Tinashe wasn’t always the type of artist to lead with her political beliefs. It’s not that she didn’t have her convictions, but trying to keep your recording career alive inside a company that’s not built for you to succeed tends to be a full-time job. She parted ways with RCA in 2019, the label she announced signing to seven years prior. If the last few years of her existence focused on achieving creative and contractual freedom, 2020 seems to be about transparency. Over the phone, the Songs for...
- 8/4/2020
- by Charles Holmes
- Rollingstone.com
Shining bright among the nine titles in the French agent’s line-up are Rascal by Peter Dourountzis and Beasts by Naël Marandin, awarded the Official Selection and Critics’ Week labels respectively. The French international sales agent Kinology, steered by Grégoire Melin, will have an impressive hand to play at the Cannes Film Festival’s Online Marché du Film (running 22 – 26 June), flaunting a line-up of nine films which perfectly epitomise the great strategic divide brought about by the health crisis, with some titles launching this season and others pushed back to 2021. Shimmering in the showcase are two French feature films awarded a Cannes Label and which will enjoy private (specially chosen) screenings, ahead of premieres set to unfurl in September. Standing tall under the “Official Selection Cannes 73” banner is Peter Dourountzis’s Rascal (news), a first feature film starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Ophélie Bau and Sébastien Houban. The story follows...
Aleksandra Terpinska’s “Other People” and Peter Dourountzis’s “Rascal” won the inaugural Arte Kino International Prize at the 10th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village.
The award was given by Remi Burah, who runs Arte France Cinéma and launched in 2016 ArteKino Festival, a European online festival in partnership with the digital service Festival Scope. Each “Other People” and “Rascal” will receive 2000 Euros.
Mixing comedy, drama and musical, “Other People” tells the story of a man who lives with his mum and teenage sister who starts a romance with Iwona, a woman in her early 40’s who cannot cope with her marriage. “Other People” was selected as part of this year’s focus on Poland. Terpinska’s last short “The Best Fireworks Ever” premiered at Cannes’s Critics’ Week and won two awards.
Meanwhile, “Rascal” in a French-language thriller following a charming young man who arrives in...
The award was given by Remi Burah, who runs Arte France Cinéma and launched in 2016 ArteKino Festival, a European online festival in partnership with the digital service Festival Scope. Each “Other People” and “Rascal” will receive 2000 Euros.
Mixing comedy, drama and musical, “Other People” tells the story of a man who lives with his mum and teenage sister who starts a romance with Iwona, a woman in her early 40’s who cannot cope with her marriage. “Other People” was selected as part of this year’s focus on Poland. Terpinska’s last short “The Best Fireworks Ever” premiered at Cannes’s Critics’ Week and won two awards.
Meanwhile, “Rascal” in a French-language thriller following a charming young man who arrives in...
- 12/19/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have attempted to wrangle, choreograph, and anthropomorphize raccoons in hopes of unlocking their vast entertainment potential. Legend goes that, after Thomas Edison filmed the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant in 1903, he used the same shock techniques to train a raccoon to sing “Camptown Races” on camera. (Note: This legend is oft disputed by historians and discerning persons.) It was the rise of special-effects technology and animation that finally realized that vision. This weekend's Guardians of the Galaxy takes procyonid dream to Avatar levels. The cybernetic Rocket has the body of a raccoon and the mouth of a New Jersey dad stuck in traffic. In honor of the achievement, we paw through the garbage can of film history's greatest raccoon performances:Rascal in Rascal (1969)Walt Disney Pictures' adaptation of a Sterling North memoir is basically That Darn Raccoon!. The story of a boy and...
- 8/1/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Vulture
The Secret World of Arrietty aka Kari-gurashi no Arietti
Written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, based on the novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Japan 2010 imdb
Listen to the Mousterpiece podcast about The Secret World of Arrietty or read Josh’s extended thoughts about the film!
*****
The most astonishing thing about The Secret World of Arrietty is that it took so long for someone to try an animated adaptation of Mary Norton’s beloved award-winning book. Granted, there is a long-standing tradition of shooting films where humans see the world from the perspective of an insect: on film in The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Lily Tomlin remake The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise, on TV in Land of the Giants and in the documentary Microcosmos. (Not to mention the various live adaptations of The Borrowers.) But there is something...
Written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, based on the novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Japan 2010 imdb
Listen to the Mousterpiece podcast about The Secret World of Arrietty or read Josh’s extended thoughts about the film!
*****
The most astonishing thing about The Secret World of Arrietty is that it took so long for someone to try an animated adaptation of Mary Norton’s beloved award-winning book. Granted, there is a long-standing tradition of shooting films where humans see the world from the perspective of an insect: on film in The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Lily Tomlin remake The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise, on TV in Land of the Giants and in the documentary Microcosmos. (Not to mention the various live adaptations of The Borrowers.) But there is something...
- 2/27/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
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