The Cannes Film Market and Spain’s Malaga Festival have teamed to host a Goes to Cannes pitching session which will allow four works in progress selected at the on-the-rise Spanish festival to pitch in Cannes.
“The Festival de Malaga is aware of the need to create synergies with other markets that allow the growth of the projects that participate in our laboratories,” said Malaga head of industry Annabelle Aramburu.
She added, “The Marché du Film opened its doors to us to fulfill one of the objectives of our industry zone, Mafiz, which is to collaborate in the evolution and completion of Ibero-American films. With these four projects we show our belief in betting on this cinematography which diverse and novel in its cinematic narratives.”
This year’s four participating films demonstrate a shared nostalgia, sometimes wistful, others critical. The selection is split – half fiction, half documentary – but all four...
“The Festival de Malaga is aware of the need to create synergies with other markets that allow the growth of the projects that participate in our laboratories,” said Malaga head of industry Annabelle Aramburu.
She added, “The Marché du Film opened its doors to us to fulfill one of the objectives of our industry zone, Mafiz, which is to collaborate in the evolution and completion of Ibero-American films. With these four projects we show our belief in betting on this cinematography which diverse and novel in its cinematic narratives.”
This year’s four participating films demonstrate a shared nostalgia, sometimes wistful, others critical. The selection is split – half fiction, half documentary – but all four...
- 4/30/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan decided to join their friends at Koko – the newest place the city dines and parties at in Mumbai. Keenan Tham, Partner, Koko recommended dishes off the menu to Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan who were there with common friends. Bebo looked ravishing in a simple black dress and her pregnancy glow.
>Friday Night done right by the Khan’s with a visit to the latest hot spot in Kamala Mills – Koko by Ryan and Keenan Tham. Kareena Kapoor Khan who is expecting her first baby with Saif Ali Khan indulged in Asian delicacies like Hamachi Carpaccio, Crispy Pork Belly, Aromatic prawns and Chicken Longhai dimsums, while Saif Ali Khan sipped on Dirty Martini’s and Sake. It surely was a perfect evening with the best food, drinks and company.
Koko
Situated in the midst of a burgeoning corporate and lifestyle address in Mumbai,...
>Friday Night done right by the Khan’s with a visit to the latest hot spot in Kamala Mills – Koko by Ryan and Keenan Tham. Kareena Kapoor Khan who is expecting her first baby with Saif Ali Khan indulged in Asian delicacies like Hamachi Carpaccio, Crispy Pork Belly, Aromatic prawns and Chicken Longhai dimsums, while Saif Ali Khan sipped on Dirty Martini’s and Sake. It surely was a perfect evening with the best food, drinks and company.
Koko
Situated in the midst of a burgeoning corporate and lifestyle address in Mumbai,...
- 9/7/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
After six years of hard work, Beth B and co-producer Sandra Schulberg are finally releasing their feature film, Exposed,which is currently showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and will be showing at the Museum of Modern Art on March 3rd, and will have a theatrical run at the IFC Center, NYC beginning March 13th.
Exposed is about liberation of the self, the body and the mind. The film focuses on performance artists who have been featured at the Whitney Biennale, Ps 122, and Deitch Projects. These performers are a new generation of artists who are declaring their freedom of expression as Robert Mapplethorpe and Karen Finley did.
The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated Best Documentary Film, has shown in over 30 film festivals worldwide, and had its U.S. premiere at Doc NYC. It has received extraordinary international press (Top Ten Film in Time Magazine Lightbox and Filmmaker Magazine) and has been touring the world (Moscow, Taiwan, Norway, Australia...).
The filmmakers are coordinating the combination of live performances and film screenings that create a phenomenal event and great exposure for the venues, performers and the film. The audience they have seen at the screenings is very diverse including: art world, Lgbt, students, feminists, burlesque, disability, and human rights groups (it was shown at the Nuremberg Human Rights Festival!).
Below are quotes from several rave reviews
"One of the most revealing portraits yet of the marginal performance medium, the film is likely to blow the cobwebs off any preconceptions viewers might have about gender, sexuality, empowerment and the body."
Read more: Doc NYC 2013: Highlights From the Largest Documentary Festival in the U.S. - LightBox http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/13/doc-nyc-2013-highlights-from-the-largest-documentary-festival-in-the-u-s/#ixzz2pqB77LEO
What the Critics Are Saying
"Beth B turns her all-embracing camera on the alternate burlesque scene in the intelligent and enjoyably outrageous 'Exposed." –Variety
There is a philosophy behind all of the performances in Exposed. Provocation is the weapon of choice against a society that seeks to limit what is considered to be outside the norms, “the other.” -- Die Tageszeitung
Exposed is a wonderful film that I think you will appreciate and enjoy!
Warm Regards,
Beth B
http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/exposed-beyond-burlesque-screening-at-the-ica-london/
http://www.close-upfilm.com/2014/01/exposed-burlesque-18-film-review/
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/exposed-beyond-burlesque-25685
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/exposed-beyond-burlesque--film-review-9050818.html
Exposed…as reviewed in Little White Lies:
Director Beth B takes us a whirlwind journey through the intoxicating world of body performance.
It’s tempting to write burlesque off as glorified stripping, but director Beth B’s unique documentary shows the human body as a great performance art canvas for those brave or extroverted enough to use it. Her six-years-in-the-making film homes in on performers that use nudity, not to titillate — although that's involved — but to serve witty and inventive routines on gender, sexuality and politics. You ain't seen a Us justice system satire till you've seen a Us justice system satire called 'The Patriot Act' featuring a buxom, glitter-spangled blonde stuffing dollar bills in her mouth.
A composite of performances and interviews, Exposed works as both an X-rated cabaret show and analyses of its subjects’ motivations for letting us see everything. Whether its Mat Fraser taking ownership of his thalidomide-induced disability, Dirty Martini arabesqueing a fuck-you to instructors who said her body was wrong for dance, Rose Wood refusing to bolt himself into one gender or The World Famous *Bob* explaining a novel form of transexualism, the common thread is of individuals taking control of themselves and sharing this liberation with an audience.
"There is freedom in vulgarity" smiles Bunny Love, the most conventionally attractive of the bunch. She is perfectly aware of what she calls her "juicy" qualities and uses them to create performances that disturb and transfix in equal measure. "This is all just an illusion," she says of hair, eyelashes, lips, waist and boobs, "I can put it on and I can fake you out but it’s so much more complicated than that." These complexities are expressed via a maniacal on stage unravelling, like if Blanche DuBois’ spirit was embedded in the body of Marilyn Monroe and we saw her work at the Flamingo Hotel.
This act is the first of a run of performances that never dip in quality or boundary-pushing content. Beth B has found the best in the business and won their trust before channelling their symbiotic urges to opine and entertain. Dumb vessels for objectification do not live at this address. Instead we have eight character studies heartily engaged in the struggle to express themselves in nuance. All have learnt (the hard way) that, to get all Oscar Wilde: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
Through a camera that repeatedly finds interviewees at dressing tables where the careful transformation from everyday person to feathery, glittery peacock is happening, Beth B replicates her subjects' obsession with glamour and the performance possibilities offered by costume. Yet just as their work is to take it all off, so too it is for Ms B, who finds them make-up free after a gig, or going to a friend's birthday in *gosh* jeans. Focus is not on getting carried with shimmer and lights but in using our gravitation towards such things to tell different stories.
Just one of these stories would be refreshing but Exposed has gone all-out, providing a luxurious sweet store of perspectives as coherent as they are unconventional. Knitted into the seams of this celebration of countercultural entertainment are circumspect moments delivered and captured so lightly that those seduced by the viewpoints on offer will feel drawn to watch and rewatch.
"I don’t like to perpetuate perfection because I think flaws are more interesting," says Bambi the Mermaid, best known for her 'egg-laying'. It's a point-of-view we need at a time when Photoshopping images of beautiful celebrities is du jour and it's a point-of-view adopted with absolute commitment by Bambi and everyone else prepared to show us who they are with nothing on.
--
www.exposedmovie.com
www.bethbproductions.com...
Exposed is about liberation of the self, the body and the mind. The film focuses on performance artists who have been featured at the Whitney Biennale, Ps 122, and Deitch Projects. These performers are a new generation of artists who are declaring their freedom of expression as Robert Mapplethorpe and Karen Finley did.
The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated Best Documentary Film, has shown in over 30 film festivals worldwide, and had its U.S. premiere at Doc NYC. It has received extraordinary international press (Top Ten Film in Time Magazine Lightbox and Filmmaker Magazine) and has been touring the world (Moscow, Taiwan, Norway, Australia...).
The filmmakers are coordinating the combination of live performances and film screenings that create a phenomenal event and great exposure for the venues, performers and the film. The audience they have seen at the screenings is very diverse including: art world, Lgbt, students, feminists, burlesque, disability, and human rights groups (it was shown at the Nuremberg Human Rights Festival!).
Below are quotes from several rave reviews
"One of the most revealing portraits yet of the marginal performance medium, the film is likely to blow the cobwebs off any preconceptions viewers might have about gender, sexuality, empowerment and the body."
Read more: Doc NYC 2013: Highlights From the Largest Documentary Festival in the U.S. - LightBox http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/13/doc-nyc-2013-highlights-from-the-largest-documentary-festival-in-the-u-s/#ixzz2pqB77LEO
What the Critics Are Saying
"Beth B turns her all-embracing camera on the alternate burlesque scene in the intelligent and enjoyably outrageous 'Exposed." –Variety
There is a philosophy behind all of the performances in Exposed. Provocation is the weapon of choice against a society that seeks to limit what is considered to be outside the norms, “the other.” -- Die Tageszeitung
Exposed is a wonderful film that I think you will appreciate and enjoy!
Warm Regards,
Beth B
http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/exposed-beyond-burlesque-screening-at-the-ica-london/
http://www.close-upfilm.com/2014/01/exposed-burlesque-18-film-review/
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/exposed-beyond-burlesque-25685
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/exposed-beyond-burlesque--film-review-9050818.html
Exposed…as reviewed in Little White Lies:
Director Beth B takes us a whirlwind journey through the intoxicating world of body performance.
It’s tempting to write burlesque off as glorified stripping, but director Beth B’s unique documentary shows the human body as a great performance art canvas for those brave or extroverted enough to use it. Her six-years-in-the-making film homes in on performers that use nudity, not to titillate — although that's involved — but to serve witty and inventive routines on gender, sexuality and politics. You ain't seen a Us justice system satire till you've seen a Us justice system satire called 'The Patriot Act' featuring a buxom, glitter-spangled blonde stuffing dollar bills in her mouth.
A composite of performances and interviews, Exposed works as both an X-rated cabaret show and analyses of its subjects’ motivations for letting us see everything. Whether its Mat Fraser taking ownership of his thalidomide-induced disability, Dirty Martini arabesqueing a fuck-you to instructors who said her body was wrong for dance, Rose Wood refusing to bolt himself into one gender or The World Famous *Bob* explaining a novel form of transexualism, the common thread is of individuals taking control of themselves and sharing this liberation with an audience.
"There is freedom in vulgarity" smiles Bunny Love, the most conventionally attractive of the bunch. She is perfectly aware of what she calls her "juicy" qualities and uses them to create performances that disturb and transfix in equal measure. "This is all just an illusion," she says of hair, eyelashes, lips, waist and boobs, "I can put it on and I can fake you out but it’s so much more complicated than that." These complexities are expressed via a maniacal on stage unravelling, like if Blanche DuBois’ spirit was embedded in the body of Marilyn Monroe and we saw her work at the Flamingo Hotel.
This act is the first of a run of performances that never dip in quality or boundary-pushing content. Beth B has found the best in the business and won their trust before channelling their symbiotic urges to opine and entertain. Dumb vessels for objectification do not live at this address. Instead we have eight character studies heartily engaged in the struggle to express themselves in nuance. All have learnt (the hard way) that, to get all Oscar Wilde: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
Through a camera that repeatedly finds interviewees at dressing tables where the careful transformation from everyday person to feathery, glittery peacock is happening, Beth B replicates her subjects' obsession with glamour and the performance possibilities offered by costume. Yet just as their work is to take it all off, so too it is for Ms B, who finds them make-up free after a gig, or going to a friend's birthday in *gosh* jeans. Focus is not on getting carried with shimmer and lights but in using our gravitation towards such things to tell different stories.
Just one of these stories would be refreshing but Exposed has gone all-out, providing a luxurious sweet store of perspectives as coherent as they are unconventional. Knitted into the seams of this celebration of countercultural entertainment are circumspect moments delivered and captured so lightly that those seduced by the viewpoints on offer will feel drawn to watch and rewatch.
"I don’t like to perpetuate perfection because I think flaws are more interesting," says Bambi the Mermaid, best known for her 'egg-laying'. It's a point-of-view we need at a time when Photoshopping images of beautiful celebrities is du jour and it's a point-of-view adopted with absolute commitment by Bambi and everyone else prepared to show us who they are with nothing on.
--
www.exposedmovie.com
www.bethbproductions.com...
- 1/14/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
“How do you cover up cellulite? With glitter and a spotlight.” These words of wisdom from the legendary NYC, splendidly zaftig, female drag queen World Famous *Bob* pretty much sum up the ethos of legendary NYC, underground filmmaker Beth B’s latest doc-extravaganza Exposed, a behind-the-scenes peep at today’s proudly subversive burlesque movement. Its performers include folks like Rose Wood, a biologically male strip-teaser brought into the scene by biologically female drag queen Dirty Martini, and Mat Fraser, perhaps the sexiest Seal Boy – also the name of his critically-hailed one-man show – on the planet. (Sorry boys and girls, this […]...
- 11/14/2013
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“How do you cover up cellulite? With glitter and a spotlight.” These words of wisdom from the legendary NYC, splendidly zaftig, female drag queen World Famous *Bob* pretty much sum up the ethos of legendary NYC, underground filmmaker Beth B’s latest doc-extravaganza Exposed, a behind-the-scenes peep at today’s proudly subversive burlesque movement. Its performers include folks like Rose Wood, a biologically male strip-teaser brought into the scene by biologically female drag queen Dirty Martini, and Mat Fraser, perhaps the sexiest Seal Boy – also the name of his critically-hailed one-man show – on the planet. (Sorry boys and girls, this […]...
- 11/14/2013
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
These days, even in the Big Apple, a good burlesque is hard to find. That’s why we’re celebrating the re-opening of the Slipper Room, the sensationally-reviewed historic New York City burlesque joint, which after nearly two years of not having a venue due to lease disputes and Sandy damage built itself into a brand-new jewel box theater just in time for a bawdy Election Night.
The Huffington Post recently got to sit down with Slipper Room proprietor James Habacker to ask him a few questions about the venue, its Vaudeville-like variety shows and the trials of being “burlesque.”
Hp: Can you just give a smorgasbord of examples of stuff that you can see at the Slipper Room on any given night? Balancing acts, aerial acts, comedy, burlesque, go!
Jh: All of that, and also contortionists, magicians, firebreathers, striptease, hula hoopers. Animal acts, puppetry, musicians, we have on Friday...
The Huffington Post recently got to sit down with Slipper Room proprietor James Habacker to ask him a few questions about the venue, its Vaudeville-like variety shows and the trials of being “burlesque.”
Hp: Can you just give a smorgasbord of examples of stuff that you can see at the Slipper Room on any given night? Balancing acts, aerial acts, comedy, burlesque, go!
Jh: All of that, and also contortionists, magicians, firebreathers, striptease, hula hoopers. Animal acts, puppetry, musicians, we have on Friday...
- 11/9/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
For those of you not keeping a countdown clock as we are, the fifth season of Mad Men premieres in 11 days (March 25). But rather than "#draping" while we wait, we're readying our cocktail cabinet. Just in time, we received a set of Mad Men drink recipes along with photos from last night's Mad Men event at PaleyFest, courtesy of Purity Vodka. Find out how to make a Sterling Cooper Dirty Martini, The Madison Avenue, and The Mid-Morning Martini.
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- 3/14/2012
- by reelz gustafson
- Reelzchannel.com
Mila Kunis has agreed to serve her country - by accompanying a sergeant serving in Afghanistan to the Marine Corps Ball. Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Afghanistan, posted a video to YouTube last week asking the actress to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball on November 18th in Greenville, N.C., according to Fox News. When Fox News asked Kunis about the invitation over the weekend, her Friends with Benefits costar Justin Timberlake encouraged her to accept the date. Related: Mila Kunis Relaxes with a Dirty Martini in Boston"Have you seen this? Have you heard about this?...
- 7/11/2011
- by Alla Byrne
- PEOPLE.com
by Steve Dollar
Everyone's favorite French leading man, Mathieu Amalric, won the best director prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Tournée (also known as On Tour), an ambling backstage saga about an American burlesque troupe on the road in France, playing the creaky-theater circuit in a string of port towns as their manager Joachim (Amalric) sorts out his own personal drama. Many of the performers will be familiar to fans of the latter-day burlesque revival: Julie Atlas Muz, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini, Mimi Le Meaux. They'll join Amalric for a screening and party as part of the third annual BAMcinemaFest's closing weekend. Earlier this week, Amalric spoke about his profound fascination with the ecdysiasts' art from Toronto, where he'd just arrived to begin shooting in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.
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Everyone's favorite French leading man, Mathieu Amalric, won the best director prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Tournée (also known as On Tour), an ambling backstage saga about an American burlesque troupe on the road in France, playing the creaky-theater circuit in a string of port towns as their manager Joachim (Amalric) sorts out his own personal drama. Many of the performers will be familiar to fans of the latter-day burlesque revival: Julie Atlas Muz, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini, Mimi Le Meaux. They'll join Amalric for a screening and party as part of the third annual BAMcinemaFest's closing weekend. Earlier this week, Amalric spoke about his profound fascination with the ecdysiasts' art from Toronto, where he'd just arrived to begin shooting in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.
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- 6/24/2011
- GreenCine Daily
A new breed of performers has transformed burlesque – is it now performance art? By Ben Walters
It's a cold December night but inside the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club in east London, things are hotting up. A capacity crowd – more women than men, some in retro-style fur, houndstooth and animal prints – has turned out for the final of this year's Tournament of Tease, an amateur contest that has become an institution on London's burlesque scene.
"I come for the tassles!" says Arthur, a 25-year-old financial trader and burlesque regular, who has dragged three wary colleagues along. "It's very creative," he hastily adds. "Anyone can join in." When I ask if he's also been to strip clubs, he wrinkles his nose. "Sure, but that has nothing to do with this. There, it's a business thing – the girls do it for the money. Here, no one does it for the money." Does he find it hot?...
It's a cold December night but inside the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club in east London, things are hotting up. A capacity crowd – more women than men, some in retro-style fur, houndstooth and animal prints – has turned out for the final of this year's Tournament of Tease, an amateur contest that has become an institution on London's burlesque scene.
"I come for the tassles!" says Arthur, a 25-year-old financial trader and burlesque regular, who has dragged three wary colleagues along. "It's very creative," he hastily adds. "Anyone can join in." When I ask if he's also been to strip clubs, he wrinkles his nose. "Sure, but that has nothing to do with this. There, it's a business thing – the girls do it for the money. Here, no one does it for the money." Does he find it hot?...
- 12/14/2010
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
Has it been a decade of films and freaks already? Well, it has! The 10th annual Coney Island Film Festival is set to run once again on Sept. 24-26 at the world famous Sideshows by the Seashore — the last operating circus-style sideshow/freak show in the U.S.A.
The festival starts with real bang this year with the Brooklyn premiere of Gary Beeber‘s latest documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, which chronicles the rise of the hot new burlesque trend in NYC and its most popular star, Dirty Martini. The film will also be preceded by two short films: The recently uncovered Museum of Wax by playwright Charles Ludlam and Jaye Cherian’s documentary Shape of the Shapeless.
This year the festival is also celebrating by hosting director Darren Aronofsky as their 2010 honoree. On Sept. 26, Aronofsky — who was born in South Brooklyn — will be present at a...
The festival starts with real bang this year with the Brooklyn premiere of Gary Beeber‘s latest documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, which chronicles the rise of the hot new burlesque trend in NYC and its most popular star, Dirty Martini. The film will also be preceded by two short films: The recently uncovered Museum of Wax by playwright Charles Ludlam and Jaye Cherian’s documentary Shape of the Shapeless.
This year the festival is also celebrating by hosting director Darren Aronofsky as their 2010 honoree. On Sept. 26, Aronofsky — who was born in South Brooklyn — will be present at a...
- 9/21/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
In August 2009, Beth Sobo was on vacation from her work as an international cruise ship performer and visiting her boyfriend in Portland, Ore. On a whim, she checked BackStage.com for acting opportunities in the area and discovered a casting notice for the musical "Gracie and the Atom" at Portland's Artists Repertory Theatre. Right then and there, she had, as she puts it, a gut moment, "when your fingers tingle or your stomach flip-flops, and you just know something is going to be a big deal. That is the feeling I had reading that ad."With only 48 hours until the audition day, Sobo called to make an appointment. As she knew nothing about the musical or its creators, she started researching immediately. She downloaded the show's album from the iTunes Store and realized it was "not your average Broadway sound, but funkier and grittier," she says. This allowed her to select appropriate audition material.
- 7/9/2010
- backstage.com
Best known for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, actor Mathieu Amalric is also a writer, director and unabashed ladies' man. He tells Catherine Shoard how it all came together in his new film
The opening night of this year's Cannes was full of pomp. Russell Crowe plodded up the red carpet, all trouble and sulk, with an icy Cate Blanchett and band of unmerry men in his wake. Robin Hood may be an action movie, not even in the running for the Palme d'Or, but don't you dare fail to take it seriously.
A day later, and the premiere of the first film in actual competition was a riot. Five burlesque dancers tottered towards the Palais for the gala screening of Tournée (On Tour), in 8in heels, cleavages struggling for traction in their micro-frocks. They danced; they blew kisses at a whooping crowd. One – was it Dirty Martini? Kitten on the Keys?...
The opening night of this year's Cannes was full of pomp. Russell Crowe plodded up the red carpet, all trouble and sulk, with an icy Cate Blanchett and band of unmerry men in his wake. Robin Hood may be an action movie, not even in the running for the Palme d'Or, but don't you dare fail to take it seriously.
A day later, and the premiere of the first film in actual competition was a riot. Five burlesque dancers tottered towards the Palais for the gala screening of Tournée (On Tour), in 8in heels, cleavages struggling for traction in their micro-frocks. They danced; they blew kisses at a whooping crowd. One – was it Dirty Martini? Kitten on the Keys?...
- 5/18/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
I must admit that Mathieu Almaric’s Tournee largely sneaked under my radar prior to my arrival at the festival this week, but would most probably have made it on to my Highlights article in the run-up had I been more aware of it. You see, not only am I a huge admirer of Almaric as an actor: he was exceptional in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and was one of the only highlights of Quantum of Solace (the most ridiculous extended chase movie I have ever watched), I am also an avid fan of the wonderful artistic movement that is burlesque. So to have both on show in one feature, screening In Competition on the Croisette was understandably manna from heaven for the likes of me.
For anyone else who missed the official synopsis, it reads, deliciously, as follows:
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind- his children,...
For anyone else who missed the official synopsis, it reads, deliciously, as follows:
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind- his children,...
- 5/15/2010
- by Simon Gallagher
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tournée's burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz has commented on the differences between performing on screen and stage. The dancer explained at a Cannes press conference that working on a film lacks the immediate feedback of performing in front of an audience. "The timing of my performance versus the timing of film is very different," she said. "So when you perform live you get a unique satisfaction through applause from the audience. However, being on film that satisfaction or the exchange that you feel as a performer is delayed, if it even happens at all. So I found that a challenging distinction but I'm willing to do it again." Muz's co-star Dirty Martini stated that she has (more)...
- 5/14/2010
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Dirty Martini of the New Burlesque troupe featured in Mathieu Amalric's Tournée has said that the group are feminists. Speaking after the Cannes screening of the movie, the dancer told reporters that she tries to help women better express themselves sexually in a world where such sentiments are completely controlled by men and the media. "Absolutely we're feminists - we're women who are concerned at the way in which women in the world are treated, and the way that women sometimes hate themselves," she said. "Me personally, part of my burlesque journey is using burlesque as a form (more)...
- 5/13/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Cannes -- It was hard to conjure two more diverse movies In Competition -- or their follow-up pressers -- Thursday in the first full day of official screenings on the Croisette. The one, French -- effervescent, outre and a little discombulated; the other Chinese -- melancholic, slow-burn and subtle in its approach and emotions.
The Chinese entry, called "Chongqing Blues" from director Wang Xiaoshuai, was much closer in tone and mood to the typical fare that competes for the Palme d'Or -- austere, spare and psychologically probing. The Gallic contender, called "On Tour," concocted by the well-known French actor Mathieu Amalric (and recent Bond villain) who co-wrote the screenplay and directed as well as starred, was one of the most lighthearted and rambunctious to grace the Croisette in years.
Their back-to-back turns with the press were in keeping with their cinematic offerings.
"I thought of it in part as an homage to femininity,...
The Chinese entry, called "Chongqing Blues" from director Wang Xiaoshuai, was much closer in tone and mood to the typical fare that competes for the Palme d'Or -- austere, spare and psychologically probing. The Gallic contender, called "On Tour," concocted by the well-known French actor Mathieu Amalric (and recent Bond villain) who co-wrote the screenplay and directed as well as starred, was one of the most lighthearted and rambunctious to grace the Croisette in years.
Their back-to-back turns with the press were in keeping with their cinematic offerings.
"I thought of it in part as an homage to femininity,...
- 5/13/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Miranda Colclasure in Tournee My introduction to Mathieu Amalric came with his fantastic performance as Jean-Dominique Bauby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in 2007. My relationship with him as an actor continued with A Christmas Tale and Quantum of Solace, but I had never seen one of his directorial projects. Come to learn, Amalric served as a trainee assistant director on Louis Malle's excellent 1988 Oscar-nominated Au revoir les enfants and directed his first feature film in 1997, Mange ta soupe.
Therefore I see the Cannes Competition entry Tournee (On Tour) as a second introduction to Amalric, and while the film didn't bowl me over there is an undeniable playful and inviting quality to it -- primarily to its characters. Tournee opens itself up to the audience through a group of fascinating players in a "new" burlesque troupe led by Joachim Zand (Amalric), a staunch former Parisian television producer that...
Therefore I see the Cannes Competition entry Tournee (On Tour) as a second introduction to Amalric, and while the film didn't bowl me over there is an undeniable playful and inviting quality to it -- primarily to its characters. Tournee opens itself up to the audience through a group of fascinating players in a "new" burlesque troupe led by Joachim Zand (Amalric), a staunch former Parisian television producer that...
- 5/13/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
From jury president Tim Burton gathering his panel, to the A-lister count for tonight's gala for Robin Hood, here are the five things that Catherine Shoard is looking forward to on the opening day of the 63rd Cannes film festival
• It's not just in London that a new cabinet is assembling. Here on the Croisette, jury president Tim Burton and his eclectic cabinet, including Benicio del Toro, Shekhar Kapur, French writer-director Emmanuel Carrère and our own Kate Beckinsale, will lay out their manifesto for the next 10 days. Will they include a shout out in support of Roman Polanski and against his extradition to the Us for trial? More likely they'll namecheck Jafar Panahi, the director invited to serve on the jury in part as protest at his continued detention at the hands of Iranian security forces.
• Robin Hood, Ridley Scott's revisionist take on the good thief with Russell Crowe in stubbly trouble mode,...
• It's not just in London that a new cabinet is assembling. Here on the Croisette, jury president Tim Burton and his eclectic cabinet, including Benicio del Toro, Shekhar Kapur, French writer-director Emmanuel Carrère and our own Kate Beckinsale, will lay out their manifesto for the next 10 days. Will they include a shout out in support of Roman Polanski and against his extradition to the Us for trial? More likely they'll namecheck Jafar Panahi, the director invited to serve on the jury in part as protest at his continued detention at the hands of Iranian security forces.
• Robin Hood, Ridley Scott's revisionist take on the good thief with Russell Crowe in stubbly trouble mode,...
- 5/12/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
March 29
7:30 p.m.
Siff Cinema
321 Mercer Street
Seattle, Wa 98109
Hosted by: Moisture Festival
The Moisture Festival, Seattle’s springtime celebration of burlesque, veritè and comedy, teams up with the Seattle International Festival to bring audiences the vivacious new documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, directed by Gary Beeber. Not only will director Beeber be in attendance, but so will the star of the film: Dirty Martini herself, who will put on a live burlesque show for the audience!
The fabulous Miss Martini is one of the lead figures heading up the New Burlesque scene that has been teasing and titillating New York City with its fusion of performance art, political satire and sex-positive feminism. Beeber takes viewers directly into this exciting new subculture and gets up close and personal with several performers in addition to the titular Martini, such as Julie Atlas Muz, World-Famous *Bob*, Bambi the Mermaid,...
7:30 p.m.
Siff Cinema
321 Mercer Street
Seattle, Wa 98109
Hosted by: Moisture Festival
The Moisture Festival, Seattle’s springtime celebration of burlesque, veritè and comedy, teams up with the Seattle International Festival to bring audiences the vivacious new documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, directed by Gary Beeber. Not only will director Beeber be in attendance, but so will the star of the film: Dirty Martini herself, who will put on a live burlesque show for the audience!
The fabulous Miss Martini is one of the lead figures heading up the New Burlesque scene that has been teasing and titillating New York City with its fusion of performance art, political satire and sex-positive feminism. Beeber takes viewers directly into this exciting new subculture and gets up close and personal with several performers in addition to the titular Martini, such as Julie Atlas Muz, World-Famous *Bob*, Bambi the Mermaid,...
- 3/27/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
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