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In 1977, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released a cover of the Bruce Springsteen song “Blinded by the Light.” The song charted higher than Springsteen’s own version. The Manfred Mann version hit No. 1, and Springsteen has never had a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Manfred Mann was worried about seeing Springsteen after the cover because of one word in the song.

A band said they worried about how Bruce Springsteen would react to their cover

Springsteen released “Blinded By the Light” on his first album. Four years after he released it, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released their own version of the song. In it, they accidentally changed the line “Cut loose like a deuce” to “wrapped up like a douche.”

“I don’t think Springsteen liked our ‘Blinded By The Light,’ ’cos we sang ‘wrapped up like a douche’, and it wasn’t written like that and I screwed it up completely,...

Despite stiff competition on that year’s rock-legend road-show circuit—the Grateful Dead touring the massive Wall of Sound speaker system, Csny reunited, hitting the sheds, and de-uniting in record time—there was only one outing anybody meant when they said Tour ’74. That January and February, Bob Dylan and The Band reunited for 39 shows in 21 cities, their first jaunt together—and Dylan’s first, period—since the notorious 1966 world tour that would feed rock’s early bootleg industry.

After 1966, Dylan had played sporadically—a full set with The Band at...

You can finally listen to George Harrison’s star-studded Concert for Bangladesh album on the major streaming services. The acclaimed benefit concert, which took place at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1971, featured Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, and many others joining forces to raise money for Unicef and raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis that followed the previous year’s Bangladesh Liberation War. It was the first time musicians banded together for a benefit concert on a grand scale.

It’s been 50 years since Bob Dylan’s acclaimed 1974 tour with The Band. Now, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will celebrate the anniversary with the release of Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings, a massive box set featuring “every single surviving soundboard recording” from the tour.

Due on September 20th, the new box set will feature 431 newly-mixed songs across 27 discs, including 417 never-before-released tracks. Among the highlights are the very first live performances of classics like “All Along the Watchtower” and “Forever Young,” the latter of which arrives today as a single. Stream it below.

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Along with the 27 discs, Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings will arrive with a book of photos and liner notes by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson. Check out photos of the packaging below. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Additionally, Third Man Records will honor the 50th anniversary of the tour with the release of a condensed 3xLP box set,...

Joan Baez has kept a relatively low public profile since wrapping up her Fare Thee Well tour in 2019, performing only on special occasions. One of those took place Monday night at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall, where she topped a bill that included Maggie Rogers, Laurie Anderson, Maya Hawke, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Tenzin Choegyal, and the Scorchio Quartet.

Her mini set kicked off with Steve Earle’s “God Is God,” which she recorded on her 2008 LP Day After Tomorrow. She then brought out...

Last November, Cat Power took over London’s Royal Albert Hall to recreate Bob Dylan’s iconic 1966 “Royal Albert Hall” concert. That show, during which Power closely followed the setlist of Dylan’s infamous tour, is being memorialized with the new live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, out now via Domino, but you can hear her renditions of now.

Power, aka the musical alias of Chan Marshall, says Dylan’s music has been an inspiration to her since she was five years old. His 1966 tour was a bit contentious to folk purists, as it saw the singer-songwriter switch from acoustic to electric guitar midway through the set. Power, however, is part of the camp who believes the tour was a major turning point in rock ‘n’ roll.

“In a way, Dylan is a deity to all of us who write songs,” she explains in a press release.

Bob Dylan made his Japanese debut 45 years ago this year as part his 1978 world concert tour. Now, those shows are being commemorated in the new comprehensive box set The Complete Budokan 1978, out on Friday, November 17th.

Available in 4xCD, 8xLP (Japan only), and digital formats, the fully remastered deluxe collection includes two shows recorded at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall on February 28th and March 1st, 1978, making up a total of 36 previously unreleased Dylan performances. If that feels like too much to swallow, there’s also a double-lp highlight edition called Bob Dylan – Another Budokan 1978, featuring 16 selected unreleased tracks.

Aside from the music, the set includes replicated memorabilia such as concert tickets, brochures, posters, and promotional materials, as well as a vivid 60-page photo book with never-before-seen images of Dylan, both onstage and in candid moments during the tour. Pre-orders are ongoing.

As a preview, Dylan has shared a recording...

Bob Dylan will mark the 45th anniversary of his famed 1978 concerts in Tokyo — immortalized on the live album Bob Dylan at Budokan — with a reissue boasting two complete gigs from his Nippon Budokan Hall stand.

The Complete Budokan 1978 features the entire February 28 and March 1 concerts from the venerable Tokyo venue; Bob Dylan at Budokan previously only contained highlights from the two shows, but The Complete Budokan marks the first time any of Dylan’s complete performances from his 1978 world tour have been officially available.

While Dylan played eight nights at the Nippon Budokan Hall,...

Two months after stunning fans in Japan by working Grateful Dead songs into his otherwise rigid setlist, Bob Dylan has moved onto the catalog of Van Morison. At Alicante, Spain’s Plaza de Toros Alicante on Thursday evening, he broke out a cover of Morrison’s 1970 classic “Into the Mystic” for the first time in his career. Check out this remarkably clean audience recording.

Van Morrison has been playing Dylan songs going all the way back to his days as the frontman of the Sixties garage band Them. They covered “It’s All Over Now,...

British journalist and author Nicholas Evans, best known for writing “The Horse Whisperer,” which was adapted as a film by Robert Redford, has died of a heart attack, according to United Agents. He was 72.

In a statement, United Agents said the “much-loved” author had died following a heart attack on Aug. 9. “He lived a full and happy life, in his home on the banks of the River Dart in Devon,” the statement added.

Evans’ 1995 novel “The Horse Whisperer” sold 20 million copies worldwide and was the number one bestseller in 20 countries. It has been translated into 40 languages. The 1998 film, produced by and directed by Redford, also starred him alongside Scarlett Johansson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Sam Neill.

The inspiration for “The Horse Whisperer” came in 1993 when Evans met a blacksmith in the south-west of England who informed him about horse whisperers — those who have the gift of healing traumatized horses by speaking to them.

Cinemas are looking to bounce back from a week of bad news.

France, opening Wednesday September 23

UFO Distribution and Potemkine Films joined forces this week for a rare general release of a medium-length film to launch Gaspar Noé’s 51-minute work Lux Æterna on 47 prints. Co-starring Beatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a director and actress locked in a hellish shoot, the work debuted Out of Competition in Cannes in 2019.

Noé’s cult status at home ensured plenty of press and according to France’s Cbo Box Office the picture came in fifth out of 15 new releases on its first day in cinemas,...

Curtain Up on the Cannes Marche!Even though the Cannes Film Festival will not show the films they have selected, the Market marches on.Because the interconnectedness of audience, film industry, movie stars, press, cineastes and cinephiles and just plan gawking fans is so crucial to making the festival what it is, the Festival cannot take place, but the Cannes Marche was brave enough to take the bait and rise to the occasion with its Cannes Online.Visit for updates!

The conference schedule is packed and this first day has been exceptional.

Of the three conferences I attended, Meet the Streamers was the finest articulation of what is happening today which might point to a future that changes the personality of arthouse theater curation. Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber (USA), Olle Agebro of Draken Film (Sweden) and Jaume Ripoli of Filmin discussed the projects they launched to reply to the Covid 19 emergency,...

“Expect the unexpected, because it’s going to get weird,” house-band bassist Austin Scaggs warned the crowd at start of the eighth annual Wammy party on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Scaggs was right in more ways than one; about an hour later, in a sort of Hollywood fever dream, Weird Al Yankovic took the stage and broke from his usual staple of parodies to sing surprisingly tight versions of Tom Petty’s “Breakdown” and the Beatles’ “Savoy Truffle.”

Performances like these are the norm at The Wammys, the pre-Grammy party hosted by BMG,...

French sales companies to merge staff, infrastructure and slates.

Jour2Fête, the Paris-based sales and distribution company co-headed by Sarah Chazelle and Etienne Ollagnier, is set to acquire compatriot sales company Doc & Film International, as its CEO Daniela Elstner heads to French cinema agency Unifrance in the role of managing director.

Under the deal, which is in the final stages of completion, Jour2Fête will merge the existing staff, infrastructure, slates and catalogues of both companies into one entity over the coming months.

For the time being, the separate banners of Jour2Fête and Doc & Film will remain in place,...

Respected international sales veteran replaces outgoing Isabelle Giordano.

Sales veteran Daniela Elstner, best known as the head of Paris-based sales company Doc & Film International, has been appointed as the new managing director of French cinema promotional body Unifrance.

She replaces Isabelle Giordano who is leaving at the end of July after six years in the role.

The appointment was overseen by Unifrance president Serge Toubiana who was unanimously re-elected for another two-year term last week.

“I’m overjoyed that Daniela Elstner, a major figure in the export of French cinema, who is recognised throughout the profession for her knowledge...

Longtime Bob Dylan fans know Rolling Thunder Revue as one of the enigmatic singer-songwriter’s most legendary tours, so it should come as little surprise that Martin Scorsese decided to indulge in some mythmaking of his own for “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.”

For this would-be definitive chronicle of the people, places and music involved in Dylan’s 1975-76 concert series, Scorsese combines vintage footage with modern-day interviews — not all of them real — for a vibrant, engaging portrait of Dylan then and now, filling gaps in his own inscrutable history while simultaneously showcasing some of his most eclectic and vivid performances.

Framed by the United States’ impending bicentennial, Rolling Thunder was conceived as a response to the stadium tour he’d done with the Band the previous year, an opportunity to play smaller venues at lower ticket prices and to connect with fans in a more intimate way.

Bob Dylan’s massive Rolling Thunder Revue box set will feature over 100 previously unreleased live recordings taken from the first leg of the musician’s famed 1975 tour. The 14-disc set will be released June 7th via Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings.

Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour took place between 1975 and 1976 and found the musician playing theater shows with little advanced notice. The tour famously featured Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, while one-off special guests included Ringo Starr, Patti Smith and Joni Mitchell.

Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live...

Ben Monder has spent more than two decades carving out an extremely personal aesthetic niche. The guitarist has played with tons of jazz luminaries, including Paul Motian and Maria Schneider, but recent albums under his own name — like 2005’s Oceana and 2013’s Hydra — feature sprawling, immersive, micro-detailed long-form compositions that seem to land somewhere between technical metal and ethereal art song.

It’s fitting that a player this unusual forged an alliance with David Bowie, a rock star who never allowed genre to fence him in. Monder joined an illustrious...

In the annals of rich men who look to Hollywood to build a secondary empire, real estate billionaire Charles S. Cohen (Forbes net worth: $2.2 billion) is their Don Quixote. His Cohen Media Group is staking its claim in spaces renowned for their allergies to profit: He’s restoring classic films, releasing foreign-language titles, and moving into specialty exhibition.

One Oscar campaigner calls Cohen’s taste “older middle-of-the-road arthouse,” and that’s exactly the audience he wants. Three of Cohen’s French imports — “Outside the Law” (2010), “Timbuktu” (2014) and “Mustang” (2015) — received foreign-language Academy Award nominations. This year, Cohen (with partner Amazon Studios) took Iranian Cannes-prize-winner Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman” all the way to the Oscar, much to the chagrin of established competitors Sony Pictures Classics (“Toni Erdmann”) and Music Box (“A Man Called Ove”).

However, where other billionaire businessmen have wanted to be studio moguls, or Harvey Weinstein, what Cohen really...

In the annals of rich men who look to Hollywood to build a secondary empire, real estate billionaire Charles S. Cohen (Forbes net worth: $2.2 billion) is their Don Quixote. His Cohen Media Group is staking its claim in spaces renowned for their allergies to profit: He’s restoring classic films, releasing foreign-language titles, and moving into specialty exhibition.

One Oscar campaigner calls Cohen’s taste “older middle-of-the-road arthouse,” and that’s exactly the audience he wants. Three of Cohen’s French imports — “Outside the Law” (2010), “Timbuktu” (2014) and “Mustang” (2015) — received foreign-language Academy Award nominations. This year, Cohen (with partner Amazon Studios) took Iranian Cannes-prize-winner Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman” all the way to the Oscar, much to the chagrin of established competitors Sony Pictures Classics (“Toni Erdmann”) and Music Box (“A Man Called Ove”).

However, where other billionaire businessmen have wanted to be studio moguls, or Harvey Weinstein, what Cohen really...

“Paterson” actress Golshifteh Farahani was exiled from Iran after she appeared in Ridley’s Scott’s 2008 film “Body of Lies” and appeared on screen and on the red carpet without a veil. The actress then moved to Paris, and while she doesn’t carry an Iranian passport, Donald Trump’s new travel ban could affect her career and next role.

“I’m supposed to go to the Us this Saturday for a movie, but I might not be able to go,” Farahani told The Hollywood Reporter. “The embassy is so busy. I’ve been trying to get an Esta, but I can’t even get onto the website. I think some crazy things are happening.”

The actress didn’t reveal the project she was scheduled to appear in, but added that producers were already searching for her replacement in case she was unable to travel.

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Cinematic wankery at its most puerile. Two hours of the sun setting revealing that this is why it gets dark at night would not have been more pointless. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

The Childhood of a Leader is would-be deep cinematic wankery at its most puerile. This is a two-hour-long attempt to construct a metaphor that ends at a place where it steps back and smugly makes a “shocking” pronouncement of something so concretely literal that it is, well, literally the fact of the matter that everyone already knows. If actor turned director (and screenwriter, with Mona Fastvold) Brady Corbet had, with his feature debut, given us 120 minutes of the sun setting and then boldly concluded that this is why it gets dark at night, he would not have been more obvious and inevitable and pointless.

La route des lacs (Road to Istanbul)

Director: Rachid Bouchareb

Writers: Rachid Bouchareb, Zoe Galeron, Yasmina Khadra, Olivier Lorelle

Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb continues a prolific shooting schedule with his latest project, La route des lacs (Road to Istanbul), which tackles an extremely topical scenario regarding terrorist recruits and Isis when a mother discovers her child has joined the dangerous organization. Recently, Bouchareb has been navigating the Us Pacific Southwest with English language items Just Like a Woman (2012) and his 2014 remake of Two Men in Town. For this latest, he pairs with regular co-writers Lorelle, Galeron, and Yasmina Khadra (who penned the exceptional 2012 film The Attack for Ziad Doueiri, which Bouchareb produced), and the film will be headlined by Belgian actress Astrid Whettnall and rising star Pauline Burlet (who appeared in La Vie En Rose as well as Asghar Farhadi’s The Past in 2013). Thus far, this sounds similar to Bouchareb’s 2008 film,...

Jeff Buckley likely never intended to be remembered as a cover artist, but that is the legacy the late singer, who died in 1997 with just one album to his name, has left behind. And it'll continue into 2016: NPR reports that another posthumous Buckley album, You and I, is set to be released next March, this one featuring mostly covers he recorded as reference tracks to give his producers a sense of the sound he was after for his debut album. It'll include his take on Led Zeppelin's "Night Flight," Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman," the Smiths' "I Know It's Over" and "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side," and others, as well as two original songs. NPR also has a first listen of his cover of Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 classic anthem for equality "Everyday People," which Buckley has pared down considerably. Like...

Dylan concerts have never really been intended for hit-seeking crowds (imagine that), as he's fond of reworking his most iconic songs into different styles and tempos. It can be a fascinating thought experiment, hearing what could have been of the '60s folk and rock canon — one that drives interest to a new Dylan box set, The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, out this Friday. Over the course of many discs (one comprised of nothing but alternate versions of “Like a Rolling Stone”), listeners bear witness to Dylan’s creative process in the studio during one of the most divisive moments of his career: starting with 1965’s Bringing It All Back Home and culminating with his all-time classic Blonde on Blonde the following year, the period when he first gravitated toward electric sounds and more abstract lyrics. On a micro level, “Just Like a Woman” — one of...

Exclusive: UK seller signs Us comedy-horror ahead of Cannes.

UK sales outfit Sc Films has boarded international sales rights to completed Us horror-comedy Demon Hole.

Demon Hole charts the fallout after a fracking crew drills a hole on sacred Native American land unleashing an ancient demon, which then terrorizes six teens serving community service in a remote forest.

Writer-director is Josh Crook, producer is Lori Crook and exec producer is Allen Bain, producer of Rachid Bouchareb’s Just Like a Woman and 2014 Us action feature Revenge of the Green Dragons.

Cast includes Samantha Scaffidi, Austin Ramsey, Paris Campbell, Summer Bills and Adrian Denzel.

Us director Crook’s 2006 short, Salvage, premiered at Sundance while action-thriller La Soga premiered at Toronto. More recently, his feature Ponchao won the audience award at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in 2013 and premiered on HBO.

Crook said: “The current crop of horror movies has gotten too severe and grim. While scary, they...

The Town That Dreaded Showdown: Bouchareb Returns to New Mexican Landscape with Mixed Results

French director Rachid Bouchareb’s long celebrated filmography has garnered two of his titles Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film (Dust of Life; Days of Glory), along with a host of other accolades for a body of work that often revolves around either Algerian experiences in France (modern and period), or explorations of race and/or gender within unique narratives. A long-time producer of Bruno Dumont’s work, Bouchareb has been pursuing a variety of international productions. His latest, Two Men in Town, is a morality exercise that happens to take place in roughly the same Us locale as his last effort, 2012’s Just Like a Woman. Despite a notable cast and several rather arresting performances, the end result never elevates beyond a standard dramatic exercise that ends in more or less the same...

Mick Jagger sang Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" at a celebrity-filled memorial service Friday for his longtime companion, fashion designer L'Wren Scott, who committed suicide in March. The service, held at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, included words of tribute from Jagger as well as Scott's brother, Randy Bambrough; her good friend actress Ellen Barkin; fashion personality André Leon Talley; and actress Sarah Jessica Parker, according to a statement from Jagger's publicist Vicki Scarfone. Poems were shared by Scott's niece, Hannah Bambrough, and Jagger's son, James Jagger. The Rolling Stones rocker's grandchildren, Mazie and Zak, read Psalm 23. Besides...

Washington, May 3: L'Wren Scott's longtime partner Mick Jagger performed a rendition of Bob Dylan's 'Just Like a Woman' at her star-studded memorial service held at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan recently.

Jagger, Scott's brother, actress Ellen Barkin, fashion personality Andre Leon Talley and Sarah Jessica Parker also paid tribute to the late fashion designer at the service.

The Rolling Stones rocker's publicist revealed in a statement that Scott's niece and Jagger's son, James, shared poems, while his grandchildren, Mazie and Zak, read Psalm 23.

The service was also attended by the likes of Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, Olivia Munn and Renee Zellweger, Vogue editor Anna Wintour; filmmakers Martin Scorsese and.

Mick Jagger paid musical tribute to his late love today in New York City. The Rolling Stones frontman sang "Just Like a Woman" at a memorial for L'Wren Scott attended by close family and friends of the designer at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, according to information released by a rep for Jagger. Scott committed suicide in March at the age of 49. Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Barkin and fashion scene fixture André Leon Talley were among the mourners who gathered to celebrate Scott's life in her adopted home of New York. A private funeral previously took place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Fashion journalist Cathy Horyn and sculptor Rachel Feinstein...

A salacious yet also tedious portrayal of a woman who would appear to confirm all the nastiest stereotypes about women. Completely unfun, unpleasant, unerotic, and unenlightening. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): not a fan of Lars von Trier

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

In a cinematic environment in which women were depicted, overall, as fully rounded human beings with a wide range of sexual expression available to them without judgment or disapproval, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac would still be a disgusting, degrading portrait of a terrible person that is completely unfun, unpleasant, unerotic, and unenlightening. But in the cinematic environment we actually have, it is a salacious yet also tedious portrayal of a woman who would appear to confirm all the nastiest stereotypes about women: that they sexually prey upon and sexually manipulate men purely for the power rush of it,...

Foreign Affairs

Director: Ziad Doueiri

Writers: Ziad Doueiri, Ghassan Salhab, Joelle Touma

Producers: Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Brehat

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Gerard Depardieu

If you’re familiar with his very controversial and well-made 2012 film, The Attack, then director Ziad Doueiri’s next feature probably sounds like a walk in the park, though don’t be surprised if it doesn’t end up playing that way. Co-written by Doueiri, Ghassan Salhan and Joelle Touma (who wrote The Attack as well as Rachid Bouchareb’s Just Like a Woman, who happens to be producing this title), the inclusion of Gerard Depardieu seems an interesting choice. We’re unsure at what stage of development the film is in, but it’s a project Doueiri has been developing for quite some time, and news broke of Depardieu’s casting in mid 2013.

Gist: 1991. Desert Storm. The first Gulf War has just ended, and...

French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb has lately alternated between sweeping historical dramas (the WWII drama "Days of Glory," the Algerian War portrait "Outside the Law") and sentimental two-handers with quieter approaches ("London River," "Just Like a Woman"). In all cases, however, Bouchareb tends to deal in similar themes of contrasting political and personal relationships. "Two Men In Town," a loose remake of José Giovanni's 1973 tale of a paroled murderer trying to get his life back together, applies this tendency to the least-ideological of Bouchareb's movies, resulting in a thinly executed tale littered with uneven performances. Nevertheless, a committed turn by Forest Whitaker in the lead role, paired with "Holy Motors" and "My Life in Pink" cinematographer Yves Cape's evocative images of the spare western landscape, lead to an intriguing contrast between the half-baked material and a handful of stronger ingredients. It's a movie at war with its deficiencies. "Two Men.

French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb is close to completing post-production on his upcoming drama Enemy Way, starring Forest Whitaker and Harvey Keitel.

Whitaker plays a former prisoner and Islamic convert who is pursued by a vengeful police officer played by Keitel in the film which is a strong contender for Cannes selection in 2014. The picture was filmed in the Us state of New Mexico for nine weeks this spring.

Algeria’s Agence Algerienne pour le Rayonnement Culturel (Aarc) is also hoping the film will be a contender for the 2015 Academy Awards. Bouchareb’s Outside The Law was among the final five films nominated in the foreign-language category of the 2011 Oscars.

Paris-based Pathe International is handling sales on the film, co-produced by Aarc, Algerian Tassili Films, French Pathe Cinema, France 2 Cinema, Solenzara, Belgian Scope Invest and Taghit LLC and the Cohen Media Group in the Us.

Aarc has become a key player in the Algerian film industry following a 2012 law...

Friendship and female bonding are fascinating themes film tends to explore on occasion. Girl power as it were, can be a a truly entertaining and meaningful topic to elevate a movie. Just Like a Woman is one such movie and it feels like a watered down, less chaotic Thelma & Louise. The women of this adventure are sexy, smart and ready to face challenges head on.

Marilyn (Sienna Miller) is a young woman in Chicago struggling with many things in her life. She takes a bellydancing class to alleviate her stress and learns of a bellydancing competition in Santa Fe. Mona (Golshifteh Farahani) is also a young woman in Chicago struggling with some issues of her own. The two women are mere acquaintances but when their lives come crashing down, they decide to join forces and drive to Santa Fe so that they can compete in the bellydancing competition together.

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Indiewire has just obtained an exclusive clip of the first five minutes of "Just Like A Woman," which is now available on DVD and iTunes. The film, released by Cohen Media Group, stars Sienna Miller as Marilyn, a Chicago woman who has just lost her secretarial job and is saddled with a cheating husband, her hobby of belly dancing proving to be her only source of satisfaction. Teaming up her friend Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), a North African immigrant who also needs an escape, the duo decide to hit the road to attend a New Mexico belly dancing competition for a journey of discovery and renewal amidst the landscape of the Southwest. "Just Like A Woman" was directed by Rachid Bouchareb, whose 2006 film "Days of Glory" garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Watch the first five minutes of the film below:...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 22, 2013

Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $34.98

Studio: Cohen Media/Entertainment One

Sienna Miller (r.) and Golshifteh Farahani do their dance in Just Like a Woman.

Two beautiful women who are barely more than casual acquaintances, escape the prisons of their unhappy marriages and embark on a revealing journey of self discovery in the 2012 drama Just Like a Woman.

Financially strapped Chicago secretary Marilyn (Sienna Miller, Stardust) has just lost her job. Already saddled with a deadbeat, cheating husband, she decides to chuck it all. With a dream of being a belly dancer, she decides to go to New Mexico to compete in a prestigious belly dancing competition. Meanwhile, Mona (Golshifteh Farahani, In the Name of the Father), a North African immigrant stuck in an arranged marriage, has just inadvertently killed her nightmarish mother-in-law and needs to get out of town fast. Meeting and uniting for a journey to...

Sporting adorable pigtails, baby Marlowe enjoys a stroll Friday (July 26) through the streets of Villa Borghese in Rome with her famous parents, Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge.

Though the proud mama may be enjoying some down time at the moment, she is still working hard on the career fronts with her upcoming flick, “Just Like a Woman.”

In the film, the 31-year-old actress plays Marilyn, who leaves her deadbeat husband in Chicago to travel by convertible across the country. Accompanying her is Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), an immigrant in an arranged marriage who wants to escape her new family.

Compared to a "Thelma and Louis" type friendship, the two end up belly dancing in restaurants, as they each try to come to terms with a lifetime of emotional abuse.

Falco Ink partners Janice Roland and Shannon Treusch announced the promotions on Wednesday [24]

Erin Bruce is named senior vice-president and Joanna Pinker rises to senior account executive at the public relations firm.

“Erin Bruce has worked closely with us since the late ‘90s,” said Roland. “Her dedication and perseverance on behalf of her accounts are unparalleled.”

“Joanna Pinker is a strategic thinker that has brought her enthusiasm and ideas to our digital media division,” said Treusch. “She is at the forefront of a constantly evolving digital community.”

Bruce has been in marketing and public relations for 15 years and her expertise in film and television includes Us and international fiction and non-fiction films.

Her campaign credits include Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Y Tu Mamá Tambien, Rachel Getting Married, Winged Migration, Manhunt and Olympus Has Fallen.

She has attended Sundance and Toronto for the past 12 years and handled festival publicity for The Film Society Of Lincoln Center...

Sienna Miller went for a walk with her adorable daughter, Marlowe, in London on Friday. She looked casual in a breezy shirt and shorts while Marlowe wore a single ponytail on top of her head. At one point during their walk, Marlowe started to cry while Sienna held onto a dog leash. However, Marlowe appeared to be much calmer when she and Sienna met up with Tom Sturridge for lunch at the Ritz hotel on Sunday. Sienna and her fiancé are back in the UK after a stint in the Big Apple earlier this Summer. They spent lots of time in NYC while Sienna promoted her latest project, Just Like a Woman, and Tom celebrated his Tony nomination for the Broadway play Orphans. Now that they're back overseas, the couple are making time for Summer fun and high fashion - they attended the Glastonbury music festival, visited a tattoo parlor together earlier this month,...

Sneak Peek footage from Oscar nominated writer/director Rachid Bouchareb's new 'belly-dancing' feature "Just Like A Woman", starring Sienna Miller and Golshifteh Farahani, opening in North America, July 13, 2013:

"...an American housewife and a North African woman travel from Chicago to Santa Fe to participate in a bellydance competition..."

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Female Trouble: Bouchareb’s Understated First Chapter in Arab-American Trilogy

Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, perhaps most widely recognized for his films Outside the Law (2010) and Days of Glory (2006), depicting historical and divisive conflicts between Algeria and France, returns once again to the Us with Just Like a Woman, the first film of a planned trilogy depicting the transforming relationships between the Western and Arab world. A female centric road film born out of severe character conflicts created by their oppressive, male dominated existence ensures that the film will be rampantly compared to Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991), even though it avoids an overtly melodramatic malaise. Shining through its formulaic setup and stereotypical antagonists are a pair of actresses that manage to fit perfectly with Bouchareb’s knack for uniting people despite of their socially constructed differences.

Down and out Chicago receptionist Marilyn (Sienna Miller) is struggling to make ends...

Title: Just Like a Woman Director: Rachid Bouchareb (‘Outside the Law,’ ‘Days of Glory’) Starring: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani (‘Chickens with Plums,’ ‘Body of Lies’), Tim Guinee (‘Iron Man,’ TV’s ‘Revolution’), Roschdy Zem (‘The Cold Light of Day‘)and Chafia Boudraa (‘Outside the Law’) Contending with the important issues of cultural differences and self-importance and identity can be a difficult process for many women in an ethnically diverse city. Finding their rightful place in society while also achieving their personal goals and dreams is the strong motivating factor that drives the two diverse female lead characters in the new drama ‘Just Like a Woman.’ While the two women, Marilyn and Mona, [ Read More ]

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Title: Just Like a Woman Director: Rachid Bouchareb Starring: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Roschdy Zem, Tim Guinee, Bahar Soomekh, Chafia Boudraa Themes of cultural identity and disunity figure prominently into the work of director Rachid Bouchareb, including 2006′s “Days of Glory” and 2011′s “Outside the Law,” both of which were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Awards. Bouchareb’s English language debut, “Just Like a Woman,” however, is a phony female fantasy — a minor chord variation on “Thelma & Louise” with none of that film’s panache, verve or insight. Instead tone-deaf and at times downright insufferable, this road trip flick in which bellydancing holds the key to feminine enlightenment [ Read More ]

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Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that a brand new poster for Rachid Bouchareb‘s latest drama Just Like a Woman is waiting for you in the rest of this report. You know, the film that stars Sienna Miller as an American housewife and Golshifteh Farahani as her North African friend? C’mon, we already shared 20 great images and trailer for the whole thing… I will once again remind you that Bouchareb directed the pic from a script written by Joelle Touma and Marion Doussot, which revolves around a Chicago housewife runs off to Santa Fe to compete in a belly dancing competition. In...

Stepping out to promote her new movie, Sienna Miller headed to the premiere of "Just Like a Woman" in New York City on Wednesday (June 5).

The "Layer Cake" star kept things simple in a classic sleeveless little black dress with matching heels as she posed for photos outside.

In the drama, a Chicago housewife runs off to Santa Fe with a friend to compete in a belly dancing competition.

Directed by Rachid Bouchareb, the film also stars Golshifteh Farahani, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee, and Roschdy Zem. "Just Like a Woman" hits theaters on July 5th.

Cohen Media Group has new photos in for their Just Like a Woman Drama, starring Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee, Roschdy Zem, Chafia Boudraa, Jesse Harper and Sayed Badreya. Rachid Bouchareb directs the film which opens on July 5th in New York, and tells the poignant tale of two women, barely more than casual acquaintances, who, upon escaping the prisons of their unhappy marriages, embark on a revealing journey of self discovery which leads them to the importance - and true meaning - of friendship.

Looking to satisfy their growling tummies, Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge strolled over to a local eatery in New York City today (April 3).

The “Hippie Hippie Shake” hottie and her doting hubby opted for a West Village restaurant for lunch, and after the meal they decided to take a romantic stroll to work off the calories.

As for her career pursuits, Sienna will star in the upcoming flick titled “Just Like A Woman” in the months to come.

Per the synopsis, “It tells the tale of two women who go on the run from their marital problems, supporting each other and belly dancing along the way.”

Miller explained, “The story [follows] her and a Muslim woman who also leaves a bad marriage, and they dance their way across America. It’s a bit like Thelma & Louise.”...

Stepping out for a social call, Sienna Miller showed up at the Café Cluny in New York City on Wednesday afternoon (March 27).

And the “Factory Girl” actress seemed to be in good spirits, as she happily strolled out of the trendy eatery in a black short-sleeved top with jeans.

Sienna’s next film is called “Just Like A Woman,” and in a recent interview she explained the premise behind the project.

“The story [follows] her and a Muslim woman who also leaves a bad marriage, and they dance their way across America. It's a bit like Thelma & Louise.”...

Brit film executive Daniel Battsek, who ran Miramax Films after the Weinsteins left Disney, has landed at Cohen Media Group as president. Battsek was president at National Geographic Films until it shut down in December 2011. He will work closely with Cohen Media Group chairman and CEO Charles Cohen on the acquisition, production and distribution of Cmg titles, as well the Cohen Film Collection, which includes The Rohauer Library. Among films coming in 2013 is Pablo Berger’s "Blancanieves," starring Maribel Verdu and Angelina Molina, which is Spain’s foreign language Oscar submission; Fernando Trueba’s "The Artist and the Model," co-starring Jean Rochefort and Claudia Cardinale; Francois Ozon’s" In the House," which stars Kristin Scott Thomas; and Rachid Bouchareb’s first American film, "Just Like A Woman," starring Sienna Miler. Battsek will also supervise Cmg’s production slate. In the pipeline...