Caroline Champetier on Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt in Margarethe von Trotta's film: "I thought it was a beautiful ingenious idea to give her this part." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cinematographer Caroline Champetier has worked with Benoît Jacquot, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Rivette, Arnaud Desplechin, Anne Fontaine, Cédric Anger, Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, André Téchiné, Barbet Schroeder, Philippe Garrel, Patricia Mazuy, Chantal Akerman, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Claude Lanzmann, and Kevin Macdonald on his Howard Hawks documentary. Her films with these directors include La Fille Seule, Of Gods And Men, Le Pont Du Nord, La Sentinelle, Tokyo! with Denis Lavant, The Innocents, Le Tueur, Ponette, Alice Et Martin, Terror's Advocate, Night Wind, Of Women And Horses, Toute Une Nuit, Too Early/Too Late, and The Last Of The Unjust respectively.
On Margarethe von Trotta: "She had exactly the idea for the beginning of the movie." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The...
Cinematographer Caroline Champetier has worked with Benoît Jacquot, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Rivette, Arnaud Desplechin, Anne Fontaine, Cédric Anger, Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, André Téchiné, Barbet Schroeder, Philippe Garrel, Patricia Mazuy, Chantal Akerman, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Claude Lanzmann, and Kevin Macdonald on his Howard Hawks documentary. Her films with these directors include La Fille Seule, Of Gods And Men, Le Pont Du Nord, La Sentinelle, Tokyo! with Denis Lavant, The Innocents, Le Tueur, Ponette, Alice Et Martin, Terror's Advocate, Night Wind, Of Women And Horses, Toute Une Nuit, Too Early/Too Late, and The Last Of The Unjust respectively.
On Margarethe von Trotta: "She had exactly the idea for the beginning of the movie." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The...
- 10/27/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marthe Keller stars in Barbet Schroeder's Amnesia
Barbet Schroeder's Amnesia, starring Marthe Keller and Max Riemelt with Bruno Ganz, Corinna Kirchhoff, Fermí Reixach, Marie Leuenberger, and Joel Basman is a supremely personal chamber piece by the filmmaker who brought us Hollywood films such as Reversal Of Fortune (which won Jeremy Irons an Oscar), Barfly (Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke) or Single White Female (Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh), who worked with Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard and directed an episode of Mad Men.
Barbet Schroeder with Anne-Katrin Titze on Nelly Quettier: "She's a great editor." Photo: Steven Beeman
In New York before the opening, Barbet spoke with me about his editing on a "huge white wall" with Nelly Quettier (Terror's Advocate, Claire Denis' Beau Travail, Ursula Meier's Home, Léos Carax's Holy Motors), a Nanni Moretti-like Mia Madre idea, Walter Benjamin and Raoul Hausmann, the mood of Georgia O'Keeffe's house,...
Barbet Schroeder's Amnesia, starring Marthe Keller and Max Riemelt with Bruno Ganz, Corinna Kirchhoff, Fermí Reixach, Marie Leuenberger, and Joel Basman is a supremely personal chamber piece by the filmmaker who brought us Hollywood films such as Reversal Of Fortune (which won Jeremy Irons an Oscar), Barfly (Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke) or Single White Female (Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh), who worked with Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard and directed an episode of Mad Men.
Barbet Schroeder with Anne-Katrin Titze on Nelly Quettier: "She's a great editor." Photo: Steven Beeman
In New York before the opening, Barbet spoke with me about his editing on a "huge white wall" with Nelly Quettier (Terror's Advocate, Claire Denis' Beau Travail, Ursula Meier's Home, Léos Carax's Holy Motors), a Nanni Moretti-like Mia Madre idea, Walter Benjamin and Raoul Hausmann, the mood of Georgia O'Keeffe's house,...
- 7/20/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Well, the official Cannes Film Festival line-up is here, and it's a terrific slate for 2015, with lots of big name, international auteurs, but one you might forget as a familiar face on the Croisette is Barbet Schroeder. The Oscar nominated director ("Reversal Of Fortune") has been at Cannes twice previously, with "Barfly" in 1987 and "Terror's Advocate" in 2007. And now he's back with "Amnesia," which will get a Special Screening at the fest. The first trailer is here. Starring Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz, and Corinna Kirchhoff, the movie tells the tale of the relationship that develops between a young man and an older woman, and the secrets from the past that surface. Here's the official synopsis: Ibiza, the early nineties, Jo is a twenty-five-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first...
- 4/16/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This is the fascinating story of the wheeler-dealer Frenchman Jean-Yves Ollivier, who might have stepped out of a Frederick Forsyth novel
Here is an intriguing documentary, with some impressive talking heads, all about the secret history of South Africa and the end of apartheid. But I wonder if a great deal is still being withheld about its leading player, an urbane, cigar-smoking, wheeler-dealer Frenchman named Jean-Yves Ollivier who might have stepped from the pages of a Frederick Forsyth novel. (He reminded me of the controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès, the subject of Barbet Schroeder's 2007 documentary Terror's Advocate.) In the 1980s and 1990s, Ollivier had built up a network of contacts as an international commodities trader. He had charm, style and a knack for cutting deals, and he could do discreet business with various leaders with whom European politicians did not care to associate. So Ollivier offered his services as a secret envoy,...
Here is an intriguing documentary, with some impressive talking heads, all about the secret history of South Africa and the end of apartheid. But I wonder if a great deal is still being withheld about its leading player, an urbane, cigar-smoking, wheeler-dealer Frenchman named Jean-Yves Ollivier who might have stepped from the pages of a Frederick Forsyth novel. (He reminded me of the controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès, the subject of Barbet Schroeder's 2007 documentary Terror's Advocate.) In the 1980s and 1990s, Ollivier had built up a network of contacts as an international commodities trader. He had charm, style and a knack for cutting deals, and he could do discreet business with various leaders with whom European politicians did not care to associate. So Ollivier offered his services as a secret envoy,...
- 3/14/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Terrorist? Revolutionary? Or just a cynic? This continent-hopping biopic of Carlos the Jackal suggests greed and ego won out over principle, writes Peter Bradshaw
The Pimpernel of Marxist-Leninist terrorism is back. For years, Carlos was the spectre haunting Europe, known to western newspaper readers by one single photo: a plump, bespectacled and smugly smirking headshot reproduced with such Warholian persistence that it became an icon of menace. His fugitive invisibility made literary theorists of many, entertaining the feverish notion that he did not exist, that "Carlos" was effectively a socio-cultural construct, a bogeyman invented by the media-political complex to sell papers and to justify the erosion of civil liberties. Carlos's eventual capture and imprisonment in the 1990s, revealing him to be abjectly human, was a real letdown, as if Osama Bin Laden had been arrested working in a Carphone Warehouse in Watford.
French film-maker Olivier Assayas has now released for...
The Pimpernel of Marxist-Leninist terrorism is back. For years, Carlos was the spectre haunting Europe, known to western newspaper readers by one single photo: a plump, bespectacled and smugly smirking headshot reproduced with such Warholian persistence that it became an icon of menace. His fugitive invisibility made literary theorists of many, entertaining the feverish notion that he did not exist, that "Carlos" was effectively a socio-cultural construct, a bogeyman invented by the media-political complex to sell papers and to justify the erosion of civil liberties. Carlos's eventual capture and imprisonment in the 1990s, revealing him to be abjectly human, was a real letdown, as if Osama Bin Laden had been arrested working in a Carphone Warehouse in Watford.
French film-maker Olivier Assayas has now released for...
- 10/21/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Wiseman goes crazy
American documentary-maker Fred Wiseman shows no signs of relenting. At the sprightly age of 80 he has just achieved theatrical distribution for his brilliant film La Danse (reviewed by Philip French, below left) – the first time in a 45-year television career that any of his films has screened in cinemas outside of festivals. Wiseman, currently enjoying a retrospective at New York's MoMA, has made a career chronicling the workings of social institutions, including an asylum for the criminally insane (Titicut Follies, 1967), a department store (The Store, 1983), high schools, theatre companies, army cadets (Basic Training, 1971), police forces (Law and Order, 1969) and even an abattoir (Meat, 1976). He has just completed work at Lord's boxing gym in Austin, Texas, and the result, Boxing Gym, will debut at Cannes next month. "It's also a dance movie, of a kind," he tells me. And Fred has a glint in his eye over his next project,...
American documentary-maker Fred Wiseman shows no signs of relenting. At the sprightly age of 80 he has just achieved theatrical distribution for his brilliant film La Danse (reviewed by Philip French, below left) – the first time in a 45-year television career that any of his films has screened in cinemas outside of festivals. Wiseman, currently enjoying a retrospective at New York's MoMA, has made a career chronicling the workings of social institutions, including an asylum for the criminally insane (Titicut Follies, 1967), a department store (The Store, 1983), high schools, theatre companies, army cadets (Basic Training, 1971), police forces (Law and Order, 1969) and even an abattoir (Meat, 1976). He has just completed work at Lord's boxing gym in Austin, Texas, and the result, Boxing Gym, will debut at Cannes next month. "It's also a dance movie, of a kind," he tells me. And Fred has a glint in his eye over his next project,...
- 4/24/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
The eleventh and last part (W-z) of my extensive 2010 preview guide I'm still at work on and should be hitting the site either Tuesday or Wednesday. Before that though it is time to plug a few holes.
With release dates always in flux, there is no true definitive list of films opening this year as the number of titles change day-by-day and many aren't really locked in yet. As a result, there's definitely been some guesswork assembling this list, albeit carefully considered and researched to try and fit in what will come out, what's important enough, and what can be reasonably done.
However, there are always titles that slip through the cracks. Thankfully some ever vigilant readers have been keeping an eye out and sent in some suggestions of key projects I've missed. Not everything can be included of course, otherwise this list would take forever, but there are fourteen...
With release dates always in flux, there is no true definitive list of films opening this year as the number of titles change day-by-day and many aren't really locked in yet. As a result, there's definitely been some guesswork assembling this list, albeit carefully considered and researched to try and fit in what will come out, what's important enough, and what can be reasonably done.
However, there are always titles that slip through the cracks. Thankfully some ever vigilant readers have been keeping an eye out and sent in some suggestions of key projects I've missed. Not everything can be included of course, otherwise this list would take forever, but there are fourteen...
- 1/11/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
- A constant source of fascination and inspiration, our understanding of the "Jackal" was perhaps better served not in the trio of fiction films made about him (with Bruce Willis as the most recent impersonation) but in Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate a couple of years back. Carlos the Jackal is both the subject, and title for Oliver Assayas' latest project. The five month shoot took place in France, Germany and Lebanon with Che Part 1: The Argentine's Edgar Ramirez plays the infamous Ramirez Sanchez. The TV drama made of three 90-minute episodes will also be released theatrically as a two-hour feature. Co-written by Assayas and Dan Franck, this traces the life of Carlos (currently serving a life sentence in a French prison) from 1973-1994. Full of violence and secret-service manipulation, the story includes the 1974 bomb attack on the Publicis Drugstore in Paris, the 1975 hostage-taking of 11 Opec ministers in Vienna and several planned assassinations.
- 7/21/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- I didn't get the chance to see the doc William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe in Park City this year, but I had the impression that it would touch upon some of the qualities found in Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate – a behind a scenes look into a controversial lawyer in his own right: Mr. Jacques Vergès. That is where the comparisons probably end --- as this docu was made by Kunstler's own kin. Midway through last week's festival, PBS picked up the docu for its P.O.V. Series (to be aired in 2010), and today, documentary film distribution specialist Arthouse Films picked up theatrical and DVD rights to the pic with a mid-2009 release in mind and look for this to be at either the doc fests such as the upcoming editions of True/False, Silverdocs and Hot Docs festival in Toronto. This spotlights the late civil rights attorney
- 1/29/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Apart from film examples such as The Band's Visit, Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) and Terror's Advocate, last year’s Un Certain Regard Section had its share of misfires – films that took the experimental route but felt more like - old bath tub water. This year’s batch of twenty titles includes another mix of veteran and first time filmmakers with perhaps the James Toback's bio-docu on friend (Iron Mike) Tyson, Abel Ferrara’s latest work Chelsea On The Rocks and finally Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry collab Tokyo! to garner the most attention from buyers and critic crowds. The five films I’m most looking forward to are Germany’s Wolke 9 by Andreas Dresen, Los Bastardos by Amat Escalante (he is the was the Dop for Carlos Reygadas’ first two films and a couple of years back he released another dismal portrait of Mexico with Sangre.
- 4/23/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
By Michael Atkinson
It is surely a first . an international movie star (Sandrine Bonnaire) making a patient, respectful, thoroughly unnarcissistic documentary about her own handicapped sister, and stumping for policy change as she considers painful mysteries about family and the passage of time in the process. "Her Name Is Sabine" (2007) is a simple, unpretentious piece of work . Bonnaire spends an enormous amount of time simply observing the managed-care home where Sabine, nearing 40, lives now with a handful of other adults with varying modes and manifestations of autism. Slowly, Sabine's history is dripped in . as a child, teen and young adult, she was different, "off," but lucid, literate, energetic and capable of playing Chopin. She went without diagnosis for decades. As her siblings . ten of them . grew up one by one and left home, Sabine, robbed of stimulus, began to deteriorate; a series of hospital stays and hired nurses followed,...
It is surely a first . an international movie star (Sandrine Bonnaire) making a patient, respectful, thoroughly unnarcissistic documentary about her own handicapped sister, and stumping for policy change as she considers painful mysteries about family and the passage of time in the process. "Her Name Is Sabine" (2007) is a simple, unpretentious piece of work . Bonnaire spends an enormous amount of time simply observing the managed-care home where Sabine, nearing 40, lives now with a handful of other adults with varying modes and manifestations of autism. Slowly, Sabine's history is dripped in . as a child, teen and young adult, she was different, "off," but lucid, literate, energetic and capable of playing Chopin. She went without diagnosis for decades. As her siblings . ten of them . grew up one by one and left home, Sabine, robbed of stimulus, began to deteriorate; a series of hospital stays and hired nurses followed,...
- 3/11/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
PARIS -- Abdellatif Kechiche's immigrant drama The Secret of the Grain continued its winning streak with the prize for best film of the year at the Etoiles d'or de la presse (Golden Star Awards) Monday night in Paris.
Kechiche also won the award for best director and best screenplay for his film, and saw lead actress Hafsia Herzi walk away with the best female newcomer prize.
Pathe's Jerome Seydoux and Francois Ivernel were also crowned with Golden Stars for Secret, named best producer and best distributor respectively.
Oscar favorite and Golden Globe winner La Vie en Rose star Marion Cotillard had to share the spotlight with Anna M.'s Isabelle Carre for the best actress award. Mathieu Amalric took home the best actor prize for his role as paralyzed Elle editor Dominique Bauby in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parannaud won the best first film award for animated political satire Persepolis and Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate was named best documentary.
99 Francs actor Jocelyn Quivrin shared the best male newcomer prize with his Romance of Astree and Celadon co-star Andy Gillet.
Kechiche also won the award for best director and best screenplay for his film, and saw lead actress Hafsia Herzi walk away with the best female newcomer prize.
Pathe's Jerome Seydoux and Francois Ivernel were also crowned with Golden Stars for Secret, named best producer and best distributor respectively.
Oscar favorite and Golden Globe winner La Vie en Rose star Marion Cotillard had to share the spotlight with Anna M.'s Isabelle Carre for the best actress award. Mathieu Amalric took home the best actor prize for his role as paralyzed Elle editor Dominique Bauby in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parannaud won the best first film award for animated political satire Persepolis and Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate was named best documentary.
99 Francs actor Jocelyn Quivrin shared the best male newcomer prize with his Romance of Astree and Celadon co-star Andy Gillet.
- 2/20/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- #88.My Enemy's EnemyDirector/Writer: Kevin Macdonald Producer/Production Company: Rita Dagher , Kevin Macdonald Distributor: The Weinstein Company The Gist: This is about Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal known as "the Butcher Of Lyon." Barbie was also the subject of Marcel Ophuls' Oscar winning 1988 documentary Hotel Terminus, but Macdonald's film will have a very different focus. The film will chronicle how Barbie worked with the CIA after the war and how the Nazi felon was protected by the Us.Fact: Equally agile in documentary and narrative storytelling forms, MacDonald has gone back and forth between docu and fiction: Touching the Void (2004), The Last King of Scotland (2006) and is helming studio pic State of Play. See It: This is a perfect companion piece for another doc film Terror's Advocate, and acts as another mind-boggling example of how American foreign policy is cause for many blunders. Release Date/Status?: Presently in the Tba status,
- 1/28/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- You'll never hear a first-grader claim he/she wants to be a lawyer when they grow up - but there are some determining factors in a youngsters' life that may push them towards the trade. In this case, a young Jacques Vergès, perhaps involuntarily found out early on in life his reason for being. This is a captivating, talking heads doc about a fascinating individual - agree to disagree or hate the man. What he does is almost noble. A suivre.... Today, Magnolia Pictures releases a documentary film that explores one man's mindset and life's work. Via the sophisticated hand of Barbet Schroeder, this Cannes-selected, Un Certain Regard, French production aims at giving viewers everything but an easy, open and shut portrait. Today, Ioncinema.com brings you an exclusive clip (early contacts with Mao) from Terror's Advocate - to view it skip on over the film's synopsis below. This is about Jacques Vergès,
- 10/12/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- With about 85 percent of the Press & Industry screenings taking place in the same barracks, it makes for no frills, easy as pie, type of experience and when I must go to hotel headquarters, the travel time is an easy 5 blocks down south or curve right 3 blocks up. Today’s program was a feast of different language mother tongues….here’s the four main language mother tongues that I heard and some immediate thoughts on what I saw...An historically embedded, thought provoking doc that reveals there is more to the man than meets the eye, Barbet Schroeder’s Terror's Advocate curiously looks back at the career of a lawyer who defended the “undefendable”. The doc will get commercial play and is a must for newspaper headline history buffs. Unlike Pedro Almodovar’s work, internationally speaking, Spaniard Julio Medem has very much remained an unknown. Chaotic Ana (Caótica Ana) won
- 9/9/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
MADRID -- Those who missed out on Pascal Ferran's Lady Chatterley at Berlin, Anton Corbijn's Control at Cannes or Etger Keret and Shira Geffen's Camera d'Or-winning Jellyfish will have another chance to see them at the 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.
The films will join five others from previous festivals in the Zabaltegi-Pearls section. Zabaltegi-Pearls will compete for the TCM Audience Award, which carries a 70,000 ($94,930) for the importer of the winning film. A second prize of 35,000 will go to the European film obtaining the most votes from the audience at the end of each screening.
Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate, Nadine Labaki's Lebanese beauty salon-centered Caramel, Frank Oz's family drama Death at a Funeral, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy and Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" round out the showcase's slate.
Zabaltegi-Pearls also will offer special screenings of Carlos Saura's music-based Fados, screening in Toronto; a restored version of Richard Lester's Beatles movie Help; and Lou Reed's Berlin, Schnabel's tribute to Lou Reed's 2005 live performance of his mythical album.
The films will join five others from previous festivals in the Zabaltegi-Pearls section. Zabaltegi-Pearls will compete for the TCM Audience Award, which carries a 70,000 ($94,930) for the importer of the winning film. A second prize of 35,000 will go to the European film obtaining the most votes from the audience at the end of each screening.
Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate, Nadine Labaki's Lebanese beauty salon-centered Caramel, Frank Oz's family drama Death at a Funeral, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy and Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" round out the showcase's slate.
Zabaltegi-Pearls also will offer special screenings of Carlos Saura's music-based Fados, screening in Toronto; a restored version of Richard Lester's Beatles movie Help; and Lou Reed's Berlin, Schnabel's tribute to Lou Reed's 2005 live performance of his mythical album.
- 8/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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