Drifting: A Director's Log (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
We're still in Greece for a few more days, but in about four hours, St. Nick will be unspooling at the Denver Film Festival, where we're also in competition. I've opened the floor for anyone with the inclination and chutzpah...
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
And so the 53rd London Film Festival has come to ...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
From the London Film Festival: nun on the run
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Deals . Sony Pictures Classics acquired The Last Station hot off its debut at the Telluride Film Festival and plans a quick turnaround, releasing it before the end of the year and pushing its stars Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, and James McAvoy for awards consideration, according to Thompson on Hollywood . Described as a "fictionalized chronicle of Tolstoy's last days" by our own Eugene...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch departs from his familiar aesthetic of landscapes as abstract manifestations of internal states to create a spare and intimate, yet equally provocative exploration of absolute...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Like his counterpart Michael Haneke, Bruno Dumont’s oeuvre consists of one film made over and over again. And though its wartime setting seems apt for the L’Humanite director’s belief in man’s bestial nature, Flanders nonetheless proves his most trying regurgitation...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Bruno Dumont’s controversial Cannes Grand Prix winner L’Humanite attempts spiritual inquiry with a rigorousness that’s lacking from its actual police-procedural plot. In a gray, underpopulated northern seaside French town, detective Pharaon (Emmanuel Schotté) runs madly through the countryside and lands...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Never one to shy away from controversial subject matter or to give audiences an easy ride, Bruno Dumont willingly walks into an ideological minefield for his latest, Hadewijch. Though the term “provocateur” has undoubtedly derogatory connotations these days in critic speak, perhaps from the omnipresence of directors selling volatile wares (many dare not call an admired filmmaker a provocateur,...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
I'm a little slow on the updates lately, but earlier this week, IFC Films picked up the latest from Bruno Dumont, Hadewijch . The film premiered at Toronto and screens at the New York Film Festival tomorrow.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Toronto Film Fest News: French-language film won Fipresci prize in Toronto -- IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Bruno Dumont's "Hadewijch."
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Things are changing yet again. I've expanded a number of the awards per festival and even included a few others, though in lesser detail. Also, I had begun going through each year and discovering what each of the major film countries around the world had named their Best Film (as in award ceremonies, not their Oscar submissions). But just as I started, the Counting Down the Zeroes project at Film for...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
In Bruno Dumont 's Hadewijch , Céline (Julie Sokolowski, in a compelling first turn) has taken on the name of Hadewijch, the patron saint of the convent where she has been received as novice. At the convent her self-mortification in the name of Christ is disruptive to the rules of the nunnery; her behavior perceived as evidence of vanity. As penance, she is sent back into the world of her former...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
International News: Chinese pic takes top honors at San Sebastian fest -- "City of Life and Death," from mainland Chinese writer-director Lu Chuan, won the Golden Shell at the 57th San Sebastian Film Festival.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man was named the best narrative film of the Toronto Film Festival in a just-posted Indiewire poll of attending critics and bloggers. And Erik Gandini's Videocracy was named best documentary. Narrative runners-up were (in this order) Chuan Lu's City of Life and Death, Jason Reitman's Up In The Air, Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth (respectful...
Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The ballots are tallied and the juries have spoken now the 2009 TIFF Award Winners including People's Choice and Fipresci Prizes have been announced: The People's Choice Award went to Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire 1st Runner-Up: Mao's Last Dancer 2nd Runner-Up: Micmacs / Micmacs à tirelarigot The People's Choice for Midnight Madness went to The Loved Ones 1st Runner...
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