The celebrated French actor on Leonard Cohen, Louise Bourgeois, Big Little Lies and Bette Midler on Broadway
Born in Paris, Isabelle Huppert made her big-screen debut in 1972. Since then she has starred in films including Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980), Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary (1991), Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Amour (2012), and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (2016). Huppert has been nominated for 16 César awards, twice winning for best actress, and has won a Bafta and two Cannes best actress awards. Her role in Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Elle (2016) earned Huppert an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe. She stars in Haneke’s latest film, Happy End, a black comedy about a bourgeois family living in Calais, in cinemas from 1 December.
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Born in Paris, Isabelle Huppert made her big-screen debut in 1972. Since then she has starred in films including Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980), Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary (1991), Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Amour (2012), and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (2016). Huppert has been nominated for 16 César awards, twice winning for best actress, and has won a Bafta and two Cannes best actress awards. Her role in Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Elle (2016) earned Huppert an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe. She stars in Haneke’s latest film, Happy End, a black comedy about a bourgeois family living in Calais, in cinemas from 1 December.
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- 11/26/2017
- by Interview by Kathryn Bromwich
- The Guardian - Film News
“Call Me by Your Name” doesn’t open in select theaters until November 24, and yet it already features the year’s most talked-about sex scene. Anyone who has read André Aciman’s novel knows the scene in question, in which Elio (Timothée Chalamet) carves out the center of a peach and uses it to help him masturbate. As director Luca Guadagnino tells Vulture, it was one of the scenes from the novel he struggled with most bringing to the big screen.
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“I thought it was a scene that can only play in a book, because you could go into your imagination,” Guadagnino said. “I also thought it was a metaphor for sexual impulses and energy. I didn’t believe in the actual physical possibilities of masturbating yourself with a peach.
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“I thought it was a scene that can only play in a book, because you could go into your imagination,” Guadagnino said. “I also thought it was a metaphor for sexual impulses and energy. I didn’t believe in the actual physical possibilities of masturbating yourself with a peach.
- 11/17/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Dear Kelley and Fern,We are all on the same page for John Woo's Manhunt, no doubt—a film that casts my mind back with wry, chuckling nostalgia to first discovering the action maestro's days of glory. Such backward glances have been common to me this week. I must admit, it's been more than a bit hard to be present at Toronto—my heart, mind and soul still feels battered aghast from last week’s devastating, gaping conclusion of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Return. The 25 years that separate that series from the show’s second season are a gulf of time, a void of aging and loss that you feel in every shot—a span, the finale implies, that is ultimately impossible to surmount.This gap was very much in my mind watching Youth, a nostalgic re-envisioning of the Cultural Revolution in the...
- 9/10/2017
- MUBI
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.
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
From start to finish, The Big Sick, directed by Michael Showalter, works as a lovingly-rendered, cinematic answer to the dinner party question: “So how did you two meet?” Based on comedian Kumail Nanjiani‘s real life (he co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Emily V. Gordon), we meet Kumail (Nanjiani) as he finishes a stand-up set in Chicago. He becomes fast friends with a...
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
From start to finish, The Big Sick, directed by Michael Showalter, works as a lovingly-rendered, cinematic answer to the dinner party question: “So how did you two meet?” Based on comedian Kumail Nanjiani‘s real life (he co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Emily V. Gordon), we meet Kumail (Nanjiani) as he finishes a stand-up set in Chicago. He becomes fast friends with a...
- 9/8/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963) is playing July 16 - August 15, 2017 in the United States as part of the series John Schlesinger's First Masterpieces.Billy Fisher, a cheerful twenty-something lad from Yorkshire, is going to have a great future. For now, he only has a small office position in his dull small city, but Billy has already landed a job in London writing for a popular TV comedian. He is also working on a novel that soon enough will bring him fame and fortune. He is also engaged to a girl. Actually, two girls. And he doesn’t really want to marry any of them. Also, the TV star doesn’t really know that Billy exists. And he hasn’t started on the novel. Billy just has a vivid imagination and speaks before he thinks—some people prefer to call it compulsive lying.
- 7/24/2017
- MUBI
Fan Bingbing is on fine form as an obstinate divorcee-to-be in a singular film that is ultimately worth the effort it requires
There is a lot to admire about this pointed modern-day political satire, but you’ll have to get over a few hurdles. One of them is the unnecessary length, another is the distracting use of a circular frame – a device that references Chinese art and hints at its heroine’s constrained plight, but often makes the viewer feel as if they’re peering through a keyhole. The heroine is a comically stubborn villager (a spirited, uglified Fan Bingbing) who embarks on a perverse mission to get her sham divorce overturned so that she can redivorce her cheating husband properly. He’s added insult to injury by likening her to Pan Jinlian, a literary character associated with promiscuity (misleadingly translated to Madame Bovary in the English title). These grievances...
There is a lot to admire about this pointed modern-day political satire, but you’ll have to get over a few hurdles. One of them is the unnecessary length, another is the distracting use of a circular frame – a device that references Chinese art and hints at its heroine’s constrained plight, but often makes the viewer feel as if they’re peering through a keyhole. The heroine is a comically stubborn villager (a spirited, uglified Fan Bingbing) who embarks on a perverse mission to get her sham divorce overturned so that she can redivorce her cheating husband properly. He’s added insult to injury by likening her to Pan Jinlian, a literary character associated with promiscuity (misleadingly translated to Madame Bovary in the English title). These grievances...
- 5/26/2017
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Festival competition jury also features Park Chan-wook, Fan Bingbing, Agnès Jaoui, Gabriel Yared.
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the jury for its main competition.
American actor and singer Will Smith will be joined by German director Maren Ade, whose Toni Erdmann played in Cannes competition last year.
The jury also features:
South Korean director Park Chan-wook, who has had three films play in competition at Cannes: The Handmaiden, Oldboy, and Thirst.
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, who has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times: Youth, The Great Beauty, This Must Be The Place, Family Friend and The Consequences Of Love.
American actress Jessica Chastain, a two-time Oscar nominee who also starred in Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning The Tree Of Life.
Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, whose credits include Xiaogang Feng’s I Am Not Madame Bovary.
French director, writer and actress Agnès Jaoui, whose 2004 comedy-drama Look At Me played in competition...
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the jury for its main competition.
American actor and singer Will Smith will be joined by German director Maren Ade, whose Toni Erdmann played in Cannes competition last year.
The jury also features:
South Korean director Park Chan-wook, who has had three films play in competition at Cannes: The Handmaiden, Oldboy, and Thirst.
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, who has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times: Youth, The Great Beauty, This Must Be The Place, Family Friend and The Consequences Of Love.
American actress Jessica Chastain, a two-time Oscar nominee who also starred in Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning The Tree Of Life.
Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, whose credits include Xiaogang Feng’s I Am Not Madame Bovary.
French director, writer and actress Agnès Jaoui, whose 2004 comedy-drama Look At Me played in competition...
- 4/25/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
New films from Feng Xiaogang and Park Chan-wook shared the spoils in Hong Kong last night, as the 11th Asian Film Awards presented top honours to I am not Madame Bovary, naming the mainland Chinese drama Best Film. Its star Fan Bingbing won the Best Actress prize, while the film’s unique cinematography by Luo Pan was also rewarded. Erotic South Korean drama The Handmaiden won four awards in total, including Best Supporting Actress for Moon So-ri, Best Newcomer for Kim Tae-ri, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. Tadanobu Asano was named Best Actor for Harmonium, while Hong Kong favourite Lam Suet won Best Supporting Actor for Trivisa. Na Hong-jin took home the Best Director award for his supernatural thriller The Wailing, and...
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- 3/22/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Feng Xiaogang’s comedy won best film, actress and cinematography, while The Handmaiden picked up four awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary won best film, best actress for Fan Bingbing [pictured accepting her award] and best cinematography at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on Tuesday night (March 21).
Fan plays a rural woman battling the authorities to restore her honour in the comedy-drama, produced by Feng’s Dongyang Mayla, Sparkle Roll Media and Huayi Brothers. Luo Pan was awarded best cinematography for the film, which was mostly shot in a circular frame.
Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden picked up the most awards of the evening – four in all, including best supporting actress for Moon So-ri and best newcomer for Kim Tae-ri. The erotic period drama was also awarded best production design (Ryu Seong-hie) and best costume design (Cho Sang-kyung).
Best director went to Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jing for supernatural horror...
Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary won best film, best actress for Fan Bingbing [pictured accepting her award] and best cinematography at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on Tuesday night (March 21).
Fan plays a rural woman battling the authorities to restore her honour in the comedy-drama, produced by Feng’s Dongyang Mayla, Sparkle Roll Media and Huayi Brothers. Luo Pan was awarded best cinematography for the film, which was mostly shot in a circular frame.
Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden picked up the most awards of the evening – four in all, including best supporting actress for Moon So-ri and best newcomer for Kim Tae-ri. The erotic period drama was also awarded best production design (Ryu Seong-hie) and best costume design (Cho Sang-kyung).
Best director went to Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jing for supernatural horror...
- 3/21/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
By strange and fortuitous coincidence, my meeting with Jack Garfein fell upon the nexus of several intersecting moments in history. It was Friday, January 27th — International Holocaust Remembrance Day. One week earlier, Donald J. Trump was sworn to office as forty-fifth President of the United States; and in the ensuing weekend, allegations of Trump’s unpunished sexual misconduct, callous attitudes toward women and courting of radical right-wing supporters helped bring about the Women’s March on Washington, one of the largest mass protests in the nation’s history. All around, people are anxiously reading the past with tenuous hopes and fears for the future. History, so often a thing defined after the fact, is currently in violent and furious motion.
Jack Garfein is living history, and he’s not shy about telling it. Born to Ukrainian Jews in 1930, Mr. Garfein personally witnessed as a child the rise of Nazi Germany...
Jack Garfein is living history, and he’s not shy about telling it. Born to Ukrainian Jews in 1930, Mr. Garfein personally witnessed as a child the rise of Nazi Germany...
- 3/20/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries.NEWSWang Bing's Bitter MoneyA touching bit of news from the Canadian independent film scene: When the Toronto Film Critics Association picked Hugh Gibson as the recipient for its $100,000 prize for his terrific documentary The Stairs, Gibson decided to split the award with the other nominees:Kazik Radwanski (How Heavy This Hammer), and Matt Johnson (Operation Avalanche). Solidarity in Canadian filmmaking!Berlin Critics' Week has announced part of its lineup for its festival, which runs concurrently as the Berlin International Film Festival and is intended both as counter-programming and counter-experience. Films so far include I Am Not Madame Bovary, The Human Surge and Bertrand Bonello's Sarah Winchester.Meanwhile, in New York the 17th Film Comment Selects series, which tends to be more unconventional than the Film Society of Lincoln Center's New York Film Festival, will include an "Ultra-widescreen" version of...
- 1/18/2017
- MUBI
The nominees for the 11th Annual Asian Film Awards were announced last week.
The ceremony is to be held in Hong Kong after a long stint in Macau. The reason for this changeover is to pay homage to the 20th anniversary since the handover of Hong Kong. This year, 34 films received nominations. Out of those 34, 21 are of Chiniese-origin, and 20 are South Korean, making South Korean films the second most nominated.
Some of the best releases of 2016 are up against each other this year. Park Chan Wook’s, “The Handmaiden,” although it did not receive a nod for best film nor best director, it did receive a levy of other nominations including: best supporting actress (Moon So-ri), best newcomer, best screenplay, best editing, best costume design, and best production design. Another strong Korean film up for several awards is “Train to Busan.” This outrageously popular zombie-horror film is up for five...
The ceremony is to be held in Hong Kong after a long stint in Macau. The reason for this changeover is to pay homage to the 20th anniversary since the handover of Hong Kong. This year, 34 films received nominations. Out of those 34, 21 are of Chiniese-origin, and 20 are South Korean, making South Korean films the second most nominated.
Some of the best releases of 2016 are up against each other this year. Park Chan Wook’s, “The Handmaiden,” although it did not receive a nod for best film nor best director, it did receive a levy of other nominations including: best supporting actress (Moon So-ri), best newcomer, best screenplay, best editing, best costume design, and best production design. Another strong Korean film up for several awards is “Train to Busan.” This outrageously popular zombie-horror film is up for five...
- 1/17/2017
- by Lydia Spanier
- AsianMoviePulse
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) has announced that the festival’s opening night will be the World Premiere screening of “The Sense of an Ending,” directed by Ritesh Batra on Thursday, January 5. The festival will close with “The Comedian,” directed by Taylor Hackford on Sunday, January 15. The Festival will screen 190 films from 72 countries, including 58 premieres (9 World, 5 International, 20 North American and 24 U.S.) from January 2 – 16, 2017.
The complete line-up including a focus on cinema from Poland, Premieres, New Voices/New Visions competition, Modern Masters, True Stories, After Dark and more were also announced, in addition to the Awards Buzz program released last week.
Highlights include “The Beautiful Fantastic,” “Julie and the Shoe Factory,” “Bad Influence,” “The Day Will Come,” “Tommy’s Honour,” “When We Rise,...
Lineup Announcements
– The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) has announced that the festival’s opening night will be the World Premiere screening of “The Sense of an Ending,” directed by Ritesh Batra on Thursday, January 5. The festival will close with “The Comedian,” directed by Taylor Hackford on Sunday, January 15. The Festival will screen 190 films from 72 countries, including 58 premieres (9 World, 5 International, 20 North American and 24 U.S.) from January 2 – 16, 2017.
The complete line-up including a focus on cinema from Poland, Premieres, New Voices/New Visions competition, Modern Masters, True Stories, After Dark and more were also announced, in addition to the Awards Buzz program released last week.
Highlights include “The Beautiful Fantastic,” “Julie and the Shoe Factory,” “Bad Influence,” “The Day Will Come,” “Tommy’s Honour,” “When We Rise,...
- 12/15/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The fall specialized season (with attached awards campaigns) is going into high gear. This weekend brings the release of Amazon Studios Sundance pickup “Manchester by the Sea” (Roadside Attractions), one of the year’s most anticipated films, to a strong initial response in its first two cities. Also, Focus Features released buzzy festival hit “Nocturnal Animals” somewhat wider to enough interest to suggest ongoing adult audiences ahead.
None of these grosses challenge 2016’s top limited releases, though, consistent with what has been a decline in overall specialty numbers this year. But they join “Moonlight” and “Loving” among successful launches that perform well enough to keep their awards chances alive along with their commercial prospects.
That’s in stark contrast with Ang Lee’s technological experiment “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.” After what seemed to be a decent start in two theaters last weekend, its wider national break ranks with...
None of these grosses challenge 2016’s top limited releases, though, consistent with what has been a decline in overall specialty numbers this year. But they join “Moonlight” and “Loving” among successful launches that perform well enough to keep their awards chances alive along with their commercial prospects.
That’s in stark contrast with Ang Lee’s technological experiment “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.” After what seemed to be a decent start in two theaters last weekend, its wider national break ranks with...
- 11/20/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
The film marks the second collaboration of director Feng Xiaogang, writer Zhenyun Liu (who actually adapts his own novel) and actress Fan Bingbing. The first one was “Cell Phone”, the latter’s debut, 12 years before.
In a story that reminded me much of Zhang Yimou’s “The Story of Qiu Zu,” the script revolves around Lian, a woman determined to face the whole judicial system, in order to find justice. The film starts with the story of Pan Jinlian, the Chinese version of Madame Bovary, a woman whose infidelity led to murder. The connection, however, is revealed later.
In the beginning of the story, Lian pleads to a judge, who is a distant relative, in order to revoke her divorce. She explains that the divorce was fake, as she and her ex-husband took it in order to to get a better apartment. However, her husband swindled her and actually married another woman,...
In a story that reminded me much of Zhang Yimou’s “The Story of Qiu Zu,” the script revolves around Lian, a woman determined to face the whole judicial system, in order to find justice. The film starts with the story of Pan Jinlian, the Chinese version of Madame Bovary, a woman whose infidelity led to murder. The connection, however, is revealed later.
In the beginning of the story, Lian pleads to a judge, who is a distant relative, in order to revoke her divorce. She explains that the divorce was fake, as she and her ex-husband took it in order to to get a better apartment. However, her husband swindled her and actually married another woman,...
- 11/15/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
As its title proclaims, Feng Xiaogang’s bureaucratic satire I Am Not Madame Bovary has no direct connection to Flaubert’s adulterous heroine. Madame Bovary does, however, share some common traits with Pan Jinlian, the fictional 17th century character from Chinese literature name-checked in the film’s original title, who cuckolded then conspired to murder her husband. Adapted by frequent Feng collaborator Liu Zhenyun from his own 2012 novel, the film follows the increasingly desperate efforts of Li Xuelian (played by Fan Bingbing) to get her divorce to Qin Yuhe (Li Zonghan) reversed. Over a period of 10 years, Lian claws her way through China’s multi-tiered civil service, from provincial judges to county chiefs, to mayors and ultimately the Chairman of the National People’s Congress in Beijing....
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- 11/1/2016
- Screen Anarchy
The powerful Chinese satire I Am Madame Bovary has earned critical acclaim all over the world. The film has won top nominations and awards at various festivals including the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival as well as the Toronto International Film Festival. U.S. fans are in for a treat when the film hits local theaters on November 18, 2016!
I Am Madame Bovary boasts a stellar production and artistic team. In the director’s chair is Feng Xiaogang, one of China’s most commercially successful artists. Feng Xiaogang is known for his blazing black comedies and genre-bending movies like Cell Phone (2003), If You Are The One (2008), Aftershock (2010), and Personal Tailor (2013). He pushes his craft and style even more in I Am Madame Bovary – a film that piercingly examines the bureaucracy that plagues Chinese government. The film also flourishes with screenwriter Liu Zhenyun’s witty dialogue...
I Am Madame Bovary boasts a stellar production and artistic team. In the director’s chair is Feng Xiaogang, one of China’s most commercially successful artists. Feng Xiaogang is known for his blazing black comedies and genre-bending movies like Cell Phone (2003), If You Are The One (2008), Aftershock (2010), and Personal Tailor (2013). He pushes his craft and style even more in I Am Madame Bovary – a film that piercingly examines the bureaucracy that plagues Chinese government. The film also flourishes with screenwriter Liu Zhenyun’s witty dialogue...
- 10/29/2016
- by Ella Palileo
- AsianMoviePulse
Hedda (Gabler) Adapted by Matt Minnicino Directed by Joseph Michael Parks Presented by Wandering Bark Theatre Company At Irt Theater, NYC September 23-October 8, 2016
Henrik Ibsen's dramatic critique of bourgeois domesticity, Hedda Gabler, which premiered in 1891, remains probably his most often revived work. Hedda is still going strong 125 years later, now reincarnated in a fleet, fluid refresh written by Matt Minnicino and directed by Joseph Mitchell Parks, who played Lucius in 2015's inventive and memorable Titus Andronicus for the New York Shakespeare Exchange. In a play in which the name that someone is called signals ownership (or independence) and degrees of intimacy, Minnicino has rendered the protagonist's unmarried, titular name a parenthetical: Hedda (Gabler). When the play begins, Hedda (Valerie Redd) is more properly known (propriety being another of the play's thematic touchstones) as Hedda Tesman, having married ernest historian George Tesman (Kyle Schaefer), a "paragon of acceptability." George's rival,...
Henrik Ibsen's dramatic critique of bourgeois domesticity, Hedda Gabler, which premiered in 1891, remains probably his most often revived work. Hedda is still going strong 125 years later, now reincarnated in a fleet, fluid refresh written by Matt Minnicino and directed by Joseph Mitchell Parks, who played Lucius in 2015's inventive and memorable Titus Andronicus for the New York Shakespeare Exchange. In a play in which the name that someone is called signals ownership (or independence) and degrees of intimacy, Minnicino has rendered the protagonist's unmarried, titular name a parenthetical: Hedda (Gabler). When the play begins, Hedda (Valerie Redd) is more properly known (propriety being another of the play's thematic touchstones) as Hedda Tesman, having married ernest historian George Tesman (Kyle Schaefer), a "paragon of acceptability." George's rival,...
- 9/29/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Debuts The Winter and The Giant, share the special jury prize; Hong Sang-soo wins Silver Shell for best director.
The San Sebastián International Film Festival (Sept 16-24) awards ceremony had a marked Asian flavour last night [24].
Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary - the social satire about a woman seeking to restore honour after a bitter divorce - won the Golden Shell for best film at the 64th edition of the festival.
I Am Not Madame Bovary, which had previously won the fipresci prize in Toronto, also earned Chinese star Fan Bingbing the Silver Shell in San Sebastián for best actress.
South Korea’s director Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Shell for best director for the love story Yourself And Yours.
The Special Jury Prize was shared between the Argentinian-French coproduction The Winter, a contemporary western set in a remote area in Patagonia by first time director Emiliano Torres, and the Swedish-Danish...
The San Sebastián International Film Festival (Sept 16-24) awards ceremony had a marked Asian flavour last night [24].
Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary - the social satire about a woman seeking to restore honour after a bitter divorce - won the Golden Shell for best film at the 64th edition of the festival.
I Am Not Madame Bovary, which had previously won the fipresci prize in Toronto, also earned Chinese star Fan Bingbing the Silver Shell in San Sebastián for best actress.
South Korea’s director Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Shell for best director for the love story Yourself And Yours.
The Special Jury Prize was shared between the Argentinian-French coproduction The Winter, a contemporary western set in a remote area in Patagonia by first time director Emiliano Torres, and the Swedish-Danish...
- 9/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
Damien Chazelle.s brilliant musical .La La Land. starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone (she recently won Best Actress at Venice International Film Festival) took home the People.s Choice Award making it the one to beat this award season! Since 2008 (except for 2011.s .Where Do We Go Now?.), every single People.s Choice Award Winner has been nominated for Best Picture Oscar with films like .Room,. .The Imitation Game,. .Silver Linings Playbook,. and .Precious.. Some even won Best Picture like .Slumdog Millionaire,. .The King.s Speech,. and .12 Years a Slave.. But don.t go betting on the film yet. There were some movies that dominated Tiff but was ignored by the Academy such as the aforementioned .Where Do We Go Now?,. .Bella,. .Eastern Promises,. .Zatoichi,. and .The Hanging Garden..
We shall see if .La La Land. will score big with Academy voters. For now, here.s the complete list...
We shall see if .La La Land. will score big with Academy voters. For now, here.s the complete list...
- 9/19/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
A mystery lies at the shattered core of “Unless,” but it’s not your standard whodunit. Instead, the drama centers on what has caused a college student who argues with her professor over “Madame Bovary” to change into an unspeaking woman begging on the street of the Toronto winter in less than a month. Based on the final novel from author Carol Shields, this quiet Canadian-Irish film wears its heart and its literary roots on its nubby, woolen sleeve.
Continue reading Catherine Keener Stars In Thoughtful Drama ‘Unless’ [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Catherine Keener Stars In Thoughtful Drama ‘Unless’ [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/13/2016
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
Talking with Tiff CEO Piers Handling, Huppert discussed her career, which includes over 100 film credits.
Isabelle Huppert is in focus at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival (Tiff), with the French actress starring in three films in this year’s programme: Elle, Souvenir and Things To Come.
Speaking to festival director and CEO Piers Handling in a masterclass on Saturday (Sept 10), Huppert – whose resume includes over 100 films, television and theatre productions, peppered with a bevy of awards recognition including 15 Cesar nominations – spoke candidly about the highs and lows of her career.
Michael Haneke, Michael Cimino, Claude Chabrol and Claire Denis were among the list of directors she gave credit for helping her to grow as an actress. French New Wave director Chabrol, she said, gave her little direction, in turn granting her almost complete artistic license.
“Working with a director is like building a strong friendship. There is desire, there is love – and for me, reality and truthfulness...
Isabelle Huppert is in focus at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival (Tiff), with the French actress starring in three films in this year’s programme: Elle, Souvenir and Things To Come.
Speaking to festival director and CEO Piers Handling in a masterclass on Saturday (Sept 10), Huppert – whose resume includes over 100 films, television and theatre productions, peppered with a bevy of awards recognition including 15 Cesar nominations – spoke candidly about the highs and lows of her career.
Michael Haneke, Michael Cimino, Claude Chabrol and Claire Denis were among the list of directors she gave credit for helping her to grow as an actress. French New Wave director Chabrol, she said, gave her little direction, in turn granting her almost complete artistic license.
“Working with a director is like building a strong friendship. There is desire, there is love – and for me, reality and truthfulness...
- 9/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Heading into its world premiere today in the auteur-centric Platform section at the Toronto International Film Festival with considerable buzz is the feature debut of acclaimed theater director William Oldroyd, Lady Macbeth. Adapted by the young British playwright Alice Birch from Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novel, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, a work compared in its day to another work of literature with a strong female protagonist, Gustav Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, published just a year later. A Director in Residence at the Young Vic Theater in London, Oldroyd was known for his direction of classics like Ibsen’s Ghosts and then, […]...
- 9/9/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With news about Toronto International Film Festival’s rather exciting 2016 line-up breaking today, a collection of trailers have also been released for a handful of the selections. The first is Feng Ziaogang‘s I Am Not Madame Bovary, which largely features beautiful paintings before moving into even more gorgeous imagery in a peculiar circular aspect ratio.
There’s also the striking (and lengthy, potentially spoiler-filled) trailer for A Death in the Gunj, the directorial debut of Indian actress Konkona Sen Sharma. She looks to have a very strong grasp of a visual vocabulary, probably due to the 40-plus films she’s worked on in an acting capacity.
Lastly, there’s the first trailer, and new images, for Noel Clarke‘s British crime drama BrOTHERHOOD, which caps the trilogy that also includes KiDULTHOOD and AdULTHOOD. See all the trailers below, along with our coverage of Tiff here as it comes in.
There’s also the striking (and lengthy, potentially spoiler-filled) trailer for A Death in the Gunj, the directorial debut of Indian actress Konkona Sen Sharma. She looks to have a very strong grasp of a visual vocabulary, probably due to the 40-plus films she’s worked on in an acting capacity.
Lastly, there’s the first trailer, and new images, for Noel Clarke‘s British crime drama BrOTHERHOOD, which caps the trilogy that also includes KiDULTHOOD and AdULTHOOD. See all the trailers below, along with our coverage of Tiff here as it comes in.
- 7/26/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) programmers have served up the first picks from what will be a typically daunting menu in September.Scroll down for full list of Galas, Special Presentations
The world premiere of Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven will open the 41st Tiff on September 8. The western remake stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard.
It marks a third visit to the festival for Fuqua, who previously screened Training Day and The Equalizer at Tiff.
The festival will close on September 17 with The Edge Of Seventeen, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick.
The coming-of-age comedy-drama marks the feature debut of writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig and is produced by Oscar-winner James L. Brooks (Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets).
Gala world premieres
Unveiling its first wave of titles, Tiff announced that world premieres in its Gala strand would include...
The world premiere of Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven will open the 41st Tiff on September 8. The western remake stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard.
It marks a third visit to the festival for Fuqua, who previously screened Training Day and The Equalizer at Tiff.
The festival will close on September 17 with The Edge Of Seventeen, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick.
The coming-of-age comedy-drama marks the feature debut of writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig and is produced by Oscar-winner James L. Brooks (Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets).
Gala world premieres
Unveiling its first wave of titles, Tiff announced that world premieres in its Gala strand would include...
- 7/26/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival — aka Tiff — has announced its first round of picks for this year’s festival, including Galas and Special Presentations, along with the festival’s opening night selection, Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven,” and their closing night pick, Kelly Fremon Craig’s feature directorial debut “The Edge of Seventeen.” Filled with early awards contenders, returning filmmakers and favorites from other festivals from around the globe, it’s a meaty selection of offerings that firmly announces the imminent arrival of the cinematic bonanza otherwise known as the fall festival season.
There are plenty of familiar faces here, including Denis Villeneuve, who will be bringing his “Arrival” to the same festival that has also screened his “Sicario” and “Prisoners” in previous years. The year after debuting his “Being Charlie” at Tiff, director Rob Reiner will return with his Woody Harrelson-starring biopic “Lbj.” Lone Scherfig, who has...
There are plenty of familiar faces here, including Denis Villeneuve, who will be bringing his “Arrival” to the same festival that has also screened his “Sicario” and “Prisoners” in previous years. The year after debuting his “Being Charlie” at Tiff, director Rob Reiner will return with his Woody Harrelson-starring biopic “Lbj.” Lone Scherfig, who has...
- 7/26/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It had been a long time since I was in the same room with director Michael Cimino. My first job out of Nyu Cinema Studies was in the publicity department at United Artists in New York, where I witnessed the long delays on Cimino’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 1978 anti-war diatribe “The Deer Hunter,” the period western “Heaven’s Gate.”
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
The director got caught up in chasing authenticity in the myriad details of the production, training for weeks the cast led by Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert to roller-skate for one scene — and demanding endless retakes until he shot more feet of film, over 1 million, than even Francis Coppola did on another memorably out-of-control UA movie, “Apocalypse Now.” The original $11 million budget bloated to $32 million (Cimino’s figure), as recounted in Steven Bach’s “Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’
“Heaven’s...
- 7/2/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Paris-based Zorba is developing a slate of Asia-set projects and will produce Jero Yun’s debut fiction feature, Ma Mère.
Paris-based and Shanghai production house Zorba has unveiled a slate of upcoming feature film co-productions, expanding its footprint into Asia and in particular China.
Among the upcoming projects is South Korean director Jero Yun’s Ma Mère, directly inspired by his feature-length documentary Mrs B., A North Korean Woman which premieres in Cannes Acid selection today (May 19). The filmmaker is also in Cannes with short film The Hitchhiker, which played in Directors’ Fortnight.
The documentary follows the real-life story of a North Korean woman who is human trafficked to China and in turn resorts to trafficking to raise money to get her sons out of the dictatorship which was once her home.
“Ma Mère continues Jero’s exploration of the human impact of Korea’s north-south divide. It revolves around a student living in Northern China who out...
Paris-based and Shanghai production house Zorba has unveiled a slate of upcoming feature film co-productions, expanding its footprint into Asia and in particular China.
Among the upcoming projects is South Korean director Jero Yun’s Ma Mère, directly inspired by his feature-length documentary Mrs B., A North Korean Woman which premieres in Cannes Acid selection today (May 19). The filmmaker is also in Cannes with short film The Hitchhiker, which played in Directors’ Fortnight.
The documentary follows the real-life story of a North Korean woman who is human trafficked to China and in turn resorts to trafficking to raise money to get her sons out of the dictatorship which was once her home.
“Ma Mère continues Jero’s exploration of the human impact of Korea’s north-south divide. It revolves around a student living in Northern China who out...
- 5/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSThai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose brilliant Cemetery of Splendor will be released in the Us this spring, has revealed a new installation work, Home Movie, made for Sydney's 2016 Biennale. According to his website, "an exhibition space hosts a cave-like ritual where people gather to simply take in the light": "In this home-cave, the heat is both comfortable and threatening. A fireball is an organic-like machine with phantom fans to blow away the heat and, at the same time, rouse the fire, which is impossible to put out even in dreams."This season seems to be one of cinema masters passing. In addition to the directors who've died over the last month, we've lost two great cinematographers this week. First, Douglas Slocombe, who shot the first three Indian Jones films,...
- 2/27/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Trainee Day
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Writer: Marc Fitoussi
French director Marc Fitoussi is one of several notable filmmakers with an impressive body of work but whose titles never seem to snag Us distribution. He’s been making features for the past decade, including light, frothy comedies such as a pair of Isabelle Huppert headliners like Copacabana (2010) and Paris Follies (2014), a rather loose update on Madame Bovary. He’ll unveil his fifth feature in 2016 with Maman a tort (aka Trainee Day), reuniting with Belgian actress Emile Dequenne who starred in his 2007 debut film La Vie d’Artiste. The film features rising star Jeanne Jestin (of Farhadi’s The Past) as a young woman who discovers a different side of her mother after taking a position at the same office.
Cast: Jeanne Jestin, Emilie Dequenne, Camille Chamoux, Sabrina Ouazani
Production Co.: Avenue B Productions, Versus Production
U.S. Distributor: Rights available...
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Writer: Marc Fitoussi
French director Marc Fitoussi is one of several notable filmmakers with an impressive body of work but whose titles never seem to snag Us distribution. He’s been making features for the past decade, including light, frothy comedies such as a pair of Isabelle Huppert headliners like Copacabana (2010) and Paris Follies (2014), a rather loose update on Madame Bovary. He’ll unveil his fifth feature in 2016 with Maman a tort (aka Trainee Day), reuniting with Belgian actress Emile Dequenne who starred in his 2007 debut film La Vie d’Artiste. The film features rising star Jeanne Jestin (of Farhadi’s The Past) as a young woman who discovers a different side of her mother after taking a position at the same office.
Cast: Jeanne Jestin, Emilie Dequenne, Camille Chamoux, Sabrina Ouazani
Production Co.: Avenue B Productions, Versus Production
U.S. Distributor: Rights available...
- 1/6/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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 the interwebs. 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 Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine)
It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable tonal control from director Anne Fontaine and a winning pair of performances from Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Bovery somehow manages to be an affecting and hilarious treat. Set in modern day Normandy,...
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine)
It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable tonal control from director Anne Fontaine and a winning pair of performances from Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Bovery somehow manages to be an affecting and hilarious treat. Set in modern day Normandy,...
- 11/27/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
"Félix and Meira" gets under your skin. A behind-closed-doors romance in the vein of "Madame Bovary" and "Anna Karenina," Canadian director Maxime Giroux's film is set in the Hasidic Jewish world of Montreal's Mile End district, where a young orthodox mother (Israeli actress Hadas Yaron) falls for an atheist loner (Martin Dubreuil) grieving the death of his father. A self-described atheist, Giroux was inspired to make the film after living in this neighborhood and seeing how difficult Jewish life was for women. "It's way more difficult for women to leave the community without their children," he told me. "We ask so much of our women in every society. For men, it's so easy. We have children, get divorced, go away and take care of those children but not too much. For these women, being a good mother is their role. Yes, they can have their own personality but if you don't make children,...
- 11/22/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
'Saint Joan': Constance Cummings as the George Bernard Shaw heroine. Constance Cummings on stage: From sex-change farce and Emma Bovary to Juliet and 'Saint Joan' (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Frank Capra, Mae West and Columbia Lawsuit.”) In the mid-1930s, Constance Cummings landed the title roles in two of husband Benn W. Levy's stage adaptations: Levy and Hubert Griffith's Young Madame Conti (1936), starring Cummings as a demimondaine who falls in love with a villainous character. She ends up killing him – or does she? Adapted from Bruno Frank's German-language original, Young Madame Conti was presented on both sides of the Atlantic; on Broadway, it had a brief run in spring 1937 at the Music Box Theatre. Based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, the Theatre Guild-produced Madame Bovary (1937) was staged in late fall at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. Referring to the London production of Young Madame Conti, The...
- 11/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Exclusive: Radiant Films International has struck at the market with Klockworx for Japanese rights to two titles on its slate.
President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and her team have sold Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller and Hungry Hearts with Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher.
Madame Bovary is based on Gustave Flaubert’s classic story about a provincial doctor’s wife desperate to escape her banal existence. Occupant Entertainment produced in association with Barthes’ Aden Film and Aleph Motion Picture. Alchemy distributed in the Us.
Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts earned its two leads best actor and actress prizes at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and tells of a couple’s struggle over the life of their newborn child.
“Both Madame Bovary and Hungry Hearts are powerful films with distinctive and memorable performances from star-studded casts,” said Steinbaeur. “I am thrilled that Klockworx, one of Japan’s finest distributors, has seen the...
President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and her team have sold Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller and Hungry Hearts with Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher.
Madame Bovary is based on Gustave Flaubert’s classic story about a provincial doctor’s wife desperate to escape her banal existence. Occupant Entertainment produced in association with Barthes’ Aden Film and Aleph Motion Picture. Alchemy distributed in the Us.
Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts earned its two leads best actor and actress prizes at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and tells of a couple’s struggle over the life of their newborn child.
“Both Madame Bovary and Hungry Hearts are powerful films with distinctive and memorable performances from star-studded casts,” said Steinbaeur. “I am thrilled that Klockworx, one of Japan’s finest distributors, has seen the...
- 11/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Biggest slate to date also includes Planetarium, Money’s Money and Overdrive.
Kinology will launch sales on French director Marc Fitoussi’s coming-of-age tale Trainee Day at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11), in what could be one of the busiest markets yet for Gregory Melin’s Paris-based sales company.
Rising actress Jeanne Jestin, who first hit the big screen in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, plays a teenager who discovers another side to her mother when she takes work experience at her backstabbing office.
Belgian actress Emilie Desquenne, who appeared in Fitoussi’s first feature La Vie d’Artiste, is the mother. Other cast members include director Xavier Beauvois and Sabrina Ouazani.
Fitoussi’s past credits include Copacabana and the Madame Bovary-inspired Folies Bergere, both starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paris-based Kinology will be at the Afm with one its biggest slates to date.
It will also reveal first footage on a number of upcoming films including...
Kinology will launch sales on French director Marc Fitoussi’s coming-of-age tale Trainee Day at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11), in what could be one of the busiest markets yet for Gregory Melin’s Paris-based sales company.
Rising actress Jeanne Jestin, who first hit the big screen in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, plays a teenager who discovers another side to her mother when she takes work experience at her backstabbing office.
Belgian actress Emilie Desquenne, who appeared in Fitoussi’s first feature La Vie d’Artiste, is the mother. Other cast members include director Xavier Beauvois and Sabrina Ouazani.
Fitoussi’s past credits include Copacabana and the Madame Bovary-inspired Folies Bergere, both starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paris-based Kinology will be at the Afm with one its biggest slates to date.
It will also reveal first footage on a number of upcoming films including...
- 10/30/2015
- ScreenDaily
In an outspoken interview, Erik Engelen, former director of acquisitions at Benelux distribution outfit A-Film (and still a consultant there), has given his views on what has brought one of the region’s most respected independent companies to its knees.
“The essence of the failure of A-Film lies in its past,” Engelen said. “I don’t want to make it into a mudfight between us (the current management) and the previous management but what people sometimes forget is that when the current shareholders took over the company eight or nine years ago, there was already at that point a serious deficit.”
One point that Engelen made forcefully is that A-Film did not benefit nearly as much from its release of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy as had commonly been presumed.
Commenting on how the deal for the Peter Jackson trilogy was structured, Engelen said: “Lord Of The Rings was an amazing success all over the world...
“The essence of the failure of A-Film lies in its past,” Engelen said. “I don’t want to make it into a mudfight between us (the current management) and the previous management but what people sometimes forget is that when the current shareholders took over the company eight or nine years ago, there was already at that point a serious deficit.”
One point that Engelen made forcefully is that A-Film did not benefit nearly as much from its release of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy as had commonly been presumed.
Commenting on how the deal for the Peter Jackson trilogy was structured, Engelen said: “Lord Of The Rings was an amazing success all over the world...
- 10/6/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
It’s almost September and that means Netflix is about to refresh their content, for better or worse. Some of the notable titles leaving include: High Fidelity, Anchorman 2, and The Skeleton Twins. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Monster Squad, Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above), and The Walking Dead: Season 5.
Available 9/1
72 Dangerous Animals: Australia: Season 1
Arthur: Season 17
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)
Battle Creek: Season 1
Blackbird (2014)
Capital C (2014)
Combustion (2013)
Da Jammies: Season 1
Divorce Corp. (2014)
Giggle and Hoot’s Best Ever! (2014)
Hamlet (1990)
Hardball (2001)
Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag (2014)
Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version (1962)
Los hombres también lloran: Season 1
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Mississippi Damned (2009)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Volume 1
Mouk: Season 1
Our Man in Tehran (2013)
Pandas: The Journey Home (2014)
Person of Interest:...
Available 9/1
72 Dangerous Animals: Australia: Season 1
Arthur: Season 17
Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)
Battle Creek: Season 1
Blackbird (2014)
Capital C (2014)
Combustion (2013)
Da Jammies: Season 1
Divorce Corp. (2014)
Giggle and Hoot’s Best Ever! (2014)
Hamlet (1990)
Hardball (2001)
Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag (2014)
Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version (1962)
Los hombres también lloran: Season 1
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Mississippi Damned (2009)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Volume 1
Mouk: Season 1
Our Man in Tehran (2013)
Pandas: The Journey Home (2014)
Person of Interest:...
- 9/2/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
★★☆☆☆ "A boring woman sick of her boring life is not boring," claims Martin (Fabrice Luhini), the nosey French neighbour of Gemma Arterton's titular Gemma Bovery (2014). He's the narrator of this strangely quaint adaptation of Posy Simmons's graphic novel that updates Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary into a sarky modern setting. Martin, a former publisher who has relocated to Normandy, is struck by how closely his new neighbour's life mirrors that of his literary heroine, Bovary - even to the name. Gemma moves with her husband (Jason Flemyng) to a dilapidated cottage and embraces Gallic life drinking wine, visiting the market, going to the boulangerie so she can learn the French for croissant.
- 8/26/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Director: Anne Fontaine; Screenwriters: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer; Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider; Running time: 99 mins; Certificate: 15
Gemma Arterton sets pulses racing in rural France as a modern, much fluffier version of Gustave Flaubert's 19th-century heroine Madame Bovary, but in essence, she is merely replaying her part in 2010's similarly-themed comedy drama Tamara Drewe; that is to say, an object of lust rather than a fully fleshed-out human being.
Both films are based on graphic novels by Posy Simmonds which started life as cartoon strips for The Guardian (the former being a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd). In this case, Flaubert's fallen woman, Gemma, is a Londoner who moves to Normandy with her furniture restorer husband (Jason Flemyng) to live the bucolic life that many a tube-riding, broadsheet-reader fantasises about. Arterton is, as usual, bursting with charm, although the focus is...
Gemma Arterton sets pulses racing in rural France as a modern, much fluffier version of Gustave Flaubert's 19th-century heroine Madame Bovary, but in essence, she is merely replaying her part in 2010's similarly-themed comedy drama Tamara Drewe; that is to say, an object of lust rather than a fully fleshed-out human being.
Both films are based on graphic novels by Posy Simmonds which started life as cartoon strips for The Guardian (the former being a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd). In this case, Flaubert's fallen woman, Gemma, is a Londoner who moves to Normandy with her furniture restorer husband (Jason Flemyng) to live the bucolic life that many a tube-riding, broadsheet-reader fantasises about. Arterton is, as usual, bursting with charm, although the focus is...
- 8/21/2015
- Digital Spy
Fabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton star in a watchable if contrived adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel about a French baker and his British neighbour
This Anglo-French co-production is a watchable if contrived entertainment, sugary and soapy at the same time, bringing a touch of Albert Square to the very heart of picturesque Normandy. It’s an adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery, which began life as a serial in the Guardian; satirising middle-class lifestyle aspiration and, a little like the Woody Allen short story The Kugelmass Episode, it surreally drops modern characters into the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
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This Anglo-French co-production is a watchable if contrived entertainment, sugary and soapy at the same time, bringing a touch of Albert Square to the very heart of picturesque Normandy. It’s an adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery, which began life as a serial in the Guardian; satirising middle-class lifestyle aspiration and, a little like the Woody Allen short story The Kugelmass Episode, it surreally drops modern characters into the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
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- 8/20/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Gustave Flaubert’s perennial novel Madame Bovary is the subject of a faithful adaptation this year, with Mia Wasikowska playing the eponymous protagonist. But it’s not the only retelling of this definitive tale, as Anne Fontaine’s whimsical comedy Gemma Bovery tells a somewhat more subtle, and certainly more creative version – taken directly from Posy
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- 8/18/2015
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Read More: Mia Wasikowska on Being 'Crucified' For 'Madame Bovary' and the Grueling Experience of 'Crimson Peak' Gustave Flaubert's classic novel "Madame Bovary" is no stranger to the big screen, as the 1865 book (impressively enough, it was Flaubert's debut novel) has been translated to film at least seven times over the decades, including a Jean Renoir-directed version from 1934 and a breathless, Isabelle Huppert-starring 1991 take from Claude Chabrol. But that didn't stop filmmaker Sophie Barthes from wanting to make it her own. For her version, Barthes abstained from trying to turn the story of a brutally unsatisfied woman -- Madame Bovary herself -- into an overly modern tale about shame and the consumption of material goods, instead relying on the strength of Flaubert's original story. The result is a mostly faithful take on the novel, which sees Mia Wasikowska memorably taking up the role of Emma Bovary, a...
- 8/5/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Madame Bovary Alchemy Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya. Grade: B Director: Sophie Barthes Screenwriter: Felipe Marino, Sophie Barthes, based on Gustave Flaubert’s novel Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Laura Carmichael, Olivier Gourmet, Paul Giamatti Release date: DVD August 4, 2015 Madame Bovary have been scripted into films on the big screen many times, starting with the 1932 Albert Ray’s version, which was followed by 1949 Vincente Minneli’s, 1969 Hans Schott Schobinger’s, 1991 Claude Chabrol and the latest of 2014 Sophie Barthes’. Director Barthes took some liberties with Flaubert’s novel, by introducing us to Emma (Mia Wasikowska), a pig-farmer’s daughter completing her [ Read More ]
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- 7/30/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Passionately working to achieve your dreams can often be a positive process for people as they strive to improve their lives. But longing and aiming to better your own position in society can also have negative consequences, especially if the actions you take to achieve your goals evoke unfavorable emotions in the people who deeply care about you. French director Sophie Barthes intriguingly realized her goal of releasing her film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s acclaimed novel, ‘Madame Bovary,’ after several years of financial setbacks. The filmmaker’s dream of bringing her version of the story to the screen came true when the drama was released in theaters on June 12, and [ Read More ]
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- 7/15/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The follow-up to Magic Mike lacks numerous elements that helped make the original a global hit: director Steven Soderbergh, Matthew McConaughey, the semblance of a plot and a modicum of wit and intelligence.
None of that seems to bother the Australian females and some blokes who are flocking to Magic Mike Xxl.
The raunchy comedy directed by Gregory Jacobs whipped up about $1 million from last Monday night.s arena premiere in Sydney and Wednesday.s Chicks at the Flicks screenings at Event Cinemas.
The film starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Amber Heard and Jada Pinkett Smith raked in $4.1 million from Thursday to Sunday, ranked in third place, so the cume is $5.1 million.
That.s a stronger debut than Magic Mike, which took $3.8 million in its first weekend and finished with $12.5 million in 2012.
The original saga of the Kings of Tampa, also written by Reid Carolin,...
None of that seems to bother the Australian females and some blokes who are flocking to Magic Mike Xxl.
The raunchy comedy directed by Gregory Jacobs whipped up about $1 million from last Monday night.s arena premiere in Sydney and Wednesday.s Chicks at the Flicks screenings at Event Cinemas.
The film starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Amber Heard and Jada Pinkett Smith raked in $4.1 million from Thursday to Sunday, ranked in third place, so the cume is $5.1 million.
That.s a stronger debut than Magic Mike, which took $3.8 million in its first weekend and finished with $12.5 million in 2012.
The original saga of the Kings of Tampa, also written by Reid Carolin,...
- 7/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Review by Dana Jung
Martin is living a rather mundane life in the south of France, operating a bakery in a small quaint village. He has an attentive but rather shrewish wife and a teenage son, but they don’t really alleviate the boredom he feels. Martin’s existence, however, gets more interesting when a new neighbor arrives in the form of Gemma Bovery. Martin is immediately smitten with the beautiful and vivacious Englishwoman who at first seems to love her new life in the French countryside. As a fan of the Flaubert classic Madame Bovery, Martin also quickly sees similarities between Gemma and the iconic fictional heroine. But are the similarities real or simply a figment of Martin’s rekindled imagination?
The new film Gemma Bovery presents a modernized and sometimes playful account of Flaubert’s literary classic. The 160-year old tale about the rise and fall of a...
Martin is living a rather mundane life in the south of France, operating a bakery in a small quaint village. He has an attentive but rather shrewish wife and a teenage son, but they don’t really alleviate the boredom he feels. Martin’s existence, however, gets more interesting when a new neighbor arrives in the form of Gemma Bovery. Martin is immediately smitten with the beautiful and vivacious Englishwoman who at first seems to love her new life in the French countryside. As a fan of the Flaubert classic Madame Bovery, Martin also quickly sees similarities between Gemma and the iconic fictional heroine. But are the similarities real or simply a figment of Martin’s rekindled imagination?
The new film Gemma Bovery presents a modernized and sometimes playful account of Flaubert’s literary classic. The 160-year old tale about the rise and fall of a...
- 7/10/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Read More: Mia Wasikowska on Making 'Tracks' and Returning to 'Wonderland' Without Tim BurtonThere's a line from Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel "Madame Bovary" that reads, "Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." Mia Wasikowska paid no heed to this warning. The actress, who plays Emma Bovary in Sophie Barthes' recently released adaptation of the groundbreaking novel, has surprisingly few qualms about embodying one of the most iconic female figures in literary history. "People have been imagining Emma Bovary for hundreds of years, and you don’t want fans of the novel to crucify you for portraying her in a different way," Wasikowska told Indiewire. "It’s a little daunting when there’s a huge fan base for a particular novel or character. But I just try to put it out of my mind." This isn't the first time 25-year-old Australian-born Wasikowska has portrayed a literary icon.
- 6/16/2015
- by Emily Buder
- Indiewire
On its surface, Sophie Barthes’s film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes at us like a musty blast of Quality — what the French New Wave critics once called “le cinema du papa.” An immaculate period adaptation seemingly lacking any ironic distance or newfangled reinvention, this feels at first like the kind of Bovary you can lose yourself in — all petticoats and proprieties. (That this is the second Madame Bovary adaptation to open on U.S. shores this month, hot on the heels of Anne Fontaine’s well-acted, but ultimately thin modernization Gemma Bovery, maybe adds to the been-there, done-that quality.) But look closely and you may see that this madame is alive in all sorts of ways. At least for its first half, this is a textured, haunted, remarkably empathetic film. Barthes and her co-writer Felipe Marino feel this Emma Bovary — and they make sure we do, too.
- 6/13/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
Good Time Gal: Barthes’ Sensible Remake of Flaubert’s Classic Novel
Few literary protagonists have reached the heights of notability as the infamous Madame Bovary, from the proto-feminist novel written by French author Gustave Flaubert in 1857. Examining the selfish and inevitably tragic actions of a discontented wife, the titular character is also rather hard to sympathize with considering a multitude of understandable yet frustrating actions. As many literary figures, she’s been resurrected for the big and small screen on multiple occasions over the decades, generally to troubled critical reception. Though Claude Chabrol’s 1991 adaptation is somewhat regarded as the definitive film version, this latest examination is the first to be directed by a woman, a detail being used as a selling point for tuning in. But even if you can ignore the fact that a notoriously bi-sexual French man originally penned the material inspiring this English language co-production, it...
Few literary protagonists have reached the heights of notability as the infamous Madame Bovary, from the proto-feminist novel written by French author Gustave Flaubert in 1857. Examining the selfish and inevitably tragic actions of a discontented wife, the titular character is also rather hard to sympathize with considering a multitude of understandable yet frustrating actions. As many literary figures, she’s been resurrected for the big and small screen on multiple occasions over the decades, generally to troubled critical reception. Though Claude Chabrol’s 1991 adaptation is somewhat regarded as the definitive film version, this latest examination is the first to be directed by a woman, a detail being used as a selling point for tuning in. But even if you can ignore the fact that a notoriously bi-sexual French man originally penned the material inspiring this English language co-production, it...
- 6/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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