Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, that showcase of contemporary British acting, has opened in the UK this weekend, and that roundup has been updated through today. The entry on Gus Van Sant's Restless has been updated with pointers to pieces related to the Museum of the Moving Image's retrospective, running through September 30. And of course, we've got roundups running on Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. Meantime, two weeks after the release of Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, we've entered the think piece stage, so that roundup's been kept up-to-date through today as well.
"Imagine that a semi-pagan society quietly survives in the heartland of Russia, amid the leftover Soviet-era factories, the old shops and stores strung along the roadsides, the new concrete towns with their shopping malls." Stuart Klawans in the Nation: "Imagine that the people of...
"Imagine that a semi-pagan society quietly survives in the heartland of Russia, amid the leftover Soviet-era factories, the old shops and stores strung along the roadsides, the new concrete towns with their shopping malls." Stuart Klawans in the Nation: "Imagine that the people of...
- 9/17/2011
- MUBI
The new kid on the distribution block appears to be specializing in adult-minded films from France. After grabbing Cannes Competition title Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law, Cohen Media Group (Cmg) have picked up Jean Becker’s My Afternoons with Marguerite (La Tête en Friche) for a theatrical play sometime next year. Based on Marie-Sabine Roger’s book of the same title, the film centres on a man who lives simply in a caravan at the bottom of his mother’s garden until he meets an old lady (Gisèle Casadesus) who helps him see that he can take control of his life. Casadesus whose been in film since 1934, will next be seen in the Weinstein Co. pick-up Elle s'appelait Sarah from Gilles Paquet-Brenner starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
- 10/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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