Launched last year by Wes Anderson’s producing partners at Indian Paintbrush, Galerie has emerged as a well-curated film club publishing unique selections of films from artists with their personal annotations. With past lists from the likes of James Gray, Ed Lachman, Mike Mills, Karyn Kusama, Ethan Hawke, and more, today we’re pleased to exclusively share a sneak peek from the lists of two celebrated Chilean filmmakers, Pablo Larraín and Sebastián Lelio, which have recently landed on the site.
Both filmmakers are currently working on their latest projects: Larraín is helming the Angelina Jolie-led Maria Callas drama, while Lelio is handling the musical The Wave, inspired by Chile’s “feminist May” movement in 2018. While in post-production on the projects, they’ve shared their curated collections.
The Spencer and El Conde director features Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing on his list,...
Both filmmakers are currently working on their latest projects: Larraín is helming the Angelina Jolie-led Maria Callas drama, while Lelio is handling the musical The Wave, inspired by Chile’s “feminist May” movement in 2018. While in post-production on the projects, they’ve shared their curated collections.
The Spencer and El Conde director features Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing on his list,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
American Cinematheque Launches Major New L.A. Documentary Festival This Is Not a Fiction (Exclusive)
The American Cinematheque is kicking off a robust new Los Angeles nonfiction film festival dubbed This Is Not a Fiction, running from April 10-18. The festival opens with docuseries “Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story,” with Jon Bon Jovi in-person at the Aero Theatre for the L.A. premiere screening.
The event will include in-person tributes to distinguished documentary filmmakers including Barbara Kopple, Joe Berlinger, Brett Morgen, Bill Morrison, Kirsten Johnson, Terry Zwigoff, Jeff Tremaine and Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, as well as a virtual Q&a with Frederick Wiseman.
Other premieres will include “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus,” “Power,” “Strong Island,” “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” a restoration of “Lumumba: Death of a Prophet” and “Incident,” plus special presentations of Morgan Neville’s “Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces” and “Girls State.” A celebration of the 15th anniversary of “30 for 30” will feature a panel...
The event will include in-person tributes to distinguished documentary filmmakers including Barbara Kopple, Joe Berlinger, Brett Morgen, Bill Morrison, Kirsten Johnson, Terry Zwigoff, Jeff Tremaine and Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, as well as a virtual Q&a with Frederick Wiseman.
Other premieres will include “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus,” “Power,” “Strong Island,” “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” a restoration of “Lumumba: Death of a Prophet” and “Incident,” plus special presentations of Morgan Neville’s “Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces” and “Girls State.” A celebration of the 15th anniversary of “30 for 30” will feature a panel...
- 3/19/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán has long been a chronicler of his homeland, often connecting the ancient and the modern in ways that have explored the country’s struggles with dictatorship and democracy. His latest reflects the energy of young protesters as they began what he describes as “an unexpected revolution” in 2019 and looks as much into the future as the past.
The trigger for an uprising of demonstrations and civil disobedience was, Guzmán tells us - as part of his intermittent, measured narration - triggered by a 30 peso price hike in subway fares. This may have been the spark but it was a long ignored network of inequalities and grievances which sprang alight from it and led to mass protests in Santiago.
Guzmán’s films, including Nostalgia For The Light and The Pearl Button, often offer up long, poetic extended metaphors that reflect on the state of Chile but here,...
The trigger for an uprising of demonstrations and civil disobedience was, Guzmán tells us - as part of his intermittent, measured narration - triggered by a 30 peso price hike in subway fares. This may have been the spark but it was a long ignored network of inequalities and grievances which sprang alight from it and led to mass protests in Santiago.
Guzmán’s films, including Nostalgia For The Light and The Pearl Button, often offer up long, poetic extended metaphors that reflect on the state of Chile but here,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Patricio Guzmán’s staggering documentary examines popular protest that swept through Chile in 2019, when hundreds of thousands of people – chiefly young women – took to the streets of Santiago
The 100th birthday of Henry Kissinger makes this a gruesomely appropriate moment to see the latest movie from Chilean film-maker Patricio Guzmán, about the rage-filled public estallido, or “outburst”, in 2019: the giant protest about inequality and injustice, triggered by a price increase on the subway, that finally forced a change of government in the country.
Guzmán has documented Chile’s trials since the 1973 coup (encouraged by Kissinger) which unseated the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed the brutally oppressive client-state rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet, whose eventual departure in 1990 heralded a supposed transition – or transition back – to democracy but actually left the country in an agonised state of denial about the tyranny in which so many had been complicit. This is...
The 100th birthday of Henry Kissinger makes this a gruesomely appropriate moment to see the latest movie from Chilean film-maker Patricio Guzmán, about the rage-filled public estallido, or “outburst”, in 2019: the giant protest about inequality and injustice, triggered by a price increase on the subway, that finally forced a change of government in the country.
Guzmán has documented Chile’s trials since the 1973 coup (encouraged by Kissinger) which unseated the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed the brutally oppressive client-state rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet, whose eventual departure in 1990 heralded a supposed transition – or transition back – to democracy but actually left the country in an agonised state of denial about the tyranny in which so many had been complicit. This is...
- 6/6/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Through films as varied as “The Father,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead” and “Relic,” dementia and neurodegenerative disease have been extensively portrayed on screen in recent years — a subgenre that carries a trigger warning for anyone with off-screen experience of the subject. For those who think they cannot stomach one more, Maite Alberdi’s “The Eternal Memory” treats inexorably sad material with a lighter, more lyrical approach than most — focusing less on the day-to-day ravages of living with Alzheimer’s than on the slippery, transient concept of memory itself, as formed, held and lost both in the individual mind and a wider collective consciousness. Key to the film’s thesis is that its subject is Augusto Góngora, a veteran Chilean political journalist who labored through the 1970s and 1980s to bring the iniquities of the Pinochet regime to public attention — and later dedicated himself to conserving that national memory for future generations.
- 2/14/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
After last month kicked off with Sight and Sound unveiling of their once-in-a-decade greatest films of all-time poll, detailing the 100 films that made the cut that were led by Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, they’ve now unveiled the full critics’ top 250. While the discourse up until now has featured many wondering why certain directors were totally absent and why other films that previously made the top 100 were left out, more clarity has arrived with this update.
Check out some highlights we clocked below, the full list here, and return on March 2 when all ballots and comments will be unveiled.
The films closest to making the top 100 were Rio Bravo, The House Is Black, and Vagabond, which tied for #103. Four directors absent in the top 100––Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jacques Demy––have two films each in the top 250: The Tree of Life...
Check out some highlights we clocked below, the full list here, and return on March 2 when all ballots and comments will be unveiled.
The films closest to making the top 100 were Rio Bravo, The House Is Black, and Vagabond, which tied for #103. Four directors absent in the top 100––Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jacques Demy––have two films each in the top 250: The Tree of Life...
- 1/31/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Toronto International Film Festival, running September 8 through 16, has announced its Docs lineup spanning 22 feature films. Opening the program is the Apple Original Films documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” from director Sacha Jenkins, followed by a lineup featuring new films from the likes of Patricio Guzmán and Werner Herzog. IndieWire spoke with TIFF documentary programmer Thom Powers about highlights from the programming.
It wouldn’t be a true documentary season without a new entry from the quixotic mind of Herzog. The distinctive Bavarian director, who turns 80 a week ahead of this year’s TIFF, will visit the festival to screen “Theatre of Thought,” a study of the human brain that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of neurological inquiry.
“It’s a real science-meets-poetry kind of exploration,” Powers said. “He’s exploring the landscape inside our skulls. He also asks if fish have souls and how a tightrope walker conquers fear.
It wouldn’t be a true documentary season without a new entry from the quixotic mind of Herzog. The distinctive Bavarian director, who turns 80 a week ahead of this year’s TIFF, will visit the festival to screen “Theatre of Thought,” a study of the human brain that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of neurological inquiry.
“It’s a real science-meets-poetry kind of exploration,” Powers said. “He’s exploring the landscape inside our skulls. He also asks if fish have souls and how a tightrope walker conquers fear.
- 8/17/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton now have double the reason to head to the Toronto International Film Festival next month. TIFF unveiled its documentary lineup today, which includes the world premiere of In Her Hands, a film executive produced by the Clintons through their banner Hidden Light.
The fest also unveiled its Contemporary World Cinema slate; see the full lineups below.
Hillary and Chelsea were previously announced as attending the festival in support of Gutsy, their upcoming Apple TV+ documentary series that “features intimate conversations with trailblazing women including Kim Kardashian, Meghan Thee Stallion, Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson and many more.”
In Her Hands, directed by Tamana Ayazi and Oscar nominee Marcel Mettelsiefen, focuses on another gutsy woman—Afghan politician Zarifa Ghafari—who became, at the age of 26, the youngest woman to serve as a mayor of an Afghan city.
The fest also unveiled its Contemporary World Cinema slate; see the full lineups below.
Hillary and Chelsea were previously announced as attending the festival in support of Gutsy, their upcoming Apple TV+ documentary series that “features intimate conversations with trailblazing women including Kim Kardashian, Meghan Thee Stallion, Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson and many more.”
In Her Hands, directed by Tamana Ayazi and Oscar nominee Marcel Mettelsiefen, focuses on another gutsy woman—Afghan politician Zarifa Ghafari—who became, at the age of 26, the youngest woman to serve as a mayor of an Afghan city.
- 8/17/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
When Chile’s preeminent documentarian, Patricio Guzman, receives a lifetime achievement award at the Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) on Aug. 16, he’ll also be marking his 81st birthday.
Born on Aug. 11, 1941, Guzman has made more than 20 documentaries at an average of one every two to five years. And he shows no signs of easing up.
With perhaps two exceptions, his documentaries explore the past, present and future of his beloved homeland. As he laments in his 2019 Cannes best documentary winner, “The Cordillera of Dreams,” he has lived away far more years than he has lived at home, having fled the country after being held prisoner by the Augusto Pinochet regime in the early ‘70s.
“My memories of Chile are a recurring theme in my films,” he told Variety.
“He lives in Paris but his heart and mind are in Chile every day,” said Alexandra Galvis, who has produced...
Born on Aug. 11, 1941, Guzman has made more than 20 documentaries at an average of one every two to five years. And he shows no signs of easing up.
With perhaps two exceptions, his documentaries explore the past, present and future of his beloved homeland. As he laments in his 2019 Cannes best documentary winner, “The Cordillera of Dreams,” he has lived away far more years than he has lived at home, having fled the country after being held prisoner by the Augusto Pinochet regime in the early ‘70s.
“My memories of Chile are a recurring theme in my films,” he told Variety.
“He lives in Paris but his heart and mind are in Chile every day,” said Alexandra Galvis, who has produced...
- 8/16/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
France’s Atacama Productions lead producer.
Pyramide International has closed a handful of key pre-sales on Patricio Guzman’s Cannes Special Screenings selection My Imaginary Country (Mi Pais Imaginario) less than two weeks before the festival kicks off.
The France-Chile documentary has sold to New Wave for UK and Ireland, Cineart for Benelux, I Wonder for Italy, and Discovery for former Yugoslavia.
Cannes regular Guzman’s latest film reflects on the social, economic and political impact of the 2019 protests in Santiago. France’s Atacama Productions is the main production company and Arte France Cinema (France) and Market Chile (Chile) are co-producers.
Pyramide International has closed a handful of key pre-sales on Patricio Guzman’s Cannes Special Screenings selection My Imaginary Country (Mi Pais Imaginario) less than two weeks before the festival kicks off.
The France-Chile documentary has sold to New Wave for UK and Ireland, Cineart for Benelux, I Wonder for Italy, and Discovery for former Yugoslavia.
Cannes regular Guzman’s latest film reflects on the social, economic and political impact of the 2019 protests in Santiago. France’s Atacama Productions is the main production company and Arte France Cinema (France) and Market Chile (Chile) are co-producers.
- 5/4/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t generated as many headlines as climate change activism or another relief bill, but its planned launch in October 2021 could yield even greater long-term impact. After nearly 15 years of turnaround, the promising Hubble replacement will peer out at ancient galaxies and stars, possibly uncovering distant planets hospitable to life in process. Director Nathaniel Kahn’s “The Hunt for Planet B” puts that perspective in a much broader context than the bureaucracy responsible for grounding the Webb telescope all these years, showing how its success could galvanize a community of passionate stargazers and eventually change our relationship to the universe itself.
Kahn, who previously directed the 2016 short “Into the Unknown” about the team behind the telescope, has expanded that project into . Kahn’s earnest overview is not always the sum of its parts: It lacks the awe-inspiring production values that make “Cosmos” so fun and...
Kahn, who previously directed the 2016 short “Into the Unknown” about the team behind the telescope, has expanded that project into . Kahn’s earnest overview is not always the sum of its parts: It lacks the awe-inspiring production values that make “Cosmos” so fun and...
- 3/19/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A version of this story first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
The Oscars competition in the Best Documentary Feature category has more than 200 eligible films this year for this first time ever, due largely to rule changes that made it easier for nonfiction films to qualify in the year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The rules, which will likely end when theaters reopen, include routes to qualify by being booked at film festivals or by premiering online but paying to be in the online Academy Screening Room for members. They’re resulted in 215 films qualifying by late December, with an additional small group of films expected to be added to the list in early January. The previous record for entries, set in 2017, was 170.
But rule changes have long been standard in the Oscars documentary category, particularly in the last two or three decades. Often, they involve...
The Oscars competition in the Best Documentary Feature category has more than 200 eligible films this year for this first time ever, due largely to rule changes that made it easier for nonfiction films to qualify in the year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The rules, which will likely end when theaters reopen, include routes to qualify by being booked at film festivals or by premiering online but paying to be in the online Academy Screening Room for members. They’re resulted in 215 films qualifying by late December, with an additional small group of films expected to be added to the list in early January. The previous record for entries, set in 2017, was 170.
But rule changes have long been standard in the Oscars documentary category, particularly in the last two or three decades. Often, they involve...
- 1/4/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2020. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions—a selection of those personal lists will be shared in the coming days—and after tallying votes, a top 50 has been assembled.
It should be noted that, unlike our other year-end features, we placed no requirement on a selection being a U.S theatrical release, so you may see some repeats from last year and a few we’ll certainly discuss more over the next twelve months. So: without further ado, check out our rundown of 2020 below, our ongoing year-end coverage here (including where to stream many of the below picks), and return in the coming weeks as we look towards 2021.
50. The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
The most purely, incandescently beautiful movie of the year is a...
It should be noted that, unlike our other year-end features, we placed no requirement on a selection being a U.S theatrical release, so you may see some repeats from last year and a few we’ll certainly discuss more over the next twelve months. So: without further ado, check out our rundown of 2020 below, our ongoing year-end coverage here (including where to stream many of the below picks), and return in the coming weeks as we look towards 2021.
50. The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
The most purely, incandescently beautiful movie of the year is a...
- 12/24/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
By Glenn Dunks
Desert. Sky. Water. Mountains. Just the subjects alone suggest a nation of dichotomies. Patricio Guzmán’s most recent films about his troubled home-country of Chile have covered a lot of his people’s terrain. Capping a trilogy of documentaries that began with 2010’s Nostalgia for the Light and 2015’s The Pearl Button, The Cordillera of Dreams retains Guzmán’s searching and plaintive approach to Chile’s history as he poetically explores the connection between the Chilean people and the stretch of Andes mountains that surround the capital of Santiago.
The South American nation has remained a constant across his career despite living in exile since 1973 when his epic three-part The Battle of Chile was smuggled out of the country and premiered to extraordinary acclaim (he has lived in Europe ever since)...
Desert. Sky. Water. Mountains. Just the subjects alone suggest a nation of dichotomies. Patricio Guzmán’s most recent films about his troubled home-country of Chile have covered a lot of his people’s terrain. Capping a trilogy of documentaries that began with 2010’s Nostalgia for the Light and 2015’s The Pearl Button, The Cordillera of Dreams retains Guzmán’s searching and plaintive approach to Chile’s history as he poetically explores the connection between the Chilean people and the stretch of Andes mountains that surround the capital of Santiago.
The South American nation has remained a constant across his career despite living in exile since 1973 when his epic three-part The Battle of Chile was smuggled out of the country and premiered to extraordinary acclaim (he has lived in Europe ever since)...
- 2/19/2020
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Patricio Guzmán is indefatigable. For over 50 years, the Chilean director has chronicled his country’s political trauma—namely, the military coup d’état coup and brutal reign of Augusto Pinochet—with a commitment and passion that is unparalleled. Propelled by a period of tumultuous unrest in Latin America in the 1960s, Guzmán helped forge a radical-left documentary movement, most famously with his momentous trilogy The Battle of Chile (1974-1979), an epic verité street-level account of his nation’s CIA-backed right-wing takeover. But for the last decade, Guzmán may be more recognized for a different type of triptych: Starting with Nostalgia for the Light (2010), and then […]...
- 2/12/2020
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Patricio Guzmán is indefatigable. For over 50 years, the Chilean director has chronicled his country’s political trauma—namely, the military coup d’état coup and brutal reign of Augusto Pinochet—with a commitment and passion that is unparalleled. Propelled by a period of tumultuous unrest in Latin America in the 1960s, Guzmán helped forge a radical-left documentary movement, most famously with his momentous trilogy The Battle of Chile (1974-1979), an epic verité street-level account of his nation’s CIA-backed right-wing takeover. But for the last decade, Guzmán may be more recognized for a different type of triptych: Starting with Nostalgia for the Light (2010), and then […]...
- 2/12/2020
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe first poster for Abel Ferrara's long-awaited Siberia, which will compete in the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. In 2015, Ferrara described the mysterious picture as a means of seeing "if we can really film dreams—our fears, our regrets, our nostalgia.”This year's Academy Awards concluded with a Best Picture win for Parasite! Check out the rest of the winners here. Recommended VIEWINGThe trailer for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, about the final issue published by a fictional American magazine based in a French city. Matías Piñeiro continues his Shakespeare series with Isabella. The film, which premieres at the upcoming Berlinale, features regular collaborators Maria Villar and Agustina Muñoz and circles the production of the play Measure by Measure. The first trailer for Sally Potter's The Roads Not Taken, which stars Javier Bardem...
- 2/12/2020
- MUBI
Above: The Cordillera of DreamsWhen Patricio Guzmán returned to his former home of Santiago, Chile in the 1990s to film Chile: Obstinate Memory (1997) after the end of Pinochet’s dictatorship, he bought a print of his three-part documentary The Battle of Chile (1975–1979) with him, screening it to a younger generation of Chileans. The screenings induced tears and strong political responses from audiences; many of whom previously hadn’t seen images of Pinochet’s coup-d’état on film before. Another emotionally charged return to Santiago permeates his latest documentary The Cordillera of Dreams—the most directly personal in the trilogy that includes Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and The Pearl Button (2015). Presenting Santiago’s adjacent mountain range as a beautiful yet often under-appreciated witness to the city’s history, Guzmán unfolds the events of his own childhood and early filmmaking career, his formative interest in the paintings of the cordillera found on national matchboxes,...
- 2/10/2020
- MUBI
The Notebook is covering Tiff with an on-going correspondence between critics Fernando F. Croce, Kelley Dong, and editor Daniel Kasman.The Cordillera of DreamsDear Danny and Kelley,After missing out on the fun last year, it’s a tremendous joy to be back with you on the festival grid, especially when said festival is the multifaceted whirlwind known as Tiff. I eagerly look forward to the feeling of anticipation and mystery I often get as I rush from screen to screen over the course of the next ten days. To a provincial cinephile like myself, the sheer amount of films to choose from will always be as thrilling as it is daunting, the experience akin to discovering untold riches while being lost in a labyrinth. Where to begin? Where to end? What to do in between? I used to lose sleep over lists and schedules, but recently I’ve learned...
- 9/7/2019
- MUBI
Personal reflection on native Santiago concludes trilogy.
Icarus Films has picked up North American rights from Pyramide International to Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera Of Dreams ahead of its North American premiere in Toronto.
French-Chilean co-production Cordillera earned a special metion among the documentary selections in Cannes this year. It profiles the France-based filmmaker’s native Santiago – a place he left after the Augusto Pinochet regime seized power in 1973 – and is a personal reflection that also pays homage to the mountain range surrounding the city.
The film from Atacama Productions is the final instalment in a trilogy encompassing Nostalgia For The Light...
Icarus Films has picked up North American rights from Pyramide International to Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera Of Dreams ahead of its North American premiere in Toronto.
French-Chilean co-production Cordillera earned a special metion among the documentary selections in Cannes this year. It profiles the France-based filmmaker’s native Santiago – a place he left after the Augusto Pinochet regime seized power in 1973 – and is a personal reflection that also pays homage to the mountain range surrounding the city.
The film from Atacama Productions is the final instalment in a trilogy encompassing Nostalgia For The Light...
- 8/27/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Personal reflection of native Santiago concludes trilogy.
Icarus Films has picked up North American rights from Pyramide International to Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera Of Dreams ahead of its North American premiere in Toronto.
French-Chilean co-production Cordillera shared the Golden Eye Award for best documentary in Cannes in May. It profiles the France-based filmmaker’s native Santiago – a place he left after the Augusto Pinochet regime seized power in 1973 – and is a personal reflection that also pays homage to the mountain range surrounding the city.
The film is the final instalment in a trilogy encompassing Nostalgia For The Light (2010) and...
Icarus Films has picked up North American rights from Pyramide International to Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera Of Dreams ahead of its North American premiere in Toronto.
French-Chilean co-production Cordillera shared the Golden Eye Award for best documentary in Cannes in May. It profiles the France-based filmmaker’s native Santiago – a place he left after the Augusto Pinochet regime seized power in 1973 – and is a personal reflection that also pays homage to the mountain range surrounding the city.
The film is the final instalment in a trilogy encompassing Nostalgia For The Light (2010) and...
- 8/27/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Madrid — Frederico Veiroj’s “The Moneychanger,” Andrés Wood’s “Spider” and Gael García Bernal’s “Chicuarotes” will play in San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, the Spanish Festival’s most important sidebar, along with its New Directors strand, and a virtual best of the fests titles of Latin American movies with standout at Sundance in particular, plus Berlin, Cannes, Venice and no doubt the upcoming Toronto.
“Spider” will have its European Premiere at San Sebastian.
Bookended by Patricio Guzman’s “The Cordillera of Dreams” and “La Llorona,” the latest from Jayro Bustamante, whose “Tremors” also makes the Horizontes Latinos cut, the section also captures key trends forging Latin America’s new landscape of Latin American movies.
Mined and prized by major festivals, Latin America has yet to go off the boil. The big prizes are going ever more, however, to lesser-known talents. Alejandro Landes’ “Monos” won a Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award,...
“Spider” will have its European Premiere at San Sebastian.
Bookended by Patricio Guzman’s “The Cordillera of Dreams” and “La Llorona,” the latest from Jayro Bustamante, whose “Tremors” also makes the Horizontes Latinos cut, the section also captures key trends forging Latin America’s new landscape of Latin American movies.
Mined and prized by major festivals, Latin America has yet to go off the boil. The big prizes are going ever more, however, to lesser-known talents. Alejandro Landes’ “Monos” won a Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award,...
- 8/6/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Renowned Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has returned to the country to shoot “The Cordillera of Dreams,” 46 years after he was exiled under Augusto Pinochet’s regime of terror. The feature screens at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week.
Sold by Paris’ Pyramide International, “The Cordillera of Dreams,” is produced by Guzmán’s 20-year production partner Renate Sachse of France’s Atacama Productions. It’s co-produced by Arte and Sampek Productions in France, and Market Chile in his home country.
“The Cordillera” completes a trilogy which started with “Nostalgia for the Light” – about Chile’s Atacama Desert – and “The Pearl Button” – about Patagonia.
Through this allegorical trilogy of geographical elements, Guzmán draws a personal portrait of Chile psyche, Chilean people and the ghosts of their history.
Narrated by Guzmán himself, the voiceover finishes the film: “My wish is for Chile to recuperate its childhood and joy.”
Is the main character,...
Sold by Paris’ Pyramide International, “The Cordillera of Dreams,” is produced by Guzmán’s 20-year production partner Renate Sachse of France’s Atacama Productions. It’s co-produced by Arte and Sampek Productions in France, and Market Chile in his home country.
“The Cordillera” completes a trilogy which started with “Nostalgia for the Light” – about Chile’s Atacama Desert – and “The Pearl Button” – about Patagonia.
Through this allegorical trilogy of geographical elements, Guzmán draws a personal portrait of Chile psyche, Chilean people and the ghosts of their history.
Narrated by Guzmán himself, the voiceover finishes the film: “My wish is for Chile to recuperate its childhood and joy.”
Is the main character,...
- 6/30/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
“I think I always make films about things that are the scariest for me to deal with,” says filmmaker Rodney Evans in the trailer for his latest work, an evocative exploration of sight and creativity titled “Vision Portraits.” The deeply personal documentary chronicles the filmmaker’s loss of vision due to a rare genetic eye disorder, as well as the practices of three other artists who have lost or are in the process of losing their sight.
“Vision Portraits” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in documentary competition and went on to screen BAMcinemaFest. It will also play queer film festivals Frameline and Outfest before premiering theatrically in August.
Evans is best known as the writer/director/producer of the feature film “Brother to Brother,” which won the Special Jury Prize in Drama at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and featured the screen debut of Anthony Mackie. The film explores the...
“Vision Portraits” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in documentary competition and went on to screen BAMcinemaFest. It will also play queer film festivals Frameline and Outfest before premiering theatrically in August.
Evans is best known as the writer/director/producer of the feature film “Brother to Brother,” which won the Special Jury Prize in Drama at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and featured the screen debut of Anthony Mackie. The film explores the...
- 6/25/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Robert Beeson talks about factors that impact release dates of Cannes films.
Robert Beeson’s New Wave Films has snapped up UK theatrical rights to Elia Suleiman’s Cannes Competition title It Must Be Heaven, Un Certain Regard titles Homeward and Fire Will Come, as well as The Cordillera Of Dreams, which was a Special Screening.
New Wave has also bought Jean Paul Civeyrac’s French coming-of-age film, A Paris Education, which had its festival debut in Berlin’s Panorama, from Les Films du Losange.
Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven and Homeward, by Ukrainian director Nairman Aliev, about a...
Robert Beeson’s New Wave Films has snapped up UK theatrical rights to Elia Suleiman’s Cannes Competition title It Must Be Heaven, Un Certain Regard titles Homeward and Fire Will Come, as well as The Cordillera Of Dreams, which was a Special Screening.
New Wave has also bought Jean Paul Civeyrac’s French coming-of-age film, A Paris Education, which had its festival debut in Berlin’s Panorama, from Les Films du Losange.
Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven and Homeward, by Ukrainian director Nairman Aliev, about a...
- 6/20/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Robert Beeson talks about factors that impact release dates of Cannes films.
Robert Beeson’s New Wave Films has snapped up UK theatrical rights to Elia Suleiman’s Cannes Competition title It Must Be Heaven, Un Certain Regard titles Homeward and Fire Will Come, as well as The Cordillera Of Dreams, which was a Special Screening.
New Wave has also bought Jean Paul Civeyrac’s French coming-of-age film, A Paris Education which had its festival debut in Berlin’s Panorama, from Les Films du Losange.
Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven and Homeward, by Ukrainian director Nairman Aliev, about a...
Robert Beeson’s New Wave Films has snapped up UK theatrical rights to Elia Suleiman’s Cannes Competition title It Must Be Heaven, Un Certain Regard titles Homeward and Fire Will Come, as well as The Cordillera Of Dreams, which was a Special Screening.
New Wave has also bought Jean Paul Civeyrac’s French coming-of-age film, A Paris Education which had its festival debut in Berlin’s Panorama, from Les Films du Losange.
Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven and Homeward, by Ukrainian director Nairman Aliev, about a...
- 6/20/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Rounding out his sublimely meditative, deeply personal documentary-essay trilogy on time, memory and the relationship of Chile’s breathtaking landscapes to its troubled human history, Patricio Guzmán delivers “The Cordillera of Dreams,” a haunting and allusive exploration of the cultural impact of the country’s most spectacular geological feature: its snowcapped mountain spine. Coming after the exploration of the Atacama Desert and the night sky that was “Nostalgia for the Light” and the investigation of the impact of water along the vast Chilean coastline in “The Pearl Button,” the rockier, more rigid “Cordillera” feels perhaps the least expansive and surprising of the three. But if that makes it more a grace-note coda than an equally powerful stand-alone entry, that still only puts it a few clicks south of essential.
Taken as a completed project, Guzmán’s late-career trinity is a stunning achievement in the cinema of the hidden pattern and the startling,...
Taken as a completed project, Guzmán’s late-career trinity is a stunning achievement in the cinema of the hidden pattern and the startling,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Acclaimed documaker Patricio Guzman, whose The Battle of Chile (1975-79) made him synonymous with political filmmaking in Latin America, entranced festival audiences with his exploration of the synchronicity between history, geography and the physical universe in the brilliant Nostalgia for the Light and continued in much the same vein in The Pearl Button. The trilogy reaches its end with The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillere des songes), which sadly falls short of expectations and makes a disappointing conclusion, if only in comparison to the other two films.
In and of itself, it is a mournfully intelligent, poetic documentary that once more ...
In and of itself, it is a mournfully intelligent, poetic documentary that once more ...
- 5/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Acclaimed documaker Patricio Guzman, whose The Battle of Chile (1975-79) made him synonymous with political filmmaking in Latin America, entranced festival audiences with his exploration of the synchronicity between history, geography and the physical universe in the brilliant Nostalgia for the Light and continued in much the same vein in The Pearl Button. The trilogy reaches its end with The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillere des songes), which sadly falls short of expectations and makes a disappointing conclusion, if only in comparison to the other two films.
In and of itself, it is a mournfully intelligent, poetic documentary that once more ...
In and of itself, it is a mournfully intelligent, poetic documentary that once more ...
- 5/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Cannes Film Festival, cinema’s most esteemed yearly event, begins this week. While we’ll soon be on the ground providing coverage, today brings a preview of what we’re most looking forward to among the eclectic line-up, ranging from films in competition to select titles on the various sidebars. Check out our most-anticipated features below and follow our complete coverage here throughout the month. Make sure to also follow our contributors on Twitter: Rory O’Connor, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Leonardo Goi, and Ed Frankl.
20. Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog)
The recent narrative output of Werner Herzog hasn’t been stellar, but for his next feature, the intrepid director is stepping far outside his comfort zone. The Japanese-language Family Romance, LLC follows a family in which a father goes missing, and a man is hired to impersonate him. Starring non-professional actors Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto), with music by Ernst Reijseger,...
20. Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog)
The recent narrative output of Werner Herzog hasn’t been stellar, but for his next feature, the intrepid director is stepping far outside his comfort zone. The Japanese-language Family Romance, LLC follows a family in which a father goes missing, and a man is hired to impersonate him. Starring non-professional actors Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto), with music by Ernst Reijseger,...
- 5/13/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2017 discoveries”
Elan Bogarín: 1. North Dome Hike, Yosemite National Park, with a view of Half Dome.
2. Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
3. Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán
Lavallee: With the creation of The Wassaic Project you re-appropriated a space meant to serve another purpose, and here, with 306 Hollywood, your grandmother’s home became a real life set and processing lab. Could you discuss the practical nature of having a quasi archaeological site and creative space rolled into one, and perhaps sum up the very moment where family collectively made the decision to not simply pack up and close shop but to use home for artistic purposes.…...
Elan Bogarín: 1. North Dome Hike, Yosemite National Park, with a view of Half Dome.
2. Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
3. Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán
Lavallee: With the creation of The Wassaic Project you re-appropriated a space meant to serve another purpose, and here, with 306 Hollywood, your grandmother’s home became a real life set and processing lab. Could you discuss the practical nature of having a quasi archaeological site and creative space rolled into one, and perhaps sum up the very moment where family collectively made the decision to not simply pack up and close shop but to use home for artistic purposes.…...
- 9/27/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Above: French poster for A Grin Without a Cat.Starting today, the Metrograph in New York will be launching an extensive series celebrating the 40th anniversary of one of the most dedicated, unsung heroes of U.S. film distribution: Icarus Films. Founded in 1978 by filmmaker Ilan Ziv and sold two years later (in exchange for a video camera) to Jonathan Miller who has run the company ever since, Icarus has become one of the leading repositories for aesthetically challenging, politically engaged documentary cinema. The two-week long series contains 56 films by some of the most important names in documentary film: Chantal Akerman, Jean Rouch, Peter Watkins, Chris Marker, Marcel Ophuls and Wang Bing, to name just a few.Finding posters for a lot of these films was not easy. Many of the titles were never really theatrical material (they range in length from 44 minutes to 345) and so a theatrical poster would...
- 9/14/2018
- MUBI
Sol NegroWhy do we categorize documentary films as non-fiction? If fiction is a means to truthfulness and documentary filmmaking attempts to represent the realities of lived experience, then can’t the languages of emotion and introspection operate within the genre?These are the questions that preoccupy the students of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab. At this year’s Open City Documentary Festival will be the U.K. premieres of films produced by Colombian filmmaker Laura Huertas Millàn during her practice-based PhD there. Sol Negro (2016), La Libertad (2017) and jeny303 (2018) are part of her ethnographic fiction series. In dialogue with visual anthropology, they consider how narrative creation can liberate the single, fixed colonial viewpoint.In the tradition of Jean Rouch, ethnofiction filmmaking uses less conventional techniques to provide an insight into the lives of an indigenous population. Rouch compared this form of filmmaking to Surrealism, defining it as an art form...
- 8/28/2018
- MUBI
The 11th annual Nevada City Film Festival, running Aug. 18-21, is four nights crammed full with short films, several feature-length documentaries, one dramatic feature, stand-up comedy performances and more surprises, all nestled within the rolling hills of Northern California.
The fest opens with the feature documentary Someplace With a Mountain, directed by Steve Goodall and narrated by Chevy Chase. The film tells the story of the embattled people of the Puluwat atoll who are besieged by the Pacific Ocean itself. Rising waters due to global warming are making their land slowly disappear beneath the waves.
Other feature docs include music-based films We Are Wizards, directed by Josh Koury, about the oddball phenomenon of rock bands that only craft songs about the world of Harry Potter; and Everyday Sunshine, directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, which profiles the legendary ska punk band Fishbone that continues to bring their enthusiastic music to the masses.
The fest opens with the feature documentary Someplace With a Mountain, directed by Steve Goodall and narrated by Chevy Chase. The film tells the story of the embattled people of the Puluwat atoll who are besieged by the Pacific Ocean itself. Rising waters due to global warming are making their land slowly disappear beneath the waves.
Other feature docs include music-based films We Are Wizards, directed by Josh Koury, about the oddball phenomenon of rock bands that only craft songs about the world of Harry Potter; and Everyday Sunshine, directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, which profiles the legendary ska punk band Fishbone that continues to bring their enthusiastic music to the masses.
- 8/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Much to my regret, I haven't yet been able to get to Cine Las Americas this year. Fortunately, several other excellent online writers have been sharing previews, reviews and other interesting notes on the film festival.
Check out these websites, which will tempt you to head out to Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar and the Mexican American Cultural Center for the remaining films and events at Cine Las Americas this week. Feel free to share links to other coverage in the comments.
Austin Vida is publishing movie reviews from Cine Las Americas. Annar Verold was impressed with the Chilean documentary Nostalgia de la luz, and amused by opening-night film Las marimbas del infierno.Over at Austin Film Society's Persistence of Vision blog, Afs Programming Director Chale Nafus has been sharing his enjoyment of the festival and offering previews of many films. Here are his entries for Day One and Day...
Check out these websites, which will tempt you to head out to Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar and the Mexican American Cultural Center for the remaining films and events at Cine Las Americas this week. Feel free to share links to other coverage in the comments.
Austin Vida is publishing movie reviews from Cine Las Americas. Annar Verold was impressed with the Chilean documentary Nostalgia de la luz, and amused by opening-night film Las marimbas del infierno.Over at Austin Film Society's Persistence of Vision blog, Afs Programming Director Chale Nafus has been sharing his enjoyment of the festival and offering previews of many films. Here are his entries for Day One and Day...
- 4/25/2011
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
The 23rd European Film Awards Photo credit: Efa/René Velli
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer triumphed at this year’s European Film Academy’s 23rd European Film Awards. The film, which I have reviewed here, took the best screenwriter, composer, director and the overall film award, at a ceremony on Saturday (04/12/2010) in snowy Tallinn, Estonia – European Capital of Culture 2011. The best animated feature film award went to Sylvain Chomet’s Illusionist – watch this space for a review in the next few days.
Around 1,400 guests were welcomed by German comedy star Anke Engelke and Estonian actor Märt Avandi who were the show’s hosts and over 2,300 members of the European Film Academy are said to have voted at the awards. The individual awards were presented by a line-up of European actors and actresses, among them Efa Ambassador Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Jean-Marc Barr (France), Hannelore Elsner (Germany), Nikolaj Lie Kaas...
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer triumphed at this year’s European Film Academy’s 23rd European Film Awards. The film, which I have reviewed here, took the best screenwriter, composer, director and the overall film award, at a ceremony on Saturday (04/12/2010) in snowy Tallinn, Estonia – European Capital of Culture 2011. The best animated feature film award went to Sylvain Chomet’s Illusionist – watch this space for a review in the next few days.
Around 1,400 guests were welcomed by German comedy star Anke Engelke and Estonian actor Märt Avandi who were the show’s hosts and over 2,300 members of the European Film Academy are said to have voted at the awards. The individual awards were presented by a line-up of European actors and actresses, among them Efa Ambassador Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Jean-Marc Barr (France), Hannelore Elsner (Germany), Nikolaj Lie Kaas...
- 12/6/2010
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
The 2010 European Film Award winners were announced this weekend, and the results are quite surprising. Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer swept the awards winning six in total, including best film, director, actor (Ewan McGregor), screenwriter (Polanski and Robert Harris), production designer (Albrecht Konrad), and composer (Alexandre Desplat).
Hit the jump for the full list.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2010
Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Editor 2010
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer 2010
Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer
European Composer 2010
Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Discovery 2010- Prix Fipresci
Lebanon,...
Hit the jump for the full list.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2010
Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Editor 2010
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer 2010
Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer
European Composer 2010
Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Discovery 2010- Prix Fipresci
Lebanon,...
- 12/6/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Award season is among us on both sides of the Atlantic. Today the European Film Academy handed out their annual awards in Tallinn, Estonia and the big winner of the evening was Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer, claiming six awards, including Best Picture. Lebanon Israeli's Golden Lion winner of 2009, collected a pair: the award for European discovery, handed out to first time directors ("it's an honor being discovered when you're close to 50", said 48 year old director Samuel Maoz upon receiving the award), and the award for Best Cinematography, handed to Giora Bejach, for his extraordinary work, shooting an (almost) entire film from the Pov of a tank. Lebanon has an enormous artistic appeal, as it demonstrates the claustrophobic feeling leading audiences to believe the film was shot within the confines a tank, when in reality, Maoz didn't have a tank at his disposal. Israeli audiences didn't seem to connect to the film,...
- 12/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The Ghost Writer has won 6 European Film Academy awards, the European equivalent of the Oscars, this evening in Tallinn, Estonia. Polanski’s thriller won Best European Film, while Polanski picked up Best Director and shared the screenwriting award with co-author Robert Harris. Ewan McGregor won Best Actor, while production design and music were also honored. In an interview this weekend, Harris said the Swiss authorities were so understanding about Polanski’s need to finish editing The Ghost Writer, they moved editing equipment into the prison where he was being held while facing deportation back to the U.S last year. More than 2,300 academy members voted. European Film 2010 The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK directed by Roman Polanski written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski European Director 2010 Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer European Actress 2010 Sylvie Testud in Lourdes European Actor 2010 Ewan McGregor...
- 12/4/2010
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
The European Film Academy nominates three documentary films for its Prix Arte award. The selection was made by Efa Board Members Despina Mouzaki (Greece), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Francine Brücher (Switzerland), along with experts Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film), Ally Derks (director Idfa, the Netherlands), and Jacques Laurent (producer, Belgium). The 2,300 members of the Efa will now watch and vote on the winner, to be awarded on December 4. The nominees are: Armadillo, Denmark/Sweden directed by Janus Metz produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockman Miesten Vuoro (Stream of Life), Finland/Sweden written & directed by Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen produced by Joonas Berghäll Nostalgia De La Luz (Nostalgia for the Light), France/Germany/Chile written & directed by Patricio Guzmán produced by Renate Sachse...
- 10/27/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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