The supposed death of Satoru Gojo in the Jujutsu Kaisen manga, which happened during his fight against Sukuna, has been one of the hottest topics on the Internet, as even non-fans knew that Gojo had seemingly died. Why seemingly? Well, we have written about it extensively back then and in light of the new revelation that Gojo’s body was taken somewhere by Ui Ui, and that all those taken by Ui Ui ended up returning completely healed, the old anime rule – a character is not dead until he is confirmed to be dead – is definitely worth considering.
And while fans have been discussing Gojo’s potential return at length, despite all the evidence pointing to his inevitable return at a later point, this has yet to happen in the series, as the manga continues on without Gojo. But, with the upcoming release of Volume 26 of the manga, Akutami has...
And while fans have been discussing Gojo’s potential return at length, despite all the evidence pointing to his inevitable return at a later point, this has yet to happen in the series, as the manga continues on without Gojo. But, with the upcoming release of Volume 26 of the manga, Akutami has...
- 4/2/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Zach Bryan kicked off “The Quittin Time Tour” at United Center in Chicago on Tuesday (March 5th), delivering a 25-song set that spanned across his growing discography and also featured a surprise appearance from Kacey Musgraves.
To begin the show, Bryan played “Overtime” from his most recent studio album, Zach Bryan, and “Open the Gate” off of his 2022 breakout effort, American Heartbreak. Bryan then dipped back to his 2019 debut, DeAnn, to perform “God Speed” before going into his unreleased song “The Great American Bar Scene.”
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The country star continued zig-zagging through his catalog, performing some of his biggest songs alongside other favorites like “Nine Ball” and “Oklahoma Smokeshow” and older cuts like “Condemned” and “Heading South.”
Undoubtedly the biggest moment of the evening was when Bryan brought out Musgraves to duet their No. 1 hit (and Consequence Song of the Week), “I Remember Everything,” for the first time ever.
To begin the show, Bryan played “Overtime” from his most recent studio album, Zach Bryan, and “Open the Gate” off of his 2022 breakout effort, American Heartbreak. Bryan then dipped back to his 2019 debut, DeAnn, to perform “God Speed” before going into his unreleased song “The Great American Bar Scene.”
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The country star continued zig-zagging through his catalog, performing some of his biggest songs alongside other favorites like “Nine Ball” and “Oklahoma Smokeshow” and older cuts like “Condemned” and “Heading South.”
Undoubtedly the biggest moment of the evening was when Bryan brought out Musgraves to duet their No. 1 hit (and Consequence Song of the Week), “I Remember Everything,” for the first time ever.
- 3/6/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Zach Bryan has given fans a glimpse of what his upcoming tour will be like.
Last week, the country singer posted a 29-song setlist for 2024. The post was short-lived as Bryan deleted it shortly after.
He did, however, engage with his X followers when they made suggestions to the setlist.
Fans suggested “’68 Flashback,” “Tishomingo” and “Deep Satin,” among others.
Bryan also tweeted, “fifth of may is in the setlist swear on it! We messed it up.”
The Quittin’ Time tour is set to launch on March 6 in Chicago and end Brooklyn, New York, in December.
Zach Bryan Quittin’ Time Concert Tour Setlist
Below are the songs included in the now-deleted setlist:
“Open the Gate” “God Speed” “Overtime” “Great American Bar Scene” “Good I’ll Do” “From Austin” “Oklahoma City” “Nine Ball” “Tradesman” “Crooked Teeth” “Ticking” “Better Days” “Sweet Deann” “Heavy Eyes” “Tourniquet” “Fear and Friday’s” “Snows” “Condemened” “Oklahoma Smokewhos...
Last week, the country singer posted a 29-song setlist for 2024. The post was short-lived as Bryan deleted it shortly after.
He did, however, engage with his X followers when they made suggestions to the setlist.
Fans suggested “’68 Flashback,” “Tishomingo” and “Deep Satin,” among others.
Bryan also tweeted, “fifth of may is in the setlist swear on it! We messed it up.”
The Quittin’ Time tour is set to launch on March 6 in Chicago and end Brooklyn, New York, in December.
Zach Bryan Quittin’ Time Concert Tour Setlist
Below are the songs included in the now-deleted setlist:
“Open the Gate” “God Speed” “Overtime” “Great American Bar Scene” “Good I’ll Do” “From Austin” “Oklahoma City” “Nine Ball” “Tradesman” “Crooked Teeth” “Ticking” “Better Days” “Sweet Deann” “Heavy Eyes” “Tourniquet” “Fear and Friday’s” “Snows” “Condemened” “Oklahoma Smokewhos...
- 1/31/2024
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
For the first minute and 45 seconds of his new, self-titled album, Zach Bryan lays out his vision for a life well-lived. There are no pickup trucks, no girls in bikinis or short shorts, no football games, or fishing boats. There is only the vastness of the land, from the Pacific Coast Highway to the Empire State Building, and the simple meaning of our own actions.
“I’ve learned that every waking moment is enough,” he intones in the album-opening poem, “and excess never leads to better things.”
It’s a...
“I’ve learned that every waking moment is enough,” he intones in the album-opening poem, “and excess never leads to better things.”
It’s a...
- 9/6/2023
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Arthur Rambo
Originally pegged as a 2020 hopeful, Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet might be part of a huge wave of former winners competing in 2021’s Cannes edition. For his eighth feature, Arthur Rambo, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani and lensed by Pierre Milon, Cantet recruits Bpm actor Antoine Reinartz, Rabah Nait Oufella and Sofian Khammes for his leads. Cantet won the Palme d’Or in 2008 for The Class and returned to Cannes in Un Certain Regard as part of the omnibus 7 Days in Havana in 2012 and again to the sidebar in 2017 with his last feature, The Workshop.…...
Originally pegged as a 2020 hopeful, Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet might be part of a huge wave of former winners competing in 2021’s Cannes edition. For his eighth feature, Arthur Rambo, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani and lensed by Pierre Milon, Cantet recruits Bpm actor Antoine Reinartz, Rabah Nait Oufella and Sofian Khammes for his leads. Cantet won the Palme d’Or in 2008 for The Class and returned to Cannes in Un Certain Regard as part of the omnibus 7 Days in Havana in 2012 and again to the sidebar in 2017 with his last feature, The Workshop.…...
- 1/5/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The 28th Hamptons International Film Festival has honored director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection as its Best Narrative Feature.
The event, running Oct. 8-14, announced its award winners at a virtual ceremony, handing out more than $29,500 in cash awards and $130,000 in goods and services. This year’s festival is running October 8 – 14 with virtual screenings and drive-ins.
Other winners announced today include Collective (Colectiv), directed by Alexander Nanau, as the Best Documentary Feature. The film will be released by Magnolia Pictures and Participant on November 20th.
Entre Tu Y Milagros, directed by Mariana Saffon, received Best Narrative Short Film award, and The Game (Das Spiel), directed by Roman Hodel, won for Best Documentary Short Film. Both Short Films will qualify for Academy Awards consideration.
This year’s narrative and documentary jury was comprised of Todd Lieberman, coowner of Mandeville Films and Television and producer on The Aeronauts,...
The event, running Oct. 8-14, announced its award winners at a virtual ceremony, handing out more than $29,500 in cash awards and $130,000 in goods and services. This year’s festival is running October 8 – 14 with virtual screenings and drive-ins.
Other winners announced today include Collective (Colectiv), directed by Alexander Nanau, as the Best Documentary Feature. The film will be released by Magnolia Pictures and Participant on November 20th.
Entre Tu Y Milagros, directed by Mariana Saffon, received Best Narrative Short Film award, and The Game (Das Spiel), directed by Roman Hodel, won for Best Documentary Short Film. Both Short Films will qualify for Academy Awards consideration.
This year’s narrative and documentary jury was comprised of Todd Lieberman, coowner of Mandeville Films and Television and producer on The Aeronauts,...
- 10/11/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2020 Palm Springs International ShortFest has announced its festival juried award winners from the 332 shorts films featured throughout this year’s virtual edition, running June 16-22. Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 were handed out, and a number of the winners are now eligible for the 2021 Academy Awards short film categories. See the full list of winners below.
At a time when all festivals have been forced to go virtual, there’s no telling how much buzz these events can generate, but the Oscar eligibility provides a nice boost for rising filmmakers coming out of ShortFest. It’s a long road ahead for festival films since the Oscars have now been pushed back to April 25 next year, with other awards ceremonies, including the Film Independent Spirit Awards (now April 24), falling in line. Expect a packed fall season as the backlog of titles from postponed dates, canceled festivals, and shuttered productions get unleashed.
At a time when all festivals have been forced to go virtual, there’s no telling how much buzz these events can generate, but the Oscar eligibility provides a nice boost for rising filmmakers coming out of ShortFest. It’s a long road ahead for festival films since the Oscars have now been pushed back to April 25 next year, with other awards ceremonies, including the Film Independent Spirit Awards (now April 24), falling in line. Expect a packed fall season as the backlog of titles from postponed dates, canceled festivals, and shuttered productions get unleashed.
- 6/21/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The 2020 Palm Springs International ShortFest has announced its festival juried award winners from the 332 shorts films featured throughout this year’s virtual edition, running June 16-22. Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 were handed out, and a number of the winners are now eligible for the 2021 Academy Awards short film categories. See the full list of winners below.
At a time when all festivals have been forced to go virtual, there’s no telling how much buzz these events can generate, but the Oscar eligibility provides a nice boost for rising filmmakers coming out of ShortFest. It’s a long road ahead for festival films since the Oscars have now been pushed back to April 25 next year, with other awards ceremonies, including the Film Independent Spirit Awards (now April 24), falling in line. Expect a packed fall season as the backlog of titles from postponed dates, canceled festivals, and shuttered productions get unleashed.
At a time when all festivals have been forced to go virtual, there’s no telling how much buzz these events can generate, but the Oscar eligibility provides a nice boost for rising filmmakers coming out of ShortFest. It’s a long road ahead for festival films since the Oscars have now been pushed back to April 25 next year, with other awards ceremonies, including the Film Independent Spirit Awards (now April 24), falling in line. Expect a packed fall season as the backlog of titles from postponed dates, canceled festivals, and shuttered productions get unleashed.
- 6/21/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Fugitive, the content development, financing and executive producing company run by Anthony Kimble and Merrily Ross, has partnered with Alex Holder’s Rogo Productions, with the former taking international distribution rights to feature doc Keep Quiet, about a far-right Hungarian radical who discovers he is Jewish, series Conflict Of Interest, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Empty Planet, a fast-turnaround Covid-19 series being shot entirely using drones during the pandemic. Fugitive will also become a development and distribution partner on Abby, a multi-part drama series about Abby Stein, a young transgender person from New York who used to be an ultra-Orthodox Rabbi.
HBO Go has launched in Japan, teaming with cable operator Taiwan Broadband Communications (Tbc). Existing subs to Tbc will have instant access to the service, with additional fees. The platform will feature U.S. shows including Westworld, as well as WarnerMedia’s Taiwanese original productions such as The Teenage Psychic and its sequel,...
HBO Go has launched in Japan, teaming with cable operator Taiwan Broadband Communications (Tbc). Existing subs to Tbc will have instant access to the service, with additional fees. The platform will feature U.S. shows including Westworld, as well as WarnerMedia’s Taiwanese original productions such as The Teenage Psychic and its sequel,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Arthur Rambo
Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet unites with some new collaborators for his eighth feature, Arthur Rambo, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani (of Robin Campillo’s Eastern Boys; Bpm) and lensed by Pierre Milon and The Workshop). Cantet recruits Bpm actor Antoine Reinartz, Raw, Nocturama and The Class actor Rabah Nait Oufella and Sofian Khammes (Chouf; The World is Yours) for his leads. Cantet won the Palme d’Or in 2008 for The Class and returned to Cannes in Un Certain Regard as part of the omnibus 7 Days in Havana in 2012 and again to the sidebar in 2017 with his last feature, The Workshop.…...
Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet unites with some new collaborators for his eighth feature, Arthur Rambo, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani (of Robin Campillo’s Eastern Boys; Bpm) and lensed by Pierre Milon and The Workshop). Cantet recruits Bpm actor Antoine Reinartz, Raw, Nocturama and The Class actor Rabah Nait Oufella and Sofian Khammes (Chouf; The World is Yours) for his leads. Cantet won the Palme d’Or in 2008 for The Class and returned to Cannes in Un Certain Regard as part of the omnibus 7 Days in Havana in 2012 and again to the sidebar in 2017 with his last feature, The Workshop.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Ghost Town AnthologyThe titles for the 69th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 7-17, 2019. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONThe Ground Beneath My FeetThe Golden Glove (Faith Akin, Germany/France)By the Grace of GodThe Kindness of StrangersI Was at Home, but A Tale of Three SistersGhost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)Berlinale SPECIALGully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India)BrechtWatergate (Charles Ferguson, USA)Panorama 201937 Seconds (Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki), Japan)Dafne (Federico Bondi, Italy)The Day After I'm Gone (Nimrod Eldar, Israel)A Dog Called Money (Seamus Murphy, Ireland/UK)Waiting for the CarnivalChainedFlatland (Jenna Bass, South Africa/Germany/Luxembourg)Greta (Armando Praça, Brazil)Hellhole (Bas Devos, Belgium/Netherlands)Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)AcidMid90s (Jonah Hill, USA) Family MembersMonos (Alejandro Landes, Columbia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay) O Beautiful Night (Xaver Böhm,...
- 1/2/2019
- MUBI
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big! Documentary” has an amazing weekend, starting with The Last Waltz on Friday. Following that are a new restoration of Vertov‘s Man with a Movie Camera (with live musical accompaniment) and a Maysles double-feature of Salesman and Gimme Shelter on Saturday. Sunday offers Errol Morris‘ Fast, Cheap & Out of Control,...
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big! Documentary” has an amazing weekend, starting with The Last Waltz on Friday. Following that are a new restoration of Vertov‘s Man with a Movie Camera (with live musical accompaniment) and a Maysles double-feature of Salesman and Gimme Shelter on Saturday. Sunday offers Errol Morris‘ Fast, Cheap & Out of Control,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Planetarium
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writers: Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo
We’re expecting French director Rebecca Zlotowski‘s third feature, Planetarium to enhance the burgeoning auteur’s status on international radar. Her first two films, both starring Lea Seydoux, include the 2010 debut Belle Epine (which won the Louis Delluc Award for Best Debut at Critics’ Week) and the beautiful sophomore feature Grand Central (programmed in 2013’s Un Certain Regard – read review) and are still in need of Us distribution. Since her next is headlined by names like Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Melody Depp (daughter of you-know-who), there’s already enhanced interest. We’re more curious about the narrative, concerning two spiritualist sisters touring Europe in the 1930s, co-written by the talented Robin Campillo (who penned screenplays for several of Laurent Cantet’s best films including Heading South and The Class, and whose sophomore feature Eastern Boys was another underrated 2013 title).
Cast: Natalie Portman,...
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writers: Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo
We’re expecting French director Rebecca Zlotowski‘s third feature, Planetarium to enhance the burgeoning auteur’s status on international radar. Her first two films, both starring Lea Seydoux, include the 2010 debut Belle Epine (which won the Louis Delluc Award for Best Debut at Critics’ Week) and the beautiful sophomore feature Grand Central (programmed in 2013’s Un Certain Regard – read review) and are still in need of Us distribution. Since her next is headlined by names like Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Melody Depp (daughter of you-know-who), there’s already enhanced interest. We’re more curious about the narrative, concerning two spiritualist sisters touring Europe in the 1930s, co-written by the talented Robin Campillo (who penned screenplays for several of Laurent Cantet’s best films including Heading South and The Class, and whose sophomore feature Eastern Boys was another underrated 2013 title).
Cast: Natalie Portman,...
- 1/12/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
At the finale of Robin Campillo's masterful Eastern Boys, bourgeois, middle-aged Frenchman Daniel (Oliver Rabourdin) has overhauled his relationship with the Ukrainian hustler Marek (Kirill Emelyanov) into something totally unexpected. The journey to that climax is a rollercoaster of flirtation, betrayal, larceny, lust, love, dauntless deeds, comeuppance, and finally a benevolent acceptance of the pair's interconnectedness in a manner that neither of these devoted halves could foretell.
The film begins documentary-like, and you won't be able to guess who the lead characters are for the first ten minutes or so as the camera goes sightseeing amongst a bevy of young males meandering to and fro at a train station among self-absorbed travelers. Are the lads thieves or hustlers or just out for a lark? Some men eye them warily with a slight lust unsure of whether to approach or not. One station guard's suspicions are raised due the actions...
The film begins documentary-like, and you won't be able to guess who the lead characters are for the first ten minutes or so as the camera goes sightseeing amongst a bevy of young males meandering to and fro at a train station among self-absorbed travelers. Are the lads thieves or hustlers or just out for a lark? Some men eye them warily with a slight lust unsure of whether to approach or not. One station guard's suspicions are raised due the actions...
- 3/7/2015
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Shared Tendencies: McGowan’s Debut an Understated Navigation
Palme d’Or winning director Laurent Cantet continues a tour outside of France with his latest feature, the carefully constructed and gently understated Return to Ithaca, which sees the director returning to Cuba, the same lieu where he previously contributed to the 7 Days in Havana ominbus. A dialogue driven character study of several old friends reuniting after some years, the film’s minimalist focus on the everyday dramas that inform our lives is very much in line with Cantet’s earlier pieces, which often deal with life’s tendency to be defined by occupation and income. Yet this marks the first time Cantet examines the perspective of a group of people preoccupied exclusively with happenings of the past.
On a rooftop terrace overlooking Havana’s ocean avenue, the Malecon, a quintet of five middle aged friends reunite for the first time since their youth.
Palme d’Or winning director Laurent Cantet continues a tour outside of France with his latest feature, the carefully constructed and gently understated Return to Ithaca, which sees the director returning to Cuba, the same lieu where he previously contributed to the 7 Days in Havana ominbus. A dialogue driven character study of several old friends reuniting after some years, the film’s minimalist focus on the everyday dramas that inform our lives is very much in line with Cantet’s earlier pieces, which often deal with life’s tendency to be defined by occupation and income. Yet this marks the first time Cantet examines the perspective of a group of people preoccupied exclusively with happenings of the past.
On a rooftop terrace overlooking Havana’s ocean avenue, the Malecon, a quintet of five middle aged friends reunite for the first time since their youth.
- 9/7/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Heading south of the border for the huge step, Alexa Vega and Carlos Pena tied the knot in Mexico on Saturday (January 4).
Stoked to wed her main man, the 25-year-old actress tweeted, "Wow... I'm getting excited nervous!!!! Ahhhh!!! #CountDownToAisle," followed by a triumphant, "Mrs. Penavega."
As for the Big Time Rush singer, he wrote, "Epic day! So so so great!!!!" along with a photo of the gorgeous resort pool with the ocean in the background.
Previously, Alexa was married to film producer Sean Covel (who is over a decade older than her) from 2010 to 2012.
Stoked to wed her main man, the 25-year-old actress tweeted, "Wow... I'm getting excited nervous!!!! Ahhhh!!! #CountDownToAisle," followed by a triumphant, "Mrs. Penavega."
As for the Big Time Rush singer, he wrote, "Epic day! So so so great!!!!" along with a photo of the gorgeous resort pool with the ocean in the background.
Previously, Alexa was married to film producer Sean Covel (who is over a decade older than her) from 2010 to 2012.
- 1/5/2014
- GossipCenter
Heading south to work on their latest project, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill filmed "22 Jump Street" in Puerto Rico on Wednesday (December 11).
The "Magic Mike" star wore a black tank top reading "Sun's out guns out" while his funny co-star donned a red Hawaiian shirt and swim trunks as they hugged it out in the surf.
In the sequel, after making their way through high school again, officers Schmidt and Jenko go undercover at a local college.
Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, "22 Jump Street" is slated to hit theaters on June 13th, 2014.
The "Magic Mike" star wore a black tank top reading "Sun's out guns out" while his funny co-star donned a red Hawaiian shirt and swim trunks as they hugged it out in the surf.
In the sequel, after making their way through high school again, officers Schmidt and Jenko go undercover at a local college.
Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, "22 Jump Street" is slated to hit theaters on June 13th, 2014.
- 12/12/2013
- GossipCenter
Heading south for a weekend of work, Dakota Fanning touched down in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Friday (September 27).
The "Twilight" beauty looked cute in a casual ensemble and was greeted by her awaiting security team.
As previously reported by GossipCenter, Miss Fanning is slated to join the cast of the upcoming film "Franny."
Dakota will be starring alongside Richard Gere and Theo James.
The "Twilight" beauty looked cute in a casual ensemble and was greeted by her awaiting security team.
As previously reported by GossipCenter, Miss Fanning is slated to join the cast of the upcoming film "Franny."
Dakota will be starring alongside Richard Gere and Theo James.
- 9/28/2013
- GossipCenter
This brilliantly acted drama about a 1950s New York girl gang works as both social history and political allegory
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Laurent Cantet started out 14 years ago as a kind of French Ken Loach, using a non-professional cast in the thoughtful leftwing Human Resources to deal with class and industrial relations in a provincial factory. He followed it up with Time Out (2001), about a middle-management executive who conceals his redundancy from his family, and The Class (2008), his Cannes prize-winning study of a year in a tough, racially mixed inner-city school in Paris. Both were also performed by non-professionals, though in between he made Heading South (2005), in which three prominent actresses played Americans visiting Haiti as sex tourists. In his confident, strangely gripping new film Foxfire, he's again working with a largely non-professional cast but this time in the recent American past.
Based on a novel by the prolific,...
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Laurent Cantet started out 14 years ago as a kind of French Ken Loach, using a non-professional cast in the thoughtful leftwing Human Resources to deal with class and industrial relations in a provincial factory. He followed it up with Time Out (2001), about a middle-management executive who conceals his redundancy from his family, and The Class (2008), his Cannes prize-winning study of a year in a tough, racially mixed inner-city school in Paris. Both were also performed by non-professionals, though in between he made Heading South (2005), in which three prominent actresses played Americans visiting Haiti as sex tourists. In his confident, strangely gripping new film Foxfire, he's again working with a largely non-professional cast but this time in the recent American past.
Based on a novel by the prolific,...
- 8/12/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The award-winning French director talks about the challenge of adapting Joyce Carol Oates' novel about a secret society of teenage girls
Five years ago, after winning the 2008 Palme d'Or for his fourth feature film, The Class, Laurent Cantet was unexpectedly elevated to an elite group of international film-makers. In his previous three features, Cantet had shown himself an able, interesting director, but not necessarily an attention-grabbing one. He had earned a reputation, through films such as Human Resources and Time Out, as France's answer to Ken Loach: an earnest director motivated by his conscience, but who wore his political commitments lightly. The Class, however, changed all that: shot in Cantet's characteristic low-key faux-documentary manner, it struck a chord in France with its portrait of a teacher's struggle with a roomful of stroppy teenagers in contemporary Paris, and propelled him into the big league.
After a world premiere almost...
Five years ago, after winning the 2008 Palme d'Or for his fourth feature film, The Class, Laurent Cantet was unexpectedly elevated to an elite group of international film-makers. In his previous three features, Cantet had shown himself an able, interesting director, but not necessarily an attention-grabbing one. He had earned a reputation, through films such as Human Resources and Time Out, as France's answer to Ken Loach: an earnest director motivated by his conscience, but who wore his political commitments lightly. The Class, however, changed all that: shot in Cantet's characteristic low-key faux-documentary manner, it struck a chord in France with its portrait of a teacher's struggle with a roomful of stroppy teenagers in contemporary Paris, and propelled him into the big league.
After a world premiere almost...
- 8/9/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Man Of Steel | Paradise: Love | Much Ado About Nothing | Stuck In Love | Admission | Summer In February | Fukrey
Man Of Steel (12A)
(Zack Snyder, 2013, Us/Can/UK) Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon. 143 mins
How to retell a story everyone has heard so many times before? By shuffling up Superman's origins myth, adopting a deadly earnest tone and chucking tons of money at it, apparently. The result is a Christ parable with a Transformers-sized appetite for destruction. Cavill is appropriately strapping but the tension between Earth and Krypton gets buried beneath the rubble.
Paradise: Love (18)
(Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Aus/Ger/Fra) Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux. 121 mins
Wealthy white women's third-world sex tourism is hardly a nuanced subject (or a new one: see Laurent Cantet's Heading South) but Seidl brings it up to date and out in the open in this excruciating study of mutual exploitation. Tiesel plays a lonely,...
Man Of Steel (12A)
(Zack Snyder, 2013, Us/Can/UK) Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon. 143 mins
How to retell a story everyone has heard so many times before? By shuffling up Superman's origins myth, adopting a deadly earnest tone and chucking tons of money at it, apparently. The result is a Christ parable with a Transformers-sized appetite for destruction. Cavill is appropriately strapping but the tension between Earth and Krypton gets buried beneath the rubble.
Paradise: Love (18)
(Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Aus/Ger/Fra) Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux. 121 mins
Wealthy white women's third-world sex tourism is hardly a nuanced subject (or a new one: see Laurent Cantet's Heading South) but Seidl brings it up to date and out in the open in this excruciating study of mutual exploitation. Tiesel plays a lonely,...
- 6/15/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Ulrich Seidl manages to find fresh perspectives on sex tourism, but perhaps he is descending into mannerism
Ulrich Seidl is the controversial Austrian film-maker who combines the sensibilities of Lucian Freud and Diane Arbus with a certain special sulphurous something of his own. He is a prose-poet of the grotesque with whom I will always associate this awestruck comment by Werner Herzog on Seidl's movie Animal Love, about obsessive pet owners: "I have never looked so directly into hell." Seidl generally does give you a pretty direct view, and this film – the first of a trilogy – is no exception, but I am beginning to feel that his ideas and images are beginning to dwindle into mannerism.
In its subject matter, though not its treatment, Paradise: Love is similar to Laurent Cantet's 2005 movie Heading South: the well-off middle-aged white women who go on sex-tourist jaunts to developing countries to be with young men.
Ulrich Seidl is the controversial Austrian film-maker who combines the sensibilities of Lucian Freud and Diane Arbus with a certain special sulphurous something of his own. He is a prose-poet of the grotesque with whom I will always associate this awestruck comment by Werner Herzog on Seidl's movie Animal Love, about obsessive pet owners: "I have never looked so directly into hell." Seidl generally does give you a pretty direct view, and this film – the first of a trilogy – is no exception, but I am beginning to feel that his ideas and images are beginning to dwindle into mannerism.
In its subject matter, though not its treatment, Paradise: Love is similar to Laurent Cantet's 2005 movie Heading South: the well-off middle-aged white women who go on sex-tourist jaunts to developing countries to be with young men.
- 6/13/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Heading south to support the family business, Ian Somerhalder went to Built of Barnwood's one-year anniversary celebration at Century Hall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on Sunday (March 24).
The "Vampire Diaries" star co-owns the store with his brother, Bob, and showed up in a black deep v-neck T-shirt, blue jeans, and a white fedora as he greeted over 2,000 fans.
Enjoying his time away from the glitz and glamor of L.A., the 34-year-old actor tweeted, "Amazing weekend in Louisiana&the Ms gulf coast w/ family& friends-thank you so much for all the http://Builtofbarnwood.com support. Love you all."
Recently, the hunky bloodsucker took another trip away from the coast for the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, where he met one of his favorite celebs. Cutting the line to give the furry feline a kiss, Ian happily cuddled with Grumpy Cat.
The "Vampire Diaries" star co-owns the store with his brother, Bob, and showed up in a black deep v-neck T-shirt, blue jeans, and a white fedora as he greeted over 2,000 fans.
Enjoying his time away from the glitz and glamor of L.A., the 34-year-old actor tweeted, "Amazing weekend in Louisiana&the Ms gulf coast w/ family& friends-thank you so much for all the http://Builtofbarnwood.com support. Love you all."
Recently, the hunky bloodsucker took another trip away from the coast for the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, where he met one of his favorite celebs. Cutting the line to give the furry feline a kiss, Ian happily cuddled with Grumpy Cat.
- 3/26/2013
- GossipCenter
Heading south just days after the Oscars, Halle Berry arrived in Miami on Tuesday (February 26).
The "Cloud Atlas" star donned a simple outfit of jeans and a black sweater paired with peach heels as she headed inside her fiancee, Olivier Martinez's, restaurant Villa Azur in Miami Beach.
While in the Sunshine State, the 46-year-old actress will premiere her upcoming film, The Call for the Women's International Film Festival.
Hitting theaters on March 15th, The Call follows a veteran 911 operator who receives a call from a girl who's just been abducted. She soon realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
The "Cloud Atlas" star donned a simple outfit of jeans and a black sweater paired with peach heels as she headed inside her fiancee, Olivier Martinez's, restaurant Villa Azur in Miami Beach.
While in the Sunshine State, the 46-year-old actress will premiere her upcoming film, The Call for the Women's International Film Festival.
Hitting theaters on March 15th, The Call follows a veteran 911 operator who receives a call from a girl who's just been abducted. She soon realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
- 2/27/2013
- GossipCenter
After a challenging 2012, the lines have been drawn and the troops are in position for the 2013 radio year. Colin Delaney looks across the country at the old and new faces and the biggest fights on the cards in the battle for the ratings win.
2012 was a tumultuous year for Australia’s radio industry. Marred by several well-publicised incidents, the reputations and standing of talent, management and key brands in the space took a beating, as did the image of the medium as a whole.
But the stage is now set for the battle of 2013 after the ratings season begins on January 20 and those in the industry Encore spoke to are hopeful the coming 12 months will see a turnaround with a number of new additions to the talent lineup and the return of many industry veterans. Um CEO Mat Baxter believes one show in particular will be a major game changer...
2012 was a tumultuous year for Australia’s radio industry. Marred by several well-publicised incidents, the reputations and standing of talent, management and key brands in the space took a beating, as did the image of the medium as a whole.
But the stage is now set for the battle of 2013 after the ratings season begins on January 20 and those in the industry Encore spoke to are hopeful the coming 12 months will see a turnaround with a number of new additions to the talent lineup and the return of many industry veterans. Um CEO Mat Baxter believes one show in particular will be a major game changer...
- 2/6/2013
- by mumbrellahouse
- Encore Magazine
#10. Living – Dir. Vasili Sigarev (Russia)
Premiering at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, this sophomore effort from Vasili Sigarev is, of course, ironically titled, rather making itself one of those “glass half empty” pictures. It’s a certifiable downer, interweaving three separate stories of miserablism in modern day Russia, and at its best, is distressing to sit through. But I’ll be damned if I wouldn’t watch anything I could get my hands on from this director, creating some of the most memorable film sequences I happened to see this year.
#9. The Place Beyond the Pines – Dir. Derek Cianfrance (Us)
Premiering at the Toronto Film Fest 2012, Derek Cianfrance casts Ryan Gosling once more in his followup to Blue Valentine. Gosling, here a motorcycle stunt driver (sound familiar?) turns bank robber…and then the picture becomes something else completely.
#8. Everybody In Our Family – Dir. Radu Jude (Romania)
Add Radu Jude to the...
Premiering at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, this sophomore effort from Vasili Sigarev is, of course, ironically titled, rather making itself one of those “glass half empty” pictures. It’s a certifiable downer, interweaving three separate stories of miserablism in modern day Russia, and at its best, is distressing to sit through. But I’ll be damned if I wouldn’t watch anything I could get my hands on from this director, creating some of the most memorable film sequences I happened to see this year.
#9. The Place Beyond the Pines – Dir. Derek Cianfrance (Us)
Premiering at the Toronto Film Fest 2012, Derek Cianfrance casts Ryan Gosling once more in his followup to Blue Valentine. Gosling, here a motorcycle stunt driver (sound familiar?) turns bank robber…and then the picture becomes something else completely.
#8. Everybody In Our Family – Dir. Radu Jude (Romania)
Add Radu Jude to the...
- 12/31/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Toronto -- French auteur and Palme d’Or laureate Laurent Cantet (The Class, Human Resources) takes his second stab at English-language filmmaking with Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ bestselling, 1950s-set novel about a band of proto-feminist teens whose rebellious exploits yield disastrous consequences. Not unlike his 2005 drama, Heading South, the director’s soft-touch realism and sharp eye for detail are both on display in this handsomely mounted and occasionally moving period piece, but they’re similarly mired by inconsistent anglais performances from a cast of newcomers, not to mention a two-hour-plus
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- 9/10/2012
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced a big line-up of films which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
The announcement:
The 61st Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) will screen its biggest selection of films straight from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Miff is one of the first festivals to screen these films after their world premiere at Cannes, meaning Melbourne audiences will be one of the first in the world to watch them after their debut on the French Riviera.
Over 35 films from Cannes are included in this year’s Festival line-up. Along with Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning Amour, Benh Zeitlin’s Camera d’Or winner Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Wes Anderson’s Moonlight Kingdom, all announced in Miff’s First Glance on 5th June, Miff audiences will be treated to a huge selection of the world’s best filmmakers and films.
“Cannes is...
The announcement:
The 61st Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) will screen its biggest selection of films straight from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Miff is one of the first festivals to screen these films after their world premiere at Cannes, meaning Melbourne audiences will be one of the first in the world to watch them after their debut on the French Riviera.
Over 35 films from Cannes are included in this year’s Festival line-up. Along with Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning Amour, Benh Zeitlin’s Camera d’Or winner Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Wes Anderson’s Moonlight Kingdom, all announced in Miff’s First Glance on 5th June, Miff audiences will be treated to a huge selection of the world’s best filmmakers and films.
“Cannes is...
- 6/20/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Generally you can find plenty of information about your favorite stateside filmmaker, and depending on who they are (see: David Gordon Green), you can find a long list of potential upcoming projects to investigate. But being head-over-heels for a foreign director is a different story -- without the Hollywood system or independent film cliques to generate word of mouth or gossip, you can spend years without hearing a peep from even the biggest festival sweethearts, and only last week were were discussing around the Playlist water cooler where some of our favorite international filmmakers had gone in the last few years.
As we were pondering the status of these auteurs, good news hit the trades: Arnaud Desplechin's adaptation of Georges Devereux's "Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian" found a star in Benicio Del Toro and would be shooting June 18th in Michigan. Titled "Jimmy Picard," Del Toro would play the...
As we were pondering the status of these auteurs, good news hit the trades: Arnaud Desplechin's adaptation of Georges Devereux's "Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian" found a star in Benicio Del Toro and would be shooting June 18th in Michigan. Titled "Jimmy Picard," Del Toro would play the...
- 6/18/2012
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
In the first part of a trilogy, Ulrich Seidl explores the subject of sex tourism among rich, middle-aged white women. But does he tell us anything we didn't know already?
There is a lot of what can only be described as Lucian Freud nakedness in the new film from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, the first of a projected trilogy.
As ever, his tendency is towards the confrontational grotesque, created with icy determination. He also presents his audience with some disturbingly surreal tableaux. But I felt that here his style is in danger of becoming a collection of mannerisms, even cliches.
The subject is one already approached by Laurent Cantet in his 2005 film Heading South: rich, middle-aged white women who take sex-tourist jaunts to developing-world countries to be with handsome, undemanding young men.
Margarethe Tiesel plays divorcee Teresa, who packs her truculent teen daughter off to weight-loss camp (the daughter's...
There is a lot of what can only be described as Lucian Freud nakedness in the new film from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, the first of a projected trilogy.
As ever, his tendency is towards the confrontational grotesque, created with icy determination. He also presents his audience with some disturbingly surreal tableaux. But I felt that here his style is in danger of becoming a collection of mannerisms, even cliches.
The subject is one already approached by Laurent Cantet in his 2005 film Heading South: rich, middle-aged white women who take sex-tourist jaunts to developing-world countries to be with handsome, undemanding young men.
Margarethe Tiesel plays divorcee Teresa, who packs her truculent teen daughter off to weight-loss camp (the daughter's...
- 5/18/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Ulrich Seidl‘s Paradise: Love movie Cannes Film Festival 2012: Reviews for Ulrich Seidl‘s Paradies: Liebe / Paradise: Love, in which an Austrian woman (Margarethe Tiesel) and her friends travel to Kenya for a good time with the young locals, have been overwhelmingly negative. (To the best of my knowledge, this Paradise: Love has nothing to do with the song "Paradise Love" from the movie Wild Orchid.) [If you're not offended by the human body, check out this beautiful Paradise: Love nude.] Some of the commentaries reek of moralistic outrage: the chief complaint being that Seidl’s film doesn’t take a "morally acceptable" stance against sex tourism — even if those involved, as seems to be the case here, are all too willing. (Though no less moralistic, Allan Hunter’s review at Screen International has a different take on how Paradise: Love depicts sex tourism.) Others have found Seidl’s handling of the various goings-on either abhorrent or dull — sometimes both. And finally, some have...
- 5/18/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Laurent Cantet, who won the Palm d’Or at Cannes for one of his lesser films The Class (2008), is one of the best political filmmakers in the world today although his political cinema is of a different kind than that of past masters like Francesco Rosi, Gilo Pontecorvo and Constantin Costa-Gavras. Distinguishing Cantet from the others is his disinclination to ‘probe’ underneath the surface and provide an overriding analysis. His films do not try to see the whole picture – examine an event from different viewpoints – as Costa-Gavras does in Z (1969) – but tries to stick to one viewpoint. If his films lack an analytical side, their ambiguity perhaps also brings them closer to art.
Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) is set in poverty-stricken Haiti in the 1980s and tells the story of three middle-aged women tourists Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) who arrive there individually with...
Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) is set in poverty-stricken Haiti in the 1980s and tells the story of three middle-aged women tourists Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) who arrive there individually with...
- 2/10/2011
- by MK Raghvendra
- DearCinema.com
We already have one reason to excited for Cannes...of 2012. Joyce Carole Oates’s novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang is being adapted for a second time. In its first version (see trailer below), it'll be known as one of Angelina Jolie's first acting gigs, now it'll be tackled by Palme d'or winning Laurent Cantet, and follow the outline of the book's original setting. Shooting will unfortunately only begin next summer in Canada (most likely Montreal for its the best looking Canadian city with a 50's backdrop New York City) and will count as Cantet's first English language project. Memento Films are currently doing pre-sales on the project at the Afm, Haut et Court are producing - they produced both Heading South and The Class (Entre les Murs). Gist: Before Swedish badasses named Lisbeth Salander, we have school of hard knocks pre-Death Wish New York era.
- 11/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Heading south of the border, Heidi Klum and her husband Seal were spotted enjoying the grounds of the scenic Costa Careyes resort on Friday (May 7).
The happy couple are back in Mexico for their annual wedding vow renewals as they've done for the past 5 years, with this year's theme being "brides and grooms."
Talking about the tradition, Seal told Redbook: “Each year, Heidi and I get remarried. It’s a great party, but for about an hour, we go off on our own down to a private beach. We sit there with the kids and read vows to each other as the sun sets. It’s a very special moment to us.”
Meanwhile, Heidi dished on her marriage: “One thing I think I will always want to be for my husband is not only his wife, mother of his children, and his best friend, but also his “hot” girl who...
The happy couple are back in Mexico for their annual wedding vow renewals as they've done for the past 5 years, with this year's theme being "brides and grooms."
Talking about the tradition, Seal told Redbook: “Each year, Heidi and I get remarried. It’s a great party, but for about an hour, we go off on our own down to a private beach. We sit there with the kids and read vows to each other as the sun sets. It’s a very special moment to us.”
Meanwhile, Heidi dished on her marriage: “One thing I think I will always want to be for my husband is not only his wife, mother of his children, and his best friend, but also his “hot” girl who...
- 5/8/2010
- GossipCenter
There's no escaping the gnawing sadness brought on by the images of horrific destruction and misery coming out of Haiti. There is, though, brief visual respite in revisiting the intelligent, perceptive, sorrowfully angry 2005 movie Heading South. Laurent Cantet's unnerving drama about single women who head south for sex tourism is set in a Haiti, circa 1979, that's as politically and economically wretched as ever, a time when strongman Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and his thugs terrorized the country. But at least all the little houses still stood, in a landscape of deceptive, beachy beauty. Cantet -- whose great schoolroom study...
- 1/14/2010
- by Lisa Schwarzbaum
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
The male item song is gaining heat for a few years now - and not just in Bollywood, where sexy Shah Rukh Khan has been flashing his megawatt smile and glistening abs in songs like 'Mast Kalander'. The trend is moving south to Sandalwood where director Ashok Kashyap has roped Vivek Oberoi into an item song for his Kannada language film Sihi Muthu.
Vivek's song will be shot with a huge budget of Rs. 40 lakhs and Ashok Kashyap will be directing it personally. Mr. Kashyap is probably best known for his work as a cinematographer for the hit Kannanda-language film Joke Falls, which was based on the classic Bollywood film Chupke Chupke. Sihi Muthu, however, has an original story written by Mr. Kashyap's wife Rekha Rani, and will be a heroine-driven film about a girl (played by debutante Pooja) who is searching for five different people who have helped her in her past.
Vivek's song will be shot with a huge budget of Rs. 40 lakhs and Ashok Kashyap will be directing it personally. Mr. Kashyap is probably best known for his work as a cinematographer for the hit Kannanda-language film Joke Falls, which was based on the classic Bollywood film Chupke Chupke. Sihi Muthu, however, has an original story written by Mr. Kashyap's wife Rekha Rani, and will be a heroine-driven film about a girl (played by debutante Pooja) who is searching for five different people who have helped her in her past.
- 9/4/2009
- Bollyspice
Leading up to the Oscars on Feb. 22, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Brandon Harris interviewed The Class co-writer-director Laurent Cantet for our Fall '08 issue. The Class is nominated for Best Foreign Film. Starting with 1999’s Human Resources, Laurent Cantet has quickly built an international reputation as France’s most socially engaged narrative filmmaker, crafting films that highlight the ever lingering issues of race and class in both France and, as in the case of his 2006 film Heading South, its former colony of Haiti. With his new film, The Class, Cantet has attained new levels of acclaim and is primed to reach significant worldwide audiences...
- 2/11/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
At once fiction and documentary, scripted and improvised, Laurent Cantet's The Class is a fascinating amalgam. The French-language film, which recently received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film, features a cast of middle schoolers, teachers, and parents, most of whom play variations on themselves. Loosely inspired by the autobiographical novel Between the Walls by schoolteacher Francois Bégaudeau, who plays himself, the film is a hard-nosed look at a group of ethnically diverse Parisian youngsters during the course of one year. Cantet's previous films—including Vers le Sud (Heading South, 2005) and L'Emploi du Temps (Time Out, 2001)—have been similarly forged, employing either a cast of nonprofessionals or a mix of pros and civilians.Back Stage talked with Cantet about his approach to filmmaking in general and the issues surrounding The Class in particular.Back Stage: Tell me how this film evolved.Cantet: I wrote a script two years before...
- 1/28/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
By Stephen Saito
It was the kind of coincidence that doesn't happen in a Laurent Cantet film: on the press tour for his last feature, "Heading South," the filmmaker appeared on the same radio talk show as François Bégaudeau, a former teacher and film critic who recently published a novel about his time working at a junior high school entitled "Entre les Murs (Between the Walls)." Cantet was already intent on making a film about a classroom when he met Bégaudeau outside the studio and offered to buy the rights to his book on the spot. The resulting film, which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes and impressed at the New York Film Festival, also stars Bégaudeau along with a group of 24 students from Françoise Dolto Junior High in Paris, playing more or less themselves. Over the school year documented in the film, "The Diary of Anne Frank...
It was the kind of coincidence that doesn't happen in a Laurent Cantet film: on the press tour for his last feature, "Heading South," the filmmaker appeared on the same radio talk show as François Bégaudeau, a former teacher and film critic who recently published a novel about his time working at a junior high school entitled "Entre les Murs (Between the Walls)." Cantet was already intent on making a film about a classroom when he met Bégaudeau outside the studio and offered to buy the rights to his book on the spot. The resulting film, which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes and impressed at the New York Film Festival, also stars Bégaudeau along with a group of 24 students from Françoise Dolto Junior High in Paris, playing more or less themselves. Over the school year documented in the film, "The Diary of Anne Frank...
- 12/17/2008
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
- On the outset, The Class is deceptive and microscopic enough in nature that that you won’t feel the film’s powerful grip until you’re reminded of how invested you are in the plight of several of the film’s characters. Stitched together by a cast of non-professional actors, the Palme d’or-winning picture is a multi-ethnic milieu set within the limitations of an institution and within the timeline constraints of a full school year. Based on the novel by François Bégaudeau who wrote the script and stars as the film’s lead, the film is specific in its setting, but the story is timeless, universal and stretches way beyond the storyline’s settings – it could easily take place in your neck of the concentrate jungle. Director Laurent Cantet’s demonstrates the daily grind of one teacher taking on a group of very opinionated youths. Cultures clash, and feelings get hurt.
- 12/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Sony Picture Classics has finally brought out a slick new trailer for the Us version of The Class aka Entre Les Murs. The film looks really interesting also. The film speaks about the politics and the history behind many of the subjects covered in the class. The film is an evocation of contemporary society as seen through the eyes of some kids in a French School. The first trailer which didn’t really have much in it, but Sony seems to have a cut a really good international trailer for the film.
The film is directed by Laurent Cantet. He is known for his films like Human Resources, Time Out and Heading South previously. The script is based off of Francois Begaudeau’s book of the same name. Begaudeau assisted in the adaptation of the film script...
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The film is directed by Laurent Cantet. He is known for his films like Human Resources, Time Out and Heading South previously. The script is based off of Francois Begaudeau’s book of the same name. Begaudeau assisted in the adaptation of the film script...
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- 11/1/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
The trailer for this year’s Palme D’Or at Cannes is out. It is also worth watching and is sure to be one of the strong contenders for the Oscar this year with not many movies big movies that are out in the foreign film circuit.
Synopsis
The Class is an evocation of contemporary society as seen through a year’s worth of events in a Paris junior high school. The Class is directed by acclaimed director Laurent Cantet of films like Human Resources, Time Out and Heading South previously. The script is based off of Francois Begaudeau’s book of the same name, Begaudeau assisted in adapting the screenplay in addition to Robin Campillo and Cantet. Sony Picture Classics picked up the film for distribution after its debut at the Cannes Film Festival early this year. The Class will have a limited release in the Us starting on December 25 th.
Synopsis
The Class is an evocation of contemporary society as seen through a year’s worth of events in a Paris junior high school. The Class is directed by acclaimed director Laurent Cantet of films like Human Resources, Time Out and Heading South previously. The script is based off of Francois Begaudeau’s book of the same name, Begaudeau assisted in adapting the screenplay in addition to Robin Campillo and Cantet. Sony Picture Classics picked up the film for distribution after its debut at the Cannes Film Festival early this year. The Class will have a limited release in the Us starting on December 25 th.
- 10/9/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
This year's winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes is a French film titled The Class aka Entre les Murs. A trailer for the film has been discovered, courtesy of The Playlist, and is worth watching for those interested in seeing what this year's big Cannes winner is all about. Although it doesn't have subtitles (I wish I knew what they were saying!), you should be able to get through it anyway with this plot synopsis in mind: The Class is an evocation of contemporary society as seen through a year's worth of events in a Paris junior high school. Sound interesting? After watching this trailer, you should be more than interested! Watch the French trailer for The Class: For more info, head to the official website for the film: sonyclassics.com/theclass The Class is directed by famed French filmmaker Laurent Cantet, of films like Human Resources, Time Out,...
- 10/9/2008
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
- #16. The Class (Entre les Murs)Director/Writer: Laurent Cantet directs and co-writes the story with Robin Campillo. Screenplay cred goes to François Bégaudeau.Producers: Caroline Benjo (Coco avant Chanel) and Carole Scotta (Vers le Sud).Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics The Gist: Based on Francois Begaudeau's book "Entre les murs", this follows the year in the life of a French schoolteacher (Francoise Begaudeau) working at a high-school in a tough neighborhood of Paris. Ethnicities, cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom. As amusing and inspiring as the teenage students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. Fact: The book's author Bégaudeau met Cantet as a fellow guest on a talk show. Bégaudeau wrote not only the screenplay but was the lead actor in this docu-drama. See It: Claimed Cannes' top prize for a good reason. Sincere portrait a must for anyone
- 9/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Words are "National Treasure 3" is going to take place in the South. Fueling up the speculation over where the franchise's third installment will take place, Nicolas Cage, the leading man in both of the first "National Treasure" movies, has revealed to MTV News, "There's been talk about doing it in the South, maybe in New Orleans."
Though Cage has suggested a particular location place for Benjamin Franklin Gates' new adventure, the truth of the matter is still questionable. Previously, an article on JimHillMedia.com has lit up a possibility that Gates and his family may be exploring even further south as they are speculated to go to Easter Island and beyond to find the legendary Atlantis.
The last "National Treasure" flick to have been released in theaters was "National Treasure: Book of Secrets". Standing tall for three weekends in a row at the #1 box office chart, the sequel directed by...
Though Cage has suggested a particular location place for Benjamin Franklin Gates' new adventure, the truth of the matter is still questionable. Previously, an article on JimHillMedia.com has lit up a possibility that Gates and his family may be exploring even further south as they are speculated to go to Easter Island and beyond to find the legendary Atlantis.
The last "National Treasure" flick to have been released in theaters was "National Treasure: Book of Secrets". Standing tall for three weekends in a row at the #1 box office chart, the sequel directed by...
- 9/4/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
New York -- The New York Film Festival is getting a bit more "Class," courtesy of the Festival de Cannes and Sony Pictures Classics.
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning look at teachers in a French high school, "The Class," will open the 46th annual fest, which runs Sept. 26-Oct. 12.
The fest also will feature two showcases: In the Realm of Oshima (featuring the work of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima) and the annual Views From the Avant-Garde featuring a 30th anniversary presentation of Guy Debord's "We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire."
"Class" is the fourth Palme d'Or film to open the fest, following 2000's "Dancer in the Dark," 1996's "Secrets and Lies" and 1994's "Pulp Fiction." Spc picked up three international territory distribution rights for the film after Cannes.
Foreign films have dominated the opening slot, comprising 26 of the fest's 46 starting films. Three of Cantet's four features have played in programs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which presents Nyff, including "Human Resources" at 2000's New Directors/New Films series, "Time Out" at the 2001 Nyff and "Heading South" at 2006's Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning look at teachers in a French high school, "The Class," will open the 46th annual fest, which runs Sept. 26-Oct. 12.
The fest also will feature two showcases: In the Realm of Oshima (featuring the work of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima) and the annual Views From the Avant-Garde featuring a 30th anniversary presentation of Guy Debord's "We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire."
"Class" is the fourth Palme d'Or film to open the fest, following 2000's "Dancer in the Dark," 1996's "Secrets and Lies" and 1994's "Pulp Fiction." Spc picked up three international territory distribution rights for the film after Cannes.
Foreign films have dominated the opening slot, comprising 26 of the fest's 46 starting films. Three of Cantet's four features have played in programs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which presents Nyff, including "Human Resources" at 2000's New Directors/New Films series, "Time Out" at the 2001 Nyff and "Heading South" at 2006's Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
- 7/15/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here’s some good news for all the lovers of French cinema. According to Variety, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired domestic distribution rights for Laurent Cantet’s “The Class,” which won the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Based on the book “Entre les murs” by François Bégaudeau, the film documents daily life in a junior high school classroom. Sony Pictures Classics will also release the film in Australia, Mexico and New Zealand.
Cantet also directed “Heading South” and the fantastic “L’emploi du temps.”
I’m definitely excited about this. There are so many great French films out there that never make it to the United States, and I’m glad some American distributors try to release at least those foreign films that win critical praise or score big at the international box offices.
Based on the book “Entre les murs” by François Bégaudeau, the film documents daily life in a junior high school classroom. Sony Pictures Classics will also release the film in Australia, Mexico and New Zealand.
Cantet also directed “Heading South” and the fantastic “L’emploi du temps.”
I’m definitely excited about this. There are so many great French films out there that never make it to the United States, and I’m glad some American distributors try to release at least those foreign films that win critical praise or score big at the international box offices.
- 6/14/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
- School's out for summer, but Sony Pictures Classics have gladly taken on a huge homework assignment in the form of this year's Palme d'or winner. Variety reports that the critically acclaimed favorite (also among Ioncinema.com's top 5 from Cannes) from Laurent Cantet (Heading South) has been picked up Spc along with the territories of Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. Based on Francois Begaudeau's book, Entre Les murs follows a junior high class over the course of a year as it tests its teacher's methods. The film which was shown at the tale-end of the festival, it employs actual students and was filmed in a cinéma vérité-like type filmic style. Scripted by Cantet, Francois Begaudeau, Robin Campillo - the main cast features Francois Begaudeau in the title role of the teacher trying to hold the fort together - among the student/actors we find:Esmerelda Ouertani, Franck Keita, Wei Huang, Henriette Kasaruhanda,
- 6/13/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival wrapped this past Sunday, having been the scene of big Hollywood premieres like "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and smaller but no less anticipated ones from filmmakers like the Dardenne brothers, Arnaud Desplechin and Atom Egoyan. In the end, it was a French film that won the Palme d'Or . the first homegrown feature to take the top prize since 1987's "Under Satan's Sun." The film, a late entry in the competition, was directed by Laurent Cantet, whose past work includes "Time Out" and "Heading South," and follows a year in the life of a teacher in an inner city Parisian school. Opening remarks from jury Sean Penn, who told the press that "We are going to feel very confident that the filmmaker of [the winning film] was very aware of the times within which he (or she) lives," had many guessing that one...
- 5/27/2008
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
The dollar wasn't the only thing hurting at this year's disappointing Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped on Sunday with the festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or, being awarded to the French film, The Class. (See a full list of winners.) This year's main competition, featuring 22 films (including four by American directors), was generally considered a less than thrilling year, with only a few outstanding films, including Clint Eastwood's Changeling, and a couple outright stinkers. The Class, directed by Laurent Cantet (Heading South), is based on a real life memoir about a dedicated teacher instructing a multi-cultural mix of students in a school in Paris.
- 5/26/2008
- by Leah Rozen
- PEOPLE.com
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