The American French Film Festival (Tafff), which was forced to cancel its 2023 edition due to the Hollywood strikes, has unveiled its 2024 dates.
The Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), which oversees the event (formerly known as Colcoa), said the festival would return to the Directors Guild Of America Theater from October 29 to November 3.
“It is with great excitement that we can look forward to hosting The American French Film Festival this year,” said Cécile Rap-Veber, President of the Franco-American Cultural Fund and CEO of partner body Sacem.
“2023 was a very challenging year for the film and television business because of the strikes, but now we can move forward and celebrate the talent and films that this festival showcases every year.”
The event, which is billed as the largest festival devoted to French cinema taking place in the U.S., was create in 1996.
Over the years, it has earned the reputation for being a launchpad for French films,...
The Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf), which oversees the event (formerly known as Colcoa), said the festival would return to the Directors Guild Of America Theater from October 29 to November 3.
“It is with great excitement that we can look forward to hosting The American French Film Festival this year,” said Cécile Rap-Veber, President of the Franco-American Cultural Fund and CEO of partner body Sacem.
“2023 was a very challenging year for the film and television business because of the strikes, but now we can move forward and celebrate the talent and films that this festival showcases every year.”
The event, which is billed as the largest festival devoted to French cinema taking place in the U.S., was create in 1996.
Over the years, it has earned the reputation for being a launchpad for French films,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf) announced on Wednesday that the 28th annual edition of The American French Film Festival (Tafff) will run October 29-November 3 at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Hollywood.
The premier annual event of the Franco American Cultural Fund is the largest French film festival in North America and claims to be the largest festival dedicated to French Films and TV programmes in the world.
Five-time Oscar-nominated Anatomy Of A Fall was among the 23 films, 10 series, four TV movies, and 17 short films announced in the 2023 event, which was cancelled due to the Hollywood strikes.
In 2022 films...
The premier annual event of the Franco American Cultural Fund is the largest French film festival in North America and claims to be the largest festival dedicated to French Films and TV programmes in the world.
Five-time Oscar-nominated Anatomy Of A Fall was among the 23 films, 10 series, four TV movies, and 17 short films announced in the 2023 event, which was cancelled due to the Hollywood strikes.
In 2022 films...
- 1/31/2024
- ScreenDaily
Annie Ernaux is one of the great, living authors; a deeply personal wordsmith with an unconventional writing style, blending the line between reality and fiction, using her life experiences to write memories that are both stirring and fascinating, poetic and striking. She allows her readers the chance to understand not only the life she has led, but the world she grew up in, and so needless to say for her fans – and newcomers – the opportunity to have visual images illustrate her memories makes for truly compelling viewing, so needless to say, we were thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down with the literary icon to discuss documentary The Super 8 Years. Bringing together home videos from across her life, we discuss the film with her in Paris, alongside her son David Ernaux-Briot, who also features prominently within the movie, and has a co-director credit alongside his mother.
As a memoirist,...
As a memoirist,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ holds well.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (June 23-25)Total gross to date Week 1. Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse (Sony) £2m £23.4m 4 2. The Flash (Warner Bros) £1.3m £6.8m 2 3. Asteroid City (Universal) £1.1m £1.2m 1 4. The Little Mermaid (Disney) £1.1m £23.7m 5 5. No Hard Feelings (Sony) £859,488 £1.2m 1
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27
Sony’s Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse has retaken the UK-Ireland box office lead on its fourth weekend in cinemas, reclaiming the top spot following a 59% drop for Warner Bros’ The Flash.
Spider-Verse added just shy of £2m on its fourth session – a 21.8% drop – and has swung to an impressive £23.4m already,...
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (June 23-25)Total gross to date Week 1. Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse (Sony) £2m £23.4m 4 2. The Flash (Warner Bros) £1.3m £6.8m 2 3. Asteroid City (Universal) £1.1m £1.2m 1 4. The Little Mermaid (Disney) £1.1m £23.7m 5 5. No Hard Feelings (Sony) £859,488 £1.2m 1
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27
Sony’s Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse has retaken the UK-Ireland box office lead on its fourth weekend in cinemas, reclaiming the top spot following a 59% drop for Warner Bros’ The Flash.
Spider-Verse added just shy of £2m on its fourth session – a 21.8% drop – and has swung to an impressive £23.4m already,...
- 6/26/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Sony opening ‘No Hard Feelings’ in 554 cinemas.
Universal is opening Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City in 347 cinemas across the UK and Ireland this weekend, one month after the film premiered in Competition at Cannes Film Festival.
Anderson’s 11th feature film follows a writer’s play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to a rural town, to compete in a junior stargazing event, where his worldview is forever changed.
The filmmaker has united perhaps his starriest cast yet for Asteroid City, including Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Jeffrey Wright,...
Universal is opening Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City in 347 cinemas across the UK and Ireland this weekend, one month after the film premiered in Competition at Cannes Film Festival.
Anderson’s 11th feature film follows a writer’s play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to a rural town, to compete in a junior stargazing event, where his worldview is forever changed.
The filmmaker has united perhaps his starriest cast yet for Asteroid City, including Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Jeffrey Wright,...
- 6/23/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Warner Bros.’ superhero film “The Flash” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £4.2 million ($5.4 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
In second place, in its third weekend, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” swung to £2.6 million for a total of £20.3 million. In third position in its fourth weekend, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” earned £1.3 million and now has a splashy £22 million total.
Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts” collected £1.1 million in fourth place in its second weekend for a total of £4.99 million. Elysian’s “Greatest Days” debuted in fifth position with £536,955.
There was one more debut in the top 10. AA Films U.K.’s “Adipurush,” the latest version of Indian mythological epic “Ramayana,” bowed in sixth position with £252,628.
There are two mid-week releases this week, on Wednesday, June 21. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Studiocanal is releasing the final cut of cult British horror...
In second place, in its third weekend, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” swung to £2.6 million for a total of £20.3 million. In third position in its fourth weekend, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” earned £1.3 million and now has a splashy £22 million total.
Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts” collected £1.1 million in fourth place in its second weekend for a total of £4.99 million. Elysian’s “Greatest Days” debuted in fifth position with £536,955.
There was one more debut in the top 10. AA Films U.K.’s “Adipurush,” the latest version of Indian mythological epic “Ramayana,” bowed in sixth position with £252,628.
There are two mid-week releases this week, on Wednesday, June 21. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Studiocanal is releasing the final cut of cult British horror...
- 6/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Harvest Moon, the film that was last year selected as Mongolia’s Oscars contender, has secured distribution deals in Europe and Asia through sales agent Asian Shadows.
Directed by Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, as an adaptation of a novel by T. Bum-Erdene, the narrative tells of the encounter between a man, who unexpectedly returns from the big city to the countryside and then stays on to take up an agricultural role, and boy being brought up by his grandparents. Both are forced to re-evaluate what they had taken for granted.
The film had its world premiere last year at the Vancouver festival, where it won the audience award and followed that with further audience award at Fescaal Milan and two more prizes at the Miworld Young Film Festival Milan. Additionally, Tenuum-Erdene Garamkhand who played the role of the young boy collected the best actor award at the Fribourg Iff.
The film was...
Directed by Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, as an adaptation of a novel by T. Bum-Erdene, the narrative tells of the encounter between a man, who unexpectedly returns from the big city to the countryside and then stays on to take up an agricultural role, and boy being brought up by his grandparents. Both are forced to re-evaluate what they had taken for granted.
The film had its world premiere last year at the Vancouver festival, where it won the audience award and followed that with further audience award at Fescaal Milan and two more prizes at the Miworld Young Film Festival Milan. Additionally, Tenuum-Erdene Garamkhand who played the role of the young boy collected the best actor award at the Fribourg Iff.
The film was...
- 5/22/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSShadow of the Vampire.Willem Dafoe will join Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu film, news that comes 23 years after he played a fictitious version of Murnau's lead actor, Max Schreck, in Shadow of the Vampire. Dafoe’s supporting role is currently “unknown,” according to Deadline, though Eggers's vampire will be Bill Skarsgard.Sight & Sound continues their rollout of the Greatest Films of All Time, now unveiling the critics’ top 250.The great cinematographer Caroline Champetier will be honored with the Berlinale Camera award at this year’s festival, marking a career of beautifully lensed films for Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Margarethe von Trotta, Claude Lanzmann, and Leos Carax, among many others.Following Sundance’s closing awards ceremony, we’ve compiled the full list of winners here on Notebook.
- 2/1/2023
- MUBI
French novelist Annie Ernaux, whose novel Happening was the inspiration for Audrey Diwan’s 2021 Venice Golden Lion winner of the same name, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 82-year-old writer is known for her body of semi-autobiographical works charting the lives of women and social change in France from the 1960s onwards.
Highlights of her literary career span her 1974 debut work Cleaned Out (Les Armoires Vides), A Man’s Place (1984), A Woman’s Story (1987) and her 2008 memoir The Years.
A number of her novels have been successfully adapted to the big screen, topped by Diwan’s Happening, which was adapted from Ernaux’s 2019 novella. Diwan, a novelist herself, consulted with Ernaux as she wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The powerful drama is based on Ernaux’s experiences when she fell pregnant as a student in the early 1960s when abortions were illegal in France.
Other features based on Ernaux...
The 82-year-old writer is known for her body of semi-autobiographical works charting the lives of women and social change in France from the 1960s onwards.
Highlights of her literary career span her 1974 debut work Cleaned Out (Les Armoires Vides), A Man’s Place (1984), A Woman’s Story (1987) and her 2008 memoir The Years.
A number of her novels have been successfully adapted to the big screen, topped by Diwan’s Happening, which was adapted from Ernaux’s 2019 novella. Diwan, a novelist herself, consulted with Ernaux as she wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The powerful drama is based on Ernaux’s experiences when she fell pregnant as a student in the early 1960s when abortions were illegal in France.
Other features based on Ernaux...
- 10/6/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The directorial debut of veteran French literary star revisits 1970s France through family home videos of the period.
Paris-based company Totem has boarded sales on Directors’ Fortnight documentary The Super 8 Years, the feature directorial debut of veteran French literary star Annie Ernaux with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Ernaux, 81, is one of France’s most respected contemporary writers for her body of work capturing life for women and social change in the country from the 1960s onwards.
A number of her novels have been adapted to the big screen in recent years including Passion Simple by Danielle Arbid in 2020 and Happening by Audrey Diwan,...
Paris-based company Totem has boarded sales on Directors’ Fortnight documentary The Super 8 Years, the feature directorial debut of veteran French literary star Annie Ernaux with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Ernaux, 81, is one of France’s most respected contemporary writers for her body of work capturing life for women and social change in the country from the 1960s onwards.
A number of her novels have been adapted to the big screen in recent years including Passion Simple by Danielle Arbid in 2020 and Happening by Audrey Diwan,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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