The French sales/production company is supplying this year's Cannes fest with a trio of titles, but you might find me doing cartwheels more for a project that hasn't even began lensing in Marjane Satrapi's Waiting for Azrael. - The French sales/production company is supplying this year's Cannes fest with a trio of titles, but you might find me doing cartwheels more for a project that hasn't even began lensing in Marjane Satrapi's Waiting for Azrael. Red, white and green helmer Daniele Luchetti returns to the French festival for the umpteenth time with La Nostra Vita (see pic above) and Takeshi Kitano will break decibel levels with Outrage --- the film's trailer says it all. Celluloid Dreams' is also repping something for doc enthusiasts and tourists who love Paris: Fred Wiseman's Crazy Horse. If I Want To Whistle I Whistle by Florin Serban - Completed La Nostra Vita...
- 5/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Ugly Betty is new on February 3 and ABC has released six sneak peeks for the upcoming episode (note: this episode was originally supposed to air on January 27). You can view the promo photos we posted for the episode as well.
Wilhemina Is Enraged By Her Drag Queen Impersonator, And Betty Gets An Award For Her Blog, On ABC's "Ugly Betty"
Vanessa Williams' Real-Life Brother, Chris Williams, Portrays Wilhediva Hater. Additional Guest Stars Include Kristen Johnston, RuPaul Charles and Carlos Leon
"Chica and the Man" – Wilhemina is furious when she discovers she has a drag queen impersonator – Wilhediva Hater (portrayed by Vanessa Williams' brother, Chris Williams). The fur flies with unexpected results amid guest stars who include RuPaul Charles as Rudolph, the emcee of the cabaret. Meanwhile Betty receives an award for her blog, which causes tension between her and Daniel. When she vents online, her fans in blogosphere escalate the feud,...
Wilhemina Is Enraged By Her Drag Queen Impersonator, And Betty Gets An Award For Her Blog, On ABC's "Ugly Betty"
Vanessa Williams' Real-Life Brother, Chris Williams, Portrays Wilhediva Hater. Additional Guest Stars Include Kristen Johnston, RuPaul Charles and Carlos Leon
"Chica and the Man" – Wilhemina is furious when she discovers she has a drag queen impersonator – Wilhediva Hater (portrayed by Vanessa Williams' brother, Chris Williams). The fur flies with unexpected results amid guest stars who include RuPaul Charles as Rudolph, the emcee of the cabaret. Meanwhile Betty receives an award for her blog, which causes tension between her and Daniel. When she vents online, her fans in blogosphere escalate the feud,...
- 1/31/2010
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
Funny lady Kristen Johnston will be making a guest appearance on January 27 and ABC has released several promo photos and a synopsis, which you can view below.
You can also check out photos and sneak peeks for the January 20 episode.
Wilhemina Is Enraged By Her Drag Queen Impersonator, And Betty Gets An Award For Her Blog, On ABC's "Ugly Betty"
Vanessa Williams' Real-Life Brother, Chris Williams, Portrays Wilhediva Hater. Additional Guest Stars Include Kristen Johnston, RuPaul Charles and Carlos Leon
"Chica and the Man" – Wilhemina is furious when she discovers she has a drag queen impersonator – Wilhediva Hater (portrayed by Vanessa Williams' brother, Chris Williams). The fur flies with unexpected results amid guest stars who include RuPaul Charles as Rudolph, the emcee of the cabaret. Meanwhile Betty receives an award for her blog, which causes tension between her and Daniel. When she vents online, her fans in blogosphere escalate the feud,...
You can also check out photos and sneak peeks for the January 20 episode.
Wilhemina Is Enraged By Her Drag Queen Impersonator, And Betty Gets An Award For Her Blog, On ABC's "Ugly Betty"
Vanessa Williams' Real-Life Brother, Chris Williams, Portrays Wilhediva Hater. Additional Guest Stars Include Kristen Johnston, RuPaul Charles and Carlos Leon
"Chica and the Man" – Wilhemina is furious when she discovers she has a drag queen impersonator – Wilhediva Hater (portrayed by Vanessa Williams' brother, Chris Williams). The fur flies with unexpected results amid guest stars who include RuPaul Charles as Rudolph, the emcee of the cabaret. Meanwhile Betty receives an award for her blog, which causes tension between her and Daniel. When she vents online, her fans in blogosphere escalate the feud,...
- 1/17/2010
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands -- Fifteen titles have been selected to compete for the International Film Festival Rotterdam's €10,000 ($13,000) Tiger Award, organizers said Monday in announcing the festival's main competition lineup. The award comes complete with guaranteed distribution in the Netherlands.
The 2007 competition offers a diverse array of titles, festival director Sandra den Hamer said.
"In terms of style, choice of subjects and countries of origin, the Tiger Award offers this year many variations," she said. "We have psychological dramas, offbeat rock 'n' roll and very visual sparkling experiences. Some titles are very baroque and some are very subtle. All the directors show a lot of talent and originality."
The competing titles are "Bog of Beasts" by Claudio Assis (Brasil), "Bunny Chow" by John Barker (South Africa), "Me" by Rafa Cortes (Spain), "How is your Fish Today?" by Xiaolu Guo (China), "The Man of No Return" by Katya Grokhovskaya (Russia), "Afr" by Morten Hartz Kaplers (Denmark), "Fourteen" by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan), "La Fine del Mare" by Nora Hoppe (Germany), "Rock 'n' Roll Never Dies" by Juha Koiranen (Finland), "Does it hurt?" by Aneta Lesnikovska (Netherlands), "Ex Drummer" by Koen Mortier (Belgium), "The Unpolished" by Pia Marais (Germany), "Tides" by Diego Martinez Vignatti (Belgium), "The Antenna" by Esteban Sapir (Argentina) and "Love Conquers All" by Tan Chui Mui (Malysia).
The 2007 competition offers a diverse array of titles, festival director Sandra den Hamer said.
"In terms of style, choice of subjects and countries of origin, the Tiger Award offers this year many variations," she said. "We have psychological dramas, offbeat rock 'n' roll and very visual sparkling experiences. Some titles are very baroque and some are very subtle. All the directors show a lot of talent and originality."
The competing titles are "Bog of Beasts" by Claudio Assis (Brasil), "Bunny Chow" by John Barker (South Africa), "Me" by Rafa Cortes (Spain), "How is your Fish Today?" by Xiaolu Guo (China), "The Man of No Return" by Katya Grokhovskaya (Russia), "Afr" by Morten Hartz Kaplers (Denmark), "Fourteen" by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan), "La Fine del Mare" by Nora Hoppe (Germany), "Rock 'n' Roll Never Dies" by Juha Koiranen (Finland), "Does it hurt?" by Aneta Lesnikovska (Netherlands), "Ex Drummer" by Koen Mortier (Belgium), "The Unpolished" by Pia Marais (Germany), "Tides" by Diego Martinez Vignatti (Belgium), "The Antenna" by Esteban Sapir (Argentina) and "Love Conquers All" by Tan Chui Mui (Malysia).
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands -- Fifteen titles have been selected to compete for the International Film Festival Rotterdam's €10,000 ($13,000) Tiger Award, organizers said Monday in announcing the festival's main competition lineup. The award comes complete with guaranteed distribution in the Netherlands.
The 2007 competition offers a diverse array of titles, festival director Sandra den Hamer said.
"In terms of style, choice of subjects and countries of origin, the Tiger Award offers this year many variations," she said. "We have psychological dramas, offbeat rock 'n' roll and very visual sparkling experiences. Some titles are very baroque and some are very subtle. All the directors show a lot of talent and originality."
The competing titles are "Bog of Beasts" by Claudio Assis (Brasil), "Bunny Chow" by John Barker (South Africa), "Me" by Rafa Cortes (Spain), "How is your Fish Today?" by Xiaolu Guo (China), "The Man of No Return" by Katya Grokhovskaya (Russia), "Afr" by Morten Hartz Kaplers (Denmark), "Fourteen" by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan), "La Fine del Mare" by Nora Hoppe (Germany), "Rock 'n' Roll Never Dies" by Juha Koiranen (Finland), "Does it hurt?" by Aneta Lesnikovska (Netherlands), "Ex Drummer" by Koen Mortier (Belgium), "The Unpolished" by Pia Marais (Germany), "Tides" by Diego Martinez Vignatti (Belgium), "The Antenna" by Esteban Sapir (Argentina) and "Love Conquers All" by Tan Chui Mui (Malysia).
The 2007 competition offers a diverse array of titles, festival director Sandra den Hamer said.
"In terms of style, choice of subjects and countries of origin, the Tiger Award offers this year many variations," she said. "We have psychological dramas, offbeat rock 'n' roll and very visual sparkling experiences. Some titles are very baroque and some are very subtle. All the directors show a lot of talent and originality."
The competing titles are "Bog of Beasts" by Claudio Assis (Brasil), "Bunny Chow" by John Barker (South Africa), "Me" by Rafa Cortes (Spain), "How is your Fish Today?" by Xiaolu Guo (China), "The Man of No Return" by Katya Grokhovskaya (Russia), "Afr" by Morten Hartz Kaplers (Denmark), "Fourteen" by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan), "La Fine del Mare" by Nora Hoppe (Germany), "Rock 'n' Roll Never Dies" by Juha Koiranen (Finland), "Does it hurt?" by Aneta Lesnikovska (Netherlands), "Ex Drummer" by Koen Mortier (Belgium), "The Unpolished" by Pia Marais (Germany), "Tides" by Diego Martinez Vignatti (Belgium), "The Antenna" by Esteban Sapir (Argentina) and "Love Conquers All" by Tan Chui Mui (Malysia).
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands -- This excellent debut by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas exhibits a maturity rarely seen in a first film. Bravura widescreen camerawork, plotting which is at once both intense and dispersed, and a bold sex scene between a middle-aged depressive and an aged woman, demonstrate a director with a full and natural command of the medium.
On the strength of 'Japon, ' 31-year-old Reygadas has the talent to become a force in world cinema, and his next film is eagerly awaited. More festival exposure for 'Japon' should be a certainty. If Reygadas were a name director rather than an unknown, the film would certainly be snapped up by art house distributors whose tastes run to Abbas Kiarostami (of whose work 'Japon' reminds) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. As it stands, foreign sales could be tricky, as distributors may be put off by the 143-minute length, unusual subject matter, and deliberate pacing.
But while the film may be a hard sell to audiences, it's a critic's dream, as evidenced by the positive response it received at the Rotterdam fest, where it played in the Hubert Bals Fund program. The story sees a depressed middle-aged man, known simply as 'The Man, ' travel to a small village in a ravine to commit suicide. As he prepares for death, he stays with an old woman, Ascen.
The man gradually becomes involved with the old woman's problems, which include the imminent destruction of her house by a slobbish villager who, forty years ago, went unpaid for bricks.
The Man, a city dweller, has arrived at his suicide by reason. Ascen, whose religious beliefs are tied to an intimate knowledge of the land, has never thought to question her existence. The man finally decides that he can transcend his problems by making love to the old woman. After some consideration, she consents.
"Japon" was shot with the unusual superCinemascope process -- which uses a special anamorphic lens to approximate the aspect ratio of 2:35:1-- on a 16mm camera, then blown up to 35mm. It's a perfect fit for the slow, intense story. Reygadas uses the frame for maximum effect in the landscapes -- a shot of a car crawling down a mountainside is particularly gratifying.
But the relative mobility of the 16mm camera allows him to carry out some adventurous hand-held experiments. The audacious, circling 7-minute shot which closes the film, tying up the story as it swoops in on the fates of the various characters, is mesmerizing.
Reygadas directs the intimate scenes with equal confidence. The sex scene between the man and the old woman is especially well handled. Facing a difficult task for any director, Reygadas makes their copulation -- a keystone of the plot -- look both natural and reasonable.
Richard James Havis
JAPON
No Dream Cinema, The Hubert Bals Fund, and Mantarraya Producciones Present
Credits:
Producers: No Dream Cinema, Carlos Reygadas
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Screenwriter: Carlos Reygadas
Director of Photography: Diego Martinez Vignatti
Art Director: Alejandro Reygadas
Music: Dimitri Shostakovich, Arvo P...
On the strength of 'Japon, ' 31-year-old Reygadas has the talent to become a force in world cinema, and his next film is eagerly awaited. More festival exposure for 'Japon' should be a certainty. If Reygadas were a name director rather than an unknown, the film would certainly be snapped up by art house distributors whose tastes run to Abbas Kiarostami (of whose work 'Japon' reminds) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. As it stands, foreign sales could be tricky, as distributors may be put off by the 143-minute length, unusual subject matter, and deliberate pacing.
But while the film may be a hard sell to audiences, it's a critic's dream, as evidenced by the positive response it received at the Rotterdam fest, where it played in the Hubert Bals Fund program. The story sees a depressed middle-aged man, known simply as 'The Man, ' travel to a small village in a ravine to commit suicide. As he prepares for death, he stays with an old woman, Ascen.
The man gradually becomes involved with the old woman's problems, which include the imminent destruction of her house by a slobbish villager who, forty years ago, went unpaid for bricks.
The Man, a city dweller, has arrived at his suicide by reason. Ascen, whose religious beliefs are tied to an intimate knowledge of the land, has never thought to question her existence. The man finally decides that he can transcend his problems by making love to the old woman. After some consideration, she consents.
"Japon" was shot with the unusual superCinemascope process -- which uses a special anamorphic lens to approximate the aspect ratio of 2:35:1-- on a 16mm camera, then blown up to 35mm. It's a perfect fit for the slow, intense story. Reygadas uses the frame for maximum effect in the landscapes -- a shot of a car crawling down a mountainside is particularly gratifying.
But the relative mobility of the 16mm camera allows him to carry out some adventurous hand-held experiments. The audacious, circling 7-minute shot which closes the film, tying up the story as it swoops in on the fates of the various characters, is mesmerizing.
Reygadas directs the intimate scenes with equal confidence. The sex scene between the man and the old woman is especially well handled. Facing a difficult task for any director, Reygadas makes their copulation -- a keystone of the plot -- look both natural and reasonable.
Richard James Havis
JAPON
No Dream Cinema, The Hubert Bals Fund, and Mantarraya Producciones Present
Credits:
Producers: No Dream Cinema, Carlos Reygadas
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Screenwriter: Carlos Reygadas
Director of Photography: Diego Martinez Vignatti
Art Director: Alejandro Reygadas
Music: Dimitri Shostakovich, Arvo P...
- 3/26/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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