The Lobster [pictured] is presented as case study in co-production market.
The sixth edition of the Les Arcs European Film Festival turned its focus on Ireland with an aim to celebrate its cinematic beauty and history, and in turn, its filmic opportunities.
While the festival’s co-founders Guillaume Calop and Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin mentioned in an opening statement that this year had seen a persistent crisis within the European Union (EU) and a loss of confidence in its benefits, Geraldine Byrne Nason (Ambassador of Ireland to France) commented that “things were looking up for Ireland, and that the festival had clearly captured the essence of arts and culture that is very important for the EU.”
The festival’s ‘Irish Focus’ programming included 14 films, including older favourites such as John Crowley’s Intermission, Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father and Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins to more recent movies like John Carney’s Once, Alicia Duffy’s [link...
The sixth edition of the Les Arcs European Film Festival turned its focus on Ireland with an aim to celebrate its cinematic beauty and history, and in turn, its filmic opportunities.
While the festival’s co-founders Guillaume Calop and Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin mentioned in an opening statement that this year had seen a persistent crisis within the European Union (EU) and a loss of confidence in its benefits, Geraldine Byrne Nason (Ambassador of Ireland to France) commented that “things were looking up for Ireland, and that the festival had clearly captured the essence of arts and culture that is very important for the EU.”
The festival’s ‘Irish Focus’ programming included 14 films, including older favourites such as John Crowley’s Intermission, Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father and Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins to more recent movies like John Carney’s Once, Alicia Duffy’s [link...
- 12/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
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The second season of HBO’s acclaimed TV show Game of Thrones garnered even more kudos than the first.
Based on the series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones tells the story about the seven noble families fighting for control of the mythical land of Westeros, including the scheming south, the savage east, the frozen north and the ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious beyond.
Among those in control, either doing the manipulating or being manipulated, are Lena Headey (Dredd), Peter Dinklage (Death at a Funeral), Emilia Clarke (Spike Island) and Jack Gleeson (All Good Children) as the evil boy king Joffrey.
As well as treachery, nobility and conquest, in this season, the fantasy show has dragons!
Dinklage won a supporting actor Golden Globe for...
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The second season of HBO’s acclaimed TV show Game of Thrones garnered even more kudos than the first.
Based on the series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones tells the story about the seven noble families fighting for control of the mythical land of Westeros, including the scheming south, the savage east, the frozen north and the ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious beyond.
Among those in control, either doing the manipulating or being manipulated, are Lena Headey (Dredd), Peter Dinklage (Death at a Funeral), Emilia Clarke (Spike Island) and Jack Gleeson (All Good Children) as the evil boy king Joffrey.
As well as treachery, nobility and conquest, in this season, the fantasy show has dragons!
Dinklage won a supporting actor Golden Globe for...
- 11/20/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Irish co-produced feature film 'This Must Be The Place' has won the best director prize at Italy's Silver Ribbons film awards.Director Paolo Sorrentino took the award for the film that was partly shot in Dublin during August 2010 and featured Sean Penn as a retired musician. 'This Must Be The Place' was co-produced by Ireland's Element Films alongside Indigo Film and Lucky Red. Ed Guiney (The Guard, All Good Children) and Andrew Lowe (The Guard, Single-Handed) produced for Element.
- 7/4/2012
- IFTN
Righting the wrongs of festivals past, I would never have awarded the Palme d'Or to the awful Dancer in the Dark. But the jury got it spot on with Nanni Moretti's deeply-moving The Son's Room
The Cannes film festival is about to start, and today is the day for savouring the eve-of-battle atmosphere … as ever, a luxurious time of leisure before critics and journalists are all plunged into a frantic rush.
For me, the proceedings will be that little bit more hectic, as I am a member of this year's Un Certain Regard jury, chaired by double-Palme d'Or winner Emir Kusturica. My gibbering excitement about this has, so far, been unremittingly uncool. Last year, at this time, I blogged about an imaginary "No Cannes Do" festival, taking place in my imagination, consisting of 10 well-received or at any rate much talked-about Cannes films which for some reason never made it to the UK.
The Cannes film festival is about to start, and today is the day for savouring the eve-of-battle atmosphere … as ever, a luxurious time of leisure before critics and journalists are all plunged into a frantic rush.
For me, the proceedings will be that little bit more hectic, as I am a member of this year's Un Certain Regard jury, chaired by double-Palme d'Or winner Emir Kusturica. My gibbering excitement about this has, so far, been unremittingly uncool. Last year, at this time, I blogged about an imaginary "No Cannes Do" festival, taking place in my imagination, consisting of 10 well-received or at any rate much talked-about Cannes films which for some reason never made it to the UK.
- 5/10/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
HBO have now given new fantasy series Game of Thrones a release date of April 17th in the Us. The series will premiere in the UK on the all-new Sky Atlantic channel.
Check out the stunning new photos of the younger members of the cast released at the recent Press event in La.
Young Irish actor Jack Gleeson (recently seen in All Good Children) stars as Joffrey.
Newcomer Isaac Hempstead-Wright (who will also be seen in The Awakening later this year) stars as Bran.
Fellow newcomer Maisie Williams plays Arya, here showing off her fencing skills.
Check out the stunning new photos of the younger members of the cast released at the recent Press event in La.
Young Irish actor Jack Gleeson (recently seen in All Good Children) stars as Joffrey.
Newcomer Isaac Hempstead-Wright (who will also be seen in The Awakening later this year) stars as Bran.
Fellow newcomer Maisie Williams plays Arya, here showing off her fencing skills.
- 1/8/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
It may still be too soon to tell where they'll be headed in their respective acting careers, but they'll have Alicia Duffy to thank for helping them hone and develop their craft with All Good Children. First time actress Imogen Jones serves up a character (Bella) who is interested and just as quickly disinterested by what surrounds her, though the fiery redhead does have a lot of screen time, the bulk of the work goes to the young-looking Jack Gleeson who plays Dara. - As I've mentioned in the past, film festivals are a place for discovery: new behind the scenes talent worth noting and the next generation of new faces in front of the camera. At last year's Cannes Film Festival we discovered actors such as Tahar Rahim and Katie Jarvis, in this top ten list from this year, you'll have actors/actresses who've been in the...
- 5/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
As I've mentioned in the past, film festivals are a place for discovery: new behind the scenes talent worth noting and the next generation of new faces in front of the camera. At last year's Cannes Film Festival we discovered actors such as Tahar Rahim and Katie Jarvis, in this top ten list from this year, you'll have actors/actresses who've been in the business for a while now but are just now making their screen debuts, while others have worked on a local level and aren't yet know outside beyond their national cinema and then you have those who've literally have just begun busting their acting chops. We begin the countdown with:... #10. Jack Gleeson and Imogen Jones It may still be too soon to tell where they'll be headed in their respective acting careers, but they'll have Alicia Duffy to thank for helping them hone and develop their craft with All Good Children.
- 5/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
My guess is that All Good Children will have a long film festival circuit life - due to a combination of factors. There are the obvious aesthetic qualities of the picture -- if you've seen Duffy's short film work you'll get a glimpse into how the camera can emphasize subtle shifts in the emotional output of a character, and I think this is the film's selling point. - Innocence morphs into obsessiveness in Alicia Duffy's feature film debut - a film that I thought was based on, but is instead inspired by, the summer set worlds for non-adults of Sam Taylor’s novel The Republic of Trees. Swerving in and then out of puppy love, first summer romance type of film, this is a unique coming-of-age portrait because it is self-contained or preserved in a setting full of mystery. My guess is that All Good Children ...
- 5/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Innocence morphs into obsessiveness in Alicia Duffy's feature film debut - a film that I thought was based on, but is instead inspired by, the summer set worlds for non-adults of Sam Taylor’s novel The Republic of Trees. Swerving in and then out of puppy love, first summer romance type of film, this is a unique coming-of-age portrait because it is self-contained or preserved in a setting full of mystery. My guess is that All Good Children will have a long film festival circuit life - due to a combination of factors. There are the obvious aesthetic qualities of the picture -- if you've seen Duffy's short film work you'll get a glimpse into how the camera can emphasize subtle shifts in the emotional output of a character, and I think this is the film's selling point. Here is a montage of the opening night presentation for the Director's Fortnight selected film.
- 5/26/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
She's one of the few women competing at Cannes this year – and with her first feature. Alicia Duffy tells Maddy Costa about her lucky breaks, on-set rows and why Virginia Woolf is an inspiration
Here's a familiar story: a female director, with a clutch of prize-winning short films to her name, has her first feature selected for screening at Cannes. It happened to Lynne Ramsay, whose debut Ratcatcher was shown in 1999, three years after she won the Jury prize for her short Small Deaths. It happened to Andrea Arnold, who won the Jury prize for Red Road, and again in 2009 for Fish Tank. Now it's the turn of Alicia Duffy, whose debut feature, All Good Children, has been selected for the Director's Fortnight.
Like Arnold, who was an actor and TV presenter before switching to directing in her 30s, Duffy, now 38, was a latecomer to cinema. She tried everything from opera singing to advanced maths,...
Here's a familiar story: a female director, with a clutch of prize-winning short films to her name, has her first feature selected for screening at Cannes. It happened to Lynne Ramsay, whose debut Ratcatcher was shown in 1999, three years after she won the Jury prize for her short Small Deaths. It happened to Andrea Arnold, who won the Jury prize for Red Road, and again in 2009 for Fish Tank. Now it's the turn of Alicia Duffy, whose debut feature, All Good Children, has been selected for the Director's Fortnight.
Like Arnold, who was an actor and TV presenter before switching to directing in her 30s, Duffy, now 38, was a latecomer to cinema. She tried everything from opera singing to advanced maths,...
- 5/16/2010
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
If I had to pick just twelve (my actual screening schedule is north of 40) then I'd go with the dozen titles below. - If I had to pick just twelve (my actual screening schedule is north of 40) then I'd go with the dozen titles below. All Good Children directed by Alicia Duffy (Director's Fortnight)On the basis of her short film and the clip I saw for this one, this feature debut may just bring us the next Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold.Biutiful directed by Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu (Main Comp)First screenplay sans Guillermo Arriaga, I'm expecting this to be the fresh start and move away from mapped out narratives and multiple character collision course - big question: is this an English or Spanish spoken film? Carlos directed by Olivier Assayas (Out of Competition) Of the list you find on this page, this is the...
- 5/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
If I had to pick just twelve (my actual screening schedule is north of 40) then I'd go with the dozen titles below. All Good Children directed by Alicia Duffy (Director's Fortnight)On the basis of her short film and the clip I saw for this one, this feature debut may just bring us the next Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold.Biutiful directed by Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu (Main Comp)First screenplay sans Guillermo Arriaga, I'm expecting this to be the fresh start and move away from mapped out narratives and multiple character collision course - big question: is this an English or Spanish spoken film? Carlos directed by Olivier Assayas (Out of Competition) Of the list you find on this page, this is the film in Cannes that I won't be watching - 5 hour 33 minutes should have been broken down by the festival. Will seek it out post festival.Inside Job directed...
- 5/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
There is not a single female director in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, which opens today. There is, though, a handful of British women in the official selection – and it is interesting to note that Cannes has, in recent years, provided a launchpad for a certain kind of British female film-maker (one thinks particularly of Andrea Arnold, whose debut feature, Red Road, and last year's Fish Tank, impressed audiences).
This year, Alicia Duffy springs on to the scene with her deeply gloomy first feature, All Good Children; Sophie Fiennes has Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about the artist Anselm Kiefer; and there's the London-born Lucy Walker, whose intriguing-sounding documentary Countdown to Zero cheerily argues that the threat of nuclear annihilation has intensified rather than faded since the end of the cold war. I don't want to come over all Daisy Goodwin about this, but...
This year, Alicia Duffy springs on to the scene with her deeply gloomy first feature, All Good Children; Sophie Fiennes has Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about the artist Anselm Kiefer; and there's the London-born Lucy Walker, whose intriguing-sounding documentary Countdown to Zero cheerily argues that the threat of nuclear annihilation has intensified rather than faded since the end of the cold war. I don't want to come over all Daisy Goodwin about this, but...
- 5/12/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
As his Robin Hood opens the Cannes film festival, Ridley Scott talks about showdowns with Russell Crowe, his favourite men in tights – and why Churchill was a geezer
It's election day in Britain when we meet. "Have you voted yet?" I ask Ridley Scott, as we settle down to talk in a Beverly Hills hotel suite. "I'm going to miss it, I guess," he says. "God, I hope they know what they're doing – because we don't really know who they are, these new boys, do we? You used to have to have fought in a war to be President of the United States or Prime Minister of England."
Scott, a director whose name has become synonymous with quality action movies whose heroes do battle in hostile, unfamiliar worlds, pauses for a second, as if the thought has given him the inspiration for a movie. He hits on an idea and...
It's election day in Britain when we meet. "Have you voted yet?" I ask Ridley Scott, as we settle down to talk in a Beverly Hills hotel suite. "I'm going to miss it, I guess," he says. "God, I hope they know what they're doing – because we don't really know who they are, these new boys, do we? You used to have to have fought in a war to be President of the United States or Prime Minister of England."
Scott, a director whose name has become synonymous with quality action movies whose heroes do battle in hostile, unfamiliar worlds, pauses for a second, as if the thought has given him the inspiration for a movie. He hits on an idea and...
- 5/10/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Irish film industry will be well represented at the upcoming 2010 Cannes International Film Festival. Alicia Duffy's 'All Good Children' will premiere as part of this year's Director's Fortnight event, 'One Hundred Mornings' producer Katie Holly participates in the 'Producer on the Move' programme, in addition to Irish screenings and marketing of dozens of new Irish projects. This year there will be a number of new Irish films selling in the market including 'The Guard', directed by John Michael McDonagh which stars Brendan Gleeson (Into the Storm) and Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2); and Colm McCarthy's chilling thriller 'Outcast', starring James Nesbitt (Five Minutes of Heaven), which received much critical acclaim when it premiered at the SXSW Festival in the Us earlier this year. Conor Horgan's apocalyptic 'One Hundred Mornings'.
- 5/10/2010
- IFTN
They're limbering up on the Croisette. Ahead of its opening on Wednesday, our film critic Jason Solomons picks some names to watch at the 63rd Cannes film festival
Alicia Duffy
Having previously shown her short films at Cannes, this British director's debut feature All Good Children, based on Sam Taylor's novel The Republic of Trees, screens in the Director's Fortnight sidebar. Set in the French countryside, it's a heady, poetic tale of summer love between an Irish boy on a farm and a young English girl in a nearby chateau. The film is the first production from Caveman Films, co-founded by the actor Andy Serkis to champion new British talent.
Lucy Walker
British documentary maker and Nyu graduate Lucy Walker has won audience awards at Sundance and Berlin (twice) and now makes her Cannes debut with Countdown to Zero, which examines current global attitudes to nuclear weapons. Screening out of competition,...
Alicia Duffy
Having previously shown her short films at Cannes, this British director's debut feature All Good Children, based on Sam Taylor's novel The Republic of Trees, screens in the Director's Fortnight sidebar. Set in the French countryside, it's a heady, poetic tale of summer love between an Irish boy on a farm and a young English girl in a nearby chateau. The film is the first production from Caveman Films, co-founded by the actor Andy Serkis to champion new British talent.
Lucy Walker
British documentary maker and Nyu graduate Lucy Walker has won audience awards at Sundance and Berlin (twice) and now makes her Cannes debut with Countdown to Zero, which examines current global attitudes to nuclear weapons. Screening out of competition,...
- 5/8/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
I'll be seeing a good number of films from this year's Director's Fortnight section. With a line-up comprised of several feature debuts, one of the film's I'm most itching to see is Alicia Duffy's All Good Children, who until I mentioned her here, I hadn't a clue as to who this filmmaker was. I've since become a fan of hers, thanks to her last short film in 2003's The Most Beautiful Man in the World (which was presented in Cannes) and the trailer below (click on screen cap) -- they both present the Pov of a child or children under duress. - I'll be seeing a good number of films from this year's Director's Fortnight section. With a line-up comprised of several feature debuts, one of the film's I'm most itching to see is Alicia Duffy's All Good Children, who until I mentioned her here, I hadn't a...
- 5/8/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I'll be seeing a good number of films from this year's Director's Fortnight section. With a line-up comprised of several feature debuts, one of the film's I'm most itching to see is Alicia Duffy's All Good Children, who until I mentioned her here, I hadn't a clue as to who this filmmaker was. I've since become a fan of hers, thanks to her last short film in 2003's The Most Beautiful Man in the World (which was presented in Cannes) and the trailer below (click on screen cap) -- they both present the Pov of a child or children under duress. There also appears to be hypnotic, naturalistic quality that'll be compared to such films as Duane Hopkins' Better Things are Andrea Arnold's work. After the jump, you'll find a synopsis. Based on Sam Taylor’s novel The Republic of Trees, All Good Children centres on Dara and Eoin,...
- 5/7/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Bass-baritone William Shimell makes his film debut opposite Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy, the Iranian director's new movie, which will have its world premiere in Cannes
When Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy premieres at the Cannes film festival this month, all eyes will be on the director's first movie made outside his native Iran.
Just as intriguingly, though, Juliette Binoche's co-star in the movie will not be Robert de Niro – who was rumoured to have been in talks for the part – but rather, an unknown British man.
Unknown, that is, in cinema circles. William Shimell is in fact a respected opera singer, a bass-baritone who has sung at the Met, La Scala and the Royal Opera House over the course of a long and distinguished musical career.
But Shimell had never acted in a film before working on Certifed Copy. In fact, he had never acted in straight theatre of any kind.
When Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy premieres at the Cannes film festival this month, all eyes will be on the director's first movie made outside his native Iran.
Just as intriguingly, though, Juliette Binoche's co-star in the movie will not be Robert de Niro – who was rumoured to have been in talks for the part – but rather, an unknown British man.
Unknown, that is, in cinema circles. William Shimell is in fact a respected opera singer, a bass-baritone who has sung at the Met, La Scala and the Royal Opera House over the course of a long and distinguished musical career.
But Shimell had never acted in a film before working on Certifed Copy. In fact, he had never acted in straight theatre of any kind.
- 5/7/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
The artistic directors of both Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine de realisateurs) and Critics' Week (La Semaine de la critique) have stated they did not want to pick from Sundance titles. "We try to show films that don't pass through Sundance first", Critics Week’s Artistic Director Jean-Christophe Berjon said, “although U.S. indie entries are well represented this year." "I wanted to change things up and not take any Sundance films unless they were exceptional," said Frederic Boyer said in an interview. Considering how many Sundance titles went to the Berlinale, and that Cannes is 6 months later, singling out Sundance is somewhat odd. We in Us already know that Sundance has a certain sort of American film, and that other films are continually being made that might be just as good but not to the taste of Sundance programmers or simply not timed for the Sundance slot. That the two Cannes...
- 5/1/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
7 films in the three sections of Cannes were financed by Backup Films. Entirely dedicated to film financing, Backup Films has, in 2009 alone worked with over 60 ambitious international projects in their search of financing, whether in their development, production, or distribution phase. Backup Films is currently managing film investments funds of over €33.6M, and has brokered, last year, €4.5M in coproduction, distribution and equity deals. Over the past 8 years, the films financed through the Backup Films Agency or Backup Films’ funds have gathered 40 A-class festival selections and have won 15 major prizes.
Official Selection
Tournée (Le Pacte) de Mathieu Amalric is in Compétition. Tournée is produced by Les Films du Poisson in association with Sofica Coficup – with funds from Backup Films.
L’autre monde, aka Black Heaven (Memento) the second feature of Gilles Marchand, and his second time in Special Screenings. It is produced by Haut et Court in association avec Sofica...
Official Selection
Tournée (Le Pacte) de Mathieu Amalric is in Compétition. Tournée is produced by Les Films du Poisson in association with Sofica Coficup – with funds from Backup Films.
L’autre monde, aka Black Heaven (Memento) the second feature of Gilles Marchand, and his second time in Special Screenings. It is produced by Haut et Court in association avec Sofica...
- 4/23/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Lineup for the Cannes film festival sidebar, which will this year open and close with French movies, includes 11 features from first-time directors
French movies will bookend the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival, which this year sees 22 features from as far afield as Malaysia and Kyrgyzstan. In contrast to 2009, when Francis Ford Coppola opened proceedings at the sidebar with his self-financed picture Tetro, half of this year's lineup will be from first-time directors.
Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary Benda Bilili!, about an orchestra made up entirely of disabled people, will open the sidebar, while the closing night film will be Fabienne Berthaud's Lily Sometimes, starring Diane Kruger and Ludivine Sagnier as sisters dealing with the sudden death of their mother.
Flying the flag for Britain are Alicia Duffy's feature debut All Good Children, a psychological drama about two Irish kids coping with their mother's suicide in France,...
French movies will bookend the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival, which this year sees 22 features from as far afield as Malaysia and Kyrgyzstan. In contrast to 2009, when Francis Ford Coppola opened proceedings at the sidebar with his self-financed picture Tetro, half of this year's lineup will be from first-time directors.
Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary Benda Bilili!, about an orchestra made up entirely of disabled people, will open the sidebar, while the closing night film will be Fabienne Berthaud's Lily Sometimes, starring Diane Kruger and Ludivine Sagnier as sisters dealing with the sudden death of their mother.
Flying the flag for Britain are Alicia Duffy's feature debut All Good Children, a psychological drama about two Irish kids coping with their mother's suicide in France,...
- 4/22/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Sorry, we're a day late on this one, been busy, but there's some great stuff coming our way, that is if you like arthouse fare.
Among other things will be a story about two violent teenage girls in France called Des filles en noir, along with Christoffer Boe's incredible looking Everyting will be fine (trailer).
There's a couple more gems we'll be reporting on shortly.
Full list after the break.
Directors' Fortnight
"All Good Children," U.K., Alicia Duffy
"Benda Bilili!," France, Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye (opening film)
"Cleveland vs. Wall Street," Switzerland-France, Jean-Stephane Bron
"Des filles en noir," France, Jean-Paul Civeyrac
"Everything Will Be Fine," Denmark-Sweden-France, Christoffer Boe
"Illegal," Belgium-Luxembourg-France, Olivier Masset-Depasse
"The Invisible Eye," Argentina-France-Spain, Diego Lerman
"Joy," Brazil, Marina Meliande, Felipe Braganca
"Le quattro volte," Italy-Germany-Switzerland, Michelangelo Frammartino
"Leap Year," Mexico, Michael Rowe
"The Light Thief," Kyrgyzstan, Aktan Arym Kubat
"Lily Sometimes," France, Fabienne Berthaud...
Among other things will be a story about two violent teenage girls in France called Des filles en noir, along with Christoffer Boe's incredible looking Everyting will be fine (trailer).
There's a couple more gems we'll be reporting on shortly.
Full list after the break.
Directors' Fortnight
"All Good Children," U.K., Alicia Duffy
"Benda Bilili!," France, Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye (opening film)
"Cleveland vs. Wall Street," Switzerland-France, Jean-Stephane Bron
"Des filles en noir," France, Jean-Paul Civeyrac
"Everything Will Be Fine," Denmark-Sweden-France, Christoffer Boe
"Illegal," Belgium-Luxembourg-France, Olivier Masset-Depasse
"The Invisible Eye," Argentina-France-Spain, Diego Lerman
"Joy," Brazil, Marina Meliande, Felipe Braganca
"Le quattro volte," Italy-Germany-Switzerland, Michelangelo Frammartino
"Leap Year," Mexico, Michael Rowe
"The Light Thief," Kyrgyzstan, Aktan Arym Kubat
"Lily Sometimes," France, Fabienne Berthaud...
- 4/21/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Element pictures are currently putting the finishing touches to two new feature films - 'Essence of Killing', starring Vincent Gallo and Emmanuelle Seigner, is currently in post production in Ardmore Sound and Alicia Duffy's 'All Good Children' will have its World Premiere next month at Cannes' Director's Fortnight. British director Alicia Duffy's first feature, 'All Good Children', will have its World Premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs). The film stars young Irish actor Jack Gleeson (Batman Begins) and David Wilmot (Intermission, The Clinic) and tells the story of Dara, played by Gleeson, a young Irish boy who is moved to rural France with his brother Eoin after the death of their mother.
- 4/21/2010
- IFTN
Kathryn Bigelow may have been the first woman to win best director at the Oscars, but if you imagined that meant that the era of sexual equality was nigh in cinema, think again. At the Cannes festival this year, not a single movie in competition for the Palme D'Or is directed by a woman. Two British women will at least see work at the festival: Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow gets a special screening, while Alicia Duffy's All Good Children was yesterday announced as part of the Directors' Fortnight lineup.
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- 4/20/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Earlier today Cannes unveiled the 24 films selected for its annual sidebar, Directors’ Fortnight. Opening this year with Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye’s documentary Benda Bilili!, the line-up is dominated by first-time filmmakers, 11 in all. One American standout is Cam Archer (Wild Tigers I Have Known) who will be screening his latest, Shit Year, starring Ellen Barkin. Fortnight will take place May 13-23. Full list of titles below. Feature Films Alegria (Joy), directed by Marina Méliande et Felipe Braganca (Brazil) All Good Children, directed by Alicia Duffy (UK) Alting bliver godt igen (Everything Will Be Fine), directed by Christoffer Boe (Denmark-Sweden-France) Año bisiesto, directed by Michael Rowe...
- 4/20/2010
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Alegria (Joy) Marina Méliande and Felipe Braganca. Braganca who we know from 2006's Love for Sale, teams up on a project which you can get a better feel for if you check out this picture and if you read portuguese. All Good Children - Alicia Duffy. This Brit debut promises to hit you where it hurts. Based on Sam Taylor’s novel The Republic of Trees, this centres on Dara and Eoin, two young Irish children of 11 and 12, who have to go and live at their aunt’s house in France, following their mother’s suicide. - Alegria (Joy) Marina Méliande and Felipe BragancaBraganca who we know from 2006's Love for Sale, teams up on a project which you can get a better feel for if you check out this picture and if you read portuguese. All Good Children - Alicia DuffyThis Brit debut promises to hit you where it hurts.
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The lineup for the 2010 edition of Directors’ Fortnight has been announced. There are eleven first films in the lineup which will compete for the Camera d’Or prize which goes to a first film from across all the sections.
In 2010 Directors’ Fortnight, the Carrosse d’Or award will be awarded to Agnes Varda, the celebrated woman auteur-director of the french independant cinema. The Carrosse d’or (Golden Coach) Prize is a tribute to a director chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this prize has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Sembene Ousmane, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch and Naomie Kawasé in 2009.
Directors’ Fortnight will run from May 13 to 23 on the sidelines of the official selection at Cannes International Film festival.
Feature films
(* denotes films competing for Caméra d'Or Prize)
Alegria,...
In 2010 Directors’ Fortnight, the Carrosse d’Or award will be awarded to Agnes Varda, the celebrated woman auteur-director of the french independant cinema. The Carrosse d’or (Golden Coach) Prize is a tribute to a director chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this prize has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Sembene Ousmane, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch and Naomie Kawasé in 2009.
Directors’ Fortnight will run from May 13 to 23 on the sidelines of the official selection at Cannes International Film festival.
Feature films
(* denotes films competing for Caméra d'Or Prize)
Alegria,...
- 4/20/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile.. - You can say that there'll be plenty of virgins in this year's Director's Fortnight section. Quickly looking at the list of 22 feature films, Frédéric Boyer's very first edition appears to be heavy on first time works - exactly half of the section are newbies.
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
You can say that there'll be plenty of virgins in this year's Director's Fortnight section. Quickly looking at the list of 22 feature films, Frédéric Boyer's very first edition appears to be heavy on first time works - exactly half of the section are newbies. In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile. Here are...
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris -- Cam Archer's sophomore film, "Shit Year," starring Ellen Barkin will be among the films screening in the 42nd annual Directors' Fortnight during the Festival de Cannes.
The sidebar's new artistic director, Frederic Boyer, announced the eclectic lineup Tuesday in Paris.
In "Shit Year," Barkin plays a has-been Hollywood actress who has an affair with a much younger actor, played by Luke Grimes. Alistair Banks Griffin will also represent the U.S. in the sidebar with his first feature, "Two Gates of Sleep," starring Brady Corbet, about two brothers who embark on a difficult journey to honor their dying mother's final request.
The Directors' Fortnight will open and close with a French accent this year. Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary about an orchestra made up of disabled people "Banda Bilili!" was picked as the opening-night film. The sidebar will close with a more glitzy red carpet premiere,...
The sidebar's new artistic director, Frederic Boyer, announced the eclectic lineup Tuesday in Paris.
In "Shit Year," Barkin plays a has-been Hollywood actress who has an affair with a much younger actor, played by Luke Grimes. Alistair Banks Griffin will also represent the U.S. in the sidebar with his first feature, "Two Gates of Sleep," starring Brady Corbet, about two brothers who embark on a difficult journey to honor their dying mother's final request.
The Directors' Fortnight will open and close with a French accent this year. Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary about an orchestra made up of disabled people "Banda Bilili!" was picked as the opening-night film. The sidebar will close with a more glitzy red carpet premiere,...
- 4/20/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rumours are circulating in Paris two weeks ahead of the press conference at which the official selection for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23, 2010) will be unveiled. And uncertainty will reign until April 15 for this year many films are apparently caught up in a race against time to be ready for Cannes.
According to our sources, the race for the Palme d’Or will almost certainly include Tree of Life by Us director Terrence Malick; Biutiful by Mexico’s Alejandro González Inárritu; Tamara Drewe by UK director Stephen Frears; Another Year by fellow Brit Mike Leigh; and two Korean films: Poetry by Lee Chang-dong and The Housemaid by Im Sang-soo.
The competition line-up may also include Us director Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Miral by fellow Us filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Outrage by Japan’s Takeshi Kitano, and two Argentinean features: Pablo Trapero’s Carancho and Diego Lerman’s Moral Sciences.
According to our sources, the race for the Palme d’Or will almost certainly include Tree of Life by Us director Terrence Malick; Biutiful by Mexico’s Alejandro González Inárritu; Tamara Drewe by UK director Stephen Frears; Another Year by fellow Brit Mike Leigh; and two Korean films: Poetry by Lee Chang-dong and The Housemaid by Im Sang-soo.
The competition line-up may also include Us director Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Miral by fellow Us filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Outrage by Japan’s Takeshi Kitano, and two Argentinean features: Pablo Trapero’s Carancho and Diego Lerman’s Moral Sciences.
- 4/1/2010
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
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