Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For regular updates, sign up for our weekly email newsletter and follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSRei.Tanaka Toshihiko’s Rei (2024)—the director’s debut feature, which he also produced and edited, and in which he acts—has won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. Mark Gustafson, acclaimed animator and co-director of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), has died at the age of 64. Del Toro calls him “a pillar of stop-motion animation—a true artist.”In response to an open letter signed by more than 200 film workers (which has since been taken offline) the Berlin International Film Festival confirmed that it has invited two far-right German politicians to the opening ceremony but avers it stands “against right-wing extremism.”Recommended VIEWINGVia Dolorosa.The second part of Le Cinéma Club's two-week spotlight on Oraib Toukan features her film Via Dolorosa (2021), now streamable on the platform.
- 2/7/2024
- MUBI
Starting with a packed house on the night of October 13 and concluding right after Thanksgiving, MoMA showcased “Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979,” the largest retrospective of Iranian cinema ever held inside or outside of Iran. With close to 70 films covering the pre-revolutionary period, there were works from Iran’s most famous filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami; the most famous film of this era, the late Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow; and repertory favorites like Ebrahim Golestan’s Brick and Mirror, Bahram Beyzaie’s Downpour and Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black. But, significantly, there were also films by lesser-known but just as vital […]
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- 1/31/2024
- by René Baharmast
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Starting with a packed house on the night of October 13 and concluding right after Thanksgiving, MoMA showcased “Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979,” the largest retrospective of Iranian cinema ever held inside or outside of Iran. With close to 70 films covering the pre-revolutionary period, there were works from Iran’s most famous filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami; the most famous film of this era, the late Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow; and repertory favorites like Ebrahim Golestan’s Brick and Mirror, Bahram Beyzaie’s Downpour and Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black. But, significantly, there were also films by lesser-known but just as vital […]
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- 1/31/2024
- by René Baharmast
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema
When a consortium of western oil companies took over the operation of the Iranian oil industry in 1954, Ebrahim Golestan, one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and writers, was recruited to work in public relations at the new company and put in charge of making educational films.
In 1957 he founded his own Golestan Studios and in 1959, after he had severed ties with the oil consortium, he negotiated the buyout of the equipment with which he had made their documentaries. With this equipment, his studio became the most sophisticated centre for film-making in Iran.
When a consortium of western oil companies took over the operation of the Iranian oil industry in 1954, Ebrahim Golestan, one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and writers, was recruited to work in public relations at the new company and put in charge of making educational films.
In 1957 he founded his own Golestan Studios and in 1959, after he had severed ties with the oil consortium, he negotiated the buyout of the equipment with which he had made their documentaries. With this equipment, his studio became the most sophisticated centre for film-making in Iran.
- 9/24/2023
- by Trevor Mostyn
- The Guardian - Film News
Entrance to the Invisible Cinema at the Austrian Filmmuseum.In 1989, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Austrian Filmmuseum opened its famed “Invisible Cinema,” according to specifications laid out by filmmaker, theorist, and museum co-founder Peter Kubelka. Modeled after Kubelka’s original invisible cinema, built in 1970 at New York’s Anthology Film Archives, the Filmmuseum’s version is a black box creation that, by allowing for the least amount of peripheral light possible, points the viewer’s focus directly at the projected image. It is, as far as seating, quality of projection, and immersive atmosphere, an essentially perfect cinema. It was one of the places I most eagerly hoped to visit upon my first trip to the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), which this year celebrated its 60th anniversary; luckily, as one of the the festival’s primary venues, the Filmmuseum is a frequent destination during the Viennale’s...
- 11/15/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSUncut Gems.According to Adam Sandler in a new Vanity Fair profile, he will be shooting a new film with the Safdie brothers this winter. Not much is known about the project, but Sandler had previously mentioned that the film would take place in “the world of sports.” Artist-filmmaker Sky Hopinka has been named as one of 25 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship’s prestigious “genius grant.” (Michael Sicinski interviewed Hopinka for Notebook in 2020.)A new TV series based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York has been announced. Martin Scorsese, who directed the book’s 2002 feature film adaptation, is attached as executive producer of the series and director of the first two episodes.Recommended Viewinga trailer has arrived for Laura Poitras’s latest feature All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...
- 10/21/2022
- MUBI
Formula One Shifts Gears
Fresh from a soggy Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, TV coverage of Formula One motor racing is set to shift broadcasting partner in Asia-Pacific. Sports Business reports that pay-tv broadcaster beIN Sports is finalizing a multi-year deal beginning in 2023 reaching across most of its Asia-Pacific footprint, but excluding Australia, where Foxtel recently renewed its deal, and New Zealand. The anticipated deal would cover Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Singapore. The rights were previously operated by Fox Sports Asia, which Disney closed down this time last year.
Godard Masterclass
The Busan International Film Festival, which starts later this week, will hold an event to commemorate the late director Jean-Luc Godard, icon of the Nouvelle Vague and director of “numerous masterpieces for over half a century,” including “Contempt,” “Alphaville” and “Breathless.” Godard died on Sept. 13, 2022. The festival has tapped Serge Toubiana, already...
Fresh from a soggy Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, TV coverage of Formula One motor racing is set to shift broadcasting partner in Asia-Pacific. Sports Business reports that pay-tv broadcaster beIN Sports is finalizing a multi-year deal beginning in 2023 reaching across most of its Asia-Pacific footprint, but excluding Australia, where Foxtel recently renewed its deal, and New Zealand. The anticipated deal would cover Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Singapore. The rights were previously operated by Fox Sports Asia, which Disney closed down this time last year.
Godard Masterclass
The Busan International Film Festival, which starts later this week, will hold an event to commemorate the late director Jean-Luc Godard, icon of the Nouvelle Vague and director of “numerous masterpieces for over half a century,” including “Contempt,” “Alphaville” and “Breathless.” Godard died on Sept. 13, 2022. The festival has tapped Serge Toubiana, already...
- 10/3/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
“Subtraction,” from idiosyncratic Iranian helmer-writer Mani Haghighi is a tense Hitchcockian thriller set in Tehran, where a heavy, non-stop rainfall signals a lingering malaise. There, a young couple come across their doppelgängers. The film premiered at the Toronto festival.
The idea for the plot grew out of the helmer’s long-ago trip to Southwest Iran to look at places where the Iran-Iraq war took place.
“It was a hot summer day and I wandered into a local mosque to cool down and get some rest,” Haghighi says. “The people who ran the mosque had put on an exhibition of photographs from the war years. I was casually looking at these pictures and I was suddenly transfixed by one of them. It was a picture of me, in military uniform, badly wounded in the neck, being carried by two other soldiers. As one of the characters says in ‘Subtraction,’ ‘It’s...
The idea for the plot grew out of the helmer’s long-ago trip to Southwest Iran to look at places where the Iran-Iraq war took place.
“It was a hot summer day and I wandered into a local mosque to cool down and get some rest,” Haghighi says. “The people who ran the mosque had put on an exhibition of photographs from the war years. I was casually looking at these pictures and I was suddenly transfixed by one of them. It was a picture of me, in military uniform, badly wounded in the neck, being carried by two other soldiers. As one of the characters says in ‘Subtraction,’ ‘It’s...
- 9/21/2022
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSCarla Simón’s Alcarrás (Courtesy of MK2 Films)This year's Berlinale has now concluded, with Carla Simón’s Alcarrás taking home the Golden Bear, and Hong Sang-soo, Claire Denis and Natalia Lopez Gallardo taking home prizes as well. Check out the full list of awards winners here.Horror filmmaker and production designer Alfred Sole has died at the age of 78. Sole famously directed the cult horror classic Alice, Sweet Alice (1976). However, he first gained notoriety with his X-rated film Deep Sleep (1972), which was pulled from theaters. Sole continued as a prolific production designer for many television films and shows like Veronica Mars and Melrose Place. Netflix has officially signed an updated windowing agreement with France's film industry, which will "see the window between theatrical and SVOD release significantly reduced" from 36 months to 15 months. And as Deadline points out,...
- 2/23/2022
- MUBI
Switzerland, thanks to its prolific co-production activity, has a hand in a record-breaking 11 titles in the Berlinale’s official selection, including two films competing for the Golden Bear, and two more in Berlin’s cutting-edge Encounters section, as well as a Swiss talent selected for the fest’s Shooting Stars event, Souheila Yacoub.
Ursula Meier’s “The Line” (competition) — Following “Home” and “Sister,” Meier continues to pursue “this idea of family that is as much necessary, as it is toxic,” says the film’s producer Pauline Gygax. After a violent argument with her mother, Margaret, 35 (Stephanie Blanchoud), who has a long history of inflicting and suffering from violence, is subjected to a restraining order. She is not allowed to make contact with her mother (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) or come within 100 meters of the family home. But the separation exacerbates her desire to be closer to her family, so she returns...
Ursula Meier’s “The Line” (competition) — Following “Home” and “Sister,” Meier continues to pursue “this idea of family that is as much necessary, as it is toxic,” says the film’s producer Pauline Gygax. After a violent argument with her mother, Margaret, 35 (Stephanie Blanchoud), who has a long history of inflicting and suffering from violence, is subjected to a restraining order. She is not allowed to make contact with her mother (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) or come within 100 meters of the family home. But the separation exacerbates her desire to be closer to her family, so she returns...
- 2/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The Souvenir Part II. (Courtesy of A24)NYFF has announced its full main slate, which includes Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta, Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II, Julia Ducournau's Titane, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria, and more. A long-gestating epistolary documentary that consists of a dialogue between Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and intellectual Ebrahim Golestan is set to premiere on the international festival circuit. The project consisted of Golestan sending emails with text and no visuals to Godard, who would respond with visuals and aphorisms. Mel Brooks' memoir, My Remarkable Life in Show Business, will be released November 30. The book is said to follow the "peaks and valleys" of Brooks' storied life beginning with his childhood, retold with his signature irreverent humor. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Andreas Fontana's riveting political thriller Azor,...
- 8/11/2021
- MUBI
A long-gestating non-conventional documentary directed by Iranian multi-hyphenate Mitra Farahani centered around a conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and literary figure Ebrahim Golestan that took place via regular weekly email exchanges involving videos, images, aphorisms, and letters, is set to soon surface on the international festival circuit.
The film, called “See You Friday Robinson: A Film Unlike Any Other,” stems from Farahani’s desire to initiate and portray a dialogue between the French New Wave icon, who is now 90, and Golestan, a revered intellectual who is 98 and lives in the West Sussex village of Bolney, south of London. Golestan is considered an Iranian cinema pioneer and is known for the films “Brick and Mirror” (1965) and “The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974). He left Iran in 1975, settling in the U.K. and has focused entirely on his writing since then. The two men do not know each other personally.
The film, called “See You Friday Robinson: A Film Unlike Any Other,” stems from Farahani’s desire to initiate and portray a dialogue between the French New Wave icon, who is now 90, and Golestan, a revered intellectual who is 98 and lives in the West Sussex village of Bolney, south of London. Golestan is considered an Iranian cinema pioneer and is known for the films “Brick and Mirror” (1965) and “The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974). He left Iran in 1975, settling in the U.K. and has focused entirely on his writing since then. The two men do not know each other personally.
- 8/5/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The House Is Black is a poetic documentary classic from 1962 all about social isolation and illness and their disproportionate effects on the dispossessed
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In the autumn of 1962, the celebrated Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad made what would be her first and last film. Regarded as a precursor to the Iranian new wave and now considered a classic, The House Is Black is a documentary about the members of a leper colony near the city of Tabriz in northwest Iran. Despite having been filmed nearly 60 years ago, and focusing on a small group of people suffering from a particular condition, it has found new relevance in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, having much to say not only about the current situation in Iran but also to those in self-isolation and/or suffering, regardless of location.
Farrokhzad’s...
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In the autumn of 1962, the celebrated Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad made what would be her first and last film. Regarded as a precursor to the Iranian new wave and now considered a classic, The House Is Black is a documentary about the members of a leper colony near the city of Tabriz in northwest Iran. Despite having been filmed nearly 60 years ago, and focusing on a small group of people suffering from a particular condition, it has found new relevance in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, having much to say not only about the current situation in Iran but also to those in self-isolation and/or suffering, regardless of location.
Farrokhzad’s...
- 4/6/2020
- by Joobin Bekhrad
- The Guardian - Film News
Lyon, France — Leading Italian restoration company L’Immagine Ritrovata’s acquisition of renowned film lab Eclair Cinéma, announced last month, is expected to be approved by the French Commercial Court of Nanterre, according to a source familiar with the deal.
‘Immagine Ritrovata’s French subsidiary, L’Image Retrouvée, last month signed a binding letter with Paris-based Ymagis Group, a key European player in digital technologies for the film industry, to take over Eclair Cinema, a subsidiary of the group’s Eclair business unit that oversaw post production and restoration activities in France before being placed in receivership in 2018.
Eclair Cinema has since undergone major restructuring and is now focused solely on content restoration, an area of expertise in which it is a leader in France, boasting more than 750 feature film restorations. The subsidiary generated €2.32 million ($2.55 million) in revenue from its core restoration business in the first half of 2019.
The agreement is...
‘Immagine Ritrovata’s French subsidiary, L’Image Retrouvée, last month signed a binding letter with Paris-based Ymagis Group, a key European player in digital technologies for the film industry, to take over Eclair Cinema, a subsidiary of the group’s Eclair business unit that oversaw post production and restoration activities in France before being placed in receivership in 2018.
Eclair Cinema has since undergone major restructuring and is now focused solely on content restoration, an area of expertise in which it is a leader in France, boasting more than 750 feature film restorations. The subsidiary generated €2.32 million ($2.55 million) in revenue from its core restoration business in the first half of 2019.
The agreement is...
- 10/16/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The 76th Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia, and will be held on the Lido di Venezia from 28 August to 7 September 2019. The Festival is officially recognised by the Fiapf (International Federation of Film Producers Association).
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. In addition to the sections mentioned in the following paragraphs, the Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.
Here are all the Asian movies we found in the line-up:
La Vérité
Venezia 76 Competition – An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.
La VÉRITÉ (The Truth)
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu / France, Japan / 106’
Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan (Saturday Fiction)
Director Ye Lou...
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. In addition to the sections mentioned in the following paragraphs, the Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.
Here are all the Asian movies we found in the line-up:
La Vérité
Venezia 76 Competition – An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.
La VÉRITÉ (The Truth)
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu / France, Japan / 106’
Lan Xin Da Ju Yuan (Saturday Fiction)
Director Ye Lou...
- 8/14/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The lineup has been unveiled for year’s edition of the Venice International Film Festival, taking place August 28 through September 7. Aside from films previously announced as coming to Tiff, some major new announcements include Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network, James Gray’s Ad Astra, Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, Ciro Guerra’s Waiting for the Barbarians, David Michôd’s The King, Benedict Andrews’ Kristen Stewart-led biopic Seberg, and Roman Polanski’s J’accuse. Only two films by female directors made into the competition lineup: Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate and Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth.
Check out the lineup below (hat tip to Mubi), which also includes other sections at the festival.
Competition
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian...
Check out the lineup below (hat tip to Mubi), which also includes other sections at the festival.
Competition
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian...
- 7/25/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Movies by Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, David Cronenberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luis Bunuel and Federico Fellini are among the lineup of the Venice Classics section at the 76th Venice Film Festival.
A new 35mm print of Scorsese’s 1977 film “New York, New York” will be screened in honor of United Artists’ centennial. The new copy, playing courtesy of MGM, will be presented by one of the film’s producers, Irwin Winkler, who will hold a masterclass following the screening.
Among the newly restored classics will be Hopper’s 1980 film “Out of the Blue”; Cronenberg’s 1996 movie “Crash”; a double bill of Bernardo Bertolucci pics – “The Grim Reaper,” the director’s feature debut, which bowed in Venice in 1962, and “The Spider’s Stratagem,” presented at Venice in 1970; Federico Fellini’s “The White Sheik,” which premiered at Venice in 1952; and Bunuel’s 1955 film “The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz.”
The complete...
A new 35mm print of Scorsese’s 1977 film “New York, New York” will be screened in honor of United Artists’ centennial. The new copy, playing courtesy of MGM, will be presented by one of the film’s producers, Irwin Winkler, who will hold a masterclass following the screening.
Among the newly restored classics will be Hopper’s 1980 film “Out of the Blue”; Cronenberg’s 1996 movie “Crash”; a double bill of Bernardo Bertolucci pics – “The Grim Reaper,” the director’s feature debut, which bowed in Venice in 1962, and “The Spider’s Stratagem,” presented at Venice in 1970; Federico Fellini’s “The White Sheik,” which premiered at Venice in 1952; and Bunuel’s 1955 film “The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz.”
The complete...
- 7/24/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Despite facing censorship, house arrest and exile, directors such as Jafar Panahi and the late Abbas Kiarostami kept Iran at the forefront of world cinema. Here is a selection of their photographs, alongside those of compatriots Nasser Taghvai, Kamran Shirdel, Majid Barzegar, Ebrahim Golestan and cinematographer Seifollah Samadian.
The exhibition Time Lapse is at Cama, London, until 2 October.
The exhibition Time Lapse is at Cama, London, until 2 October.
- 9/17/2018
- The Guardian - Film News
The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs takes feature form for the 2018 Venice Film Festival
In a surprise twist no one saw coming The Coen Brothers’ initial anthology series, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, will be featuring at the 2018 Venice Film Festival as a full-length feature in the competition.
The film, which was declared a Netflix original, is made up of 6 of chaptered stories revolving around the American Frontier. As for chapter plot details, information is hard to find. Tim Blake Nelson stars as Scruggs alongside a cast that features names like Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson and Tom Waits.
“We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the Sixties which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,” the Coens said in a statement. “Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.”
The...
The film, which was declared a Netflix original, is made up of 6 of chaptered stories revolving around the American Frontier. As for chapter plot details, information is hard to find. Tim Blake Nelson stars as Scruggs alongside a cast that features names like Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson and Tom Waits.
“We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the Sixties which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,” the Coens said in a statement. “Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.”
The...
- 7/26/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Non-FictionThe programme for the 2018 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Tsai Ming-liang, Frederick Wiseman, Sergei Loznitsa, Olivier Assayas, the Coen Brothers, and many more.COMPETITIONFirst Man (Damien Chazelle)The Mountain (Rick Alverson)Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard)The Ballad of Buster ScruggsVox Lux (Brady Corbet)Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)22 July (Paul Greengrass)Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)Werk ohne autor (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)Peterloo (Mike Leigh)Capri-revolution (Mario Martone)What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? (Roberto Minervini)Sunset (László Nemes)Frères ennemis (David Oeloffen)Where Life is Born (Carlos Reygadas)At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel)Acusada (Gonzalo Tobal)Killing (Shinya Tsukamoto)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Morgan Neville)L'amica geniale (Saverio Costanzo)Il diario di angela - noi...
- 7/25/2018
- MUBI
The Venice Film Festival is celebrating its 75th year in 2018 with a star-studded lineup that includes world premieres from Damien Chazelle, Bradley Cooper, Luca Guadagnino, and Alfonso Cuarón. The festival takes place August 29 to September 8 and marks the official kickoff of the 2018 fall awards season.
As has been previously announced, Damien Chazelle will open the festival with the world premiere of “First Man.” The space race drama stars Chazelle’s “La La Land” Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and recounts the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. The world premiere will be Chazelle’s second Venice opener after “La La Land.” Also confirmed prior to the announcement lineup was Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” which marks the actor’s directorial debut.
Check out the full lineup for the 2018 Venice Film Festival below. This year’s competition jury is led by Guillermo del Toro, who won the...
As has been previously announced, Damien Chazelle will open the festival with the world premiere of “First Man.” The space race drama stars Chazelle’s “La La Land” Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and recounts the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. The world premiere will be Chazelle’s second Venice opener after “La La Land.” Also confirmed prior to the announcement lineup was Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” which marks the actor’s directorial debut.
Check out the full lineup for the 2018 Venice Film Festival below. This year’s competition jury is led by Guillermo del Toro, who won the...
- 7/25/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
As I type these words, a new Jean-Luc Godard film is minutes from premiering at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. General excitement around Le livre d’image (or just The Image Book) does not come close to equaling Goodbye to Language, but the prospect of a montage-based study of the Middle East that incorporates everything from Shakespeare to Michael Bay is, for me, immense. Godard must feel similarly about its possible paths, given news from collaborator Fabrice Aragno — whose ingenuity played as big a part as its director in bringing Goodbye to Language alive — that the film will be turned into an exhibit in New York, Paris, Madrid, and Singapore, courtesy production partners Casa Azul and Ecran Noir. [Variety]
Spread between 500 and 600 square meters, it “will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience” described by Aragno as “a forest of images and sounds” not, in bold words,...
Spread between 500 and 600 square meters, it “will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience” described by Aragno as “a forest of images and sounds” not, in bold words,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard is set to adapt his latest film, “The Image Book,” which is competing at Cannes Film Festival into an exhibit in Paris, Madrid, New York and Singapore.
The roadshow tour is being produced by the team behind the film, Fabrice Aragno at Casa Azul and Mitra Farahani at Ecran Noir Productions.
Aragno told Variety that both Casa Azul and Ecran Noir Productions are currently in talks with the Beaubourg museum in Paris, Arte Reina Sofía in Paris, and the National Gallery in Singapore.
The installation will spread over 500 to 600 square meters and will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience. “Those who will discover the exhibit will walk through a forest of images and sounds,” explained Aragno, who compared “The Image Book” to Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” “Except that ‘Guernica’ related to one historical chapter, whereas ‘The Image...
The roadshow tour is being produced by the team behind the film, Fabrice Aragno at Casa Azul and Mitra Farahani at Ecran Noir Productions.
Aragno told Variety that both Casa Azul and Ecran Noir Productions are currently in talks with the Beaubourg museum in Paris, Arte Reina Sofía in Paris, and the National Gallery in Singapore.
The installation will spread over 500 to 600 square meters and will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience. “Those who will discover the exhibit will walk through a forest of images and sounds,” explained Aragno, who compared “The Image Book” to Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” “Except that ‘Guernica’ related to one historical chapter, whereas ‘The Image...
- 5/10/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Be a Dragon: Haghighi’s Enticing Hodgepodge Defies Categorization
Director Mani Haghighi stakes a claim as one of the most innovative new voices out of Iran with his standout fifth feature, A Dragon Arrives!. Systematically defying easy categorization, the slippery political allegory can just as easily be referenced as noir, horror, mystery and docu-hybrid, utilizing a myriad of hat tricks as its increasingly strange and sometimes hopelessly complicated narrative unspools. Though it may be too baffling to attract casual viewers, those relishing a challenge should delight in this mystifying feature which promises to yield multiple interpretations through extensive viewing. Seemingly entrenched in the past, it is perhaps more of an allegory on the present, a puzzling ghost story spectacularly coated (or coded) in fantastical elements.
In 1964 Iran, cultivated detective Babak Hafizi finds he has been abducted by his own agency, waking up to a menacing interrogation from his boss, Major...
Director Mani Haghighi stakes a claim as one of the most innovative new voices out of Iran with his standout fifth feature, A Dragon Arrives!. Systematically defying easy categorization, the slippery political allegory can just as easily be referenced as noir, horror, mystery and docu-hybrid, utilizing a myriad of hat tricks as its increasingly strange and sometimes hopelessly complicated narrative unspools. Though it may be too baffling to attract casual viewers, those relishing a challenge should delight in this mystifying feature which promises to yield multiple interpretations through extensive viewing. Seemingly entrenched in the past, it is perhaps more of an allegory on the present, a puzzling ghost story spectacularly coated (or coded) in fantastical elements.
In 1964 Iran, cultivated detective Babak Hafizi finds he has been abducted by his own agency, waking up to a menacing interrogation from his boss, Major...
- 2/22/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Museum of Modern Art’s festival of film preservation, To Save and Project, "feels like a yearly miracle," writes R. Emmet Sweeney in an overview of this year's edition for Film Comment. Among the highlights: Otto Rippert's Homunculus, Norman Foster's Woman on the Run, Ewald André Dupont's Verieté, Michel Brault's Les Ordres, Helma Sanders-Brahm's Germany, Pale Mother, Mário Peixoto's Limite, William K. Howard's The Trial of Vivienne Ware, Chantal Akerman's I, You, He, She, Ebrahim Golestan's The Brick and the Mirror, Orson Welles's The Deep and Ahmed El Maanouni's Oh the Days!. » - David Hudson...
- 11/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Museum of Modern Art’s festival of film preservation, To Save and Project, "feels like a yearly miracle," writes R. Emmet Sweeney in an overview of this year's edition for Film Comment. Among the highlights: Otto Rippert's Homunculus, Norman Foster's Woman on the Run, Ewald André Dupont's Verieté, Michel Brault's Les Ordres, Helma Sanders-Brahm's Germany, Pale Mother, Mário Peixoto's Limite, William K. Howard's The Trial of Vivienne Ware, Chantal Akerman's I, You, He, She, Ebrahim Golestan's The Brick and the Mirror, Orson Welles's The Deep and Ahmed El Maanouni's Oh the Days!. » - David Hudson...
- 11/5/2015
- Keyframe
As the I for Iran series has taken the Tiff Lightbox by storm, with several sold out screenings and great press coverage, Sound on Sight has taken a moment to ask some questions on what has brought the series to Toronto and the greater impacts of Iranian cinema are within an increasingly globalized world.
Brad Deane, who is the Senior Manager, Film Programmes at Tiff, and the programmer for the series at Tiff Cinematheque.
Amir Soltani, a Toronto-based film critic and contributor to The Film Experience and Movie Mezzanine, who also writes and co-hosts a podcast about Iranian films at Hello Cinema. Amir Soltani will be introducing Hamoun, Dariush Mehrjui’s incisive, ironic, and finally dreamlike study of middle-class Iranian life, on Saturday, March 28 at 3:45pm.
Check out the rest of the series schedule Here
What has brought the I for Iran series from Fribourg International Film Festival to Toronto?...
Brad Deane, who is the Senior Manager, Film Programmes at Tiff, and the programmer for the series at Tiff Cinematheque.
Amir Soltani, a Toronto-based film critic and contributor to The Film Experience and Movie Mezzanine, who also writes and co-hosts a podcast about Iranian films at Hello Cinema. Amir Soltani will be introducing Hamoun, Dariush Mehrjui’s incisive, ironic, and finally dreamlike study of middle-class Iranian life, on Saturday, March 28 at 3:45pm.
Check out the rest of the series schedule Here
What has brought the I for Iran series from Fribourg International Film Festival to Toronto?...
- 3/20/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
This Berlinale I was quick to visit Farabi Cinema Foundation, the Iranian government's consistent source of films at Berlin and Cannes. Its directors and market executives, the brothers Amir and Mohamad Esfandiari along with Kamyar Mohsenin are always gracious and their love of films overrides all reservations. I asked for news of the industry's friend Katayoon Shabi of Sheherazad Media International whose arrest in September last year with five other filmmakers was reported in N.Y. Times.
I want to tell our friends the latest: Katayoon is home, granted a temporary permit to continue working until the hearing is held for five of the arrested filmmakers who have been accused of working covertly for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Persian-language service and supplying it with content, including films, that depict the country in a negative way, the state-run press in Iran reported on Monday. The date of the hearing has not yet been set. If it is after Cannes, she will not be there, nor, of course, was she in Berlin this year. We know there is no covert work for BBC - we're not in some sort of spy thriller here in the film market circuit, and we miss her terribly. News from the Berlinale who has invited Iranian directors Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulov and Mojtaba Mirtahmsab as honorary guests, is that all are still under house arrest.
On other news is what Tehran Times had to say about A Separation if it wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, and a very truculent interview about the film with Iranian filmmaker, Ebrahim Golestan.
Source: Tehran Times
The Iranian deputy culture minister for cinematic affairs said that Nader and Simin, a Separation is a possible Oscar ... in the Best Foreign Language Films category, but everything would depend on the U.S. political climate at the time the Academy decides on nominations for this category.
The Year's Best Movie: It's From Iran- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
A Separation: You may not have heard of it, because it doesn't come out until Dec. 30. After seeing Asghar Farhadi's film at Telluride, I called it a world-class masterpiece...
"Nader and Simin, a Separation has all the potential and capacity for being nominated for an Oscar," Javad Shamaqdari told reporters during a visit to Tehran's Mellat Cinematic Complex on Saturday.
"However, the final crucial factor will be the U.S. policies, which are planned to give what kind of signals to Iran at that time," he added.
"If they plan to continue their enmity, they will never choose Nader and Simin, a Separation," Shamaqdari noted.
A portrayal of the break-up of a marriage, Nader and Simin, a Separation by director Asghar Farhadi is Iran's submission to the Annual Academy Awards 2012.
Shamaqdari is the second Iranian official who has made comments about A Separation in the Oscar race over the past few days.
Asked about the film's achievements in international events over the past few weeks, Minister Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini said, "We should just wait to see what the Academy panel will do about the film."
A number of Iranian critics believe that there was no general consensus among Iranian cultural officials about submitting "A Separation" to the Academy Awards.
The film's official opponents have said that it portrays Iran as a chaotic society of liars.
... Payvand News - 12/26/11 ... --...
I want to tell our friends the latest: Katayoon is home, granted a temporary permit to continue working until the hearing is held for five of the arrested filmmakers who have been accused of working covertly for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Persian-language service and supplying it with content, including films, that depict the country in a negative way, the state-run press in Iran reported on Monday. The date of the hearing has not yet been set. If it is after Cannes, she will not be there, nor, of course, was she in Berlin this year. We know there is no covert work for BBC - we're not in some sort of spy thriller here in the film market circuit, and we miss her terribly. News from the Berlinale who has invited Iranian directors Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulov and Mojtaba Mirtahmsab as honorary guests, is that all are still under house arrest.
On other news is what Tehran Times had to say about A Separation if it wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, and a very truculent interview about the film with Iranian filmmaker, Ebrahim Golestan.
Source: Tehran Times
The Iranian deputy culture minister for cinematic affairs said that Nader and Simin, a Separation is a possible Oscar ... in the Best Foreign Language Films category, but everything would depend on the U.S. political climate at the time the Academy decides on nominations for this category.
The Year's Best Movie: It's From Iran- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
A Separation: You may not have heard of it, because it doesn't come out until Dec. 30. After seeing Asghar Farhadi's film at Telluride, I called it a world-class masterpiece...
"Nader and Simin, a Separation has all the potential and capacity for being nominated for an Oscar," Javad Shamaqdari told reporters during a visit to Tehran's Mellat Cinematic Complex on Saturday.
"However, the final crucial factor will be the U.S. policies, which are planned to give what kind of signals to Iran at that time," he added.
"If they plan to continue their enmity, they will never choose Nader and Simin, a Separation," Shamaqdari noted.
A portrayal of the break-up of a marriage, Nader and Simin, a Separation by director Asghar Farhadi is Iran's submission to the Annual Academy Awards 2012.
Shamaqdari is the second Iranian official who has made comments about A Separation in the Oscar race over the past few days.
Asked about the film's achievements in international events over the past few weeks, Minister Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini said, "We should just wait to see what the Academy panel will do about the film."
A number of Iranian critics believe that there was no general consensus among Iranian cultural officials about submitting "A Separation" to the Academy Awards.
The film's official opponents have said that it portrays Iran as a chaotic society of liars.
... Payvand News - 12/26/11 ... --...
- 2/17/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Banning the celebrated director from making films is the latest step in the regime's attempt to murder the nation's creative soul
A spectre is haunting the Islamic Republic of Iran – the spectre of freedom. All the powers of the old guard have entered a holy alliance to exorcise it: the ayatollahs and their warlords, Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, hanging judges and paramilitary vigilantes.
To try to exorcise that spectre, the custodians of the sacred terror will go to any lengths. But have they gone just a bit too far this time?
What exactly does it mean to condemn a globally celebrated film-maker who has done nothing but bring credit to his profession and glory to his homeland, to six years in prison, and on top of that to ban him from making a film for 20 years, from writing any script, from attending any film festival outside his country, or giving any...
A spectre is haunting the Islamic Republic of Iran – the spectre of freedom. All the powers of the old guard have entered a holy alliance to exorcise it: the ayatollahs and their warlords, Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, hanging judges and paramilitary vigilantes.
To try to exorcise that spectre, the custodians of the sacred terror will go to any lengths. But have they gone just a bit too far this time?
What exactly does it mean to condemn a globally celebrated film-maker who has done nothing but bring credit to his profession and glory to his homeland, to six years in prison, and on top of that to ban him from making a film for 20 years, from writing any script, from attending any film festival outside his country, or giving any...
- 12/24/2010
- by Hamid Dabashi
- The Guardian - Film News
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