The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
By Steven Zeitchik So we're finally back from Gallic shores. Three Weeks In France - it sounds like a Julie Delpy movie, or a potentially revealing psychological experiment. Alas, it has been our life. But with June upon us and...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Sony Pictures Classics is in final negotiations for James Toback's boxing documentary "Tyson," which chronicles the illustrious but often troubled life of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson..
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
What art-house recession? Sony Classics buys Israeli animation, boxing doc, Belgian crime drama. IFC grabs "Gomorrah," but no word on "Che," "Synecdoche."
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
When he’s not pounding very large men to the ground, ex-fighter Mike Tyson speaks directly to the camera in James Toback’s film “Tyson,” and it's hard not to flinch. More a testimony for the defense than a documentary, it's a sympathetic portrait of a complex man driven by an anger that still bubbles beneath the surface. ~ * ~ In every circumstance in his life, Tyson believes himself to be the innocent...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
I (once again) had quite the hoot at this years Cannes! I got to see some really good films (JCVD and THE EXCHANGE were my favorites), got to hook up with old friends, made new ones (I love meeting new people), relished in the awe inspiring scenery, almost got to hook up with one of my idols (Jean Claude Van Damme... hey I saw him twice though, and even watched JCVD with him in the room) and got to...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - When he's not pounding very large men to the ground, ex-fighter Mike Tyson speaks directly to the camera in James Toback's film "Tyson," and it's hard not to flinch. More a testimony for the defense than a documentary, it's a sympathetic portrait of a complex man driven by an anger that still bubbles beneath the surface.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - When he's not pounding very large men to the ground, ex-fighter Mike Tyson speaks directly to the camera in James Toback's film "Tyson," and it's hard not to flinch. More a testimony for the defence than a documentary, it's a sympathetic portrait of a complex man driven by an anger that still bubbles beneath the surface.
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
A former Tyson associate claims James Toback's TYSON is full of lies.
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Not content to let IFC walk off the Croisette as the big buying ballers of Cannes 2008, Sony Pictures Classics set a number of deals in the last days of the fest, including distribution pacts for the Israeli animated doc Waltz With Bashir, Lorna’s Silence by the Dardenne brothers, and James Toback’s Tyson. Meanwhile, the people [...]
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
The buyer's market at Cannes this year wasn't as bidder heavy as it may have been in previous years, which has been well noted elsewhere. However, IFC Films and Sony Pictures Classics went home with at least three films each; in fact, they were the only studios to make any purchases by the end of the festival on Sunday. IFC took Steve McQueen's Hunger , Arnaud Desplechin's Un conte de Noël and Na Hong-jin's...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
As we already wrote “Entre les Murs” (”The Class“) directed by Laurent Cantet won the Golden Palm (Palme d'Or) at 2008 Cannes Film festival.Other winners included Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme d'Or recipients, who took the screenplay award for “The Silence of Lorna.” Sandra Corveloni, who played a working-class mother in São Paulo in Walter [...]
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
In chronological order: James Toback’s Tyson Indiana Jones premiere, and Everything is Fine In the market: Uwe Boll goes to Vietnam How to throw a renegade karaoke party in Cannes In the market: Sex and Breakfast Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne James Gray's Two Lovers Che distribution speculation, and the French Forrest Gump Pre-Che jitters Post-Che fallout Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours and Terrence...
Brad Pitt Celebrity News (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
CAN: Pics! PicsJoBlo.com, Canada - 1 hour agoSpeaking of sandwhiches, me and James Toback (Tyson) talking chow and Mike Tyson being framed for rape. The limo Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie came out …
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
For all the talk about how this was a mediocre year at the Cannes Film Festival, I think I personally saw a higher ratio of good to garbage than is my festival norm. Maybe I’m being Pollyanna-ish; maybe I just went in with lower expectations. Regardless: though certainly I saw films too mediocre to merit [...]
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Fatih Akin ( The Edge of Heaven ) gave out the awards for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival last night. The top prize was honored to Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan ; the film is set in Kazakhstan and co-produced by Germany, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. The jury also awarded four other prizes, though I have no idea what their importance is: The Jury Prize (which I would imagine...
