Refreshed for the 30th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff), this year’s Cinema Icon Award will be conferred to distinguished Chinese actress, Yao Chen, for her outstanding achievements in bringing Asia’s story to life on screen. The Award will be presented to the actress on 30 November during the Sgiff’s Silver Screen Awards held at the National Museum of Singapore.
Best known for her phenomenal performances in Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are the One II (2010), Chen Kaige’s Caught in the Web (2012), and the action blockbuster Firestorm – of which she won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 14th Chinese Film Media Awards – Yao has been a role model to the younger generation of actors. Her professional conduct has also garnered long-standing support from many around the world. Earlier this year, Yao received the Golden Mulberry Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 21st Far East Film Festival, and was...
Best known for her phenomenal performances in Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are the One II (2010), Chen Kaige’s Caught in the Web (2012), and the action blockbuster Firestorm – of which she won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 14th Chinese Film Media Awards – Yao has been a role model to the younger generation of actors. Her professional conduct has also garnered long-standing support from many around the world. Earlier this year, Yao received the Golden Mulberry Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 21st Far East Film Festival, and was...
- 11/3/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Macao’s Actress in Focus is a woman who has trained as a boxer, likes British actors, especially Benedict Cumberbatch and Jeremy Irons, and is now setting out her stall as a producer.
Yao Chen has built a career over 20 years thanks to TV shows including “My Own Swordsman,” and films including “If You Are The One 2,” Firestorm” and “Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe.” She has three more in this year’s Iffam: “Caught in the Web” from 2012; last year’s “Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back”; and the current ‘Lost, Found.” On Monday she will be in conversation, on stage with producer Nansun Shi.
First, she gives Variety an insight into the high pressures of Chinese celebrity, her role as one of the world’s most followed bloggers, and where she wants to take her career next.
Why accept the Iffam position as Actress in Focus?
“I...
Yao Chen has built a career over 20 years thanks to TV shows including “My Own Swordsman,” and films including “If You Are The One 2,” Firestorm” and “Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe.” She has three more in this year’s Iffam: “Caught in the Web” from 2012; last year’s “Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back”; and the current ‘Lost, Found.” On Monday she will be in conversation, on stage with producer Nansun Shi.
First, she gives Variety an insight into the high pressures of Chinese celebrity, her role as one of the world’s most followed bloggers, and where she wants to take her career next.
Why accept the Iffam position as Actress in Focus?
“I...
- 12/9/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
This is the festival’s third year of existence, and Mike Goodridge’s second edition as artistic director. So things should be approaching a degree of maturity now. Goodridge calls it an evolution.
What are the major programming lines of the 3rd edition of Iffam?
We are launching the New Chinese Cinema section. The idea is simple, to be a bridge to such a fascinating industry. We are showing six new Chinese films that played this year. In fact, we have three from mainland China two from Taiwan and one from Malaysia (“Fly By Night”).
A lot of Chinese independent film now is really good. It is bold, experimental and deserves more exposure. But it can still be hard to see Chinese films other than those which dominate the box office.
We also have Chinese films throughout the program. They include “Suburban Birds” in competition, “Lost, Found” as a special presentation,...
What are the major programming lines of the 3rd edition of Iffam?
We are launching the New Chinese Cinema section. The idea is simple, to be a bridge to such a fascinating industry. We are showing six new Chinese films that played this year. In fact, we have three from mainland China two from Taiwan and one from Malaysia (“Fly By Night”).
A lot of Chinese independent film now is really good. It is bold, experimental and deserves more exposure. But it can still be hard to see Chinese films other than those which dominate the box office.
We also have Chinese films throughout the program. They include “Suburban Birds” in competition, “Lost, Found” as a special presentation,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Hong Kong action icon Andy Lau stars in Director Alan Yuen’s (Princess D) action-packed crime thriller Firestorm, and it lands on U.S Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Sept. 23. Rounding out the cast are Michael Wong (Triple Tap), Ray Lui (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Ka Tung Lam (Drug War, IP Man), Jun Hu (Bodyguards & Assassins), Chen Yao (Caught in the Web), Vincent Sze (Vengeance), Chi-yin Wong (Life Without Principle) and Shing-Ban Lam (Young and Dangerous: Reloaded). Cop dramas are bread ‘n’ butter to the Hk film industry, and something they always do well. Add to that Mr Lau presence, and we reckon you’ve got a sure “fire” (ahem) on your hands here! Synopsis: A storm is heading toward the city of Hong Kong, threatening the lives of everyone in its path. As citizens scramble for cover, a crew of seasoned criminals stage a series of armoured car heists in broad daylight,...
- 7/29/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Part Chinese Western, part black comedy and one part war movie, the martial arts infused action-packed An Inaccurate Memoir (re-badged for the Us market as Eastern Bandits) debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD from Well Go USA Entertainment. Bandits is directed by Yang Shu-peng (The Robbers) and stars Huang Xiaoming (Ip Man 2, The Guillotines), Zhang Yi (Beginning of the Great Revival, Caught in the Web), Zhang Xinyi (Love is Not Blind, Lost on a Journey) and newcomer Ni Jingyang. The date to put pick up this little gem? It debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital May 27th. Synopsis: The heroic story of rebels with a fortune to gain, and everything to lose. Leader Fang Youwang (Huang Xiaoming), with his compatriots Kuei, San Pao, and Lady Dagger - lead a posse of roving bandits that are fearless, enterprising, and loyal to the death. Their baby-faced masks make them terrifying; their underground lair untraceable.
- 3/27/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Legendary action director Tsui Hark (Flying Swords of Dragon Gate) international blockbuster Young Detective Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon is debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital from Well Go USA Entertainment. The action-packed, martial arts FX fest, follows Dee Renjie's beginnings in the Imperial police force. His very first case, investigating reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town, reveals a sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family. The prequel to Hark's 2010 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame stars Angelababy (Tai Chi Zero, Tai Chi Hero), Mark Chao (So Young, Caught in the Web), William Feng (White Vengeance, Tai Chi Hero), Carina Lau (Let the Bullets Fly), newcomer Lin Gengxin, Kim Beom (Fly High, The Gifted Hands), and Hu Dong (TV’s “Swordsman”). The date for your calendars, boys and girls, is February 11, 2014. Synopsis: The young Dee Renjie arrives in the Imperial Capital,...
- 1/2/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
There have been scads of books and movies and essays written about truly knowing and understanding people in the modern world, walking a mile in their shoes, etc. Chen Kaige, the critically acclaimed director of "Farewell My Concubine," weighs in on this topic in the gaudy melodrama "Caught In The Web" as such: you can't really know anyone in the modern world. More specifically, you can't know Ye (Yuanyuan Gao), an office worker who receives news that is beyond unfortunate from her doctor: she has thirty days to live before succumbing to cancer. What Ye does next is either understandable, contrived or maddening, depending on whom you ask. While riding the bus, she refuses to give up her seat to an elderly man. When he asks to set himself down, lost in her thoughts, she rudely rebuffs him. As an American, the cultural exchange seems a bit unusual: this happens on our trains every day.
- 12/7/2013
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
Once Upon a Time, in the Digital Age…: Chen’s Latest a Message Heavy Oddity
A critique of the hounding one sidedness of the omnipresent media mixed with a heavy swirl of romance and melodrama dictates Chen Kaige’s latest feature, Caught in the Web, an oddly flat critique of the life and times in which we live, especially considering the controversy courting director’s past work, including his much hailed Farewell, My Concubine (1993). Despite dealing with modern issues of modern technological advances further mutating and bastardizing notions of journalism in a sensational driven news medium, Kaige’s film peculiarly feels out of touch, a generational rift in attitude and communication, or something that thinks it’s a bright critique of “the youth today” in a world still spinning swiftly out of control. While performances and visual aesthetics are engaging, there’s a definite shortage of narrative cohesiveness, and...
A critique of the hounding one sidedness of the omnipresent media mixed with a heavy swirl of romance and melodrama dictates Chen Kaige’s latest feature, Caught in the Web, an oddly flat critique of the life and times in which we live, especially considering the controversy courting director’s past work, including his much hailed Farewell, My Concubine (1993). Despite dealing with modern issues of modern technological advances further mutating and bastardizing notions of journalism in a sensational driven news medium, Kaige’s film peculiarly feels out of touch, a generational rift in attitude and communication, or something that thinks it’s a bright critique of “the youth today” in a world still spinning swiftly out of control. While performances and visual aesthetics are engaging, there’s a definite shortage of narrative cohesiveness, and...
- 12/6/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Chinese director Chen Kaige is a veteran filmmaker and no stranger to U.S. fans of foreign language cinema. He’s been directing features since 1985 and even scored two Oscar nominations for his 1993 film, Farewell My Concubine. His career since has been somewhat eclectic with the standouts being a handful of epic period pieces (The Emperor and the Assassin, The Promise, Sacrifice) filled with martial arts, doomed romance, and gorgeous visuals. The less said about his singular foray into Hollywood the better. His latest film sees a young woman lost in her own issues unknowingly cause an incident that rattles the fragile social mores of those around her. Her transgression goes viral, streaming across the airwaves and internet, and while it marks her as a pariah, it also sets in motion a chain of events in the lives of several other people. A single act, a multitude of ramifications. Caught In the Web races into the present...
- 12/6/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
For thirty years, director Chen Kaige has exposed the ills and societal unrest left behind by China's Cultural Revolution in films like Yellow Earth and the Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine. With his latest film, Caught in the Web, the story of a young woman's momentary slip gone viral on the internet, Chen tackles the more modern threat of cyber-bullying, invasion of privacy and media manipulation.The Lady Miz Diva: Can you please tell us what inspired Caught In The Web?Chen Kaige: Well, you know that China has probably hundreds of millions of website users, so it's well-developed. What happens on websites sometimes you can consider very positive; people using websites to disclose corruption. People always say that it's a great thing to do that work on...
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- 11/27/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Striking an awkward balance between cornball message-making melodrama and kooky mistaken-circumstance comedy, Caught in the Web finds director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine, The Emperor and the Assassin) vainly stumbling about in search of a tone or point.
In this increasingly muddled tale, secretary Ye (Gao Yuanyuan) learns that she has fatal (albeit asymptomatic) cancer, which leads her to grumpily refuse to vacate a city bus seat for an elderly passenger. This incident is caught on cell phone camera by a fledgling reporter (Wang Luodan), thereby turning Ye into a viral video villain and sparking all sorts of complications involving her corporate-bigwig boss Shen (Wang Xueqi), his wife (Chen Hong), a TV news producer (Yao Chen), and a jaded reporter (M...
In this increasingly muddled tale, secretary Ye (Gao Yuanyuan) learns that she has fatal (albeit asymptomatic) cancer, which leads her to grumpily refuse to vacate a city bus seat for an elderly passenger. This incident is caught on cell phone camera by a fledgling reporter (Wang Luodan), thereby turning Ye into a viral video villain and sparking all sorts of complications involving her corporate-bigwig boss Shen (Wang Xueqi), his wife (Chen Hong), a TV news producer (Yao Chen), and a jaded reporter (M...
- 11/27/2013
- Village Voice
After the critical and commercial success of his excellent period thriller, Sacrifice, in 2010, which marked a perceived comeback for the Farewell My Concubine director, Chen Kaige turns his attention once again to the lives of modern Chinese citizens and examines how shifts in national culture affect the individual. In Caught in the Web, it is the media, and more specifically China's savage netizen culture, that is placed under the microscope. The film focuses on two ambitious young women struggling to get ahead in Beijing's ultra modern, ultra competitive business world, and how the anonymous unforgiving masses of the online community threaten to destroy both their lives. Attractive, successful and good-natured, executive secretary Ye Lanqiu (Gao Yuanyuan) discovers at a routine medical checkup that she...
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- 11/26/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A hot on the festival circuits back in 2012, Chen Kaige’s (‘Farewell My Concubine,’ ‘The Emperor and the Assassin’) contemporary Chinese story - inspired by today's digital world - Caught in the Web is set for a theatrical release in La next month. Alas its only going to be one city, but if you’re in the area its looks well worth a watch. Caught in the Web opens in Los Angeles, December 6, 2013. Synopsis: The story begins when a young woman, who after learning of a terminal illness, is caught on video mistreating an elderly bus passenger. The video sparks intense debate on and off the Internet. Personal information and backlash goes viral and her life, and the lives of everyone around her, slip into chaos and media scrutiny. Faced with the choice of exposing her truth, or finding sanctuary in hiding, the balance between privacy and feeding a...
- 11/20/2013
- 24framespersecond.net
You know, about five years ago, you would look at a movie like Chen Kaige’s “Caught in the Web” and think, “Man, that could never happen in real life! What a crazy idea for a movie!” Nowadays, all it really takes is one major website to pimp a story, and it goes viral faster than you can snap your fingers. (Okay, maybe not that fast. In a day or so, anyway.) Forget about truth, or context. Pick a viral video, slap on your spin, and voila, a million people will fall right in line propagating your spin. It’s no wonder that half of these stories end up being hoaxes, they’re That easy to fake. “Caught in the Web” looks and feels like an odd offering from director Chen Kaige. This is the guy who gave us martial arts epics like “The Emperor and the Assassin”, “The Promise...
- 11/11/2013
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
“So Young” sees Chinese actress Zhao Wei stepping behind the camera to make her directorial debut, backed by veteran producer Stanley Kwan (“Rouge”, “Centre Stage”). For her first outing as helmer, the popular “Red Cliff” and “Painted Skin: The Resurrection” star chose to adapt a novel by Xin Yiwu, which follows a collection of friends as they experience love and loss at college and then again in later life. A surprise smash hit at the domestic box office (and recently having been chosen to screen at the 2013 London Film Festival), the film has a top ensemble cast of appropriately youthful talent, headed by Yang Zishan (“In Case of Love”), Mark Chao (“Caught in the Web”) and singer Han Geng (“My Kingdom”). The film begins in the mid-1990s, with Yang Zishan as Zheng Wei, a small town girl who heads to a big city university with hopes of reuniting with...
- 9/24/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Farewell My Concubine director named jury president of the 2013 edition.
The Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has named Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige as jury president for its international competition at the 26th edition (Oct 17-25).
Farewell My Concubine, his most acclaimed film and the first Chinese film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, was shown in the special screening section at the 6th Tiff.
In 2008, he was awarded with the Akira Kurosawa Award for the most talented director at the 21st Tiff.
His other features include The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), Golden Globe-nominated The Promise (2005) and Golden Bear-nominated Forever Enthralled (2008) as well as Temptress Moon (1996), Together (2002), Killing Me Softly (2002), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), Sacrifice (2010), and his most recent work, Caught in the Web (2012).
He has served as a judge for the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals as well as several other film festivals in China, Japan and Italy...
The Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has named Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige as jury president for its international competition at the 26th edition (Oct 17-25).
Farewell My Concubine, his most acclaimed film and the first Chinese film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, was shown in the special screening section at the 6th Tiff.
In 2008, he was awarded with the Akira Kurosawa Award for the most talented director at the 21st Tiff.
His other features include The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), Golden Globe-nominated The Promise (2005) and Golden Bear-nominated Forever Enthralled (2008) as well as Temptress Moon (1996), Together (2002), Killing Me Softly (2002), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), Sacrifice (2010), and his most recent work, Caught in the Web (2012).
He has served as a judge for the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals as well as several other film festivals in China, Japan and Italy...
- 8/28/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Former THINKFilm executives David Hudakoc and Michael Baker have launched the Toronto-based distributor, one of several new players that are expected to arrive in the wake of the eOne-Alliance merger.
The goal is for levelFilm to release 10-12 “quality independent films” a years starting with Chen Kaige’s Caught In The Web.
The plan will balance platform theatrical releases with day-and-date digital.
Baker [pictured at right] and Hudakoc [pictured at left] will handle acquisitions together while Baker will oversee content development and Hudakoc will supervise distribution and marketing.
Caught In The Web will open in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto in October and expand into 15-20 major markets.
The contemporary ensemble drama centres on the story of a young woman with a terminal illness who becomes the victim of a viral internet campaign after she is caught on video mistreating an elderly bus passenger.
Yuanyuan Gao stars alongside Chen Yao, Mark Chao, Hong Chen and Xueqi Wang. Kaige co-wrote...
The goal is for levelFilm to release 10-12 “quality independent films” a years starting with Chen Kaige’s Caught In The Web.
The plan will balance platform theatrical releases with day-and-date digital.
Baker [pictured at right] and Hudakoc [pictured at left] will handle acquisitions together while Baker will oversee content development and Hudakoc will supervise distribution and marketing.
Caught In The Web will open in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto in October and expand into 15-20 major markets.
The contemporary ensemble drama centres on the story of a young woman with a terminal illness who becomes the victim of a viral internet campaign after she is caught on video mistreating an elderly bus passenger.
Yuanyuan Gao stars alongside Chen Yao, Mark Chao, Hong Chen and Xueqi Wang. Kaige co-wrote...
- 8/15/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
ThinkFilm vets David Hudakoc and Michael Baker have launched levelFILM, an indie distribution company that gets off the ground with a deal for North American rights to the Chen Kaige-directed Caught In The Web. Baker and Hudakoc will make the acquisitions for a company that plans to distribute ten to twelve titles per year, both theatricals and multi-platform. “It’s an exciting time to be in this business”, commented Hudakoc, who is Managing Partner and will oversee distribution and marketing for levelFILM. “The market changes so quickly and continuously that we see an opportunity for an experienced, nimble and quick-to-act partner to provide producers and rights holders with quality execution to bring their films to audiences across all platforms.” Said Baker: “ThinkFilm afforded both Dave and I a tremendous amount of experience and allowed us to work on an incredible number of outstanding films,” added Baker. “We are...
- 8/15/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
It’s fitting that Chen Kaige kicked off Tiff’s Century of Chinese Cinema program last week in Toronto where he introduced screenings of his films and spoke about his career in two public talks. The movies of the Fifth Generation filmmaker cover several eras of Chinese society, ranging from pre-World War Two in Farewell My Concubine (1993) to today’s social media of Caught in the Web (2012). More importantly, Chen is a key figure in elevating Chinese cinema to the world stage, starting in 1984 — when his first film, Yellow Earth, shattered the tyranny of state-sponsored propaganda films — then …...
- 6/11/2013
- by Allan Tong
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
China Lion Film Distribution has announced it will release Chinese epic 1942 day-and-date with China on 30 November. The film, directed by box office golden boy Feng Xiaogang (Assembly, Aftershock, If You Are The One), and starring Hollywood A-listers Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins alongside a host of premiere mainland talent, is clearly aiming for some awards season action, despite China's official entry this year being Chen Kaige's Caught In The Web.Back to 1942 (as it will be retitled overseas) is based on the celebrated novel Remembering 1942, written by Liu Zhengyun, and details the devastating famine that ravaged Henan province while Nationalist troops clashed with invading Japanese forces during World War II. The cast is headed up by Xu Fan, Zhang Guoli, Chen Daoming,...
- 11/15/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Terrence Malick. Mateo Garrone. Rian Johnson. Noah Baumbach. Joss Whedon. Neil Jordan. Francois Ozon. Joe Wright. Thomas Vinterbeg. Derek Cianfrance. All of these filmmakers, plus loads more, will be among those presenting new feature films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 6th to 16th. Of the 61 films announced this morning, Rian Johnson’s sci-fi actioner Looper will open the fest (a clear upgrade from Score! A Hockey Musical, to be sure), while the others are divvied up between Gala and Special Presentation screenings. Of note: rumors of Terrence Malick’s swift return to the big screen have turned out to be well-founded (barring some last-minute delay); his To the Wonder has been confirmed, along with a raft of well-received Cannes exports like Pablo Lorrain’s No and Mateo Garrone’s Reality. The most insane part of today’s already-stellar announcement is that there’s loads more to come,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller “Looper” will open the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, it was reported on Tuesday in Variety.
Johnson made splashes at Tiff with his previous films – the high-school-set film noir “Brick” and the quirky con caper “The Brothers Bloom.” But “Looper” finds him working with major Hollywood talents Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the story of an assassin (Gordon-Levitt) who eliminates criminals sent back through time to our present day. Troubles arise when Jgl’s next target is himself (Bruce Willis), from a not-so-distant future.
The first wave of Tiff programming reads like a laundry list of can’t-wait-to-see features for the upcoming awards season. Ben Affleck’s back with the political drama “Argo.” We’ll get our first look at “Cloud Atlas,” from Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis. David O. Russell, Derek Cianfrance, Mike Newell, David Ayer,...
Hollywoodnews.com: Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller “Looper” will open the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, it was reported on Tuesday in Variety.
Johnson made splashes at Tiff with his previous films – the high-school-set film noir “Brick” and the quirky con caper “The Brothers Bloom.” But “Looper” finds him working with major Hollywood talents Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the story of an assassin (Gordon-Levitt) who eliminates criminals sent back through time to our present day. Troubles arise when Jgl’s next target is himself (Bruce Willis), from a not-so-distant future.
The first wave of Tiff programming reads like a laundry list of can’t-wait-to-see features for the upcoming awards season. Ben Affleck’s back with the political drama “Argo.” We’ll get our first look at “Cloud Atlas,” from Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis. David O. Russell, Derek Cianfrance, Mike Newell, David Ayer,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Organizers for September’s Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) announced a slate of movies guaranteed to please cinephiles. The festival will open with Rian Johnson’s time-twisty thriller Looper, and will also include the world premiere of the mysterious Wachowski/Tykwer collabo-adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Ben Affleck’s true-life thriller Argo, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, and Joss Whedon’s shot-in-a-fortnight adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The festival will also feature the next movie by auteur Terrence Malick, the Ben Affleck/Rachel McAdams headlined To The Wonder. (That makes two Terrence Malick movies in two consecutive years — a new record!
- 7/24/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside Movies
The line-up for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival has been officially announced across the Atlantic this morning – local time, and it is simply amazing.
Opening the festival will be Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Looper, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and joining it are a slew of fantastic films, many of which making their world / North American premieres, with highlights including Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers’ Cloud Atlas, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, David Ayer’s End of Watch, Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks for Sharing, and Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder.
That suggests that Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling is almost certainly going to be debuting at Venice, as expected.
Variety are the ones to officially confirm the line-up, which...
Opening the festival will be Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Looper, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and joining it are a slew of fantastic films, many of which making their world / North American premieres, with highlights including Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers’ Cloud Atlas, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, David Ayer’s End of Watch, Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks for Sharing, and Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder.
That suggests that Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling is almost certainly going to be debuting at Venice, as expected.
Variety are the ones to officially confirm the line-up, which...
- 7/24/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With the fall movie season swiftly approaching, it’s not a stretch to say that many of the potential nominees for the Oscars and other end of year awards will finally be seeing a release. This year is no different. Though we have had a couple of films previously released that may be considered as possibilities in the awards race (Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and my personal favorite, The Grey), there’s a lot more right around the corner. Some of these very films that many have high hopes for will first be seen by those living in Canada. Variety has released some of the upcoming films that will be making their debut at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Or one can simply say just Tiff. Of those films announced, quite a few of them will have genre fans like myself quite giddy.
I’ve marked my personal favorites in red below.
I’ve marked my personal favorites in red below.
- 7/24/2012
- by Michael Haffner
- Destroy the Brain
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