No major film festival is complete without at least one Love Letter To Cinema™ from a filmmaker of some renown, to advocate the joys of the medium to an audience that doesn’t have to be told twice. French writer-director and Cannes regular Arnaud Desplechin brings that to the Croisette this year with “Filmlovers!,” a duly warm and nostalgia-washed cine-valentine, but one with a little more to say than just, “Movies, amirite?” Indeed, the film’s somewhat inelegant English-language title risks concealing the more specific focus of this unassuming but winning hybrid documentary: The French title, “Spectateurs!,” makes clear this is first and foremost a celebration of spectatorship rather than filmmaking, probing the dynamics of cinema audiences and their relationship to the screen. In either language, it’s impassioned enough to earn its exclamation point.
Not a major work but a bright, pleasurable one, with its director on more limber...
Not a major work but a bright, pleasurable one, with its director on more limber...
- 5/29/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Arnaud Desplechin’s hybrid documentary “Spectateurs!” (“Filmlovers”) debuted a first trailer ahead of the film’s world premiere at Cannes on May 22.
The 88-minute docu is a love letter to cinema, inspired by Desplechin’s own discovery and passion for cinema.
Per the official Cannes description of the film, Desplechin wrote: “What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So, I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction and discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.”
“Spectateurs!” weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun...
The 88-minute docu is a love letter to cinema, inspired by Desplechin’s own discovery and passion for cinema.
Per the official Cannes description of the film, Desplechin wrote: “What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So, I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction and discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.”
“Spectateurs!” weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun...
- 5/14/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi has unveiled their December 2023 lineup, featuring notable new releases such as Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, Argentina’s Oscar this year; the Lily Gladstone-led drama The Unknown Country; Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts; and the José González documentary A Tiger in Paradise. Additional highlights include films from Olivier Assayas, Takeshi Kitano, Jean-Luc Godard, Kelly Reichardt, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, the Shaw Browers, Lars von Trier, Arnaud Desplechin, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
December 1st
The House that Jack Built, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
The Element of Crime, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Europa, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Epidemic, directed...
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
December 1st
The House that Jack Built, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
The Element of Crime, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Europa, directed by Lars von Trier | Chaos Reigns: The Films of Lars von Trier
Epidemic, directed...
- 11/29/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For many fans, Yellowstone is one of the best shows on TV. The hit western series, helmed by Taylor Sheridan, has made the cowboy genre popular again, skyrocketing actors like Kelly Reilly to fame and re-establishing Kevin Costner as one of the greatest stars of his generation.
While the show is on hiatus, with no set date for its return to television, many are clamoring for more episodes about the Dutton family. However, not everyone is a fan of Yellowstone. Native American actor Lily Gladstone has a big problem with the representation on the series and recently opened up to Vulture about why she thinks Yellowstone is “deplorable.”
‘Yellowstone’ is one of TV’s biggest dramas Kevin Costner | Paramount
Yellowstone debuted in 2018, becoming a surprise hit. The show tells the story of the Dutton family, a group of dissimilar siblings and their father, as they manage their sprawling ranch nestled in the heart of Montana.
While the show is on hiatus, with no set date for its return to television, many are clamoring for more episodes about the Dutton family. However, not everyone is a fan of Yellowstone. Native American actor Lily Gladstone has a big problem with the representation on the series and recently opened up to Vulture about why she thinks Yellowstone is “deplorable.”
‘Yellowstone’ is one of TV’s biggest dramas Kevin Costner | Paramount
Yellowstone debuted in 2018, becoming a surprise hit. The show tells the story of the Dutton family, a group of dissimilar siblings and their father, as they manage their sprawling ranch nestled in the heart of Montana.
- 9/23/2023
- by Suse Forrest
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Melvil Poupaud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Arnaud Desplechin: “For me he is one of the best metteurs en scène that I’ve worked with because of where he puts the camera, the choice of the lens, everything means something.”
In the second instalment with Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister, screenplay with Julie Peyr we discuss inspiration from Forest Whitaker in Clint Eastwood’s Bird and Jack Nicholson In Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, Grégoire Hetzel’s score, a very particular smile shared by him and Marion Cotillard, a cowboy movie showdown in the supermarket, contradictions, and hungry ghosts.
Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin: “He doesn’t want to be realistic or naturalistic. ” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Magnetic Melvil Poupaud opens on Tuesday, March 7 with a screening of Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers (Les Jeunes Amants) at 7:30pm followed by a Q&a with Melvil inside Florence Gould.
In the second instalment with Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister, screenplay with Julie Peyr we discuss inspiration from Forest Whitaker in Clint Eastwood’s Bird and Jack Nicholson In Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, Grégoire Hetzel’s score, a very particular smile shared by him and Marion Cotillard, a cowboy movie showdown in the supermarket, contradictions, and hungry ghosts.
Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin: “He doesn’t want to be realistic or naturalistic. ” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Magnetic Melvil Poupaud opens on Tuesday, March 7 with a screening of Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers (Les Jeunes Amants) at 7:30pm followed by a Q&a with Melvil inside Florence Gould.
- 2/27/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Melvil Poupaud and Marion Cotillard in Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister (Frère Et Sœur) screening in Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Photo: Shanna Besson/Why Not Productions
In the first instalment with Melvil Poupaud (who is being honoured at the French Institute in New York next month) we discuss the dark side of Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister (Frère Et Sœur), Mathieu Amalric in A Christmas Tale and Kings And Queens, Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning, a touch of François Ozon’s By The Grace Of God, James Joyce’s The Dead, Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, and Woody Allen’s Coup De Chance with Lou de Laâge, Niels Schneider and Valérie Lemercier.
Melvil Poupaud with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I always understood that the most gratifying thing when you’re an actor is when a great director such as Eric Rohmer...
In the first instalment with Melvil Poupaud (who is being honoured at the French Institute in New York next month) we discuss the dark side of Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister (Frère Et Sœur), Mathieu Amalric in A Christmas Tale and Kings And Queens, Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning, a touch of François Ozon’s By The Grace Of God, James Joyce’s The Dead, Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, and Woody Allen’s Coup De Chance with Lou de Laâge, Niels Schneider and Valérie Lemercier.
Melvil Poupaud with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I always understood that the most gratifying thing when you’re an actor is when a great director such as Eric Rohmer...
- 2/15/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After seeing his last film (Deception) premiere in the Cannes Premiere section last year, Arnaud Desplechin returns to the competition section once again with Brother and Sister. This is his seventh comp offering after La sentinelle (1992), My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), Esther Kahn (2000), A Christmas Tale (2008), Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), and the yummy 2019 procedural Oh Mercy!. This sees him reteam with Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
Their parents might be on death’s bed but you would not know it as estranged adult children are willing to use eye daggers, kitchen knifes and publishing houses to bring each other down.…...
Their parents might be on death’s bed but you would not know it as estranged adult children are willing to use eye daggers, kitchen knifes and publishing houses to bring each other down.…...
- 5/21/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
After being cancelled in 2020 and then delayed in 2021, the Cannes Film Festival is finally back on track for May 2022 on the French Riviera. The 75th installment of the international cinema showcase will take place from May 17 to May 28, and there will be 18 films competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize. Last year that honor went to the French thriller “Titane,” directed by Julia Ducournau. As of this writing several details are still to be announced including who will be on this year’s jury and who will be serving as jury president after Spike Lee presided over last year’s program.
A filmmaker’s previous track record at Cannes can sometimes give us an idea of who’s in a good position to claim the Palme. For instance, seven of this year’s entries in the official competition come from directors who have previously won...
A filmmaker’s previous track record at Cannes can sometimes give us an idea of who’s in a good position to claim the Palme. For instance, seven of this year’s entries in the official competition come from directors who have previously won...
- 4/25/2022
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
“When I met you, you were ripe,” says Denis Podalydès’s Philip to his younger mistress (Léa Seydoux) in Arnaud Desplechin’s adaptation with Julie Peyr of Philip Roth’s Deception (Tromperie). She responds: “No, I was rotting on the floor under a tree.”
Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.
Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”
Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...
Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.
Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”
Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...
- 4/19/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When “Ismael’s Ghosts” opened the 70th Cannes Film Festival in May, the movie was a freewheeling portrait of a neurotic filmmaker, Ismael (Mathieu Amalric), grappling with the reappearance of his long-missing wife (Marion Cotillard) and his new relationship with a more stable woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg). That may or may not have changed, but when “Ismael’s Ghosts” arrives at the New York Film Festival in September, it’s going to look a lot different.
While “Ismael’s Ghosts” clocked in at roughly two hours for its Cannes premiere, Magnolia Pictures will unveil Arnaud Desplechin’s director’s cut at Nyff in advance of its U.S. release. The new version is a full 20 minutes longer. Magnolia Pictures will only release that version into theaters for the film’s release in early 2018.
The news comes months after a tangled back-and-forth between Desplechin and the French distributors of the movie, which...
While “Ismael’s Ghosts” clocked in at roughly two hours for its Cannes premiere, Magnolia Pictures will unveil Arnaud Desplechin’s director’s cut at Nyff in advance of its U.S. release. The new version is a full 20 minutes longer. Magnolia Pictures will only release that version into theaters for the film’s release in early 2018.
The news comes months after a tangled back-and-forth between Desplechin and the French distributors of the movie, which...
- 8/24/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Arnaud Desplechin’s drama co-stars Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Louis Garrel.
The first trailer for Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts, which will open the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, has been released. It’s in French with no subtitles.
Watch below or on mobile Here.
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The film, playing out of competition at Cannes, stars Mathieu Amalric as a filmmaker who is sent mad by the return of an ex-lover. He is then visited by the ghosts of people who have been important in his life. Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Louis Garrel co-star.
Ismael’s Ghosts is sold by Wild Bunch and produced by Paris-based Why Not Productions. Magnolia has acquired Us rights.
Desplechin is a Cannes regular. He was on the main competition jury in 2016 and his film Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian competed for the Palme d’Or in 2013.
His last film...
The first trailer for Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts, which will open the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, has been released. It’s in French with no subtitles.
Watch below or on mobile Here.
Exclu - Découvrez la Bande Annonce du Fantôme d... by franceinter
The film, playing out of competition at Cannes, stars Mathieu Amalric as a filmmaker who is sent mad by the return of an ex-lover. He is then visited by the ghosts of people who have been important in his life. Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Louis Garrel co-star.
Ismael’s Ghosts is sold by Wild Bunch and produced by Paris-based Why Not Productions. Magnolia has acquired Us rights.
Desplechin is a Cannes regular. He was on the main competition jury in 2016 and his film Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian competed for the Palme d’Or in 2013.
His last film...
- 4/21/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
For his return to the Cannes Film Festival, Arnaud Desplechin is getting pride of place. “Ismael’s Ghosts” is set to open the festivities next month, as well as provide another opportunity for the French auteur to win the coveted Palme d’Or. Desplechin has been in Competition several times before — “My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument,” “A Christmas Tale” and “Jimmy P.” all debuted on the Croisette — and premiered 2015’s “My Golden Days” in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Watch the French-language trailer for “Ismael’s Ghosts” below.
Read More: Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Ismaël’s Ghosts’ First Look: Marion Cotillard & Charlotte Gainsbourg Hit the Beach
Here’s the synopsis: “Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death of Carlotta, twenty years earlier.
Read More: Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Ismaël’s Ghosts’ First Look: Marion Cotillard & Charlotte Gainsbourg Hit the Beach
Here’s the synopsis: “Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death of Carlotta, twenty years earlier.
- 4/20/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Now that Arnaud Desplechin‘s “Ismael’s Ghosts” is set to open the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the film has released its first official trailer, complete with its brand new Sundance badge. “Ismael’s Ghosts” and Cannes are a strong match: not only is Desplechin a five-time Palme d’Or nominee — beginning with his 1992 film “La sentinelle” and continuing through 2013’s “Jimmy P.
Continue reading Marion Cotillard Shines In The Trailer For Cannes Film Festival Selection ‘Ismael’s Ghosts’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Marion Cotillard Shines In The Trailer For Cannes Film Festival Selection ‘Ismael’s Ghosts’ at The Playlist.
- 4/20/2017
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
Just a year after the theatrical release of Arnaud Desplechin’s film “My Golden Days,” a prequel to his 1996 film “My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument,” the French director returns with his next work “Ismaël’s Ghosts.” The film follows a director who goes mad and returns to his family home only to be besieged by the ghosts in his life. It stars Mathieu Amalric (“A Christmas Tale”), Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Melancholia”), Marion Cotillard (“Inception”) and Louis Garrel (“The Dreamers”). See a first image from the film below, featuring Cotillard and Gainsbourg at the beach, courtesy of The Playlist.
Read More: Nyff: Arnaud Desplechin on Why ‘My Golden Days’ Feels Like His Debut Feature Film
This will be Desplechin’s ninth feature film. He’s best known for his multiple collaborations with Amalric, including “Kings and Queen,” “A Christmas Tale” and “Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.
Read More: Nyff: Arnaud Desplechin on Why ‘My Golden Days’ Feels Like His Debut Feature Film
This will be Desplechin’s ninth feature film. He’s best known for his multiple collaborations with Amalric, including “Kings and Queen,” “A Christmas Tale” and “Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.
- 12/27/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Certain Women is an ensemble piece that features Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Kristen Stewart in prominent roles, and so it’s a surprise when the runaway success may be Lily Gladstone, a relative newcomer most prominently seen in Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and this year’s Buster’s Mal Heart — the latter of which has yet to even receive a theatrical release. While one can ascertain certain things about her character, Jamie, from the moment her face enters the frame, the actress imbues numerous instances of silence and, in the case of interactions with Stewart’s Beth, romantic longing with something that’s hard to pin down precisely because of evident authenticity. If those feeling really are so complicated, why should a cinematic representation be any less?
I was fortunate enough to speak with her about the making of this, one of 2016’s finest pictures, and came to...
I was fortunate enough to speak with her about the making of this, one of 2016’s finest pictures, and came to...
- 10/18/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
James Schamus gave Indignation star Logan Lerman books by Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Bertrand Russell Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Starting out on the Museum of Modern Art red carpet, I connected Sarah Gadon's Olivia to Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian. Logan Lerman, at the Yale Club, let me probe into how he prepared to take on the role of Marcus Messner in James Schamus's adaptation of Philip Roth's Indignation, set during the Korean War at a small Ohio college.
Messner arrives at the school from New Jersey; from the start, his roommates, both part of a Jewish minority, annoy him and keep him from studying by playing loud music or memorising Malvolio's yellow stocking speech from Twelfth Night.
James Schamus, Howard Cohen, Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon in Mary Katrantzou, Andrew Bregman, Eric D'arbeloff Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Marcus identifies as atheist,...
Starting out on the Museum of Modern Art red carpet, I connected Sarah Gadon's Olivia to Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian. Logan Lerman, at the Yale Club, let me probe into how he prepared to take on the role of Marcus Messner in James Schamus's adaptation of Philip Roth's Indignation, set during the Korean War at a small Ohio college.
Messner arrives at the school from New Jersey; from the start, his roommates, both part of a Jewish minority, annoy him and keep him from studying by playing loud music or memorising Malvolio's yellow stocking speech from Twelfth Night.
James Schamus, Howard Cohen, Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon in Mary Katrantzou, Andrew Bregman, Eric D'arbeloff Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Marcus identifies as atheist,...
- 7/27/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Ride director Stéphanie Gillard at an Amanda Parer Intrude rabbit Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Executive produced by Rouge International's Nadia Turincev and Julie Gayet (of The French Minister (Quai D’Orsay), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, based on Antonin Baudry's graphic novels), Stéphanie Gillard's The Ride with expansive cinematography by Martin de Chabaneix and atmospheric sound recording by Erwan Kerzanet (Léos Carax's unholy Holy Motors and Catherine Breillat's unflinching Fat Girl) takes us on the 300 mile pilgrimage on horseback of the Lakota people through the Badlands of South Dakota.
The Ride
Jim Harrison's novels, Arthur Penn's Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman, Misty Upham and Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian, William Heise and William K.L. Dickson's Sioux Ghost Dance for Thomas Edison, and how the filming of The Ride became a personal journey are explored in my conversation with the...
Executive produced by Rouge International's Nadia Turincev and Julie Gayet (of The French Minister (Quai D’Orsay), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, based on Antonin Baudry's graphic novels), Stéphanie Gillard's The Ride with expansive cinematography by Martin de Chabaneix and atmospheric sound recording by Erwan Kerzanet (Léos Carax's unholy Holy Motors and Catherine Breillat's unflinching Fat Girl) takes us on the 300 mile pilgrimage on horseback of the Lakota people through the Badlands of South Dakota.
The Ride
Jim Harrison's novels, Arthur Penn's Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman, Misty Upham and Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian, William Heise and William K.L. Dickson's Sioux Ghost Dance for Thomas Edison, and how the filming of The Ride became a personal journey are explored in my conversation with the...
- 5/10/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While Arnaud Desplechin, the director behind celebrated films like “Kings & Queens” and “A Christmas Tale,” stumbled a bit with “Jimmy P.” in 2013, be bounced back in a big way with last year’s “My Golden Days.” It was a return to form for the director, and he’s already jumping into his next project, which has […]
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- 5/3/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. As we've said before, the trend at Cannes this year is foreign-language filmmakers working in English, often for the first time. Both filmmakers and audiences could be forgiven for being cautious about some of these projects, given some recent high-profile misfires, and one of the reasons for that is "Jimmy P.," the English-language debut of acclaimed French helmer Arnaud Desplechin. A favorite of cinephiles, thanks to a string of whip-smart, deeply humane dramas like "Kings And Queens" and "A Christmas Story," he came unstuck with "Jimmy P," which received mostly disappointed notices at Cannes a few years back. Perhaps a little cowed by this, Desplechin has circled back to more familiar territory for his latest, "My Golden Days," and the good news is that it marks a real return to form. Read More: Love Blooms In This Exclusive...
- 3/18/2016
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
My Golden Days is Arnaud Desplechin’s follow-up to Jimmy P. (2013) and a prequel to his debut My Sex Life… Or How I Got into an Argument (1996). Followers of The Criterion Collection recognize 2009’s A Christmas Tale as his lone entry in the collection so far is. My Golden Days is a coming of age film as we perceive Paul during his adolescent years surviving his emotionally fraught mother and meeting the love of his life, Esther. We identify with his family dysfunction and passionate romantic relationship as most of us have experienced some measure of each. The film considers the nature of memory how events forgotten can return and the permanence of formative memories.
Paul shows an early strong desire for Esther as she remains knowing and aloof. The audience feels the power of beauty. Paul’s sister, Delphine, believes she is not appealing whereas Esther is all too...
Paul shows an early strong desire for Esther as she remains knowing and aloof. The audience feels the power of beauty. Paul’s sister, Delphine, believes she is not appealing whereas Esther is all too...
- 2/26/2016
- by Mark Hurne
- CriterionCast
The Notebook is the North American home for Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian's blog. Chatrian has been writing thoughtful blog entries in Italian on Locarno's website since he took over as Director in late 2012, and now you can find the English translations here on the Notebook as they're published. The Locarno Film Festival will be taking place August 3 - 13. Howard Shore. © Benjamin Ealovega Film music is a subject that requires very delicate handling. As if music, more so even than sound itself, had arrived in the cinema with the table laid and the party already begun, requiring it therefore to be a very discreet guest.It makes little difference that we know that the movies – well before they became the talkies – needed musical accompaniment; it makes little difference that film music, whether by pioneering pianists or great composers, has given greater depth to the moving image and developed...
- 2/11/2016
- by Carlo Chatrian
- MUBI
Yesterday, Nicholas Bell and I issued our Top 10 New Voices, and now we launch into our New Faces. They range in age, amount of screen time, and in this year’s batch of New Faces made memorable turns in supporting or principle character roles. Narrowly breaking into our top ten list we have names such as Sand Storm‘s Lammis Ammar and Spa Night‘s Haerry Kim. Here is our top ten countdown.
#10. Royalty Hightower – The Fits.
Move over Creed. The youngest featured actress to be profiled in our ten set was embraced in Park City as the next “it” personality and for good reason. In Anna Rose Holmer’s debut, Royalty Hightower’s Toni has a lot of volume – she physically inhabits a character who is at odds with her burgeoning teenagehood (a transition that is not always welcomed) in a performance that empathically comes across as non-actingly natural.
#10. Royalty Hightower – The Fits.
Move over Creed. The youngest featured actress to be profiled in our ten set was embraced in Park City as the next “it” personality and for good reason. In Anna Rose Holmer’s debut, Royalty Hightower’s Toni has a lot of volume – she physically inhabits a character who is at odds with her burgeoning teenagehood (a transition that is not always welcomed) in a performance that empathically comes across as non-actingly natural.
- 2/5/2016
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
With his documentary "Hitchcock/Truffaut" (December 2), New York Film Festival programming director Kent Jones takes us back to the legendary 1962 27-hour interview between French critic-auteur Francois Truffaut and British master Alfred Hitchcock. The movie plays some of the recordings that were translated and transcribed by Helen Scott in Truffaut’s classic 1966 cinephile must-read, “Cinema According to Hitchcock.” Truffaut was at the beginning of his career, while Hitchcock was nearing the end of his. Jones ("A Letter to Elia"), who wrote the film with French critic Serge Toubiana, also brings in directors David Fincher, Paul Schrader, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Olivier Assayas, friend/collaborator Arnaud Desplechin ("Jimmy P.") and more to add insight to what Hitchcock means to filmmakers. They focus, especially, on two of Hitchcock's most seminal and influential works,...
- 12/2/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Running through mid-December, the French Institute Alliance Francaise and Anthology Film Archives have launched a retrospective of Mathieu Amalric‘s work, which they’ve appropriately titled “Renaissance Man.” The retrospective will feature Amalric’s work as a director, screenwriter and actor; and in the selections that range from the Oscar-nominated Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the Larrieu Brothers’ A Man, A Real One, audience members can trace Amalric’s evolution into one of the most eclectic artists of his generation.
In person, Amalric is as full of energy and charisma as some of his characters, particularly those he’s played in the films of frequent collaborator Arnaud Desplechin. He uses his whole body to speak, often widening his eyes, hunching his shoulders, and using his hands to make specific points. He’s unafraid to speak his mind, is generous with his words, and instantly makes...
In person, Amalric is as full of energy and charisma as some of his characters, particularly those he’s played in the films of frequent collaborator Arnaud Desplechin. He uses his whole body to speak, often widening his eyes, hunching his shoulders, and using his hands to make specific points. He’s unafraid to speak his mind, is generous with his words, and instantly makes...
- 11/2/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
After revealing its centerpieces earlier this month, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the full slate for the 2015 New York Film Festival and the big news is Steven Spielberg is back. That's right, after debuting “Lincoln” at the fest just three years ago, America’s greatest living filmmaker returns with his latest thriller, “Bridge of Spies." “Spies” finds Tom Hanks portraying James B. Donovan, a lawyer who was recruited to negotiate the release of an U.S. pilot whose U2 spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union in 1962. If there was any question previously, this certainly puts the Touchstone Pictures release in the awards season conversation. As for the rest of the slate there is only one new world premiere, “Don’t Blink: Robert Frank” (the entire festival only has four at the moment), and lots of movies that originally debuted at Cannes. In fact, 13 of...
- 8/13/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Other winners include Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang.
Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) picked up the Art Cinema Award at the 47th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this evening (May 22).
Review: Embrace Of The Serpent
Anticipation surrounded Guerra’s return to the Croisette after the Colombian director’s acclaimed 2009 Un Certain Regard entry The Wind Journeys.
His new film chronicles the friendship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists and claims to be the first film to shoot in the Colombian jungle in three decades. Sales are handled by Films Boutique.
Screen Future Leader Cristina Gallego of Colombia’s Ciudad Lunar produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur and Mc Producciones and Buffalo.
Screen revealed last week that Gallego is to reunite with Guerra on Birds Of Passage (Pajaros de Verano), set in an arid region of Colombia where a rare rainstorm leaves a trail of devastation. Shooting is set...
Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) picked up the Art Cinema Award at the 47th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this evening (May 22).
Review: Embrace Of The Serpent
Anticipation surrounded Guerra’s return to the Croisette after the Colombian director’s acclaimed 2009 Un Certain Regard entry The Wind Journeys.
His new film chronicles the friendship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists and claims to be the first film to shoot in the Colombian jungle in three decades. Sales are handled by Films Boutique.
Screen Future Leader Cristina Gallego of Colombia’s Ciudad Lunar produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur and Mc Producciones and Buffalo.
Screen revealed last week that Gallego is to reunite with Guerra on Birds Of Passage (Pajaros de Verano), set in an arid region of Colombia where a rare rainstorm leaves a trail of devastation. Shooting is set...
- 5/22/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
As we've said before, the trend at Cannes this year is foreign-language filmmakers working in English, often for the first time. Both filmmakers and audiences could be forgiven for being cautious about some of these projects, given some recent high-profile misfires, and one of the reasons for that is "Jimmy P.," the English-language debut of acclaimed French helmer Arnaud Desplechin. A favorite of cinephiles, thanks to a string of whip-smart, deeply humane dramas like "Kings And Queens" and "A Christmas Story," he came unstuck with "Jimmy P," which received mostly disappointed notices at Cannes a few years back. Perhaps a little cowed by this, Desplechin has circled back to more familiar territory for his latest, "My Golden Days," and the good news is that it marks a real return to form. Read More: The 20 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2015 Cannes Film Festival The film sees anthropologist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric...
- 5/20/2015
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Magnolia Pictures has acquired all U.S. rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s “My Golden Days” (“Trois Souvenirs de Ma Jeunesse”), a drama screening in the Directors Fortnight sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. Mathieu Amalric stars in the film as an anthropologist looking back on his life and on a long-lost love. The film, which makes use of abundant flashbacks, largely won acclaim for Desplechin, whose previous Cannes entry was the controversial “Jimmy P. – The Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.” “Arnaud Desplechin is a true master and in ‘My Golden Days’ he gives us another incredibly radiant, wise, funny and human film,...
- 5/18/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Five-time Palme d’Or nominated director to world premiere latest film in parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.
My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Days, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film was not announced...
My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Days, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film was not announced...
- 4/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Five-time Palme d’Or nominated director to world premiere latest film in parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.
My Golden Years (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthousiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Years, the last feature directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film...
My Golden Years (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthousiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Years, the last feature directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film...
- 4/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Taj Mahal
Director: Nicolas Saada // Writer: Nicolas Saada
Snagging a Cesar Award nomination for Best Debut in 2010 for Espion(s), director Nicolas Saada has assembled an intriguing international cast for his sophomore feature, the thriller Taj Mahal. Stacy Martin of Nymphomaniac, Italy’s Alba Rohrwacher, British actress Gina McKee from Desplechin’s Jimmy P., and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing from Hansen-Love’s Father of My Children populate this India set thriller revolving around the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai. Formerly a critic, Saada’s film deals with an 18 year old girl trapped in the eponymous hotel, separated from her family when a terrorist attack rages outside. Meanwhile, inside the hotel, the situation is also dire.
Cast: Stacy Martin, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Gina McKee, Alba Rohrwacher
Producers: Agat Films & Cie/Ex Nihilo’s Patrick Sobelman (Of Snails and Men), France 3 Cinema.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: With the buzz surrounding Saada’s sophomore film,...
Director: Nicolas Saada // Writer: Nicolas Saada
Snagging a Cesar Award nomination for Best Debut in 2010 for Espion(s), director Nicolas Saada has assembled an intriguing international cast for his sophomore feature, the thriller Taj Mahal. Stacy Martin of Nymphomaniac, Italy’s Alba Rohrwacher, British actress Gina McKee from Desplechin’s Jimmy P., and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing from Hansen-Love’s Father of My Children populate this India set thriller revolving around the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai. Formerly a critic, Saada’s film deals with an 18 year old girl trapped in the eponymous hotel, separated from her family when a terrorist attack rages outside. Meanwhile, inside the hotel, the situation is also dire.
Cast: Stacy Martin, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Gina McKee, Alba Rohrwacher
Producers: Agat Films & Cie/Ex Nihilo’s Patrick Sobelman (Of Snails and Men), France 3 Cinema.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: With the buzz surrounding Saada’s sophomore film,...
- 1/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #90. Arnaud Desplechin’s Three Memories of Childhood
Three Memories of Childhood
Director: Arnaud Desplechin // Writer: Arnaud Desplechin
While we weren’t the greatest fans of Desplechin’s last film, 2013’s Jimmy P., which played in the main competition at Cannes, we’re always up to see what the idiosyncratic director has to offer. Even when the results are mixed, he’s a director to keep track of. His latest pairs him once again with Amalric, and the feature revolves around Paul Dédalus, an anthropological researcher in his forties who is getting ready to go back to France. Images from his childhood start coming back to him… memories of Paris, Moscow and, above all, Roubaix.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Patrick D’Assaumcao.
Producers: Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinema
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: Desplechin is clearly a Cannes favorite, and this title will be ready well in advance for the festival, so we expect to see this...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin // Writer: Arnaud Desplechin
While we weren’t the greatest fans of Desplechin’s last film, 2013’s Jimmy P., which played in the main competition at Cannes, we’re always up to see what the idiosyncratic director has to offer. Even when the results are mixed, he’s a director to keep track of. His latest pairs him once again with Amalric, and the feature revolves around Paul Dédalus, an anthropological researcher in his forties who is getting ready to go back to France. Images from his childhood start coming back to him… memories of Paris, Moscow and, above all, Roubaix.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Patrick D’Assaumcao.
Producers: Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinema
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Release Date: Desplechin is clearly a Cannes favorite, and this title will be ready well in advance for the festival, so we expect to see this...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/5/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Misty Upham with Arnaud Desplechin on the set of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian
Misty Upham, who played pivotal roles in Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian (starring Benicio Del Toro opposite Mathieu Amalric) and in August: Osage County (directed by John Wells with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard and Dermot Mulroney) was reported missing on October 6, 2014. Her body was discovered by her family in a ravine at the bottom of a 150 foot drop on October 16 in the Seattle suburb of Auburn.
Arnaud Desplechin and co-screenwriter Kent Jones sent tributes for Misty on October 17 after hearing the news of her death.
Now, seven weeks later, the Medical Examiner's office of King County in Washington State on Wednesday, December 3, stated that Misty Upham, at the age of 32, died from blunt-force injuries to her head and torso.
Misty Upham, who played pivotal roles in Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian (starring Benicio Del Toro opposite Mathieu Amalric) and in August: Osage County (directed by John Wells with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard and Dermot Mulroney) was reported missing on October 6, 2014. Her body was discovered by her family in a ravine at the bottom of a 150 foot drop on October 16 in the Seattle suburb of Auburn.
Arnaud Desplechin and co-screenwriter Kent Jones sent tributes for Misty on October 17 after hearing the news of her death.
Now, seven weeks later, the Medical Examiner's office of King County in Washington State on Wednesday, December 3, stated that Misty Upham, at the age of 32, died from blunt-force injuries to her head and torso.
- 12/6/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We have three pieces on Martin Scorsese in today's roundup of news and views. Tom Shone has a new book on him, Eric Hynes revisits Gangs of New York, and Mark Singer's profile is one of six the New Yorker's revived from its archive. The other five are on Mira Nair, Jean-Luc Godard, Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter and Woody Allen. Meantime, Arnaud Desplechin remembers Misty Upham, who appeared in his 2013 film, Jimmy P. Katie Bradshaw interviews Laida Lertxundi. Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted his 1976 review of four books on Jean Renoir. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/19/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
We have three pieces on Martin Scorsese in today's roundup of news and views. Tom Shone has a new book on him, Eric Hynes revisits Gangs of New York, and Mark Singer's profile is one of six the New Yorker's revived from its archive. The other five are on Mira Nair, Jean-Luc Godard, Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter and Woody Allen. Meantime, Arnaud Desplechin remembers Misty Upham, who appeared in his 2013 film, Jimmy P. Katie Bradshaw interviews Laida Lertxundi. Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted his 1976 review of four books on Jean Renoir. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/19/2014
- Keyframe
Kent Jones on Misty Upham with Benicio Del Toro in Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian: "So what I remember of Misty is that she spoke and moved quietly, as if she were holding something in balance, something fragile."
Kent Jones, who co-wrote the screenplay for Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, calls to mind director Arnaud Desplechin's enthusiastic reaction when Misty Upham was cast opposite Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy P's love interest Jane. Kent shares with us how Misty Upham felt about the way John Wells' August: Osage County was promoted and his reaction to her role as Johnna in the film, as well as Michelle Thrush's (Gayle Picard) and Misty's Jimmy P Cannes experiences.
Misty Upham at Cannes: "I will never forget riding to the premiere of Jimmy in Cannes with Misty and Michelle Thrush, both of them...
Kent Jones, who co-wrote the screenplay for Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, calls to mind director Arnaud Desplechin's enthusiastic reaction when Misty Upham was cast opposite Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy P's love interest Jane. Kent shares with us how Misty Upham felt about the way John Wells' August: Osage County was promoted and his reaction to her role as Johnna in the film, as well as Michelle Thrush's (Gayle Picard) and Misty's Jimmy P Cannes experiences.
Misty Upham at Cannes: "I will never forget riding to the premiere of Jimmy in Cannes with Misty and Michelle Thrush, both of them...
- 10/18/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Misty Upham found dead in Seattle suburb (photo: Misty Upham and Juliette Lewis) Actress Misty Upham, who had gone missing since October 6, 2014, was found dead on Thursday, October 16, in a wooded area along the White River in suburban Seattle. The cause and time of death remain unclear. Best known for her roles in Frozen River, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination, and August: Osage County, Upham was 32. According to a statement her father, Charles Upham, sent to media outlets, Misty Upham was last seen on October 5, walking from her sister's apartment in Muckleshoot, Washington. Her father added that she suffered from bipolar disorder and had bouts of depression and anxiety — she had gone missing in the past — but said he didn't believe she was suicidal. "The truth is Misty is not stressed over money or career. Her career is going great," he wrote last Sunday, October 12. "As her...
- 10/17/2014
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Misty Upham with Arnaud Desplechin on the set of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian: "l faudrait un quatrain d’Emily Dickinson pour chanter Misty."
On October 16, Misty Upham, a powerful force in each role she took on, was found dead after having been reported missing on October 6.
In Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian, Misty Upham co-starred with Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric. In 2013, we saw her work with some of the best actors in film, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale and Sam Shepard.
I spoke with Arnaud Desplechin at last year's New York Film Festival where Jimmy P was screening in the main slate program. This evening, he sent Eye For Film the following tribute in remembrance of Misty Upham. (Scroll down for translation.)
Misty Upham as Jane with...
On October 16, Misty Upham, a powerful force in each role she took on, was found dead after having been reported missing on October 6.
In Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian, Misty Upham co-starred with Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric. In 2013, we saw her work with some of the best actors in film, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale and Sam Shepard.
I spoke with Arnaud Desplechin at last year's New York Film Festival where Jimmy P was screening in the main slate program. This evening, he sent Eye For Film the following tribute in remembrance of Misty Upham. (Scroll down for translation.)
Misty Upham as Jane with...
- 10/17/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The mysterious disappearance and death of Misty Upham thrust this rising actress into the headlines.
The mysterious disappearance and death of Misty Upham thrust this rising actress into the headlines. Though Upham starred in several critically-acclaimed films, she was still cleaning homes when she auditioned for August: Osage County, and many people may now be hearing her name for the first time.
ETonline took a look back at the life and work of an actress who had starred alongside such film greats as Meryl Streep (August: Osage County), Benicio Del Toro (Jimmy P.) and Melissa Leo (Frozen River).
News: Juliette Lewis: Misty Upham's Death Was Not a Suicide
Native American Upbringing: Born on July 6, 1982, in Kalispell, Mont., Misty was raised in Auburn, Wash. -- about 28 miles south of Seattle -- and was a member of the Blackfoot Tribe, the largest Native American tribe in Montana. Misty has said she is the direct descendant of the...
The mysterious disappearance and death of Misty Upham thrust this rising actress into the headlines. Though Upham starred in several critically-acclaimed films, she was still cleaning homes when she auditioned for August: Osage County, and many people may now be hearing her name for the first time.
ETonline took a look back at the life and work of an actress who had starred alongside such film greats as Meryl Streep (August: Osage County), Benicio Del Toro (Jimmy P.) and Melissa Leo (Frozen River).
News: Juliette Lewis: Misty Upham's Death Was Not a Suicide
Native American Upbringing: Born on July 6, 1982, in Kalispell, Mont., Misty was raised in Auburn, Wash. -- about 28 miles south of Seattle -- and was a member of the Blackfoot Tribe, the largest Native American tribe in Montana. Misty has said she is the direct descendant of the...
- 10/17/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Misty Upham with Melissa Leo in Frozen River
A body found near the White River in Washington State has been identified as that of missing actress Misty Upham, police said today. The actress, who recently appeared in August: Osage County, was reported missing by her family on October 6.
The body was discovered in a ravine by Upham's friends and relatives who had been searching the area since she disappeared. She had recently been caring for her father, who is recovering from a stroke, and is believed to have been experiencing severe emotional problems.
As well as her appearance in August: Osage County, Upham is known for her work in Django Unchained, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (where she starred opposite Benicio Del Toro), and Frozen River, for which she received multiple award nominations.
Misty Upham as Jane with Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy P
When Eye For Film's...
A body found near the White River in Washington State has been identified as that of missing actress Misty Upham, police said today. The actress, who recently appeared in August: Osage County, was reported missing by her family on October 6.
The body was discovered in a ravine by Upham's friends and relatives who had been searching the area since she disappeared. She had recently been caring for her father, who is recovering from a stroke, and is believed to have been experiencing severe emotional problems.
As well as her appearance in August: Osage County, Upham is known for her work in Django Unchained, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (where she starred opposite Benicio Del Toro), and Frozen River, for which she received multiple award nominations.
Misty Upham as Jane with Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy P
When Eye For Film's...
- 10/17/2014
- by Jennie Kermode and Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Actress Misty Upham has been found dead at the age of 32.
Her manager confirmed that a body found on Thursday (October 16) is that of the missing August: Osage County star.
The actress was reported missing by her father in Washington earlier in October, one day after she was spotted in public leaving her apartment.
"Her family has confirmed her death," Richard Kerner of Kerner Management Associates told The Wrap. "Very, very sad news.
"Misty was a talented and kind soul who was taken much too soon. She will be greatly missed."
Upham's body was found in a wooded area of Auburn, Seattle along with her purse and identification.
Upham earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her supporting role in August: Osage County.
She also appeared in Django Unchained, Frozen River and Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian over the last six years.
Her manager confirmed that a body found on Thursday (October 16) is that of the missing August: Osage County star.
The actress was reported missing by her father in Washington earlier in October, one day after she was spotted in public leaving her apartment.
"Her family has confirmed her death," Richard Kerner of Kerner Management Associates told The Wrap. "Very, very sad news.
"Misty was a talented and kind soul who was taken much too soon. She will be greatly missed."
Upham's body was found in a wooded area of Auburn, Seattle along with her purse and identification.
Upham earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her supporting role in August: Osage County.
She also appeared in Django Unchained, Frozen River and Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian over the last six years.
- 10/17/2014
- Digital Spy
Actress Misty Upham has officially been labeled a missing person. Indian Country Today reports that the 32-year-old star was last seen leaving her sister's apartment in Muckleshoot, Washington on Oct. 5. Upham is best known for her role as housekeeper Johnna Monevata in the 2013 Oscar-nominated film August: Osage County. She has also had memorable performances in 2008's Frozen River and 2013's Jimmy P. She next stars alongside Jennifer Aniston in the upcoming drama Cake. The actress' father Charles Upham first reported her missing to police, and expressed [...]...
- 10/11/2014
- Us Weekly
• Once he takes off his Batman cape, Ben Affleck will direct Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Elle Fanning in the Prohibition Era film Live By Night. Affleck has adapted the Dennis Lehane novel himself, reuniting the pair after Affleck’s feature debut Gone Baby Gone, which was also based on a Lehane novel. The story centers around Joe Coughlin, the police captain’s son who gets himself involved in the world of organized crime. Miller will play Emma, the girlfriend of Coughlin’s mobster boss whom he falls in love with. Saldana has been cast as Graciella Suarez, a woman Coughlin meets in Tampa,...
- 9/4/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"The Lego Movie"
What's It About? A boring, regular dude Lego named Emmet (Chris Pratt) is suddenly called upon to save the world. Will Ferrell voices bad guy President Business, Elizabeth Banks as the super cool Wyldstyle, Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty, and Nick Offerman as a pirate named Metal Beard.
Why We're In: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller accomplished the unthinkable -- they made what seemed like a craven toy tie-in into a movie that everyone loves. It's kind of crazy.
Post by Moviefone.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" (Criterion)
What's It About? A group of schoolgirls and their teacher go on a lovely picnic at Hanging Rock, a scenic rock formation in Australia. Their Valentine's Day outing takes a turn for the weird when several of them go missing, leaving a devastated community in their wake.
Why We're In: It's a gorgeous,...
"The Lego Movie"
What's It About? A boring, regular dude Lego named Emmet (Chris Pratt) is suddenly called upon to save the world. Will Ferrell voices bad guy President Business, Elizabeth Banks as the super cool Wyldstyle, Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty, and Nick Offerman as a pirate named Metal Beard.
Why We're In: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller accomplished the unthinkable -- they made what seemed like a craven toy tie-in into a movie that everyone loves. It's kind of crazy.
Post by Moviefone.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" (Criterion)
What's It About? A group of schoolgirls and their teacher go on a lovely picnic at Hanging Rock, a scenic rock formation in Australia. Their Valentine's Day outing takes a turn for the weird when several of them go missing, leaving a devastated community in their wake.
Why We're In: It's a gorgeous,...
- 6/17/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Wild Bunch has unveiled its packed slate of films that it will be shopping around Cannes, with new films in store from great European filmmakers like Nicolas Winding Refn ("Drive," "Only God Forgives"), Paul Verhoeven (the original "Robocop" & "Total Recall"), Gaspar Noe ("Irreversible," "Enter the Void"), Abdellatif Kechiche ("Blue is the Warmest Color") and Jean-Francois Richet ("Mesrine").
Maniac Cop
Refn and William Lustig are set to produce a remake of the 1980s cult classic "Maniac Cop" about the hunt for a New York serial killer. Ed Brubaker ("Captain America: The Winter Soldier") penned the script, while the director will be announced at Cannes.
Untitled Paul Verhoeven Project
Paul Verhoeven's next is an adaptation of French writer Philippe Djian's 2012 novel "Oh!". The story revolves around a psychological game of cat-and-mouse between a businesswoman and a stalker who raped her, a crime for which she is seeking revenge.
Wild Bunch...
Maniac Cop
Refn and William Lustig are set to produce a remake of the 1980s cult classic "Maniac Cop" about the hunt for a New York serial killer. Ed Brubaker ("Captain America: The Winter Soldier") penned the script, while the director will be announced at Cannes.
Untitled Paul Verhoeven Project
Paul Verhoeven's next is an adaptation of French writer Philippe Djian's 2012 novel "Oh!". The story revolves around a psychological game of cat-and-mouse between a businesswoman and a stalker who raped her, a crime for which she is seeking revenge.
Wild Bunch...
- 5/6/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
This weekend looks to be one of the weakest in years for new product. With only the non-specialized "Beijing Love Story" (China Lion) reporting grosses among new specialized films, the openers didn't look strong in any case. IFC opened Cannes and New York Film Fest entry "Jimmy P." from veteran French director Arnaud Desplechin in one theater, while their VOD-playing "Adult World," aimed at Valentine's Day audiences opened in two. Other films showed little action. None of these films received any better than consensus average reviews. With awards contenders slackening even more (most head to home viewing venues in upcoming weeks), two foreign language entries, "Gloria" (Roadside Attractions) and the long-run "The Great Beauty" took up some of the slack as they both add to their already impressive (in the subtitled specialized market) grosses. The rest is fairly grim. Opening "Beijing Love Story" (China Lion) - Metacritic: 41 $128,000 in 9 theaters; PSA (per screen average):.
- 2/16/2014
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Thompson on Hollywood
Claude Lanzmann with Kent Jones on The Last of the Unjust: "The general tone of Shoah was epic. This is not epic." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In part two of our conversation, Kent Jones and I continue with questions of memory and justice and discuss the connective tissue of World War II in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian with Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust and Shoah, Stanley Kubrick's unfinished Aryan Papers, Kristina Söderbaum, Thomas and Veit Harlan and the positioning of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
In part one we discussed the loops to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, the place of the American landscape, why Sam Shepard's mystical west is radically different from what is shown in Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P. and how the relationship of cinema and psychoanalysis falls flat - from Alfred Hitchcock to Robert Bresson and François Truffaut.
In part two of our conversation, Kent Jones and I continue with questions of memory and justice and discuss the connective tissue of World War II in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian with Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust and Shoah, Stanley Kubrick's unfinished Aryan Papers, Kristina Söderbaum, Thomas and Veit Harlan and the positioning of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
In part one we discussed the loops to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, the place of the American landscape, why Sam Shepard's mystical west is radically different from what is shown in Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P. and how the relationship of cinema and psychoanalysis falls flat - from Alfred Hitchcock to Robert Bresson and François Truffaut.
- 2/16/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Mathieu Amalric as George Devereux Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy P
I met up with Kent Jones during a snowy day, surrounded by New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, to talk about his work on Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian. The film stars Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Misty Upham, and Gina McKee. The winding paths of our conversation on post-war silences, psychoanalysis, western landscapes and eastern escapes led us from David Lynch's Straight Story to Clint Eastwood's Flags Of Our Fathers to Truffaut and Hitchcock, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Marlon Brando in The Men, across Red River to The Best Years of Our Lives and why the story of a returning World War II veteran has special meaning for him.
When I spoke with Kent in September 2013, he was embarking on his first year as Director of Programming and...
I met up with Kent Jones during a snowy day, surrounded by New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, to talk about his work on Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian. The film stars Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Misty Upham, and Gina McKee. The winding paths of our conversation on post-war silences, psychoanalysis, western landscapes and eastern escapes led us from David Lynch's Straight Story to Clint Eastwood's Flags Of Our Fathers to Truffaut and Hitchcock, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Marlon Brando in The Men, across Red River to The Best Years of Our Lives and why the story of a returning World War II veteran has special meaning for him.
When I spoke with Kent in September 2013, he was embarking on his first year as Director of Programming and...
- 2/14/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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