International Film Festival of India (Iffi), which was founded in 1952, was back for the 48th year in Goa. The opening ceremony of Iffi ceremony took place in Goa on November 21 with Ishaan Khatter’s Beyond The Clouds premiere. Last night, it was the closing ceremony of the festival where a lot of celebrities wereRead More
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- 11/29/2017
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
International Film Festival of India (Iffi), which was founded in 1952, was back for the 48th year in Goa. The opening ceremony of Iffi ceremony took place in Goa on November 21 with Ishaan Khatter’s Beyond The Clouds premiere. Today, it was the closing ceremony of the festival. As the celebrities arrived in Goa thisRead More
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- 11/28/2017
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The 61st BFI London Film Festival has announced its full program for this year’s festival, featuring a large selection of 242 feature films from both established and emerging talent. This year, the festival will host 29 World Premieres, 8 International Premieres and 34 European Premieres. The 242 features screening at the festival include: 46 documentaries, 6 animations, 14 archive restorations and 16 artists’ moving image features. The festival also includes 128 short films, and 67 countries are represented across short film and features.
As was previously announced, the starry festival, often viewed as a major launchpad for awards contention, will open with Andy Serkis’ much-anticipated true-life directorial debut “Breathe” and close out with Martin McDonagh’s Frances McDormand-starring “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Read More:‘Breathe’ Trailer: Andy Serkis’ Directorial Debut Could Bring Andrew Garfield Back to the Oscar Race
Those exciting titles are now joined by a wealth of other major contenders, including “Call Me By Your Name,...
As was previously announced, the starry festival, often viewed as a major launchpad for awards contention, will open with Andy Serkis’ much-anticipated true-life directorial debut “Breathe” and close out with Martin McDonagh’s Frances McDormand-starring “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Read More:‘Breathe’ Trailer: Andy Serkis’ Directorial Debut Could Bring Andrew Garfield Back to the Oscar Race
Those exciting titles are now joined by a wealth of other major contenders, including “Call Me By Your Name,...
- 8/31/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
French actress Jeanne Moreau has died aged 89.
She was found dead at her home in Paris, the district’s mayor told AFP.
Moreau’s hugely successful career included roles in Elevator To The Gallows and Lovers (both directed by Louis Malle), Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte and Beyond The Clouds, Luis Buñuel’s Diary Of A Chambermaid and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle.
Her most famous role was perhaps in François Truffaut’s New Wave classic Jules et Jim, a hugely influential international hit.
Moreau won the best actress prize at Cannes for Seven Days… Seven Nights in 1960, a best foreign actress Bafta for Viva Maria! in 1965 and was awarded the Bafta Fellowship in 1996.
She was also honoured with a Cesar for best actress, for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea in 1992, and continued acting into her 80s.
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She was found dead at her home in Paris, the district’s mayor told AFP.
Moreau’s hugely successful career included roles in Elevator To The Gallows and Lovers (both directed by Louis Malle), Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte and Beyond The Clouds, Luis Buñuel’s Diary Of A Chambermaid and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle.
Her most famous role was perhaps in François Truffaut’s New Wave classic Jules et Jim, a hugely influential international hit.
Moreau won the best actress prize at Cannes for Seven Days… Seven Nights in 1960, a best foreign actress Bafta for Viva Maria! in 1965 and was awarded the Bafta Fellowship in 1996.
She was also honoured with a Cesar for best actress, for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea in 1992, and continued acting into her 80s.
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- 7/31/2017
- ScreenDaily
Iranian film-maker Majid Majidi is all set to roll his first Indian film titled Beyond The Clouds. The acclaimed film maker handpicked Ishaan Khatter (actor Shahid Kapoor’s younger brother) for his film.
(L-r) Producer Kishor Arora, A R Rahman, Majid Majidi, Ishaan Khatter, Producer Shareen Mantri Kedia, Akash Chawla – Business Head, Zee Studios
Beyond The Clouds dwells on the adoration of love and life. Produced by Zee Studios and Eyecandy Films, the film dwells on nuanced human relationships, an area that we understand Mr. Majidi specialises in.
In another coup, music maestro A R Rahman will be working on the score of the project. This is Rahman’s second association with the director.
The film went on the floor yesterday in Mumbai. Apart from the director and Ishaan, others present and marking the occasion of the first day of shoot were music maestro A R Rahman, producers of the film,...
(L-r) Producer Kishor Arora, A R Rahman, Majid Majidi, Ishaan Khatter, Producer Shareen Mantri Kedia, Akash Chawla – Business Head, Zee Studios
Beyond The Clouds dwells on the adoration of love and life. Produced by Zee Studios and Eyecandy Films, the film dwells on nuanced human relationships, an area that we understand Mr. Majidi specialises in.
In another coup, music maestro A R Rahman will be working on the score of the project. This is Rahman’s second association with the director.
The film went on the floor yesterday in Mumbai. Apart from the director and Ishaan, others present and marking the occasion of the first day of shoot were music maestro A R Rahman, producers of the film,...
- 1/24/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Irène Jacob Cuts Deep
By Alex Simon
French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob cemented her status as one of her generation’s greatest talents through her work with legendary Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski: The Double Life of Veronique (1991, for which she was awarded Best Actress at Cannes) and the final chapter of his Three Colors Trilogy, Red (1994).
Jacob comes from an accomplished family: her father Maurice was a renowned French physicist, her mother a successful psychotherapist, and her three brothers are composed of two scientists and a musician. After making her film debut in Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants in 1987, Jacob has literally not stopped working. Her latest film, written and directed by her co-star Arnaud Viard, is Paris Love Cut, Viard’s semi-autobiographical tale of a filmmaker trying to balance his personal life, career and sanity in an increasingly shifting landscape. Jacob is delightful as Viard’s very patient (and very pregnant) fiancée.
By Alex Simon
French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob cemented her status as one of her generation’s greatest talents through her work with legendary Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski: The Double Life of Veronique (1991, for which she was awarded Best Actress at Cannes) and the final chapter of his Three Colors Trilogy, Red (1994).
Jacob comes from an accomplished family: her father Maurice was a renowned French physicist, her mother a successful psychotherapist, and her three brothers are composed of two scientists and a musician. After making her film debut in Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants in 1987, Jacob has literally not stopped working. Her latest film, written and directed by her co-star Arnaud Viard, is Paris Love Cut, Viard’s semi-autobiographical tale of a filmmaker trying to balance his personal life, career and sanity in an increasingly shifting landscape. Jacob is delightful as Viard’s very patient (and very pregnant) fiancée.
- 12/7/2016
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Ahead of the re-release of the 1962 film L’Eclisse, the director’s widow reflects on their anguished relationship, his personal demons and her enduring loyalty
It could have been one of those lingering shots of which Michelangelo Antonioni was so fond. And something like it does indeed appear in his 1995 movie, Beyond the Clouds. Enrica Fico, then 18, was sitting with a friend, an artist, Eugenio Carmi, at a table outside a cafe in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome.
“The square was deserted because it was winter,” she says, 43 years on. “I saw Michelangelo arrive from the Via del Corso in his car and walk across from the other side of the square. I saw him pay off the posteggiatore [self-appointed parking attendant] and set off towards me. He had a nervy walk, because he had a nervy physique – a very young physique. He had nervous tics, too. And a body full of creative energy.
It could have been one of those lingering shots of which Michelangelo Antonioni was so fond. And something like it does indeed appear in his 1995 movie, Beyond the Clouds. Enrica Fico, then 18, was sitting with a friend, an artist, Eugenio Carmi, at a table outside a cafe in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome.
“The square was deserted because it was winter,” she says, 43 years on. “I saw Michelangelo arrive from the Via del Corso in his car and walk across from the other side of the square. I saw him pay off the posteggiatore [self-appointed parking attendant] and set off towards me. He had a nervy walk, because he had a nervy physique – a very young physique. He had nervous tics, too. And a body full of creative energy.
- 8/27/2015
- by John Hooper
- The Guardian - Film News
In a eclectic career spanning four decades, German auteur Wim Wenders has done it all: won the Palme D’or (“Paris, Texas”), created classic existentialist dramas (“Wings of Desires,” “The American Friend”), adopted digital filmmaking earlier than most (1991’s “Until the End of the World”), spawned multi-million selling albums from his music documentaries (“Buena Vista Social Club”), created an ahead-of-its-time 3D Dance documentary ("Piña"), and has celebrated some of the greatest auteurs in cinema through various documentaries and films ("Toyko Ga" about Yasujirō Ozu; "Lightning Over Water" about the final days of Nicholas Ray; the Cannes documentary "Room 666"; and helping the stroke-impaired Michelangelo Antonioni direct his final film “Beyond The Clouds”). Wenders’ latest film "The Salt Of The Earth" (co-directed with Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) is a celebration of the gorgeous and haunting black and white works by...
- 11/14/2014
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Directed by:Dean DeBlois
Starring: (voices of) Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig, Gerard Butler
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Trailer Score: 9/10
Thoughts by Tsr: Simple, effective, and absolutely beautiful: This is how you do a teaser. There isn’t much to it – to be expected considering the film doesn’t come out until June 2014 – but every moment is executed with beautiful perfection. I liked How to Train Your Dragon just fine back in 2010. Still, I haven’t been particularly excited about the prospect of a sequel. Part of that could be because it’s so far off, though I usually have no problem looking forward to films a year or two ahead of time. This teaser has changed that. While it’s not even a given that this sequence will show up in the final film, it did its job and then some...
Directed by:Dean DeBlois
Starring: (voices of) Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig, Gerard Butler
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Trailer Score: 9/10
Thoughts by Tsr: Simple, effective, and absolutely beautiful: This is how you do a teaser. There isn’t much to it – to be expected considering the film doesn’t come out until June 2014 – but every moment is executed with beautiful perfection. I liked How to Train Your Dragon just fine back in 2010. Still, I haven’t been particularly excited about the prospect of a sequel. Part of that could be because it’s so far off, though I usually have no problem looking forward to films a year or two ahead of time. This teaser has changed that. While it’s not even a given that this sequence will show up in the final film, it did its job and then some...
- 7/30/2013
- by Shane T. Nier
- The Scorecard Review
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 29, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau confront their alienation from each other in La Notte.
The 1961 film drama La Notte is Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni’s (Beyond the Clouds) follow-up to the epochal L’avventura.
Marcello Mastroianni (Marriage Italian Style) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim) star as a novelist and his frustrated wife who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Alongside side of them, Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti (Red Desert) smolders as an industrialist’s tempting daughter.
A psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work filled with moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances, La Notte is a provocative portrayal of romantic and social deterioration.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD contain the following features:
• New 4K digital restoration,...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau confront their alienation from each other in La Notte.
The 1961 film drama La Notte is Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni’s (Beyond the Clouds) follow-up to the epochal L’avventura.
Marcello Mastroianni (Marriage Italian Style) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim) star as a novelist and his frustrated wife who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Alongside side of them, Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti (Red Desert) smolders as an industrialist’s tempting daughter.
A psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work filled with moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances, La Notte is a provocative portrayal of romantic and social deterioration.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD contain the following features:
• New 4K digital restoration,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
DVD Release Date: Feb. 26, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Kim Rossi-Stuart (l.) and Inés Sastre enjoy each other's company in Beyond the Clouds.
Legendary filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni (I Vinti) and Wim Wenders (Pina) teamed up to create the 1995 drama-romance film Beyond the Clouds.
Co-written by Antonioni, Wenders and Tonino Guerra and directed by Antonioni, Beyond the Clouds, told from the dreamlike perspective of a wandering film director (portrayed by Secretariat‘s John Malkovich), weaves together four stories of love and lust, inspired by Antonioni’s book about the enigmatic power of modern relationships.
Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story–which always has a woman at its center–turns inwards in its examination of love. Or, as the late Antonioni put it, the stories turn “towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see.” Er, okay….
Featuring music from Van Morrison,...
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Kim Rossi-Stuart (l.) and Inés Sastre enjoy each other's company in Beyond the Clouds.
Legendary filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni (I Vinti) and Wim Wenders (Pina) teamed up to create the 1995 drama-romance film Beyond the Clouds.
Co-written by Antonioni, Wenders and Tonino Guerra and directed by Antonioni, Beyond the Clouds, told from the dreamlike perspective of a wandering film director (portrayed by Secretariat‘s John Malkovich), weaves together four stories of love and lust, inspired by Antonioni’s book about the enigmatic power of modern relationships.
Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story–which always has a woman at its center–turns inwards in its examination of love. Or, as the late Antonioni put it, the stories turn “towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see.” Er, okay….
Featuring music from Van Morrison,...
- 1/4/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The Italian master's challenging and difficult L'Avventura was booed at its premiere in Cannes. But nowadays the director gets something far more hurtful: indifference
This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. As well as everything else, he gave us one of the founding myths of postwar cinema: The Booing of L'Avventura. For film historians, it's as pretty much important as the audience riots at the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
At the Cannes film festival on 15 May 1960, Antonioni presented his L'Avventura, a challenging and difficult film and a decisive break from his earlier work, replete with languorous spaces and silences. This was movie-modernism's difficult birth. The film was jeered so ferociously, so deafeningly, that poor Antonioni and his beautiful star Monica Vitti burst into tears where they sat. There...
This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. As well as everything else, he gave us one of the founding myths of postwar cinema: The Booing of L'Avventura. For film historians, it's as pretty much important as the audience riots at the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
At the Cannes film festival on 15 May 1960, Antonioni presented his L'Avventura, a challenging and difficult film and a decisive break from his earlier work, replete with languorous spaces and silences. This was movie-modernism's difficult birth. The film was jeered so ferociously, so deafeningly, that poor Antonioni and his beautiful star Monica Vitti burst into tears where they sat. There...
- 9/27/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In conjunction with La Furia Umana, Notebook is very happy to present Ted Fendt's original English translation of Luc Moullet's "Rockefeller's Melancholy," on Michelangelo Antonioni. Moullet's original French version can be found at La Furia Umana. Our special thanks to Mr. Moullet, La Furia Umana and Ted Fendt for making this possible.
Above: "John D. Rockefeller" (1917) by John Singer Sargent.
Drifting is the fundamental subject of Antonioni’s films. They are about beings who don’t know where they are going, who constantly contradict themselves, and are guided by their momentary impulses. We don’t understand what they feel or why they act as they do.
Psychological cinema could be defined in this way: it is psychological when you don’t understand the motivation of emotions and behaviors. If you understand, it means it’s easy, immediately, at a very superficial level... The filmmaker must therefore let it be...
Above: "John D. Rockefeller" (1917) by John Singer Sargent.
Drifting is the fundamental subject of Antonioni’s films. They are about beings who don’t know where they are going, who constantly contradict themselves, and are guided by their momentary impulses. We don’t understand what they feel or why they act as they do.
Psychological cinema could be defined in this way: it is psychological when you don’t understand the motivation of emotions and behaviors. If you understand, it means it’s easy, immediately, at a very superficial level... The filmmaker must therefore let it be...
- 4/2/2012
- MUBI
The legendary Italian scriptwriter and novelist, who died yesterday, worked with a host of Europe's greatest auteurs. Here we pick the highlights of his extraordinary oeuvre
It was Tonino Guerra's fate to become the scriptwriter of choice for a string of master directors whose status as auteurs – "authors" of their films – tended to diminish the status of the writers involved. Nevertheless, Guerra established himself as a major figure in Italian cinema during its golden period in the 1960s and early 70s, as well as venturing further afield to collaborate with the likes of Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos.
But it is the amazing string of films he made with Michelangelo Antonioni for which he will primarily be remembered. After spending time as a schoolteacher in his 20s, he broke into the film industry in his 30s, receiving his first credit aged 37 for Man and Wolves, by Bitter Rice director Giuseppe de Santis.
It was Tonino Guerra's fate to become the scriptwriter of choice for a string of master directors whose status as auteurs – "authors" of their films – tended to diminish the status of the writers involved. Nevertheless, Guerra established himself as a major figure in Italian cinema during its golden period in the 1960s and early 70s, as well as venturing further afield to collaborate with the likes of Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos.
But it is the amazing string of films he made with Michelangelo Antonioni for which he will primarily be remembered. After spending time as a schoolteacher in his 20s, he broke into the film industry in his 30s, receiving his first credit aged 37 for Man and Wolves, by Bitter Rice director Giuseppe de Santis.
- 3/22/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Screenwriter and poet who co-scripted films with Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing...
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing...
- 3/22/2012
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
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