Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then.The lineup for the 2015 festival has been revealed, including new films by Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, Chantal Akerman, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Sam Peckinpah, Michael Cimino, Bulle Ogier, and much more.Piazza GRANDERicki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, USA)La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France)Le dernier passage (Pascal Magontier, France)Der staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume, Germany)Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, USA)Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, USA)Jack (Elisabeth Scharang, Austria)Floride (Philippe Le Guay, France)The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, UK/USA)Erlkönig (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland)Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap, India)Pastorale cilentana (Mario Martone, Italy)La vanite (Lionel Baier, Switzerland/France)The Laundryman (Lee Chung, Taiwan)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA) I pugni ni tasca (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Heliopolis (Sérgio Machado, Brazil)Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder,...
- 7/20/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Satin Slipper Film director Manoel de Oliveira has died at the age of 106.
Manoel de Oliveira with his Berlinale Camera award in 2009 Photo: Volkmar Otto/Courtesy of Berlinale The Portugese filmmaker directed his first film - a silent documentary - Labour On The Douro River back in 1931 and went on to make more than 50 movies during his 84-year career. He is unusual in that the freqeuncy of his work increased markedly once he reached his 70s - largely because he faced censorship and a lack of funding during the dictatorship of Antonio Salazar for 30 years. He continued to work until last year, directing at least three films after he notched up his century.
He vied for the Palme d'Or at Cannes five times and was awarded an honorary Palme in 2008 for "blending aesthetic contemplation and technological innovations". Oliveira, who was a strong French speaker and made several films in French,...
Manoel de Oliveira with his Berlinale Camera award in 2009 Photo: Volkmar Otto/Courtesy of Berlinale The Portugese filmmaker directed his first film - a silent documentary - Labour On The Douro River back in 1931 and went on to make more than 50 movies during his 84-year career. He is unusual in that the freqeuncy of his work increased markedly once he reached his 70s - largely because he faced censorship and a lack of funding during the dictatorship of Antonio Salazar for 30 years. He continued to work until last year, directing at least three films after he notched up his century.
He vied for the Palme d'Or at Cannes five times and was awarded an honorary Palme in 2008 for "blending aesthetic contemplation and technological innovations". Oliveira, who was a strong French speaker and made several films in French,...
- 4/2/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Living is dying”—such are the words of advice Haewon’s mother offers her beautiful daughter before leaving. They have not seen each other for five years, and now Haewon’s mother is emigrating to Canada, where Haewon’s brother lives. Her father never appears on the screen, yet it is apparent that Haewon is left completely alone—she is nobody’s daughter now.
Hong Sang-soo’s fourteenth feature (his next one Our Sunhi is already finished and coming soon in Locarno competition) is an eponymous film. He rarely uses the names of the characters in his film titles, the only exceptions being Oki's Movie and Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (originally titled Oh! Soo-jung). Hong is one of those directors who like to explore human nature, and his pictures offer a lively collection of characters who are awkward, goofy and gawky the way only real people can be.
Hong Sang-soo’s fourteenth feature (his next one Our Sunhi is already finished and coming soon in Locarno competition) is an eponymous film. He rarely uses the names of the characters in his film titles, the only exceptions being Oki's Movie and Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (originally titled Oh! Soo-jung). Hong is one of those directors who like to explore human nature, and his pictures offer a lively collection of characters who are awkward, goofy and gawky the way only real people can be.
- 8/9/2013
- by Boris Nelepo
- MUBI
Manoel de Oliveira, the Portuguese auteur behind such works as Francisca, The Cannibals and Belle Toujours, was taken to hospital yesterday after suffering from breathing difficulties, according to news agency Lusa. He is said to be in stable condition.
At 103, Oliveira is the world's oldest working director, with a film coming out later this year and another in pre-production. Despite needing heart surgery two years ago he shows no sign of slacking, and he also undertakes speaking engagements, playing an active role in wider cultural and artistic conversations. He is expected to return to work when he is discharged in the next few days....
At 103, Oliveira is the world's oldest working director, with a film coming out later this year and another in pre-production. Despite needing heart surgery two years ago he shows no sign of slacking, and he also undertakes speaking engagements, playing an active role in wider cultural and artistic conversations. He is expected to return to work when he is discharged in the next few days....
- 7/14/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Le beau Serge
"The story of Les cousins could be straight out of one of the Balzac novels that the film's lead character Charles peruses at a second-hand bookshop," suggests Andrew Schenker in Slant: "Ambitious provincial comes to Paris and receives his moral education in the hotbed of corruption and/or decadence that characterizes life in the capital. In Claude Chabrol's film, his second directorial effort following his 1958 debut, Le beau Serge, the milieu in question is the debauched world of students, young women, and older hangers-on that the director delineates with superb specificity of detail and a virtuoso display of sickening verve." Criteron's presentation, he adds, "is a fitting testament to the late director's brilliance."
Criterion's also releasing Le beau Serge today and the essays by Terrence Rafferty that accompany each have been posted in Current. When Le beau Serge premiered out of competition in Cannes, notes Rafferty,...
"The story of Les cousins could be straight out of one of the Balzac novels that the film's lead character Charles peruses at a second-hand bookshop," suggests Andrew Schenker in Slant: "Ambitious provincial comes to Paris and receives his moral education in the hotbed of corruption and/or decadence that characterizes life in the capital. In Claude Chabrol's film, his second directorial effort following his 1958 debut, Le beau Serge, the milieu in question is the debauched world of students, young women, and older hangers-on that the director delineates with superb specificity of detail and a virtuoso display of sickening verve." Criteron's presentation, he adds, "is a fitting testament to the late director's brilliance."
Criterion's also releasing Le beau Serge today and the essays by Terrence Rafferty that accompany each have been posted in Current. When Le beau Serge premiered out of competition in Cannes, notes Rafferty,...
- 9/22/2011
- MUBI
The Portuguese film-maker Manoel de Oliveira will be 102 in December. He turned to the cinema in 1931 and has made 37 features, all but two since 1972, 16 of them this century. His films were once of inordinate length, but the recent ones, often starring well-known European actors, have been notable for their brevity, among them Belle toujours, a 68-minute sequel to Belle de jour.
His latest film, updated to the present from a classic short story by the Portuguese realist Eça de Queiróz (1845-1900), is a characteristically bittersweet, slightly perverse tale told by a young accountant to a middle-aged woman sitting beside him on a train from Lisbon to the Algarve. The narrator recalls his infatuation with a beautiful young woman with a Chinese fan, whom he sees in a window opposite his office. He falls for her, but his uncle refuses him permission to marry for reasons that we guess early on...
His latest film, updated to the present from a classic short story by the Portuguese realist Eça de Queiróz (1845-1900), is a characteristically bittersweet, slightly perverse tale told by a young accountant to a middle-aged woman sitting beside him on a train from Lisbon to the Algarve. The narrator recalls his infatuation with a beautiful young woman with a Chinese fan, whom he sees in a window opposite his office. He falls for her, but his uncle refuses him permission to marry for reasons that we guess early on...
- 8/7/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Revised Post Do you ever watch Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar? It's a fine way to catch up on Oscar favorites that you missed or that you'd love to revisit. Their month-long golden celebration is going on right now.
They've offered us a great giveaway prize here at The Film Experience, allowing me to choose 5 Oscar nominated movies on DVD for one lucky reader. Sometimes I take a hateful amount of time in sending out prizes myself but this time that procrastination problem is alleviated since TCM is running the contest. So I have to follow their rules -- which means Us entries only. There can be only one winner but two others will get a party-pack consolation prize.
To enter send me an email by Saturday Feb 20th with "5 dvds" in the subject line. Include your mailing address, full name and a gripe about a multiple nominee who has never won the prize,...
They've offered us a great giveaway prize here at The Film Experience, allowing me to choose 5 Oscar nominated movies on DVD for one lucky reader. Sometimes I take a hateful amount of time in sending out prizes myself but this time that procrastination problem is alleviated since TCM is running the contest. So I have to follow their rules -- which means Us entries only. There can be only one winner but two others will get a party-pack consolation prize.
To enter send me an email by Saturday Feb 20th with "5 dvds" in the subject line. Include your mailing address, full name and a gripe about a multiple nominee who has never won the prize,...
- 2/17/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
This week Disney opens Race to Witch Mountain 31 years after the last Witch Mountain movie, which, to give you a sense of the time, opened in 1978 and featured the top-billed Bette Davis and Christopher Lee as the bad guys! That's a long time ago, but there are lots of other belated sequels to consider. In order of waiting time: 1. Belle Toujours (2006)
Duration between sequels: 39 years
Luis Bunuel made Belle de Jour in 1967 and died in 1983. Lots and lots of years later, the 98-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira picked up the story thread and re-united the two lead characters. Sadly, original star Catherine Deneuve was either unwilling or unable to re-create her role as the icy Severine, and so Bulle Ogier had to stand in for her. Michel Piccoli once again plays Henri Husson, who years earlier caught Severine in an awkward position -- secretly working daytime hours at a Paris brothel.
Duration between sequels: 39 years
Luis Bunuel made Belle de Jour in 1967 and died in 1983. Lots and lots of years later, the 98-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira picked up the story thread and re-united the two lead characters. Sadly, original star Catherine Deneuve was either unwilling or unable to re-create her role as the icy Severine, and so Bulle Ogier had to stand in for her. Michel Piccoli once again plays Henri Husson, who years earlier caught Severine in an awkward position -- secretly working daytime hours at a Paris brothel.
- 3/13/2009
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
- With Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit out of the foreign Oscar picture, Ioncinema.com predicts a four-way race between audience faves Persepolis, The Counterfeiters, 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Caramel. Spain's The Orphanage has the best chance at completing the 5 pack. That said everything else is just a formality. The final five picks will be announced on Jan. 22. The Oscar ceremony takes place Feb. 24. 2008 Foreign Oscar Long ListArgentina: Xxy (Lucia Puenzo)Australia: The Home Song Stories (Tony Ayres) Austria: The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)Azerbaijan: Caucasia (Farid Gumbatov)Bangladesh: On The Wings Of Dreams (Golam Rabbany Biblob)Belgium: Ben X (Nic Balthazar) Bosnia and Herzegovina: It's Hard To Be Nice (Srdjan Vuletic)Brazil: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Hamburger)Bulgaria: Warden of the Dead (Ilian Simeonov)Canada: The Days of Darkness (Denys Arcand)Chile: Padre nuestro (Our Father) - (Rodrigo Sepulveda)China: The Knot (Yun shui
- 10/18/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
New York Film Festival
NEW YORK -- A sequel to the classic Belle de Jour as well as a self-proclaimed homage to its creators Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere, this is a typically playful effort from that indomitable 98-year-old filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. More of a footnote to the earlier film than a significant exploration of it, Belle Toujours is unlikely to have much resonance for those who have not seen its inspiration. But it well demonstrates de Oliveira's undiminished cinematic style and humor, as well as offering the delicious experience of watching veteran actor Michel Piccoli reprising his role as the devilish Henri Husson some 39 years later. The film recently was showcased at the New York Film Festival.
Unfortunately, Catherine Deneuve is not on hand as Severine, the housewife who relieved her boredom through prostitution. Here the role is played by another screen icon, Bulle Ogier, who well matches her predecessor in terms of icy beauty and refinement.
Running a scant 70 minutes, the film doesn't possess much of a story line. It begins with a sequence in which Husson watches an orchestra perform a Dvorak symphony and then spots Severine in the auditorium. The filmmaker allows a generous portion of the music to unfurl, signaling the unhurried pace of what is to follow.
Husson follows Severine back to her hotel, attempting to arrange a rendezvous, which she does everything she can to discourage. In between his efforts, he spends his free time imbibing whiskeys at an elegant bar, where, shades of the earlier film, he is observed with great interest by two prostitutes (Leonor Baldaque, Julia Buisel).
Ultimately, Husson is able to arrange a dinner with Severine, who naturally is quite interested in what exactly he whispered to her paralyzed husband so many years earlier.
It's easy to see that the director has aging on his mind in his portrait of these two former adversaries in the twilight of their years. There's a solemnity to much of the proceedings, from the carefulness with which Husson drinks his many whiskeys to the repeated shots of the Paris skyline to the detail with which the rituals of a fine dining experience are observed.
But there's an antic sensibility on display as well, including several surrealistic touches and nods to various elements of Bunuel's classic.
Piccoli is, as always, utterly compelling, and Ogier displays a formidable screen presence in what must have been a daunting assignment.
BELLE TOUJOURS
New Yorker Films
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Manoel de Oliveira
Producer: Miguel Cadilhe
Co-Producer: Serge Lalou
Director of photography: Sabine Lancelin
Editor: Valerie Loiseleux
Costume designer: Milena Canonero
Production designer: Christian Marti
Cast:
Husson: Michel Piccoli
Severine: Bulle Ogier
Barman: Ricardo Trepa
Younger Prostitute: Leonor Baldaque
Older Prostitute: Julia Buisel
Running time -- 70 minutes
No MPAA rating...
NEW YORK -- A sequel to the classic Belle de Jour as well as a self-proclaimed homage to its creators Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere, this is a typically playful effort from that indomitable 98-year-old filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. More of a footnote to the earlier film than a significant exploration of it, Belle Toujours is unlikely to have much resonance for those who have not seen its inspiration. But it well demonstrates de Oliveira's undiminished cinematic style and humor, as well as offering the delicious experience of watching veteran actor Michel Piccoli reprising his role as the devilish Henri Husson some 39 years later. The film recently was showcased at the New York Film Festival.
Unfortunately, Catherine Deneuve is not on hand as Severine, the housewife who relieved her boredom through prostitution. Here the role is played by another screen icon, Bulle Ogier, who well matches her predecessor in terms of icy beauty and refinement.
Running a scant 70 minutes, the film doesn't possess much of a story line. It begins with a sequence in which Husson watches an orchestra perform a Dvorak symphony and then spots Severine in the auditorium. The filmmaker allows a generous portion of the music to unfurl, signaling the unhurried pace of what is to follow.
Husson follows Severine back to her hotel, attempting to arrange a rendezvous, which she does everything she can to discourage. In between his efforts, he spends his free time imbibing whiskeys at an elegant bar, where, shades of the earlier film, he is observed with great interest by two prostitutes (Leonor Baldaque, Julia Buisel).
Ultimately, Husson is able to arrange a dinner with Severine, who naturally is quite interested in what exactly he whispered to her paralyzed husband so many years earlier.
It's easy to see that the director has aging on his mind in his portrait of these two former adversaries in the twilight of their years. There's a solemnity to much of the proceedings, from the carefulness with which Husson drinks his many whiskeys to the repeated shots of the Paris skyline to the detail with which the rituals of a fine dining experience are observed.
But there's an antic sensibility on display as well, including several surrealistic touches and nods to various elements of Bunuel's classic.
Piccoli is, as always, utterly compelling, and Ogier displays a formidable screen presence in what must have been a daunting assignment.
BELLE TOUJOURS
New Yorker Films
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Manoel de Oliveira
Producer: Miguel Cadilhe
Co-Producer: Serge Lalou
Director of photography: Sabine Lancelin
Editor: Valerie Loiseleux
Costume designer: Milena Canonero
Production designer: Christian Marti
Cast:
Husson: Michel Piccoli
Severine: Bulle Ogier
Barman: Ricardo Trepa
Younger Prostitute: Leonor Baldaque
Older Prostitute: Julia Buisel
Running time -- 70 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/5/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, the documentary Neil Young: Heart of Gold and Paris, je t'aime are among the nine films selected for the San Sebastian International Film Festival's Zabaltegi section, organizers said Tuesday. One of the most popular sections at San Sebastian, Zabaltegi is designed to give festivalgoers a chance to catch up on films they may have missed at previous festivals. Other titles this year include Sundance favorite Little Miss Sunshine, Berlin title Vitus and Cannes entries The Court from Abderrahmane Sissako and Buenos Aires, 1977 from Israel Adrian Caetano. Manoel de Oliveira's Belle toujours, an homage to Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere, and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men will screen in Venice prior to San Sebastian, qualifying them for the category as well.
- 8/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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