Roman Polanski’s “The Palace” has been set for release in Italian theatres in September, prompting speculation that the controversial director’s black comedy set in a posh hotel in the Swiss Alps resort of Gstaad on the eve of the new millennium could be launching from the Venice Film Festival.
Italy’s Rai Cinema, which is a main backer of Polanski’s new film, has slated a September 28 local release date via its 01 Distribuzione unit for “The Palace,” which has an ensemble cast including Mickey Rourke, John Cleese and Fanny Ardant. Other key cast members include German actor Oliver Masucci (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”); Portugal’s Joaquin De Almeida; the U.K.’s Bronwyn James (“The Dig”) and Italy’s Fortunato Cerlino (”Gomorrah”).
The Palace/Courtesy Rai Cinema
Besides announcing the release date, production company Eliseo Entertainment and Rai Cinema have also issued a dippy decadent poster...
Italy’s Rai Cinema, which is a main backer of Polanski’s new film, has slated a September 28 local release date via its 01 Distribuzione unit for “The Palace,” which has an ensemble cast including Mickey Rourke, John Cleese and Fanny Ardant. Other key cast members include German actor Oliver Masucci (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”); Portugal’s Joaquin De Almeida; the U.K.’s Bronwyn James (“The Dig”) and Italy’s Fortunato Cerlino (”Gomorrah”).
The Palace/Courtesy Rai Cinema
Besides announcing the release date, production company Eliseo Entertainment and Rai Cinema have also issued a dippy decadent poster...
- 6/8/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Since premiering his last film “An Officer and a Spy” in competition at Venice in 2019, Roman Polanski has fallen from grace in France. But he’s now back with a new movie called “The Palace” that could make a surprise splash on the festival circuit.
Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, was leading a pleasant life in France for decades until he came back into the global spotlight with the Lido premiere of “An Officer and a Spy” and scooped the Grand Jury Prize.
Shortly after the movie’s Venice bow, Polanski faced new allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denies. When he went on to win best director at France’s Cesar Awards, the country’s equivalent of the Oscars, industry outcry prompted a complete overhaul of the leadership of the awards org. The scandal sparked the...
Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, was leading a pleasant life in France for decades until he came back into the global spotlight with the Lido premiere of “An Officer and a Spy” and scooped the Grand Jury Prize.
Shortly after the movie’s Venice bow, Polanski faced new allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denies. When he went on to win best director at France’s Cesar Awards, the country’s equivalent of the Oscars, industry outcry prompted a complete overhaul of the leadership of the awards org. The scandal sparked the...
- 2/2/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
There was a time, not so long ago, when Roman Polanski was the toast of the film industry in France, where the director has been living since 1978, when he fled the United States before sentencing after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Despite the scandal and ongoing legal issues, the veteran auteur has flourished as a filmmaker in his adopted country, celebrated as a lifelong member of France’s illustrious Academie des Beaux Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) and showered with a half-dozen César Awards, the latest three of which, including best director, are for his 2019 drama “An Officer and a Spy.”
But things are changing. The director’s latest César win, combined with more recent allegations of sexual misconduct, sparked outrage from French feminist groups and led to the 21-member board of the organization that oversees the Césars to resign en masse. Polanski has denied the more recent misconduct allegations.
Despite the scandal and ongoing legal issues, the veteran auteur has flourished as a filmmaker in his adopted country, celebrated as a lifelong member of France’s illustrious Academie des Beaux Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) and showered with a half-dozen César Awards, the latest three of which, including best director, are for his 2019 drama “An Officer and a Spy.”
But things are changing. The director’s latest César win, combined with more recent allegations of sexual misconduct, sparked outrage from French feminist groups and led to the 21-member board of the organization that oversees the Césars to resign en masse. Polanski has denied the more recent misconduct allegations.
- 5/22/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rwanda-born writer Scholastique Mukasonga’s 2012 novel “Notre-Dame du Nil” is not specifically about the 1994 Rwandan genocide but rather how class division, colonialism and economic disparity created a toxic stew of resentment and prejudice that made the genocide possible. By using a Rwandan all-girls Catholic boarding school as her microcosm, she lays out how the seeds of ethnic hatred were planted, nurtured and encouraged to blossom. Still, any adaptation of Mukasonga’s book holds the promise of being that long-awaited great film about the country’s ethnic strife and how it exploded into a historic bloodbath that saw members of Rwanda’s Hutu majority slaughter 800,000 of their countrymen, mostly members of the Tutsi minority, in only three months.
If “Our Lady of the Nile” is ultimately not the definitive telling of the genocide, it is something equally valuable: the tragedy’s illuminative prequel, a straightforward origin story faithfully adapted from an essential text.
If “Our Lady of the Nile” is ultimately not the definitive telling of the genocide, it is something equally valuable: the tragedy’s illuminative prequel, a straightforward origin story faithfully adapted from an essential text.
- 9/6/2019
- by Mark Keizer
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Atiq Rahimi’s “Our Lady of the Nile” (“Notre-Dame du Nil”), the Kabul-born novelist-turned-director’s follow up to the “The Patience Stone.”
“Our Lady of the Nile” is adapted for the screen by Rahimi and Ramata Sy from the award-winning novel by Scholastique Mukasonga and unfolds in Rwanda in 1973.
Pic takes place at a prestigious and secluded Catholic boarding school, where the girls, an ethnic mix of majority Hutus and only 10% Tutsis, are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. But some deep-seated antagonism between the groups begins to arise at the school as well as throughout the country.
Now in post, “Our Lady of the Nile” is produced by Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2 and Les Films du Tambour (“Sibel”).
Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales’ co-founder, said the “script depicts in a very vibrant and heartbreaking way the birth of the dramatic events that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis 21 years later.
“Our Lady of the Nile” is adapted for the screen by Rahimi and Ramata Sy from the award-winning novel by Scholastique Mukasonga and unfolds in Rwanda in 1973.
Pic takes place at a prestigious and secluded Catholic boarding school, where the girls, an ethnic mix of majority Hutus and only 10% Tutsis, are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. But some deep-seated antagonism between the groups begins to arise at the school as well as throughout the country.
Now in post, “Our Lady of the Nile” is produced by Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2 and Les Films du Tambour (“Sibel”).
Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales’ co-founder, said the “script depicts in a very vibrant and heartbreaking way the birth of the dramatic events that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis 21 years later.
- 2/7/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Wild Bunch is launching sales on Pan-Européenne-led production at Unifrance Rdv in Paris.
The UK’s Altitude Film Entertainment has boarded French director Pierre Godeau’s upcoming adaptation of Jean-Jacques Sempé’s heart-warming tale Raoul Taburin.
Set against the backdrop of a small French town, the film will star Benoît Poelvoorde as the endearingly comic figure of Raoul Taburin, a reputed bicycle shop owner desperate to hide the fact he cannot ride a bike himself.
Altitude has pre-bought UK rights with company chief Will Clarke taking an executive producer credit.
The deal builds on a growing relationship between Altitude and Nathalie Gastaldo-Godeau and Philippe Godeau’s Paris and London-based Pan-Européene which has developed since the couple moved to the UK in 2015.
Last year, the two companies entered a partnership for the UK release of Jérôme Salles’s Jacques Cousteau bio-pic The Odyssey, under which the film will hit UK screens this June.
Discussions on Raoul...
The UK’s Altitude Film Entertainment has boarded French director Pierre Godeau’s upcoming adaptation of Jean-Jacques Sempé’s heart-warming tale Raoul Taburin.
Set against the backdrop of a small French town, the film will star Benoît Poelvoorde as the endearingly comic figure of Raoul Taburin, a reputed bicycle shop owner desperate to hide the fact he cannot ride a bike himself.
Altitude has pre-bought UK rights with company chief Will Clarke taking an executive producer credit.
The deal builds on a growing relationship between Altitude and Nathalie Gastaldo-Godeau and Philippe Godeau’s Paris and London-based Pan-Européene which has developed since the couple moved to the UK in 2015.
Last year, the two companies entered a partnership for the UK release of Jérôme Salles’s Jacques Cousteau bio-pic The Odyssey, under which the film will hit UK screens this June.
Discussions on Raoul...
- 1/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
‘Tell No One’ thriller to get Hollywood remake (photo: ‘Tell No One’ 2006, with François Cluzet and Marie-Josée Croze) Gavin O’Connor, among whose credits are Tumbleweeds, Warrior, and the upcoming Natalie Portman action drama Jane Got a Gun, "is in negotiations" to direct Universal and Warner Bros.’ thriller Tell No One, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Whether the film will be a direct remake of Guillaume Canet’s Ne le dis à personne (2006), starring François Cluzet and Marie-Josée Croze, or be based on the original source — Harlan Coben’s novel Tell No One — is unclear. Canet and Philippe Lefebvre were credited for the screenplay of the French movie. Frequent Steven Spielberg collaborator Frank Marshall (The Color Purple, War Horse, Jurassic World) is producing the new Tell No One. Academy Award winner Chris Terrio (Argo) will be writing the adaptation. Curiously, Argo director Ben Affleck had been previously attached to this...
- 11/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ben Kingsley: Roman Polanski Prada commercial A Therapy Roman Polanski is everywhere at the Cannes Film Festival. Polanski is the subject (and interviewee) of Laurent Bouzereau’s documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir. He unveiled a restored print of his 1979/1980 Best Picture César and Oscar nominee Tess, starring Nastassja Kinski. And he is the director of the short film / Prada commercial A Therapy. Starring Helena Bonham Carter as a poor little Prada-clad rich woman and Ben Kingsley as her therapist and Prada aficionado, A Therapy was shown prior to the Tess screening. (Please scroll down.) Co-written by Polanski and The Ghost Writer‘s Ronald Harwood, A Therapy boasts music by The Queen‘s Alexandre Desplat, gorgeous cinematography by Girl with the Pearl Earring‘s Eduardo Serra, production design by The Godfather‘s Dean Tavoularis, and editing by The Pianist‘s Hervé de Luze. Ah, and costume design by, I guess,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Roman Polanski's adaptation of the award-winning play God of Carnage is technically excellent and often bleakly funny, but it's ultimately unmoving. While one would expect nothing less than carefully executed shots, excellent performances, and tight editing from longtime collaborator Hervé de Luze, the final product feels less like the anxiety-filled nightmares Polanski is famous for than a way for the director to show off his technical talents. Simply put, Polanski phones it in. There is nothing surprising about Carnage. Although it has the hallmarks of a Polanski film -- the claustrophobia-inducing apartment and hallway that the characters can't escape; the slow unraveling of social niceties -- it never...
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- 10/1/2011
- by Jenni Miller
- Movies.com
"With the possible exception of 'pretentious,' no adjective is of less critical use than 'boring,' but holy crap was I bored out of my skull by André Téchiné's Unforgivable, screening in the Directors' Fortnight," writes Mike D'Angelo at the Av Club. "So much so, in fact, that I don't have a whole lot to say about it other than: avoid."
"André Dussollier plays a jaded writer who goes to Venice to work on a new book," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. "He instantly starts a wildly implausible affair with Carole Bouquet, playing the estate agent who rented him his pad. Bouquet used to have a lesbian affair with an alcoholic who is also a private detective. Dusollier hires her to search for his daughter, who has run off with an aristocratic drug dealer. Then he hires the private detective's ex-jailbird son to spy on his wife. It is all utterly bizarre,...
"André Dussollier plays a jaded writer who goes to Venice to work on a new book," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. "He instantly starts a wildly implausible affair with Carole Bouquet, playing the estate agent who rented him his pad. Bouquet used to have a lesbian affair with an alcoholic who is also a private detective. Dusollier hires her to search for his daughter, who has run off with an aristocratic drug dealer. Then he hires the private detective's ex-jailbird son to spy on his wife. It is all utterly bizarre,...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Sony Pictures Classics has finalized a deal to distribute Roman Polanski's Carnage. The film is an adaptation of the Broadway hit God of Carnage. The film has a great cast that includes Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz. They star as four thespians who, "play two couple who come together one evening to discuss the behavior of their children, only for things to quickly become heated." Earlier we shared some stills from the film so check those out here.
I love most of Polanski's films, especially his last film The Ghost Writer. This sounds like a cool story, so I am interested in seeing this. What are your thoughts?
For all the details, check out the full press release below.
New York (April 14, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Roman Polanski’s new film, Carnage, in North America. Polanski penned the script with Yasmina Reza,...
I love most of Polanski's films, especially his last film The Ghost Writer. This sounds like a cool story, so I am interested in seeing this. What are your thoughts?
For all the details, check out the full press release below.
New York (April 14, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Roman Polanski’s new film, Carnage, in North America. Polanski penned the script with Yasmina Reza,...
- 4/15/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Deadline told you last week that Sony Pictures Classics was wrapping up distribution on Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Broadway hit God of Carnage. They've just announced the deal for the movie, with the abbreviated title Carnage: New York (April 14, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Roman Polanski’s new film, Carnage, in North America. Polanski penned the script with Yasmina Reza, which is adapted from Reza’s 2009 Tony Award® winning play God of Carnage. Carnage is produced by Said Ben Said (The Witnesses, The Girl On The Train) and stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Spc expects an end of year release. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the film from Said Ben Said and ICM’s Jeff Berg. Polanski assembled an all-star crew to work on Carnage, director of photographer Pawel Edelman (The Ghost Writer, Ray, The Pianist), production designer Dean Tavoularis (The Ninth Gate,...
- 4/14/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Sony Pictures Classics (Spc) announced today that they will release Roman Polanski's new film, Carnage , in North America. Polanski penned the script with Yasmina Reza, which is adapted from Reza's 2009 Tony Award® winning play "God of Carnage." Carnage is produced by Said Ben Said ( The Witnesses , The Girl on the Train ) and stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Spc expects an end of year release. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the film from Said Ben Said and ICM.s Jeff Berg. Carnage 's production crew will include director of photographer Pawel Edelman ( The Ghost Writer , Ray , The Pianist ), production designer Dean Tavoularis ( The Ninth Gate , The Godfather , The Outsiders ), editor Herve de Luze ( The Ghost Writer , Wild...
- 4/14/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Of Gods and Men, The Ghost Writer, and the other winners of the 2011 César Awards have been announced. The 36th Annual César Awards’ big winner “was Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men) by Xavier Beauvois, which took Best Film. It also captured Best Supporting Actor for Michael Lonsdale, and Best Cinematography…The Ghost Writer took more awards with a total of four. It won Best Director for Roman Polanski, Best Adapted Screenplay (Polanski and Robert Harris), Best Original Score and Best Editing. The award ceremony was held on February 25, 2011. The full listing of the 2011 César Awards winners is below.
Best Film
Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men), Xavier Beauvois
Best Actress
Sarah Forestier, Le Nom des gens (The Names of Love)
Best Actor
Eric Elmosnino, Gainsbourg (vie héroïque)
Best Director
Roman Polanski, The Ghost Writer
Best Supporting Actress
Anne Alvaro, Le Bruit des glaçons...
Best Film
Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men), Xavier Beauvois
Best Actress
Sarah Forestier, Le Nom des gens (The Names of Love)
Best Actor
Eric Elmosnino, Gainsbourg (vie héroïque)
Best Director
Roman Polanski, The Ghost Writer
Best Supporting Actress
Anne Alvaro, Le Bruit des glaçons...
- 2/27/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
48 hours before the Oscars, it was the French who feted the best in French cinema in 2010 with the 36th edition of the Cesar Awards. A trio of films claimed the most awards: Of Gods and Men (the Cannes winning film which was on the Oscar shortlist of nine but didn't make it into the final round) took the top award of Best Film and three in total tying up with Gainsbourg (which was picked up this week by Music Box Films) which won for Best Actor. The big winner of the night with four awards out of eight total noms was roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer which isn't in the French language but was a French production that won the filmmaker the Best Director award. Quentin "Vive le cinéma" Tarantino received an honorary award for his body of work -- not bad since he has another 40 years at least to double up on his output.
- 2/26/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
At the 36th annual Cesar Awards Friday, France's official Oscar entry "Of Gods and Men" won three awards -- Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Michael Lonsdale) and Best Cinematography. Surprisingly, "Of Gods and Men" did not even make Oscars' short for Foreign Lanugage Film. An English language film, "The Ghost Writer," won four Cesars: Best Director for Paris resident Roman Polanski, Best Adapted Screenplay (Polanski and Robert Harris), Best Score (Alexandre Desplat) and Best Editing (Hervé de Luz). "Gainsbourg" took three awards -- Best Actor (Eric Elmosnino), Best Sound and Best First Film -- while "Le Nom Des Gens" won two: Best Actress (Sara Forestier) and Best Original Screenplay (Baya Kasmi, Michel Leclerc). Last year's Oscar-winning Animated Short "Logorama" won the catch-all category at the Cesars while current Oscar contender "The Illusionist" won Best Animat...
- 2/26/2011
- Gold Derby
At the 36th annual César Awards, Of Gods and Men took 3 prizes, including Best Film and The Ghost Writer won 4 prizes, including Best Director for Roman Polanski. The Social Network won Best Foreign Language Film.
- 2/25/2011
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
The nominations for this year’s César Awards (France’s Oscar equivalent) has been announced. In addition the awards ceremony has also chosen Quentin Tarantino as the recipient of the ceremony’s honorary award. Alain Terzian, the president of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma announced at a press conference this morning confirmed that the director would be present to ick up his award in person.
It is also worth noting that there are three American movies among the seven nominees for Best Foreign Film: Inception, The Social Network and perhaps the biggest surprise, Invictus.
The 36th edition of the Césars will take place on February 25 in Paris.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Best Movie
L’arnacoeur by Pascal Chaumeil
Le nom des gens by Michel Leclerc
The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
Tournée by Mathieu Amalric
Des Hommes et des Dieux by Xavier Beauvois
Gainsbourg...
It is also worth noting that there are three American movies among the seven nominees for Best Foreign Film: Inception, The Social Network and perhaps the biggest surprise, Invictus.
The 36th edition of the Césars will take place on February 25 in Paris.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Best Movie
L’arnacoeur by Pascal Chaumeil
Le nom des gens by Michel Leclerc
The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
Tournée by Mathieu Amalric
Des Hommes et des Dieux by Xavier Beauvois
Gainsbourg...
- 1/21/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Three U.S. films are among the seven nominees for best foreign film in this year’s César Awards, France’s version of the Oscars. Meanwhile, American director Quentin Tarantino has been selected to receive an honorary award and will be at the Feb. 25 ceremony in Paris to accept it, it was announced Friday.
The three American films cited by the Académie des arts et techniques du cinema are Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” David Fincher’s “The Social Network” and Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus,” an Oscar contender in the States last year.
Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men” (“Des hommes et des Dieux”) — not one of the nine films still in contention for the best foreign film Oscar — leads with 10 nominations, while Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” and Joann Sfar’s “Gainsbourg” (“Vie Héroïque”) are also nominated in multiple categories.
Presiding over this year’s awards is American actress and director Jodie Foster.
The three American films cited by the Académie des arts et techniques du cinema are Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” David Fincher’s “The Social Network” and Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus,” an Oscar contender in the States last year.
Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men” (“Des hommes et des Dieux”) — not one of the nine films still in contention for the best foreign film Oscar — leads with 10 nominations, while Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” and Joann Sfar’s “Gainsbourg” (“Vie Héroïque”) are also nominated in multiple categories.
Presiding over this year’s awards is American actress and director Jodie Foster.
- 1/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Take a look at the German and North American posters for "The Ghost Writer", the film adaption of author Robert Harris' novel "The Ghost", directed by Roman "The Tenant" Polanski, based on a screenplay by Harris and Polanski.
Following Polanski's arrest by Swiss police, September 2009. post-production of the film was briefly put on hold, but the director resumed his work from house arrest at his Swiss villa.
To debut in February @ the Berlinale in Germany, Summit Entertainment will release "The Ghost Writer" throughout North America in limited release February 19, with expansions scheduled for March 5 and March 19.
The film started production February 2009 in Berlin and on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, standing in for both London and Martha's Vineyard due to Polanski's inability to legally travel to those places.
Directed/produced by Polanski, "The Ghost Writer" stars Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams and Kim Cattrall. Music is by Alexandre Desplat,...
Following Polanski's arrest by Swiss police, September 2009. post-production of the film was briefly put on hold, but the director resumed his work from house arrest at his Swiss villa.
To debut in February @ the Berlinale in Germany, Summit Entertainment will release "The Ghost Writer" throughout North America in limited release February 19, with expansions scheduled for March 5 and March 19.
The film started production February 2009 in Berlin and on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, standing in for both London and Martha's Vineyard due to Polanski's inability to legally travel to those places.
Directed/produced by Polanski, "The Ghost Writer" stars Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams and Kim Cattrall. Music is by Alexandre Desplat,...
- 1/23/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
PARIS -- Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 classic, will begin a 16-week shoot in Prague on July 12 and is scheduled for a Christmas 2005 release, co-producer Robert Benmussa said Monday. Introducing Barney Clark -- a 10-year-old boy from Hackney, London, who has been cast in the leading role -- Polanski told a crowded news conference that he has stuck closely to Dickens to make what is "essentially a children's film," which would be "quite different" from his Oscar-winning The Pianist. The film reunites much of the Pianist team, including scriptwriter Ronald Harwood, cinematographer Pawel Edelman, production designer Allan Starski, film editor Herve de Luze, costume designer Anna B. Sheppard and actor Frank Finlay.
- 4/27/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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