Tag: Foreign Film News
Going Dutch: Steve McQueen & Bianca Stigter Pair on The Occupied City
After mapping out the Chicagoan underworld in Widows, master British helmer Steve McQueen has teamed with his significant other in author / Dutch-born Bianca Stigter to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Per Fly’s Backstabbing for Beginners
The A24 folks landed the rights to this Scandi-North American production and globe-trotting English language debut from Per Fly at the onset of the summer,...
Exclusive TIFF Clip: Moving Towards the Light in Hlynur Palmason’s “Winter Brothers”
Winner of Best Actor (Elliott Crosset) at its Locarno premiere and spotlighting here at TIFF, we got an exclusive clip ahead of the North...
X Marx the Spot: Amazon Weaponize for 2018 with Pawlikowski’s “Cold War”
Amazon Studios are getting their 2018 awardage game on. Variety reports that they've come on board to distribute Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War. Starring his...
Exclusive: Trailer & Posters for Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Kill Me Please
Premiering at the 2015 Venice Film Festival (with subsequent important pitstops at SXSW and New Directors / New Films fests) Anita Rocha da Silveira’s much lauded feature...
TIFF 2017: Len Blum Resident Anne Émond Penning “Jeune Juliette” & “Monde Neuf”
Not unlike the San Francisco Film Society mandate or what the NYFF folks do with their Filmmaker in Residence program, the TIFF people have got...
Gold Mountain: Atom Egoyan Adapting “The Lost Daughter of Happiness”
Cable television isn't meant for watching during the summer months but a spanking brand new show on Canadiana cinema on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting...
Exclusive: Isabelle Huppert & Benoît Jacquot Reteam on “Eva” Remake
In Nicholas Bell's sit down with the distinguished French actress Isabelle Huppert, who is currently promoting the U.S. release of Paul Verhoeven's Elle, we...
Les visiteurs: Alice Rohrwacher Time Travels to the FilmLinc with “My Bitter Land”
A salient initiative that has so far provided distinct auteur voices such as Andrea Arnold, Lisandro Alonso and Athina Rachel Tsangari with early script support, Alice Rohrwacher...
The D Word: Andrey Zvyagintsev To Present Bitter Pill in “Loveless”
Following in his four year process between film releases, after The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007), Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014), Andrey Zvyagintsev is...
Leningrad Cowboy: Aki Kaurismäki Invests in “The Other Side of Hope”
Aki Kaurismäki will likely be hitting the Croisette in back to back years. He'll be in Cannes to collect Carrosse d'Or (Golden Coach) award...
Cannes 2016: Kim Nguyen’s Two Lovers and a Bear
Based on a series of stories that Kanuk founder Louis Grenier (Québecois winter parka company) collected on his many trips up north, producer Roger...
Ruth Wilson Flowing Towards Barnard’s “Dark River”
Known for collecting accolades and her scrappy protags portraits under the new wave of Kitchen Sink realism label, Clio Barnard is moving ahead with...
Whale of a Tale: Stephan Elliott Harpons Guy Pearce & Kylie Minogue for “Flammable Children”
According to Variety, Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue (Holy Motors) are officially are set to offer not much parental supervision alongside the already cast...
Meat is…: Jessica Brown Findlay Takes a Bow on Mark Gill’s “Morrissey”
While they've got The Smiths frontman in actor Jack Lowden ('71) and it becomes only a matter of time before the production to announce who'll play...
Neon Bull: Carlos Reygadas to Mount “Donde nace la vida”
We can add one more iron to the Cannes fire...except this one will likely target the 2017 edition. Obviously nothing is official until the April announcement, but Jaime...
Expat in Paris: Nadav Lapid Opens Pages to “Micro Robert”
Nadav Lapid will dig into his own Parisian experience from over a decade back with his third feature film, the mini format dictionary referenced title...
Generation Z: Cristian Mungiu to Take Snapshot of Fatherhood with “Fotografii de familie”
After Abderrahmane Sissako dished out details on what will likely be his next directing gig, reporting from the Doha Film Institute event, Screen Daily...
TWC Sews Up Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent Biopic
French actor-turned-director Jalil Lespert (whose filmography behind the camera includes the unreleased in the U.S pair of 24 Measures and Headwinds) has nabbed a...
Images in Pictures: First Batch from Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
Of all the announcements made today, Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux is, going in, the film event of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Feast...
