Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
DirectorJacques AudiardProducerMartine CassinelliScreenwriterThomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas PeufaillitStarringTahar RahimNiels ArestrupAdel BencherifGilles CohenHichem YacoubiReda KatebJean-Philippe Ricci
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Focus Features announced today that French actor Tahar Rahim, the lead actor in my favorite foreign film of the year, Jacques Audiard's Un Prophete (read my review from Cannes), has been cast in The Eagle of the Ninth, his first big role since breaking out at Cannes earlier this year. The Eagle of the Ninth, being directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play),...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Tahar Rahim, the star of one of this year's most acclaimed films, A Prophet , has joined the cast of the Roman epic adventure The Eagle of the Ninth , currently being directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Duncan Kenworthy. The film is co-financed by Film4 with Focus Features, which holds worldwide rights excluding U.K. free-TV. Heading the cast are Channing...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The A Prophet star joins Kevin Macdonald's epic film.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... himself and becomes a player in drug and smuggling circles. Nineteen-year-old Malik el Djebena (Tahar Rahim) enters jail on a six-year stretch and is immediately pushed into greater crimes by the reigning Corsican gang. The alliances in the jail can be hard to follow at times but the dehumanising effect of routine brutality is unmistakable.Glasgow Film Theatre, Friday only (part of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Jacques Audiard's acclaimed prison drama shortlisted for six awards, including best film, best director and best actor for newcomer Tahar Rahim The signs all point to Un Prophète (A Prophet) at next month's European film awards. Jacques Audiard's prison-set crime saga leads the field with six nominations, including best film and director. Newcomer Tahar Rahim was...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Komplex ] Steve Evets - Looking for Eric David Kross - The Reader Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire Tahar Rahim - Un prophète Filippo Timi - Vincere Actress Penélope Cruz - Los abrazos rotos Charlotte Gainsbourg - Antichrist Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank Yolande Moreau - Séraphine Noomi Rapace - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [ Män som hatar kvinnor ] Kate Winslet...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... to take home Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer award. Joining the Mumbai-based film and the Tahar Rahim-starred movie as the possible big winners at the award ceremony is "", which grabs four nods. At the same event, is nominated as European Actress for her role in "". She is going up against in "", in "", Yolande Moreau in "Seraphine", Noomi Rapace in "", and Katie Jarvis in...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Front Page: Noms include best pic,director and actor Rahim -- Jacques Audiard's prison thriller "A Prophet" leads the nominations for this year's European Film Awards.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
JACQUES Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet has landed six nominations at this year’s European Film Awards, Europe’s equivalent of the Oscars. The film, which also took the top award at the recent London Film Festival, landed nods for best picture, director, actor (Tahar Rahim), screenwriter (Audiard and Thomas Bidegain) and photographer (Stephane Fontaine). It’s also France’s entry...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... in Looking for Eric David Kross in The Reader (Der Vorleser) Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire Tahar Rahim in Un Prophete (A Prophet) Filippo Timi in Vincere EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2009 Penélope Cruz in Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces) Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank Yolande Moreau in Seraphine Noomi Rapace in Män som Hatar Kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon...
iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
"A Prophet," a new French prison drama from director Jacques Audiard, was the recipient of the Star of London award, the first best film award handed out by the London Film Festival. Actress Angelica Huston presented the award to the film's lead actor, Tahar Rahim. Jury chair Huston said the film was a "masterpiece" and that it had "the ambition, purity of vision...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
ANJELICA HUSTON presented the inaugural Best Film Award to French prison drama A PROPHET at the London Film Festival on Wednesday (28Oct09).The actress, who sat on the 2009 jury alongside singer Jarvis Cocker, handed the Star of London prize to lead actor Tahar Rahim, who plays a young man in a crime-ridden prison, at the festival's closing ceremony in the British capital. Huston hailed...
(Cool) Shite on the Tube (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Directed by Jacques Audiard. Written by Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain. Starring Tahar Rahim, Adel Bercherif, Reda Kateb and Niels Arestrup. As a Frenchman, I’ve been terribly affected to witness the French movie industry slowly bury itself into a grave of mediocrity. Over the past decade we’ve been hardly able to produce anything outside of indecently stupid comedies and boring...
Bread and circuses (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Shooting progresses on the upcoming film version of Rosemary Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth. Shooting has finished in Hungary and had now moved to Scotland where it wraps at the end of next month. The latest at Comingsoon.net: Tahar Rahim,...
