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The indie market is feeling pretty good. A big film from India Kalki 2898 Ad may unseat Rrr’s North American opening weekend. June Squibb-starrer Thelma is blowing through midweek shows and stands at $3.75 million heading into week 2 steady at 1,280 theaters. Searchlight Pictures Kinds Of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons jumps to 500 screens from five after the best limited opening of the year last weekend.

Annie Baker’s Janet Planet from A24 goes from 2 screens to 300 and a handful of interesting indies open in limited release from Catherine Breillat‘s Last Summer to Jake Paltrow’s June Zero. Things are still quite tough but there’s room for optimism. Not clear if that will last, but it’s nice..

New: Telugu sci-fi epic Kalki 2898 Ad on 900+ screens is rivaling crossover blockbuster Rrr as distributor Prathyangira Cinemas said the film grossed $5.56 million in...

No reasonably intelligent person imagines an artist’s statement about the horrors in Gaza would, in fact, end those horrors, but there are always limits to what one can take and hopes for what one could do. It might even be said that, as observers of the world and human behavior, filmmakers are especially inclined to recoil. When I interviewed Pedro Costa last month he spoke, unprompted, of a situation that’s only grown worse: “It’s very clear that we cannot stand images anymore. I can’t. I can’t. The images of the world for me [Exhales] I can’t. I turn my eyes, and I’m sure you do the same. It’s unbearable.” When I spoke with Anthony Dod Mantle a couple of weeks later it, again, emerged––vis-a-vis The Zone of Interest, whose own cinematographer alluded to it the next day. It’s difficult being a person in the world,...

Catherine Breillat on Léa Drucker in Last Summer (L’Été Dernier) and Alfred Hitchcock’s heroine wardrobe: “I said to Léa, think about Vertigo and Kim Novak! But then I think she is more Tippi Hedren.”

Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer stars Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher with Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Serena Hu, and Angela Chen. The film is based on May el-Toukhy’s 2019 Queen of Hearts, starring Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, and Magnus Krepper. Last Summer shares a theme with the NYFF Opening Night Gala selection, Todd Haynes’s May December, where a reversal of age also takes central stage.

Catherine Breillat, with Anne-Katrin Titze, reveals the Christophe Honoré, Winter Boy, Paul Kircher and Samuel Kircher connection for Last Summer

Breillat, incomparably daring as ever, tells the story of Anne (Drucker), a successful lawyer, who lives with her businessman husband Pierre (Rabourdin) and their two headstrong, adopted daughters,...

Some of Europe’s most acclaimed below-the-line talents will do a deep dive into the artistry of movie magic for In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema, a new documentary feature being produced by Yi Zhou’s Into the Sun Entertainment.

Triple Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds), three-time production design winner Dante Ferretti (Hugo, Sweeney Todd, The Aviator), Oscar-winning film editor Thom Noble (Witness) and Academy Award-winning make-up artist Giorgio Gregorini (Suicide Squad) will feature in the doc, which was shot during the making of Zhou’s upcoming feature film debut, Stars and Scars, in Rome and Los Angeles.

All the involved talents are attached to work on the feature, an English-language sci-fi drama centered on the rare phenomenon known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (Hsam), where people can recall an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid and extraordinary detail. Christopher Lambert...

Last Summer.Catherine Breillat holds eye contact with such intensity that it’s difficult not to feel a little intimidated in her presence. It’s an apt trait for a filmmaker of equally, and brilliantly, intimidating films. Unafraid, even eager, to cause discomfort, Breillat has dedicated her career to the cinematic excavation of taboo subjects and liberating female desire onscreen.With her first film in ten years, Last Summer, Breillat presents a reworking of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 film Queen of Hearts in which a lawyer, predominantly working on sexual assault cases, has an affair with her 17-year-old stepson. The project is challenging in the ways you might expect from the filmmaker, but somehow tamer, too; the sex is not explicit in the manner of Romance (1999) or Anatomy of Hell (2004), nor are the shocks quite as violent as they are in her widely celebrated Fat Girl (2001). Her approach here feels more...

So much drama has unfolded over the last few years since Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped down from their roles within the royal family and moved to the other side of the pond. Millions of people around the world have watched and formed opinions about the Sussexes and the whole situation including other royals.

Now one prince is revealing why he feels bad for Harry, who he believes is “suffering,” since stepping back from royal duties.

Prince Harry attends the state funeral and Committal Service for Queen Elizabeth II | Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images Who is Prince Emanuele Filiberto?

Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice was born on June 22, 1972, in Geneva, Switzerland. His parents are Marina Doria and Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (a disputed head of the House of Savoy); making him the grandson of Italy’s last king.

Filiberto is married to French actor Clotilde Courau.

Breillat’s remake of Queen of Hearts rather pointlessly draws the sting from a mother’s affair with her teenage stepson

Catherine Breillat has made a hot – or rather tepid – mess of this remake of the very recent Danish erotic thriller Queen of Hearts, and it’s not immediately clear why exactly she felt she needed to direct her own moderate version. The changes amount to smudging the original’s icy Scandi sheen, decreasing its erotic excitement, making the performances more laboured and thus leaving the story’s essential preposterousness dangerously exposed.

The first film, from writer-director May el-Toukhy, featured Trine Dyrholm as an elegant career lawyer specialising in representing rape victims who has a passionate affair with her teen stepson; that is, her husband’s moody son by his first marriage. Now the action is transplanted from chilly Denmark to sunny, summery France and Léa Drucker plays legal high-flyer Anne,...

Catherine Breillat’s erotic drama is a remake of May el-Toukhy’s Queen Of Hearts.

Paris-based Pyramide International has closed deals in key territories for Catherine Breillat’s erotic thriller Last Summer ahead of the film’s world premiere in Competition at Cannes later this month.

Pyramide has sold the film to September Films in Benelux, Potential Films in Australia and New Zealand, Nk Contents in South Korea, Xenix Film in Switzerland, Hooray Films in Taiwan, Estinfilm in the Baltics and Nashe Kino in Russia.

Last Summer stars Léa Drucker as a lawyer who develops a relationship with her 17-year-old...

Paris-based sales company beefs up slate ahead of Berlinale market.

Paris-based sales company Pyramide International has boarded Anna Novion’s Le Théorème de Marguerite and Marie Garel-Weiss’s Sur La Branche and will kick off pre-sales for the French dramas at the upcoming EFM.

Novion’s Le Théorème de Marguerite stars Ella Rumpf as the titular character, a brilliant mathematics student at France’s top university the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes up all the certainty in her planned-out life and she decides to quit everything and start afresh.

Rumpf notably starred...

Pyramide International has boarded “Last Summer,” an erotic thriller by daring French director Catherine Breillat, which is being produced by Sbs Productions, the leading French banner behind Paul Verhoeven’s Oscar nominated “Elle.”

“Last Summer” boasts a strong cast led by Léa Drucker (“Custody”), Olivier Rabourdin (“Benedetta”), Clotilde Courau (“In The Shadow of Women”) and newcomer Samuel Kircher.

The Paris-based company, whose sales team is headed by Agathe Mauruc, is teasing the project with a three-minute promo at the Unifrance Rendez-vous taking place in Paris this week.

Drucker stars as Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives happily in Paris with her husband Pierre and their 6- and 8-year-old daughters. One day, Theo, 17, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, moves in with them. Anne is unsettled by Theo’s presence and gradually engages in a passionate relationship with him, putting her career and family life in danger.

A master at...

Exclusive: Filmmaker Yi Zhou is turning a collection of four of her short films into NFTs, and will donate all proceeds generated to United Nations Crisis Relief to support Ukraine.

The films all center around peace and the peace sign and are described as abstract takes on the idea of freedom. The titles of the four shorts are the Greek name for peace: ειρήνη #1, ειρήνη #2, ειρήνη#3, ειρήνη #4.

The campaign is aiming to generate at least $100,000 in relief funds with each film Nft minted for $25,000 each. They will be sold exclusively through the Open Sea platform.

Yi Zhou previously made a short with the participation of Jackie Chan and Princess and actress Clotilde Courau for climate change in South Africa in 2012. In 2016 she was invited by Unesco Paris to create a short with YiZhouStudio for World Ocean Day. She has also had shorts shown at Sundance and Cannes.

“Film is art...

Benedetta Review — Benedetta (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Oliver Rabourdin, Herve Pierre, Clotilde Courau, Guilaine Londez, Elena Plonka, Jonathan Couzinie and Heloise Bresc. Director Paul Verhoeven has tackled many different ambitious projects throughout his career. He has constantly intrigued audiences [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Benedetta (2021): Paul Verhoeven’s Most Ambitious Film to Date Will Certainly Fascinate Viewers...

"You still don't believe in me? After all you've seen?" IFC Films has debuted the full official US trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta, already infamously known as the "lesbian nuns" film. This first premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the summer, earning a mix of love and hate reviews (as expected with a Verhoeven film - don't let these opinions sway you). We also posted the full French trailer back then. A 15th-century nun at a remote convent in Tuscany, Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a young companion, and the relationship between the two women at the convent develops into a romantic love affair. Belgian actress Virginie Efira stars as Benedetta Carlini, also with Daphne Patakia as Bartolomea, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Hervé Pierre, Clotilde Courau, and Guilaine Londez. This film rules! I love how epic and funny and thrilling it is,...

"The ways of the Lord are often terrifying." Or sometimes tantalizing. IFC Films has revealed a sultry official US teaser trailer Paul Verhoeven's latest film Benedetta, already infamously known as the "lesbian nuns" film. This rocked the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the summer, playing at the festival and earning a mix of love and hate reviews (as expected with a Verhoeven film - don't let these opinions sway you). We also posted the full French trailer back then. A 15th-century nun at a convent in Tuscany, Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a young companion, and the relationship between the two women at the convent develops into a romantic love affair. Belgian actress Virginie Efira stars as Benedetta Carlini, also with Daphne Patakia as Bartolomea, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Hervé Pierre, Clotilde Courau, and Guilaine Londez. I had a blast watching the film,...

At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for Paul Verhoeven’s competition title Benedetta this morning, director and cast fielded a series of questions about the film’s use of nudity and sex while Verhoeven bristled at the suggestion Benedetta is in any way blasphemous. “I do not understand really how you can be blasphemous about something that happened… You cannot basically change history after the fact. You can talk about that was wrong or not, but you cannot change history. I think the word blasphemy for me in this case is stupid,” he said.

The steamy period piece, which premiered last night, is the true story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 17th Century abbess whose claims of mystical visions and miracles were investigated by the Catholic church in a trial that lasted from 1619-23 and resulted in her imprisonment. Deadline’s Todd McCarthy described it in his review as...

Following up his love-it-or-hate-it Climax, director Gaspar Noé secretly shot a new film this past spring and it’s among the additions to the Cannes Film Festival lineup, which also includes new work by Ari Folman, a Bill Murray concert film, Noémie Merlant’s directorial debut, and more.

As for the Enter the Void director’s latest, he shot Vortex over twenty days between mid-March and April 2021, with a cast including Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, and Alex Lutz, as well as a budget of 3.3 million euros, more than his last two features. Check out a roughly-translated synopsis below via his Le Temps de Trout Tout:

Gaspar Noé, son of the Argentinian painter Luis Felipe Noé, finished his film at the last minute because he shot it quickly and late. A quasi-documentary film about the last days of a loving old couple suffering from senility, played by Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento.

Erotic thriller set to world premiere in Competition at Cannes.

IFC Films has secured North American rights to Paul Verhoeven’s erotic drama Benedetta, which is set to premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in July.

The deal was struck with Pathé International, which is handling world sales, and IFC Films plans to release the film this year. The film will receive its world premiere at Cannes on July 9 and release in French cinemas on the same day. Mubi acquired UK-Ireland rights earlier this week.

Originally slated to debut at the cancelled 2020 Cannes Film Festival, Benedetta will now...

IFC Films has struck early, nabbing North American rights to “Benedetta” ahead of the erotic thriller’s premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film has drawn interest from a number of distributors due in part to its pedigree. “Benedetta” is directed by a master of the form, Paul Verhoeven, who previously oversaw “Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall” and “Black Book.” It marks Verhoeven’s first directorial effort since his 2016 film “Elle,” which premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and earned an Oscar nomination for its star Isabelle Huppert.

According to the official description, “Benedetta” entangles sexuality, religion, and human ambition in its story of a young novitiate in 17th century Italy who begins an affair with another nun. With plague ravaging the land, Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira) joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany. Tormented by religious and erotic visions and capable from an early age of performing miracles,...

Benedetta Trailer — Paul Verhoeven‘s Benedetta (2021) movie trailer has been released by Pathé. The Benedetta trailer stars Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin, Hervé Pierre, Clotilde Courau, Guilaine Londez, Quentin D’Hainaut, Elena Plonka, and Antoine Lelandais. Crew David Birke and Paul Verhoeven wrote the screenplay for Benedetta. Anne Dudley [...]

Continue reading: Benedetta Trailer: Nun Virginie Efira is gifted Miracle Worker but is Plagued by Desires in Paul Verhoeven’s 2021 Movie...

"God has put this girl in your path." Pathe in France has unveiled the first full trailer for Paul Verhoeven's sultry film Benedetta, already infamously known as the "lesbian nuns" film. This was originally supposed to premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival (before it was cancelled), but now rescheduled to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival instead (in July instead of May). The film is also already set to open in July in France, though no US release is set yet. A 15th-century nun at a convent in Tuscany, Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair. Belgian actress Virginie Efira stars as Benedetta Carlini, also with Daphne Patakia as Bartolomea, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Hervé Pierre, Clotilde Courau, and Guilaine Londez. This intense French trailer...

Maxime Roy, an accomplished actor and filmmaker involved in five productions over the past two years, whose short “Beautiful Loser” was nominated for a César, is participating in this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival with his latest short “Sole Mio,” finishing its worldwide festival lifecycle having previously played at Palm Springs in the U.S., Huesca in Spain and Bogoshorts in Colombia.

“Sole Mio” turns on Daniel, a young man coping as best he can with his frustrated mother, desperate to hear news from her ex-husband and Daniel’s father. Dad finally shows up, with little warning, at Daniel’s place the day before a sex change operation so she can physically become Lisa, the woman she’s identified as for some time. After an evening experiencing the gamut of emotions associated with distant father drama, Daniel must eventually put his foot down and force his father to share a hard truth with his family.

Benedetta

Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne Patakia, Quentin D’Hainaut, Alexia Chardard, Louise Chevillotte

Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie

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Netflix/ITV’s hit thriller “Marcella” is set for a French adaptation produced by Elephant and commissioned by TF1. The deal was made by Cineflix Rights which has exclusive worldwide rights to the new series.

Hans Rosenfeldt’s “Marcella” was produced by Buccaneer Media and stars Anna Friel who won an International Emmy Award for her role in the series. Season 3 of “Marcella” is currently available on Netflix and will premiere on ITV in the U.K. the fall.

“Rebecca,” the French adaptation of “Marcella,” will be directed by Didier Le Pêcheur (“Innocents”), and was co-written by Le Pêcheur and Delphine Labouret (“Innocents”). The eight-part series is being produced by Elephant (Gaëlle Cholet and Sandra Ouaiss), and begins shooting this month around Paris.

The paranoid thriller will be headlined by Anne Marivin (“Ce soir je vais tuer l’assassin de mon fils”) in the titular role. Six years after abandoning...

Philippe (Benoît Magimel) and Andres (Nuno Lopes) with Calypso (Clotilde Courau) in Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile)

At the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, just days before the announcement came that Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), co-written with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, and starring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel and Nuno Lopes would be the last screening of the festival, I met with the director at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Governor Andrew M Cuomo announced at that time (March 13) that he was limiting gathering in public spaces due to the coronavirus pandemic in New York, which eventually led to the closing of all cinemas by March 16.

Rebecca Zlotowski on Benoît Magimel: “There’s something about him being very melancholic, very sad.”

In the second half of my conversation with Rebecca Zlotowski, André Gide, Marguerite Duras,...

Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) featuring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau and Lakdhar Dridi, is a Rendez-Vous with French Cinema highlight Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).

Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.

The razor-edged Beanpole by Russian cinema prodigy Kantemir Balagov receives the prestigious Golden Reflection award for Best Feature Film at the Geneva International Film Festival. The 2019 edition of the Geneva International Film Festival (Giff) closed on Sunday having achieved some rather promising results: record attendance levels of some 38,000 festival-goers who took Geneva by storm (from 1 to 10 November) in pursuit of innovative cinematic experiences. One reason for the festival’s success can undoubtedly be attributed to the multitude of prestigious guests attending this 25th edition, which included the likes of Xavier Dolan, Park Chan-wook, Clotilde Courau, David Cronenberg, Rebecca Zlotowski and Costa-Gavras, not to mention Jean Dujardin. The anniversary edition of the event also offered a raft of exciting moments, such as the Swiss premiere of Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy in the presence of Jean Dujardin, a special evening dedicated to David Cronenberg where a...

A prestigious, international line-up will grace the Swiss festival this year. On the dawn of its quarter-century of life, the Geneva Film Festival (Giff) is pushing the boat out and looking to the future with undeniable enthusiasm. From the 1st to the 10th of November, Geneva will sparkle, as it does every year, under the bright lights of the Giff, now an unmissable event for cinephiles, industry professionals or, quite simply, the curious. Digital projects, special screenings and gatherings linked to the seventh art and to television will all bolster the offering of the Giff, which will be welcoming, for its 25th edition, prestigious guests such as Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Park Chan-wook, David Cronenberg, Clotilde Courau and Costa-Gavras, not to mention Tom Fontana, Elia Suleiman, Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction screenwriter) and Rebecca Zlotowski, among many others. One hundred and eighty hitherto unknown works and a number of surprises await.

Although the Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes is non-competitive, prizes are awarded by its partners. Revealed today, ahead of the closing ceremony this evening, the Europa Cinemas Label nod for Best European Film went to Alice And The Mayor by Nicolas Pariser while the Sacd Prize will be given to Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl. There is no Cicae Art Cinema Award being presented in the Fortnight this year, and the Short Film laureate is still to be unveiled.

The independent Fortnight runs parallel to the main festival and is organized by France’s Directors’ Guild. It has evolved greatly in the past few years, becoming increasingly attractive to higher-profile filmmakers. This is the first year under new artistic director Paolo Moretti whose selection included The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, which lit up the Croisette with Oscar buzz.

(Prizes awarded in the section today, however, are limited to French-Language,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.

Bastards (Claire Denis)

Modern-to-the-hilt noir submerged in the unforgiving blackness of digital photography, emotional currents sparked with a tactile cinema appealing directly to the senses. In retrospect, it (sometimes) seems these two edges could sufficiently define Claire Denis’s Bastards, but her films can never be boiled down to a few descriptors — which might be a tinge ironic, given the immense power of a narrative system that consists of absolutely no more than each crucial component, like a cinematic razor blade slicing its way through all that’s pure. The crescendo would prove unbearable if the pleasures weren’t so extreme, and Bastards’s final moments are...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jacques Doillon's The Little Gangster (1990) is showing August 7 – September 6, 2018 in the United States as part of the series After the New Wave.He could have been a good kid. It's obvious from the way he flusters the first time he holds up a store with his father-in-law's gun. When the cashier tells him it's impossible to open the register without a sale, he frowns, grabs a bottle of shampoo from the rack, reaches into his pocket, pulls out some change, and tells her that she can take it out of the FR500 he originally demanded. It's obvious he never wanted to hurt anyone; his threats were meant more to steel himself than to actually terrify the cashier.If only he wasn't poor. If only he didn't have an alcoholic, suicidal mother or an absent, violent father. If only...

Red carpet protest highlighted fact only 82 women have been honoured in Official Selection over 71 editions of festival.

Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.

Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018

Other stars joining the protest...

French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard is set to adapt his latest film, “The Image Book,” which is competing at Cannes Film Festival into an exhibit in Paris, Madrid, New York and Singapore.

The roadshow tour is being produced by the team behind the film, Fabrice Aragno at Casa Azul and Mitra Farahani at Ecran Noir Productions.

Aragno told Variety that both Casa Azul and Ecran Noir Productions are currently in talks with the Beaubourg museum in Paris, Arte Reina Sofía in Paris, and the National Gallery in Singapore.

The installation will spread over 500 to 600 square meters and will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience. “Those who will discover the exhibit will walk through a forest of images and sounds,” explained Aragno, who compared “The Image Book” to Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” “Except that ‘Guernica’ related to one historical chapter, whereas ‘The Image...

To support and honor womankind, Pomellato and The New York Times collaborate to spread a message of positive female empowerment for International Women’s Day (March 8th).

Pomellato Women's Day Ambassadors

Through a Nyt article detailing important milestones in the women’s movement, and a Pomellato video with an international cast of powerful women, the new partnership champions female achievements, leadership, and gender equality.

Published on March 8th, The New York Times (nytimes.com) article explores the key historical moments in women’s rights during the 20th and 21st centuries, and how these civic changes have influenced present day. From a woman’s right to vote, to today’s viral phenomena such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp hashtags, the article features historical summaries, photography, Nyt archive links, and the Pomellato commemorative video.

Interviewing Pomellato advocates from a variety of countries, generations and backgrounds, the video features women who define empowerment.

The Piazza Grande was subject to an arson attack; Switzerland has selected its 2017 Oscar candidate; The Doc Alliance Selection winner has been revealed; Nyon festival changes afoot.

Arson attack on Locarno’s Piazza Grande screen

Locarno’s world-famous open-air venue on the Piazza Grande was the victim of an arson attack at the weekend.

The fire was quickly brought under control by Locarno’s fire service. Subsequent screenings were not disrupted although there was some damage to bottom of the screen.

A 37-year-old local man was arrested by the police at in the early hours of Saturday morning after Friday night’s screening of Jason Bourne.

The man, who was under the influence of alcohol at the time of his arrest, is apparently known to the police for previous arson attacks in the region, including other parts of the festival infrastructure in the past.

Following recent events in Europe, security measures had been stepped for this year...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)

In lauding Miguel Gomes‘ three-part, six-and-a-half hour behemoth, it’s perhaps important to consider his background as a critic. Not just in terms of the trilogy’s cinephilic engagement with Rossellini, Alonso, Oliveira, etc.; also in its defiant nature. While it’s easy to assign the trilogy certain humanist and satirical labels from the get-go and just praise these films for following through on them,...

Philippe Garrel’s In The Shadow of Women is his Jacques Rivette film: a work of masks, intrigues, labyrinthine deceptions and power games...but applied to the most intimate of relationships. So too is it thus a 69 minute long miracle of economy: We will see the meanings of these frames later. As Garrel says in his press conference: "For me, In The Shadow of Women is a film about the equality of men and women in as far as cinema can achieve this."And insofar as it is a meditation on equality between men and women, it too is also in dialogue with cinema itself.“...a history of cinema as communication between man and woman.” – Garrel, New York 2015 A good alternate title would be: Now, how do we get from point A to point B? “I also use images from my dreams. I am looking for a form of oneirism...

Usually one doesn’t think of seeing a “best film of the year” contender in what is usually the dumping ground known as January and February. However, distributor Distrib Films and director Philippe Garrel have tossed into theaters not only one of last year’s festival darlings but an early contender for the film of the year for 2015. Those unfamiliar with Garrel may find the black and white photography, pretentious-sounding title and hefty festival pedigree as a calling card for a film that’s more style than substance, but In The Shadow Of Women is a triumph of both direction and narrative nuance.

Women tells the story of documentarians Pierre (Stanislas Merhar) and Manon (Clotilde Courau), a husband and wife creative team that crafts shoestring-budget documentaries financed by a series of random jobs that both take on. However, the relationship faces its latest and greatest test when Pierre meets and...

Named as one of the best films of 2015 by Cahiers du Cinema, Philippe Garrel's "In The Shadow Of Women" kept eluding us on the festival circuit last year, having made its debut at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight. But the good news is that the movie arrives in cinemas this week, and we have an exclusive clip from the picture.  Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2016  Starring Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau, Lena Paugam, Vimala Pons, Mounir Margoum, Jean Pommier, Thérèse Quentin and Antoinette Moya, the story follows Pierre, a documentary filmmaker who ends an affair with his mistress Elisabeth when he discovers his partner Manon also has a lover. In the scene below, Pierre makes the boundaries of his relationship with Elisabeth quite clear. Here's the official synopsis:  Pierre (Stanislas Merhar) and Manon (Clotilde Courau) make low-budget documentaries and live off odd jobs. When Pierre meets a young trainee,...

All caught up with our top 50 films of 2015? It’s now time to look to the new year, and, ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films, we’re highlighting 50 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year (and beyond) that will likely see a release in 2016. While the first batch have confirmed dates all the way through the summer, we’ve also included a handful that are awaiting a date and some we’re hopeful will get a release by year’s end pending acquisition. U.S. distributors: take note!

We’ve stuck to just 50 here, but we’ve also seen many other notable releases over the next twelve months that we were more mixed on (or worse). There’s The Benefactor, Mojave, Southbound, Remember, and Too Late this winter, as well as Hello, My Name is Doris, Green Room, Miles Ahead, I Saw the Light, The Bronze, Evolution,...

Chicago – As the 2015 edition of the 51st Chicago International Film Festival winds down into its second week, it continues wtih international and U.S. film offerings, plus additional festival favorites. All screenings are taking place at the AMC River North 21, 322 Illinois Street, Chicago, and the festival runs through October 29th.

HollywoodChicago.com contributors Brendan Hodges and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the fest, and provides this preview to cover the second week of the event. Over 50 countries are represented, and many of the films from the U.S. and elsewhere will be Oscar contenders. Each capsule is designated with Bh (Brendan) or Pm (Patrick) to indicate the author.

“Feel the Illinoise – City and State Short Films”

‘Nomad,’ Directed by Local Filmmaker Bradley Bischoff

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The Chicago International Film Festival also features short film programs in over eight categories. The City and State short films is the festival’s biggest celebrations,...

The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.

AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.

World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...

While features among Cannes’ sidebar Directors’ Fortnight might not get the immediate attention when compared to those in the competition line-up, there’s always more than a few gems. This year, Philippe Garrel‘s latest feature, In the Shadow of Women, premiered there and it was one of our favorites of the festival. Following a married couple living in a run-down Parisian apartment and struggling along as documentary filmmakers, it recently stopped by Nyff and today we have the U.S. trailer and poster ahead of a release early next year.

We said in our review, “While fitting snugly in the overall cohesiveness of Philippe Garrel’s filmography, In the Shadow of Women nevertheless feels like a companion piece to its predecessor, the 2013 critical hit Jealousy. Garrel’s latest is also shot in black-and-white, kept within a similarly svelte running time (73 minutes), and its pared-down story of marital infidelity again...

At Filmmaker, Sarah Salovaara notes that Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women, "like last year’s Jealousy, it’s another exploration of struggling artists and infidelity. Manon (Clotilde Courau) works with, or rather, under, her husband Pierre (Stanislas Merhar), a struggling documentarian who beds an intern (Lena Paugum) at a local archive to assuage his ego. 'Don’t blame me for being a man,' the narrator (voiced by Louis Garrel) reasons. Garrel delights in pushing his gender politics to the brink of offense before reigning them in with a carefully considered double standard: it follows that Manon herself is also having an affair." We've got more reviews, the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...

At Filmmaker, Sarah Salovaara notes that Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women, "like last year’s Jealousy, it’s another exploration of struggling artists and infidelity. Manon (Clotilde Courau) works with, or rather, under, her husband Pierre (Stanislas Merhar), a struggling documentarian who beds an intern (Lena Paugum) at a local archive to assuage his ego. 'Don’t blame me for being a man,' the narrator (voiced by Louis Garrel) reasons. Garrel delights in pushing his gender politics to the brink of offense before reigning them in with a carefully considered double standard: it follows that Manon herself is also having an affair." We've got more reviews, the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...

Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, will make its World Premiere at the 53rd New York International Film Festival, running from September 25 to October 11. The film was one of 26 announced as part of the festival’s main slate, along with one of four World Premieres.

Some of the main slate highlights include Todd Haynes’s Carol, featuring Cannes Best Actress Winner Rooney Mara alongside Cate Blanchett, Miguel Gomes’s three part saga Arabian Nights, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, the Us premiere of Michael Moore’s latest Where to Invade Next, Michel Gondry’s French film Microbe et Gasoil, and the World Premiere of the documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the life of the fames photographer and filmmaker.

Previously announced films include the World Premiere of The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s Philippe Petit biopic serving as the opening night film, the World Premiere of...

Masculine/Feminine: Garrel Offers Yet Another Take On A Romantic Rift

As we see with many so-called auteurs, Philippe Garrel has been making the same film over and again throughout his entire career. In addition to his mastery of tone and a bold willingness to scrape the sewers of the most despairing regions of his ego, the secret to his work’s sustainability has laid in the subtle variations on his signature themes, which give depth and even warmth to otherwise arguably cliched takes on male/female power dynamics. In the Shadow of Women, then, represents a reduction of the intimate concerns that have preoccupied his last few films to an essential state. This yielded a lighter than usual black romantic comedy, but one that carries forward the Late Garrel optimism that was signaled in Jealousy (2013)–ironic, since these films were both motivated by the deaths of his father and mother.

Down the couture-chain outdoor mall of the Croisette, the Directors' Fortnight opened with French intimist Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women, of which Marie-Pierre has already written. It is one of a set of films by major filmmakers, the others being Arnaud Deplechin and Miguel Gomes, seemingly passed over by the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes and promptly scooped up by the festival's unpredictable and often more rewarding younger brother. As if to underscore the difference between these two strands—in fact, separate festivals in the same city at the same time—the Fortnight preceded Garrel's new feature with an old short of his, a moving, on-the-ground actuality from the May '68 protests in Paris. Actua 1 is, in the director's words, a kind of "revenge on the news," that is, on the conservative newsreels seen in cinema's at the time. The prescience of the images, the danger they contain,...

Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa on In the Shadow of Women, which has opened this year's Directors' Fortnight: "By placing Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau and Lena Paugam in the leading roles, the French filmmaker happily brings back his favorite themes, creating a short film (1h13) that is clean-cut and bright as a solitary star following its unwavering trajectory through the ages, since Philippe Garrel was already featured in the 1st Directors’ Fortnight in 1969." Garrel's first collaboration with Luis Buñuel's screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière, reminds Allan Hunter at Screen of "the world of Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut." » - David Hudson...

Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa on In the Shadow of Women, which has opened this year's Directors' Fortnight: "By placing Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau and Lena Paugam in the leading roles, the French filmmaker happily brings back his favorite themes, creating a short film (1h13) that is clean-cut and bright as a solitary star following its unwavering trajectory through the ages, since Philippe Garrel was already featured in the 1st Directors’ Fortnight in 1969." Garrel's first collaboration with Luis Buñuel's screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière, reminds Allan Hunter at Screen of "the world of Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut." » - David Hudson...

There's a fuzzy green frog headed for Cannes with word that Miike Takashi's Yakuza Apocalypse - poster art featured above - is headed to the massive French fest as part of the official Directors' Fortnight selection along with Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room and Jaco Van Dormael's The Brand New Testament. Long regarded as the edgiest of Cannes programs, Fortnight certainly appears to be living up to that designation again this year with a broad range of films from both established and new names. Find the full selection below.2015 Cannes Directors' Fortnight Lineup Opener "In the Shadow of Women" (Philippe Garrel, France). Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar and Lena Paugam star in Garrel's 25th feature, a tale of romantic betrayal centered around two impoverished documentary filmmakers adrift in modern-day...

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