A self-portrait and cinematic essay, Leos Carax’s “It’s Not Me” is perhaps the most accurate impression of a late-era Jean-Luc Godard experiment anyone has ever attempted. From Carax’s raspy voiceover to his jaggedly assembled combination of archival footage and absurd original snippets, the 41-minute short probes a variety of personal and political subjects, but it never quite beats with the furious heart and provocative spirit of Godard’s twilight era.
The project was conceived as part of a museum exhibition on Carax for Paris’ Centre Pompidou, but the prompt posed to him in the form of a question — “Where are you at, Leos Carax?” — appears to have led the enigmatic filmmaker on a confounding quest of self-discovery. The exhibit would never come to fruition, but Carax’s inquiry into his work, his lifelong influences and cinema at-large has yielded an occasionally fascinating collage. The film not only ponders Carax’s past,...
The project was conceived as part of a museum exhibition on Carax for Paris’ Centre Pompidou, but the prompt posed to him in the form of a question — “Where are you at, Leos Carax?” — appears to have led the enigmatic filmmaker on a confounding quest of self-discovery. The exhibit would never come to fruition, but Carax’s inquiry into his work, his lifelong influences and cinema at-large has yielded an occasionally fascinating collage. The film not only ponders Carax’s past,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Variety Film + TV
After Jean-Luc Godard, Leos Carax is probably the French filmmaker most associated with the term enfant terrible. In some ways, he’s been even more terrible than Godard ever was, adopting a pseudonym (he was born Alex Dupont) as a teenager and bursting onto the scene at age 24 with Boy Meets Girl — Godard made Breathless when he was 30 — which immediately turned him into a major young auteur to be reckoned with.
He followed that up with the powerful, AIDS-inspired Mauvais Sang, and then made The Lovers on the Bridge, a film infamous for being a French Heaven’s Gate that went way over budget and flopped (it’s still a fantastic movie). After that Carax disappeared for a while, then reemerged to make a few shorts, compose pop songs and shoot a new feature every decade, the last one being the Adam Driver-Marion Cotillard starrer, Annette.
His latest work, the medium-length,...
He followed that up with the powerful, AIDS-inspired Mauvais Sang, and then made The Lovers on the Bridge, a film infamous for being a French Heaven’s Gate that went way over budget and flopped (it’s still a fantastic movie). After that Carax disappeared for a while, then reemerged to make a few shorts, compose pop songs and shoot a new feature every decade, the last one being the Adam Driver-Marion Cotillard starrer, Annette.
His latest work, the medium-length,...
- 5/18/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes film festival
Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook
Here is an intriguing footnote to Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary career - a docu-textual movie collage lasting just under an hour in two parts, or maybe two layers, completed just before his assisted death two years ago in Switzerland at the age of 91. His collaborator and cinematographer Fabrice Aragno calls it not the “last Godard” but a “new Godard”. In its way, this little double film shows us a very great deal about Godard’s working habits, and it’s a late example of Godard speaking intimately in his own person about his own creative process.
Scénarios appears to have grown out of thoughts generated by his last film, The Image Book, which emerged in 2018. Godard sketched out his storyboarded or scrapbooked ideas for a short piece,...
Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook
Here is an intriguing footnote to Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary career - a docu-textual movie collage lasting just under an hour in two parts, or maybe two layers, completed just before his assisted death two years ago in Switzerland at the age of 91. His collaborator and cinematographer Fabrice Aragno calls it not the “last Godard” but a “new Godard”. In its way, this little double film shows us a very great deal about Godard’s working habits, and it’s a late example of Godard speaking intimately in his own person about his own creative process.
Scénarios appears to have grown out of thoughts generated by his last film, The Image Book, which emerged in 2018. Godard sketched out his storyboarded or scrapbooked ideas for a short piece,...
- 5/18/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A year ago, the Cannes Film Festival presented the world premiere of what was widely taken to be Jean-Luc Godard’s final film. He had died by assisted suicide eight months before, and the 20-minute-long “Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars'” felt, by nature, like the aestheticized version of a last will and testament. It was a collage film, and it was (surprise!) oblique, yet it offered tea leaves to read about Godard’s state of mind as he prepared to leave the world.
As it turns out, “Trailer of the Film…” was not Godard’s final work. The 18-minute-long “Scénarios,” also made in a collage style, but simpler and more direct, was unveiled today at Cannes, along with a 34-minute documentary about the making of the short. “Scénarios” has the feel of a minor but purefied late-period work, like a Matisse paper cutout. What’s...
As it turns out, “Trailer of the Film…” was not Godard’s final work. The 18-minute-long “Scénarios,” also made in a collage style, but simpler and more direct, was unveiled today at Cannes, along with a 34-minute documentary about the making of the short. “Scénarios” has the feel of a minor but purefied late-period work, like a Matisse paper cutout. What’s...
- 5/17/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun (“Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and Lulun of the Picture Book”), the 35th entry in the long-running series of children's anime films based on the books by Takashi Yanase, has shared a short movie clip from the film featuring the tricksy Baikinman taking on the role of a hero. Jun Kawagoe directs Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , Shoji Yonemura writes the script for the film, and Taku Izumi and Hiroaki Kondo provide the music. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun hits theaters in Japan on June 28, 2024. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun movie poster Related: Baikinman and Anpanman Team Up in New Anpanman Anime Movie Trailer In Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , the villainous Baikinman finds himself playing the role of a “warrior of love and courage” when he is summoned into a magical picture book by Lulun,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun (“Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and Lulun of the Picture Book”), the 35th entry in the long-running series of children's anime films based on the books by Takashi Yanase, has published an upbeat new trailer and a new key visual for the upcoming film. Jun Kawagoe directs Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , Shoji Yonemura writes the script for the film, and Taku Izumi and Hiroaki Kondo provide the music. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun hits theaters in Japan on June 28, 2024. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun key visual Related: Comedian Takashi Okamura Joins Latest Anpanman Film in Cameo Role In Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , the villainous Baikinman finds himself playing the role of a “warrior of love and courage” when he is summoned into a magical picture book by Lulun, a forest fairy who requests his...
- 3/1/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun (“Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and Lulun of the Picture Book”), the 35th entry in the long-running series of children's anime films based on the books by Takashi Yanase, has revealed a new guest cast member. In the film, comedian Takashi Okamura (of comedy duo Ninety-nine) portrays the Suitoru Zou, an elephant that is out of control. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun promotional image Jun Kawagoe directs Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , Shoji Yonemura writes the script for the film, and Taku Izumi and Hiroaki Kondo provide the music. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun hits theaters in Japan on June 28, 2024. Related: Latest Anpanman Film Adds Aya Ueto to Cast as Lulun In Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , the villainous Baikinman finds himself playing the role of a “warrior of love and courage” when he is...
- 2/27/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun (“Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and Lulun of the Picture Book”), the 35th entry in the long-running series of children's anime films based on the books by Takashi Yanase, has revealed a new key cast member. In the film, actor / singer Aya Ueto plays Lulun, the titular forest fairy who befriends Anpanman and friends. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun promotional image Jun Kawagoe directs Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , Shoji Yonemura writes the script for the film, and Taku Izumi and Hiroaki Kondo provide the music. Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun hits theaters in Japan on June 28, 2024. Related: Latest Anpanman Theatrical Anime Film Hits Japanese Theaters on June 28 In Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman to Ehon no Lulun , the villainous Baikinman finds himself playing the role of a “warrior of love and courage” when he is summoned into a magical picture book by Lulun,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Le chinoise.Most serious writing about Jean-Luc Godard tends to be both high-flown and forbidding, rather like the films it’s discussing. Translations from French to English or vice versa can make things even dicier. But according to the literary scholar Fredric Jameson, who contributes an enthusiastic preface and afterword, Reading with Jean-Luc Godard—a compendium of 109 three-page essays by 50 writers from a dozen countries, announced as the first in a series—launches “a new form” and “a new genre.”The brevity of each entry tends to confirm Jameson’s claim. The book can be described as an audience-friendly volume designed to occupy the same space between academia and journalism staked out by Notebook while proposing routes into Godard’s work provided by his eclectic reading—a batch of writers ranged alphabetically and intellectually from Louis Aragon, Robert Ardrey, Hannah Arendt, and Honoré de Balzac to François Truffaut, Paul Valéry,...
- 1/30/2024
- MUBI
With a title that invokes both the specific (cinema of Godard) and the universal (cinema is Godard), Cyril Leuthy’s Godard Cinema finds itself in conversation with another formulation: Everything is Cinema. Richard Brody’s 2008 study of the filmmaker, is beautifully sentenced, dare-ing criticism; one wonders, sometimes, if his honest contrarianism is the result of a theoretical attempt to widen the possibilities for transmission and reception of image and narrative. Such an attempt finds a natural bedfellow in the mercurial cinema of Jean-Luc Godard. Leuthy’s hagiographic documentary, on the other hand, is an awkward fit for Godard’s polyrhythmic image collisions.
That Brody will be on hand to introduce Leuthy’s film to kick off its New York run at Film Forum speaks, perhaps, to the heart and head-felt intentions of Leuthy, a documentary filmmaker who’s worked as a director and editor of several film histories, including a...
That Brody will be on hand to introduce Leuthy’s film to kick off its New York run at Film Forum speaks, perhaps, to the heart and head-felt intentions of Leuthy, a documentary filmmaker who’s worked as a director and editor of several film histories, including a...
- 12/15/2023
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
Rodrigo Moreno’s heist thriller The Delinquents has many tricks up its sleeve, from outsized musical motifs to droll office comedy. Yet one of the most potent tools at Moreno’s disposal is one that was unplanned. Like the events chronicled in the film, the production spread out across over five years, a duration that created a space for the Argentine writer-director to contemplate deep existential questions as if in parallel with his characters. It’s but one pane in a full house of mirrors that creates some fascinating cinematic refractions.
Though the robbery of a Buenos Aires bank marks the inciting incident of The Delinquents, this sui generis crime caper quickly moves beyond tactical considerations and enters a philosophical realm for Morán (Daniel Elías) and Román (Esteban Bigliardi). The former of the two bank employees smuggles out enough money for both men to retire, wagering that a few years...
Though the robbery of a Buenos Aires bank marks the inciting incident of The Delinquents, this sui generis crime caper quickly moves beyond tactical considerations and enters a philosophical realm for Morán (Daniel Elías) and Román (Esteban Bigliardi). The former of the two bank employees smuggles out enough money for both men to retire, wagering that a few years...
- 10/19/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
Kino Lorber has bought all North American distribution rights to Jean-Luc Godard’s final short film “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars.” The 20-minute short played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will next screen at Toronto and New York film festivals.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the title this fall, followed by a run at New York’s Film Forum in December, alongside Cyril Leuthy’s documentary “Godard Cinema.”
“Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars” was meant to be a feature film project but Godard died a year ago, at the age of 93, before finishing it. Godard had envisioned a complex mixed-media collage of history, politics and cinema through ideas, references and visuals.
Kino Lorber’s library already boasts several iconic films by Godard, including New Wave classics “A Married Woman,” “Alphaville,” and “La Chinoise,...
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the title this fall, followed by a run at New York’s Film Forum in December, alongside Cyril Leuthy’s documentary “Godard Cinema.”
“Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars” was meant to be a feature film project but Godard died a year ago, at the age of 93, before finishing it. Godard had envisioned a complex mixed-media collage of history, politics and cinema through ideas, references and visuals.
Kino Lorber’s library already boasts several iconic films by Godard, including New Wave classics “A Married Woman,” “Alphaville,” and “La Chinoise,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
There are many stories about Jean-Luc Godard in Cannes, like the year he helped to shut it down (1968) because of the civil unrest that was sweeping France at the time. Then there was the time when (in 1985) he was ambushed in the Palais by a Belgian anarchist and hit in the face with a custard pie after the premiere of Détective. And, as recently as 2018, there was the time he conducted a press conference for his film The Image Book via FaceTime from Switzerland, making journalists line up to speak into a mobile phone.
But the story that endures the most is the time in 1985 he signed a contract on a napkin with Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, CEOs of The Cannon Group, whose big hits that year were Invasion U.S.A., starring Chuck Norris, and Death Wish 3, with Charles Bronson. Godard — who died last year at age...
But the story that endures the most is the time in 1985 he signed a contract on a napkin with Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, CEOs of The Cannon Group, whose big hits that year were Invasion U.S.A., starring Chuck Norris, and Death Wish 3, with Charles Bronson. Godard — who died last year at age...
- 5/17/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to late auteur Jean-Luc Godard with a special screening of “Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars)” as a highlight of the program.
Godard died at age 91 in September 2022, and this year’s Cannes will screen “Contempt” and documentary “Godard by Godard” to commemorate the filmmaker as part of the Cannes Classics lineup. Godard’s final project is a 20-minute trailer for “Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars),” a film he never finished.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs,” an official Cannes statement read. “‘Phoney Wars’ follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema.”
The description of “Phoney Wars” reads: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shoots while taking into account the present stories.
Godard died at age 91 in September 2022, and this year’s Cannes will screen “Contempt” and documentary “Godard by Godard” to commemorate the filmmaker as part of the Cannes Classics lineup. Godard’s final project is a 20-minute trailer for “Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars),” a film he never finished.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs,” an official Cannes statement read. “‘Phoney Wars’ follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema.”
The description of “Phoney Wars” reads: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shoots while taking into account the present stories.
- 5/5/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Breaking (Abi Damaris Corbin)
Following on the heels of his impressive turn in Steve McQueen’s Red, White and Blue, John Boyega does noble work in Breaking, directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. Boyega stars as Brian Brown-Easley, the 33-year-old Marine veteran who held a bank hostage in order to get a disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs he was owed. The amount was eight-hundred and ninety-two dollars. – Dan M. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
Destello Bravío (Ainhoa Rodríguez)
In the arid, lunar landscape of Ainhoa Rodríguez’s Destello Bravío, a whole village waits for things to fall apart. We’re in the rural outskirts of Spain’s Extremadura region, a few miles from the border with Portugal, but the...
Breaking (Abi Damaris Corbin)
Following on the heels of his impressive turn in Steve McQueen’s Red, White and Blue, John Boyega does noble work in Breaking, directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. Boyega stars as Brian Brown-Easley, the 33-year-old Marine veteran who held a bank hostage in order to get a disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs he was owed. The amount was eight-hundred and ninety-two dollars. – Dan M. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
Destello Bravío (Ainhoa Rodríguez)
In the arid, lunar landscape of Ainhoa Rodríguez’s Destello Bravío, a whole village waits for things to fall apart. We’re in the rural outskirts of Spain’s Extremadura region, a few miles from the border with Portugal, but the...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was one of the most revolutionary filmmakers of the 20th century, died in Rolle, Switzerland at the age of 91. His family said that he died peacefully in an assisted suicide procedure surrounded by his loved ones.
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The family did not specify what conditions Godard had been suffering from, and he has indicated his interest in assisted suicide in previous interviews. He was an influential film critic for the Cahiers du Cinéma through the 1950s while also shooting short films, and established himself as an exciting new film director with the 1960 film Breathless.
Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3, 1930, in Paris, France to a wealthy family and quickly moved to Switzerland at the age of four after the outbreak of the Second World War. He was educated at a young age in Nyon, Switzerland and returned...
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The family did not specify what conditions Godard had been suffering from, and he has indicated his interest in assisted suicide in previous interviews. He was an influential film critic for the Cahiers du Cinéma through the 1950s while also shooting short films, and established himself as an exciting new film director with the 1960 film Breathless.
Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3, 1930, in Paris, France to a wealthy family and quickly moved to Switzerland at the age of four after the outbreak of the Second World War. He was educated at a young age in Nyon, Switzerland and returned...
- 9/13/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Pioneering French movie director Jean-Luc Godard and prolific television and film actor Jack Ging have died. Godard passed away at age 91. The French newspaper Liberation first reported the news of his death. Born on December 3, 1930, in Paris, France, Godard became a leading figure of the French New Wave movement, directing classic films such as Breathless (À bout de souffle), Le Petit Soldat, Vivre sa vie, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou, Alphaville, and First Name: Carmen. His radical and politically motivated work is regarded as some of the most influential cinema in history. His final film was 2018’s The Image Book, which was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. As reported by Deadline, Ging, who was best known for playing General Harlan “Bull” Fulbright on NBC’s adventure series The A-Team, passed away on September 9 at his home in La Quinta, California. He...
- 9/13/2022
- TV Insider
Jean-Luc Godard, whose dynamic style and innovative techniques changed cinema forever, has died at the age of 91.
Jean-Luc Godard was consistently ranked among the greatest and most influential directors to ever live. Beginning as a film critic before making a literal wave in French cinema, Godard and the likes of François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette launched the French New Wave. The movement pushed nearly all boundaries of expected filmmaking techniques.
Godard’s nearly 60-year career was prolific and ever-evolving, churning out over 40 films in that time period, including Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Week-end, Tout va bien, and The Image Book, his final film. Jean-Luc Godard constantly showcased his rebellious style and command, from his 1960 debut through his final years, where he even made a 3D movie. He, too, molded the careers of so many French icons, including the great Jean Seberg, who was later played by Kristen Stewart.
Some of...
Jean-Luc Godard was consistently ranked among the greatest and most influential directors to ever live. Beginning as a film critic before making a literal wave in French cinema, Godard and the likes of François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette launched the French New Wave. The movement pushed nearly all boundaries of expected filmmaking techniques.
Godard’s nearly 60-year career was prolific and ever-evolving, churning out over 40 films in that time period, including Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Week-end, Tout va bien, and The Image Book, his final film. Jean-Luc Godard constantly showcased his rebellious style and command, from his 1960 debut through his final years, where he even made a 3D movie. He, too, molded the careers of so many French icons, including the great Jean Seberg, who was later played by Kristen Stewart.
Some of...
- 9/13/2022
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Jean-Luc Godard, the legendary filmmaker who revolutionized the medium as a leader of the French New Wave of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 91.
Godard’s partner, Anne-Marie Mieville, confirmed to the Swiss news agency Ats that he died peacefully at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle near Lake Geneva.
French President Emmanuel Macron also confirmed his death on Twitter, calling him a “national treasure” who “invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art.”
Godard burst on the international scene with his debut feature, 1960’s “À bout de souffle” (“Breathless”), which revolutionized cinematic storytelling with its fractured nonlinear narrative about a petty criminal and his girlfriend, improvisational choreography and rapid editing. The film became an international sensation, making a star of its lead actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and earning Godard the best director prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Godard’s partner, Anne-Marie Mieville, confirmed to the Swiss news agency Ats that he died peacefully at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle near Lake Geneva.
French President Emmanuel Macron also confirmed his death on Twitter, calling him a “national treasure” who “invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art.”
Godard burst on the international scene with his debut feature, 1960’s “À bout de souffle” (“Breathless”), which revolutionized cinematic storytelling with its fractured nonlinear narrative about a petty criminal and his girlfriend, improvisational choreography and rapid editing. The film became an international sensation, making a star of its lead actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and earning Godard the best director prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
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- 9/13/2022
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Franco-Swiss director and New Wave standard-bearer Jean-Luc Godard, who revolutionised world cinema with his ground-breaking debut, ‘Breathless’, and never stopped pushing the envelope of his creativity, has died at 91, reports Variety.
The news was first reported in the French newspaper Liberation.
Although there hadn’t been an official confirmation till midday in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Godard on social media with a message describing the auteur as “the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, who had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art.” He added: “We are losing a national treasure, a look of genius.”
The prolific icon was not known to rest. Godard presented his last film ‘The Image Book’, a kaleidoscopic bulletin spanning 200 years of history, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 and was celebrated with the Special Palme d’Or. Godard was also planning to adapt ‘The Image Book’ into an exhibit in Paris,...
The news was first reported in the French newspaper Liberation.
Although there hadn’t been an official confirmation till midday in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Godard on social media with a message describing the auteur as “the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, who had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art.” He added: “We are losing a national treasure, a look of genius.”
The prolific icon was not known to rest. Godard presented his last film ‘The Image Book’, a kaleidoscopic bulletin spanning 200 years of history, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 and was celebrated with the Special Palme d’Or. Godard was also planning to adapt ‘The Image Book’ into an exhibit in Paris,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
A pioneering, revolutionary titan of the cinematic form, Jean-Luc Godard has passed away at the age of 91, as reported by French newspaper Liberation. The paper also reported he died by assisted suicide in Switzerland, where it is authorized and supervised. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted,” noted a relative of the family. “So he had made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known.”
Born on December 3, 1930, Godard would go on to become a film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma before changing the very language of the cinematic medium with his French New Wave contributions, including Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, and many more. Going through an evolution virtually every decade, the director recently delivered the most radical usage of 3D in a film yet with Goodbye to Language in 2014 and his last feature,...
Born on December 3, 1930, Godard would go on to become a film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma before changing the very language of the cinematic medium with his French New Wave contributions, including Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, and many more. Going through an evolution virtually every decade, the director recently delivered the most radical usage of 3D in a film yet with Goodbye to Language in 2014 and his last feature,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Jean-Luc Godard, the revered filmmaker regarded as a giant of the French New Wave movement, has died at the age of 91.
He was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including Breathless and Alphaville.
News of Godard’s death was reported by the French newspaper Liberation.
Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film movement that emerged in France in the late 1950s.
Several of his films are frequently cited among the best movies ever made.
Godard’s first feature was Breathless, released in 1960, an experimental tribute to American film noir. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend, the film caused a stir with its unusual visual style and editing techniques, immediately announcing Godard as one of cinema’s great innovators.
He was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including Breathless and Alphaville.
News of Godard’s death was reported by the French newspaper Liberation.
Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film movement that emerged in France in the late 1950s.
Several of his films are frequently cited among the best movies ever made.
Godard’s first feature was Breathless, released in 1960, an experimental tribute to American film noir. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend, the film caused a stir with its unusual visual style and editing techniques, immediately announcing Godard as one of cinema’s great innovators.
- 9/13/2022
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
Critic-turned-filmmaker Godard is known for films including ‘Breathless’ and ‘Contempt’.
Influential French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has died aged 91, according to a report in French newspaper Liberation.
The publication cites people close to the filmmaker as the source of the news.
Born in Paris in 1930, Godard was a central figure in the French New Wave movement of the late 1950s and 60s. He worked as a critic for then newly-founded French magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1952, before making his first fiction short Une femme coquette in 1955.
The filmmaker’s first feature, 1960’s Breathless (French title: A Bout De Souffle) is among...
Influential French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has died aged 91, according to a report in French newspaper Liberation.
The publication cites people close to the filmmaker as the source of the news.
Born in Paris in 1930, Godard was a central figure in the French New Wave movement of the late 1950s and 60s. He worked as a critic for then newly-founded French magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1952, before making his first fiction short Une femme coquette in 1955.
The filmmaker’s first feature, 1960’s Breathless (French title: A Bout De Souffle) is among...
- 9/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Jean-Luc Godard, a leading figure of the French New Wave, has died. He was 91. The French newspaper Liberation first reported the news which was confirmed to Deadline by a source close to the filmmaker.
Best known for his radical and politically driven work, Godard was among the most acclaimed directors of his generation with classic films such as Breathless (À bout de souffle), which catapulted him onto the world scene in 1960. The film was from a treatment by his contemporary and former friend François Truffaut and followed the story of a young American woman in Paris, played by Hollywood star Jean Seberg, and her doomed affair with a young rebel on the run, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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President Emmanuel Macron of France paid tribute to the director with a statement on Twitter, calling him the “iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers.”
Born in Paris...
Best known for his radical and politically driven work, Godard was among the most acclaimed directors of his generation with classic films such as Breathless (À bout de souffle), which catapulted him onto the world scene in 1960. The film was from a treatment by his contemporary and former friend François Truffaut and followed the story of a young American woman in Paris, played by Hollywood star Jean Seberg, and her doomed affair with a young rebel on the run, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery
President Emmanuel Macron of France paid tribute to the director with a statement on Twitter, calling him the “iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers.”
Born in Paris...
- 9/13/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Just before the Cannes Film Festival midnight-show premiere of the David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream,” the film’s writer, director, and editor, Brett Morgen, didn’t simply stroll down the red carpet. As Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” blared from the promenade speakers, Morgen danced — and pranced and pogo-ed, and flashed a cheeky madman grin, and by the time he entered the theater, the crowd, taking all this in on a giant video screen, gave him an even more rapturous than usual Cannes ovation. Morgen had the right look for these antics. He started off his career as a documentary geek, but around the time of “Montage of Heck,” his 2015 film about Kurt Cobain, he began to style his hair in a fashionably disheveled wet-look mane. Tall and aggressive, he entered the Lumière like a would-be rock star.
The reason I bring this up is that I think it’s relevant...
The reason I bring this up is that I think it’s relevant...
- 5/26/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The end of the filmmaking road is drawing near for Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave icon behind “Breathless,” “Contempt,” “Pierrot le Fou,” “Masculin Féminin,” and more. During a recent 85-minute conversation with the virtual International Film Festival of Kerala (via The Film Stage), Godard confirms his plan to retire from directing after his next two projects. The filmmaker currently has two scripts in various stages of development, one he announced is being made with European public service channel Arte and the other which is titled “Funny Wars.”
“I’m finishing my movie life—yes, my moviemaker’s life—by doing two scripts,” the 90-year-old Godard added about his plan to retire in the near future. “After, I will say, ‘Goodbye, cinema.’”
Godard will forever be associated with the French New Wave, a movement he pioneered with 1960 directorial debut “Breathless.” At that point in his career, Godard had been making...
“I’m finishing my movie life—yes, my moviemaker’s life—by doing two scripts,” the 90-year-old Godard added about his plan to retire in the near future. “After, I will say, ‘Goodbye, cinema.’”
Godard will forever be associated with the French New Wave, a movement he pioneered with 1960 directorial debut “Breathless.” At that point in his career, Godard had been making...
- 3/3/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It is, all things considered, slightly insane that Jean-Luc Godard is still alive, cognizant, and someone from whom we can receive perspective on the modern world. 62 years since Breathless—just as importantly, only three since The Image Book and who-knows before a new feature we learned of in 2019—Godard sits in his Swiss home and answers questions via Instagram. The International Film Festival of Kerala have checked in about a year from that seminar for an 85-minute, largely English conversation.
I’d dare call it a goldmine, though most focus will be on Godard’s claims towards retirement. About 57 minutes in he discusses two new films, Scenario—or “script”; he’s still a joker!—and Funny Wars before dropping this bomb-of-sorts: “I’m finishing my movie life—yes, my moviemaker’s life—by doing two scripts and, after, I will say ‘goodbye, cinema.'”
It goes without saying that the man,...
I’d dare call it a goldmine, though most focus will be on Godard’s claims towards retirement. About 57 minutes in he discusses two new films, Scenario—or “script”; he’s still a joker!—and Funny Wars before dropping this bomb-of-sorts: “I’m finishing my movie life—yes, my moviemaker’s life—by doing two scripts and, after, I will say ‘goodbye, cinema.'”
It goes without saying that the man,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Jean-Luc Godard at the 2018 press conference for The Image Book.From longtime collaborator Fabrice Aragno on Facebook comes word of a new Jean-Luc Godard project. We don't know much, but it appears that the movie will be shot on film, perhaps Godard's first since Notre Musique in 2004 and a shift from his 2018 digital essay film, The Image Book. Park Chan-wook's new film will be a romantic murder mystery starring Tang Wei and Park Hae-il (who previously starred in The Host), entitled Decision to Leave. The film is said to be the story of a police officer who suspects a dead man's wife of his murder. Recommended VIEWINGThe Wexner Center for the Arts' series Cinetracts '20 is now available for free online. Artists from around the world including Charles Burnett, Cauleen Smith, Tony Buba,...
- 10/14/2020
- MUBI
2020 is about to become the first year without Cannes since 1946. On what would have been opening night of the 73rd edition of the world’s most revered film festival, regular attendees David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, and Anne Thompson discuss what Cannes means to them, why this loss is uniquely poignant among the pandemic’s many disruptions to the film industry, and how its absence might ripple throughout the rest of the movie world for a long time to come.
David Ehrlich: Today marks what would have been the first day of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival. Instead, it’s just another Tuesday in purgatory — some things can still hit like a punch to the gut even when you see them coming two months in advance. The film world was supposed to be gathering together along the French Riviera to dress fancy (bowties and heels or else!), drink rosé, and...
David Ehrlich: Today marks what would have been the first day of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival. Instead, it’s just another Tuesday in purgatory — some things can still hit like a punch to the gut even when you see them coming two months in advance. The film world was supposed to be gathering together along the French Riviera to dress fancy (bowties and heels or else!), drink rosé, and...
- 5/12/2020
- by David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Visions du Réel, a film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, has changed the format of its next edition to accommodate the restrictions imposed by the Swiss government in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Originally planned to run from April 24 to May 2, the festival will now be a digital-only event held over a longer period, with much of its lineup made available online from April 17.
Émilie Bujès, artistic director of the event, said: “Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar in Nyon. But it will resolutely be held on the internet, in almost all its generous diversity, and will visit the spectators at home, further expanding the possible territories.”
In redesigning the festival, its organizers have sought to remain true to its essential nature – defined by rigorous artistic standards and conviviality.
The new version includes open-access platforms...
Originally planned to run from April 24 to May 2, the festival will now be a digital-only event held over a longer period, with much of its lineup made available online from April 17.
Émilie Bujès, artistic director of the event, said: “Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar in Nyon. But it will resolutely be held on the internet, in almost all its generous diversity, and will visit the spectators at home, further expanding the possible territories.”
In redesigning the festival, its organizers have sought to remain true to its essential nature – defined by rigorous artistic standards and conviviality.
The new version includes open-access platforms...
- 3/30/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard
The Criterion Channel has recently put the spotlight on a pair of French New Wave icons: Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard–and it’s not just their iconic collaborations, but also films they made separately. The two separate series include A Woman Is a Woman, Vivre sa vie, Le petit soldat, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Made in U.S.A, The Nun, Breatheless, Contempt, Film socialisme, Goodbye to Language, The Image Book, and more.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Bombshell (Jay Roach)
Although Bombshell is rather straightforward, it accomplishes its goal of telling this story with sufficient nuance,...
Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard
The Criterion Channel has recently put the spotlight on a pair of French New Wave icons: Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard–and it’s not just their iconic collaborations, but also films they made separately. The two separate series include A Woman Is a Woman, Vivre sa vie, Le petit soldat, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Made in U.S.A, The Nun, Breatheless, Contempt, Film socialisme, Goodbye to Language, The Image Book, and more.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Bombshell (Jay Roach)
Although Bombshell is rather straightforward, it accomplishes its goal of telling this story with sufficient nuance,...
- 2/28/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The International Cinephile Society is known for going its own way with its annual awards, and its latest edition is no exception. Leading the field for its 17th awards was Pedro Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical “Pain and Glory,” which won best picture, and best actor for Antonio Banderas.
The Ics is made up of more than 100 accredited journalists, film scholars, historians and other industry professionals. Led by Ics president Cédric Succivalli, each year the Ics honors the finest in American and international cinema.
Best director went to Céline Sciamma for her 18th-century story of obsession “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” while the film’s Adèle Haenel earned the supporting actress prize.
Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” – which is up for six Oscars this weekend – was another hot Ics favorite, winning original screenplay, ensemble and production design awards.
Vitalina Varela won the lead actress prize for her role as a Cape...
The Ics is made up of more than 100 accredited journalists, film scholars, historians and other industry professionals. Led by Ics president Cédric Succivalli, each year the Ics honors the finest in American and international cinema.
Best director went to Céline Sciamma for her 18th-century story of obsession “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” while the film’s Adèle Haenel earned the supporting actress prize.
Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” – which is up for six Oscars this weekend – was another hot Ics favorite, winning original screenplay, ensemble and production design awards.
Vitalina Varela won the lead actress prize for her role as a Cape...
- 2/7/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Following our top 50 films of 2019, we’re sharing personal top 10 lists from our contributors. Check out the latest below and see our complete year-end coverage here.
At the risk of hyperbole, the release year of 2019 is one of the very finest I’ve seen this century, if not of all time. By my count, and bolstered by an incredibly great premiere year in 2018, it featured no less than four bona fide masterpieces, the continued development of many masters of the cinematic medium, and countless pleasures that captivated me throughout the year. Though I wasn’t able to get to all of the films I was hoping to watch before compiling this ultimately preliminary list, these are all utterly remarkable and truly great films.
There’s far too many fantastic films that fall just outside my top fifteen, but here are just a few more notable ones: “I Do Not Care...
At the risk of hyperbole, the release year of 2019 is one of the very finest I’ve seen this century, if not of all time. By my count, and bolstered by an incredibly great premiere year in 2018, it featured no less than four bona fide masterpieces, the continued development of many masters of the cinematic medium, and countless pleasures that captivated me throughout the year. Though I wasn’t able to get to all of the films I was hoping to watch before compiling this ultimately preliminary list, these are all utterly remarkable and truly great films.
There’s far too many fantastic films that fall just outside my top fifteen, but here are just a few more notable ones: “I Do Not Care...
- 12/29/2019
- by Ryan Swen
- The Film Stage
At least once a decade since, I don't know, the 1960s, someone has declared the End of Cinema, sometimes with an air of triumph, occasionally a sense of relief, but usually a general tone of defeat. As we should have learned by now, cinema is resilient, not unlike the flu. It mutates, but it doesn't ever really go away. And as a specific subset of Cinema writ large, experimental film (and video? Do we still need to stipulate that?) has had its basic DNA rewritten dozens of times since the supposed heyday of the genre, the sixties-into-seventies sweet spot where autobiographical expressionism evolved into formalist rigor. The avant-garde, with its battered but still pulsating community ethos, and its inherent since of opposition (be it latent / aesthetic or blatant / political), has managed to keep on keeping on, even through the dim years of 1985–1993. Someone's always cooking up something good.Reviewing a...
- 12/16/2019
- MUBI
The evolving landscape of the moving image, especially this last decade, has been the subject of endless discussions which we predict will only amplify in the decade(s) to come. Capping off the 2010s, France’s esteemed publication Cahiers du cinéma have now unveiled their best of the decade list and it will surely further ignite the conversation of how we define cinema.
Topping their list is David Lynch’s 18-hour masterwork Twin Peaks: The Return, which fittingly is getting an epic new home video release before the decade comes to a close. The endlessly inventive Holy Motors, Leos Carax’s only film of the ‘10s, came in at the number two spot, while Bruno Dumont’s eccentric 3.5-hour murder mystery of sorts, Li’l Quinquin, is number three.
If one has been paying attention to their yearly best-of lists then the rest shouldn’t be much of a surprise,...
Topping their list is David Lynch’s 18-hour masterwork Twin Peaks: The Return, which fittingly is getting an epic new home video release before the decade comes to a close. The endlessly inventive Holy Motors, Leos Carax’s only film of the ‘10s, came in at the number two spot, while Bruno Dumont’s eccentric 3.5-hour murder mystery of sorts, Li’l Quinquin, is number three.
If one has been paying attention to their yearly best-of lists then the rest shouldn’t be much of a surprise,...
- 12/6/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: U.S. art house distributor Kino Lorber is launching film and TV VOD streaming platform Kino Now, we can reveal. The service, which includes options to rent and buy, currently hosts 600 titles from the company’s catalog and includes early access to new releases. The number of titles is set to double by the end of the year.
Kino Lorber, which will unveil the platform at a stateside event this evening, tells us the service will be annually refreshed with more than 50 new theatrical releases from Kino Lorber’s first-run and repertory divisions and more than 500 yearly additional titles as “festival direct” exclusives and indie art house digital premieres.
Movies will be generally available around 30-90 days after their theatrical release but some will also get day-and-date releases. Most titles will be $9.99 or less. New releases and certain films that are considered premium will be $14.99 or $19.99 if they are day-and-date releases.
Kino Lorber, which will unveil the platform at a stateside event this evening, tells us the service will be annually refreshed with more than 50 new theatrical releases from Kino Lorber’s first-run and repertory divisions and more than 500 yearly additional titles as “festival direct” exclusives and indie art house digital premieres.
Movies will be generally available around 30-90 days after their theatrical release but some will also get day-and-date releases. Most titles will be $9.99 or less. New releases and certain films that are considered premium will be $14.99 or $19.99 if they are day-and-date releases.
- 9/30/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most iconic filmmakers the world has ever seen. Throughout his decades-spanning career, the director has been synonymous with French cinema, especially during his rise to prominence in the ‘60s. However, in recent years, Godard has taken his style and morphed it into something experimental, utilizing real footage from archives and other sources to tell his stories. Most recently, this was seen in last year’s Cannes film “The Image Book.”
Read More: ‘The Image Book’: Jean-Luc Godard’s Offers Another Radicalist, Experimental Assault [Cannes]
But for his next project, the director is once again changing things up, but still working in the realm of experimental film.
Continue reading Jean-Luc Godard Discusses His Next Film & How He’ll Continue To Experiment at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘The Image Book’: Jean-Luc Godard’s Offers Another Radicalist, Experimental Assault [Cannes]
But for his next project, the director is once again changing things up, but still working in the realm of experimental film.
Continue reading Jean-Luc Godard Discusses His Next Film & How He’ll Continue To Experiment at The Playlist.
- 4/29/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Jean-Luc Godard has revealed details of his follow-up to “The Image Book,” which saw the French New Wave luminary take his experimental approach in bold new directions. Though his next project doesn’t yet have a title, it does have a narrative: “It will tell the story of a Yellow Vest woman who breaks up with her boyfriend,” Godard told Les Inrockuptibles. “The theme is inspired by Racine’s Bérénice. The character brings to mind Bérénice when Titus comes back to the State.”
“It won’t be made just of what you call archival images. There will also be a shoot. I don’t know whether I’ll find what one calls actors. I’d like to film the people one sees on news channels but plunging them into a situation where documentary and fiction blend,” Godard added.
He continued, “I don’t know whether they’ll agree to be filmed in relation to themselves,...
“It won’t be made just of what you call archival images. There will also be a shoot. I don’t know whether I’ll find what one calls actors. I’d like to film the people one sees on news channels but plunging them into a situation where documentary and fiction blend,” Godard added.
He continued, “I don’t know whether they’ll agree to be filmed in relation to themselves,...
- 4/29/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
At 88 years old, Jean-Luc Godard is still pushing the boundaries of experimentation and playfulness, both when it comes to his films (like last year’s The Image Book) and his appearances. While many viewers agreed that his latest feature would make for a fitting swan song, the prolific, legendary director has already embarked on his next feature.
Speaking to Les Inrockuptibles (with a helpful translation from Richard Brody), when asked if he’s shooting next film, the director answered, “Yes. It will tell the story of a Yellow Vest woman who breaks up with her boyfriend. The theme is inspired by Racine’s Bérénice. The character brings to mind Bérénice when Titus comes back to the State.”
He continues, “It won’t be made just of what you call archival images. There will also be a shoot. I don’t know whether I’ll find what one calls actors. I...
Speaking to Les Inrockuptibles (with a helpful translation from Richard Brody), when asked if he’s shooting next film, the director answered, “Yes. It will tell the story of a Yellow Vest woman who breaks up with her boyfriend. The theme is inspired by Racine’s Bérénice. The character brings to mind Bérénice when Titus comes back to the State.”
He continues, “It won’t be made just of what you call archival images. There will also be a shoot. I don’t know whether I’ll find what one calls actors. I...
- 4/28/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard made an extremely rare personal appearance to accept the 2019 Fiaf Award in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 11. The award was presented by the International Federation of Film Archives (Fiaf) at the Cinémathèque Suisse, which has provided IndieWire with exclusive video of the occasion below. Frédéric Maire, President of Fiaf and director of the Cinémathèque Suisse, was on hand to present the award to the filmmaker. “I’m unsettled and emotional, and I think you are, too,” he said in his introductory remarks.
Godard sat down with Maire to discuss his latest film, “The Image Book,” a kaleidoscopic meditation on the nature of cinema built around film clips, literary texts, and classical music. The film received a Special Palme d’Or at Cannes prior to its release last fall.
“To tell that history, both in images and in words, for cinema to speak for itself. My last film,...
Godard sat down with Maire to discuss his latest film, “The Image Book,” a kaleidoscopic meditation on the nature of cinema built around film clips, literary texts, and classical music. The film received a Special Palme d’Or at Cannes prior to its release last fall.
“To tell that history, both in images and in words, for cinema to speak for itself. My last film,...
- 4/16/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In today’s film news roundup, Sterling K. Brown is cast as a basketball coach, Kino Lorber hires a programming veteran and Imagine promotes Karen Lunder.
Casting
Sterling K. Brown will play the lead role of Coach Willie Davis in inspirational sports drama “Rise” for Sony’s faith-based Affirm Films, Crystal City Entertainment and Gulfstream Pictures.
Kevin Rodney Sullivan will start filming in May in Louisiana with a wide theatrical release on April 10, 2020. The script was written by Randy Brown and Gregory Allen Howard.
Davis, a junior high school janitor, seized the opportunity to head coach the school’s basketball team as the school was weighing the decision to cancel the program due to funding concerns. Davis stressed “The Lord, books and basketball” to the team and became a role model for many of the kids in the school and surrounding community.
Producers are Ari Pinchot, Stuart Avi Savitsky, Mike Karz and Bill Bindley.
Casting
Sterling K. Brown will play the lead role of Coach Willie Davis in inspirational sports drama “Rise” for Sony’s faith-based Affirm Films, Crystal City Entertainment and Gulfstream Pictures.
Kevin Rodney Sullivan will start filming in May in Louisiana with a wide theatrical release on April 10, 2020. The script was written by Randy Brown and Gregory Allen Howard.
Davis, a junior high school janitor, seized the opportunity to head coach the school’s basketball team as the school was weighing the decision to cancel the program due to funding concerns. Davis stressed “The Lord, books and basketball” to the team and became a role model for many of the kids in the school and surrounding community.
Producers are Ari Pinchot, Stuart Avi Savitsky, Mike Karz and Bill Bindley.
- 4/5/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
After a robust three-year run as the director of programming at New York City’s Quad Cinema, C. Mason Wells surprised the indie film world by announcing his departure earlier this week. Now we know why he’s leaving: Wells is joining Kino Lorber as director of theatrical sales, starting Monday April 8. He’ll be reporting directly to Wendy Lidell, Svp of theatrical, non-theatrical distribution and acquisitions.
When the Quad Cinema relaunched in 2016, it distinguished itself almost immediately with its extraordinary repertory lineups, including retrospectives of Alain Delon, Bob Fosse, and films that were rated X. Almost instantly, the Quad was as essential a part of the New York City film landscape as the IFC Center, Anthology Film Archives, and Bam Cinematek (for all three of which Wells had previously programmed lineups), as well as Film Forum and the Metrograph.
“I am delighted that Chris Wells will be joining our team,...
When the Quad Cinema relaunched in 2016, it distinguished itself almost immediately with its extraordinary repertory lineups, including retrospectives of Alain Delon, Bob Fosse, and films that were rated X. Almost instantly, the Quad was as essential a part of the New York City film landscape as the IFC Center, Anthology Film Archives, and Bam Cinematek (for all three of which Wells had previously programmed lineups), as well as Film Forum and the Metrograph.
“I am delighted that Chris Wells will be joining our team,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
By Glenn Dunks
We sometimes get so carried away with Oscar and all things award season adjacent that we forget there are very real movies being released in those first couple of months of the year. After last week's very topical Leaving Neverland review, we're going to back back into January and February and pluck out a few titles we have seen: Fyre, The Image Book, and The Gospel According to Eureka.
Fyre
It's not very often that Shoah comes up in conversation at a party, but there we were when somebody asked me about Fyre, the new documentary from the director of American Movie, Chris Smith. I had said I would rather watch all nine and a half hours of Holocaust testimonials than I would watch another 90 minutes of Fyre (including the adjacent Hulu documentary Fyre Fraud that I have no endured). I may have been several margaritas down...
We sometimes get so carried away with Oscar and all things award season adjacent that we forget there are very real movies being released in those first couple of months of the year. After last week's very topical Leaving Neverland review, we're going to back back into January and February and pluck out a few titles we have seen: Fyre, The Image Book, and The Gospel According to Eureka.
Fyre
It's not very often that Shoah comes up in conversation at a party, but there we were when somebody asked me about Fyre, the new documentary from the director of American Movie, Chris Smith. I had said I would rather watch all nine and a half hours of Holocaust testimonials than I would watch another 90 minutes of Fyre (including the adjacent Hulu documentary Fyre Fraud that I have no endured). I may have been several margaritas down...
- 3/13/2019
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Fifty years ago, Jean-Luc Godard was a cinematic revolutionary. Now, the reclusive 87-year-old legend is on another plane entirely, with his magisterially opaque and maddeningly elusive films as much criticisms and dismantlings of cinema as they are examples of it.
Then again, words like opaque and elusive sell Godard short, because they imply that he’s interested in things like plot and character.
He’s not, except in the vaguest and most poetic sense. “The Image Book,” which premiered in competition in Cannes on Friday, is an essay in sound and image, a poem that uses some of the tools of cinema, maybe even an assault on the idea of a movie.
It’s a trip to Planet Godard, which at this point in time is a planet capable of sustaining and even inspiring human life, but only if they’re the right kind of humans.
Also Read: 'Alita: Battle Angel...
Then again, words like opaque and elusive sell Godard short, because they imply that he’s interested in things like plot and character.
He’s not, except in the vaguest and most poetic sense. “The Image Book,” which premiered in competition in Cannes on Friday, is an essay in sound and image, a poem that uses some of the tools of cinema, maybe even an assault on the idea of a movie.
It’s a trip to Planet Godard, which at this point in time is a planet capable of sustaining and even inspiring human life, but only if they’re the right kind of humans.
Also Read: 'Alita: Battle Angel...
- 2/13/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
NEWSCharles Burnett's Killer of SheepTwo exciting stories involving two forerunners of the L.A. Rebellion: Charles Burnett is set to direct the film Steal Away, about the escape of former slave-turned-politician Robert Smalls; while Julie Dash will be helming Lionsgate's Angela Davis biopic. GammaRay and Celestial pictures will be hosting a Shaw Brothers movie marathon on Twitch that will continue from February 4 to February 8. The globally-streaming marathon includes 44 full-length features from the Shaw Brothers’ catalog, so make sure to clear your calendars! Recommended VIEWINGThe release of Harmony Korine's long awaited follow-up to his lightening-in-a-bottle movie Spring Breakers is finally near. Here's a new trailer for the Miami-set, Matthew McConaughey-starring odyssey.A lovely miniature play with form: the U.S. trailer for Hong Sang-soo's Hotel by the River. Meanwhile, we are currently running a retrospective of Hong's films in the UK entitled Solving Puzzles: The Cinema of Hong Sang-soo.
- 1/31/2019
- MUBI
The pool of talent attracted to this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam would impress any organizer, but ultimately that doesn’t mean much: access is access if you can get it, little more than bragging rights to those on the outside. Lucky for us, then, that there’s an openness to their programming, evidenced — significantly — by the release of their masterclasses. The most attention will be paid to 90-or-so-minute sit-downs with Claire Denis and Jia Zhangke, respectively present for High Life and Ash is Purest White, though one shouldn’t sleep on three others: Nicole Brenez on Godard and co-editing The Image Book; Roberto Minervini discussing What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?; and Carlos Reygadas, present for Our Time.
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- 1/30/2019
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Updated with more numbers and analysis. Oscar nominated title Never Look Away stood out in another subdued specialty weekend, grossing an estimated three-day total of $26,270, easily topping the small number of newcomers.
Greenwich Entertainment bowed docudrama The Invisibles by Claus Räfle in four locations Friday, grossing $27,000. The results were buoyed in part by weekend Q&As with the filmmaker and Holocaust survivor Hanni Lévy, who is played by Alice Dwyer in the film.
Kino Lorber Films launched Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, which received an honorary Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, taking in $15,200 in three locations.
Among holdovers, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures sci-fi thriller Replicas with Keanu Reeves crossed $4M in its third weekend, though it grossed a slow $42K in 84 theaters Friday to Sunday, averaging $500.
Never Look Away edged director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark’s previous Oscar-winner, The Lives of Others,...
Greenwich Entertainment bowed docudrama The Invisibles by Claus Räfle in four locations Friday, grossing $27,000. The results were buoyed in part by weekend Q&As with the filmmaker and Holocaust survivor Hanni Lévy, who is played by Alice Dwyer in the film.
Kino Lorber Films launched Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, which received an honorary Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, taking in $15,200 in three locations.
Among holdovers, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures sci-fi thriller Replicas with Keanu Reeves crossed $4M in its third weekend, though it grossed a slow $42K in 84 theaters Friday to Sunday, averaging $500.
Never Look Away edged director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark’s previous Oscar-winner, The Lives of Others,...
- 1/27/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
The weekend turned out a bit better than expected with Universal's Glass holding on to the top spot with an estimated $19 million on its way to a $100+ million domestic run, though the weekend's newcomers in Fox's The Kid Who Would be King and Serenity struggled. Meanwhile this year's crop of Oscar nominees saw Green Book re-enter the top ten following its five nominations while The Favourite, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is Born all improved compared to last weekend. Finishing with an estimated $19 million, Universal's Glass dipped -53% in its second weekend for a domestic cume that now stands at $73.5 million after just ten days in release. Internationally, the film added $23.6 million from 55 markets for an overseas cume totaling $89.1 million and a global tally reaching $162.7 million. The film is now open in all markets except for China where it still does not have an official release date. Second place went to The Upside,...
- 1/27/2019
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Our first meeting with Godard took place in Rolle in May 2016.1 At that time, the idea for The Image Book had already taken shape: a four-part structure became six parts (the five "fingers" as a long introduction and the "hand" that includes them all), while the script contained many shots and texts that would be used in the film. The editing had hardly begun. In Godard's small, smoky editing room, we nevertheless had the chance to watch the first eleven minutes of the film—everything that been done up until then. During our second visit in March 2018, the film was almost finished. The room in which we talked (and where Zoé Bruneau watches a character from Fritz Lang's Metropolis in Goodbye to Language) has now been turned into a small screening room. This is where the first screenings of The Image Book take place, in conditions Godard judges to be the most appropriate.
- 1/22/2019
- MUBI
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Louis Garrel’s critically acclaimed drama “A Faithful Man,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci award.
Sold to Kino Lorber by Wild Bunch and CAA Media Finance, the movie also played at the New York and San Sebastian film festivals, where it won best screenplay.
“A Faithful Man” marks Garrel’s sophomore feature, following “Two Friends,” which opened at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2015. Garrel, who is best known for his roles as an actor in “The Dreamers” and “Godard Mon Amour,” wrote the script of “A Faithful Man” in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière, a revered French writer, playwright and screenwriter. Garrel stars in the film opposite Laetitia Casta (who is also his wife) and Lily Rose Depp.
“A Faithful Man” follows Abel (Garrel), a Parisian journalist who runs into his ex-girlfriend Marianne (Casta) at his friend’s funeral,...
Sold to Kino Lorber by Wild Bunch and CAA Media Finance, the movie also played at the New York and San Sebastian film festivals, where it won best screenplay.
“A Faithful Man” marks Garrel’s sophomore feature, following “Two Friends,” which opened at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2015. Garrel, who is best known for his roles as an actor in “The Dreamers” and “Godard Mon Amour,” wrote the script of “A Faithful Man” in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière, a revered French writer, playwright and screenwriter. Garrel stars in the film opposite Laetitia Casta (who is also his wife) and Lily Rose Depp.
“A Faithful Man” follows Abel (Garrel), a Parisian journalist who runs into his ex-girlfriend Marianne (Casta) at his friend’s funeral,...
- 1/14/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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