"I always felt that I could tell stories that other people were not telling." Greenwich Ent. has unveiled their official trailer for a documentary film titled Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, a comprehensive biopic film about the life of and books by the famed author Joyce Carol Oates. Swedish director Stig Björkman approached Jco with his idea to make a portrait film of her for over 9 years before she finally agreed. The doc film takes us behind the genius of one of the most read contemporary American writers. The now 83-year-old writer’s life story is one of a changing society. With her work as a navigator the movie takes us back to her childhood and university years. We learn about societal events that affected her deeply and are evident in her writing, like the 1960’s riots in Detroit, to the tragic Chappaquiddick incident and the life of Marilyn Monroe.
- 7/28/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Holidays loom, but don’t fear TBS marathons of A Christmas Story. If, like me, you once enacted some good and let studio classics stream on Criterion during family Christmas, you know the trip home will be easier with December’s additions. (People at Criterion: please don’t report me for logging into multiple devices.) As family arrives, drinks are downed, and questions about what you’ve been up to are stumbled through it’ll be nice to stream their “Screwball Comedy Classics” series—25 titles meeting some deep cuts (10 via Venmo if you’ve recently watched It Happens Every Spring).
Personally I’m most excited about the 11 movies in “Snow Westerns,” going as far back as The Secret of Convict Lake, as recently as Ravenous, with the likes of Wellman, Peckinpah, and Corbucci in-between. I personally cannot stand soccer but I appreciate the World Cup giving occasion for a series...
Personally I’m most excited about the 11 movies in “Snow Westerns,” going as far back as The Secret of Convict Lake, as recently as Ravenous, with the likes of Wellman, Peckinpah, and Corbucci in-between. I personally cannot stand soccer but I appreciate the World Cup giving occasion for a series...
- 11/22/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Björn Andrésen at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
Björn Andrésen at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde and pronounced him to be “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
Andrésen in Ari Aster’s Midsommar plays a man who has reached the end of his life. In Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström’s claustrophobic and disquieting documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Världens Vackraste Pojke), produced by Stina Gardell we are introduced to a man in his Sixties who is having a difficult time dealing with life.
Kristian Petri with Kristina Lindström and Anne-Katrin Titze on Björn Andrésen: “The scenes are like we are...
Björn Andrésen at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde and pronounced him to be “the most beautiful boy in the world”.
Andrésen in Ari Aster’s Midsommar plays a man who has reached the end of his life. In Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström’s claustrophobic and disquieting documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Världens Vackraste Pojke), produced by Stina Gardell we are introduced to a man in his Sixties who is having a difficult time dealing with life.
Kristian Petri with Kristina Lindström and Anne-Katrin Titze on Björn Andrésen: “The scenes are like we are...
- 1/5/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström’s claustrophobic and disquieting documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Världens vackraste pojke), produced by Stina Gardell, introduces us to the present-day Björn Andrésen now in his Sixties by way of his supremely filthy apartment with commentary by his then girlfriend Jessica Vennberg who may not be the best match for him or for her to get life in order.
Björn at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde, and pronounced him to be 'the most beautiful boy in the world'. Well chosen archival footage shows his supremely uncomfortable screen test in Stockholm, Björn on...
Björn at age 15 had his life turned upside down when Luchino Visconti anointed him to play Tadzio in his film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde, and pronounced him to be 'the most beautiful boy in the world'. Well chosen archival footage shows his supremely uncomfortable screen test in Stockholm, Björn on...
- 1/4/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Isabella Rossellini has a connection to two Hamptons Doc Fest selections: Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man: “She is Stig Björkman’s very good friend over many many years.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat; Lifetime Achievement Award honouree at the 12th edition of Doc NYC Joan Churchill and her short Shoot From The Heart with Haskell Wexler, Chris Hegedus, and Da Pennebaker; Asaf Galay’s The Adventures Of Saul Bellow; Tasha Van Zandt’s After Antarctica (recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award); Dom Aprile’s Farming Long Island; Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer with a connection to Isabella Rossellini, who is in Stina Gardell’s Movie Man, starring Stig Björkman, director of the Opening Night film Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In...
In the second instalment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat; Lifetime Achievement Award honouree at the 12th edition of Doc NYC Joan Churchill and her short Shoot From The Heart with Haskell Wexler, Chris Hegedus, and Da Pennebaker; Asaf Galay’s The Adventures Of Saul Bellow; Tasha Van Zandt’s After Antarctica (recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award); Dom Aprile’s Farming Long Island; Roger Sherman’s The Soul Of A Farmer with a connection to Isabella Rossellini, who is in Stina Gardell’s Movie Man, starring Stig Björkman, director of the Opening Night film Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In...
- 12/4/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stig Björkman’s Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, produced by Stina Gardell, to open the Hamptons Doc Fest (pictured Joyce Carol Oates with the late Stephen Sondheim) Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the first installment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed the Hamptons Doc Fest Awards and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man star and director of the Opening Night film, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, Stig Björkman. Dawn Porter following an introduction by Chris Hegedus will receive the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award from Lana Jokel on that evening with screenings of Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance and a work-in-progress excerpt of Cirque du Soleil.
Hamptons Doc Fest Artistic Director Karen Arikian with Anne-Katrin Titze on Joyce Carol Oates: “We would welcome her with open arms.”
On Saturday, Sam Pollard and Rex Miller will receive the Human Rights Award for Citizen Ashe...
In the first installment with Artistic Director Karen Arikian we discussed the Hamptons Doc Fest Awards and Stina Gardell’s Movie Man star and director of the Opening Night film, Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, Stig Björkman. Dawn Porter following an introduction by Chris Hegedus will receive the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award from Lana Jokel on that evening with screenings of Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance and a work-in-progress excerpt of Cirque du Soleil.
Hamptons Doc Fest Artistic Director Karen Arikian with Anne-Katrin Titze on Joyce Carol Oates: “We would welcome her with open arms.”
On Saturday, Sam Pollard and Rex Miller will receive the Human Rights Award for Citizen Ashe...
- 12/2/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“A Cruel Mistress”
By Raymond Benson
Master filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman famously said that he was “married to the theatre,” but that “film was his mistress.” In a vintage interview in Margarethe von Trotta’s new documentary on Bergman, the Swedish artist is asked to define “film director.” Bergman’s brow wrinkles and he is lost in thought for a moment… and then he replies that being a film director is “someone who has so many problems to deal with he doesn’t have time to think.”
Film, then, is a cruel mistress, indeed.
An official selection of the New York Film Festival and released to U.S. theaters in November in time to help celebrate Bergman’s centenary, Searching for Ingmar Bergman is a welcome and lovingly-made examination of the filmmaker’s life and work. Director von Trotta, one of the major figures of the New German...
By Raymond Benson
Master filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman famously said that he was “married to the theatre,” but that “film was his mistress.” In a vintage interview in Margarethe von Trotta’s new documentary on Bergman, the Swedish artist is asked to define “film director.” Bergman’s brow wrinkles and he is lost in thought for a moment… and then he replies that being a film director is “someone who has so many problems to deal with he doesn’t have time to think.”
Film, then, is a cruel mistress, indeed.
An official selection of the New York Film Festival and released to U.S. theaters in November in time to help celebrate Bergman’s centenary, Searching for Ingmar Bergman is a welcome and lovingly-made examination of the filmmaker’s life and work. Director von Trotta, one of the major figures of the New German...
- 11/6/2018
- by [email protected] (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Margarethe von Trotta on Olivier Assayas, Stig Björkman and Ingmar Bergman: "They went in 1990 for five days to Stockholm to make a big interview with Bergman for Cahiers du Cinéma ..." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second half of my conversation on Searching For Ingmar Bergman with Margarethe von Trotta, we discuss Daniel Bergman and his father, Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage, Winter Light and Ingrid Thulin, Ruben Östlund filming Margarethe, Jean-Claude Carrière, Fanny and Alexander, Cries And Whispers, Marianne & Juliane.
The connections to Olivier Assayas and the supernatural in Personal Shopper (see the impressive Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York), Stig Björkman, Wild Strawberries and Alfonso Cuarón's Roma appeared.
Liv Ullmann with Margarethe von Trotta in Searching For Ingmar Bergman
Margarethe von Trotta has had a remarkable career working with her longtime cinematographer Franz Rath...
In the second half of my conversation on Searching For Ingmar Bergman with Margarethe von Trotta, we discuss Daniel Bergman and his father, Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage, Winter Light and Ingrid Thulin, Ruben Östlund filming Margarethe, Jean-Claude Carrière, Fanny and Alexander, Cries And Whispers, Marianne & Juliane.
The connections to Olivier Assayas and the supernatural in Personal Shopper (see the impressive Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York), Stig Björkman, Wild Strawberries and Alfonso Cuarón's Roma appeared.
Liv Ullmann with Margarethe von Trotta in Searching For Ingmar Bergman
Margarethe von Trotta has had a remarkable career working with her longtime cinematographer Franz Rath...
- 10/31/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It was more or less inevitable that the centenary of Ingmar Bergman would be commemorated with a reverent film portrait of the legendary Swedish director’s life and work. But here’s how we’ve been lucky: The year has given us not one but two world-class, eye-and-mind-opening Bergman documentaries. The most haunting of the two, “Bergman — A Year in a Life” (which I reviewed at Cannes), has yet to be released in the U.S. But anyone with a passion for Bergman should make a point of seeking out Margarethe von Trotta’s “Searching for Ingmar Bergman,” which opens this week. It’s an investigation in the form of a highly personalized meditation.
It’s also a documentary that bubbles over with anecdote and insight (did you know that “Scenes from a Marriage” was an influence on “Dallas”?). Von Trotta, a directorial legend in her own right, opens “Searching...
It’s also a documentary that bubbles over with anecdote and insight (did you know that “Scenes from a Marriage” was an influence on “Dallas”?). Von Trotta, a directorial legend in her own right, opens “Searching...
- 10/30/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Margarethe von Trotta with Anne-Katrin Titze, on Ingmar Bergman: "He wanted to be the child all the time. Even when he was grown up." Photo: Gary Springer
On Columbus Day, following An Afternoon with Barry Jenkins (director of Oscar-winning Moonlight and the adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk), a discussion led by Darryl Pinckney at Alice Tully Hall during the 56th New York Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta joined me for a conversation on Searching For Ingmar Bergman.
In the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center green room, we discussed the interviews she conducted with Stig Björkman, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Bergman, and Gaby Dohm. She also shared her thoughts on The Seventh Seal, Winter Light, Fanny and Alexander, The Serpent's Egg, From the Life of the Marionettes, the persona of Ingmar Bergman, a Rainer Werner Fassbinder connection, Eta Hoffmann, and the hour of the wolf.
On Columbus Day, following An Afternoon with Barry Jenkins (director of Oscar-winning Moonlight and the adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk), a discussion led by Darryl Pinckney at Alice Tully Hall during the 56th New York Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta joined me for a conversation on Searching For Ingmar Bergman.
In the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center green room, we discussed the interviews she conducted with Stig Björkman, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Bergman, and Gaby Dohm. She also shared her thoughts on The Seventh Seal, Winter Light, Fanny and Alexander, The Serpent's Egg, From the Life of the Marionettes, the persona of Ingmar Bergman, a Rainer Werner Fassbinder connection, Eta Hoffmann, and the hour of the wolf.
- 10/12/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ulfers Foundation Award honoree Margarethe von Trotta with Volker Schlöndorff and Friedrich Ulfers at Deutsches Haus, NYU
Margarethe von Trotta's Searching For Ingmar Bergman, co-directed by Bettina Böhler (von Trotta's editor of Hannah Arendt which stars Barbara Sukowa and Christian Petzold's Transit with Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer) and Felix Moeller (producer of Volker Schlöndorff's Diplomacy and director of Forbidden Films) with interviews of Liv Ullmann, Stig Björkman, Jean-Claude Carrière, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Saura, and Daniel Bergman, screened in the 56th New York Film Festival on Monday night.
Margarethe von Trotta honored for her remarkable career with the inaugural Ulfers Foundation Award Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Marianne & Juliane, and Rosa Luxemburg will be shown in The Political Is Personal retrospective as part of a celebration of the remarkable career of Margarethe von Trotta, starting on November 2 at the Quad Cinema in New York.
Margarethe von Trotta's Searching For Ingmar Bergman, co-directed by Bettina Böhler (von Trotta's editor of Hannah Arendt which stars Barbara Sukowa and Christian Petzold's Transit with Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer) and Felix Moeller (producer of Volker Schlöndorff's Diplomacy and director of Forbidden Films) with interviews of Liv Ullmann, Stig Björkman, Jean-Claude Carrière, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Saura, and Daniel Bergman, screened in the 56th New York Film Festival on Monday night.
Margarethe von Trotta honored for her remarkable career with the inaugural Ulfers Foundation Award Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Marianne & Juliane, and Rosa Luxemburg will be shown in The Political Is Personal retrospective as part of a celebration of the remarkable career of Margarethe von Trotta, starting on November 2 at the Quad Cinema in New York.
- 10/10/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Margarethe von Trotta's Searching for Ingmar Bergman screens in the 56th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that Margarethe von Trotta's Searching For Ingmar Bergman, co-directed by Bettina Böhler and Felix Moeller (producer of Volker Schlöndorffs Diplomacy and director of Forbidden Films) with interviews with Liv Ullmann, Stig Björkman, Jean-Claude Carrière, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Saura, and Daniel Bergman will screen in the Retrospective section. Gastón Solnicki's tribute to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's assistant Hans Hurch, Introduzione all’Oscuro, and Pamela B Green's Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché, narrated by Jodie Foster, round out the documentaries on cinema program of the 56th New York Film Festival.
Alice Guy-Blaché became head of production at Gaumont in 1896 at the age of 23. Guy-Blaché's...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that Margarethe von Trotta's Searching For Ingmar Bergman, co-directed by Bettina Böhler and Felix Moeller (producer of Volker Schlöndorffs Diplomacy and director of Forbidden Films) with interviews with Liv Ullmann, Stig Björkman, Jean-Claude Carrière, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Saura, and Daniel Bergman will screen in the Retrospective section. Gastón Solnicki's tribute to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's assistant Hans Hurch, Introduzione all’Oscuro, and Pamela B Green's Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché, narrated by Jodie Foster, round out the documentaries on cinema program of the 56th New York Film Festival.
Alice Guy-Blaché became head of production at Gaumont in 1896 at the age of 23. Guy-Blaché's...
- 8/26/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Producers aiming for Cannes berth.
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has licensed rights to North America and Germany on the documentary Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of A Defining Genius.
Oscilloscope Releasing will distribute in North America, while Michael Kölmel and Dietmar Güntsche’s Weltkino will handle Germany and Austria.
Weltkino distributes the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, which Cmg represents worldwide and has crossed 250,000 admissions in four weeks of limited release.
Laurent Petin and Michele Halberstadt’s Arp Selection boarded Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of A Defining Genius last autumn. Other distributors include Gianluca Chakra’s Dubai-based Front Row for the Middle East, and Fatih Oflaz’s Medyavizion for Turkey. In China, Lemon Tree Media Company will release the film, while Cinemex acquired all rights for Mexico excluding pan-Latin pay TV and Svod. Cinemax is also distributing Loving Vincent on behalf of Fabrica de Cine in Mexico.
Margarethe von Trotta and Felix Moeller directed Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of A Defining...
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has licensed rights to North America and Germany on the documentary Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of A Defining Genius.
Oscilloscope Releasing will distribute in North America, while Michael Kölmel and Dietmar Güntsche’s Weltkino will handle Germany and Austria.
Weltkino distributes the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, which Cmg represents worldwide and has crossed 250,000 admissions in four weeks of limited release.
Laurent Petin and Michele Halberstadt’s Arp Selection boarded Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of A Defining Genius last autumn. Other distributors include Gianluca Chakra’s Dubai-based Front Row for the Middle East, and Fatih Oflaz’s Medyavizion for Turkey. In China, Lemon Tree Media Company will release the film, while Cinemex acquired all rights for Mexico excluding pan-Latin pay TV and Svod. Cinemax is also distributing Loving Vincent on behalf of Fabrica de Cine in Mexico.
Margarethe von Trotta and Felix Moeller directed Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of A Defining...
- 2/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sami Blood, Borg McEnroe also scoop prizes.
At an awards ceremony held in Swedish capital Stockholm last night (Jan 22), The Nile Hilton Incident was the surprise big winner of the 2018 edition of the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden’s primary film awards ceremony.
Source: Strand Releasing / Curzon
The Nile Hilton Incident / The Square
Kristina Åberg’s crime drama, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, triumphed over Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, the 2017 Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.
Ostlund did take home best director from the ceremony, and his film also picked up the best cinematography prize for Fredrik Wenzel.
The Nile Hilton Incident won five prizes overall, scooping best actor for Fares Fares, best costume design for Louize Nissen, best sound design for Fredrik Jonsäter, and best set design for Roger Rosenberg.
Among the other big winners on the night was Amanda Kernell’s 2016 Venice premiere Sami Blood, which took best actress...
At an awards ceremony held in Swedish capital Stockholm last night (Jan 22), The Nile Hilton Incident was the surprise big winner of the 2018 edition of the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden’s primary film awards ceremony.
Source: Strand Releasing / Curzon
The Nile Hilton Incident / The Square
Kristina Åberg’s crime drama, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, triumphed over Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, the 2017 Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.
Ostlund did take home best director from the ceremony, and his film also picked up the best cinematography prize for Fredrik Wenzel.
The Nile Hilton Incident won five prizes overall, scooping best actor for Fares Fares, best costume design for Louize Nissen, best sound design for Fredrik Jonsäter, and best set design for Roger Rosenberg.
Among the other big winners on the night was Amanda Kernell’s 2016 Venice premiere Sami Blood, which took best actress...
- 1/23/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York to close next month Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Dan and Toby Talbot, longtime operators and programmers (since 1981) of the six-screen Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, located on Broadway and 62nd Street near Lincoln Center plan to end their run on January 21, 2018 when the lease runs out.
The Measure Of A Man poster at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Over the past two years I had the pleasure to do opening night post-screening discussions at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas with Géza Röhrig, star of the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film Son Of Saul, directed by László Nemes; with Atom Egoyan for his film Remember, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau; with Gianfranco Rosi on his Oscar-nominated documentary Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare); with Vincent Lindon, star of Stéphane Brizé‘s The Measure Of A Man (La Loi Du Marché), and with Stig Björkman and Pia Lindström on his New...
Dan and Toby Talbot, longtime operators and programmers (since 1981) of the six-screen Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, located on Broadway and 62nd Street near Lincoln Center plan to end their run on January 21, 2018 when the lease runs out.
The Measure Of A Man poster at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Over the past two years I had the pleasure to do opening night post-screening discussions at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas with Géza Röhrig, star of the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film Son Of Saul, directed by László Nemes; with Atom Egoyan for his film Remember, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau; with Gianfranco Rosi on his Oscar-nominated documentary Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare); with Vincent Lindon, star of Stéphane Brizé‘s The Measure Of A Man (La Loi Du Marché), and with Stig Björkman and Pia Lindström on his New...
- 12/19/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Elle
Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2017 / Color / 2.40:1 widescreen / Street Date March 14, 2017
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling.
Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editor: Job Ter Burg
Written by David Birke
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend has given birth to another man’s child, an employee is stalking her with anime porn and her botox-ridden mother is betrothed to a male prostitute.
In the face of all this outrageous fortune, Michèle remains cool, calm and collected, even in the aftermath of her own harrowing sexual assault.
Elle, the new film from the Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, begins with that already infamous assault, our heroine struggling under the weight of her attacker while an unblinking cat perches nearby, watching.
Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2017 / Color / 2.40:1 widescreen / Street Date March 14, 2017
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling.
Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editor: Job Ter Burg
Written by David Birke
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend has given birth to another man’s child, an employee is stalking her with anime porn and her botox-ridden mother is betrothed to a male prostitute.
In the face of all this outrageous fortune, Michèle remains cool, calm and collected, even in the aftermath of her own harrowing sexual assault.
Elle, the new film from the Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, begins with that already infamous assault, our heroine struggling under the weight of her attacker while an unblinking cat perches nearby, watching.
- 3/27/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
“A Mod Murder Mystery”
By Raymond Benson
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup (it’s spelled this way in the film credits, but on theatrical posters and advertising it was called Blow-Up) was a landmark, envelope-pushing film that caused quite a stir. For one thing, it was one of the nails in the coffin of the U.S. Production Code, paving the way for the elimination of cinematic censorship and the eventual creation of the movie ratings. Its depiction of nudity, sexual attitudes, and recreational drugs crossed the line for late 1966. Nevertheless, newspaper ads got away with simply proclaiming that the picture was “Recommended for Mature Audiences,” since this was prior to the ratings themselves.
Blowup also stands as a cultural landmark in that it captures that moment of time called “Swinging London.” Everything was “mod”—music, fashion, art... even groups of youths were called “mods.” Antonioni’s film could serve as...
By Raymond Benson
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup (it’s spelled this way in the film credits, but on theatrical posters and advertising it was called Blow-Up) was a landmark, envelope-pushing film that caused quite a stir. For one thing, it was one of the nails in the coffin of the U.S. Production Code, paving the way for the elimination of cinematic censorship and the eventual creation of the movie ratings. Its depiction of nudity, sexual attitudes, and recreational drugs crossed the line for late 1966. Nevertheless, newspaper ads got away with simply proclaiming that the picture was “Recommended for Mature Audiences,” since this was prior to the ratings themselves.
Blowup also stands as a cultural landmark in that it captures that moment of time called “Swinging London.” Everything was “mod”—music, fashion, art... even groups of youths were called “mods.” Antonioni’s film could serve as...
- 3/26/2017
- by [email protected] (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Emmanuelle Riva with Vanessa Redgrave and Michael Barker for Michael Haneke's Amour Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Emmanuelle Riva, César, Lumière, and BAFTA Best Actress winner and Oscar nominee for Michael Haneke's Best Foreign Language Film winner Amour died at the age of 89 on Friday, January 27, 2017 in Paris.
Riva's performance with Eiji Okada in Alain Renais' Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959 cuts so sharply to the truth about love and war that even after many viewings it is difficult to fully grasp the film's historical significance, storytelling innovations and stylistic brilliance.
Emmanuelle Riva in the hands of Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour
Annette Insdorf, Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts, Mademoiselle C director Fabien Constant, and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman sent their remembrances.
"I consider Emmanuelle Riva one of the greatest actors of the past 60 years. I last saw...
Emmanuelle Riva, César, Lumière, and BAFTA Best Actress winner and Oscar nominee for Michael Haneke's Best Foreign Language Film winner Amour died at the age of 89 on Friday, January 27, 2017 in Paris.
Riva's performance with Eiji Okada in Alain Renais' Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959 cuts so sharply to the truth about love and war that even after many viewings it is difficult to fully grasp the film's historical significance, storytelling innovations and stylistic brilliance.
Emmanuelle Riva in the hands of Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour
Annette Insdorf, Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts, Mademoiselle C director Fabien Constant, and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman sent their remembrances.
"I consider Emmanuelle Riva one of the greatest actors of the past 60 years. I last saw...
- 2/1/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Recently arriving on The Criterion Collection is Stig Björkman‘s intimate documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, which we said “offers an honest and tortured view into Bergman’s pathological hunger for acting and a look at a complicated persona that eschews traditional feminine stereotypes, and occasionally, an overwhelming wanderlust.”
One of the many pleasures when it comes to special features is a selection of 8mm home movies from Bergman. While a longer collection of footage is available on the disc, Criterion have released online a brief clip featuring Alfred Hitchcock slicing some steak for a group gathered around near the release of Spellbound, making for a essential vintage watch for fans of both.
Check out the clip below, along with 1966 TV movie The Human Voice, which we named one of the actress’ top 10 performances.
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words is now available on The Criterion Collection.
One of the many pleasures when it comes to special features is a selection of 8mm home movies from Bergman. While a longer collection of footage is available on the disc, Criterion have released online a brief clip featuring Alfred Hitchcock slicing some steak for a group gathered around near the release of Spellbound, making for a essential vintage watch for fans of both.
Check out the clip below, along with 1966 TV movie The Human Voice, which we named one of the actress’ top 10 performances.
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words is now available on The Criterion Collection.
- 8/22/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Hollywood's most elegantly natural, defiantly independent actress comes alive in a film biography about her personal life, using inside family testimony, rare film and her diaries. Sweden's Ingrid seems more radiant than ever. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 82228 2015 / B&W-Color / 1:78 widescreen / 114 min. / Jag är Ingrid / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 16, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger. Ingrid Bergman's voice Alicia Vikander Film Editor Dominika Daubenbüchel Original Music Michael Nyman Written by Stig Björkman, Stina Gardell and Dominika Daubenbüchel Produced by Stina Gardell Directed by Stig Björkman
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Ingrid Bergman had one of the most fascinating lives of any woman of the 20th century. An ambitious actress, she let herself be guided by her desires and her heart. Although banished by Hollywood and vilified by the press,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Ingrid Bergman had one of the most fascinating lives of any woman of the 20th century. An ambitious actress, she let herself be guided by her desires and her heart. Although banished by Hollywood and vilified by the press,...
- 8/13/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Isabella Rossellini, at the Twentieth Century Fox Joy celebration lunch, remembers Nando Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When I moderated a post screening discussion with Pia Lindström and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag Är Ingrid) director Stig Björkman at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the memory of a distinctive Rossellini family dachshund puppy made everyone laugh. At this week's lunch at La Grenouille, honoring David O. Russell's Joy with Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Elisabeth Röhm, Dascha Polanco, Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen from the cast (and with Bob Balaban and Celia Weston attending), Isabella Rossellini gave me the name of the infamous little darling. She also spoke about her work with the Guide Dog Foundation For The Blind and her role in Joy as advisor to Jennifer Lawrence's character Joy Mangano, the creator of the Miracle Mop.
Trudy and Rudy with Joy
Joy's father Rudy (De Niro...
When I moderated a post screening discussion with Pia Lindström and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag Är Ingrid) director Stig Björkman at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the memory of a distinctive Rossellini family dachshund puppy made everyone laugh. At this week's lunch at La Grenouille, honoring David O. Russell's Joy with Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Elisabeth Röhm, Dascha Polanco, Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen from the cast (and with Bob Balaban and Celia Weston attending), Isabella Rossellini gave me the name of the infamous little darling. She also spoke about her work with the Guide Dog Foundation For The Blind and her role in Joy as advisor to Jennifer Lawrence's character Joy Mangano, the creator of the Miracle Mop.
Trudy and Rudy with Joy
Joy's father Rudy (De Niro...
- 12/19/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It would be futile to attempt to craft an intimate portrait of an actress, or star, who’s been dead more than thirty years—unless she left behind a treasure trove of diaries, letters, interviews, and home movies, as well as four grown children who were willing to speak candidly about their mother. Even with these resources, it would require a filmmaker with equal parts determination and discretion to organize and finesse the material in a meaningful way. Isabella Rossellini thought Stig Björkman was the right man for the job, and she was right. His new documentary is fascinating and uniquely ...
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- 12/11/2015
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Ingrid Bergman’s oeuvre contains few performances that aren’t of note. Such is her power that, if a tear rolls down her cheek, you feel it. The release of Stig Björkman‘s new documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words has prompted us to look back through the great actress’s filmography.
In our search for the essential Bergman roles, the performances which cemented her as a legend of cinema, there’s certainly a number of dazzling and iconic pictures to search through. Acclaimed examples such as Elena and Her Men, Joan of Arc, and Anastasia — the lattermost of which earned her a second Academy Award — narrowly and tragically found their way off the list.
Before checking out Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, take a trip with us back through the career of one of the greatest talents to ever grace the silver screen. Enjoy the...
In our search for the essential Bergman roles, the performances which cemented her as a legend of cinema, there’s certainly a number of dazzling and iconic pictures to search through. Acclaimed examples such as Elena and Her Men, Joan of Arc, and Anastasia — the lattermost of which earned her a second Academy Award — narrowly and tragically found their way off the list.
Before checking out Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, take a trip with us back through the career of one of the greatest talents to ever grace the silver screen. Enjoy the...
- 11/17/2015
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
The first hurtle of making a documentary about any legend is to avoid being a hagiography. One of the most pervasive criticisms of reverential docs is the parade of talking heads failing to contextualize hyperbole about the person. This year saw two notable push backs against this criticism with Asif Kapadia’s warts-and-all expose Amy, and Brett Morgen’s Montage of Heck, which featured enough egregious child abuse to make even the most hardcore Nirvana fans question the cult of Kurt Cobain.
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tries a similarly blemished approach, mostly eliminating outside sources to tell seminal actress Ingrid Bergman’s story through her own personal diary entries, letters, home video, photography, and the accounts of her four children. Combining narration of the letters by Alicia Vikander with personal footage, as well as interstitials that delineate vague sections of both Bergman’s life and her own internal journey,...
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tries a similarly blemished approach, mostly eliminating outside sources to tell seminal actress Ingrid Bergman’s story through her own personal diary entries, letters, home video, photography, and the accounts of her four children. Combining narration of the letters by Alicia Vikander with personal footage, as well as interstitials that delineate vague sections of both Bergman’s life and her own internal journey,...
- 11/16/2015
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Stina Gardell, Pia Lindström, Stig Björkman with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Adrienne Halpern
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag Är Ingrid) opened in the Us at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on Friday with the director Stig Björkman and Pia Lindström joining me for a post screening discussion. Pia, Roberto Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini appear in Stig's film to comment on their mother, whose life story had been fodder for the press. It is truly fascinating to catch the constantly moving movie star from different angles in her home movies. Letters and diary entries read by Alicia Vikander guide us through the decades from Sweden to Hollywood to Italy and Paris and London.
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, Michael Curtiz' Casablanca, Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, Leo McCarey's The Bells Of St. Mary's, and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata are revealed to have special meaning. The memory of a distinctive Rossellini...
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag Är Ingrid) opened in the Us at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on Friday with the director Stig Björkman and Pia Lindström joining me for a post screening discussion. Pia, Roberto Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini appear in Stig's film to comment on their mother, whose life story had been fodder for the press. It is truly fascinating to catch the constantly moving movie star from different angles in her home movies. Letters and diary entries read by Alicia Vikander guide us through the decades from Sweden to Hollywood to Italy and Paris and London.
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, Michael Curtiz' Casablanca, Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, Leo McCarey's The Bells Of St. Mary's, and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata are revealed to have special meaning. The memory of a distinctive Rossellini...
- 11/16/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
An act of celebratory remembrance that’s buoyed by a desire to understand the messy contradictions, motivations, and emotions of its subject, “Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words” proves a stirring and insightful biography of assemblage. Stig Björkman’s film recounts the life story of the famed international actress through the usual non-fiction devices — talking-head interviews with relatives, film, and news clips — as well as a wealth of photos, home movies, and diary writings made by Bergman herself, who was committed to documenting her experiences through journal entries, letters to friends, and celluloid. It was a habit passed down from her father, whose fondness for pointing his camera at his daughter (and himself) turned out to be not only the origins of her cinematic career, but also a formative lesson about the way in which the lens allows one to capture, forever, life’s fleeting moments. Given that Bergman...
- 11/12/2015
- by Nick Schager
- The Playlist
Producer Stina Gardell with Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Ingrid Bergman won Oscars for George Cukor's Gaslight, Anatole Litvak's Anastasia and Murder On The Orient Express, directed by Sidney Lumet. In Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid), Stig Björkman's warmhearted and elaborate documentary about the star, her four children, Pia Lindström, Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, and Roberto Rossellini as well as colleagues Liv Ullmann and Sigourney Weaver share their memories about the mother, the woman, who never threw anything away. Alicia Vikander's alluring voiceover, Bergman's luminous face - and the camera's love for it - are a perfect match.
At Payard on Houston Street, the director and Stina Gardell joined me to discuss Ingrid Bergman, her children, Michael Nyman, Liv Ullmann relating an Ingmar Bergman Autumn Sonata moment, Eva Dahlgren and praise from Arnaud Desplechin.
Ingrid Bergman won Oscars for George Cukor's Gaslight, Anatole Litvak's Anastasia and Murder On The Orient Express, directed by Sidney Lumet. In Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid), Stig Björkman's warmhearted and elaborate documentary about the star, her four children, Pia Lindström, Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, and Roberto Rossellini as well as colleagues Liv Ullmann and Sigourney Weaver share their memories about the mother, the woman, who never threw anything away. Alicia Vikander's alluring voiceover, Bergman's luminous face - and the camera's love for it - are a perfect match.
At Payard on Houston Street, the director and Stina Gardell joined me to discuss Ingrid Bergman, her children, Michael Nyman, Liv Ullmann relating an Ingmar Bergman Autumn Sonata moment, Eva Dahlgren and praise from Arnaud Desplechin.
- 11/12/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dailies is a round-up of essential film writing, news bits, videos, and other highlights from across the Internet. If you’d like to submit a piece for consideration, get in touch with us in the comments below or on Twitter at @TheFilmStage.
Although his incredible High-Rise has yet to be acquired, Alchemy has picked up Ben Wheatley‘s next film Free Fire for a likely 2016 release, Deadline reports.
Michael Haneke guides us through his storyboards for Code Unknown, now on Criterion:
Bong Joon-ho will executive produce a Snowpiercer TV show, adapted by Josh Friedman (Avatar 2 and 3, War of the Worlds), THR reports:
The potential series will be based on the 2013 film that was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho in his first English-language production. The movie, which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton is set in a post-apocalyptic Ice Age where the only remaining life on the planet...
Although his incredible High-Rise has yet to be acquired, Alchemy has picked up Ben Wheatley‘s next film Free Fire for a likely 2016 release, Deadline reports.
Michael Haneke guides us through his storyboards for Code Unknown, now on Criterion:
Bong Joon-ho will executive produce a Snowpiercer TV show, adapted by Josh Friedman (Avatar 2 and 3, War of the Worlds), THR reports:
The potential series will be based on the 2013 film that was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho in his first English-language production. The movie, which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton is set in a post-apocalyptic Ice Age where the only remaining life on the planet...
- 11/11/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
As you catch up on the best films of the year’s first 10 months, know that there’s still a great number of features worth seeking out as we near the end of 2015. November brings promising animated offerings, top-notch documentaries, the latest entry into a certain long-running spy franchise, my favorite film of the year, and more. Check out the list below and let us know what you’re most looking forward to.
Matinees to See: Theeb (11/6), The Hallow (11/6), Democrats (11/18), The Night Before (11/20), The Secret in Their Eyes (11/20), Very Semi-Serious (11/20), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (11/20), Killing Them Safely (11/27), The Danish Girl (11/27), Janis: Little Girl Blue (11/27)
15. The Peanuts Movie (Steve Martino; Nov. 6th)
Synopsis: Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home.
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Why You Should...
Matinees to See: Theeb (11/6), The Hallow (11/6), Democrats (11/18), The Night Before (11/20), The Secret in Their Eyes (11/20), Very Semi-Serious (11/20), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (11/20), Killing Them Safely (11/27), The Danish Girl (11/27), Janis: Little Girl Blue (11/27)
15. The Peanuts Movie (Steve Martino; Nov. 6th)
Synopsis: Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home.
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Why You Should...
- 11/2/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"It takes courage to take all the make-up off and really show who you are." Rialto has debuted an official Us trailer for this year's documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, a story profiling the life of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman. She won three Academy Awards and starred in numerous films that are recognized as iconic classics. This doc reminds me a bit of the fantastic Marlon Brando doc, also told in his own words, and it's an interesting inside look at the life of a very famous, very talented person. Even if you don't know Ingrid Bergman that well, this looks like a very captivating personal story about her. Take a look. Here's the official trailer for Stig Björkman's doc Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, from YouTube: A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became...
- 10/13/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Being honored on the official poster for this year’s Cannes Film Festival wasn’t the only time Ingrid Bergman was in the spotlight at the event. The late, legendary actress was also the subject of a new documentary hailing from her home country of Sweden. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words comes from writer and critic Stig Björkman and has been in the works since earlier this decade, when he met with Bergman’s daughter, Isabella Rossellini.
As reads the Cannes synopsis, “Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children, this documentary presents a personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.”
As heard in the new U.S. trailer, voice-over comes from Alicia Vikander, while Ingrid Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Pia Lindström,...
As reads the Cannes synopsis, “Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children, this documentary presents a personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.”
As heard in the new U.S. trailer, voice-over comes from Alicia Vikander, while Ingrid Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Pia Lindström,...
- 10/12/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tracks the actress's life and career from Sweden to Hollywood, then Italy, where she'd work with Roberto Rossellini, France and back to Hollywood. We hear from her children, including Isabella Rossellini and Pia Lindström. Michael Nyman's score "soars across the images" and Alicia Vikander reads from Ingrid Bergman's journals. Flavorwire's Jason Bailey: "Focusing more on her inconvenient romances and rootless nature—she called herself a 'bird of passage'—than Casablanca oder Notorious, Björkman’s film is dreamlike and lovely, unfolding like a trip through her photo albums, or even a log of her dream-life." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/5/2015
- Keyframe
Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tracks the actress's life and career from Sweden to Hollywood, then Italy, where she'd work with Roberto Rossellini, France and back to Hollywood. We hear from her children, including Isabella Rossellini and Pia Lindström. Michael Nyman's score "soars across the images" and Alicia Vikander reads from Ingrid Bergman's journals. Flavorwire's Jason Bailey: "Focusing more on her inconvenient romances and rootless nature—she called herself a 'bird of passage'—than Casablanca oder Notorious, Björkman’s film is dreamlike and lovely, unfolding like a trip through her photo albums, or even a log of her dream-life." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
An act of celebratory remembrance that’s buoyed by a desire to understand the messy contradictions, motivations and emotions of its subject, “Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words” proves a stirring and insightful biography of assemblage. Stig Björkman’s film recounts the life story of the famed international actress through the usual non-fiction devices – talking-head interviews with relatives, film and news clips – as well as a wealth of photos, home movies and diary writings made by Bergman herself, who was committed to documenting her experiences through journal entries, letters to friends, and celluloid. It was a habit passed down from her father, whose fondness for pointing his camera at his daughter (and himself) turned out to be not only the origins of her cinematic career, but also a formative lesson about the way in which the lens allows one to capture, forever, life’s fleeting moments. Given that Bergman...
- 9/25/2015
- by Nick Schager
- The Playlist
My Golden Days director Arnaud Desplechin Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With the 53rd New York Film Festival now in full swing and the visit of Pope Francis to New York ongoing, here are four more films to look forward to. Stig Björkman's portrait on Ingrid Bergman with Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger and her children providing personal memories accompany Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words and Arnaud Desplechin's resplendent My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) stars Mathieu Amalric, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire and André Dussollier. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives fame) has his Cemetery Of Splendour, starring Jenjira Pongpas Widner, haunting us, and Brian De Palma discussing his films with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow in De Palma will keep you awake.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center raises the curtain with six free opening day screenings in celebration of 25 years for The Film.
With the 53rd New York Film Festival now in full swing and the visit of Pope Francis to New York ongoing, here are four more films to look forward to. Stig Björkman's portrait on Ingrid Bergman with Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger and her children providing personal memories accompany Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words and Arnaud Desplechin's resplendent My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) stars Mathieu Amalric, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire and André Dussollier. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives fame) has his Cemetery Of Splendour, starring Jenjira Pongpas Widner, haunting us, and Brian De Palma discussing his films with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow in De Palma will keep you awake.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center raises the curtain with six free opening day screenings in celebration of 25 years for The Film.
- 9/25/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Vancouver International Film Festival has announced its most anticipated films in the Gala and Special Presentation categories. The films selected represent a true showcase of international cinema, while highlighting homegrown talent in the world's largest showcase of Canadian films during the 34th annual festival running from September 24th to October 9th.
John Crowley's "Brooklyn" starts the festival off in the Opening Night Gala spot. Marc Abraham's "I Saw the Light" holds the Closing Night Gala position with a feature on the life of country star Hank Williams. The film was produced by Vancouver's Bron Studios. Canadian productions remain a crucial part of the festival, Philippe Falardeau's "My Internship in Canada" will open the Canadian Images program, while Patricia Rozema's "Into the Forest" will occupy the BC Spotlight Awards Gala spot.
In 2015, Vancouver audiences will be exposed to 355 films from 70 countries. With 32 World Premieres, 33 North American Premieres and 53 Canadian Premieres, this year's festival promises to be a feast for Canadian film lovers.
The full line-up and ticket are available at viff.org. Here are some highlights:
Opening Gala "Brooklyn" (John Crowley, U.K/Ireland/Canada)
Lured from Ireland by the American Dream, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) instead lands in a hardscrabble reality of cramped boarding houses and grungy dancehalls. As homesickness grips her, she's also torn between two admirers (Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen). With Nick Hornby scripting, John Crowley crafts a stirring 50s-era immigration tale that also serves as an exhilarating profile of female empowerment.
Closing Gala "I Saw the Light" (Marc Abraham,USA) Having played gods and monsters with aplomb, Tom Hiddleston takes centre stage as country music legend/renegade Hank Williams. In turns as rambunctious as a barn dance and as reflective as a ballad, Marc Abraham's film chronicles Williams' rapid ascent to stardom and the tragedy of a career cut short by substance abuse. Laid to rest at only 29, Williams left behind a truly remarkable body of work. Handling the singing chores himself, Hiddleston does the man—and his music—proud.
Canadian Images Opening Film My Internship in Canada (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
Philippe Falardeau ("Monsieur Lazhar") returns with an energetic, laugh-out-loud political comedy that couldn't be more timely. Steve Guibord (Patrick Huard, brilliant) is an independent Quebec MP traveling to his northern riding with a new Haitian intern. Soon after finding themselves caught in the crossfire of activists, miners, truckers, politicians and aboriginal groups, it turns out that Guibord somehow holds the decisive vote in a national debate that will decide whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East! The fabulous Suzanne Clément co-stars.
BC Spotlight Awards Gala "Into the Forest" (Patricia Rozema, Canada)
The BC coastal forest is in all its glory as a father and his two daughters drive off to their remote and idyllic getaway home. They have little sense at first of the growing apocalypse that they are leaving in their wake. It will come to them. Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie and Michael Eklund star in this Patricia Rozema-directed adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel.
Spotlight Gala "Beeba Boys" (Deepa Mehta, Canada/India)
Mix propulsive bhangra beats, blazing Ak-47s, bespoke suits, solicitous mothers and copious cocaine, and you have the heady, volatile cocktail that is Deepa Mehta's latest film, an explosive clash of culture and crime. Jeet Johar (Indian star Randeep Hooda) and his young, charismatic Sikh crew vie to take over the Vancouver drug and arms trade in this all-out action/drama. Blood is spilled, heads are cracked, hearts are broken and family bonds are pushed to the brink.
Special Presentations "Arabian Nights" ("Miguel Gomes," Portugal)
Miguel Gomes' ("Tabu," "Our Beloved Month of August") astonishing three-volume, six-hour epic draws inspiration from the tales of Scheherazade (here played by Crista Alfaiate) and once again uses a fascinating combination of reality and fiction to comment on Portugal's past, present and future.
"Dheepan" (Jacques Audiard, France)
Jacques Audiard's ("A Prophet," "Rust and Bone") latest dramatic inquiry into life on society's margins is an alternately gripping and tender love story about the eponymous former Tamil fighter (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) and his improvised family, who exchange war in Sri Lanka for violence of another kind in Paris.
"High-Rise" (Ben Wheatley, U.K)
Ben Wheatley's bold adaptation of Jg Ballard's novel takes no prisoners. This scorching satire on class, hedonism and depravity in an imploding luxury apartment building is an even more apocalyptic class polemic than "Snowpiercer". Throw in exquisitely unsettling turns from Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, a string quartet cover of Abba's 1975 hit "Sos," an orgy or two and spice with cannibalism, and you have a tour de force of astonishing architectural ambition.
"Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words" (Stig Björkman, Sweden ), Canadian Premiere
Casablanca , Notorious, Voyage to Italy... That Ingrid Bergman, three-time Oscar winner, is one of filmdom's all-time greats is inarguable. Narrated by Swedish (and now Hollywood) star Alicia Vikander, Stig Björkman's intimate exploration of Bergman's personal and professional life benefits immensely from the cooperation of Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini, who allowed him access to never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews. The result is a rich and multicolored portrait of this extraordinary human being—in her own words.
"Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier, U.S.A/France)
When a war photographer (Isabelle Huppert) dies on assignment, her husband (Gabriel Byrne) struggles to mount a retrospective while dealing with his grieving sons (Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid) and her combative colleague (David Strathairn). Joachim Trier ("Oslo, 31st August") poses tough questions about family, marital responsibility and balancing one's calling and kin.
"Room" (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland, Canada, U.K)
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and based on the best-selling Man Booker Prize-nominated novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, this is the story of five-year old Jack, who lives in an 11-by-11-foot room with his mother. Since it's all he's ever known, Jack believes that only "Room" and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are real. Then reality intrudes and Jack's life is turned on its head... A remarkable and disturbing work.
"A Tale of Three Cities" (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong/China)
A rousingly entertaining movie romance, this historical drama tells the deeply moving story of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan's parents. Both grew up in China's tumultuous 20th century, swept by war, revolution and resistance. When charismatic customs officer Fang (Lau Ching-wan) meets impoverished young widow Chen (Tang Wei), an unbreakable bond is forged. Together, their love endures through extraordinary adventures, as they head towards a future in Hong Kong.
"This Changes Everything" (Avi Lewis, Canada)
Naomi Klein ("Shock Doctrine") has risen to prominence around the world as one of Canada's most forceful and relevant public intellectuals. Her cogent call to direct action has inspired youth, helped chart roadmaps for social progressives and environmentalists, and yet worried those who believe that her critique of capitalism plays into the hands of right wingers who think climate change is a socialist plot. Join us, Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis for this special presentation of "This Changes Everything."
"Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Switzerland/U.K)
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz anchor Paolo Sorrentino's gorgeous follow-up to The Great Beauty. Fred (Caine), a retired composer, and friend Mick (Keitel), a film director, are sojourning in a stunning Swiss alpine spa. Surrounded by bodies old and young, supple and sagging, they reconsider their pasts–while Sorrentino choreographs the action with exquisite control.
Canadian Images Special Presentations "Hyena Road" (Paul Gross, Canada)
In Paul Gross' film, ripped from the headlines, a sniper, who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human, becomes implicated in the life of one of them. An intelligence officer, who has never contemplated killing, becomes the engine of a plot to kill. A legendary Mujahideen warrior, who had put war behind him, is now deeply involved. Three different men, three different worlds, three different conflicts, yet all stand at the intersection of modern warfare.
"Remember" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Atom Egoyan returns with a completely original take on the darkest chapter of horror in the last century. Christopher Plummer plays a man who's looking for the person who might be responsible for wiping out his family, as he strains to seize the evanescent memories of long-ago brutality. The all-star cast includes Henry Czerny, Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz. Benjamin August's screenplay will keep you guessing until the very end.
John Crowley's "Brooklyn" starts the festival off in the Opening Night Gala spot. Marc Abraham's "I Saw the Light" holds the Closing Night Gala position with a feature on the life of country star Hank Williams. The film was produced by Vancouver's Bron Studios. Canadian productions remain a crucial part of the festival, Philippe Falardeau's "My Internship in Canada" will open the Canadian Images program, while Patricia Rozema's "Into the Forest" will occupy the BC Spotlight Awards Gala spot.
In 2015, Vancouver audiences will be exposed to 355 films from 70 countries. With 32 World Premieres, 33 North American Premieres and 53 Canadian Premieres, this year's festival promises to be a feast for Canadian film lovers.
The full line-up and ticket are available at viff.org. Here are some highlights:
Opening Gala "Brooklyn" (John Crowley, U.K/Ireland/Canada)
Lured from Ireland by the American Dream, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) instead lands in a hardscrabble reality of cramped boarding houses and grungy dancehalls. As homesickness grips her, she's also torn between two admirers (Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen). With Nick Hornby scripting, John Crowley crafts a stirring 50s-era immigration tale that also serves as an exhilarating profile of female empowerment.
Closing Gala "I Saw the Light" (Marc Abraham,USA) Having played gods and monsters with aplomb, Tom Hiddleston takes centre stage as country music legend/renegade Hank Williams. In turns as rambunctious as a barn dance and as reflective as a ballad, Marc Abraham's film chronicles Williams' rapid ascent to stardom and the tragedy of a career cut short by substance abuse. Laid to rest at only 29, Williams left behind a truly remarkable body of work. Handling the singing chores himself, Hiddleston does the man—and his music—proud.
Canadian Images Opening Film My Internship in Canada (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
Philippe Falardeau ("Monsieur Lazhar") returns with an energetic, laugh-out-loud political comedy that couldn't be more timely. Steve Guibord (Patrick Huard, brilliant) is an independent Quebec MP traveling to his northern riding with a new Haitian intern. Soon after finding themselves caught in the crossfire of activists, miners, truckers, politicians and aboriginal groups, it turns out that Guibord somehow holds the decisive vote in a national debate that will decide whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East! The fabulous Suzanne Clément co-stars.
BC Spotlight Awards Gala "Into the Forest" (Patricia Rozema, Canada)
The BC coastal forest is in all its glory as a father and his two daughters drive off to their remote and idyllic getaway home. They have little sense at first of the growing apocalypse that they are leaving in their wake. It will come to them. Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie and Michael Eklund star in this Patricia Rozema-directed adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel.
Spotlight Gala "Beeba Boys" (Deepa Mehta, Canada/India)
Mix propulsive bhangra beats, blazing Ak-47s, bespoke suits, solicitous mothers and copious cocaine, and you have the heady, volatile cocktail that is Deepa Mehta's latest film, an explosive clash of culture and crime. Jeet Johar (Indian star Randeep Hooda) and his young, charismatic Sikh crew vie to take over the Vancouver drug and arms trade in this all-out action/drama. Blood is spilled, heads are cracked, hearts are broken and family bonds are pushed to the brink.
Special Presentations "Arabian Nights" ("Miguel Gomes," Portugal)
Miguel Gomes' ("Tabu," "Our Beloved Month of August") astonishing three-volume, six-hour epic draws inspiration from the tales of Scheherazade (here played by Crista Alfaiate) and once again uses a fascinating combination of reality and fiction to comment on Portugal's past, present and future.
"Dheepan" (Jacques Audiard, France)
Jacques Audiard's ("A Prophet," "Rust and Bone") latest dramatic inquiry into life on society's margins is an alternately gripping and tender love story about the eponymous former Tamil fighter (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) and his improvised family, who exchange war in Sri Lanka for violence of another kind in Paris.
"High-Rise" (Ben Wheatley, U.K)
Ben Wheatley's bold adaptation of Jg Ballard's novel takes no prisoners. This scorching satire on class, hedonism and depravity in an imploding luxury apartment building is an even more apocalyptic class polemic than "Snowpiercer". Throw in exquisitely unsettling turns from Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, a string quartet cover of Abba's 1975 hit "Sos," an orgy or two and spice with cannibalism, and you have a tour de force of astonishing architectural ambition.
"Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words" (Stig Björkman, Sweden ), Canadian Premiere
Casablanca , Notorious, Voyage to Italy... That Ingrid Bergman, three-time Oscar winner, is one of filmdom's all-time greats is inarguable. Narrated by Swedish (and now Hollywood) star Alicia Vikander, Stig Björkman's intimate exploration of Bergman's personal and professional life benefits immensely from the cooperation of Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini, who allowed him access to never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews. The result is a rich and multicolored portrait of this extraordinary human being—in her own words.
"Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier, U.S.A/France)
When a war photographer (Isabelle Huppert) dies on assignment, her husband (Gabriel Byrne) struggles to mount a retrospective while dealing with his grieving sons (Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid) and her combative colleague (David Strathairn). Joachim Trier ("Oslo, 31st August") poses tough questions about family, marital responsibility and balancing one's calling and kin.
"Room" (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland, Canada, U.K)
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and based on the best-selling Man Booker Prize-nominated novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, this is the story of five-year old Jack, who lives in an 11-by-11-foot room with his mother. Since it's all he's ever known, Jack believes that only "Room" and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are real. Then reality intrudes and Jack's life is turned on its head... A remarkable and disturbing work.
"A Tale of Three Cities" (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong/China)
A rousingly entertaining movie romance, this historical drama tells the deeply moving story of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan's parents. Both grew up in China's tumultuous 20th century, swept by war, revolution and resistance. When charismatic customs officer Fang (Lau Ching-wan) meets impoverished young widow Chen (Tang Wei), an unbreakable bond is forged. Together, their love endures through extraordinary adventures, as they head towards a future in Hong Kong.
"This Changes Everything" (Avi Lewis, Canada)
Naomi Klein ("Shock Doctrine") has risen to prominence around the world as one of Canada's most forceful and relevant public intellectuals. Her cogent call to direct action has inspired youth, helped chart roadmaps for social progressives and environmentalists, and yet worried those who believe that her critique of capitalism plays into the hands of right wingers who think climate change is a socialist plot. Join us, Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis for this special presentation of "This Changes Everything."
"Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Switzerland/U.K)
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz anchor Paolo Sorrentino's gorgeous follow-up to The Great Beauty. Fred (Caine), a retired composer, and friend Mick (Keitel), a film director, are sojourning in a stunning Swiss alpine spa. Surrounded by bodies old and young, supple and sagging, they reconsider their pasts–while Sorrentino choreographs the action with exquisite control.
Canadian Images Special Presentations "Hyena Road" (Paul Gross, Canada)
In Paul Gross' film, ripped from the headlines, a sniper, who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human, becomes implicated in the life of one of them. An intelligence officer, who has never contemplated killing, becomes the engine of a plot to kill. A legendary Mujahideen warrior, who had put war behind him, is now deeply involved. Three different men, three different worlds, three different conflicts, yet all stand at the intersection of modern warfare.
"Remember" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Atom Egoyan returns with a completely original take on the darkest chapter of horror in the last century. Christopher Plummer plays a man who's looking for the person who might be responsible for wiping out his family, as he strains to seize the evanescent memories of long-ago brutality. The all-star cast includes Henry Czerny, Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz. Benjamin August's screenplay will keep you guessing until the very end.
- 9/6/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Top brass at the 42nd edition of the Colorado event have announced the roster of 27 films, with surprises to come over the September 4-7 run date.
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (UK), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (UK), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To Choose...
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (UK), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (UK), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To Choose...
- 9/3/2015
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the 42nd edition of the Colorado event have announced the roster of 27 films, with surprises to come over the September 4-7 run date.
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (England, pictured), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (England), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To...
The line-up is as follows:
Carol (Us), Todd Haynes
Amazing Grace (Us, 1972/2015), Sydney Pollack
Anomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Beast Of No Nation (Us), Cary Fukunaga
He Named Me Malala (Us), Davis Guggenheim
Steve Jobs (Us), Danny Boyle
Ixcanul (Guatemala), Jayro Bustamante
Bitter Lake (Us), Adam Curtis
Room (England, pictured), Lenny Abrahamson
Black Mass (Us), Scott Cooper
Suffragette (UK), Sarah Gavron
Spotlight (Us), Tom McCarthy
Rams (Iceland), Grímur Hákonarson
Mom And Me (Ireland), Ken Wardrop
Viva (Ireland), Paddy Breathnach
Taj Majal (France-India), Nicolas Saada
Siti (Indonesia), Eddie Cahyono
Heart Of The Dog (Us), Laurie Anderson
45 Years (England), Andrew Haigh
Son Of Saul (Hungary), Lázló Nemes,
Only The Dead See The End Of The War (Us-Australia), Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag
Taxi (Iran), Jafar Panahi
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Us), Kent Jones
Time To...
- 9/3/2015
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 59Th BFI London Film Festival Announces Full 2015 Programme
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
- 9/1/2015
- by John
- SoundOnSight
As with Orson Welles, we've been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ingrid Bergman for pretty much most of the year. She's been the face of this year's Cannes and Il Cinema Ritrovato festivals, Stig Björkman's documentary Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words is hitting all the major stops on the circuit and retrospectives have been unreeling around the world for months—and now it's New York's turn. We're collecting previews of two series and interviews with Bergman's daughters, including Isabella Rossellini. » - David Hudson...
- 8/29/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
As with Orson Welles, we've been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ingrid Bergman for pretty much most of the year. She's been the face of this year's Cannes and Il Cinema Ritrovato festivals, Stig Björkman's documentary Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words is hitting all the major stops on the circuit and retrospectives have been unreeling around the world for months—and now it's New York's turn. We're collecting previews of two series and interviews with Bergman's daughters, including Isabella Rossellini. » - David Hudson...
- 8/29/2015
- Keyframe
Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...
- 8/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rialto Pictures has acquired Us and Canadian theatrical rights to director Stig Björkman's "Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words," a feature-length documentary tribute to the icon. The documentary has also been selected for this fall’s New York Film Festival and is set to open at New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on November 13 and L.A.’s Nuart on December 11. This could be good fodder for the Academy to honor one of its own. "In Her Own Words" met warm reception out of this year's Cannes Classics program, where it received a special Golden Eye for Best Documentary. Melding home movies, rare personal effects and more, the documentary charts the life and career of the three-time Oscar winner, including her notorious love affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, whom she married and with whom she moved to the Italian arthouse, collaborating on "Stromboli" and "Voyage to Italy" and more.
- 8/27/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Pretty Pictures snaps up raft of international rights; Rialto Pictures to release documentary in the Us and Canada.
Pretty Pictures has acquired rights to documentary Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words from TrustNordisk for the Us, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium - marking a new direction for the Paris-based distributor.
The company has already secured a Us and Canadian theatrical release through New York-based Rialto Pictures, which will release the doc on Nov 13 - making it eligible for the Oscars - following its Us debut at the New York Film Festival.
The French rights were previously picked up by Pretty Pictures ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, where the feature received its world premiere and won the L’Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) for best documentary. The festival also used the face of the Swedish star for its official poster, marking the centennial of her birth.
James Velaise, president...
Pretty Pictures has acquired rights to documentary Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words from TrustNordisk for the Us, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium - marking a new direction for the Paris-based distributor.
The company has already secured a Us and Canadian theatrical release through New York-based Rialto Pictures, which will release the doc on Nov 13 - making it eligible for the Oscars - following its Us debut at the New York Film Festival.
The French rights were previously picked up by Pretty Pictures ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, where the feature received its world premiere and won the L’Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) for best documentary. The festival also used the face of the Swedish star for its official poster, marking the centennial of her birth.
James Velaise, president...
- 8/27/2015
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
We've seen the lineups for the Main Slate and Projections, the Special Events and Revivals, and today: "Taken together, the twelve selections in this year’s Spotlight on Documentary represent the range and depth of nonfiction in our midst," says New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. Highlights include new work from Laura Poitras, Frederick Wiseman, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Pamela Yates, James Solomon, Carmen Castillo, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Jacob Bernstein, Stig Björkman's doc on Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Salles's portrait of Jia Zhangke. »...
- 8/24/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
We've seen the lineups for the Main Slate and Projections, the Special Events and Revivals, and today: "Taken together, the twelve selections in this year’s Spotlight on Documentary represent the range and depth of nonfiction in our midst," says New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. Highlights include new work from Laura Poitras, Frederick Wiseman, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Pamela Yates, James Solomon, Carmen Castillo, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Jacob Bernstein, Stig Björkman's doc on Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Salles's portrait of Jia Zhangke. »...
- 8/24/2015
- Keyframe
With the 12 selections in Spotlight on Documentary, the New York Film Festival (September 25 – October 11) welcomes back Oscar-winner Laura Poitras’s new film and debuts Jacob Bernstein's "Everything Is Copy," a portrait of his late mother, writer-director Nora Ephron. Also in the sidebar is 85-year-old Frederick Wiseman’s 40th feature documentary set in a New York neighborhood, "In Jackson Heights" (a Toronto debut), as well as a new film, "A Guy from Fenyang," from Brazilian Walter Salles on auteur Jia Zhangke, whose film Mountains May Depart" is in the Nyff mainbar. Also in the lineup are films from Pam Yates ("Rebel Citizen" focuses on cinematographer-director Haskell Wexler), Stig Björkman on Ingrid Bergman ("Her Own Words" features Alicia Vikander reading from her letters and diaries as well as Bergman's own 8 mm films), Joaquim Pinto (Azorean island doc "Fish...
- 8/24/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 53rd New York Film Festival’s Spotlight on Documentary launches on September 27 and features new work from Frederick Wiseman, Laura Poitras, Walter Salles and Joaquim Pinto.
Poitras, winner of this year’s best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman’s 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles’ Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before...
Poitras, winner of this year’s best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman’s 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles’ Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before...
- 8/24/2015
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
World premiere of Nordic disaster movie The Wave to open festival in Haugesund.
Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs, starring Jesse Eisenberg, has been named as the closing film of the 43rd Norwegian International Film Festival (Aug 16-21) in Haugesund.
The drama, about how a father and his two sons confront their feelings of their deceased wife and mother, was Norway’s first Palme d’Or contender at Cannes in 36 years and is set to play at Toronto next month.
As previously announced, Niff will open with the world premiere of Roar Uthaug’s disaster movie, The Wave (Bølgen), when the festival is launched by Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon on Aug 16.
It means Norwegian films will both open and close the festival.
Tonje Hardersen, who was named the new Niff festival director in March, said: “I am very happy to see that local cinema is so well represented, and in so many genres.”
Considering the wider...
Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs, starring Jesse Eisenberg, has been named as the closing film of the 43rd Norwegian International Film Festival (Aug 16-21) in Haugesund.
The drama, about how a father and his two sons confront their feelings of their deceased wife and mother, was Norway’s first Palme d’Or contender at Cannes in 36 years and is set to play at Toronto next month.
As previously announced, Niff will open with the world premiere of Roar Uthaug’s disaster movie, The Wave (Bølgen), when the festival is launched by Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon on Aug 16.
It means Norwegian films will both open and close the festival.
Tonje Hardersen, who was named the new Niff festival director in March, said: “I am very happy to see that local cinema is so well represented, and in so many genres.”
Considering the wider...
- 8/4/2015
- by [email protected] (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
For those of us who still have Humphrey Bogart's indelible half-smile imprinted in our minds, his "Casablanca" counterpart is now getting the attention she deserves in this intimate documentary by Swedish filmmaker Stig Björkman. "Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words" is a collective mash-up of her life on and off the silver screen, providing a powerful look back on her public and private life — expertly weaving personal diaries, never before seen vintage photographs, and interviews with her children (most notably Isabella Rossellini, who suggested making the film). Alicia Vikander of "Ex Machina" fame (also of Swedish descent) provides the late actress' narration, which is unequivocally "in her own words." The film aims to tackle her role in Hollywood as a European transplant, but also examines the much her affair with famed Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (who was also married at the time), a near-catastrophic misstep in...
- 7/20/2015
- by Ruben Guevara
- Thompson on Hollywood
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