to be "an unapologetic defense of a profession under siege." It's filled with talking head interviews with critics whose bylines are more familiar than their faces: A.O. Scott, J. Hoberman, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Owen Gleiberman, Kenneth Turan, and many others. It's a treat to see the best-known film critic on the planet, Roger Ebert, give a never-before-seen interview. The sound bites are distinctive, the insider's perspective is refreshing, the historical overview is welcome, and the overall impression is positive.
Here's the »
- Peter Martin
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