Willem Dafoe and Gael Garcia Bernal also among those called up for jury service at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 67th edition, comprising eight world cinema names from China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, the Us, France and Mexico.
Jane Campion, the New Zealand filmmaker who won the Palme d’or for The Piano, was previously announced as the president of the jury, which will include five women and four men.
Cannes 2014: films
Those selected include Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish director, screenwriter and producer who won Best Direction at Cannes in 2011 with Drive. His most recent film, Only God Forgives, played in Competition at Cannes last year.
Also chosen is Sofia Coppola, the Us director and screenwriter whose debut The Virgin Suicides was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1999. Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Lost in Translation, made it into...
The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 67th edition, comprising eight world cinema names from China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, the Us, France and Mexico.
Jane Campion, the New Zealand filmmaker who won the Palme d’or for The Piano, was previously announced as the president of the jury, which will include five women and four men.
Cannes 2014: films
Those selected include Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish director, screenwriter and producer who won Best Direction at Cannes in 2011 with Drive. His most recent film, Only God Forgives, played in Competition at Cannes last year.
Also chosen is Sofia Coppola, the Us director and screenwriter whose debut The Virgin Suicides was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1999. Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Lost in Translation, made it into...
- 4/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Upside Down is one of the most visually arresting movies to come out so far in 2013 (second to Stoker), and the visuals are endlessly beautiful. The problem is, that while director Juan Diego Solanas has spent a lot of time and energy on the eye candy, he could have spent just as much time crafting a better story to surround them.
The plot revolves around two worlds inhabited by the haves and have-nots, and it descends into a Romeo & Juliet-like story with some of George Orwell’s 1984 thrown in for good measure. Despite the gallant efforts of a very talented cast, Upside Down doesn’t quite suck you into its visually arousing display the way it wants to.
The story takes place in a world where two planets reside next to one another and their gravities pull in opposite directions. The upside world is inhabited with the rich and prosperous...
The plot revolves around two worlds inhabited by the haves and have-nots, and it descends into a Romeo & Juliet-like story with some of George Orwell’s 1984 thrown in for good measure. Despite the gallant efforts of a very talented cast, Upside Down doesn’t quite suck you into its visually arousing display the way it wants to.
The story takes place in a world where two planets reside next to one another and their gravities pull in opposite directions. The upside world is inhabited with the rich and prosperous...
- 3/13/2013
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
It was all the way back in 2003 when director Juan Solanas caught the eye of savvy film fans around the globe. It was his stunning, Jeunet influenced short The Man Without A Head that did it, a technical dazzler set in a post apocalyptic world in which a man who literally has no head prepares for a date.Fans of that short have been waiting for Solanas to display his visual skills on the big screen ever since but his first feature - Nordeste - took a much more realistic approach. Feature number two, however, is a different matter.Titled Upside Down, Solanas' sophomore feature has been in the works since 2009. The picture stars Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess in a sort of Romeo...
- 1/2/2012
- Screen Anarchy
#53. Upside Down Director: Juan Diego SolanasWriter(s): Santiago Amigorena and SolanasProducers: Claude Léger, Dimitri Rassam, Aton Soumache, Jonathan Vanger and Alexis VonarbDistributor: Rights Available. The Gist: Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eve. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grown‐up Eve on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science!....(more) Cast: Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess List Worthy Reasons...: You can say that filmmaking is in his blood, and while I haven't seen Juan Diego Solanas' debut film,...
- 1/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Earlier this year two posters appeared for Juan Solanas’ sci-fi romance Upside Down, these are reproduced below and the Deco inspired image is particularly tantalising. Now we get our first look at the world Solanas has created and also the two leads, our Adam and Eve in this tale of alternate worlds, Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst.
The synopsis intrigues me, the pictures below beg to be whipped into motion and I cannot wait to see more of the film. Alternate worlds alongside one another are plentiful in cinema with Franklyn a recent example and there appears to be something of the legend of Orpheus thrown into the mix here.
The reports have this one coming out in 2012, earlier in the year May 2011 was mentioned and this is still the date according to IMDb, so who knows? Here’s the sales pitch.
Look up towards the sky and rub your...
The synopsis intrigues me, the pictures below beg to be whipped into motion and I cannot wait to see more of the film. Alternate worlds alongside one another are plentiful in cinema with Franklyn a recent example and there appears to be something of the legend of Orpheus thrown into the mix here.
The reports have this one coming out in 2012, earlier in the year May 2011 was mentioned and this is still the date according to IMDb, so who knows? Here’s the sales pitch.
Look up towards the sky and rub your...
- 1/1/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The plot is a little out there, but we're definitely curious for the forthcoming sci-fi romance "Upside Down" starring Kirsten Dunst and a bearded Jim Sturgess. Directed by Juan Solanas (Argentinian arthouse fave "Nordeste"), the film follows Adam (Sturgess) a seemingly ordinary guy who is holding on to the memory of Eve, a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love but when he catches a glimpse of grown-up Eve on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back. The…...
- 12/28/2010
- The Playlist
Into the Screen has released a new set of photos and posters from sci-fi romance Upside Down, co-written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas.
Upside Down is a film produced by a French box, Studio 37, where the filming took place in Montreal, before the cameras of the Argentine director Juan Solanas. The cast is composed of international actors: Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess. As for the story, she falls into a world where different worlds meet. Adam lives in one of these worlds, struggling within a civilization ravaged by war and haunted by memories of a young woman from another world, very close, so close, but denied entry.
Plot: Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won’t believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm’s length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality,...
Upside Down is a film produced by a French box, Studio 37, where the filming took place in Montreal, before the cameras of the Argentine director Juan Solanas. The cast is composed of international actors: Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess. As for the story, she falls into a world where different worlds meet. Adam lives in one of these worlds, struggling within a civilization ravaged by war and haunted by memories of a young woman from another world, very close, so close, but denied entry.
Plot: Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won’t believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm’s length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality,...
- 12/28/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Juan Solanas first leapt on to my radar a few years back with his dazzling short film The Man Without A Head, a Jeunet-style visual effort built around the romantic desires of a man quite literally without a head. With that short film Solanas announced himself as something unique, a director who fuses high concept science fiction with deeply human stories.
And then for his first feature he did something totally different.
But now he's back where he belongs with Upside Down, a high concept science fiction romance starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst.
Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won't believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm's length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality, two worlds - one above, one below‐ facing each other, and you'll land in the extraordinary world of Upside Down,...
And then for his first feature he did something totally different.
But now he's back where he belongs with Upside Down, a high concept science fiction romance starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst.
Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won't believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm's length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality, two worlds - one above, one below‐ facing each other, and you'll land in the extraordinary world of Upside Down,...
- 12/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Here's our first look at a new sci-fi love story called Upside Down starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturges. The story follows two lovers who are pretty much trapped in alternate universes.
The images come from a French website called Into The Screen and here's a few details they had to offer on the the differences between Jim Sturgess' and Kirsten Dunst's characters alternate worlds. It's a rough translation, but here ya go!
Upside Down is a film produced by a French box, Studio 37, where the filming took place in Montreal, before the cameras of the Argentine director Juan Solanas. The cast is composed of international actors: Kirsten Dunst & Jim Sturgess. As for the story, she falls into a world where different worlds meet. Adam lives in one of these worlds, struggling within a civilization ravaged by war and haunted by memories of a young woman from another world,...
The images come from a French website called Into The Screen and here's a few details they had to offer on the the differences between Jim Sturgess' and Kirsten Dunst's characters alternate worlds. It's a rough translation, but here ya go!
Upside Down is a film produced by a French box, Studio 37, where the filming took place in Montreal, before the cameras of the Argentine director Juan Solanas. The cast is composed of international actors: Kirsten Dunst & Jim Sturgess. As for the story, she falls into a world where different worlds meet. Adam lives in one of these worlds, struggling within a civilization ravaged by war and haunted by memories of a young woman from another world,...
- 12/28/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The Argentinean/French filmmaker will start lensing his sci-fi romance with the pairing of Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) and Kristen Dunst. - I jumped the gun earlier this year, thinking that Juan Solanas (Nordeste) was well on his way with his sophomore project, when in fact, no actors had signed on the dotted line. Today comes word (via Production Weekly) that the Argentinean/French filmmaker will start lensing his sci-fi romance with the pairing of Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) and Kristen Dunst. Sturgess takes over for the role that Emile Hirsch was in negotiations for. I can't think of many examples where the blend of sci-fi and romance actually work - the last sample I saw was the overly-ambitious and tedious Mr.Nobody. Upside Down tells the story Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
Remember when I said that 2009 was going to be a big year for film? Check this out. Juan Saolanas, the dude behind the short film The Man Without A Head, has come up with another film that he must of thought up while taking copious amounts of drugs. It's a world with an upside down world which is just out of reach, and to boot, it's a love story. I'm already salivating.
Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won’t believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm’s length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality, two worlds – one above, one below‐ facing each other, and you’ll land in the extraordinary world of Upside Down, the new ground‐breaking film of Juan Solanas, the director of the innovative Cannes and...
Look up towards the sky and rub your eyes because you won’t believe what you see: cities, forests, and oceans with their own inverted gravity, only an arm’s length away, yet completely unreachable. Take a leap over to this alternate reality, two worlds – one above, one below‐ facing each other, and you’ll land in the extraordinary world of Upside Down, the new ground‐breaking film of Juan Solanas, the director of the innovative Cannes and...
- 2/17/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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