Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Film News: Series will sneak preview 'Inju' -- The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will screen a Barbet Schroeder retrospective starting with "Paris vu Par," a series of vignettes produced by Schroeder and directed by French filmmakers including Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Takeshi Kitano's in-competition latest is excellent in part, but not entirely satisfactory. Barbet Schroeder's crime story should have been an exotic thriller but it loses the plot.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The Venice Film Festival opens with the premiere of the Coen brothers' dark comedy Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
France24 (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Brad Pitt and George Clooney hit the red carpet on Wednesday with their latest movie "Burn After Reading", a satirical comedy by Oscar winners the Coen brothers which opens this year's Venice international film festival.
Ansa (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
21 vying for Golden Lion, eight out of competition
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
A film based on the real-life theft of an ancient Scottish artifact from London's Westminster Abbey will close this year's Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday.
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is now less than a month away, and the full line-up of films has been slowly revealing itself through a string of small announcements over the past month or so. Today a large chunk of the Special Presentations were finally announced to round things out, and I am blown [...]
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
A number of big name titles have been added to the line-up of enxt months’ Toronto Film Festival. There’s going to be some overlap with the just-announced NYFF, including Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, and Che, which the festival’s Cameron Bailey says will be shown “the first time as two separate films on two separate nights. [...]
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
This wont come as a surprise that Venice is still going to break some new ground.
Ansa (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Four Italians vie with Bigelow, Demme, Kitano, Schroeder
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Former New Line heads Bob Shaye and MIchael Lynne have announced their first project under their new deal at WB. They’ll adapt Foundation from Isaac Asimov trilogy about “a society that has figured out how to predict the future based on a method called psychohistory and sets up a foundation devoted to scientific research to [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Darren Aronofsky's new film The Wrestler has been entered in competition for the Golden Lion at this year's Venice film festival.The Requiem for a Dream director - ...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
As Wendy Mitchell reports for Screen, the Venice Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 65th edition. The fest opens on August 27 with Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading (screening Out of Competition) and runs through...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Lauren Wissot unpacks an anti-sex scene from Barbet Schroeder's 1976 controversial film.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Barbet Schroeder’s Inju is a film I’ve been tracking since first coming across it for a very simple reason: when a director of Schroeder’s stature takes on material by notorious Japanese cult writer Edogawa Rampo the outcome has the potential to be pretty spectacular. An early teaser showed that Schroeder was certainly keeping all of Rampo’s obsessions intact and an extended promo that I managed to...
