Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Bruno Dumont’s “The Empire,” a sci-fi satire starring Anamaria Vartolomei (“Happening”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!”), Lyna Khoudri (“The Three Musketeers”) and Fabrice Luchini.
“The Empire” just world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize. The movie marks Dumont’s follow up to “France,” a dark comedy starring Léa Seydoux which competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year, followed by a home video, educational and digital release on all major platforms. The acquisition of “The Empire” marks the sixth time that Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont, with previous releases including “Li’l Quinquin,” “Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” “Slack Bay,” “Camille Claudel 1915” and, most recently, “France.”
The film is set in a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, where a special...
“The Empire” just world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize. The movie marks Dumont’s follow up to “France,” a dark comedy starring Léa Seydoux which competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year, followed by a home video, educational and digital release on all major platforms. The acquisition of “The Empire” marks the sixth time that Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont, with previous releases including “Li’l Quinquin,” “Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” “Slack Bay,” “Camille Claudel 1915” and, most recently, “France.”
The film is set in a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, where a special...
- 3/7/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
If you've ever wondered what a Star Wars pastiche by Monty Python might look like if barely any of the jokes landed then the latest film from Bruno Dumont is for you. He offers a space opera-twist on notions of empire - Church and State - slapping them into the incongruous setting of the French countryside. This is, essentially, the punchline and he keeps on remorselessly punching it with little variation for two hours.
The action unfolds against the backdrop of a sleepy coastal village in northern France, which also hosted Dumont’s Li'l QuinQuin and Coincoin And The Extra Humans. Now, it is the home of a toddler named Freddy, who despite his outwardly cute appearance is - many mothers of young children may enjoy a wry smile here - evil personified, and known to his worshippers as ‘the Wain’. He is to become leader of the 0s, an alien.
The action unfolds against the backdrop of a sleepy coastal village in northern France, which also hosted Dumont’s Li'l QuinQuin and Coincoin And The Extra Humans. Now, it is the home of a toddler named Freddy, who despite his outwardly cute appearance is - many mothers of young children may enjoy a wry smile here - evil personified, and known to his worshippers as ‘the Wain’. He is to become leader of the 0s, an alien.
- 3/1/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
MK2 Films has acquired a collection of films and TV series directed by Bruno Dumont, the award-winning French director behind “Life of Jesus” and “Humanity.”
The acquisition, unveiled during Mipcom Cannes, covers the bulk of the director’s work, spanning eight films and TV series including “Li’l Quinquin,” which premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. MK2 Films will represent rights to some of these titles, in France and/or international markets, apart from a few titles like “Slack Bay” whose global rights are still handled by Memento International.
“Bruno Dumont is, of course, a major figure of contemporary cinema,” said Nathanaël Karmitz, MK2’s chairman of the executive board. Karmitz praised Dumont for the “originality of his unusual, unpredictable [films], veering from gravitas to some unnerving, comedic tangents.” He continued, “Iconoclastic and consistently courageous in its form, his work perfectly represents the free and ambitious cinema that we are proud to promote.
The acquisition, unveiled during Mipcom Cannes, covers the bulk of the director’s work, spanning eight films and TV series including “Li’l Quinquin,” which premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. MK2 Films will represent rights to some of these titles, in France and/or international markets, apart from a few titles like “Slack Bay” whose global rights are still handled by Memento International.
“Bruno Dumont is, of course, a major figure of contemporary cinema,” said Nathanaël Karmitz, MK2’s chairman of the executive board. Karmitz praised Dumont for the “originality of his unusual, unpredictable [films], veering from gravitas to some unnerving, comedic tangents.” He continued, “Iconoclastic and consistently courageous in its form, his work perfectly represents the free and ambitious cinema that we are proud to promote.
- 10/16/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
December 10 release planned for US and English-speaking Canada.
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights from Indie Sales to Bruno Dumont’s media satire France starring Léa Seydoux following its world premiere in Competition in Cannes last month.
The French auteur’s latest film focuses on celebrity journalist France de Meurs – balancing her high-profile television studio, a distant war and the demands of family – whose life is turned upside-down when she injures a young North African man with learning difficulties in a traffic accident.
The incident forces France to reassess her priorities and as she tries to retreat into a simpler,...
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights from Indie Sales to Bruno Dumont’s media satire France starring Léa Seydoux following its world premiere in Competition in Cannes last month.
The French auteur’s latest film focuses on celebrity journalist France de Meurs – balancing her high-profile television studio, a distant war and the demands of family – whose life is turned upside-down when she injures a young North African man with learning difficulties in a traffic accident.
The incident forces France to reassess her priorities and as she tries to retreat into a simpler,...
- 8/2/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A Cannes Film Festival staple, Bruno Dumont returns to the competition for a fourth time with a media satire that was clearly for acquired tastes. Slack Bay (Ma Loute) was his last time in comp, and excluding his mini-series P’tit Quinquin which shored up at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2014, he is best known for Camera d’Or winning La vie de Jésus (Directors’ Fortnight) 1999’s L’humanité (Grand Prix and a double Best Performance prize for his non-professional actors) and 2006’s Flandres.
Another film that is yay or nay on our panel, we’ve found high scores of 4 from several critics and complete dismal from the rest.…...
Another film that is yay or nay on our panel, we’ve found high scores of 4 from several critics and complete dismal from the rest.…...
- 7/16/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Bruno Dumont continues his reinvention as a master of farce with this semi-satirical tale of alien goo and buffoonish cops
French film-maker Bruno Dumont’s 2014 TV series P’tit Quinquin – a bizarre knockabout black comedy-thriller-farce – was startling and almost unbelievable. Dumont was known for his icy and sometimes shocking art-house realism. There was very little modern precedent for this shift in tone, although in the US David Gordon Green had moved from Malickian poetry to stoner laughs.
Related: Good Manners review – superbly strange nanny horror...
French film-maker Bruno Dumont’s 2014 TV series P’tit Quinquin – a bizarre knockabout black comedy-thriller-farce – was startling and almost unbelievable. Dumont was known for his icy and sometimes shocking art-house realism. There was very little modern precedent for this shift in tone, although in the US David Gordon Green had moved from Malickian poetry to stoner laughs.
Related: Good Manners review – superbly strange nanny horror...
- 7/22/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Bruno Dumont’s movies linger somewhere between deadpan comedy and bleak existential yearning, an uneasy combo that often makes them hard to classify. From the nomadic supernatural traveler who haunts the French countryside in “Outside Satan,” to the bumbling cops investigating a seaside community in the miniseries “Li’l Quinquin,” Dumont excels at absurdist storytelling that wanders down strange pathways that either end in oddball punchlines or take a sharp turn into profundity. Not every curveball lands, but Dumont’s eerie, dreamlike storytelling has made him one of France’s most endearing and unpredictable filmmakers of the past 20-odd years.
All of which means that “Joan of Arc,” the filmmaker’s , benefits from a working familiarity of the vision behind the camera. Technically, it’s as much a part of a growing Dumont franchise as “Li’l Quinquin,” as “Joan of Arc” follows his 2017 “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,...
All of which means that “Joan of Arc,” the filmmaker’s , benefits from a working familiarity of the vision behind the camera. Technically, it’s as much a part of a growing Dumont franchise as “Li’l Quinquin,” as “Joan of Arc” follows his 2017 “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
If you thought the sudden move of French director Burno Dumont from austere drama to increasingly wacky comedy in the TV miniseries P'tit Quinquin and last year’s farce Slack Bay was a shock, prepare yourself for Jeannette, an electro-musical dance film on the adolescent life of Joan of Arc. Opening with little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) humming prayers to herself along the river Meuse (in fact, Dumont re-locates the story to his beloved northern France), suddenly the music swells, she belts one out—”there is nothing, there is never anything, but perdition!”—and ends it all with a handspring and splits. “Why do you do that?” asks a passing child, but the answer is obvious: lonesome, poor, in love with charity and full of doubts, Jeannette bounds with childhood’s pent up energy and calls forth her questions, protests and passion in bodily, soulful fervor. With this beginning, Dumont...
- 9/13/2017
- MUBI
If you thought the sudden move of French director Burno Dumont from austere drama to increasingly wacky comedy in the TV miniseries P'tit Quinquin and last year’s farce Slack Bay was a shock, prepare yourself for Jeannette, an electro-musical dance film on the adolescent life of Joan of Arc. Opening with little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) humming prayers to herself along the river Meuse (in fact, Dumont re-locates the story to his beloved northern France), suddenly the music swells, she belts one out—”there is nothing, there is never anything, but perdition!”—and ends it all with a handspring and splits. “Why do you do that?” asks a passing child, but the answer is obvious: lonesome, poor, in love with charity and full of doubts, Jeannette bounds with childhood’s pent up energy and calls forth her questions, protests and passion in bodily, soulful fervor. With this beginning, Dumont...
- 5/23/2017
- MUBI
Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Lauréna Thellier, Juliette Binoche, Raph, Manon Royère as the Van Peteghems in Bruno Dumont's wild Slack Bay (Ma Loute)
"I think each one of us has in us both some Brufort (Thierry Lavieville and Brandon Lavieville) and some Van Peteghem (see photo above)."
Bruno Dumont's latest, the musical Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne d'Arc, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival where his Li'l Quinquin and Slack Bay (Ma Loute) had their world premieres. In our conversation the director/screenwriter discussed the character of the brother, Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent) in Camille Claudel 1915, the lens of the grotesque, pushing the grandparents in Li'l Quinquin to go beyond what is expected and how "grace is really within the reach of all of us."
Bruno Dumont on Camille Claudel 1915: "I think for me, using the grotesque, it's almost as though it were a lens.
"I think each one of us has in us both some Brufort (Thierry Lavieville and Brandon Lavieville) and some Van Peteghem (see photo above)."
Bruno Dumont's latest, the musical Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne d'Arc, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival where his Li'l Quinquin and Slack Bay (Ma Loute) had their world premieres. In our conversation the director/screenwriter discussed the character of the brother, Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent) in Camille Claudel 1915, the lens of the grotesque, pushing the grandparents in Li'l Quinquin to go beyond what is expected and how "grace is really within the reach of all of us."
Bruno Dumont on Camille Claudel 1915: "I think for me, using the grotesque, it's almost as though it were a lens.
- 5/7/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Lauréna Thellier, Juliette Binoche, Raph, Manon Royère as the Van Peteghems in Bruno Dumont's wild Slack Bay (Ma Loute)
"I think each one of us has in us both some Brufort (Thierry Lavieville and Brandon Lavieville) and some Van Peteghem (see photo above)."
Bruno Dumont's latest, the musical Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne d'Arc, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival where his Li'l Quinquin and Slack Bay (Ma Loute) had their world premieres. In our conversation the director/screenwriter discussed the character of the brother, Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent) in Camille Claudel 1915, the lens of the grotesque, pushing the grandparents in Li'l Quinquin to go beyond what is expected and how "grace is really within the reach of all of us."
Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville) and Billie (Raph), police inspectors Machin (Didier Després) and Malfoy (Cyril Rigaux)
When tourists start to disappear...
"I think each one of us has in us both some Brufort (Thierry Lavieville and Brandon Lavieville) and some Van Peteghem (see photo above)."
Bruno Dumont's latest, the musical Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne d'Arc, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival where his Li'l Quinquin and Slack Bay (Ma Loute) had their world premieres. In our conversation the director/screenwriter discussed the character of the brother, Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent) in Camille Claudel 1915, the lens of the grotesque, pushing the grandparents in Li'l Quinquin to go beyond what is expected and how "grace is really within the reach of all of us."
Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville) and Billie (Raph), police inspectors Machin (Didier Després) and Malfoy (Cyril Rigaux)
When tourists start to disappear...
- 5/7/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bruno Dumont talks Ma Loute and his Cannes musical Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Ellen Sowchek
Bruno Dumont's cathartic and fearlessly comical journey Slack Bay (Ma Loute) stars an expressive Fabrice Luchini, a daring Juliette Binoche, and a blushing Valeria Bruni Tedeschi with Raph, a bit reminiscent of Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett, an eternal Thierry Lavieville, Jean-Luc Vincent ("We know what to do, but we do not do"), a fascinated Brandon Lavieville, and the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy-like duo Cyril Rigaux and Didier Després.
The Van Peteghems - André (Fabrice Luchini), Aude (Juliette Binoche), Billie (Raph): "You know, the way Juliette behaves, it's almost as though she is laughing at herself."
The Camille Claudel 1915 and Li'l Quinquin director's latest film Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc), based on a text by Charles Péguy,...
Bruno Dumont's cathartic and fearlessly comical journey Slack Bay (Ma Loute) stars an expressive Fabrice Luchini, a daring Juliette Binoche, and a blushing Valeria Bruni Tedeschi with Raph, a bit reminiscent of Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett, an eternal Thierry Lavieville, Jean-Luc Vincent ("We know what to do, but we do not do"), a fascinated Brandon Lavieville, and the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy-like duo Cyril Rigaux and Didier Després.
The Van Peteghems - André (Fabrice Luchini), Aude (Juliette Binoche), Billie (Raph): "You know, the way Juliette behaves, it's almost as though she is laughing at herself."
The Camille Claudel 1915 and Li'l Quinquin director's latest film Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc), based on a text by Charles Péguy,...
- 5/2/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) director Gianfranco Rosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bertrand Tavernier's loving My Journey Through French Cinema dedicated to Jacques Becker and Claude Sautet; Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta, sparked by Alice Munro short stories, starring Emma Suárez with Michelle Jenner, Adriana Ugarte, and Daniel Grao; Pablo Larraín's Neruda with Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda, Gael García Bernal and Alfredo Castro; and Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) with Samuele (a winning, completely natural combination of Bruno Dumont's Li'l Quinquin, a Wes Anderson boy scout in Moonrise Kingdom, and the scientist in Rosi's Sacro Gra) are four more highlights of the 54th New York Film Festival.
Ava DuVernay’s The 13th; Mike Mills' 20th Century Women starring Annette Bening with Billy Crudup, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann and Greta Gerwig; and James Gray's The Lost City Of Z with Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland...
Bertrand Tavernier's loving My Journey Through French Cinema dedicated to Jacques Becker and Claude Sautet; Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta, sparked by Alice Munro short stories, starring Emma Suárez with Michelle Jenner, Adriana Ugarte, and Daniel Grao; Pablo Larraín's Neruda with Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda, Gael García Bernal and Alfredo Castro; and Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) with Samuele (a winning, completely natural combination of Bruno Dumont's Li'l Quinquin, a Wes Anderson boy scout in Moonrise Kingdom, and the scientist in Rosi's Sacro Gra) are four more highlights of the 54th New York Film Festival.
Ava DuVernay’s The 13th; Mike Mills' 20th Century Women starring Annette Bening with Billy Crudup, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann and Greta Gerwig; and James Gray's The Lost City Of Z with Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland...
- 9/23/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
★★☆☆☆ Having wowed audiences with his last work Li'l Quinquin, Bruno Dumont's much-anticipated seaside comedy Slack Bay arrived in competition at Cannes with some high expectations. Though the farce is occasionally funny, it's as bloated and windy as its comedy policeman Inspector Machin (Didier Després). Dressed like the Thompson Twins, Machin and his assistant Malfoy (Cyril Rigaux) are investigating a series of disappearances in the small seaside community of Slack Bay in Northern France.
- 5/18/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSThe great French essayist Chris Marker remains on our minds nearly four years after his death—the mystery of his life and his work remains haunting. Which is why we're very intrigued by the news that his adopted daughter has penned a new book about their relationship, Chris Marker (le livre impossible).Okay, Sofia Coppola's A Very Murray Christmas was pretty wretched (though we can't help but love that it was shot in New York's Bemelmans Bar), but we adore Don Siegel's Southern Gothic, Civil War-set, Clint Eastwood-starring kinky horror film (!), The Beguiled—and so are tremendously curious about the news that Coppola will remake that 1971 film with Nicole Kidman.Speaking of films in the works, Terry Gilliam may...finally...start...shooting Don Quixote, produced by Paulo Branco,...
- 4/6/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
For a while there, Bruno Dumont had a reputation for making Very Serious Movies with a distinct style that tended to be embraced by diehard cinephiles but little else. But all that changed with 2014's cinematic miniseries "P'tit Quinquin" which not only found critical favor, but the kind of broader arthouse audience Dumont never experienced before. And judging by the look of his upcoming "Slack Bay," that's unlikely to change. Starring Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and Jean-Luc Vincent, this is a wild, 1910-set tale about the cannibalistic Bréfort family and their connection to a string disappearances in Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing. Here's the synopsis: Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site...
- 3/30/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.News"Once upon a time, two people met.A woman, a man… Their memory has almost been erased.All that’s left is a picture… torn, faded, almost gone.Cinema is not eternal but it does sometimes escape oblivion. And it is possible to restore a picture.And what will there be then between these two characters who perhaps stepped out of an English or Italian comedy or an Éric Rohmer film?When you see a poster like this, your imagination fills in the blanks, just like it does at the movies."—Édouard Waintrop, Artistic Director of the Directors’ Fortnight, about its 2016 posterSpeaking of Cannes, the festival has revealed its Opening Night Film, Woody Allen's Café Society, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, and shot by the great Vittorio Storaro.
- 3/30/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
★★★★☆ French filmmaker Bruno Dumont is a director strongly associated with serious, spiritual, and metaphysical European arthouse. What a surprise it was, then, when his latest project was announced as not only being a first foray into the world of long-form television, but a comedy to boot. The result is the four part mini-series, P'tit Quinquin (2014), which premièred on French television last year and is now released in its entirety as a singular work on DVD courtesy of New Wave Films.
- 9/28/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
If the upcoming blockbuster season is already seeming a bit bleak, not to worry, because some acclaimed arthouse auteurs are already hard at work on their next projects... Mia Hansen-Løve ("Eden," "Goodbye First Love") is putting together "L'Avenir" ("Things To Come"), which will star Isabelle Huppert. There are not many plot details at the moment, except that the picture will be “the portrait of a philosophy teacher." No word yet on when it might film. [Cineuropa] Following his very well received TV series "P'tit Quinquin," Bruno Dumont seems to have a fire lit under him. Last fall he lined up "Jeanette," a musical about the childhood of Joan of Arc, and now he's got "Ma loute" cooking. Set in 1910, the film will tell the oddball tale of the Bréfort family, in which all the males are cannibals, and what happens when their appetites have caused the disappearances of middle-class residents...
- 3/13/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Desistfilm has gathered best-of-2014 lists from its contributors and editorial committee (including Nicole Brenez and Dana Linssen) and then run the numbers: 1. Lisandro Alonso's Jauja. 2. Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage. 3. Richard Linklater's Boyhood. 4. Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin. 5. Lav Diaz's From What Is Before. 6. David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. 7. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. 8. Pedro Costa's Horse Money. 9. Sergei Losnitza's Maidan. And 10's a tie: Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York and Raúl Perrone's Favula. We're collecting more year-end lists from Salon and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/30/2014
- Keyframe
Desistfilm has gathered best-of-2014 lists from its contributors and editorial committee (including Nicole Brenez and Dana Linssen) and then run the numbers: 1. Lisandro Alonso's Jauja. 2. Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage. 3. Richard Linklater's Boyhood. 4. Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin. 5. Lav Diaz's From What Is Before. 6. David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. 7. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. 8. Pedro Costa's Horse Money. 9. Sergei Losnitza's Maidan. And 10's a tie: Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York and Raúl Perrone's Favula. We're collecting more year-end lists from Salon and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
A holiday roundup of new issues of Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, Lola, La Furia Umana and many more titles gathers interviews with the likes of Christian Petzold, Nadav Lapid, Peter Strickland, Philip Kaufman, James Benning, Mike Hoolboom and Abderrahmane Sissako as well as articles on Manny Farber, Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin, Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Harun Farocki, Aleksandr Sokurov, Ernst Lubitsch, Terrence Malick, Jacques Becker, George Kuchar, Eric Rohmer, Hollis Frampton, Alex Proyas and the 25th anniversary of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. » - David Hudson...
- 12/25/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
A holiday roundup of new issues of Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, Lola, La Furia Umana and many more titles gathers interviews with the likes of Christian Petzold, Nadav Lapid, Peter Strickland, Philip Kaufman, James Benning, Mike Hoolboom and Abderrahmane Sissako as well as articles on Manny Farber, Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin, Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Harun Farocki, Aleksandr Sokurov, Ernst Lubitsch, Terrence Malick, Jacques Becker, George Kuchar, Eric Rohmer, Hollis Frampton, Alex Proyas and the 25th anniversary of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. » - David Hudson...
- 12/25/2014
- Keyframe
With the lines between TV and film continuing to blur, it's only a matter of time until we're awarding Best Narrative Of The Year instead of trying to continue to separate the mediums. And indeed, the esteemed Cahiers Du Cinema aren't making the distinction with their top ten films of 2014. Bruno Dumont's acclaimed miniseries "P'tit Quinquin" has topped this year's list. And as you might expect, the esteemed mag favors the arthouse and the auteur, over anything studio driven. So that's why you'll see Jean-Luc Godard's "Goodbye To Language," David Cronenberg's "Maps To The Stars," Hong Sang-soo's "Our Sunhi," and Jonathan Glazer's "Under The Skin" on the list. There are some surprises too with Ira Sachs' "Love Is Strange" making cut and same with young gun Xavier Dolan with "Mommy." Here's the full ten. Debate and discuss below. [Fandor] Cahiers Du Cinema Top 10 Films Of 2014 1. Bruno Dumont‘s Li’l Quinquin.
- 11/29/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Décembre 2014 issue of Cahiers du Cinéma issue is out and, thanks to Jordan Cronk, we have the editors' list of the top ten films of the year: (1) Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin, (2) Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, (3) Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, (4) David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, (5) Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, (6) Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, (7) Xavier Dolan's Mommy, (8) Ira Sachs's Love Is Strange, (9) Alain Cavalier's Le Paradis and (10) Hong Sang-soo's Our Sunhi. » - David Hudson...
- 11/28/2014
- Keyframe
The Décembre 2014 issue of Cahiers du Cinéma issue is out and, thanks to Jordan Cronk, we have the editors' list of the top ten films of the year: (1) Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin, (2) Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, (3) Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, (4) David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, (5) Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, (6) Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, (7) Xavier Dolan's Mommy, (8) Ira Sachs's Love Is Strange, (9) Alain Cavalier's Le Paradis and (10) Hong Sang-soo's Our Sunhi. » - David Hudson...
- 11/28/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Viennale is off and running through November 6 and, as Patrick Holzapfel notes at Twitch, there'll be "around 150 feature films and documentaries. Among the highlights are P'tit Quinquin by Bruno Dumont, Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, From What Is Before by Lav Diaz, Jauja by Lisandro Alonso, Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hard to Be a God by Aleksei German or Pasolini by Abel Ferrara…. Further highlights are tributes to the actor Viggo Mortensen, the director Tariq Teguia, the late filmmaker Harun Farocki (who passed away sadly this summer), the work of Fritz Kortner and a special hommage to Jean-Luc Godard." » - David Hudson...
- 10/24/2014
- Keyframe
The Viennale is off and running through November 6 and, as Patrick Holzapfel notes at Twitch, there'll be "around 150 feature films and documentaries. Among the highlights are P'tit Quinquin by Bruno Dumont, Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, From What Is Before by Lav Diaz, Jauja by Lisandro Alonso, Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hard to Be a God by Aleksei German or Pasolini by Abel Ferrara…. Further highlights are tributes to the actor Viggo Mortensen, the director Tariq Teguia, the late filmmaker Harun Farocki (who passed away sadly this summer), the work of Fritz Kortner and a special hommage to Jean-Luc Godard." » - David Hudson...
- 10/24/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of interesting projects that have been announced in the past week or so: Iggy Pop and Dario Argento are collaborating on an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"; an interactive documentary on Ken Loach is in the works; Bertrand Tavernier is working on a personal exploration of French cinema; Bruno Dumont is open to the idea of a second season for P'tit Quinquin; Scarlett Johansson is will star in and executive produce an eight-episode adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1913 novel The Custom of the Country; Stephen Sondheim is at work on a new musical with the playwright David Ives (Venus in Fur) based on two renowned films by Luis Buñuel, El ángel exterminador and Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie; and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/15/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of interesting projects that have been announced in the past week or so: Iggy Pop and Dario Argento are collaborating on an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"; an interactive documentary on Ken Loach is in the works; Bertrand Tavernier is working on a personal exploration of French cinema; Bruno Dumont is open to the idea of a second season for P'tit Quinquin; Scarlett Johansson is will star in and executive produce an eight-episode adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1913 novel The Custom of the Country; Stephen Sondheim is at work on a new musical with the playwright David Ives (Venus in Fur) based on two renowned films by Luis Buñuel, El ángel exterminador and Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie; and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/15/2014
- Keyframe
After taking something of a left turn with his latest, the lighthearted TV miniseries "P'tit Quinquin," Bruno Dumont is moving in yet another interesting, unforeseen direction. The filmmaker is sticking in the world of TV, preparing a musical titled "Jeanette" for the channel Arte. It is about the childhood of Joan of Arc, and is based on the works of writer Charles Péguy, who wrote poetry and plays about the religious figure and "her personal struggle to come to terms with evil and her despair regarding the coming of God's kingdom." If anyone can pull off a musical about that, we suppose it's Dumont. [Telerama] "Hunter Killer" has hooked many directors over the years—Antoine Fuqua, Phillip Noyce, McG and Steven Quayle—without actually being made, and now Martin Campbell ("Casino Royale") is the latest to come in through the rotating doors of the forever developing movie. If it actually films.
- 9/17/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Prestige drama at film festivals is no longer just the domain of movies. Television is now becoming a regular part of fest programming (Jane Campion's "Top Of The Lake" at Sundance and Bruno Dumont's "P'tit Quinquin" at Cannes Directors' Fortnight are recent examples) and this week at Venice, HBO's "Olive Kitteridge" will get a glitzy premiere. And you can now catch a glimpse of the forthcoming miniseries with three new clips. Based on the book by Elizabeth Strout, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, and starring Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray, Zoe Kazan, John Gallagher Jr., Martha Wainwright, Rosemarie Dewitt, Peter Mullan and Brady Corbet, with a score by Carter Burwell (yes, those are some damn good credits), the show is a sprawling tale of life in a small town. Here's the official synopsis: Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly...
- 8/31/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This morning the Toronto Film Festival added several more films to their lineup including the world premiere of Thomas McCarthy's The Cobbler which stars Adam Sandler as a New York City cobbler who, disenchanted with the grind of daily life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. The film co-stars Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman. Additionally, Sundance standouts Infinity Polar Bear and Laggies starring Keira Knightley and Chloe Grace Moretz were added to the Gala selection. Joining The Cobbler as new additions to the Special Presentations field include Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria starring Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche and Two Days, One Night from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and starring Marion Cotillard. Both films made a splash at Cannes earlier this year,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The common refrain heard over the past few years has been about how the world of television has offered a home to filmmakers who can't seem to get projects greenlit in the increasingly tentpole focused world of the major studios. But even we were surprised when the resolutely, hardcore arthouse filmmaker Bruno Dumont showed up on the Cannes Directors' Fortnight lineup with a police procedural/comedy mini-series, set to unspool in its entirety. Now, the first trailer is here and it's definitely a side of Dumont we don't usually see. "P'tit Quinquin" (presumably named after the lullaby) follows a police investigation into a series of bizarre murders in the town of Boulogne, but also seems to chronicle the lives of a group of young kids who watch it all unfold. It's definitely a bit wacky and surreal, though hints of philosophy creep in, and so too does some racial subtext as well.
- 5/2/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Cannes Film Festival's lineup of films include the Competition titles of several legendary auteurs such as Jean-Luc Godard, David Cronenberg, The Dardenne Brothers, Atom Egoyan, Mike Leigh, and Ken Loach. In the Un Certain Regard section, the highly anticipated film by actor-turned-director Ryan Gosling. Those in the business will be happy to find Alison Thompson in her new company, Sunray Films, selling Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner. Two films out of 18 in Competition are by women, but across all sections there are 15 women directors. Further in Competition, three films are from Canada; two are from U.S. one film is from Latin America (Argentina); one is from Japan; one from Turkey; one from Russia and the rest are European.
Opening Night Film :
Grace of Monaco (Producer: Stone Angels/ U.S. The Weinstein Company) from France by Olivier Dahan
In Competition
Clouds of Sils Maria (Isa: MK2/ U.S. Distribution: IFC Films) from France/ Gremany/ Switzerland by Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent (Isa: EuropaCorp) from France by Bertrand Bonello
Winter's Sleep aka Kis uykusu (Producer: Zeynofilm ) from Turkey by Nuri Bilge Ceylan who has a great website.
Maps to the Stars (Isa: Entertainment One) from Canada by David Cronenberg
Two Days, One Night (Isa: Wild Bunch/ U.S. Distribution: IFC Films) from Belgium and France by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Mommy (Isa: Seville International) from Canada by Xavier Dolan
The Captive (Isa: Entertainment One) from Canada by Atom Egoyan. You can watch the trailer here.
Goodbye to Language aka Adieu au Langage (Isa: Wild Bunch) from France by Jean-Luc Godard
The Search (Isa: Wild Bunch/ U.S. Distribution: Worldview Entertainment) from France by Michel Hazanavivius
The Homesman (Isa: Europacorp) from U.S. by Tommy Lee Jones
Still the Water (Isa: MK2) from Japan and France by Naomi Kawase ♀
Mr. Turner (Isa: Sunray Films/ U.S. Distribution: Sony Pictures Classics) from U.K. by Mike Leigh. Sunray Films is Alison Thompson's new company and she brought the film over from her former employer Focus Features International when they left the international sales business.
Jimmy's Hall (Isa: Wild Bunch) from Ireland and U.K. by Ken Loach
Foxcatcher (Isa: Panorama Media/ U.S. Distribution: Sony Pictures Classics) from U.S. by Bennett Miller
Le Meraviglie (Isa: The Match Factory) from Italy, Switzerland and Germany by Alice Rohrwacher ♀
Timbuktu (Isa: Le Pacte) from France by Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales (Isa: Film Factory Entertainment/ U.S. Distribution: Palmera International) from Argentina by Damian Szifron
Leviathan (Isa: Pyramide International) from Russia by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Un Certain Regard
Party Girl (Isa: Pyramide International) from France by Marie Amachoukeli ♀ , Claire Burger ♀ , Samuel Theis
Jauja (Isa: Ndm) from Argentina by Lisandro Alonso
The Blue Room (Isa: Alfama Films) from France by Mathieu Amalric
Misunderstood aka Incompresa aka L'Incomprise (Production: Paradis Films) from Italy by Asia Argento ♀
Titli (Isa: Westend Films) from India by Kanu Behl
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Isa: Myriad Pictures/ U.S. Distribution: The Weinstein Company) from U.S. by Ned Benson
Bird People (Isa: Films Distribution) from France by Pascale Ferran ♀
Lost River (Isa: Sierra/Affinity) from U.S. by Ryan Gosling
Amour Fou (Isa: Coproduction Office Paris) from Austria by Jessica Hausner ♀
Charlie's Country (Isa: Visit Films) from Australia by Rolf de Heer
Snow in Paradise (Isa: The Match Factory) from U.K. by Andrew Hulme
A Girl at My Door (Isa: Cj Entertainment) from So. Korea by July Jung ♀
Xenia (Isa: Pyramide International) from Greece by Panos Koutras
Run (Isa: Bac) from France by Philippe Lacote
Turist from Sweden and Norway by Ruben Ostlund
Beautiful Youth aka Hermosa Juventud (Producer: Fresdeval Films) by Jaime Rosales
Fantasia by Wang Chao
The Salt of the Earth (Isa: Le Pacte) from Germany and Brazil by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Away From His Absence (Isa: Bizibi) from Israel by Karen Yedaya ♀
Out of Competition
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dreamworks Animation) from the U.S. by Dean Deblois
Coming Home aka Gui Lai (Isa: Wild Bunch) from China by Zhang Yimou
Special Screenings
Bridges of Sarajevo (Les Ponts de Sarajevo) from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Portugal, Germany, and France
Red Army from the U.S. and Russia by Gabe Polsky
Maidan (Isa: Atoms & Void Bv) from Belarus by Segei Loznitsa
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait from Syria by Ossama Mohammed
Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy from France by Stephanie Valloatto
Directors' Fortnight
Opening Film: Girlhood aka Bande De Files (Isa: Films Distribution) from France by Céline Sciamma
Closing Film: Pride (Isa:Pathe International) from the U.K. by Matthew Warchus
Features
Alleluia (Isa:snd- Groupe M6) from Belgium and France by Fabrice Du Welz
Catch Me Daddy (Isa: Altitude Film Sales) from the U.K. by Daniel Wolfe
Next To Her aka At Li La Yla (Isa: Films Boutique) from Israel by Asaf Korman
Cold In July (Isa: Memento Films International) from the U.S. by Jim Mickle
Fighters aka Les Combattants (ISa: Bac Films) from France by Thomas Cailley
Gett — The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem (Isa: Films Distribution) from France, Germany, Israel by Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz
The Tale of Princess Kaguya aka Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari (Isa: Wild Bunch) from Japan by Isao Takahata
Eat Your Bones aka Mange Tes Morts (Isa:Capricci Films) from France by Jean-Charles Hue
A Hard Day aka Kkeut-Kka-Ji-Kan-Da (Isa: Showbox/Mediaples, Inc.) from South Korea by Seong-Hun Kim
National Gallery (Isa: Doc & Film International) from France by Frederick Wiseman
Queen And Country (Isa: Le Pacte) from the U.K. and Ireland by John Boorman
Sheltered aka Refugiado (Isa: Backup Media Films) from Argentina, France, Poland, and Colombia by Diego Lerman
These Final Hours (Isa: Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares) from Australia by Zach Hilditch
Tu Dors Nicole (Isa: Seville International) from Canada by Stéphane Lafleur
Whiplash (Isa:Sierra /Affinity) from the U.S. by Damien Chazelle
Special Screening
P'tit Quinquin by Bruno Dumont
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by Tobe Hooper (4K restoration)
Acid Program
Brooklyn (Produced by Les Enfants de la Dalle) from France by Pascal Tessaud
The Way Out aka Cesta Ven (Produced by Cinema de Facto) from France and the Czech Republic by Petr Vaclav
Challat of Tunis aka Le Challat the Tunis (Produced by Cinetelefilms ) from Tunisia and France by Kaouther Ben Hania
The Girls and the River aka La Fille et le Fleuve (Produced by 31 Juin Films) from France by Aurélia Georges
Mercuriales (Produced by Kazak Productions) from France by Virgil Vernier
New Territories (Produced by Paraiso Production Difussion) from France by Fabianny Deschamps
Insecure aka Qui Vive (Isa: Udi- Urban Distribution International ) from France by Marianne Tardieu
The Rules of the Game aka Les Regles du Jeu (Isa: Doc & Film International) from France by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard
Spartacus & Cassandra (Produced by Morgane Productions) from France by Ioanis Nuguet
Critics' Week
Opening Night: Faire: L'Amour (Fla) from France by Djinn Carrénard
Closing Nigh: Hippocrates aka Hippocrate (Isa: Le Pacte) from France by Thomas Lilti
Features
Darker Than Midnight aka Piu' Buio di Mezzanotte (Isa: Rai Trade) from Italy by Sebastiano Riso
Gente de Bien (Isa: Versatile) from Colombia and France by Franco Lolli
Hope (Isa: Pyramide International) from France by Boris Lojkine
It Follows (Isa: Visit Films) from the U.S. by David Robert Mitchell
Self Made aka Boreg (Isa: Westend Films) from Israel by Shira Geffen
The Tribe aka Plemya (Isa: Alpha Violet) from Ukraine by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
When Animals Dream aka Nar Dyrene Drommer (Produced by Gaumont) from Denmark by Jonas Alexander Arnby
Critics' Week: Special Screenings
Breathe aka Respire (Produced by Gaumont) from France by Mélanie Laurent
The Kindergarten Teacher aka Haganenet Teacher aka (Isa: Le Pacte) from Israel by Nadav Lapid...
Opening Night Film :
Grace of Monaco (Producer: Stone Angels/ U.S. The Weinstein Company) from France by Olivier Dahan
In Competition
Clouds of Sils Maria (Isa: MK2/ U.S. Distribution: IFC Films) from France/ Gremany/ Switzerland by Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent (Isa: EuropaCorp) from France by Bertrand Bonello
Winter's Sleep aka Kis uykusu (Producer: Zeynofilm ) from Turkey by Nuri Bilge Ceylan who has a great website.
Maps to the Stars (Isa: Entertainment One) from Canada by David Cronenberg
Two Days, One Night (Isa: Wild Bunch/ U.S. Distribution: IFC Films) from Belgium and France by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Mommy (Isa: Seville International) from Canada by Xavier Dolan
The Captive (Isa: Entertainment One) from Canada by Atom Egoyan. You can watch the trailer here.
Goodbye to Language aka Adieu au Langage (Isa: Wild Bunch) from France by Jean-Luc Godard
The Search (Isa: Wild Bunch/ U.S. Distribution: Worldview Entertainment) from France by Michel Hazanavivius
The Homesman (Isa: Europacorp) from U.S. by Tommy Lee Jones
Still the Water (Isa: MK2) from Japan and France by Naomi Kawase ♀
Mr. Turner (Isa: Sunray Films/ U.S. Distribution: Sony Pictures Classics) from U.K. by Mike Leigh. Sunray Films is Alison Thompson's new company and she brought the film over from her former employer Focus Features International when they left the international sales business.
Jimmy's Hall (Isa: Wild Bunch) from Ireland and U.K. by Ken Loach
Foxcatcher (Isa: Panorama Media/ U.S. Distribution: Sony Pictures Classics) from U.S. by Bennett Miller
Le Meraviglie (Isa: The Match Factory) from Italy, Switzerland and Germany by Alice Rohrwacher ♀
Timbuktu (Isa: Le Pacte) from France by Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales (Isa: Film Factory Entertainment/ U.S. Distribution: Palmera International) from Argentina by Damian Szifron
Leviathan (Isa: Pyramide International) from Russia by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Un Certain Regard
Party Girl (Isa: Pyramide International) from France by Marie Amachoukeli ♀ , Claire Burger ♀ , Samuel Theis
Jauja (Isa: Ndm) from Argentina by Lisandro Alonso
The Blue Room (Isa: Alfama Films) from France by Mathieu Amalric
Misunderstood aka Incompresa aka L'Incomprise (Production: Paradis Films) from Italy by Asia Argento ♀
Titli (Isa: Westend Films) from India by Kanu Behl
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Isa: Myriad Pictures/ U.S. Distribution: The Weinstein Company) from U.S. by Ned Benson
Bird People (Isa: Films Distribution) from France by Pascale Ferran ♀
Lost River (Isa: Sierra/Affinity) from U.S. by Ryan Gosling
Amour Fou (Isa: Coproduction Office Paris) from Austria by Jessica Hausner ♀
Charlie's Country (Isa: Visit Films) from Australia by Rolf de Heer
Snow in Paradise (Isa: The Match Factory) from U.K. by Andrew Hulme
A Girl at My Door (Isa: Cj Entertainment) from So. Korea by July Jung ♀
Xenia (Isa: Pyramide International) from Greece by Panos Koutras
Run (Isa: Bac) from France by Philippe Lacote
Turist from Sweden and Norway by Ruben Ostlund
Beautiful Youth aka Hermosa Juventud (Producer: Fresdeval Films) by Jaime Rosales
Fantasia by Wang Chao
The Salt of the Earth (Isa: Le Pacte) from Germany and Brazil by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Away From His Absence (Isa: Bizibi) from Israel by Karen Yedaya ♀
Out of Competition
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dreamworks Animation) from the U.S. by Dean Deblois
Coming Home aka Gui Lai (Isa: Wild Bunch) from China by Zhang Yimou
Special Screenings
Bridges of Sarajevo (Les Ponts de Sarajevo) from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Portugal, Germany, and France
Red Army from the U.S. and Russia by Gabe Polsky
Maidan (Isa: Atoms & Void Bv) from Belarus by Segei Loznitsa
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait from Syria by Ossama Mohammed
Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy from France by Stephanie Valloatto
Directors' Fortnight
Opening Film: Girlhood aka Bande De Files (Isa: Films Distribution) from France by Céline Sciamma
Closing Film: Pride (Isa:Pathe International) from the U.K. by Matthew Warchus
Features
Alleluia (Isa:snd- Groupe M6) from Belgium and France by Fabrice Du Welz
Catch Me Daddy (Isa: Altitude Film Sales) from the U.K. by Daniel Wolfe
Next To Her aka At Li La Yla (Isa: Films Boutique) from Israel by Asaf Korman
Cold In July (Isa: Memento Films International) from the U.S. by Jim Mickle
Fighters aka Les Combattants (ISa: Bac Films) from France by Thomas Cailley
Gett — The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem (Isa: Films Distribution) from France, Germany, Israel by Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz
The Tale of Princess Kaguya aka Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari (Isa: Wild Bunch) from Japan by Isao Takahata
Eat Your Bones aka Mange Tes Morts (Isa:Capricci Films) from France by Jean-Charles Hue
A Hard Day aka Kkeut-Kka-Ji-Kan-Da (Isa: Showbox/Mediaples, Inc.) from South Korea by Seong-Hun Kim
National Gallery (Isa: Doc & Film International) from France by Frederick Wiseman
Queen And Country (Isa: Le Pacte) from the U.K. and Ireland by John Boorman
Sheltered aka Refugiado (Isa: Backup Media Films) from Argentina, France, Poland, and Colombia by Diego Lerman
These Final Hours (Isa: Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares) from Australia by Zach Hilditch
Tu Dors Nicole (Isa: Seville International) from Canada by Stéphane Lafleur
Whiplash (Isa:Sierra /Affinity) from the U.S. by Damien Chazelle
Special Screening
P'tit Quinquin by Bruno Dumont
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by Tobe Hooper (4K restoration)
Acid Program
Brooklyn (Produced by Les Enfants de la Dalle) from France by Pascal Tessaud
The Way Out aka Cesta Ven (Produced by Cinema de Facto) from France and the Czech Republic by Petr Vaclav
Challat of Tunis aka Le Challat the Tunis (Produced by Cinetelefilms ) from Tunisia and France by Kaouther Ben Hania
The Girls and the River aka La Fille et le Fleuve (Produced by 31 Juin Films) from France by Aurélia Georges
Mercuriales (Produced by Kazak Productions) from France by Virgil Vernier
New Territories (Produced by Paraiso Production Difussion) from France by Fabianny Deschamps
Insecure aka Qui Vive (Isa: Udi- Urban Distribution International ) from France by Marianne Tardieu
The Rules of the Game aka Les Regles du Jeu (Isa: Doc & Film International) from France by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard
Spartacus & Cassandra (Produced by Morgane Productions) from France by Ioanis Nuguet
Critics' Week
Opening Night: Faire: L'Amour (Fla) from France by Djinn Carrénard
Closing Nigh: Hippocrates aka Hippocrate (Isa: Le Pacte) from France by Thomas Lilti
Features
Darker Than Midnight aka Piu' Buio di Mezzanotte (Isa: Rai Trade) from Italy by Sebastiano Riso
Gente de Bien (Isa: Versatile) from Colombia and France by Franco Lolli
Hope (Isa: Pyramide International) from France by Boris Lojkine
It Follows (Isa: Visit Films) from the U.S. by David Robert Mitchell
Self Made aka Boreg (Isa: Westend Films) from Israel by Shira Geffen
The Tribe aka Plemya (Isa: Alpha Violet) from Ukraine by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
When Animals Dream aka Nar Dyrene Drommer (Produced by Gaumont) from Denmark by Jonas Alexander Arnby
Critics' Week: Special Screenings
Breathe aka Respire (Produced by Gaumont) from France by Mélanie Laurent
The Kindergarten Teacher aka Haganenet Teacher aka (Isa: Le Pacte) from Israel by Nadav Lapid...
- 4/29/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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