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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Five
23 December 2009 10:10 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2010
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Max Minghella, Emma Booth, Lee Ingleby
Director: Beeban Kidron
Summary: Follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier. Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of Oz amidst the 1960s counterculture and are subsequently put on trial for distributing a sexually explicit issue.
Analysis: One of the most troubled productions in Working Title's history, 'Hippie' began development back in 1998 but failed to get beyond script stage both in 1999 and in 2002 when "Elizabeth" helmer Shekhar Kapur was attached to direct. Filming finally got underway late 2007 with director Beeban Kidron in charge and shooting seemed to proceed without issue aside from feminist author Germaine Greer being vehemently unhappy about being depicted on film.
Actually the film scored quite a bit of free press for a skinny dipping scene where full-frontal shots of actress Sienna Miller shooting the sequence »
- Garth Franklin
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Five
23 December 2009 10:10 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2010
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Max Minghella, Emma Booth, Lee Ingleby
Director: Beeban Kidron
Summary: Follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier. Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of Oz amidst the 1960s counterculture and are subsequently put on trial for distributing a sexually explicit issue.
Analysis: One of the most troubled productions in Working Title's history, 'Hippie' began development back in 1998 but failed to get beyond script stage both in 1999 and in 2002 when "Elizabeth" helmer Shekhar Kapur was attached to direct. Filming finally got underway late 2007 with director Beeban Kidron in charge and shooting seemed to proceed without issue aside from feminist author Germaine Greer being vehemently unhappy about being depicted on film.
Actually the film scored quite a bit of free press for a skinny dipping scene where full-frontal shots of actress Sienna Miller shooting the sequence »
- Garth Franklin
Strand Offer Refuge to Gallenberger's 'John Rabe'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Adding to their collection of films picked off from Berlin, Strand Releasing have acquired the U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe - a big budget German feature that looks at the Nanjing massacre of 37-38 from a Schindler's List perspective. - Adding to their collection of films picked off from Berlin, Strand Releasing have acquired the U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe - a big budget German feature that looks at the Nanjing massacre of 37-38 from a Schindler's List perspective. Winner of a four awards at the Golden Lolas (Germany's Academy Awards), this will be a perfect compliment/companion piece to the 2010 release of Lu Chaun's City of Life and Death. Strand is planning a Spring release. With popular Germans thesps Ulrich Tukur and Daniel Bruhl on board, this is a story about a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the massacre. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Golden Globes 2010: Best Foreign Language Film Longlist
8 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ulrich Tukur in John Rabe (top); City of Life and Death (middle); Lebanon (bottom) A record 69 foreign language films are in the running for the 2010 Golden Globes, Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced. Among the films in the longlist are Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, starring Penelope Cruz; Costa-Gavras socially conscious drama Eden Is West; Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother, one of the Toronto Film Festival’s best Canadian films of the year; and Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere, about Mussolini’s first wife (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and child (Filippo Timi). Some of the titles, e.g., A Prophet, The White Ribbon, are also in the running for the best foreign language film Academy Award. Some have already won [...] »
- Andre Soares
John Rabe Review
1 December 2009 11:08 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The big winner at this year's German Film Awards was Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe". The film, which tells the story of how a German industrialist saved 200.000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing massacres in 1937, got 4 of the statues (endearingly called the LOLAs) including "best picture" and "best actor".
But while I don't have a problem with actor Ulrich Tukur getting awards for his performance as John Rabe, the movie as a whole will not get much praise from me. While Gallenberger's first full-length feature film at times approaches greatness, an overabundance of "Hollywoodisms" badly mar it.
I'll elaborate, but first..:
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Séraphine | Film review
30 November 2009 6:39 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Martin Provost's life of the painter Séraphine de Senlis is a study in subtlety worthy of Flaubert, says Jason Solomons
A surprise winner of seven Césars – the French Oscars – including best film, Séraphine is a deceptively subtle tale based on the true story of the life and art of a simple maid discovered by a German art critic in the French town of Senlis on the eve of the First World War.
We first encounter Séraphine as she feels her way through a dark stream, fingering the weeds. Feet still wet, she hurries to church, where, beneath a stained glass rose window, she sings, devotedly though none too tunefully. The opening of Martin Provost's film contains little dialogue, but sets up his themes and his central character with graceful economy.
Returning from her cleaning job, Séraphine climbs a large tree, feeling the wind on her face. Another day, »
- Jason Solomons
This week's new cinema previews
27 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Paranormal Activity (15)
(Oren Peli, 2007, Us) Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs. 86 mins
This movie's paranormal box-office activity in the Us has raised expectations sky high, but it sets out to do one thing – scare the pants off you – and does that horribly well. Tapping into our primal fear of things going bump in the night, especially while we're asleep, it gives you the shivers with little more than a grainy fixed-camera shot of a bedroom, as a regular guy tries to get to the bottom of his girlfriend's alleged haunting by trying to video their nocturnal disturbances. There's a certain amount of audience investment required. If you go in determined not to be scared, you probably won't be, but if that's the case, why buy a ticket in the first place?
Law Abiding Citizen (18)
(F Gary Gray, 2009, Us) Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney. 109 mins
A revenge thriller that tries so hard to be clever, »
- Steve Rose
The White Ribbon | Film review
12 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A superb and disturbing film, Michael Haneke's vision of pre-first world war Germany offers no easy answers. By Peter Bradshaw
The White Ribbon is a ghost story without a ghost, a whodunnit without a denouement, a historical parable without a lesson, and for two and a half hours, this unforgettably disturbing and mysterious film leads its viewers alongside an abyss of anxiety.
It has chilling brilliance and icy exactitude, filmed in black and white with the lustre of liquid nitrogen, and its director, Michael Haneke, achieves a new refinement of mastery and audacity. He has created a film whose superb technical finish and closure seems to me in contrast to its status as an "open" text, a work which resists clear interpretation. It reminded me of the group-guilt dramas of Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch, and also the 1980 novel Wie Deutsch Ist Es? by Walter Abish, in which the son of a 1944 anti-Hitler plotter, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Sliff 2009 Review: The North Face
12 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
It’s not much of a qualifier, but writer/director Philipp Stolzl’s The North Face, Nordwand in its native German, could very well be the greatest story about mountain climbing put to film. Full of staggering cinematography, incredible performances, and an epic sense of bravery in the face of tragedy, it is a truly engaging tale of man versus nature that never fails to rise to the heights set forth by its natural antagonist.
The film is based on the true story of Toni Kurz, played by Benno Furmann, and Andreas Hinterstoisser, played by Florian Lukas, two, young German men who always had a knack for climbing things, challenging themselves all along the way. In the Summer of 1936, as Germany was preparing to host the Olympic games, these two men set out to do something none had ever accomplished. In July of that year, they set out to climb »
- Kirk
European Film Awards 2009: Rules & Relevance
7 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments European Film Awards 2009 – Nominations: Part I Among the eligible films and performers that failed to nab a mention were Giovanna Mezzogiorno for Vincere, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Maren Ade’s Everyone Else, Ulrich Tukur for The White Ribbon, Martina Gedeck for The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank. Also, Christian Petzold’s Jerichow, Nina Hoss for Jerichow, Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments, Maria Heiskanen for Everlasting Moments, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, Andrzej Wajda’s Sweet Rush, and Philippe Lioret’s Welcome. Now, the curious thing about the European Film Awards is that the awards’ timing and eligibility rules (some of which have varied throughout the years) make many of the nominations seem like old news. Indeed, [...] »
- Andre Soares
International Trailer: The White Ribbon
21 October 2009 10:23 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Here’s the new international trailer for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or winner, The White Ribbon.
The White Ribbon is directed by Michael Haneke’s and stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi.
Set in a village in northern Germany on the eve of World War I, this is the mysterious story of the children in a school choir and their families. Who is behind the series of strange accidents that befall them?
I’m expecting this movie to only be on in a few cinemas which always seems the same with foreign movies but I encourage your to seek it out. We can expect to see it 13th November.
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- David Sztypuljak
Brand New International “The White Ribbon” Trailer
21 October 2009 4:24 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Check out new international trailer for Michael Haneke’s Cannes-winning masterpiece, “The White Ribbon“
“The White Ribbon” focuses on a rural German school in 1913, which seems to be the sight of ritual punishment. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Does the ritual punishment have an affect on the school system and is this a precursor to the rise of fascism?
The movie stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi.
The White Ribbon Poster
“The White Ribbon” will be released in limited theaters onDecember 30, 2009.
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- Allan Ford
Seraphine UK Poster Released
20 October 2009 10:26 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
It’s 1914, just before the outbreak of world war one and famous art collector Wilhelm Uhde rents an apartment in the small town of Senlis. The idea is to write and take a break from the hectic life he lives in Paris. He hires a cleaning lady called Seraphine Louis who turns out to be the laughing stock of the whole town due to her mental problems.
One day Wilhelm notices a small painting lying about his cleaners living quarters and is immediately impressed at the skill that is apparent in it. He questions her about it and is stunned to learn that the artist is in fact Seraphine herself. Wilhelm is forced to leave France because of the war but on his return he makes it his personal mission to bring her to the worlds attention.
The film has already won multiple awards and the story is both uplifting and touching. »
- Alex Wagner
New Seraphine UK Poster
20 October 2009 2:45 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Here's one for all the art lovers out there: Séraphine, the multiple Cesar*-award winning story of French painter Séraphine Louis (sometimes know as Séraphine de Senlis), who went from cleaning lady to darling of the art world.It's the kind of story that you can't believe hasn't already been made into a film. In 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I a German art collector called William Uhde rented an apartment in Senlis, near Paris, and hired a cleaning lady called Séraphine. She was unrefined, suffers mental problems and was a laughing stock for many people around time, but Uhde learns that she has a huge talent for painting. He was forced to leave the country by the War, but on returning years later brought Séraphine to the world's attention.Séraphine stars Yolande Moreau (the landlady in Amelie) and Ulrich Tukur (The Lives Of Others) and is »
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon) - New images from the Sony Pictures Classics release.
28 September 2009 1:34 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"The White Ribbon" ("Das weiße Band") comes from Sony Pictures Classics and is directed by Michael Haneke. The film is a multiple award nominee and winner of three 2009 Cannes Film Festival awards including the Fipresci Prize, Golden Palm and Cinema Prize of the French National Education System. Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film and X-Filme Creative Pool. Starring are Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart Klaußner, Marisa Growaldt, Josef Bierbichler and Janina Fautz. »
Review: ‘Seraphine’
21 August 2009 5:15 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Seraphine is a story based on Seraphine Louis (Yolande Moreau), also knows as Seraphine de Senlis, a self taught French painter. Seraphine was a rough housekeeper in Senlis, who often painted in secret. It’s bad enough that she is the laughing stock of her town. It wasn’t until 1912 when William Unde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art collector and critic, came to stay where she was employed and accidentally discovered one of her paintings. The people in the community did not see how her work, beautiful floral arrangements, was anything special, and did not understand why Unde was so interested in it. Nonetheless, he bought all of her work and encouraged her to pursue her talents and redirect her life to painting.
The art world owes a great deal of gratitude toward Unde for his discoveries. He was the first person to buy Picasso’s cubist work, and discovered French Impressionist Henri Rousseau. »
- Melissa
Séraphine
19 June 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: June 12
Director: Martin Provost
Writers: Marc Abdelnour and Martin Provost
Cinematographer: Laurent Brunet
Starring: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich
Studio/Run Time: Music Box Films, 125 mins.
An untrained painter discovered in rural France
Stories about lowly domestic workers who turn out to have secret artistic abilities or who bear an unrecognized burden for the community often rub me the wrong way. It’s inherently joyful to watch a person blossom before skeptical eyes, but something about the attitude of a film that assumes the worst about its characters—both the servant and the people who ignore her until the truth is revealed—feels condescending. The difference between a real examination of inequality and a flattering tug at the heartstrings is often found at a story’s edges, brought out through subtlety and finesse. On the one side is Babette’s Feast (1987), charming and heartwarming for unclear reasons, »
Seraphine
4 June 2009 9:29 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
It has taken the better part of a century, but French artist Séraphine Louis is finally making a comeback.
She was, as you probably don't know, a humble, middle-age maid in the early 1900s who enjoyed communing with nature and painting.
As fate would have it, one of her clients was well-known art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde. (In real life, he was a friend of Picasso.)
Uhde (portrayed smartly by Ulrich Tukur) took one look at Séraphine's paintings and realized that the woman cleaning his chamber pots had a secret talent.
She had a brief »
- By V.A. MUSETTO
Four Women
4 June 2009 6:05 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
With apologies to Nina Simone, I'd like to dedicate this week in film to four women: Yolande, Mariah, Maya and Joan. In her last two lead performances, Brussels-born Yolande Moreau has shown exceptional nuance and grace in roles that could have easily toppled lesser actresses. "When the Sea Rises" (2004), which Moreau also co-wrote and co-directed, begins with a potentially disastrous premise -- a performance artist traveling with her bizarre one-woman show "A Dirty Business of Sex and Crime" begins a tentative relationship with a man who makes giant papier-mâché puppets -- and becomes one of the sweetest, most original road-romance movies in recent years. In Martin Provost's "Séraphine," the fleshy 56-year-old actress plays the title character, a real-life naïve artist who died in an insane asylum in 1942, courageously forgoing the histrionics usually associated with biopics about the "touched."
Séraphine, the housekeeper of a German collector, Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur »
- Melissa Anderson
Excl Clip: Martin Provost's Seraphine
1 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Music Box Films grabbed Martin Provost's Séraphine before it swept the French equivalent to the Oscars with a total of seven Cesars (Yolande Moreau won her second Best Actress award and the film won for Best Picture). In anticipation of the film's release in theaters this coming Friday (June 5th), we've received an exclusive clip featuring the unique pairing between German actor Ulrich Tukur and of course, Moreau in the role of timid and genius Séraphine. Will this stay the course as last summer's successful art-house theater run as Music Box Films' Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)? It doesn't seem impossible as it has been drumming up buzz since Tiff of last year. This is based on the true story, of Séraphine de Senlis (Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper whose brilliantly colorful canvases adorn some of the most famous galleries in the world. »
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