Icon of Italian cinema Monica Vitti has passed away at the age of 90. Vitti was best known for her appearances in several of Michelangelo Antonioni’s most celebrated films: L’AVVENTURA (1960), LA NOTTE (1961), L’ECLISSE (1962) and RED DESERT (1964).
Lisandro Alonso is finally shooting his 4-part feature EUREKA, about the indigenous peoples of the Americas and how they’ve inhabited their environments across the centuries, with Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni and Maria de Medeiros.
Kosovar director Blerta Basholli's HIVE (the first film in history to win all three main awards in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and Jonas Poher Rasmussen's FLEE triumph at
@sundancefest
Blerta Basholli's HIVE could become the first Kosovar production to make it into the Best International Feature Film category at the 2022 Academy Awards.
French director Claire Denis discusses her latest film HIGH LIFE, which competed for the Golden Shell at
@sansebastianfes
, where it won the FIPRESCI Award: “This is a film about love, loneliness and tenderness”
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Set in 1917, Mathieu Vadepied's TIRAILLEURS stars Omar Sy as a man who enlists in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son, who was recruited by force.
Sandra Hüller tells us about how she prepared for both ANATOMY OF A FALL and THE ZONE OF INTEREST, for which she is nominated in the European Actress category
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Starring Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon and Grégoire Colin, but also Mati Diop, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica from LES MISÉRABLES and Binoche's daughter Hana Magimel, Claire Denis’ FIRE tells the story of a passionate love triangle.
"It's got to be warts and all, but it is a celebration of an amazing artist."
Read our interview with Julien Temple about CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN, centred on the frontman of The Pogues and playing at
@sansebastianfes
#68SSIFF
:
For distributor Vladimir Kokh of KMBO, the success in French cinemas of François Descraques’s THE VISITOR FROM THE FUTURE should make the industry rethink its expectations and approach the audience in new ways.
Agnès Varda is the guiding light of the poster for the 72nd edition of the
@Festival_Cannes
, which has just been revealed. A well-deserved and lovely tribute!
French actor Gaspard Ulliel has died aged 37. After breaking through in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT he notably appeared in Bertrand Bonello’s SAINT LAURENT & Xavier Dolan’s IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD and was known internationally as the face of Bleu de Chanel.
Following her feature debut SAINT MAUD, British director Rose Glass is working on romantic thriller LOVE LIES BLEEDING, in which Kristen Stewart will play the protective lover of a female bodybuilder.
Watch our interview with Albin Kurti, Prime Minister of Kosovo, about the place of cinema in the country and its presence at this year's
@Festival_Cannes
:
Starring Teresa Palmer and Steven Cree, the Finnish horror film THE TWIN from Taneli Mustonen was shot in Estonia and will be presented at
@mdf_cannes
by
@FConstellation1
.
Swedish-born actor Max von Sydow has passed away at the age of 90. After first working with director Ingmar Bergman for the stage, von Sydow appeared in 11 of his films, including THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957), in which von Sydow played a knight engaged in a game of chess with Death.
British director Terence Davies (SUNSET SONG, A QUIET PASSION) is set to shoot another biopic of a leading poet in BENEDICTION, starring Jack Lowden (
@JALowden
) as World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon. Filming is due to begin this spring.
First stills from MANOR HOUSE, the new upcoming film from Romanian director Cristi Puiu. Based on the text "Three Conversations" by Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, the film is expected to premiere at major festivals this year.
New projects from Turkish filmmakers Tolga Karaçelik, Ziya Demirel and Melisa Önel have been selected to receive support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund.
To support film enthusiasts stuck at home in response to the virus outbreak,
@idfa
has made more than 300 documentaries available to stream for free online on its website.
British director Andrea Arnold, who won the Official Competition’s Jury Prize with each of the three films that she presented at
@Festival_Cannes
, is set to chair the Un Certain Regard jury at this year’s festival.
Spanish actress Verónica Forqué has passed away at the age of 66 years old. After her breakthrough role in Pedro Almodóvar’s WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS? (1984), she also appeared in KIKA (1993) and worked with Fernando Colomo, Luis García Berlanga and Fernando Trueba.
Claire Denis’s latest film, HIGH LIFE, starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, is screening in competition at the
@sansebastianfes
#66SSIFF
- read our review
Pedro Almodóvar, Marco Bellocchio, Roman Polanski and Yorgos Lanthimos lead the nominees for the 2019
@EuroFilmAwards
, just unveiled at
@festivalsevilla
The
@berlinale
kicks off today! Are you ready for a thorough coverage of a new edition of the festival? Reviews, interviews, news, market reports... Stay tuned!
We met up with Polish auteur Agnieszka Holland to talk about her
@Berlinale
competition entry MR. JONES: “Many people wouldn’t have learned about the Holocaust if it hadn’t been for cinema”
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"It's a story of things unsaid, and silences work much better in cinema than they do in theatre"
Alessandro Gassmann discusses THE GREAT SILENCE, his new film as a director, presented in
@giornate
at
@la_Biennale
#Venezia78
Thomas Robsahm's A-HA - THE MOVIE is an entertaining documentary about the Oslo-based band and its struggle to achieve fame against tough competition from British and American artists in the 1980s and beyond. Our review from
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Steve McQueen is returning to feature filmmaking with Blitz, an ensemble film following the stories of various Londoners during the German bombing campaign on the British capital in World War II, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson.
MUBI director of acquisitions Vanja Kaludjercic will be taking up her new position as director of
@IFFR
on 1 March 2020, and her first year in the role will be in 2021, for the festival's 50th-anniversary edition.
Czech filmmaker and artist Jan Švankmajer has completed his latest documentary, KUNSTKAMERA, which looks at his and his wife's extensive collection of artefacts through a surreal and magical lens.
Despite social-distancing restrictions, Thomas Vinterberg’s ANOTHER ROUND has enjoyed the best opening weekend for a drama film in Denmark since Vinterberg's THE HUNT in 2013.
We take a closer look at the 4 winners of the 2021 TFL funds, awarded by
@TorinoFilmLab
on an annual basis to support co-production and international distribution.
Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST is a charming and sentimental portrait of the director's childhood just as The Troubles began brewing. Our review from
@BFI
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Nanni Moretti's TRE PIANI, François Ozon's SUMMER OF 85, Ildikó Enyedi's THE STORY OF MY WIFE and Paul Verhoeven's BENEDETTA, are among the films we can hope to see premiere at
#Cannes2020
. We take a look at the many potential contenders:
French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant has passed away at the age of 91. A monument of French cinema, his breakthrough came with Roger Vadim’s AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (1956).
The new poster for this year’s
@semainecannes
at
@Festival_Cannes
features a projection of Chloé Mazlo’s SKIES OF LEBANON, photographed by Charlotte Abramow.
Italian composer Ennio Morricone has passed away today at the age of 91. Born in 1928 in Rome, Morricone learned to read music with his father and soon took up the trumpet. He wrote his first compositions at 6 years old & continued to write classical pieces throughout his career.
Here is our regularly updated list of all film events cancelled or postponed owing to the measures adopted by various European governments in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus in Europe.
English actress Helen Mirren is set to receive the Honorary Golden Bear during the award ceremony of the
@berlinale
in February 2020, recognising "her charisma, expressiveness, and range" across a rich and diverse career.
Takashi Miike delivers a fun, violent tale about a young couple meeting, falling in love, and then fighting the police and the Yakuza with FIRST LOVE, selected in the
@Quinzaine
- read our review
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#quinzaine2019
French film and stage actor Isabelle Huppert will be honoured at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (
@berlinale
) with the Homage section dedicated to her work and an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.
"Medium budgets are disappearing... and a film requires what it requires"
Isabel Coixet, winner of the European Achievement in World Cinema Award, on the state of the industry at the
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VESPER, from Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte and French director Bruno Samper, has won the Golden Raven at this year's edition of
@bifff_festival
.
Inna Sahakyan’s animated documentary AURORA'S SUNRISE tells the story of a survivor of the Armenian genocide who fled to America, where she first re-enacted her story in a silent film, then told it again in the 1980s. Our review from
@annecyfestival
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