Polish Days runs July 23-25.
New films by Jan P. Matuszyński, Jakub Piątek, Agnieszka Zwiefka and the makers of Loving Vincent are among 22 projects being presented at the 2023 edition of Polish Days, the industry event for Polish cinema running during New Horizons International Film Festival (July 20-30) in Wrocław.
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The event runs July 23-25 and is aimed at sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.
The line-up includes four completed Polish films, including Marcin Koszałka’s historical drama White Courage, produced by Warsaw-based Balapolis, and Amp Polska’s production of Edward Porembny’s docudrama The Life...
New films by Jan P. Matuszyński, Jakub Piątek, Agnieszka Zwiefka and the makers of Loving Vincent are among 22 projects being presented at the 2023 edition of Polish Days, the industry event for Polish cinema running during New Horizons International Film Festival (July 20-30) in Wrocław.
Scroll down for full line-up
The event runs July 23-25 and is aimed at sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.
The line-up includes four completed Polish films, including Marcin Koszałka’s historical drama White Courage, produced by Warsaw-based Balapolis, and Amp Polska’s production of Edward Porembny’s docudrama The Life...
- 7/12/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Moviegoing Memories is a series of short interviews with filmmakers about going to the movies. Gaspar Noé's Vortex is Mubi Go's Film of the Week in the US for May 6, 2022 and in the United Kingdom for May 13, 2022.Notebook: How would you describe your movie in the least amount of words?Gaspar NOÉ: Dementia is a nightmare.Notebook: Where and what is your favorite movie theater? Why is it your favorite?NOÉ: I love the big big theaters: the Grande Salle Lumière at Cannes, the Grand Rex and the Max Linder in Paris, and the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Koreatown, LA.Notebook: What is the most memorable movie screening of your life? Why is it memorable?NOÉ: 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I saw when I was 6. It was my first hallucinatory trip.Notebook: If you could choose one classic film to watch on the big screen, what would it be and why?...
- 5/6/2022
- MUBI
Sam Mendes’ acclaimed World War I epic “1917” graphically shows how the Great War was indeed hell. And numerous actors and filmmakers were there on the front lines or bravely engaging in dogfights in the sky over France. Just as Mendes’ illustrates in “1917,” the combat took its toll on these soldiers who went on to fame in feature films. Numerous were wounded, gassed and even were POWs. Needless to say, the majority were never the same.
Here’s a look at 10 actors, who became stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood, who participated in World War I
Humphrey Bogart
Long before he uttered “Here’s looking at you kid” in 1942’s “Casablanca,” the Oscar-winning superstar was a teenager when he enlisted in the Navy in May of 1918 where he was assigned to the ship the Leviathan. And it was during this time, he suffered the injury that created the scar on...
Here’s a look at 10 actors, who became stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood, who participated in World War I
Humphrey Bogart
Long before he uttered “Here’s looking at you kid” in 1942’s “Casablanca,” the Oscar-winning superstar was a teenager when he enlisted in the Navy in May of 1918 where he was assigned to the ship the Leviathan. And it was during this time, he suffered the injury that created the scar on...
- 12/30/2019
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
He was an influence on Charlie Chaplin and wrote his own movies – so why has Max Linder’s true status in cinema history only just come to light?
Time was, according to Norma Desmond, when the cinema didn’t need dialogue, because it had faces. Very famous faces, that are less familiar to us now. And, according to new research, the very first film star face belonged to a French slapstick comedian, who died young in terrible circumstances and then was largely forgotten for decades. Max Linder was a dapper, handsome actor from the early silent era who not only starred in films but also directed, wrote and produced them.
Andrew Shail, senior lecturer in film at Newcastle University, has uncovered what appears to be the first film-star marketing: a poster for a Pathé Frères’ film featuring Linder called Le Petit Jeune Homme, released in Europe in September 1909. Whereas Linder...
Time was, according to Norma Desmond, when the cinema didn’t need dialogue, because it had faces. Very famous faces, that are less familiar to us now. And, according to new research, the very first film star face belonged to a French slapstick comedian, who died young in terrible circumstances and then was largely forgotten for decades. Max Linder was a dapper, handsome actor from the early silent era who not only starred in films but also directed, wrote and produced them.
Andrew Shail, senior lecturer in film at Newcastle University, has uncovered what appears to be the first film-star marketing: a poster for a Pathé Frères’ film featuring Linder called Le Petit Jeune Homme, released in Europe in September 1909. Whereas Linder...
- 11/22/2019
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Institut Lumière will also fete late UK filmmaker Muriel Box at 10th edition of festival.
France’s Institut Lumière will honour Us actress Jane Fonda with its Lumière Award at the 10th edition of its annual cinema heritage festival, taking place October 13-21 this year.
She will be the second woman to receive the honorary award after French actress Catherine Deneuve. Other recipients include Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gérard Depardieu and Ken Loach.
As well as showcasing a selection of key films from Fonda’s career, the festival will also screen Susan Lacy’s bio-documentary Jane Fonda In Five Acts,...
France’s Institut Lumière will honour Us actress Jane Fonda with its Lumière Award at the 10th edition of its annual cinema heritage festival, taking place October 13-21 this year.
She will be the second woman to receive the honorary award after French actress Catherine Deneuve. Other recipients include Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gérard Depardieu and Ken Loach.
As well as showcasing a selection of key films from Fonda’s career, the festival will also screen Susan Lacy’s bio-documentary Jane Fonda In Five Acts,...
- 6/11/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Jane Fonda will receive this year’s Lumière Award at the 10th Lumière Festival in Lyon, France.
Describing the Oscar-winning actress, festival director Thierry Fremaux said Fonda is “a feminist, activist, and she remains a star.”
The festival said it was honoring Fonda for an “acting career that has led her from Sidney Pollack to Arthur Penn, from René Clément to Roger Vadim; for her willingness to embody fierce independence from a young age …” It also stressed the actress’ work as “a committed, life-long activist, ahead of her time as a vanguard of ideals,” calling her a “symbol of struggles for freedom, anti-racism and peace” as well as “an international star, an icon spanning several decades of audiences.”
“I am honored to be invited to the Lumière Festival in Lyon,” Fonda said, adding that she was “over the moon” upon hearing the news that she would receive the award.
As part of its tribute,...
Describing the Oscar-winning actress, festival director Thierry Fremaux said Fonda is “a feminist, activist, and she remains a star.”
The festival said it was honoring Fonda for an “acting career that has led her from Sidney Pollack to Arthur Penn, from René Clément to Roger Vadim; for her willingness to embody fierce independence from a young age …” It also stressed the actress’ work as “a committed, life-long activist, ahead of her time as a vanguard of ideals,” calling her a “symbol of struggles for freedom, anti-racism and peace” as well as “an international star, an icon spanning several decades of audiences.”
“I am honored to be invited to the Lumière Festival in Lyon,” Fonda said, adding that she was “over the moon” upon hearing the news that she would receive the award.
As part of its tribute,...
- 6/11/2018
- by Ed Meza and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Italians love clowns, and have always had their own cinematic breed of capering fool. A hundred years ago, when Chaplin ruled the earth, comics like Cretinetti, Polidor and Arthème held their own in Europe.Early Chaplin looks pretty crude compared to late Chaplin. The French and Italians, with the elegant exception of the great Max Linder, are kind of crude by any standards. But worth seeing: these comics are vigorous, rambunctuous and inventive. They're even, sometimes, funny. But that's not the main attraction to me. The past isn't another country. It's another planet. Cinema is a space and time machine that gives us glimpses of distant worlds, impossible to reach by other means.These buffoons had their heyday before the great war, but lingered on in spectral form afterwards. Polidor was remembered by Fellini and cast in Toby Dammit as an old actor receiving an award. Cretinetti (real name...
- 6/7/2018
- MUBI
Netflix-backed title to hit big screen in Paris and Nantes on June 28, coinciding with global online launch.
French film magazine SoFilm has announced seven one-off, free theatrical screenings in France for South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Netflix-backed Okja following its controversial premiere in Competition at Cannes this year.
“These will be the only theatrical screenings in France,” magazine editor Thierry Lounas, who is also a co-founder of film production, distribution and sales house Capricci, said. “We’re really happy to be showing it on the big screen in Paris, Nantes and Bordeaux. Bong Joon Ho is a great film-maker and we think this is the best the way to see such a film.”
Lounas added the deal had only recently been concluded with Netflix.
“After the controversy in Cannes, Netflix was cool about the idea but we managed to convince them that in spite of the controversy, it still made sense to try to show...
French film magazine SoFilm has announced seven one-off, free theatrical screenings in France for South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Netflix-backed Okja following its controversial premiere in Competition at Cannes this year.
“These will be the only theatrical screenings in France,” magazine editor Thierry Lounas, who is also a co-founder of film production, distribution and sales house Capricci, said. “We’re really happy to be showing it on the big screen in Paris, Nantes and Bordeaux. Bong Joon Ho is a great film-maker and we think this is the best the way to see such a film.”
Lounas added the deal had only recently been concluded with Netflix.
“After the controversy in Cannes, Netflix was cool about the idea but we managed to convince them that in spite of the controversy, it still made sense to try to show...
- 6/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
Film director and actor who kept the tradition of slapstick alive
Although physical comedy in cinema lessened with the coming of sound, the tradition of slapstick was kept alive, principally by the American actor Jerry Lewis and the Frenchmen Jacques Tati and Pierre Etaix. Etaix, who has died aged 87, was directly inspired by his compatriot Max Linder, the first internationally celebrated film comic, and Buster Keaton. In fact, on the principle that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Etaix was not beyond pinching sight gags from his idols. He managed to create a distinct and personal oeuvre as director-actor, though with regrettably few films – only five features, including one documentary, and four shorts. One of the short films was awarded an Oscar.
This relatively sparse filmography as director was due to various reasons, one being Etaix’s painstaking methods and the necessity of precise comic timing. (The even more...
Although physical comedy in cinema lessened with the coming of sound, the tradition of slapstick was kept alive, principally by the American actor Jerry Lewis and the Frenchmen Jacques Tati and Pierre Etaix. Etaix, who has died aged 87, was directly inspired by his compatriot Max Linder, the first internationally celebrated film comic, and Buster Keaton. In fact, on the principle that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Etaix was not beyond pinching sight gags from his idols. He managed to create a distinct and personal oeuvre as director-actor, though with regrettably few films – only five features, including one documentary, and four shorts. One of the short films was awarded an Oscar.
This relatively sparse filmography as director was due to various reasons, one being Etaix’s painstaking methods and the necessity of precise comic timing. (The even more...
- 10/14/2016
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Pierre Étaix, the French clown, actor, and film director who won an Oscar for his 1962 short film Happy Anniversary and counted some of the world’s greatest filmmakers among his loyal fans, has died. Le Monde reports that the cause of death was an intestinal infection. Étaix was 87.
Born in 1928 in Roanne, Étaix initially studied to be a graphic designer, a background that he would often draw on for his act and subsequent film work. Influenced by the silent comedy of the stone-faced Buster Keaton and the dapper Max Linder, he established himself in the music halls of Paris in the early 1950s.
There, he caught the attention of actor-director Jacques Tati, who hired Étaix to come help him write gags for Mon Oncle (1958), his celebrated second outing as the clumsy, pipe-smoking Monsieur Hulot. Étaix was closely involved in the years-long process of developing the film ...
Born in 1928 in Roanne, Étaix initially studied to be a graphic designer, a background that he would often draw on for his act and subsequent film work. Influenced by the silent comedy of the stone-faced Buster Keaton and the dapper Max Linder, he established himself in the music halls of Paris in the early 1950s.
There, he caught the attention of actor-director Jacques Tati, who hired Étaix to come help him write gags for Mon Oncle (1958), his celebrated second outing as the clumsy, pipe-smoking Monsieur Hulot. Étaix was closely involved in the years-long process of developing the film ...
- 10/14/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
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Martin Scorsese‘s latest cut of Silence clocks in at 195 minutes. It’s expected to be released by the end of the year.
Little Men director Ira Sachs visits The Criterion Collection closet (and read our interview with him):
Michael Haneke and Sean Baker have finished shoot their latest features.
Jacques Tati discusses Charlie Chaplin in a 1957 interview at Kino Slang:
This is a very delicate comparison. First, because Chaplin has made (and made well) over fifty films while I made (and failed) with two short films, and almost succeeded with two long films. So you see, it is difficult for me to speak of Chaplin; and...
Martin Scorsese‘s latest cut of Silence clocks in at 195 minutes. It’s expected to be released by the end of the year.
Little Men director Ira Sachs visits The Criterion Collection closet (and read our interview with him):
Michael Haneke and Sean Baker have finished shoot their latest features.
Jacques Tati discusses Charlie Chaplin in a 1957 interview at Kino Slang:
This is a very delicate comparison. First, because Chaplin has made (and made well) over fifty films while I made (and failed) with two short films, and almost succeeded with two long films. So you see, it is difficult for me to speak of Chaplin; and...
- 8/18/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Mariann Lewinsky curates several strands at Bologna's festival of restored or recovered films, Il Cinema Ritrovato: this year, she commemorated the centenary birth of the Dada movement and Krazy Kat with her Krazy Serial, in which surviving episodes of incomplete serials were jammed together with shorts and newsreels. The finest moment was perhaps when one serial ended and another, Abel Gance's The Poison Gases, began, but with it's opening title long lost, so that the caption "A few minutes later" seemed to join to wholly unconnected narratives.The preceding serial was Jacques Feyder's bizarre spoof, The Clutching Foot (Le pied qui étreint), which I realized from pervious excursions to Bologna was a parody not just of serials in general but of 1914's The Exploits of Elaine in particular, in which Pearl White was regularly menaced by a secret society led by the hooded and spasm-wracked mastermind The Clutching Hand.
- 7/7/2016
- MUBI
We open today's roundup with two pieces on J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, one on the film's politics, the other on its mythology. Also, the underlying structure of Joachim Trier and co-writer Eskil Vogt's Louder Than Bombs, Charles Chaplin's debt to Max Linder, a talk with Barbara Magnolfi about Dario Argento's Suspiria, what Orson Welles thought of Ernest Hemingway, and a consideration of the ways Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy, and his key collaborators, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne and Kristin Wiig, utilize "the power of gesture as a way to signify a range of emotions and reclaim their identity." » - David Hudson...
- 1/18/2016
- Keyframe
We open today's roundup with two pieces on J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, one on the film's politics, the other on its mythology. Also, the underlying structure of Joachim Trier and co-writer Eskil Vogt's Louder Than Bombs, Charles Chaplin's debt to Max Linder, a talk with Barbara Magnolfi about Dario Argento's Suspiria, what Orson Welles thought of Ernest Hemingway, and a consideration of the ways Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy, and his key collaborators, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne and Kristin Wiig, utilize "the power of gesture as a way to signify a range of emotions and reclaim their identity." » - David Hudson...
- 1/18/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The following article has been adapted from a lengthier essay on the film written in 2011.Cinema is always in a state of change. Consequences of this constant flux become more obvious in retrospect, as movements come and go and film form evolves. One of the clearest indications of cinema’s major shifts lies in its technological advancements. Today’s changes are anything but subtle—we can notice them as they occur before us. Regardless of where one stands on the topic of cinema’s health as an art form, it can be agreed that it is going through some of its most monumental changes. Indeed it is even technically switching mediums, as the digital revolution is rendering celluloid obsolete. In Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), new technology is revealed to be not a danger but a challenge, and an opportunity to explore new potential in filmmaking. The essentials of film form...
- 5/13/2015
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
I’ve seen silent films accompanied by music from The Poor People of Paris before. It’s always a treat so don’t miss your opportunity this Friday night. This looks fantastic!
The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema.
The event kicks off this Friday with the 1921 silent comedy Be My Wife with live music by The Poor People of Paris.
The great silent comedian Max Linder (the stage name of Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle) was France’s rival to Charlie Chaplin, who called him “the great master.” One of the first stars to establish a continuing comic persona, Linder introduced his longtime character Max, a high-society dandy, in 1907. By 1912, Linder had taken full control of the filmmaking process – writing,...
The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema.
The event kicks off this Friday with the 1921 silent comedy Be My Wife with live music by The Poor People of Paris.
The great silent comedian Max Linder (the stage name of Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle) was France’s rival to Charlie Chaplin, who called him “the great master.” One of the first stars to establish a continuing comic persona, Linder introduced his longtime character Max, a high-society dandy, in 1907. By 1912, Linder had taken full control of the filmmaking process – writing,...
- 6/11/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This Friday, Cinema St. Louis, along with co-presenters The St. Louis Art Museum and Webster University Film Series, kicks off the Sixth Annual Classic French Film Festival.
The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema. The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations. Cinema St. Louis is especially pleased to present a program of recently restored works by the great silent comedian Max Linder. “Be My Wife,” the feature in that program, was until recently only available in fragments. Three programs feature 35mm prints: “Lola,” “Un Flic,” and the long-unavailable “Je t’aime, je t’aime.”
The festival again explores France’s major contributions to the silent era and pairs the works with live...
The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema. The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations. Cinema St. Louis is especially pleased to present a program of recently restored works by the great silent comedian Max Linder. “Be My Wife,” the feature in that program, was until recently only available in fragments. Three programs feature 35mm prints: “Lola,” “Un Flic,” and the long-unavailable “Je t’aime, je t’aime.”
The festival again explores France’s major contributions to the silent era and pairs the works with live...
- 6/10/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Before we get to the new releases, I wanted to remind you Amazon has all of Wes Anderson's films on sale this week, which means all the following Blu-rays, click on any of the titles for purchasing information: Bottle Rocket ($19.49) my review Rushmore ($19.99) The Royal Tenenbaums ($18.99) The Darjeeling Limited ($20.99) my review Fantastic Mr. Fox ($20.99) And with that we get to... The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Criterion Collection) The initial DVD release of Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was a collaboration between Criterion and Buena Vista Home Entertainment, but now it's getting an official Blu-ray and DVD release from Criterion with a new 4K transfer and a bounty of additional features: New, restored 4K digital film transfer, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Audio commentary by Anderson and cowriter Noah Baumbach This Is an Adventure, a...
- 5/27/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Poor Louis J. Gasnier! Doomed to be remembered for a single late work, Reefer Madness, a.k.a. Tell Your Children (1936), the worst film he or maybe anyone else ever made. It's a piece of staggering incoherence and incompetence which can take a simple scene and put it through a kind of fractal mirror-maze of bad cutting and coverage so as to render you constantly uncertain how many people are in a room and which way any of them are facing.
It was not always thus. Gasnier began directing in France around 1905, worked with the great Max Linder, and was a perfectly serviceable craftsman by the standards of the day. By 1925 he was in Hollywood and working at a high level in the industry, directing Clara Bow in Parisian Love, a tale of "Apaches" (French street roughs) and the upper classes, and a forbidden love affair that crosses these class boundaries.
It was not always thus. Gasnier began directing in France around 1905, worked with the great Max Linder, and was a perfectly serviceable craftsman by the standards of the day. By 1925 he was in Hollywood and working at a high level in the industry, directing Clara Bow in Parisian Love, a tale of "Apaches" (French street roughs) and the upper classes, and a forbidden love affair that crosses these class boundaries.
- 2/6/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
In the Austin Film Society's ongoing Godard vs. Truffaut series, it's time to return to the world of Antoine Doinel this weekend. The 1962 short film Antoine Et Collette will be paired with 1967's Stolen Kisses. Both films will screen in 35mm tonight and again on Sunday afternoon at the Marchesa. On Tuesday night, you can head up to the Afs Screening Room at Austin Studios for an Avant Cinema screening of the 1929 experimental Russian film Man With A Movie Camera.
Make sure you're back at the Marchesa on Wednesday night as Richard Linklater kicks off his new series Jewels In The Wasteland: A Trip Through '80s Cinema with Martin Scorsese's The King Of Comedy screening in a brand new print. This is the first film in the 1980-1983 portion of the 35mm series, which will be programmed through May. Linklater himself will be introducing all the films and hosting post-screening discussions,...
Make sure you're back at the Marchesa on Wednesday night as Richard Linklater kicks off his new series Jewels In The Wasteland: A Trip Through '80s Cinema with Martin Scorsese's The King Of Comedy screening in a brand new print. This is the first film in the 1980-1983 portion of the 35mm series, which will be programmed through May. Linklater himself will be introducing all the films and hosting post-screening discussions,...
- 1/24/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
News.
Opera and theatre director, filmmaker, and actor Patrice Chéreau has passed away at the age of 68. From David Hudson's Daily:
"In 2001, Chéreau’s Intimacy won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear and the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc, and two years later, he won a Silver Bear for Best Director for Son frère. At Cannes, he won the Jury Prize in 1994 for La reine Margot (Queen Margo, with Isabelle Adjani), then a César for Best Director in 1998 for Ceux qui m’aiment prendront le train (Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, with Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and on and on)."
Via Variety, Bong Joon-ho hinted publicly that he's not too happy with The Weinstein Company and the cuts Snowpiercer has had to undergo for its North American release. Jonathan Rosenbaum has found a new (internet) home: follow him to jonathanrosenbaum.net.
Finds.
For the Vancouver International Film Festival,...
Opera and theatre director, filmmaker, and actor Patrice Chéreau has passed away at the age of 68. From David Hudson's Daily:
"In 2001, Chéreau’s Intimacy won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear and the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc, and two years later, he won a Silver Bear for Best Director for Son frère. At Cannes, he won the Jury Prize in 1994 for La reine Margot (Queen Margo, with Isabelle Adjani), then a César for Best Director in 1998 for Ceux qui m’aiment prendront le train (Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, with Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and on and on)."
Via Variety, Bong Joon-ho hinted publicly that he's not too happy with The Weinstein Company and the cuts Snowpiercer has had to undergo for its North American release. Jonathan Rosenbaum has found a new (internet) home: follow him to jonathanrosenbaum.net.
Finds.
For the Vancouver International Film Festival,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Quentin Tarantino makes no secret of his encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture. His characters are fountains of obscure movie references and his films themselves are functional homages to bygone genre flicks. Nobody would blame you for getting a little bogged down in all of those trivia bits.
But now, thanks to the diligent folks over at College Humor, you won’t have to. They’ve put together a supercut with all of Tarantino’s pop culture references, and what’s more, they’re arranged in chronological order. So, starting with a nod to silent film star Max Linder in Inglorious Basterds,...
But now, thanks to the diligent folks over at College Humor, you won’t have to. They’ve put together a supercut with all of Tarantino’s pop culture references, and what’s more, they’re arranged in chronological order. So, starting with a nod to silent film star Max Linder in Inglorious Basterds,...
- 1/3/2013
- by Josh Stillman
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York based actress Neelu Sodhi makes her Bollywood debut in Eros International’s much awaited film English Vinglish starring the legendary actress Sridevi. The film marks the comeback of India’s superstar to the big screen after a 14 year sabbatical. English Vinglish is directed by Gauri Shinde, wife of Director R. Balki, known famously for his films Paa and Cheeni Kum. The film is a funny and emotional story about an Indian woman who doesn’t know English and is made to feel insecure by her family and society at large. Circumstances make her determined to overcome this insecurity, master the English language and teach the world a lesson. Neelu plays a pivotal role in the film as Sridevi’s niece and even shares a dance sequence with the renowned actress. The film also has a cameo by India’s biggest superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
Set to release worldwide on October 5th,...
Set to release worldwide on October 5th,...
- 9/11/2012
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Asked by Sight & Sound to name the ten greatest films of all time, Robert Bresson submitted the following, somewhat notorious list:
1. City Lights
2. City Lights
3. The Gold Rush
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8.
9.
10.
There are two ways in which Robert Bresson is rarely spoken about: as a comic filmmaker (though, as the above demonstrates, he could be pretty damn funny) and as someone whose work displays the influence of other directors.
Let's begin with that second point. Going back to some of the earliest defenses—as well as the earliest dismissals—of his work, Bresson has largely been described as a filmmaker "without precedent;" his detractors from the 1940s to the 1960s complained that his films didn't work the way movies were supposed to, and his supporters were more than happy to praise his films for the exact same reasons (Jacques Becker, for one, took the pages of L'Écran français to defend the poorly-received Les dames du Bois de Boulogne...
1. City Lights
2. City Lights
3. The Gold Rush
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
There are two ways in which Robert Bresson is rarely spoken about: as a comic filmmaker (though, as the above demonstrates, he could be pretty damn funny) and as someone whose work displays the influence of other directors.
Let's begin with that second point. Going back to some of the earliest defenses—as well as the earliest dismissals—of his work, Bresson has largely been described as a filmmaker "without precedent;" his detractors from the 1940s to the 1960s complained that his films didn't work the way movies were supposed to, and his supporters were more than happy to praise his films for the exact same reasons (Jacques Becker, for one, took the pages of L'Écran français to defend the poorly-received Les dames du Bois de Boulogne...
- 1/13/2012
- MUBI
The celebrated 'French Buster Keaton' has finally won his battle over distribution rights to get his films shown again
Pierre Étaix is back, by popular demand. Jerry Lewis acclaimed him as a genius and Terry Gilliam is a devoted fan, but until very recently, the 83-year-old Étaix, a comedian, magician and clown who Paris-Match called "the French Buster Keaton", was in danger of being forgotten entirely. His films are timeless treasures of whimsical, physical comedy, but copyright difficulties meant that his movies had not been distributed, let alone released on home video, for decades. Étaix's signature on a disastrous distribution contract cast his films into oblivion, but 56,000 more, including those of Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch and Woody Allen, on a petition in 2009, have rescued them for posterity. The end to this long-running legal dispute should be a cause for celebration among film fans, even though many, quite understandably, will never...
Pierre Étaix is back, by popular demand. Jerry Lewis acclaimed him as a genius and Terry Gilliam is a devoted fan, but until very recently, the 83-year-old Étaix, a comedian, magician and clown who Paris-Match called "the French Buster Keaton", was in danger of being forgotten entirely. His films are timeless treasures of whimsical, physical comedy, but copyright difficulties meant that his movies had not been distributed, let alone released on home video, for decades. Étaix's signature on a disastrous distribution contract cast his films into oblivion, but 56,000 more, including those of Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch and Woody Allen, on a petition in 2009, have rescued them for posterity. The end to this long-running legal dispute should be a cause for celebration among film fans, even though many, quite understandably, will never...
- 12/23/2011
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Friends laughed at Michel Hazanavicius when he wanted to make a silent movie. But Harvey Weinstein loved it – and bought it. Now there are Oscar rumours
'When I first told people about my idea for this movie, they just laughed at me," says Michel Hazanavicius. "Friends, actors, producers – they all laughed. They'd say, 'Ok, Ok, but what do you really want to do?'" The problem was that Hazanavicius wanted to make a silent movie, 70 years after talkies rendered silents commercially obsolete and aesthetically outré. True, there have been some avant garde silent film-makers (Canadian Guy Maddin, for instance), but Hazanavicius isn't of their temper. "I wanted to make a charming mainstream movie. But nobody thought the market was ready for it. Producers said: 'Nobody wants to see a movie like that.'"
But they do. Hazanavicius's unremittingly charming and inventive movie The Artist, about a 1920s Hollywood star eclipsed...
'When I first told people about my idea for this movie, they just laughed at me," says Michel Hazanavicius. "Friends, actors, producers – they all laughed. They'd say, 'Ok, Ok, but what do you really want to do?'" The problem was that Hazanavicius wanted to make a silent movie, 70 years after talkies rendered silents commercially obsolete and aesthetically outré. True, there have been some avant garde silent film-makers (Canadian Guy Maddin, for instance), but Hazanavicius isn't of their temper. "I wanted to make a charming mainstream movie. But nobody thought the market was ready for it. Producers said: 'Nobody wants to see a movie like that.'"
But they do. Hazanavicius's unremittingly charming and inventive movie The Artist, about a 1920s Hollywood star eclipsed...
- 12/9/2011
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Abel Gance isn't usually associated with slapstick comedy, and Max Linder isn't usually associated with anything else, and yet here they are in 1925, at the end of Linder's significant career and near the end of Gance's golden age (Napoleon was just around the corner: his career would run on to 1972). Gance's real masterworks, like La roue and Napoleon and J'accuse!, don't tend to feature humor as a big element, and they do depend on a real epic sweep to their long-form narratives, so one could be forgiven for approaching Au secours! (1924), which clocks in at under half an hour, as at best a minor divertissement. But I'd argue that, on its own quirky terms, without making any claim of importance or significance, it's an utterly amazing piece of cinema.
Linder could be plausibly credited with introducing the concept of elegance into screen comedy, thus paving the way for Chaplin (who...
Linder could be plausibly credited with introducing the concept of elegance into screen comedy, thus paving the way for Chaplin (who...
- 10/6/2011
- MUBI
Angelica only comes to life in a viewfinder and some photos: not as life, but as a movie—a trace of life. Oliveira returns to the Douro valley, where he shot his first movie—Douro, River Valley (1931)—a documentary/ pastoral symphony and part-ode to mechanization/collectivization (of sorts), and has his surrogate protagonist documenting the last collective rural workers of the area: a nostalgic attempt, he says, to preserve the past. At an extended supper, life-long pensioners—something out of Balzac, or Monteiro´s own nostalgic Portugal in Memories of the Yellow House—discuss the traces of starlight that appear long after the death of the star. But they also discuss the economy and recession.
Like most—all?—of Oliveira's films since Rite of Spring, a stagey, visibly artificial vestige of the past, filmed only as exterior evidence of ritual and performance, becomes capable of exploding a material, modern present...
Like most—all?—of Oliveira's films since Rite of Spring, a stagey, visibly artificial vestige of the past, filmed only as exterior evidence of ritual and performance, becomes capable of exploding a material, modern present...
- 1/3/2011
- MUBI
For me, comedy begins with Charlie Chaplin. I know there were screen comedies before he came along, and I appreciate the work of everyone from Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew to Max Linder. But none of them created a persona as unique or indelible as the Little Tramp, and no one could match his worldwide impact. The miracle of the “golden dozen” two-reelers he made for Mutual Film Corporation in 1916-17, just a few years after his motion picture debut, remains unmatched almost a century later: twelve perfectly-formed comedies (The Immigrant, Easy Street, The Adventurer, The Cure, et al), filmed…...
- 12/13/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
"When I think of a great comic like Max Linder, who influenced Charlie Chaplin, I feel like I'm just the soles of their shoes. I'm so small."
Pierre Étaix is back! The French writer-director-star, a disciple of Tati but very much his own clown, has been released from a kind of purgatory in which his entire back-catalogue of films was unavailable to the public for decades, due to some impenetrable Dickensian legal wrangle: as he sees it, his life's work had been simply stolen.
Well, the good news is that the films, five features and a number of shorts, have now been liberated, and a seemingly rejuvenated Etaix is traveling the globe reintroducing them to the people. And what we see is not merely an adjunct to the work of Tati, but a distinctive contribution to the world of film comedy: with his dapper, man-about-town persona (not to mention the...
Pierre Étaix is back! The French writer-director-star, a disciple of Tati but very much his own clown, has been released from a kind of purgatory in which his entire back-catalogue of films was unavailable to the public for decades, due to some impenetrable Dickensian legal wrangle: as he sees it, his life's work had been simply stolen.
Well, the good news is that the films, five features and a number of shorts, have now been liberated, and a seemingly rejuvenated Etaix is traveling the globe reintroducing them to the people. And what we see is not merely an adjunct to the work of Tati, but a distinctive contribution to the world of film comedy: with his dapper, man-about-town persona (not to mention the...
- 11/18/2010
- MUBI
On Tuesday morning, Wamg was invited to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ special press preview of John Ford’s Upstream (1927), one of 75 films recently found in the New Zealand Film Archive and repatriated to the U.S. with the cooperation of the National Film Preservation Foundation.
The 1927 silent film, that was thought lost for decades, had it’s re-premiere Wednesday night, September 1, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Many of the VIP’s on hand included Silent Film Historians and those involved with the restoration, as well as the general public.
Having seen the film on Tuesday, I must say the transfer is absolutely beautiful. I was so impressed by the special care taken with the film’s clarity and how vibrant the tinting is on the multiple color frames throughout. The smoky special effects combined with the subtle transitions made me forget I was...
The 1927 silent film, that was thought lost for decades, had it’s re-premiere Wednesday night, September 1, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Many of the VIP’s on hand included Silent Film Historians and those involved with the restoration, as well as the general public.
Having seen the film on Tuesday, I must say the transfer is absolutely beautiful. I was so impressed by the special care taken with the film’s clarity and how vibrant the tinting is on the multiple color frames throughout. The smoky special effects combined with the subtle transitions made me forget I was...
- 9/2/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By modern standards, Quentin Tarantino would be considered an auteur; a director whose films reflect that his personal creative vision. But what exactly is that vision, and how is it reflected in his work? One major observation that one can make about Tarantino’s films is that he often incorporates a number of references, many of which refer to cinema, specific films, or pop culture. His films are laced with this intertextuality were the relationship between texts (or films) is constantly being redefined. This method of pastiche is one way that he draws attention to the fact that his film is a constructed piece of fiction, or a “simulation.”
His rational behind this is heavily influenced by French theorist Jean Baudrillard’s notion of “hyperreality.” Hyperreality in this case refers to the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, as the two become blurred into one. Baudrillard argues that...
His rational behind this is heavily influenced by French theorist Jean Baudrillard’s notion of “hyperreality.” Hyperreality in this case refers to the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, as the two become blurred into one. Baudrillard argues that...
- 6/26/2010
- by Kristen Coates
- The Film Stage
Every director has his signatures and Quentin Tarantino is no exception. See how many classic Tarantino quirks made it into "Inglourious Basterds." -- Reed Tucker
Pop culture-riddled dialog
Previously: Thanks to Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, we all now know what a Big Mac is called in France (Royale with cheese). And who could forget Tarantino himself delivering an X-rated dissertation on Madonna's "Like a Virgin" in "Reservoir Dogs?"
"Basterds": Because the film is set during WWII,...
Pop culture-riddled dialog
Previously: Thanks to Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, we all now know what a Big Mac is called in France (Royale with cheese). And who could forget Tarantino himself delivering an X-rated dissertation on Madonna's "Like a Virgin" in "Reservoir Dogs?"
"Basterds": Because the film is set during WWII,...
- 8/16/2009
- NYPost.com
Attendance was down by 30 percent at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprising, considering the recession still biting and Euro exchange rates keeping prices along the Croisette at ridiculously expensive levels. Yet the number of high-profile genre films in the Official Competition was a bonus for those more used to finding the most controversial entries up for distributor grabs in the Market section. While Park Chan-wook’s Thirst and Gaspar Noe’s Enter The Void certainly had their followers, with Terry Gilliam’s out-of-competition The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus a similar hot ticket, the two biggest stories were Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist.
Cinema saves the world in Tarantino’s disjointed, history-bending homage to war movies, which takes its misspelled name—but very little else—from Enzo Castellari’s 1978 Italian cult exploiter. Divided into chapters, each highlighting a movie style like Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns,...
Cinema saves the world in Tarantino’s disjointed, history-bending homage to war movies, which takes its misspelled name—but very little else—from Enzo Castellari’s 1978 Italian cult exploiter. Divided into chapters, each highlighting a movie style like Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns,...
- 5/29/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Alan Jones)
- Fangoria
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