Academy Nominated and Berlin Golden Bear Winner (Bal/ Honey), Director Semih Kaplanoğlu’s new feature, Grain (Isa: The Match Factory), starring Cristina Flutur, Jean-Marc Barr and Ermin Bravo will have its world premiere in the competition program at the Sarajevo Film Festival August 11–18.
Watch the trailer here.
Besides the screening of Grain costarring Ermin Bravo, Bravo is also starring in another screening at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Men Don’t Cry, directed by Alen Drljevic. This film won just the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Sarajevo Film Festival Competition Red CarpetErmin Bravo
Watch the trailer of Men Don’t Cry here.
Jean-Marc Barr is known for Lars van Trier’s films Dogville, Breaking the Waves, Nymphomaniac, and Europa. He has also just finished shooting for Cellar, directed by Igor Voloshin.
Jean-Marc Barr
Cristina Flutur is best-known for playing Alina in the movie Beyond the Hills (2012), directed...
Watch the trailer here.
Besides the screening of Grain costarring Ermin Bravo, Bravo is also starring in another screening at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Men Don’t Cry, directed by Alen Drljevic. This film won just the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Sarajevo Film Festival Competition Red CarpetErmin Bravo
Watch the trailer of Men Don’t Cry here.
Jean-Marc Barr is known for Lars van Trier’s films Dogville, Breaking the Waves, Nymphomaniac, and Europa. He has also just finished shooting for Cellar, directed by Igor Voloshin.
Jean-Marc Barr
Cristina Flutur is best-known for playing Alina in the movie Beyond the Hills (2012), directed...
- 8/2/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on Kirsten Dunst, who steals the show from Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell in Cannes director-winner Sofia Coppola’s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (June 23, Focus Features). It’s her fourth collaboration with Coppola.
Bottom Line: Dunst steered toward playing strong women from an early age, with films that include political comedy “Dick” with Michelle Williams, John Stockwell’s “Crazy/Beautiful” with Jay Hernandez, and Peyton Reed and Jessica Bendinger’s cheerleader sleeper “Bring It On,” shot the year she graduated from Los Angeles’ Catholic high school Notre Dame. She has never settled for The Girlfriend or romantic lead, although she made a memorable Mary Jane Watson in the “Spider-Man” franchise. “Looking back, I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made,” she said. “A...
Bottom Line: Dunst steered toward playing strong women from an early age, with films that include political comedy “Dick” with Michelle Williams, John Stockwell’s “Crazy/Beautiful” with Jay Hernandez, and Peyton Reed and Jessica Bendinger’s cheerleader sleeper “Bring It On,” shot the year she graduated from Los Angeles’ Catholic high school Notre Dame. She has never settled for The Girlfriend or romantic lead, although she made a memorable Mary Jane Watson in the “Spider-Man” franchise. “Looking back, I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made,” she said. “A...
- 6/22/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on Kirsten Dunst, who steals the show from Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell in Cannes director-winner Sofia Coppola’s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (June 23, Focus Features). It’s her fourth collaboration with Coppola.
Bottom Line: Dunst steered toward playing strong women from an early age, with films that include political comedy “Dick” with Michelle Williams, John Stockwell’s “Crazy/Beautiful” with Jay Hernandez, and Peyton Reed and Jessica Bendinger’s cheerleader sleeper “Bring It On,” shot the year she graduated from Los Angeles’ Catholic high school Notre Dame. She has never settled for The Girlfriend or romantic lead, although she made a memorable Mary Jane Watson in the “Spider-Man” franchise. “Looking back, I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made,” she said. “A long career is up to you. It’s your barometer of taste and the choices you make as an actress inform how other people look at you and if they want you in their movies. So you have to be wise.”
Career Peaks: A model from the age of three, the child actress shot out of a cannon when she won a worldwide search for 11-year-old Claudia, starring opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in “Interview with the Vampire,” Neil Jordan’s fabulously kinky 1994 take on the Anne Rice classic. Dunst has long leaned into women’s subjects and directors, from Gillian Armstrong and Robin Swicord’s “Little Women” and Leslye Hedland’s raucous “Bachelorette,” to Coppola’s Cannes breakout “The Virgin Suicides,” shot when she was 16.
That film marked her segue to more adult roles. “I was sexualized,” Dunst told me, “but through her lens, which was such a wonderful way to be transitioned. There was nothing grotesque, even though I was doing things in that film that I was uncomfortable doing. I’d stress out about ‘Oh, I have to make out with that boy on the roof,’ but Sofia would just have me nuzzle into the side of their face. Even though I was blossoming, it was not something I was comfortable with yet. She really opened that door for me.”
Dunst went on to star for Coppola as a coquettish queen in the title role “Marie Antoinette,” and cameoed in “The Bling Ring.”
Assets: Beyond sexual allure, Dunst brings depth and mystery. She can play the girl next door (“Spider-Man”), a drunk bride peeing on the lawn in the moonlight in her wedding dress (“Melancholia”), an imperious 18th-century queen (“Marie Antoinette”), or a racist Nasa administrator (“Hidden Figures”). She has a steely edge, as well as a wicked sense of humor. Her career pivot came before 2010 Ryan Gosling two-hander “All Good Things,” when she started to meet with acting coach/therapist Greta Seacat (who also works with Coppola).
While Dunst always picks projects based on directors, she credits Seacat with a total game change “in terms of acting and how I approach things,” said Dunst. “And now it’s all about me. It’s cathartic for me. It’s my thing, it’s my experience, it’s nothing about pleasing anyone else but myself. And it all comes from me, so I have so much more control than anybody else; it’s all about my own inner life. By the time I get to set, I’m so prepared no one needs to direct me. No one needs to tell me anything. I feel so powerful with what I have to bring, that making movies is for myself now and it’s like getting rid of poisons. Like if you went to a therapist all the time, but I get to do it by acting out anything I want to, so that’s a powerful tool.”
She draws the line at too much nudity, and turned down a sexy role in another Lars von Trier movie. “I would work with him again,” she said. “It just depends on the part because he loves exposing… like Charlotte Gainsbourg, she has a less curvaceous body, so it’s less assaulting to see than if someone with larger breasts and more womanly-shaped did some of the things she did in movies.”
Biggest Problem: As she has come into a strong sense of her own identity, Dunst is making career choices for herself, not her fans. She’s not looking to please anyone else or playing the movie-star game, as evidenced by her maverick choices, from “Melancholia” to “Fargo.” “Only Lars and Pedro Almodovar write these incredible, messy roles for women,” she has said.
Awards Attention: She won Best Actress at Cannes for her hilariously depressed bride in Lars von Trier’s comedic end-of-the-world tragedy, “Melancholia,” after being quick enough on her feet to survive a disastrous Cannes press conference when her director went off the rails. While she earned plaudits and a Golden Globe nomination for Season Two of “Fargo” as the deeply flawed murderess Peggy Blumquist, she’s never earned an Oscar nomination. “The Beguiled” could be her first — she’s earning raves across the board.
Next page: Dunst scribes her character in “The Beguiled”: “Edwina would be me at my worst, working on a film that I don’t want to be on.”
Related storiesHow Controversies Can Hurt Movies Before They're Released -- IndieWire's Movie Podcast (Screen Talk Episode 154)'The Beguiled' Exclusive: Here's What It's Like to Work On A Sofia Coppola Set -- WatchSofia Coppola Explains Why She Left Her Ambitious Take on 'The Little Mermaid'...
Bottom Line: Dunst steered toward playing strong women from an early age, with films that include political comedy “Dick” with Michelle Williams, John Stockwell’s “Crazy/Beautiful” with Jay Hernandez, and Peyton Reed and Jessica Bendinger’s cheerleader sleeper “Bring It On,” shot the year she graduated from Los Angeles’ Catholic high school Notre Dame. She has never settled for The Girlfriend or romantic lead, although she made a memorable Mary Jane Watson in the “Spider-Man” franchise. “Looking back, I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made,” she said. “A long career is up to you. It’s your barometer of taste and the choices you make as an actress inform how other people look at you and if they want you in their movies. So you have to be wise.”
Career Peaks: A model from the age of three, the child actress shot out of a cannon when she won a worldwide search for 11-year-old Claudia, starring opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in “Interview with the Vampire,” Neil Jordan’s fabulously kinky 1994 take on the Anne Rice classic. Dunst has long leaned into women’s subjects and directors, from Gillian Armstrong and Robin Swicord’s “Little Women” and Leslye Hedland’s raucous “Bachelorette,” to Coppola’s Cannes breakout “The Virgin Suicides,” shot when she was 16.
That film marked her segue to more adult roles. “I was sexualized,” Dunst told me, “but through her lens, which was such a wonderful way to be transitioned. There was nothing grotesque, even though I was doing things in that film that I was uncomfortable doing. I’d stress out about ‘Oh, I have to make out with that boy on the roof,’ but Sofia would just have me nuzzle into the side of their face. Even though I was blossoming, it was not something I was comfortable with yet. She really opened that door for me.”
Dunst went on to star for Coppola as a coquettish queen in the title role “Marie Antoinette,” and cameoed in “The Bling Ring.”
Assets: Beyond sexual allure, Dunst brings depth and mystery. She can play the girl next door (“Spider-Man”), a drunk bride peeing on the lawn in the moonlight in her wedding dress (“Melancholia”), an imperious 18th-century queen (“Marie Antoinette”), or a racist Nasa administrator (“Hidden Figures”). She has a steely edge, as well as a wicked sense of humor. Her career pivot came before 2010 Ryan Gosling two-hander “All Good Things,” when she started to meet with acting coach/therapist Greta Seacat (who also works with Coppola).
While Dunst always picks projects based on directors, she credits Seacat with a total game change “in terms of acting and how I approach things,” said Dunst. “And now it’s all about me. It’s cathartic for me. It’s my thing, it’s my experience, it’s nothing about pleasing anyone else but myself. And it all comes from me, so I have so much more control than anybody else; it’s all about my own inner life. By the time I get to set, I’m so prepared no one needs to direct me. No one needs to tell me anything. I feel so powerful with what I have to bring, that making movies is for myself now and it’s like getting rid of poisons. Like if you went to a therapist all the time, but I get to do it by acting out anything I want to, so that’s a powerful tool.”
She draws the line at too much nudity, and turned down a sexy role in another Lars von Trier movie. “I would work with him again,” she said. “It just depends on the part because he loves exposing… like Charlotte Gainsbourg, she has a less curvaceous body, so it’s less assaulting to see than if someone with larger breasts and more womanly-shaped did some of the things she did in movies.”
Biggest Problem: As she has come into a strong sense of her own identity, Dunst is making career choices for herself, not her fans. She’s not looking to please anyone else or playing the movie-star game, as evidenced by her maverick choices, from “Melancholia” to “Fargo.” “Only Lars and Pedro Almodovar write these incredible, messy roles for women,” she has said.
Awards Attention: She won Best Actress at Cannes for her hilariously depressed bride in Lars von Trier’s comedic end-of-the-world tragedy, “Melancholia,” after being quick enough on her feet to survive a disastrous Cannes press conference when her director went off the rails. While she earned plaudits and a Golden Globe nomination for Season Two of “Fargo” as the deeply flawed murderess Peggy Blumquist, she’s never earned an Oscar nomination. “The Beguiled” could be her first — she’s earning raves across the board.
Next page: Dunst scribes her character in “The Beguiled”: “Edwina would be me at my worst, working on a film that I don’t want to be on.”
Related storiesHow Controversies Can Hurt Movies Before They're Released -- IndieWire's Movie Podcast (Screen Talk Episode 154)'The Beguiled' Exclusive: Here's What It's Like to Work On A Sofia Coppola Set -- WatchSofia Coppola Explains Why She Left Her Ambitious Take on 'The Little Mermaid'...
- 6/22/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Cannes Ends with…Awards — 3rd of 3
The heightened security with machine gun armed soldiers and policemen constantly patrolling was intensified after the Manchester Massacre. With a pall over the festival, one minute of silence was observed for the 22 murdered and flags hung at half-mast. In addition to that, the sudden death at 57 of the Busan Film Festival deputy director Kim Ji-seok and that of the James Bond star Roger Moore brought the film world into a new perspective as we join the larger world to face the random indications of human mortality. High security vs. cinema as a sanctuary of freedom is highlighted this year like no other time that I can recall in my 31 years here.President of the jury, Pedro Almodovar
But life does go on, the jury judges, the stars get press attention on the red carpet and the rest of us continue to wait patiently in...
The heightened security with machine gun armed soldiers and policemen constantly patrolling was intensified after the Manchester Massacre. With a pall over the festival, one minute of silence was observed for the 22 murdered and flags hung at half-mast. In addition to that, the sudden death at 57 of the Busan Film Festival deputy director Kim Ji-seok and that of the James Bond star Roger Moore brought the film world into a new perspective as we join the larger world to face the random indications of human mortality. High security vs. cinema as a sanctuary of freedom is highlighted this year like no other time that I can recall in my 31 years here.President of the jury, Pedro Almodovar
But life does go on, the jury judges, the stars get press attention on the red carpet and the rest of us continue to wait patiently in...
- 5/29/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Another day, another new development in the feud between Danish auteurs Lars von Trier and Nicolas Winding Refn. The two filmmakers used to be friends, but a wedge was driven between them when von Trier’s controversial “Melancholia” press conference at Cannes led Refn to tell the press that the former was “getting old and his comedy routine is a bit tiresome.” The two have been trading jabs ever since, with Refn even claiming at Cannes last year that von Trier tried to sleep with his wife.
Read More: Nicolas Winding Refn Says Lars Von Trier Tried To Sleep With His Wife
During an interview with Danish magazine Soundvenue, von Trier couldn’t resist making a Refn diss. In between talking about his new film “The House That Jack Built” and his opinion on directors like David Lynch and the Coen Brothers, von Trier makes it known that he finds...
Read More: Nicolas Winding Refn Says Lars Von Trier Tried To Sleep With His Wife
During an interview with Danish magazine Soundvenue, von Trier couldn’t resist making a Refn diss. In between talking about his new film “The House That Jack Built” and his opinion on directors like David Lynch and the Coen Brothers, von Trier makes it known that he finds...
- 4/25/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Women never have a particularly great time in Westerns. Aside from the odd outlier, the genre generally features them as either helpless victims or sex workers, though both endure intense violence at the hands of men. Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone takes this to new extremes; spending most of its 140 punishing minutes inflicting humiliation, misery and trauma upon its female characters.
By the time the credits roll, you’ll have seen women intimidated, leered at, strangled, punched, whipped, beaten, gagged, having their tongues cut out, sexually menaced by their fathers, repeatedly raped and eventually executed. It’s a smörgåsbord of misogyny: a film populated by yellow-teethed, half feral, sexually psychotic men preying on women whose only plausible escape is suicide. Brimstone is less a battle of the sexes and more a massacre.
Split into four chapters, each with portentous Biblical titles like ‘Revelations’ and ‘Exodus,’ the film consists of episodes in...
By the time the credits roll, you’ll have seen women intimidated, leered at, strangled, punched, whipped, beaten, gagged, having their tongues cut out, sexually menaced by their fathers, repeatedly raped and eventually executed. It’s a smörgåsbord of misogyny: a film populated by yellow-teethed, half feral, sexually psychotic men preying on women whose only plausible escape is suicide. Brimstone is less a battle of the sexes and more a massacre.
Split into four chapters, each with portentous Biblical titles like ‘Revelations’ and ‘Exodus,’ the film consists of episodes in...
- 3/9/2017
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Lars von Trier is finally back behind the camera for his first feature since “Nymphomaniac,” and we’re not sure whether we should be excited or flat out terrified, especially since the drama is about the coming of age of a serial killer. “The House that Jack Built,” which is set over 12 years and focuses on five key murders, is currently filming in Bengtfors, Sweden, and von Trier took some time to meet with press (via ScreenDaily) alongside stars Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman and producers Louise Vesth and Madeleine Ekman.
“I chose Matt and I chose Uma because they obviously can’t read,” von Trier said. He may have been using his trademark sarcasm, but it’s clear even the director knows this is going to be his most brutal movie to date, which is saying something coming from the man behind “Nymphomaniac,” “Breaking the Waves” and “Antichrist.”
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“I chose Matt and I chose Uma because they obviously can’t read,” von Trier said. He may have been using his trademark sarcasm, but it’s clear even the director knows this is going to be his most brutal movie to date, which is saying something coming from the man behind “Nymphomaniac,” “Breaking the Waves” and “Antichrist.”
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- 3/8/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Lars von Trier talks Uma Thurman, serial killers and Cannes at first press conference since Nazi row
Set report: director and cast discuss Us-set drama The House That Jack Built during Tuesday 7 March press event.
”I chose Matt and I chose Uma because they obviously can’t read,” Lars von Trier says with the hint of a smile.
The Danish director is sitting in a village hall a few kilometres outside the town of Bengtfors in a snow-covered part of Sweden which is standing in for the state of Washington, where his next film, the serial killer-drama The House That Jack Built, is set.
Von Trier is flanked by Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman, two of the main actors in the film, and two of his producers, Louise Vesth from Zentropa and Madeleine Ekman, and they are faced by a large group of journalists, mostly from Scandinavia and some from the rest of Europe.
He continues: ”There were so many people we sent the script to, who said they would do anything to work...
”I chose Matt and I chose Uma because they obviously can’t read,” Lars von Trier says with the hint of a smile.
The Danish director is sitting in a village hall a few kilometres outside the town of Bengtfors in a snow-covered part of Sweden which is standing in for the state of Washington, where his next film, the serial killer-drama The House That Jack Built, is set.
Von Trier is flanked by Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman, two of the main actors in the film, and two of his producers, Louise Vesth from Zentropa and Madeleine Ekman, and they are faced by a large group of journalists, mostly from Scandinavia and some from the rest of Europe.
He continues: ”There were so many people we sent the script to, who said they would do anything to work...
- 3/8/2017
- ScreenDaily
The documentary festival is also launching a fifth competition strand at its 2017 edition.
Scandi documentary festival Cph:dox (Mar 16-26) has unveiled the films in its usual four competitions as well as introducing a new competition section.
World premieres announced across the competitions include Bridgend director Jeppe Rønde’s The John Dalli Mystery [pictured], a Kafkaesque story with Mikael Bertelsen and Mads Brügger; Do Donkeys Act?, a film about unruly donkeys narrated by Willem Dafoe; Accidental Anarchist, about the British former diplomat Carne Ross who has transformed into an anarchist; Sigrid Dyekjær’s A Modern Man, about violinist and model Charlie Siem; and Ben Rivers’ Urth, about the failed ecosystem Biosphere 2.0 in Arizona.
Read Screen’s festival preview here.
Other high profile documentaries to screen at the event include Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land follow up City Of Ghosts.
New competition Next:wave is launched to highlight international emerging talents “who have the courage to take chances and stand out.”
The...
Scandi documentary festival Cph:dox (Mar 16-26) has unveiled the films in its usual four competitions as well as introducing a new competition section.
World premieres announced across the competitions include Bridgend director Jeppe Rønde’s The John Dalli Mystery [pictured], a Kafkaesque story with Mikael Bertelsen and Mads Brügger; Do Donkeys Act?, a film about unruly donkeys narrated by Willem Dafoe; Accidental Anarchist, about the British former diplomat Carne Ross who has transformed into an anarchist; Sigrid Dyekjær’s A Modern Man, about violinist and model Charlie Siem; and Ben Rivers’ Urth, about the failed ecosystem Biosphere 2.0 in Arizona.
Read Screen’s festival preview here.
Other high profile documentaries to screen at the event include Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land follow up City Of Ghosts.
New competition Next:wave is launched to highlight international emerging talents “who have the courage to take chances and stand out.”
The...
- 2/22/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: As the Berlinale NATIVe selection wins another top prize in Santa Barbara, LevelK closes deals with four more buyers.
LevelK has closed a number of new deals on Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell’s feature debut that screens in Berlin Film Festival’s NATIVe programme.
The film has been acquired for Switzerland (Xenix), Poland (ITINeovision/Ale Kino+) Australia/New Zealand (Palace Films), and Russia (Maywin).
Last night (Feb 11), the film won the Valhalla Award for Best Nordic Film at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, just a week after it won the $114,000 Dragon Award in Goteborg.
The film premiered in Venice where it won the Feodora prize and Europa Cinema Label award and also screened in Toronto, Tokyo (where it won best actress) and Rotterdam.
Previously LevelK has sold Sami Blood to the Us (Synergetic Distribution), Japan (Uplink), airlines (Encore), China (Lemon Tree), Czech Republic (Film Europe S.R.O). Turkey/Cyprus (Medyavizyon/SinemaTV) and non-theatrical rights for Benelux...
LevelK has closed a number of new deals on Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell’s feature debut that screens in Berlin Film Festival’s NATIVe programme.
The film has been acquired for Switzerland (Xenix), Poland (ITINeovision/Ale Kino+) Australia/New Zealand (Palace Films), and Russia (Maywin).
Last night (Feb 11), the film won the Valhalla Award for Best Nordic Film at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, just a week after it won the $114,000 Dragon Award in Goteborg.
The film premiered in Venice where it won the Feodora prize and Europa Cinema Label award and also screened in Toronto, Tokyo (where it won best actress) and Rotterdam.
Previously LevelK has sold Sami Blood to the Us (Synergetic Distribution), Japan (Uplink), airlines (Encore), China (Lemon Tree), Czech Republic (Film Europe S.R.O). Turkey/Cyprus (Medyavizyon/SinemaTV) and non-theatrical rights for Benelux...
- 2/12/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Zentropa producer Louise Vesth reveals more details about serial killer story.
Lars von Trier has cast Matt Dillon and Bruno Ganz in the lead roles of his upcoming serial killer story, The House That Jack Built.
Dillon will play the titular Jack, an intelligent serial killer. Ganz – best known for playing Hitler in Downfall — will star as the mysterious Verge, who has a recurring conversation with Jack about his actions and thoughts.
Von Trier said in a statement, “The two gentlemen have each figured as milestones in my cinematic development. Besides being an epochal match, they are excellent actors and fit quite organically into ‘my cinematic family.’ I look forward with pleasure and pride to working with them both.”
In an exclusive interview with Screen on Wednesday (Nov 2), producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa said that von Trier had been inspired by Dillon’s performances in films like Drugstore Cowboy or The Outsiders.
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Lars von Trier has cast Matt Dillon and Bruno Ganz in the lead roles of his upcoming serial killer story, The House That Jack Built.
Dillon will play the titular Jack, an intelligent serial killer. Ganz – best known for playing Hitler in Downfall — will star as the mysterious Verge, who has a recurring conversation with Jack about his actions and thoughts.
Von Trier said in a statement, “The two gentlemen have each figured as milestones in my cinematic development. Besides being an epochal match, they are excellent actors and fit quite organically into ‘my cinematic family.’ I look forward with pleasure and pride to working with them both.”
In an exclusive interview with Screen on Wednesday (Nov 2), producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa said that von Trier had been inspired by Dillon’s performances in films like Drugstore Cowboy or The Outsiders.
“For [link=nm...
- 11/2/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also acquires upcoming sports biopic Borg vs McEnroe, Directors’ Fortnight title After Love and Scottish indie music doc Lost In France.
Curzon Artificial Eye has swooped on four buzz titles at the Cannes Film Festival, acquiring UK and Eire rights to Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, Shia Labeouf-starrer Borg vs McEnroe, Joachim Lafosse’s After Love and Niall McCann’s Lost in France.
The pre-buy of serial killer drama The House That Jack Built continues the distributor’s long-standing relationship with the controversial Danish director, stretching back to Antichrist and includes Melancholia and Nymphomaniac Volumes I & II. The deal was negotiated with Susan Wendt at TrustNordisk.
The $9.8m project will shoot in Sweden this year, before a Copenhagen shoot in 2017. Zentropa producer Louise Vesth revealed details of the highly-anticipated feature to Screen in Cannes earlier this week, when several early deals were revealed.
The film, originally...
Curzon Artificial Eye has swooped on four buzz titles at the Cannes Film Festival, acquiring UK and Eire rights to Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, Shia Labeouf-starrer Borg vs McEnroe, Joachim Lafosse’s After Love and Niall McCann’s Lost in France.
The pre-buy of serial killer drama The House That Jack Built continues the distributor’s long-standing relationship with the controversial Danish director, stretching back to Antichrist and includes Melancholia and Nymphomaniac Volumes I & II. The deal was negotiated with Susan Wendt at TrustNordisk.
The $9.8m project will shoot in Sweden this year, before a Copenhagen shoot in 2017. Zentropa producer Louise Vesth revealed details of the highly-anticipated feature to Screen in Cannes earlier this week, when several early deals were revealed.
The film, originally...
- 5/20/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: TrustNordisk secures pre-sales on serial killer feature.
Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk has pre-sold Lars Von Trier’s next film The House That Jack Built to Latin America (California Filmes), Benelux (September), Poland (Gutek), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania), Czech Republic (Aero) and Romania (Independenta Film 97).
The story is told from the point of view of Jack, a serial killer who aspires to commit the perfect murder over a decade of practice.
TrustNordisk had planned to start sales in earnest after the cast was announced, but found that buyers were very eager to secure the next project from the filmmaker behind Nymphomaniac, Antichrist and Melancholia.
“We knew that Lars was still hot. People are so excited to buy his title at this stage and that makes me very happy. It underlines that Lars is one of the world’s best directors working today,” said TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis
Casting
Producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa told Screen that von...
Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk has pre-sold Lars Von Trier’s next film The House That Jack Built to Latin America (California Filmes), Benelux (September), Poland (Gutek), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania), Czech Republic (Aero) and Romania (Independenta Film 97).
The story is told from the point of view of Jack, a serial killer who aspires to commit the perfect murder over a decade of practice.
TrustNordisk had planned to start sales in earnest after the cast was announced, but found that buyers were very eager to secure the next project from the filmmaker behind Nymphomaniac, Antichrist and Melancholia.
“We knew that Lars was still hot. People are so excited to buy his title at this stage and that makes me very happy. It underlines that Lars is one of the world’s best directors working today,” said TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis
Casting
Producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa told Screen that von...
- 5/17/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
It's Girls Gone Wild this month at The Film Experience. To coincide with the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, here's Chris on von Trier's wild women from Cannes past.
We miss you, Lars!
It's been five years since reigning Cannes bad boy Lars von Trier debuted a film at the festival - practically eons by the festival's standards for their many favorite auteurs. But he lost their favor for his glib Hitler comments during Melancholia's Croisette visit. The resulting Persona Non Grata Status has left us too long without a Cannes Von Trier (Anti)Heroine. Some call him a misogynist, but the provocateur has consistently given us fully-faceted women fighting against circumstance however they must. Let's take a look at their bad behavior:
Emily Watson as Bess - Breaking the Waves
How Bad?: 7/10 - Lots and lots of self-flagellating sex with strangers. Bess puts herself in increasing dangerous situations...
We miss you, Lars!
It's been five years since reigning Cannes bad boy Lars von Trier debuted a film at the festival - practically eons by the festival's standards for their many favorite auteurs. But he lost their favor for his glib Hitler comments during Melancholia's Croisette visit. The resulting Persona Non Grata Status has left us too long without a Cannes Von Trier (Anti)Heroine. Some call him a misogynist, but the provocateur has consistently given us fully-faceted women fighting against circumstance however they must. Let's take a look at their bad behavior:
Emily Watson as Bess - Breaking the Waves
How Bad?: 7/10 - Lots and lots of self-flagellating sex with strangers. Bess puts herself in increasing dangerous situations...
- 5/12/2016
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
Though I don’t generally consider myself to be on the wavelength of Lars von Trier (“Antichrist” and “Breaking The Waves” being the two exceptions), I will admit that the Danish provocateur has a considerable talent for conveying the sensation of depression through cinema. Nearly all his movies deal with or are about diagnosable unhappiness in one way or another; hell, he’s even made a "Depression Trilogy" in which characters struggle with unthinkable trauma and violence both emotional and physical. “Melancholia,” the second film in the aforementioned trilogy, looks at how clinical depression warps and perverts our perspectives in all manner of nasty ways — in many cases, until we no longer recognize ourselves or the ones we love. That very specific perspective on emotional decline is the subject of a pretty great new video essay from The Nerdwriter that looks at how von Trier’s film deals with what...
- 4/7/2016
- by Nicholas Laskin
- The Playlist
Tim King joins as executive vice president production and Lars Bredo Rahbek has been appointed head of production for Denmark.
Swedish film production outfit Svensk Filmindustri has revealed two new appointments.
Danish producer Lars Bredo Rahbek [pictured left] - who has been a producer at Nimbus Film since 1997 working on titles including Flame And Citron – joins as the company’s new head of production for Denmark, effective from March 1.
Tim King [pictured right], formerly of McKinsey & Co and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, joins as executive vice president production, reporting to CEO Jonas Fors, effective immediately.
Fors said of the new hires: “Tim’s broad experience together with Lars’s strong history within Danish film and TV allows us to ensure we can manage both the challenges of our existing production businesses, together with ensuring the skills to manage the growth we want to achieve.”...
Swedish film production outfit Svensk Filmindustri has revealed two new appointments.
Danish producer Lars Bredo Rahbek [pictured left] - who has been a producer at Nimbus Film since 1997 working on titles including Flame And Citron – joins as the company’s new head of production for Denmark, effective from March 1.
Tim King [pictured right], formerly of McKinsey & Co and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, joins as executive vice president production, reporting to CEO Jonas Fors, effective immediately.
Fors said of the new hires: “Tim’s broad experience together with Lars’s strong history within Danish film and TV allows us to ensure we can manage both the challenges of our existing production businesses, together with ensuring the skills to manage the growth we want to achieve.”...
- 2/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
David Nelson Sports Photography
Panic stations should certainly not be taking hold, but Newcastle United have suffered yet another defeat in pre-season – this time a 1-0 loss to Borussia Mönchengladbach at St James’ Park – and they just do not look quite right yet under Steve McClaren.
Undoubtedly this was a step-up in opposition compared to what the Magpies have faced to date, but in all honesty Thorgan Hazard’s brilliant winner was a rare bit of quality in an otherwise turgid affair. It was obvious for all of the 21,088 present at St James’ that this was a pre-season match, because it’s pace was practically non-existent.
That’s all of the Magpies’ pre-season fixtures gone now and, with Southampton visiting the North East for the Premier League opener next weekend, McClaren is still searching for a defensive formula that works. Even the home debuts of Aleksandar Mitrovic, Chancel Mbemba and...
Panic stations should certainly not be taking hold, but Newcastle United have suffered yet another defeat in pre-season – this time a 1-0 loss to Borussia Mönchengladbach at St James’ Park – and they just do not look quite right yet under Steve McClaren.
Undoubtedly this was a step-up in opposition compared to what the Magpies have faced to date, but in all honesty Thorgan Hazard’s brilliant winner was a rare bit of quality in an otherwise turgid affair. It was obvious for all of the 21,088 present at St James’ that this was a pre-season match, because it’s pace was practically non-existent.
That’s all of the Magpies’ pre-season fixtures gone now and, with Southampton visiting the North East for the Premier League opener next weekend, McClaren is still searching for a defensive formula that works. Even the home debuts of Aleksandar Mitrovic, Chancel Mbemba and...
- 8/1/2015
- by Chris Waugh
- Obsessed with Film
Finn Nørgaard was killed in an attack in the Danish capital on Saturday.
Danish director-producer Finn Nørgaard has been named as one of the victims of Saturday’s fatal shootings in Copenhagen.
Nørgaard, 55, was attending a debate on “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Speech” in the east of the city when a gunman interrupted the debate and fired dozens of shots.
Nørgaard was reportedly struck in the chest by a bullet.
The gunman, 22-year-old Omar El-Hussein, then travelled to the Copenhagen synagogue where he shot dead Dan Uzan, 37, who was on security duty outside the building.
The gunman fled by car but was traced by police to the city’s Norrebro district. He opened fire when confronted and was fatally shot by officers. Five police officers were wounded in the attacks.
Nørgaard was a film and media graduate from the University of Copenhagen who worked as a producer at Danish public broadcaster Dr during the 1990s.
In 2001, he...
Danish director-producer Finn Nørgaard has been named as one of the victims of Saturday’s fatal shootings in Copenhagen.
Nørgaard, 55, was attending a debate on “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Speech” in the east of the city when a gunman interrupted the debate and fired dozens of shots.
Nørgaard was reportedly struck in the chest by a bullet.
The gunman, 22-year-old Omar El-Hussein, then travelled to the Copenhagen synagogue where he shot dead Dan Uzan, 37, who was on security duty outside the building.
The gunman fled by car but was traced by police to the city’s Norrebro district. He opened fire when confronted and was fatally shot by officers. Five police officers were wounded in the attacks.
Nørgaard was a film and media graduate from the University of Copenhagen who worked as a producer at Danish public broadcaster Dr during the 1990s.
In 2001, he...
- 2/16/2015
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Complete list of winners and nominees of the 2014 Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Sunday February 8. Winners will be updated as they're announced during the telecast and pre-telecast. Record Of The Year “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli Xcx “Chandelier,” Sia **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift “All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor Album Of The Year **Winner** “Morning Phase,” Beck “Beyoncé,” Beyoncé “X,” Ed Sheeran “In The Lonely Hour,” Sam Smith “Girl,” Pharrell Williams Song Of The Year “All About That Bass,” Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters (Meghan Trainor) “Chandelier,” Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters (Sia) “Shake It Off,” Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith) “Take Me To Church,” Andrew Hozier-Byrne, songwriter (Hozier) Best New Artist Iggy Azalea Bastille Brandy Clark...
- 2/8/2015
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
Take a seat, Legolas and Hawkeye, the world is about to enter a "new level of archery," and Lars Andersen is here to be your sharp-shooting guide. Andersen is a master of shooting arrows with the same hand he holds them in, an impressive strategy that dates back 5,000 years. "But where's the quiver?" your inner Robin Hood might ask. Forget quivers! They are just overrated baskets that tangle you up in trees and burden you with a slower reaction time. They are outdated props that live on due to their proliferation in movies like Lord of the Rings. By perfecting the arrow-in-hand approach,...
- 1/24/2015
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
Take a seat, Legolas and Hawkeye, the world is about to enter a "new level of archery," and Lars Andersen is here to be your sharp-shooting guide. Andersen is a master of shooting arrows with the same hand he holds them in, an impressive strategy that dates back 5,000 years. "But where's the quiver?" your inner Robin Hood might ask. Forget quivers! They are just overrated baskets that tangle you up in trees and burden you with a slower reaction time. They are outdated props that live on due to their proliferation in movies like Lord of the Rings. By perfecting the arrow-in-hand approach,...
- 1/24/2015
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
The U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is being compared to “the nation’s Mona Lisa” after last night’s State of the Union Address. Moniz was the talk of the town after he rocked priceless facial expressions and grey hair that simply can’t be duplicated.
Suddenly, his face is dominating your Twitter feed and he’s everybody’s new favorite politician. Maybe it’s because he’s a spitting image of the Quaker Oats guy, or because his mug was the most entertaining part of the Sotu?
Happy to see #BenFranklin is alive and well and was in attendance at the #Sotu tonight. #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU2015 pic.twitter.com/EZwM94bo1A
— Skeery Jones (@SkeeryJones) January 21, 2015
#ErnestMoniz, America’s 1st hipster cabinet member since Alexander #Hamilton, stole the #Sotu. http://t.co/12Tx1VFq07 pic.twitter.com/N1p8DM73gR — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) January 21, 2015
Yes/No? #Sotu #ErnestMoniz pic.
Suddenly, his face is dominating your Twitter feed and he’s everybody’s new favorite politician. Maybe it’s because he’s a spitting image of the Quaker Oats guy, or because his mug was the most entertaining part of the Sotu?
Happy to see #BenFranklin is alive and well and was in attendance at the #Sotu tonight. #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU2015 pic.twitter.com/EZwM94bo1A
— Skeery Jones (@SkeeryJones) January 21, 2015
#ErnestMoniz, America’s 1st hipster cabinet member since Alexander #Hamilton, stole the #Sotu. http://t.co/12Tx1VFq07 pic.twitter.com/N1p8DM73gR — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) January 21, 2015
Yes/No? #Sotu #ErnestMoniz pic.
- 1/21/2015
- by Taylor Ferber
- VH1.com
The U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is being compared to “the nation’s Mona Lisa” after last night’s State of the Union Address. Moniz was the talk of the town after he rocked priceless facial expressions and grey hair that simply can’t be duplicated.
Suddenly, his face is dominating your Twitter feed and he’s everybody’s new favorite politician. Maybe it’s because he’s a spitting image of the Quaker Oats guy, or because his mug was the most entertaining part of the Sotu?
Happy to see #BenFranklin is alive and well and was in attendance at the #Sotu tonight. #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU2015 pic.twitter.com/EZwM94bo1A
— Skeery Jones (@SkeeryJones) January 21, 2015
#ErnestMoniz, America’s 1st hipster cabinet member since Alexander #Hamilton, stole the #Sotu. http://t.co/12Tx1VFq07 pic.twitter.com/N1p8DM73gR — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) January 21, 2015
Yes/No? #Sotu #ErnestMoniz pic.
Suddenly, his face is dominating your Twitter feed and he’s everybody’s new favorite politician. Maybe it’s because he’s a spitting image of the Quaker Oats guy, or because his mug was the most entertaining part of the Sotu?
Happy to see #BenFranklin is alive and well and was in attendance at the #Sotu tonight. #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU2015 pic.twitter.com/EZwM94bo1A
— Skeery Jones (@SkeeryJones) January 21, 2015
#ErnestMoniz, America’s 1st hipster cabinet member since Alexander #Hamilton, stole the #Sotu. http://t.co/12Tx1VFq07 pic.twitter.com/N1p8DM73gR — Evan Shapiro (@eshap) January 21, 2015
Yes/No? #Sotu #ErnestMoniz pic.
- 1/21/2015
- by Taylor Ferber
- TheFabLife - Movies
Controversial Danish film director Lars von Trier (Melancholia, Nymphomaniac) is turning his attention to the small screen, with a “high-end TV drama series” titled The House That Jack Built. This is von Trier's first TV project in two decades, since creating the cult Danish horror miniseries The Kingdom back in 1994. Producer Louise Vesth made the announcement while premiering the five-and-a-half-hour director’s cut of Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 at the Venice Film Festival (von Trier, who stopped speaking in public after making incendiary remarks about Hitler at Cannes in 2011, appeared via live-stream). According to Vesth, the show will begin shooting in 2016 and feature a huge cast. “Lars has a great idea, which I can’t tell you about,” she told reporters. “From what I’ve heard, it’s something you have never seen before and will definitely never see again.” Yep, sounds like Lars!
- 9/2/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
After a couple of years’ absence publicist/ producer, Richard Lormand is returning to Toronto with a satchel full of films. Check these out because when he chooses films, he chooses them well.
"Phoenix"
Christian Petzold
Disfigured Holocaust survivor Nina, now unrecognizable after facial reconstruction, returns to find out if her husband really loves her or actually betrayed her...
Starring "Barbara" leads Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld. Romance and reconstruction in post World War II Germany from the critically
acclaimed director of "Barbara" (Berlinale 2012 Best Director) and "Yella" (Berlinale 2007 Best Actress – Nina Hoss)
Present: Christian Petzold (director), Nina Hoss (actress), Florian Koerner von Gustorf (producer)
World Sales: The Match Factory
Fri 5 – 18:00 (Public 1 – Elgin/Visa Screening Room)
Sat 6 – 11:30 (Public 2 – Elgin/Visa Screening Room)
Sat 6 – 12:30 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 2)
Tue 9 - 14:00 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 14)
Fri 12 - 14:15 (Press/Industry 3 - Scotiabank 7
"Itsi Bitsi"
Ole Christian Madsen
In the soul-searching psychedelic 60s, a rebellious young man desperately tries to win a beautiful woman’s love by transforming from poet to writer, nomad to junkie and eventually rock star...
The new film by Ole Christian Madsen, acclaimed director of "Superclásico," "Flame and Citron" and "Prague."
Present: Ole Christian Madsen (director), Joachim Fjelstrup (actor), Marie Tourell Søderberg (actress), Lars Lars Bredo Rahbek (producer)
World Sales: The Match Factory
Sat 6 – 8:30 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 9)
Sat 6 – 17:15 (Public 1 – Scotiabank 4)
Sun 7 – 9:30 (Public 2 – Bloor Hot Docs Cinema)
Tue 9 - 17:30 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 7)
Fri 12 – 17:00 (Public 3 – Isabel Bader)
"1001 Grams"
Bent Hamer
Urbane urbanite Marie is a thirty-something scientist whose life is rigorously controlled. When she attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. As she explores her new possibilities, everything seems to unfurl magically, beautiful.
Featuring Ane Dahl Torp (Pioneer, Cold Lunch) in a charmingly offbeat comedy from Norwegian master Bent Hamer ("Kitchen Stories," "O'Horten"). A co-production: Norway (BulBul), France (Slot Machine), Germany (Pandora)
Present: Bent Hamer (director), Ane Dahl Torp (actress), Marianne Slot (producer)
World Sales: Les Films du Losangne
Fri 5 – 14:00 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 3)
Sun 7 – 19:15 (Public 1 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 1)
Tue 9 - 9:30 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 4)
Tue 9 – 14:45 (Public 2 – Scotiabank 2)
Sun 14 – 19:00 (Public 3 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 1)
"Tigers"
Danis Tanovic
Devastated when he discovers the effects of the infant formula he’s peddling, a young salesman takes on a multinational corporation, in this based-on-fact drama from Academy Award-winning director Danis Tanovic ("No Man's Land").
Featuring Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi ("Once Upon a Time in Mumbai"). A co-production: India (Cinemorphic Pvt Ltd & Sikhya Entertainment), France (Asap Films)
Present: Danis Tanovic (director), Emraan Hashmi (actor), Geetanjali (actress), Khalid Abdalla (actor), Prashita Chaudhary (producer), Guneet Monga (producer), Cédomir Kolar (producer), Andy Paterson (producer, co-writer), Achin Jain (executive producer)
World Sales: The Match Factory
Sun 7 – 14:00 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 10)
Mon 8 – 21:45 (Public 1 – Scotiabank 1)
Wed 10 - 21:15 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 7)
Wed 10 – 21:30 (Public 2 – Scotiabank 3)
Sat 13 – 17:00 (Public 3 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 1
"Natural Resistance"
Jonathan Nossiter
Four Italian winegrowers of a rapidly spreading European natural wine revolution have encountered fierce resistance. Not everyone believes in their struggle for an ecologically progressive, economically just and historically rich expression of Italian
agriculture…
10 years after "Mondovino" world acclaimed director Jonathan Nossiter offers a model of charmed and joyous ecological and cinematic resistance against the new world economic order.
Present: Jonathan Nossiter (director)
Sat 6 – 11:15 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 7),
Mon 8 – 19:00 (Public 1 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 3)
Tue 9 – 19:00 (Public 2 – Jackman Hall)
Thu 11 – 17:45 (Public 3 – Bloor Hot Docs Cinema)...
"Phoenix"
Christian Petzold
Disfigured Holocaust survivor Nina, now unrecognizable after facial reconstruction, returns to find out if her husband really loves her or actually betrayed her...
Starring "Barbara" leads Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld. Romance and reconstruction in post World War II Germany from the critically
acclaimed director of "Barbara" (Berlinale 2012 Best Director) and "Yella" (Berlinale 2007 Best Actress – Nina Hoss)
Present: Christian Petzold (director), Nina Hoss (actress), Florian Koerner von Gustorf (producer)
World Sales: The Match Factory
Fri 5 – 18:00 (Public 1 – Elgin/Visa Screening Room)
Sat 6 – 11:30 (Public 2 – Elgin/Visa Screening Room)
Sat 6 – 12:30 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 2)
Tue 9 - 14:00 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 14)
Fri 12 - 14:15 (Press/Industry 3 - Scotiabank 7
"Itsi Bitsi"
Ole Christian Madsen
In the soul-searching psychedelic 60s, a rebellious young man desperately tries to win a beautiful woman’s love by transforming from poet to writer, nomad to junkie and eventually rock star...
The new film by Ole Christian Madsen, acclaimed director of "Superclásico," "Flame and Citron" and "Prague."
Present: Ole Christian Madsen (director), Joachim Fjelstrup (actor), Marie Tourell Søderberg (actress), Lars Lars Bredo Rahbek (producer)
World Sales: The Match Factory
Sat 6 – 8:30 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 9)
Sat 6 – 17:15 (Public 1 – Scotiabank 4)
Sun 7 – 9:30 (Public 2 – Bloor Hot Docs Cinema)
Tue 9 - 17:30 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 7)
Fri 12 – 17:00 (Public 3 – Isabel Bader)
"1001 Grams"
Bent Hamer
Urbane urbanite Marie is a thirty-something scientist whose life is rigorously controlled. When she attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. As she explores her new possibilities, everything seems to unfurl magically, beautiful.
Featuring Ane Dahl Torp (Pioneer, Cold Lunch) in a charmingly offbeat comedy from Norwegian master Bent Hamer ("Kitchen Stories," "O'Horten"). A co-production: Norway (BulBul), France (Slot Machine), Germany (Pandora)
Present: Bent Hamer (director), Ane Dahl Torp (actress), Marianne Slot (producer)
World Sales: Les Films du Losangne
Fri 5 – 14:00 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 3)
Sun 7 – 19:15 (Public 1 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 1)
Tue 9 - 9:30 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 4)
Tue 9 – 14:45 (Public 2 – Scotiabank 2)
Sun 14 – 19:00 (Public 3 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 1)
"Tigers"
Danis Tanovic
Devastated when he discovers the effects of the infant formula he’s peddling, a young salesman takes on a multinational corporation, in this based-on-fact drama from Academy Award-winning director Danis Tanovic ("No Man's Land").
Featuring Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi ("Once Upon a Time in Mumbai"). A co-production: India (Cinemorphic Pvt Ltd & Sikhya Entertainment), France (Asap Films)
Present: Danis Tanovic (director), Emraan Hashmi (actor), Geetanjali (actress), Khalid Abdalla (actor), Prashita Chaudhary (producer), Guneet Monga (producer), Cédomir Kolar (producer), Andy Paterson (producer, co-writer), Achin Jain (executive producer)
World Sales: The Match Factory
Sun 7 – 14:00 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 10)
Mon 8 – 21:45 (Public 1 – Scotiabank 1)
Wed 10 - 21:15 (Press/Industry 2 - Scotiabank 7)
Wed 10 – 21:30 (Public 2 – Scotiabank 3)
Sat 13 – 17:00 (Public 3 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 1
"Natural Resistance"
Jonathan Nossiter
Four Italian winegrowers of a rapidly spreading European natural wine revolution have encountered fierce resistance. Not everyone believes in their struggle for an ecologically progressive, economically just and historically rich expression of Italian
agriculture…
10 years after "Mondovino" world acclaimed director Jonathan Nossiter offers a model of charmed and joyous ecological and cinematic resistance against the new world economic order.
Present: Jonathan Nossiter (director)
Sat 6 – 11:15 (Press/Industry 1 – Scotiabank 7),
Mon 8 – 19:00 (Public 1 – Tiff Bell Lightbox 3)
Tue 9 – 19:00 (Public 2 – Jackman Hall)
Thu 11 – 17:45 (Public 3 – Bloor Hot Docs Cinema)...
- 9/1/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
As if Detroit hasn't seen enough sadness and trouble over the last year, the feel-good indie filmmaker of the decade, Lars Von Trier (“The Kingdom,” Antichrist, Melancholia), is ready to bring his special brand of cinematic miseries to what once was the great motor city.
Indiewire recently put up a translation of an interview with Von Trier collaborator Kristian Levring from Soundvenue in which he reveals that he and Von Trier (pictured) are working on another film together.
“I’ve always thought that Lars would be able to do a fantastic horror movie,” Levring told Lise Ulrich at Danish magazine Soundvenue. “And I’ve told him so many times throughout the years, and in the end he said: ‘I want you to stop talking about it, so I’ll write it for you instead.’”
The flick has the working title of Detroit which may just stick. "It takes place in Detroit,...
Indiewire recently put up a translation of an interview with Von Trier collaborator Kristian Levring from Soundvenue in which he reveals that he and Von Trier (pictured) are working on another film together.
“I’ve always thought that Lars would be able to do a fantastic horror movie,” Levring told Lise Ulrich at Danish magazine Soundvenue. “And I’ve told him so many times throughout the years, and in the end he said: ‘I want you to stop talking about it, so I’ll write it for you instead.’”
The flick has the working title of Detroit which may just stick. "It takes place in Detroit,...
- 5/13/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Director: Ole Christian Madsen Writers: Lars Andersen, Ole Christian Madsen Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt, Christian Berkel, Hanns Zischler, Claus Riis Ostergaard, Lars Mikkelsen, Flemming Enevold, Jesper Christensen The place is Copenhagen, the year is 1944. Flame (Thure Lindhardt) and Citron’s (Mads Mikkelsen) moral compasses are spinning out of control as they go on a strategic killing spree of Danes who are collaborating with Nazis occupiers, then straight for the jugular of the Nazis themselves. Citron begins the film as a family man; he is Flame’s sidekick, but he is literally just along for the drive (a stressful job nonetheless causing him to sweat profusely, drink heavily and gulp down pills to quell his nerves). However, it is not long before the lunacy of war takes hold of Citron and never ever lets him go. Even Flame, who is an unwavering killing...
- 3/5/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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