The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled the 10 cinema figures who will participate in its In Conversation With program at its 20th edition running from November 24 to December 2.
They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.
Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.
Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
- 11/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival continues to shower the love on “Loveless” director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who has been invited to serve on this year’s jury. Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux revealed Tuesday that he had invited the acclaimed Russian filmmaker to join the panel, which will be presided over by Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett.
Fremaux also told France’s Europe 1 radio that the jury would consist of five women and four men. He did not divulge any of the other names.
Zvyagintsev is a firm Cannes favorite, with four films appearing at the festival in the last 11 years. Three have played in competition: “The Banishment” (2007), “Leviathan” (2014) and “Loveless” (2017). “Elena” (2009) screened in Un Certain Regard.
Fremaux said Zvyagintsev is currently studying English. “He’s taking accelerated English classes because his English was a bit broken,” Fremaux said, adding that having a knowledge of the language was key to “watch[ing] the movies...
Fremaux also told France’s Europe 1 radio that the jury would consist of five women and four men. He did not divulge any of the other names.
Zvyagintsev is a firm Cannes favorite, with four films appearing at the festival in the last 11 years. Three have played in competition: “The Banishment” (2007), “Leviathan” (2014) and “Loveless” (2017). “Elena” (2009) screened in Un Certain Regard.
Fremaux said Zvyagintsev is currently studying English. “He’s taking accelerated English classes because his English was a bit broken,” Fremaux said, adding that having a knowledge of the language was key to “watch[ing] the movies...
- 4/17/2018
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
Leviathan director developing TV series with Paramount Television.
Andrey Zvyagintsev, the twice-Academy Award nominated Russian director of Leviathan and Loveless, has revealed more details of his first TV project which he is now developing with Paramount Television.
“My ambition is not only to make a TV series but to make an amazing TV series that will stand for something,” he said at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event in Qatar on Tuesday. “It will make its mark in television.”
Details remain scarce as Zvyagintsev said he is just beginning to embark on the project. He is working with Oleg Negin,...
Andrey Zvyagintsev, the twice-Academy Award nominated Russian director of Leviathan and Loveless, has revealed more details of his first TV project which he is now developing with Paramount Television.
“My ambition is not only to make a TV series but to make an amazing TV series that will stand for something,” he said at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event in Qatar on Tuesday. “It will make its mark in television.”
Details remain scarce as Zvyagintsev said he is just beginning to embark on the project. He is working with Oleg Negin,...
- 3/13/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
While it may not have been on the shelf for over a decade, The Banishment is not only the second feature film from director Andrey Zvyaginstev, but it is now, 11 years after its initial debut, finally arriving in theaters stateside.
Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Arguably today’s greatest Russian filmmaker, Zvyaginstev is the subject of a new mid-career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and as part of that series (running January 12-24), MoMA will be giving the director’s sophomore effort its premiere Us theatrical run, a full decade-plus after its 2007 bow. A dense, expertly crafted feature, this nearly three-hour long familial epic followed Zvyaginstev’s debut The Return, and helped launch the filmmaker into a stratosphere finding him getting comparisons to names like Tarkovsky.
The Banishment is a polarizing motion picture, a master class in the modern art of “slow cinema” (whatever that...
Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Arguably today’s greatest Russian filmmaker, Zvyaginstev is the subject of a new mid-career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and as part of that series (running January 12-24), MoMA will be giving the director’s sophomore effort its premiere Us theatrical run, a full decade-plus after its 2007 bow. A dense, expertly crafted feature, this nearly three-hour long familial epic followed Zvyaginstev’s debut The Return, and helped launch the filmmaker into a stratosphere finding him getting comparisons to names like Tarkovsky.
The Banishment is a polarizing motion picture, a master class in the modern art of “slow cinema” (whatever that...
- 1/12/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
COLOGNE, Germany -- Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or-winning abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Paul Verhoeven's WWII thriller Black Book and Sam Garbarski's dark comedy Irina Palm are among the titles the European Film Academy has selected in its initial list of nominees for this year's European Film Prize.
The 1,800 members of the EFA will use the list of 42 films to select the official nominees in seven main categories. The nominations will be announced Nov. 3 at the Sevilla Film Festival.
The 2007 EFA long list is a typical catch-all of the critically acclaimed and/or financially successful European productions of the past year.
Opulent big-budget productions including Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biography La Vie en Rose and Tom Tykwer's literary adaptation Perfume: The Story of a Murderer butt up against art house fare exemplified by Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export or The Banishment from Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Unlike in previous years, there is no consensus frontrunner, despite the presence of Oscar winners The Queen and The Last King of Scotland in the nominations list.
And in another departure, no one European country dominates the nominations. No nation, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. -- which produce the bulk of films in Europe -- has more than three films in the nominations list.
Another interesting development is the rise of Central and Eastern Europe. Some of the most talked-about films come from the EU's newest members, including Mungiu's 4 Months, Serbian thriller The Trap by director Srdan Golubovic and Jiri Menzel's Czech-language drama I Served the King of England.
The winners of the 20th annual European Film Awards will be announced Dec. 1 in Berlin.
The 1,800 members of the EFA will use the list of 42 films to select the official nominees in seven main categories. The nominations will be announced Nov. 3 at the Sevilla Film Festival.
The 2007 EFA long list is a typical catch-all of the critically acclaimed and/or financially successful European productions of the past year.
Opulent big-budget productions including Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biography La Vie en Rose and Tom Tykwer's literary adaptation Perfume: The Story of a Murderer butt up against art house fare exemplified by Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export or The Banishment from Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Unlike in previous years, there is no consensus frontrunner, despite the presence of Oscar winners The Queen and The Last King of Scotland in the nominations list.
And in another departure, no one European country dominates the nominations. No nation, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. -- which produce the bulk of films in Europe -- has more than three films in the nominations list.
Another interesting development is the rise of Central and Eastern Europe. Some of the most talked-about films come from the EU's newest members, including Mungiu's 4 Months, Serbian thriller The Trap by director Srdan Golubovic and Jiri Menzel's Czech-language drama I Served the King of England.
The winners of the 20th annual European Film Awards will be announced Dec. 1 in Berlin.
CANNES -- After 12 days, 22 films and 60 years of the Festival de Cannes, Stephen Frears' jury reached its verdict Sunday night, bestowing the coveted Palme d'Or to Cristian Mungiu's 4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
The honor proved that all roads lead to Romanian cinema after Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' won the Un Certain Regard prize one day earlier.
Wild Bunch is handling international sales for Months and has already sold the film to IFC in the U.S., the U.K.'s Artifical Eye and Italy's Lucky Red.
The second place Grand Prix went to Japanese underdog Mogari No Mori (The Mourning Forest), directed by Naomi Kawase, about an old man and a caretaker at his retirement home struggling to overcome the death of their loved ones.
Julian Schnabel was named best director for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Turkey's German-born Fatih Akin won the best screenplay award for The Edge of Heaven.
Jeon Do-yeon's portrayal of a mother dealing with tragedy earned her the best actress prize for Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine, and Konstantin Lavronenko took home the best actor award for his role in Andrei Zviaguintsev's Russian entry The Banishment.
The Jury prize was split between Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis, a black-and-white animated adaptation of her popular comic book about growing up during the Iranian Revolution, and Stellet Licht, Carlos Reygadas' tale of forbidden love among Mennonite farmers.
The honor proved that all roads lead to Romanian cinema after Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' won the Un Certain Regard prize one day earlier.
Wild Bunch is handling international sales for Months and has already sold the film to IFC in the U.S., the U.K.'s Artifical Eye and Italy's Lucky Red.
The second place Grand Prix went to Japanese underdog Mogari No Mori (The Mourning Forest), directed by Naomi Kawase, about an old man and a caretaker at his retirement home struggling to overcome the death of their loved ones.
Julian Schnabel was named best director for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Turkey's German-born Fatih Akin won the best screenplay award for The Edge of Heaven.
Jeon Do-yeon's portrayal of a mother dealing with tragedy earned her the best actress prize for Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine, and Konstantin Lavronenko took home the best actor award for his role in Andrei Zviaguintsev's Russian entry The Banishment.
The Jury prize was split between Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis, a black-and-white animated adaptation of her popular comic book about growing up during the Iranian Revolution, and Stellet Licht, Carlos Reygadas' tale of forbidden love among Mennonite farmers.
- 5/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- First reaction: non-surprise. Many of the films mentioned below were tagged to be amongst the final choices – and the ones that I thought were going to break into the fest (namely a couple of American pics) look to be headed to Italy’s Venice film fest in the fall. Two films that I won’t be checking out are the ones that I’ve already seen (albeit, 10 minutes more of Deathproof could be interesting) and Zodiac a film that could have been featured apart from the comp titles. Here is the complete list below. Opening film: My Blueberry Nights - Wong Kar Wai4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)- Cristian Mungiualexandra - Alexander Sokourovauf Der Anderen Seite - Fatih Akinbreath - Kim Ki DukLES Chansons D’Amour - Christophe HONORÉDEATH Proof - Quentin Tarantinoimport Export - Ulrich Seidlizgnanie (The Banishment) - Andrey Zvyagintsevthe Man From London
- 4/19/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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