Eurimages’ long-standing film fund which has backed multiple films in official selection in Cannes this year.
The Council of Europe film fund Eurimages is aiming to create a fund for the international co-production of TV drama series to launch in the second half of 2023.
The idea is for the TV fund to operate in a similar fashion to the organisation’s long-standing film fund which has backed multiple films in official selection in Cannes this year.
They include Ukrainian director Maksym Nakonechnyi’s Un Certain Regard entry Butterfly Kiss and competition entries Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Tori And Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes,...
The Council of Europe film fund Eurimages is aiming to create a fund for the international co-production of TV drama series to launch in the second half of 2023.
The idea is for the TV fund to operate in a similar fashion to the organisation’s long-standing film fund which has backed multiple films in official selection in Cannes this year.
They include Ukrainian director Maksym Nakonechnyi’s Un Certain Regard entry Butterfly Kiss and competition entries Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Tori And Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes,...
- 5/22/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Micheal Winterbottom’s Greed stars Steve Coogan as a vulgar super-rich British retail tycoon based loosely on Philip Green.
Michael Winterbottom’s Greed starring Steve Coogan opens in UK cinemas this weekend though Sony, with the director looking to set a new high benchmark for his films.
Greed stars Steve Coogan as Sir Richard ‘Greedy’ McCreadie, a vulgar super-rich British retail tycoon based loosely on Philip Green.
David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Shirley Henderson and Asa Butterfield round out the main cast; the late TV presenter Caroline Flack makes a brief cameo.
Winterbottom has directed an impressive 29 features for theatrical and television release since his first,...
Michael Winterbottom’s Greed starring Steve Coogan opens in UK cinemas this weekend though Sony, with the director looking to set a new high benchmark for his films.
Greed stars Steve Coogan as Sir Richard ‘Greedy’ McCreadie, a vulgar super-rich British retail tycoon based loosely on Philip Green.
David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Shirley Henderson and Asa Butterfield round out the main cast; the late TV presenter Caroline Flack makes a brief cameo.
Winterbottom has directed an impressive 29 features for theatrical and television release since his first,...
- 2/21/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
A lesbian spin on the legendary Lizzie Borden murder case is nothing new — Ed McBain posited the notion in a 1984 novel — but the stylish and haunting “Lizzie” paints a provocative portrait of a woman driven by passions and left with few options in a society that gave her little agency.
In “Lizzie,” we come to know Borden’s inner turmoil, not only by her periodic “spells” but also in the way that the camera captures a bewitching Chloë Sevigny. She’s often off-center in the frame, or reflected in mirrors, or out of focus in the foreground as she imagines what’s happening far behind her.
Screenwriter Bryce Kass (“Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs”) and director Craig William Macneill (2015’s “The Boy”), like everyone else who has tackled this story, are left to their own conjectures and theories as to the how and the why behind the murder of Borden’s father and stepmother,...
In “Lizzie,” we come to know Borden’s inner turmoil, not only by her periodic “spells” but also in the way that the camera captures a bewitching Chloë Sevigny. She’s often off-center in the frame, or reflected in mirrors, or out of focus in the foreground as she imagines what’s happening far behind her.
Screenwriter Bryce Kass (“Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs”) and director Craig William Macneill (2015’s “The Boy”), like everyone else who has tackled this story, are left to their own conjectures and theories as to the how and the why behind the murder of Borden’s father and stepmother,...
- 9/13/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Three UK features among first 15 films selected for Berlin’s Generations programme.Scroll down for list
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first raft of titles selected for its Generations sidebar, which features youth and children’s films.
Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road [pictured], which follows the band Wolf Alice on tour, will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Also playing in that strand will be Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
Further UK features playing in 14plus include the world premieres of Carol Salter’s Almost Heaven and Rafael Kapelinski’s Butterfly Kiss.
Titles selected for the separate GenerationKplus strand include the European premiere of Kriv Stenders’s Australian family feature Red Dog: True Blue.
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival takes place February 9-19.
Selected titles
Synopses provided by Berlinale press office.
Generation14plus
On The Road...
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first raft of titles selected for its Generations sidebar, which features youth and children’s films.
Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road [pictured], which follows the band Wolf Alice on tour, will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Also playing in that strand will be Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
Further UK features playing in 14plus include the world premieres of Carol Salter’s Almost Heaven and Rafael Kapelinski’s Butterfly Kiss.
Titles selected for the separate GenerationKplus strand include the European premiere of Kriv Stenders’s Australian family feature Red Dog: True Blue.
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival takes place February 9-19.
Selected titles
Synopses provided by Berlinale press office.
Generation14plus
On The Road...
- 12/23/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Author Patricia Highsmith is most well-known for her six Tom Ripley novels (currently heading for the small screen), and many of her works have been made into movies, from Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" to Anthony Minghella's 1999 "The Talented Mr. Ripley." When Phyllis Nagy was working as a researcher at the New York Times when she was in her early 20s, she was assigned to accompany Highsmith on a walking tour of the Greenwood Cemetery. They became friends, and thus Nagy came to know the novelist, who lived in Switzerland, in the last ten years of her life. They corresponded, and when Nagy moved to London a few years later, they saw each other more often. Highsmith suggested that Nagy, who was establishing her career as a playwright ("Butterfly Kiss"), should adapt one of her books. "I’d heard her talk about how much she hated all of her adaptations,...
- 1/15/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Hereafter's Cécile De France has joined the Peter Billingsley directed comedy Term Life.
The film stars Vince Vaughn and Hailee Steinfeld.
Term Life centres on Vaughn as a conman called Nick Barrow, who takes out a life insurance policy on himself before going on the run with his estranged daughter, Deadline reports.
Steinfeld will portray Vaughn's on-screen daughter Cate, as the pair attempt to dodge thieves, contract killers, and crooked cops.
France will play Steinfeld's mother Lucy and former wife of Vaughn.
The script comes from screenwriter Aj Lieberman, who also penned the graphic novel with Nick Thornborrow.
France has previously appeared in the films High Tension and A Butterfly Kiss.
The film stars Vince Vaughn and Hailee Steinfeld.
Term Life centres on Vaughn as a conman called Nick Barrow, who takes out a life insurance policy on himself before going on the run with his estranged daughter, Deadline reports.
Steinfeld will portray Vaughn's on-screen daughter Cate, as the pair attempt to dodge thieves, contract killers, and crooked cops.
France will play Steinfeld's mother Lucy and former wife of Vaughn.
The script comes from screenwriter Aj Lieberman, who also penned the graphic novel with Nick Thornborrow.
France has previously appeared in the films High Tension and A Butterfly Kiss.
- 5/1/2014
- Digital Spy
Six emerging producers selected to join upcoming writers and support development of their stories.
After hosting a first module in August with 14 upcoming UK screenwriters, The Bureau’s Sos development programme is set to enter its second stage.
Six emerging producers have been selected to join the writers to support them during the development of their story – now at treatment stage - the aim being to fast track their own development experience while connecting with writers and writer-directors.
Selected Participants & Projects for Module II
Writers
Adam Dewar – The SafetyAl Mackay Mackay – The FarmAleem Khan – After LifeEd Hime – Last ChristmasJesse Quinones – Carlito Y JaneMatthew Knott – TrollOrhan Boztas - Twinelle
Producers
Amy BasilDavid AllainEmily MorganFarhana BuhlaJack TarlingJessica Levick
The newly selected producers includes Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Emily Morgan, who have been active in producing shorts since leaving the school, and Jack Tharling, a Newcastle-based producer with more than 20 shorts to his credit and production experience, currently co-producing...
After hosting a first module in August with 14 upcoming UK screenwriters, The Bureau’s Sos development programme is set to enter its second stage.
Six emerging producers have been selected to join the writers to support them during the development of their story – now at treatment stage - the aim being to fast track their own development experience while connecting with writers and writer-directors.
Selected Participants & Projects for Module II
Writers
Adam Dewar – The SafetyAl Mackay Mackay – The FarmAleem Khan – After LifeEd Hime – Last ChristmasJesse Quinones – Carlito Y JaneMatthew Knott – TrollOrhan Boztas - Twinelle
Producers
Amy BasilDavid AllainEmily MorganFarhana BuhlaJack TarlingJessica Levick
The newly selected producers includes Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Emily Morgan, who have been active in producing shorts since leaving the school, and Jack Tharling, a Newcastle-based producer with more than 20 shorts to his credit and production experience, currently co-producing...
- 11/5/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Manderlay and Antichrist’s Willem Dafoe is re-teaming with so-called ‘controversial’ Danish director Lars von Trier for erotic drama Nymphomaniac, currently shooting in and around Cologne, Germany.
Joining the final round of announcement are: German actor Udo Kier, who has appeared in most of Lars von Trier’s films; French actor Jean-Marc Barr, who worked with von Trier on Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves, as well as Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List) and Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), Saskia Reeves (Butterfly Kiss) and lastly, Danish writer/director/actor Omar Shargawi (R).
However, Nicole Kidman, who had long been rumored as another possible addition to the Nymphomaniac cast, has dropped out.
Von Trier’s two-part erotic epic previously announced cast members are Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film’s lead, Jo, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who tells her story to an older bachelor, played by Stellan Skarsgard; Shia Labeouf,...
Joining the final round of announcement are: German actor Udo Kier, who has appeared in most of Lars von Trier’s films; French actor Jean-Marc Barr, who worked with von Trier on Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves, as well as Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List) and Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), Saskia Reeves (Butterfly Kiss) and lastly, Danish writer/director/actor Omar Shargawi (R).
However, Nicole Kidman, who had long been rumored as another possible addition to the Nymphomaniac cast, has dropped out.
Von Trier’s two-part erotic epic previously announced cast members are Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film’s lead, Jo, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who tells her story to an older bachelor, played by Stellan Skarsgard; Shia Labeouf,...
- 10/17/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
The ultra prolific British helmer Michael Winterbottom has now made twenty films since his debut, “Butterfly Kiss,” in 1995. His eclectic creative appetites and peripatetic energy has seen the restless director take on a disparate array of projects from moody sci-fi ("Code 46"), pulpy noir ("The Killer Inside Me"), a post-modern music-scene saga ("24 Hour Party People") a western ("The Claim") and many, many more genres including documentaries as well. So for his latest trick, it’s perhaps no surprise that Winterbottom has taken on another interesting experiment -- this time a sprawling family drama set over five Christmases in rural Scotland. Commissioned by the BBC’s Channel 4 and shot in two week periods over five years, "Everyday" employs four real-life siblings (Shaun, Katrina, Stephanie, and Robert Kirk) to play the sons of Karen (Shirley Henderson) and Ian (John Simm), her Mia husband, and chronicles...
- 9/3/2012
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Does Michael Winterbottom ever stop working? In the 17 years since his debut "Butterfly Kiss," he's helmed twenty feature films, averaging more than one a year, and the director has several more in the works: he's wrapped on "King of Soho," with Steve Coogan, ambitious, multi-year project "Here and There" is nearing completion, and he's got Jack Black vehicle "Bailout" and Beatles flick "The Longest Cocktail Party" on the dance card as well. And his most recent picture isn't even in theaters yet.
But it's not long before it is: "Trishna" is hitting theaters, courtesy of IFC Films, in a couple of months, and we're pleased to exclusively unveil the U.S. poster for the latest film from one of our favorite directors. The picture sees Winterbottom return to the Thomas Hardy well that proved so successful on "Jude" and "The Claim," for a contemporary spin on "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" set in modern-day India.
But it's not long before it is: "Trishna" is hitting theaters, courtesy of IFC Films, in a couple of months, and we're pleased to exclusively unveil the U.S. poster for the latest film from one of our favorite directors. The picture sees Winterbottom return to the Thomas Hardy well that proved so successful on "Jude" and "The Claim," for a contemporary spin on "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" set in modern-day India.
- 5/18/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
If you followed @afterellen's Golden Globes tweet-along at #showusyourglobes, you know that this year was almost as full of Gay Goodness as last year, even though we expected the awards to straighten up.
But we also expected Ricky Gervais not to be invited back, so what do we know?
Before we proceed with a recap of the festivities, I must put to rest any and all rumors about why I am doing this recap when awards shows are Dorothy Snarker territory. Ms. Snarker, faced with the choice of staying up all night writing about the Golden Globes or staying up all night partying in Vegas with lesbian softball players, chose the latter. I know, I know. But we will get through this together. On with the show.
The Red Carpet show-before-the-show wasted no time in affirming that the acting community's favorite designers had chosen "show us your globes" as their...
But we also expected Ricky Gervais not to be invited back, so what do we know?
Before we proceed with a recap of the festivities, I must put to rest any and all rumors about why I am doing this recap when awards shows are Dorothy Snarker territory. Ms. Snarker, faced with the choice of staying up all night writing about the Golden Globes or staying up all night partying in Vegas with lesbian softball players, chose the latter. I know, I know. But we will get through this together. On with the show.
The Red Carpet show-before-the-show wasted no time in affirming that the acting community's favorite designers had chosen "show us your globes" as their...
- 1/16/2012
- by the linster
- AfterEllen.com
'Four Lions' Writer Jesse Armstrong Penning Script For Liam Gallagher-Produced Film, But Johnny Depp Likely Won't Play Lead Exclusive: Few directors have such a keen eye for music as Michael Winterbottom. From The Cranberries-stuffed soundtrack in his sophomore feature "Butterfly Kiss" to "24 Hour Party People," one of the best films about rock'n'roll ever made, to the perverse 50s cuts in last year's "The Killer Inside Me," he's always had a great sense for the right backdrop to the action, whether it be an original score or a song. And now, it looks like the director is heading towards tackling…...
- 10/12/2011
- The Playlist
Craig back with a new Take Three.
Today: Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer photograph from Jeannick Gravelines Photographe
Take One: No film without her
There are certain characters who, when they appear on screen and begin adding their particular slant, I know I'll want to see more of. Sometimes the filmmakers oblige with this. Sometimes they don't. Personally, I'm thinking Radha Mitchell in Finding Neverland (who I looked at here), Anna Faris in Lost in Translation, Jayne Eastwood in Dawn of the Dead (2004) and the like. We all have certain types we want more from.
More often than not, they're played by great supporting/character actors, doing what they do best: stealing the film... if actually given the chance. That's how I felt about Plummer as boiler-suited cleaner Laurie in Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003). This isn't to dismiss Sarah Polley's fine central performance as Ann, but something...
Today: Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer photograph from Jeannick Gravelines Photographe
Take One: No film without her
There are certain characters who, when they appear on screen and begin adding their particular slant, I know I'll want to see more of. Sometimes the filmmakers oblige with this. Sometimes they don't. Personally, I'm thinking Radha Mitchell in Finding Neverland (who I looked at here), Anna Faris in Lost in Translation, Jayne Eastwood in Dawn of the Dead (2004) and the like. We all have certain types we want more from.
More often than not, they're played by great supporting/character actors, doing what they do best: stealing the film... if actually given the chance. That's how I felt about Plummer as boiler-suited cleaner Laurie in Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003). This isn't to dismiss Sarah Polley's fine central performance as Ann, but something...
- 9/26/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
In honor of the September 28th release of The Killer Inside Me on DVD, JustPressPlay is giving you a chance to win a copy.The work of the great pulp novelist Jim Thompson has been brought to the screen before in such crime classics as The Grifters and The Getaway, but perhaps no Thompson adaptation is as unyieldingly dark and disturbing as The Killer Inside Me, the widely praised and argued-over shocker starring Casey Affleck as a Texas lawman with a deep secret.
To win, you've just got to do two things:
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The contest ends on September 30th.
And now, here's a summary:
Director Winterbottom’s impressive work ranges from the lesbian crime thriller Butterfly Kiss to...
To win, you've just got to do two things:
1) Click the "Like" button on the Facebook box for JustPressPlay in the right column
2) Leave a comment on our Facebook wall telling us you want to win The Killer Inside Me on DVD
The contest ends on September 30th.
And now, here's a summary:
Director Winterbottom’s impressive work ranges from the lesbian crime thriller Butterfly Kiss to...
- 9/21/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Michael Winterbottom is one of Britain's most original film-makers - no rehearsals, actors who improvise and subjects that range from lesbian serial killers to torture in Guantanamo. His latest film – with its graphic and prolonged sex and murder scenes – has audiences reeling in horror. What's all the fuss about, he wonders
Is Michael Winterbottom merely in deep denial about what he has done with his new film, The Killer Inside Me, or is it more that, in the course of a long career, some vital part of his film-making soul has become so inured to violence that he is unable to grasp quite how abhorrent parts of his movie are? I'm not sure. The Killer Inside Me, an adaptation of a pulpy 1952 novel by Jim Thompson, had its world premiere at the Sundance festival last January where, as the credits rolled, a member of the audience stood up and screamed:...
Is Michael Winterbottom merely in deep denial about what he has done with his new film, The Killer Inside Me, or is it more that, in the course of a long career, some vital part of his film-making soul has become so inured to violence that he is unable to grasp quite how abhorrent parts of his movie are? I'm not sure. The Killer Inside Me, an adaptation of a pulpy 1952 novel by Jim Thompson, had its world premiere at the Sundance festival last January where, as the credits rolled, a member of the audience stood up and screamed:...
- 5/22/2010
- by Rachel Cooke
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Is Michael Winterbottom’s 2004 curiosity little more than art house porn? It certainly would seem that way to any consumer who happens to glimpse at the film’s Blu-Ray case, which boasts that the disc contains the “full uncut explicit version” of “9 Songs.” There’s also a disclaimer warning that the film “contains sexually explicit content.” In the words of “Family Guy”’s Quagmire, “Oh…right.”
Like Soderbergh, Winterbottom is a versatile risk-taker who doesn’t shy away from courting controversy. From 1995’s “Butterfly Kiss” to this year’s “The Killer Inside Me,” the fearless filmmaker has utilized uncompromising depictions of violence and sexuality in order to plunge the audience headfirst into the psyche of his characters. In two of his best recent efforts, “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” and “The Road to Guantanamo,” Winterbottom has also proven his gift for blurring the line between documented reality and scripted fiction.
Like Soderbergh, Winterbottom is a versatile risk-taker who doesn’t shy away from courting controversy. From 1995’s “Butterfly Kiss” to this year’s “The Killer Inside Me,” the fearless filmmaker has utilized uncompromising depictions of violence and sexuality in order to plunge the audience headfirst into the psyche of his characters. In two of his best recent efforts, “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” and “The Road to Guantanamo,” Winterbottom has also proven his gift for blurring the line between documented reality and scripted fiction.
- 5/20/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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