Lambert Wilson Named President Of Locarno Jury
The Matrix franchise actor Lambert Wilson will be the President of the Jury at the 76th Locarno Film Festival this year. The French star will chair the panel, which will award the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard) to the winning film on the final night of the Switzerland fest. Wilson has worked with many top European directors, such as Claude Chabrol, Andrzej Żuławski and André Téchiné, and is best known in the U.S. for his role as the Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections. His acting credits include Julia, La Boum 2 and Five Days One Summer. Recently he appeared in Prime Video series Totem and starred in Éric Besnard’s Les Choses Simples. The Locarno Film Festival will run from August 2-12.
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The Matrix franchise actor Lambert Wilson will be the President of the Jury at the 76th Locarno Film Festival this year. The French star will chair the panel, which will award the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard) to the winning film on the final night of the Switzerland fest. Wilson has worked with many top European directors, such as Claude Chabrol, Andrzej Żuławski and André Téchiné, and is best known in the U.S. for his role as the Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections. His acting credits include Julia, La Boum 2 and Five Days One Summer. Recently he appeared in Prime Video series Totem and starred in Éric Besnard’s Les Choses Simples. The Locarno Film Festival will run from August 2-12.
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- 5/18/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
French sales company has unveiled its Rendez-Vous in Paris slate.
Snd, the feature film arm of France’s M6 broadcasting group, has sold Lisa Azuelos’ globe-trotting drama The Book Of Wonders and Eric Barbier’s adventure Princes Of The Desert to a slew of territories worldwide ahead of the titles’ world premieres at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris (Jan 10-17).
Snd will also market premiere Eric Besnard’s A Great Friend, Cécilia Rouard’s Killing Blue and Pierre-François Martin-Laval’s Jeff & Jean-Marc’s Adventures at the Rendez-Vous, and unveil first footage of Guillaume Nicloux’s The Baby.
Snd has...
Snd, the feature film arm of France’s M6 broadcasting group, has sold Lisa Azuelos’ globe-trotting drama The Book Of Wonders and Eric Barbier’s adventure Princes Of The Desert to a slew of territories worldwide ahead of the titles’ world premieres at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris (Jan 10-17).
Snd will also market premiere Eric Besnard’s A Great Friend, Cécilia Rouard’s Killing Blue and Pierre-François Martin-Laval’s Jeff & Jean-Marc’s Adventures at the Rendez-Vous, and unveil first footage of Guillaume Nicloux’s The Baby.
Snd has...
- 1/6/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
"Gourmet cuisine is not for the common man." Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted an official US trailer for a French historic drama titled Delicious, originally Délicieux in French. This premiered at the Rendezvous with French Cinema Festival, and stopped by others including Festival du Cinéma Français in Israel and the Norwegian Film Festival. Set in France in 1789, just before the Revolution. A chef who has been sacked by his master, with the help of a woman, finds the strength to free himself from being a servant to open the very first restaurant. Is this a true story? I've always wondered where restaurants came from, and how they developed! Of course it's France staking claim to the very beginning. The cast of Delicious includes Gregory Gadebois, Isabelle Carre, Benjamin Lavernhe, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Christian Bouillette, Lorenzo Lefèbvre, & Marie-Julie Baup. Looks like it's quite a sumptuous watch, especially for foodies. Here's the...
- 11/19/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Palace Cinemas national programming director Kim Petalas will step down from his role in late December after some 30 years with the company.
However, while he is leaving to spend more time with his family, he will continue to advise the exhibitor in his semi-retirement.
Of his decision, the industry veteran – also the director of the British Film Festival – tells If: “I felt that it was time, after such a long innings, to allow somebody else to come in with some fresh ideas, and for me to assist and help out wherever I can.
“It’s hard to leave an industry and in particular, an organisation, that I just love so much. I’ll do anything in the background to assist Palace moving forward.”
Petalas has always had an “incredible passion” for film, and started at Palace developing the group booking business, before stepping into the programming director role some 28 years ago.
However, while he is leaving to spend more time with his family, he will continue to advise the exhibitor in his semi-retirement.
Of his decision, the industry veteran – also the director of the British Film Festival – tells If: “I felt that it was time, after such a long innings, to allow somebody else to come in with some fresh ideas, and for me to assist and help out wherever I can.
“It’s hard to leave an industry and in particular, an organisation, that I just love so much. I’ll do anything in the background to assist Palace moving forward.”
Petalas has always had an “incredible passion” for film, and started at Palace developing the group booking business, before stepping into the programming director role some 28 years ago.
- 11/3/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
With his new picture, Guy Ritchie continues down a familiar, albeit entertaining, road. Following a decade-plus of big budget tentpoles, the gangster genre auteur settled back into the pocket with last year’s The Gentlemen. Wrath of Man brings back yet another element from Ritchie’s early success: Jason Statham.
Reuniting after Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Revolver, Statham plays a man named “H.” He gets a job at a Los Angeles-based armored cash truck company, earning the trust of long-time employee Bullet (Holt McCallany) and the suspicious eye of Boy Sweat Dave (Josh Hartnett). The company is still recovering from a recent robbery gone way wrong. Two guards were killed, and one civilian. Early on we learn that that one civilian was H’s teenage son. Vengeance, as ever, ensues. Based on the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur with a screenplay credited to no less than five people,...
Reuniting after Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Revolver, Statham plays a man named “H.” He gets a job at a Los Angeles-based armored cash truck company, earning the trust of long-time employee Bullet (Holt McCallany) and the suspicious eye of Boy Sweat Dave (Josh Hartnett). The company is still recovering from a recent robbery gone way wrong. Two guards were killed, and one civilian. Early on we learn that that one civilian was H’s teenage son. Vengeance, as ever, ensues. Based on the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur with a screenplay credited to no less than five people,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Plus: Lionsgate sets awards season date for La La Land; Focus World nabs A Tale Of Love And Darkness; and more…
Hunt For The Wilderpeople and Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You will open and fellow Sundance selection Love & Friendship will close the 18th annual RiverRun International Film Festival, set to run in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from April 7-17.
“For the past 11 years, I’ve had the honour and privilege to lead RiverRun,” said executive director Andrew Rodgers, who is departing this week to become executive director of the Denver Film Society.
“This year, as I step down and make room for someone new to come into the organisation and provide a new vision, I’m so proud of the great work the staff has done putting together such an excellent festival. This year’s line-up, in particular, is jam-packed with exciting bold-faced names, new talents and retrospectives. Put simply, this is a great...
Hunt For The Wilderpeople and Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You will open and fellow Sundance selection Love & Friendship will close the 18th annual RiverRun International Film Festival, set to run in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from April 7-17.
“For the past 11 years, I’ve had the honour and privilege to lead RiverRun,” said executive director Andrew Rodgers, who is departing this week to become executive director of the Denver Film Society.
“This year, as I step down and make room for someone new to come into the organisation and provide a new vision, I’m so proud of the great work the staff has done putting together such an excellent festival. This year’s line-up, in particular, is jam-packed with exciting bold-faced names, new talents and retrospectives. Put simply, this is a great...
- 3/7/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ It's Oscar season and the film on everyone's mind is Michel Hazanavicius' directorial triumph The Artist (2011), starring Jean Dujardin in the lead role. The exciting buzz around Dujardin may explain the delayed DVD release date of Éric Besnard's Cash, which originally hit cinemas in 2008 and also featured Dujardin as the lead, but doesn't exhibit his ability to its full potential.
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- 1/31/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Cash
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Valeria Golino, Alice Taglioni | Written and Directed by Éric Besnard
Part of the fun of being a deckhand for the good ship Blogomatic3000 is reviewing DVDs. More often than not, I never know exactly what’s going to arrive in the post and again more often than not, I think it’s fair to say, the DVD screeners are usually fairly obscure fare. As such, I might not know anything other than the film’s title when I push it into the DVD player, which was exactly the case with Cash. What would it be? A hard hitting documentary about capitalism? A rom-com set in a bank? That long-awaited biopic of Australia’s finest tennis player? I was just hoping it wasn’t another godawful 50 Cent gangsta flick.
Turns out, Cash is a fairly charming French heist film, first released in 2008. 2008? I hear you...
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Valeria Golino, Alice Taglioni | Written and Directed by Éric Besnard
Part of the fun of being a deckhand for the good ship Blogomatic3000 is reviewing DVDs. More often than not, I never know exactly what’s going to arrive in the post and again more often than not, I think it’s fair to say, the DVD screeners are usually fairly obscure fare. As such, I might not know anything other than the film’s title when I push it into the DVD player, which was exactly the case with Cash. What would it be? A hard hitting documentary about capitalism? A rom-com set in a bank? That long-awaited biopic of Australia’s finest tennis player? I was just hoping it wasn’t another godawful 50 Cent gangsta flick.
Turns out, Cash is a fairly charming French heist film, first released in 2008. 2008? I hear you...
- 1/29/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Jean Reno is the latest to join the cast of Peter Billingsley’s upcoming comedy “Couples Retreat,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Written by Jon Favreau, the film follows four couples who spend some time at a tropical island resort, where they quickly find out that participation in a couple therapy program is mandatory.
Reno is set to play a therapist and the owner of the resort. Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love play the guys, with Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman and Kristin Davis on board as the girls.
Reno, who recently starred in Eric Besnard’s “Ca$h,” will also appear in Harald Zwart’s upcoming sequel “Pink Panther 2.” He also recently wrapped filming for Nimród Antal’s “Armored.”
Final word: Reno as a crazy therapist in an American flick sounds totally hilarious. He alone will be worth seeing this.
Written by Jon Favreau, the film follows four couples who spend some time at a tropical island resort, where they quickly find out that participation in a couple therapy program is mandatory.
Reno is set to play a therapist and the owner of the resort. Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love play the guys, with Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman and Kristin Davis on board as the girls.
Reno, who recently starred in Eric Besnard’s “Ca$h,” will also appear in Harald Zwart’s upcoming sequel “Pink Panther 2.” He also recently wrapped filming for Nimród Antal’s “Armored.”
Final word: Reno as a crazy therapist in an American flick sounds totally hilarious. He alone will be worth seeing this.
- 10/27/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Paris -- Unifrance will take a taste of France to Vietnam when the second Panorama of French Cinema kicks off there Monday.
The French film promotion organization will premiere six Gallic titles and bring famous French faces to town to promote that country's cinema, Unifrance said Thursday.
Emmanuelle Beart will present the comedy "Disco" alongside the film's director, Fabien Ontiente. Unifrance vp Eric Neve, Ugc International's Adeline Falampin and Roland Husson, international director of France's state film body the Cnc, also will be in attendance.
This year's selection of films includes Francois Desagnat and Thomas Sorriaux's "15 ans et demi," Eric Besnard's "Cash," Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak's "Dragon Hunters," Jean-Paul Salome's "Female Agents" and Jean-Patrick Benes and Allan Mauduit's "Vilaine."
The event, in partnership with Megastar cinemas, will be held in Hanoi from Monday-Wednesday; in Ho Chi Minh City from Wednesday-Oct. 24; in Da-Nang from Oct. 27-28; and in Haiphong from Oct.
The French film promotion organization will premiere six Gallic titles and bring famous French faces to town to promote that country's cinema, Unifrance said Thursday.
Emmanuelle Beart will present the comedy "Disco" alongside the film's director, Fabien Ontiente. Unifrance vp Eric Neve, Ugc International's Adeline Falampin and Roland Husson, international director of France's state film body the Cnc, also will be in attendance.
This year's selection of films includes Francois Desagnat and Thomas Sorriaux's "15 ans et demi," Eric Besnard's "Cash," Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak's "Dragon Hunters," Jean-Paul Salome's "Female Agents" and Jean-Patrick Benes and Allan Mauduit's "Vilaine."
The event, in partnership with Megastar cinemas, will be held in Hanoi from Monday-Wednesday; in Ho Chi Minh City from Wednesday-Oct. 24; in Da-Nang from Oct. 27-28; and in Haiphong from Oct.
- 10/16/2008
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Even though he probably should have gone into hiding after his portrayal of Henry VIII in The Other Boleyn Girl, Eric Bana is back on the scene with a bunch of new movies in production and some in the can. Most recently, Millennium Films announced that he will star in the remake of the French heist movie, Le Convoyeur, which starts shooting on April 1. F. Gary Gray, who must be familiar with the heist genre after directing The Italian Job, will direct the re-make. The movie was titled "Armored," but will have to be re-named, since Screen Gems is producing another movie with that very title. Originally written by Frenchies Eric Besnard (Babylon A.D.) and Nicolas Boukhrief, the new script will be penned by David Ayer and Andrew Kevin Walker. The film concerns an armored car company that has been suffering robberies in which the drivers have been killed. ...
- 10/10/2008
- cinemablend.com
Seen on: August 29, 2008
The players: Director: Mathieu Kassovitz, Writers: Eric Besnard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gerard Depardieu
Facts of interest: Based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec.
The plot: A mercenary (Diesel) agrees to escort a young woman from Mongolia to New York.
Our quick thoughts: When a director trashes his own movie just a few days before its theatrical release, you known it can’t be good. Earlier this week, French helmer Mathieu Kassovitz said he’s quite unhappy with his latest action flick “Babylon A.D.,” citing strong studio interference as one example of a terrible experience on the set.
Angry about not being able to do with the scenes what he originally intended to, Kassovitz even called the movie violent and stupid. And who can blame him for telling the truth?...
The players: Director: Mathieu Kassovitz, Writers: Eric Besnard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gerard Depardieu
Facts of interest: Based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec.
The plot: A mercenary (Diesel) agrees to escort a young woman from Mongolia to New York.
Our quick thoughts: When a director trashes his own movie just a few days before its theatrical release, you known it can’t be good. Earlier this week, French helmer Mathieu Kassovitz said he’s quite unhappy with his latest action flick “Babylon A.D.,” citing strong studio interference as one example of a terrible experience on the set.
Angry about not being able to do with the scenes what he originally intended to, Kassovitz even called the movie violent and stupid. And who can blame him for telling the truth?...
- 8/29/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
We have some great images in from the next film in the franchise from Universal Pictures. Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster and Laz Alonzo! This is the fourth film in the series, the last of which was "Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" which neither Walker nor Diesel starred in. The new film reunites the original stars and looks set to bring in some big box office numbers for Universal. Diesel makes his return soon with the Mathieu Kassovitz' directed "Babylon A.D." which sees theatres on August 29th. Based on the novel written by Maurice G. Dantec which Eric Besnard ("Ca$h") adapts. Walker's been quite this year with just a single project on offer in the upcoming "The Lazarus Project" helmed by John Glenn who also writes alongside Evan Astrowsky. He stars with Linda Cardellini in the drama thriller also called "The Heaven Project.
- 8/26/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival
The overtaxed and underpaid life of the average armored car security guard serves as the untapped inspiration for "Cash Truck" (Le Convoyeur), a taut thriller in the gritty French policier tradition.
Holding its world premiere at this year's City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival showcasing fresh French cinema, the Nicolas Boukhrief film will be commercially released back home April 14 and should pull off a decent haul despite the downbeat tone.
Things are less than cheery these days at Vigilante, a small cash transport company that has seen three of its armored trucks robbed -- and its crews massacred -- in the past year alone.
As the company teeters on the brink (or would that be Brinks?) and a festering paranoia envelops its employees, enter Alex Demarre (Albert Dupontel), a fresh if rather high-strung recruit with a deliberately mysterious past.
Is he actually a writer researching a script? Or is he planning the next Vigilante heist from the inside?
Director Boukhrief and co-screenwriter Eric Besnard coyly dangle those and other possible scenarios before revealing another motivation, while Dupontel (last seen in the incendiary "Irreversible") turns in another characteristically intense performance.
If Dupontel comes across as a Gallic Robert De Niro with a shorter fuse, than the film more than slightly suggests Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" infused with some Ken Loach-style working-class cinema verite.
That may not make Boukhrief the most original filmmaker around, but there's a sustained tension that effectively takes the viewer along for the unnerving ride.
The overtaxed and underpaid life of the average armored car security guard serves as the untapped inspiration for "Cash Truck" (Le Convoyeur), a taut thriller in the gritty French policier tradition.
Holding its world premiere at this year's City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival showcasing fresh French cinema, the Nicolas Boukhrief film will be commercially released back home April 14 and should pull off a decent haul despite the downbeat tone.
Things are less than cheery these days at Vigilante, a small cash transport company that has seen three of its armored trucks robbed -- and its crews massacred -- in the past year alone.
As the company teeters on the brink (or would that be Brinks?) and a festering paranoia envelops its employees, enter Alex Demarre (Albert Dupontel), a fresh if rather high-strung recruit with a deliberately mysterious past.
Is he actually a writer researching a script? Or is he planning the next Vigilante heist from the inside?
Director Boukhrief and co-screenwriter Eric Besnard coyly dangle those and other possible scenarios before revealing another motivation, while Dupontel (last seen in the incendiary "Irreversible") turns in another characteristically intense performance.
If Dupontel comes across as a Gallic Robert De Niro with a shorter fuse, than the film more than slightly suggests Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" infused with some Ken Loach-style working-class cinema verite.
That may not make Boukhrief the most original filmmaker around, but there's a sustained tension that effectively takes the viewer along for the unnerving ride.
City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival
The overtaxed and underpaid life of the average armored car security guard serves as the untapped inspiration for "Cash Truck" (Le Convoyeur), a taut thriller in the gritty French policier tradition.
Holding its world premiere at this year's City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival showcasing fresh French cinema, the Nicolas Boukhrief film will be commercially released back home April 14 and should pull off a decent haul despite the downbeat tone.
Things are less than cheery these days at Vigilante, a small cash transport company that has seen three of its armored trucks robbed -- and its crews massacred -- in the past year alone.
As the company teeters on the brink (or would that be Brinks?) and a festering paranoia envelops its employees, enter Alex Demarre (Albert Dupontel), a fresh if rather high-strung recruit with a deliberately mysterious past.
Is he actually a writer researching a script? Or is he planning the next Vigilante heist from the inside?
Director Boukhrief and co-screenwriter Eric Besnard coyly dangle those and other possible scenarios before revealing another motivation, while Dupontel (last seen in the incendiary "Irreversible") turns in another characteristically intense performance.
If Dupontel comes across as a Gallic Robert De Niro with a shorter fuse, than the film more than slightly suggests Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" infused with some Ken Loach-style working-class cinema verite.
That may not make Boukhrief the most original filmmaker around, but there's a sustained tension that effectively takes the viewer along for the unnerving ride.
The overtaxed and underpaid life of the average armored car security guard serves as the untapped inspiration for "Cash Truck" (Le Convoyeur), a taut thriller in the gritty French policier tradition.
Holding its world premiere at this year's City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival showcasing fresh French cinema, the Nicolas Boukhrief film will be commercially released back home April 14 and should pull off a decent haul despite the downbeat tone.
Things are less than cheery these days at Vigilante, a small cash transport company that has seen three of its armored trucks robbed -- and its crews massacred -- in the past year alone.
As the company teeters on the brink (or would that be Brinks?) and a festering paranoia envelops its employees, enter Alex Demarre (Albert Dupontel), a fresh if rather high-strung recruit with a deliberately mysterious past.
Is he actually a writer researching a script? Or is he planning the next Vigilante heist from the inside?
Director Boukhrief and co-screenwriter Eric Besnard coyly dangle those and other possible scenarios before revealing another motivation, while Dupontel (last seen in the incendiary "Irreversible") turns in another characteristically intense performance.
If Dupontel comes across as a Gallic Robert De Niro with a shorter fuse, than the film more than slightly suggests Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" infused with some Ken Loach-style working-class cinema verite.
That may not make Boukhrief the most original filmmaker around, but there's a sustained tension that effectively takes the viewer along for the unnerving ride.
- 4/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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