No two ways about it: April’s a great month for the Criterion Channel, which (among other things; more in a second) adds two recent favorites. We’re thrilled at the SVOD premiere of Hamaguchi’s entrancing Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, our #3 of 2021, and Bruno Dumont’s lacerating France, featuring Léa Seydoux’s finest performance yet.
Ethan Hawke’s Adventures in Moviegoing runs the gamut from Eagle Pennell’s Last Night at the Alamo to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, while a 14-film John Ford retro (mostly) skips westerns altogether. And no notes on the Delphine Seyrig retro—multiple by Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger, Duras, a smattering of Buñuel, and Seyrig’s own film Be Pretty and Shut Up! That of all things might be the crown jewl.
See the full list of April titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
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3 Bad Men, John Ford, 1926
Aar paar, Guru Dutt,...
Ethan Hawke’s Adventures in Moviegoing runs the gamut from Eagle Pennell’s Last Night at the Alamo to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, while a 14-film John Ford retro (mostly) skips westerns altogether. And no notes on the Delphine Seyrig retro—multiple by Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger, Duras, a smattering of Buñuel, and Seyrig’s own film Be Pretty and Shut Up! That of all things might be the crown jewl.
See the full list of April titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
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3 Bad Men, John Ford, 1926
Aar paar, Guru Dutt,...
- 3/25/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
COLOGNE -- Andrea Corr, lead singer of Irish folk supergroup The Corrs, has signed on for her first leading role in The Great Ceili War, a musical comedy being produced by Germany's Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP), the company said today. The film revolves around events at an Irish Music festival. Corr will play Anne, a folk violinist who is confronted by her past when she comes face-to-face with the father who abandoned her family when she was a child. Corr appeared in supporting roles in Alan Parker's 1991 Irish music comedy The Commitments and the director's 1996 adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita but The Great Ceili War will be her first starring role as an actress. Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Irish actors Colm Meaney (The Snapper) and Patrick Bergin (King Of Texas) are also attached to star in the $6 million production, which begins principle photography in Ireland and the Isle of Man in October. English director John Irvin (Hamburger Hill) will helm the project. Delivery is expected by the end of the year, with First Look Media handling worldwide distribution. The Great Ceili War is the first film to be financed by WWP's new film fund, which aims to fully back 5-7 feature films with budgets of up to $20 million. The Hamburg-based fund is a joint venture between Studio Hamburg and financial group ING Leasing Gesellschaft. WWP hopes to raise 100 million ($99 million) by the end of the year, of which 12 million ($11.9 million) is already in place.
- 10/1/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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