Chicago – It’s been three years since Jacques Audiard made a sizable splash in American art houses with “A Prophet,” a spellbinding picture that certainly ranks as one of the great crime films of the last decade. By following an Arab youth through his punishing sentence in a French prison, it provided audiences with an unforgettable portrait of corrupted innocence.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Devoid of escapist shortcuts, Audiard’s anti-hero was forced to commit acts of unspeakable evil in order to ensure his survival. By the time he was freed, the once vulnerable subordinate was a formidable mafia kingpin, thus inferring that the prison system creates criminals rather than cures them. Prison stuck to the film’s protagonist like an irreparable wound. The question wasn’t how to remedy the wound, it was how to live with it.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Rust and Bone” in our reviews section.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Devoid of escapist shortcuts, Audiard’s anti-hero was forced to commit acts of unspeakable evil in order to ensure his survival. By the time he was freed, the once vulnerable subordinate was a formidable mafia kingpin, thus inferring that the prison system creates criminals rather than cures them. Prison stuck to the film’s protagonist like an irreparable wound. The question wasn’t how to remedy the wound, it was how to live with it.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Rust and Bone” in our reviews section.
- 12/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midngiht in Paris Best adapted screenplay * The Descendants (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash Hugo (Paramount) Screenplay by John Logan The Ides of March (Sony Pictures Releasing) Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon Moneyball (Sony Pictures Releasing) Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Focus Features) Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan Best original screenplay The Artist (The Weinstein Company) Written by Michel Hazanavicius Bridesmaids (Universal) Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig Margin Call (Roadside Attractions) Written by J.C. Chandor * Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Woody Allen A Separation (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Asghar Farhadi Best art direction The Artist (The Weinstein Company) Production Design: Laurence Bennett, Set Decoration: Robert Gould Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Stuart Craig,...
- 2/27/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Woody Allen has been nominated for an astonishing 20 Writers Guild Awards, winning four times, each for Best Original Screenplay: Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman, 1977), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). The first movie starred Allen's muse of the '70s, Diane Keaton; the other three featured Allen's muse of the '80s and early '90s, Mia Farrow. Though museless since his three efforts starring Scarlett Johansson, earlier this evening Allen won his fifth WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay: for Midnight in Paris, a comedy-drama fantasy featuring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, and Michael Sheen, among others. Midnight in Paris is perhaps Allen's best-received film since Bullets Over Broadway (1994), and sold more tickets than any other Woody Allen movie since Hannah and Her Sisters 25 years ago. [List of WGA motion picture winners/nominations.] The Best Adapted Screenplay...
- 2/20/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Marion Cotillard, Alison Pill, Owen Wilson, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Woody Allen, Alexander Payne, Tate Taylor: WGA Award Winners Original Screenplay 50/50, Written by Will Reiser; Summit Entertainment Bridesmaids, Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig; Universal Studios * Midnight in Paris, Written by Woody Allen; Sony Pictures Classics Win Win, Screenplay by Tom McCarthy; Story by Tom McCarthy & Joe Tiboni; Fox Searchlight Young Adult, Written by Diablo Cody; Paramount Pictures Adapted Screenplay * The Descendants, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash; Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemming; Fox Searchlight The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Screenplay by Steven Zaillian; Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson, originally published by Norstedts; Columbia Pictures The Help, Screenplay by Tate Taylor; Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett; DreamWorks Pictures Hugo, Screenplay by John Logan; Based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick; Paramount Pictures Moneyball,...
- 2/20/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson, Léa Seydoux in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris Best picture The Artist (The Weinstein Company) A La Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/Jd Prod/France3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production, Thomas Langmann, Producer The Descendants (Fox Searchlight) An Ad Hominem Enterprises Production, Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production, Scott Rudin, Producer The Help (Touchstone) A DreamWorks Pictures Production, Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers Hugo (Paramount) A Paramount Pictures and Gk Films Production, Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics) A Pontchartrain Production, Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers Moneyball (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Columbia Pictures Production, Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers The Tree of Life (Fox Searchlight) A River Road Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determined War Horse (Touchstone) A DreamWorks Pictures Production,...
- 1/24/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Marion Cotillard, Owen Wilson, Alison Pill, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris 2012 Oscar Predictions Best Picture: The Artist, Midnight In Paris, Hugo Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, despite the star wattage of Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, has a chance only if the Academy members at Warner Bros. and Paramount decide to join forces like they did when making the movie, as the folks at Scott Rudin Productions will be spreading their Oscar love pretty thin already. In addition to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, other Best Picture longshots include Terrence Malick's Cannes Film Festival winner The Tree of Life (Fox Searchlight), Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (a Focus Features release that'll have a better chance if Focus' parent company, NBC Universal, throws its Oscar-voting weight toward the prestige British import), and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (FilmDistrict). Even less likely, though certainly not impossible, are Paul Feig...
- 1/24/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris Gay Romance Weekend, Breaking Dawn, Woody Allen, Justin Bieber: Gay & Lesbian Critics Nominations Film Of The Year Midnight in Paris / Sony Pictures Classics The Artist / The Weinstein Company The Descendants / Fox Searchlight The Skin I Live In / Sony Pictures Classics The Tree of Life / Fox Searchlight Weekend / IFC Films Film Performance Of The Year Christopher Plummer / Beginners (Focus Features) Leonardo DiCaprio / J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Janet McTeer / Albert Nobbs (Liddell Entertainment) Meryl Streep / The Iron Lady (The Weinstein Company) Michael Fassbender / Shame (Fox Searchlight) Rooney Mara / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sony/Columbia) Documentary Of The Year (Film, DVD or TV) Carol Channing: Larger Than Life / Entertainment One Cave of Forgotten Dreams / Sundance Page One: Inside the New York Times / Magnolia Pictures Pina / IFC Films We Were Here / Red Flag Releasing Lgbt-themed Film Of The Year Albert Nobbs / Liddell Entertainment Beginners / Focus Features...
- 1/12/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson, Alison Pill in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris The biggest surprise among the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Theatrical Motion Picture nominations was the inclusion of George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, which hasn't exactly been a critical favorite or a runaway box-office hit. Also in the running for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures are nine other narrative features, including Steven Spielberg's War Horse, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, and Martin Scorsese's Hugo. [Full list of PGA Award nominations.] Left out of the race were Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner The Tree of Life, Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, and Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Not to mention Lars von Trier's Melancholia,...
- 1/3/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
Best Film
Drive
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
The Artist
The Tree Of Life
Best Foreign Language Film
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Happy Happy
Le Quattro Volte
Of Gods And Men
The Double Hour
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Best Actress
Brit Marling, Another Earth
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Actor
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Mélanie Laurent, Beginners
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive
Andy Serkis, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Christopher Plummer,...
Best Film
Drive
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
The Artist
The Tree Of Life
Best Foreign Language Film
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Happy Happy
Le Quattro Volte
Of Gods And Men
The Double Hour
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
Best Actress
Brit Marling, Another Earth
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Actor
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Carey Mulligan, Shame
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Mélanie Laurent, Beginners
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive
Andy Serkis, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Christopher Plummer,...
- 12/13/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Shia Labeouf, John Turturro in Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 topped the North American box office on Wednesday, July 20, earning $12.26 million according to Box Office Mojo. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Ralph Fiennes, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 passed the $200 million milestone at the domestic box office on Tuesday. Considering its huge success last weekend — which included $43.5 million from midnight screenings — Deathly Hallows: Part 2 will likely suffer a steep drop this coming weekend. It remains to be seen whether the drop-off rate will be 60%, 70%, or somewhere in-between. Either way, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 should pass the $300m milestone early next week. It'll surpass Transformers: Dark of the Moon before the end of the following weekend, thus becoming 2011's biggest domestic blockbuster. Directed by David Yates, and adapted by Steve Kloves from J. K. Rowling's novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2...
- 7/21/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 topped the North American box office on Monday, July 18, earning $18.04 million according to Box Office Mojo. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Ralph Fiennes, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 will likely pass the $200 million milestone at the domestic box office some time today. Directed by David Yates, and adapted by Steve Kloves from J. K. Rowling's novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 also features Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Emma Thompson, Gary Oldman, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, John Hurt, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Kelly Macdonald, Ciaran Hinds, David Thewlis, Timothy Spall, Miranda Richardson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Warwick Davis, and Miriam Margolyes. At no. 2, Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon collected $2.83m. Starring Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Josh Duhamel, Transformers 3 is currently the biggest 2011 domestic release.
- 7/19/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris Michael Bay-Shia Labeouf's Transformers 3 Passes $300 Million Box-Office Milestone At no. 8, the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts vehicle Larry Crowne, directed by Tom Hanks himself, bagged a mere $2.66 million on weekend no. 3, down -55% according to box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. Larry Crowne will be gone from the top-twelve chart very soon. Larry Crowne's domestic total: $31.71m. Worldwide: $40.11m. Cost: $30m. Remember, studios get only about 50-55% of a movie's domestic grosses, and about 45% of international grosses. Rounding out the top twelve were J. J. Abrams' Super 8 with $1.97m (-59%), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris with $1.87m (-28%), Kristen Wiig's Bridesmaids with $1.72m (-34%), and Jim Carrey's Mr. Popper's Penguins with $1.36m (-57%). Featuring Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, and Kathy Bates, Midnight in Paris is now officially...
- 7/18/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris Colin Farrell-Jennifer Aniston's Horrible Bosses Good, Kevin James' Zookeeper Weak: Box Office More box-office news: John Lasseter's Cars 2, featuring the voice of Owen Wilson, was no. 4 on the North American box-office chart this weekend (July 8-10), with earnings of $15.2 million according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Having grossed $148.2m to date in the Us/Canada, Cars 2 will pass the $150m milestone some time this week; it'll thus become only the eighth movie to reach that mark so far in 2011. The others are: Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Hangover Part II, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Fast Five, Thor, Kung Fu Panda 2, and Bridesmaids. As you can see, six (including Cars 2) of those movies are sequels; one is based on a comics character; one is an original screenplay.
- 7/10/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni and Léa Seydoux
There’s something mighty familiar about the lively opening montage in “Midnight in Paris”: Set to a plucky New Orleans-style jazz instrumental, a succession of wide shots glorify the titular metropolis with a tourist’s-eye romanticism, the city’s café crowds bustling, the cobblestone streets slick with rain, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Seine just postcard-perfect. Then there’s that opening-credits font (Windsor Ef Light, for you graphic-design obsessives), signifying to cineastes that it’s time again for Woody Allen’s annual big-screen jaunt.
To some, that familiarity has been accompanied for the past decade or so with a sigh — a disappointed feeling of diminishing returns from the aging New York auteur whose nebbish persona once charmed the world in “Manhattan,...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni and Léa Seydoux
There’s something mighty familiar about the lively opening montage in “Midnight in Paris”: Set to a plucky New Orleans-style jazz instrumental, a succession of wide shots glorify the titular metropolis with a tourist’s-eye romanticism, the city’s café crowds bustling, the cobblestone streets slick with rain, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Seine just postcard-perfect. Then there’s that opening-credits font (Windsor Ef Light, for you graphic-design obsessives), signifying to cineastes that it’s time again for Woody Allen’s annual big-screen jaunt.
To some, that familiarity has been accompanied for the past decade or so with a sigh — a disappointed feeling of diminishing returns from the aging New York auteur whose nebbish persona once charmed the world in “Manhattan,...
- 5/12/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni and Léa Seydoux
There’s something mighty familiar about the lively opening montage in “Midnight in Paris”: Set to a plucky New Orleans-style jazz instrumental, a succession of wide shots glorify the titular metropolis with a tourist’s-eye romanticism, the city’s café crowds bustling, the cobblestone streets slick with rain, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Seine just postcard-perfect. Then there’s that opening-credits font (Windsor Ef Light, for you graphic-design obsessives), signifying to cineastes that it’s time again for Woody Allen’s annual big-screen jaunt.
To some, that familiarity has been accompanied for the past decade or so with a sigh — a disappointed feeling of diminishing returns from the aging New York auteur whose nebbish persona once charmed the world in “Manhattan,...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni and Léa Seydoux
There’s something mighty familiar about the lively opening montage in “Midnight in Paris”: Set to a plucky New Orleans-style jazz instrumental, a succession of wide shots glorify the titular metropolis with a tourist’s-eye romanticism, the city’s café crowds bustling, the cobblestone streets slick with rain, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Seine just postcard-perfect. Then there’s that opening-credits font (Windsor Ef Light, for you graphic-design obsessives), signifying to cineastes that it’s time again for Woody Allen’s annual big-screen jaunt.
To some, that familiarity has been accompanied for the past decade or so with a sigh — a disappointed feeling of diminishing returns from the aging New York auteur whose nebbish persona once charmed the world in “Manhattan,...
- 5/12/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Chicago – On the heels of HollywoodChicago.com’s 10 Best Films of 2010 by Brian Tallerico and Top Overlooked Films of 2010 by Matt Fagerholm, I offer the 10 Best Films of 2010, Part Two, by Patrick McDonald.
It’s hard to compare years. Moods, attitudes and experiences dictates so much of how choices are made, interacting with the particular cinema art of the year. But 2010, with a few exceptions, in general didn’t have the excitement of other years. The risks were less risky, the unusual narratives hard to find. The film business is just that, a business, and with so much changing so fast there will continue be more decisions coming from the marketing department and less from the creative one.
However, the 10 Best moves on, and the list is below. Since I begin with a film nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at last year’s Oscars (but not released in Chicago...
It’s hard to compare years. Moods, attitudes and experiences dictates so much of how choices are made, interacting with the particular cinema art of the year. But 2010, with a few exceptions, in general didn’t have the excitement of other years. The risks were less risky, the unusual narratives hard to find. The film business is just that, a business, and with so much changing so fast there will continue be more decisions coming from the marketing department and less from the creative one.
However, the 10 Best moves on, and the list is below. Since I begin with a film nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at last year’s Oscars (but not released in Chicago...
- 12/30/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) The Cesar winners will be announced on Feb. 27. Meilleur Film / Best Film A L’Origine / In The Beginning, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli Le Concert / The Concert, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu Les Herbes Folles / Wild Grass, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais La JOURNÉE De La Jupe / Skirt Day, Bénédicte Lesage and Ariel Askénazi; directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld Rapt, Patrick Sobelman, Diana Elbaum et Sébastien Delloye; directed by Lucas Belvaux * Un PROPHÈTE / A Prophet, Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat et Marco Cherqui; directed by Jacques Audiard Welcome, Christophe Rossignon; directed [...]...
- 2/28/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Penélope Cruz, José Luis Gómez in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (Elephant Eye) (middle); Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Los Angeles’ American Cinematheque will host the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s series of screenings devoted to the films and filmmakers nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. They are: Baaria (Italy) from Giuseppe Tornatore; Broken Embraces (Spain) from Pedro Almodóvar; The Maid (Chile) from Sebastian Silva; A Prophet (France) from Jacques Audiard; and The White Ribbon (Germany) from Michael Haneke. These films will each screen once between January 11 and 15 at either [...]...
- 1/8/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) The London Film Critics’ Circle’s 2009 nominations have been announced. The best thing about this year’s crop of nominees is their "internationality": As usual, Hollywood productions dominate the nominations, but the London critics have found plenty of room for non-American films as well. Jacques Audiard’s French prison drama A Prophet managed to land five nominations, including best film (or "Film of the Year"), best director, and best actor (Tahar Rahim), while Michael Haneke’s German-Austrian psychological-political drama The White Ribbon received four nominations, including best picture and best director. Both were also shortlisted in the best foreign film and best screenplay categories. Additionally, British talent found its way [...]...
- 12/21/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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