The 68th edition will screen a mix of new Spanish films and 2023 favourites and host an expanded industry programme.
The 68th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid International Film Week opens this weekend (October 21) with a screening of The Movie Teller, directed by Lone Scherfig, starring Bérénice Béjo, Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl and written by Walter Salles, Isabel Coixet and Rafa Russo.
For what is a vital launchpad into the Spanish market, new festival director José Luis Cienfuegos has programmed a series of international festival favourites from 2023 alongside new films by Spanish directors Antonio Méndez Esparza and...
The 68th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid International Film Week opens this weekend (October 21) with a screening of The Movie Teller, directed by Lone Scherfig, starring Bérénice Béjo, Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl and written by Walter Salles, Isabel Coixet and Rafa Russo.
For what is a vital launchpad into the Spanish market, new festival director José Luis Cienfuegos has programmed a series of international festival favourites from 2023 alongside new films by Spanish directors Antonio Méndez Esparza and...
- 10/20/2023
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Familiar by Călin Peter Netzer Photo: Courtesy of Tallinn Film Festival Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has revealed the full line-up of its official selection, adding 16 films to the four announced last month.
It takes the total of world premieres in the section, incuding Boaz Yakin's Once Again (for the very first time) and Golden Bear winner (for Child's Pose) Călin Peter Netzer's Familiar.
Yakin's film sees "a legendary street dancer and a young spoken word poet reflect on their lives and past relationship, through dreams, dance battles, rap battles and memories", while Netzer's tale about a Romanian film director "who decides to make a film about his family's emigration to Germany in the Eighties".
The newly added titles also include five international premieres and features Paula Ortiz's Teresa, an adapatation of the stage play La Lengua en Pedazos by Juan Mayorga.
Festival director and head of programme,...
It takes the total of world premieres in the section, incuding Boaz Yakin's Once Again (for the very first time) and Golden Bear winner (for Child's Pose) Călin Peter Netzer's Familiar.
Yakin's film sees "a legendary street dancer and a young spoken word poet reflect on their lives and past relationship, through dreams, dance battles, rap battles and memories", while Netzer's tale about a Romanian film director "who decides to make a film about his family's emigration to Germany in the Eighties".
The newly added titles also include five international premieres and features Paula Ortiz's Teresa, an adapatation of the stage play La Lengua en Pedazos by Juan Mayorga.
Festival director and head of programme,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Spanish mini-major Filmax has picked up international sales rights to “Teresa,” the new feature by Paula Ortiz, a fictional story turning on the prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer Saint Teresa of Jesus.
“Teresa” marks the big screen adaptation of Spaniard playwright Juan Mayorga’s stage play ”La lengua en pedazos,” which narrates a meeting between Saint Teresa of Jesus – also known as Teresa de Ávila – and a character called The Inquisitor.
The feature is not a classic biopic, but rather a free adaptation of the text written by Mayorga – a winner of Spain’s National Prize for Dramatic Literature – which in turn, is based on “The Book of Life,” by Saint Teresa herself.
In the movie, Teresa patiently awaits the Inquisitor’s arrival and judgement. His visit and his words will determine her future. They will hold a religious and dialectical duel, where the question will be if she is set free,...
“Teresa” marks the big screen adaptation of Spaniard playwright Juan Mayorga’s stage play ”La lengua en pedazos,” which narrates a meeting between Saint Teresa of Jesus – also known as Teresa de Ávila – and a character called The Inquisitor.
The feature is not a classic biopic, but rather a free adaptation of the text written by Mayorga – a winner of Spain’s National Prize for Dramatic Literature – which in turn, is based on “The Book of Life,” by Saint Teresa herself.
In the movie, Teresa patiently awaits the Inquisitor’s arrival and judgement. His visit and his words will determine her future. They will hold a religious and dialectical duel, where the question will be if she is set free,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The actress will put herself in the capable hands of the director of The Bride in this adaptation of Juan Mayorga’s play La lengua en pedazos, based on the life of Saint Teresa of Avila. In the last few days, Blanca Portillo has been in Toledo to resume filming for the feature debut by Iván Ruiz Flores, Retrato de mujer blanco con pelo cano y arrugas, the shoot for which was interrupted by the state of emergency brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. However, she already has another, equally interesting, project in her diary: Teresa, a film adaptation of the stage play La lengua en pedazos, written by Juan Mayorga, about the titular Saint Teresa of Avila, famed for her poems and mystical deeds. The woman tasked...
The teacher is a veteran of the French school system, not burnt out but resigned to the mediocrity of each new crop of high school sophomores. That first assignment -- "Write about what you did last weekend" -- confirms what he tells his gallery manager wife: "This is the worst class I've had in my life."
But one 16-year-old boy, Claude, takes it seriously. He describes a classmate he selected, a somewhat dim kid whose life he'd love to have, whose house he longed to gain entry to. And he did, taking in details -- the sports-crazed dad beaten down by a job that includes petty humiliations from his boss and Chinese clients, and "the singular scent of a middle-class woman," his classmate's fetching blond mother.
He's ingratiating himself into their lives. He's observing, passing judgment, telling their secrets. And he knows how to make the essay a cliffhanger.
"To be continued.
But one 16-year-old boy, Claude, takes it seriously. He describes a classmate he selected, a somewhat dim kid whose life he'd love to have, whose house he longed to gain entry to. And he did, taking in details -- the sports-crazed dad beaten down by a job that includes petty humiliations from his boss and Chinese clients, and "the singular scent of a middle-class woman," his classmate's fetching blond mother.
He's ingratiating himself into their lives. He's observing, passing judgment, telling their secrets. And he knows how to make the essay a cliffhanger.
"To be continued.
- 5/2/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
A few days after it was announced he'd be making his way to Cannes again for his fourteenth feature film ( "Jeune and Jolie"), François Ozon returns to the American theaters this weekend with his thirteenth. "In The House," which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, stands alongside the filmmaker's best work. Adapted from Spanish writer Juan Mayorga's play "The Boy in the Last Row," the film follows sixteen year old student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) who charms his French teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) -- not to mention his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) -- with a series of stories about his middle class classmate Rapha (Bastien Ughetto) and his family. It's a twisty, clever thriller where much lies beyond the surface. "I discovered the play because a friend of mine -- an actress -- was in the play in Paris and she called me and told me to come see it,...
- 4/19/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
A few days after it was announced he'd be making his way to Cannes again for his fourteenth feature film ( "Jeune and Jolie"), François Ozon returns to the American theaters this weekend with his thirteenth. "In The House," which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, stands alongside the filmmaker's best work. Adapted from Spanish writer Juan Mayorga's play "The Boy in the Last Row," the film follows sixteen year old student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) who charms his French teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) -- not to mention his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) -- with a series of stories about his middle class classmate Rapha (Bastien Ughetto) and his family. Its a twisty, clever thriller where much lies beyond the surface. "I discovered the play because a friend of mine -- an actress -- was in the play in Paris and she called me and told me to come see it,...
- 4/19/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Francois Ozon's psychological mystery “In the House,” which is adapted from the play by Juan Mayorga, works as an interesting companion piece to Ozon’s 2003 film “Swimming Pool.” Both center on a middle-aged literary curmudgeon who develops a fantastic fixation on a young, enticing and distinctly threatening protégée, while blurring the lines between reality and lurid imagination. What events actually happen, and what events get cooked up along the way by a smart, jaded mind all too willing to introduce a little excitement to the story? In “Swimming Pool,” the better of the two films, Charlotte Rampling seemingly invents a lethal babe (Ludivine Sagnier) with whom to spend her summer holiday in the French countryside. The strength of that film is that what happens “in the house” -- a rustic mini-chateau drenched in sunlight -- is absorbingly suspenseful, and occupied by characters both sumptuously extraordinary yet intriguingly real (whether they...
- 4/19/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Title: In the House Director: François Ozon Starring: Ernst Umhauer, Fabrice Luchini, Kristen Scott Thomas, Bastien Ughetto, Emmanuelle Seigner and Denis Ménochet. François Ozon was inspired by Juan Mayorga’s play ‘The Boy in the Last Row,’ for his last film ‘In the House,’ which was awarded the main prize at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival, the Golden Shell, as well as the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay. The middle-aged Germaine (Fabrice Luchini) is a literature teacher at the French High School Flaubert, while his wife Jeanne (Kristen Scott Thomas) works at a gallery, proposing the new trends of the contemporary art world. Germaine has never succeeded as a writer, [ Read More ]
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- 4/17/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Title: In The House (Dans la maison) Cohen Media Group Director: François Ozon Screenwriter: François Ozon, adapting Juan Mayorga’s play “The Boy in the Last Row” Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Menochet, Ernst Umhauer, Bastien Ughetto Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 4/2/13 Opens: April 19, 2013 A sixteen-year-old student in one of my high school English classes—call him Robert—had a vivid imagination. I declared him a Walter Mitty from the stories he would tell me about himself. The kicker is that he insisted the stories were true. He was of Puerto Rican heritage but spoke of visiting his Romanian grandfather in Bucharest. He was pudgy, even nerdy-looking, [ Read More ]
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- 4/3/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
François Ozon's clever psychological comedy about teaching and erotic obsession is his best work to date
The 45-year-old François Ozon has made a dozen feature-length films and several shorts over the past 15 years, and he has found a popular audience in France for stylish, sophisticated movies that often deal with gay themes. Unlike the work of most French mainstream directors, a fair proportion of his pictures have crossed the Channel. Moreover, he's worked with several prominent British actresses – most notably Charlotte Rampling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Romola Garai, the last named having appeared in his version of Elizabeth Taylor's novel Angel playing a romantic novelist in Edwardian England.
Ozon's new film, the teasing comedy In the House, touches on a number of his recurrent concerns, among them the nature of creativity and stories within stories, and it is, I think, his best work to date. Loosely based on...
The 45-year-old François Ozon has made a dozen feature-length films and several shorts over the past 15 years, and he has found a popular audience in France for stylish, sophisticated movies that often deal with gay themes. Unlike the work of most French mainstream directors, a fair proportion of his pictures have crossed the Channel. Moreover, he's worked with several prominent British actresses – most notably Charlotte Rampling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Romola Garai, the last named having appeared in his version of Elizabeth Taylor's novel Angel playing a romantic novelist in Edwardian England.
Ozon's new film, the teasing comedy In the House, touches on a number of his recurrent concerns, among them the nature of creativity and stories within stories, and it is, I think, his best work to date. Loosely based on...
- 4/2/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
In the House presents viewers with a series of sharp and often dizzying reflections on the meaning of realism and the moral duty of the writer
François Ozon's new film In the House marks the completion of a decade-long enterprise – a study, drawn from three angles at five-year intervals, of that cold-blooded parasite, the novelist. The approach is a broad one, psychoanalytic, anthropological, even literary-critical, with emphasis on where the creative urge comes from – being an only child helps – and how it is indulged, the wellsprings of creativity and its workings, too. When it comes to describing the relationship between life and art, Ozon isn't above drawing parallels and even arrows, though most of the time he aligns himself with a more antic French tradition – previous representatives include Alain Resnais and Jacques Rivette – in which the two are intertwined to the point of blurring.
Swimming Pool (2002), the first of these films,...
François Ozon's new film In the House marks the completion of a decade-long enterprise – a study, drawn from three angles at five-year intervals, of that cold-blooded parasite, the novelist. The approach is a broad one, psychoanalytic, anthropological, even literary-critical, with emphasis on where the creative urge comes from – being an only child helps – and how it is indulged, the wellsprings of creativity and its workings, too. When it comes to describing the relationship between life and art, Ozon isn't above drawing parallels and even arrows, though most of the time he aligns himself with a more antic French tradition – previous representatives include Alain Resnais and Jacques Rivette – in which the two are intertwined to the point of blurring.
Swimming Pool (2002), the first of these films,...
- 3/23/2013
- by Leo Robson
- The Guardian - Film News
How to describe Francois Ozon’s In the House… Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is a teacher of literature, critical of his pupils except for the one student – Claude (Ernst Umhauer) – who’s just written a voyeuristic document about his new friend Rapha (Bastien Ughetto) as his French assignment. Germain questions Claude’s critical depiction of his friend’s family home, but gets drawn into Claude’s increasingly fanciful stories from ‘in the house.’ Germain starts to influence Claude’s writing, recommending changes to passages of the story, but these recommendations may be impacting on Claude’s treatment of Rapha, his doting father (Denis Menochet) and bored mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) within their home.
Layered and metatextual to the extreme, In the House (based on a play by Juan Mayorga) must have been a complicated film to assemble. At times it descends into Pedro Almodovar territory, bored of its own plot, bored of its characters,...
Layered and metatextual to the extreme, In the House (based on a play by Juan Mayorga) must have been a complicated film to assemble. At times it descends into Pedro Almodovar territory, bored of its own plot, bored of its characters,...
- 11/4/2012
- by Brogan Morris
- Obsessed with Film
Francois Ozon’s previous film, “Potiche,” was a fun and frothy effort, and while it was undeniably beautifully composed and performed, it was arguably also a little inconsequential. Ozon approaches the structurally more ambitious “In the House” from a more devious and darkly comic perspective, yet despite this approach sustaining intrigue for much of the 105 minute running time, there’s still a sneaking suspicion once things are done that once again it doesn’t amount to very much. Adapted from Juan Mayorga’s play “El chico de la ultima fila,” Ozon’s script is told largely from the perspective of the world-weary teacher and failed novelist Germain (Fabrice Luchini), whose interest is piqued after reading a student’s writing assignment. The student in question is Claude (a superbly self-assured Ernst Umhauer), who has written a mischievous essay about finally making it into the bourgeois home of a classmate...
- 10/24/2012
- by Joe Cunningham
- The Playlist
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
François Ozon’s latest work adapts Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy in the Last Row, centred on the bizarre friendship between a jaded high-school literature teacher, Germain (Fabrice Luchini), and one of his precocious students, Claude (Ernst Umhauer). Wryly funny and benefiting from a jaunty – if slightly repetitive – score, Ozon’s film pits Claude’s fierce intelligence and ability to infiltrate the virulently middle-class family of a classmate, Rapha (Bastien Ughetto) against Germain’s professional inadequacy and middle-class satisfaction. When Claude begins writing about Rapha’s life for a school assignment, Germain is transfixed, becoming a literary critic, and along with his pretentious, art curator wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), examining the merits of what might be a slice-of-life work of naturalism, a class satire, or something insidiously in-between.
Such is true of the film itself; its dual narrative begins naturalistically, serving as a potent satire of the self-important,...
François Ozon’s latest work adapts Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy in the Last Row, centred on the bizarre friendship between a jaded high-school literature teacher, Germain (Fabrice Luchini), and one of his precocious students, Claude (Ernst Umhauer). Wryly funny and benefiting from a jaunty – if slightly repetitive – score, Ozon’s film pits Claude’s fierce intelligence and ability to infiltrate the virulently middle-class family of a classmate, Rapha (Bastien Ughetto) against Germain’s professional inadequacy and middle-class satisfaction. When Claude begins writing about Rapha’s life for a school assignment, Germain is transfixed, becoming a literary critic, and along with his pretentious, art curator wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), examining the merits of what might be a slice-of-life work of naturalism, a class satire, or something insidiously in-between.
Such is true of the film itself; its dual narrative begins naturalistically, serving as a potent satire of the self-important,...
- 10/14/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Based on The Boy in the Back Row by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, Francois Ozon’s latest is something of a return to form for the former enfant terrible and a deliciously witty story about storytelling.
Weary literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) finds a diamond in the rough in Claude (Ernst Umhauer), who shows real flair in a writing assignment set by Germain. Despite being asked by Germain to simply write about what he did that weekend Claude manages to turn a few hundred words into a fascinating glimpse into the private life of the family of one of his school friends and in doing so weave the beginnings of a very absorbing story. The one page story ends with the line “to be continued…”, which helps, along with the deviously generated content, to immediately hook in Germain, his wife Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) who he reads it to, and most importantly the wider audience,...
Weary literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) finds a diamond in the rough in Claude (Ernst Umhauer), who shows real flair in a writing assignment set by Germain. Despite being asked by Germain to simply write about what he did that weekend Claude manages to turn a few hundred words into a fascinating glimpse into the private life of the family of one of his school friends and in doing so weave the beginnings of a very absorbing story. The one page story ends with the line “to be continued…”, which helps, along with the deviously generated content, to immediately hook in Germain, his wife Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) who he reads it to, and most importantly the wider audience,...
- 10/13/2012
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As the San Sebastian Film Festival drew to a close, there was — as there should be with festivals that want to thrive — a sense of honoring the past and looking to the future.
The week had been studded with Hollywood star appearances, from Ewan McGregor becoming the youngest ever actor to win a Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award to 75-year-old Dustin Hoffman tearfully collecting his Donostia on Saturday. Thanking the festival for honoring the art form of cinema, he told the packed Kursaal auditorium: “The feeling that you gave me is as important as the award.”
But there was also a sense of new talent coming up. From the first-time outings in the Kutxa-New Directors Award — the 90,000 euro ($115,600) prize for which is the biggest on offer at any film festival — won by Fernando Guzzoni’s Carne De Perro, to the continued strength of the Cinema in Motion section, which will help...
The week had been studded with Hollywood star appearances, from Ewan McGregor becoming the youngest ever actor to win a Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award to 75-year-old Dustin Hoffman tearfully collecting his Donostia on Saturday. Thanking the festival for honoring the art form of cinema, he told the packed Kursaal auditorium: “The feeling that you gave me is as important as the award.”
But there was also a sense of new talent coming up. From the first-time outings in the Kutxa-New Directors Award — the 90,000 euro ($115,600) prize for which is the biggest on offer at any film festival — won by Fernando Guzzoni’s Carne De Perro, to the continued strength of the Cinema in Motion section, which will help...
- 10/1/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Write On: Ozon’s Latest an Exercise in Authorial Manipulation
The steadily working Francois Ozon continues with his playful dark comic streak in his latest, In the House, an adaptation of a play by Juan Mayorga. A thriller with literary machinations, not unlike Swimming Pool (2003), one of Ozon’s most well known features, his latest is a low key narrative, one that starts out as a broad caricature loosely criticizing class ideals but then coils tightly to an introspective finale on manipulation and a cheeky exploration of the truth.
French teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is all set to start another school year after spending a leisurely summer reading. The new school year is beginning with some major changes, namely that all students will now be required to wear school uniforms, a concept Germain disagrees with, as this is seen as a move to make all the students equal when on the premises.
The steadily working Francois Ozon continues with his playful dark comic streak in his latest, In the House, an adaptation of a play by Juan Mayorga. A thriller with literary machinations, not unlike Swimming Pool (2003), one of Ozon’s most well known features, his latest is a low key narrative, one that starts out as a broad caricature loosely criticizing class ideals but then coils tightly to an introspective finale on manipulation and a cheeky exploration of the truth.
French teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is all set to start another school year after spending a leisurely summer reading. The new school year is beginning with some major changes, namely that all students will now be required to wear school uniforms, a concept Germain disagrees with, as this is seen as a move to make all the students equal when on the premises.
- 9/21/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In the House (Dans la maison)
Written by Juan Mayorga (play), François Ozon
Directed by François Ozon
France, 2012
French director François Ozon has been working steadily albeit fairly quietly for over two decades, striking the occasional hit with films like 8 Women and Swimming Pool. His latest effort In the House has the potential to be another one of Ozon’s sleeper hits. The film tells the story of French Literature teacher Germain Germain who becomes enamored with the writing of one of his students in particular, shy boy-in-the-last-row Claude (Ernst Umhauer). Claude’s weekly assignments detail his exploits within the house of a fellow student. Germain becomes more and more involved in Claude’s narrative and soon helps Claude set in motion a series of events that impacts both Claude’s story as well as the lives of student, teacher and the people around them.
This tightly written and structured...
Written by Juan Mayorga (play), François Ozon
Directed by François Ozon
France, 2012
French director François Ozon has been working steadily albeit fairly quietly for over two decades, striking the occasional hit with films like 8 Women and Swimming Pool. His latest effort In the House has the potential to be another one of Ozon’s sleeper hits. The film tells the story of French Literature teacher Germain Germain who becomes enamored with the writing of one of his students in particular, shy boy-in-the-last-row Claude (Ernst Umhauer). Claude’s weekly assignments detail his exploits within the house of a fellow student. Germain becomes more and more involved in Claude’s narrative and soon helps Claude set in motion a series of events that impacts both Claude’s story as well as the lives of student, teacher and the people around them.
This tightly written and structured...
- 9/18/2012
- by Laura Holtebrinck
- SoundOnSight
Toronto – In Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool, a parched crime writer’s creativity is reinvigorated by her proximity to a sexually uninhibited younger woman. A less carnal male twist on that dynamic sparks the director's seductive new film, In the House (Dans la maison), which is perhaps his strongest work since the 2003 drama. This time the older figure is a joyless schoolteacher and failed novelist whose vicarious involvement in a gifted student’s reality-based fiction reawakens his senses until the scenario gets out of hand. Freely adapted by Ozon from Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga’s The Boy in the Last Row,
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- 9/14/2012
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the Francois Ozon thriller “In the House.” Discussions with the French filmmaker’s Wild Bunch sales reps begun weeks ago were finalized this week in Cannes, though the film is not yet finished. Kristin Scott Thomas (“Bel Ami”), Emmanuelle Seigner (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), Denis Menochet (“Inglourious Basterds”) and Fabrice Luchini (“Potiche”) star. Ozon based his screenplay on Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga’s “The Boy in the Last Row,” which was performed earlier this year at the Bucharest National Theatre. The play’s storyline follows a high school teacher who becomes entangled with a student’s invasion of a classmate’s privacy sparked by an essay assignment. Mandarin Films’ Eric Altmeyer and Nicolas Altmeyer (“Potiche”) produced the film project with Claudie Ossard...
- 5/18/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Photo: Cannes Film Festival Update: The full line-up is now available right here. We are now less than 24 hours away from the official 2012 Cannes Film Festival line-up announcement and I have to admit, my excitement for what may come is hitting overload. As much as the Toronto Film Festival has come to be the place where several films begin their Oscar run, there simply is nothing better than the international cinematic prestige of attending the Cannes Film Festival each year and this will mark my third year attending. With that in mind, late last night I added an additional nine films to the RopeofSilicon database that have the potential of being named during tomorrow's (April 19) announcement, which should come sometime around 2 or 3 Am Pst. After doing so I felt it wouldn't hurt to take one last look at what films have the strongest chance of showing up at the festival this year.
- 4/18/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
François Ozon has completed shooting his 13th feature, reports Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa. An adaptation of Juan Mayorga's play The Boy in the Last Row, Dans La Maison features Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Denis Ménochet and is slated for a release in France next fall.
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"A pioneer of what film scholar Gene Youngblood called 'expanded cinema,' San Francisco artist Jordan Belson developed his majestic form of abstract cinema over six decades of work," writes Max Goldberg. "He died last month at 85, the same day as George Kuchar. Belson worked on a very different plane than Kuchar: his films were non-representational,...
"As the repression of Iranian filmmakers and actors intensifies, a group of prominent Iranians — including artist Shirin Neshat, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo — have called on countries worldwide to boycott official Iranian film and TV organizations and sanction its members." Anthony Kaufman has the full statement.
"A pioneer of what film scholar Gene Youngblood called 'expanded cinema,' San Francisco artist Jordan Belson developed his majestic form of abstract cinema over six decades of work," writes Max Goldberg. "He died last month at 85, the same day as George Kuchar. Belson worked on a very different plane than Kuchar: his films were non-representational,...
- 10/19/2011
- MUBI
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