A group of international journalists abandoned a press junket for the Johnny Depp film “Modi” at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Tuesday in the latest escalation of a growing row from within the industry over press access to talent.
Variety understands that 12 journalists working for various international publications had been invited to take part in the interviews for the buzzy film, directed by Depp and launching at the Spanish festival. Understandably, Depp was the star attraction and the individual everyone wanted to speak to, but according to Italian freelancer writer Marco Consoli the group was offered a roundtable with the actor, plus his co-stars Riccardo Scamarcio and Antonia Desalt, with an allocation of just 15 minutes for each of two tables of six journalists.
“The pairing of talent has been happening for some years now and makes our job more and more challenging,” says Consoli. “Because most of the time,...
Variety understands that 12 journalists working for various international publications had been invited to take part in the interviews for the buzzy film, directed by Depp and launching at the Spanish festival. Understandably, Depp was the star attraction and the individual everyone wanted to speak to, but according to Italian freelancer writer Marco Consoli the group was offered a roundtable with the actor, plus his co-stars Riccardo Scamarcio and Antonia Desalt, with an allocation of just 15 minutes for each of two tables of six journalists.
“The pairing of talent has been happening for some years now and makes our job more and more challenging,” says Consoli. “Because most of the time,...
- 9/24/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
The Fipresci (International Federation of Film Critics) has handed out its prize in the 76th Venice International Film Festival’s competition to Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy,” which wraps its 2019 edition on September 7.
Originally titled “J’accuse,” the French drama about the Dreyfus affair, scripted by Polanski and Robert Harris, is based on Harris’ 2013 novel of the same name. It tells the true story of Georges Picquart, the 19th-century French army officer and Minister of War, as he struggles to expose the truth about the doctored evidence that sent Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry convicted in 1894 of treason, to Devil’s Island. The French penal colony operated in the 19th and 20th century in the Islands of French Guiana, located in South America.
Starring as Georges Picquart is French actor Jean Dujardin, who leaped to international fame with his performance as George Valentin...
Originally titled “J’accuse,” the French drama about the Dreyfus affair, scripted by Polanski and Robert Harris, is based on Harris’ 2013 novel of the same name. It tells the true story of Georges Picquart, the 19th-century French army officer and Minister of War, as he struggles to expose the truth about the doctored evidence that sent Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry convicted in 1894 of treason, to Devil’s Island. The French penal colony operated in the 19th and 20th century in the Islands of French Guiana, located in South America.
Starring as Georges Picquart is French actor Jean Dujardin, who leaped to international fame with his performance as George Valentin...
- 9/7/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and graphic artistic Enki Bilal, we have our own truly international, gender parity friendly folks readied for what should be a glorious week and a half of movie-watching. Twenty one films. Twelve days. Twenty jury members. Welcome to Ioncinema.com’s ninth edition of the Cannes Critics’ Panel.
We have a pair of newbies in critics/journalists Leda Galanou and Dubravka Lakic, Ioncinema.com contributor Tommaso Tocci, some old friends worthy of gold watches and of course, our own Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell participating.…...
We have a pair of newbies in critics/journalists Leda Galanou and Dubravka Lakic, Ioncinema.com contributor Tommaso Tocci, some old friends worthy of gold watches and of course, our own Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell participating.…...
- 5/13/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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