It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when most people in the world probably didn't know — or care — what a "multiverse" is. And that time was just a few years ago, when the idea of an infinite number of alternate realities was mostly relegated to complex sci-fi stories and sprawling comic book continuities.
But that was then and this is now, and now is when the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has introduced the idea that not only are there multiple different versions of their heroes in multiple different universes, but also that every other movie featuring those characters — even the films that supposedly aren't "canon" — are just different parts of the multiverse. It's all connected, every part of it. Toss in the Spider-Verse too, because why not? It's all connected.
Heck, multiverses are so mainstream now that a complex independent film like "Everything Everywhere All At Once...
But that was then and this is now, and now is when the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has introduced the idea that not only are there multiple different versions of their heroes in multiple different universes, but also that every other movie featuring those characters — even the films that supposedly aren't "canon" — are just different parts of the multiverse. It's all connected, every part of it. Toss in the Spider-Verse too, because why not? It's all connected.
Heck, multiverses are so mainstream now that a complex independent film like "Everything Everywhere All At Once...
- 2/17/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
Jean-Claude Carriere, the prolific French screenwriter and novelist who was Oscar-nominated for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “That Obscure Object of Desire” and “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” died Monday at his home in Paris. He was 89.
His family confirmed his death, of natural causes, to Afp.
Carriere was a frequent collaborator with Luis Bunuel, writing the screenplays for “Diary of a Chambermaid,” in which he also played the village priest, ” “Belle de Jour,” “The Milky Way” and “The Phantom of Liberty” as well as the international arthouse hits and Oscar nominees “That Obscure Object of Desire” and “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie.”
In an interview for “The Storytellers,” Carriere talked about how close his relationship became with Bunuel, “It was a very close relationship. We were always alone in some remote place, often in Mexico or Spain, talking French and Spanish, without friends, without women, without wives.
His family confirmed his death, of natural causes, to Afp.
Carriere was a frequent collaborator with Luis Bunuel, writing the screenplays for “Diary of a Chambermaid,” in which he also played the village priest, ” “Belle de Jour,” “The Milky Way” and “The Phantom of Liberty” as well as the international arthouse hits and Oscar nominees “That Obscure Object of Desire” and “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie.”
In an interview for “The Storytellers,” Carriere talked about how close his relationship became with Bunuel, “It was a very close relationship. We were always alone in some remote place, often in Mexico or Spain, talking French and Spanish, without friends, without women, without wives.
- 2/8/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Bob Avian, the dancer-turned-choreographer who played an integral role in such pivotal Broadway musicals as A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Company, Follies and Miss Saigon, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He was 83.
His death, which was not Covid-related, was announced by spokesperson Matt Polk.
Born in New York City and a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts, Avian also studied at Boston Ballet School, and would begin his professional career as a dancer in more than a dozen Broadway musicals. Among them were the seminal 1960s productions of West Side Story and Funny Girl.
In 1968 Avian began a collaboration that would prove central to his legacy and Broadway history: On Promises, Promises he served as assistant choreographer to choreographer Michael Bennett, launching a creative partnership that would last for 20 years. Avian was associate choreographer and assistant director on such productions as Coco...
His death, which was not Covid-related, was announced by spokesperson Matt Polk.
Born in New York City and a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts, Avian also studied at Boston Ballet School, and would begin his professional career as a dancer in more than a dozen Broadway musicals. Among them were the seminal 1960s productions of West Side Story and Funny Girl.
In 1968 Avian began a collaboration that would prove central to his legacy and Broadway history: On Promises, Promises he served as assistant choreographer to choreographer Michael Bennett, launching a creative partnership that would last for 20 years. Avian was associate choreographer and assistant director on such productions as Coco...
- 1/22/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
The director’s cut of Woodstock plays on 35mm this Saturday.
The Pasolini retrospective continues.
The restorations of A Bigger Splash and Audition still screen.
A series on documentarian Kevin Rafferty runs this weekend.
Whale Rider and Max Mon Amour play at opposite ends of the day.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big!
Metrograph
The director’s cut of Woodstock plays on 35mm this Saturday.
The Pasolini retrospective continues.
The restorations of A Bigger Splash and Audition still screen.
A series on documentarian Kevin Rafferty runs this weekend.
Whale Rider and Max Mon Amour play at opposite ends of the day.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big!
- 7/12/2019
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
No shock, Spider-Man and the like dominated the July 4th holiday weekend, mostly sidelining the specialties, save for some solid holdovers. Only a very few limited release titles braved an opening. Roadside Attractions bowed Sundance 2019 doc Marianne And Leonard: Words of Love in four New York and Los Angeles theaters to a decent start. The Nick Broomfield-directed film about the relationship between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, grossed an estimated $44,311 in the three-day estimate, averaging $11,077.
“We picked [the holiday weekend] because there’s Spider-Man and we’ll have [the standout] specialty,” said Roadside Attractions co-president Howard Cohen ahead of the title’s bow earlier in the week. “It’s also a good time for docs.”
Music-related docs have had good runs with summer launches. Sony Classics’ July 2012 opener, Searching For Sugar Man, actually opened a bit slower in three locations in its opening frame, grossing over $27K, averaging $9,153. The title picked up momentum,...
“We picked [the holiday weekend] because there’s Spider-Man and we’ll have [the standout] specialty,” said Roadside Attractions co-president Howard Cohen ahead of the title’s bow earlier in the week. “It’s also a good time for docs.”
Music-related docs have had good runs with summer launches. Sony Classics’ July 2012 opener, Searching For Sugar Man, actually opened a bit slower in three locations in its opening frame, grossing over $27K, averaging $9,153. The title picked up momentum,...
- 7/7/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
This weekend, “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” (Roadside Attractions), veteran documentarian Nick Bloomfield’s retelling of the intense relationship between an iconic folk artist and the woman who inspired him, was the only notable specialized opener. It joined the list of recent documentaries that are saving the specialized box office.
The challenges to core theaters continue, as films that once would have been their mainstay opt for wider, mainstream release, from “Booksmart” (United Artists) and “Late Night” (Amazon) to “Yesterday” (Working Title/Universal) and this weekend, smart horror title “Midsommar” (A24). Apart from a rash of documentaries, only “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (A24) and the less spectacular “Wild Rose” (Neon) are gaining significant traction from arthouse audiences.
Opening
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (Roadside Attractions) – Metacritic: 63; Festivals include: Sundance 2019
$44,311 in 4 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $11,077
Another documentary with boomer appeal looks back decades at a pop-culture...
The challenges to core theaters continue, as films that once would have been their mainstay opt for wider, mainstream release, from “Booksmart” (United Artists) and “Late Night” (Amazon) to “Yesterday” (Working Title/Universal) and this weekend, smart horror title “Midsommar” (A24). Apart from a rash of documentaries, only “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (A24) and the less spectacular “Wild Rose” (Neon) are gaining significant traction from arthouse audiences.
Opening
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (Roadside Attractions) – Metacritic: 63; Festivals include: Sundance 2019
$44,311 in 4 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $11,077
Another documentary with boomer appeal looks back decades at a pop-culture...
- 7/7/2019
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Spider-Man: Far from Home is weaving an expansive web over the Fourth of July holiday frame, pushing new specialties to find space in upcoming weeks. There are a few brave indies hoping to grab some residuals over the long weekend, however. Sundance doc Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love will launch in several L.A. and New York locations. Distributor Roadside Attractions is hoping to ride a wave of music docs that have scored well in the box office with summer rollouts in recent years. Thriller Skin in the Game dramatizes the human trafficking in America. Specialty label Kandoo Films, which also produced the title, is releasing it day-and-date. Gravitas Ventures, meanwhile, is spearheading on-demand for the Armed Forces action-drama Above the Best. The producers are organizing limited theatrical events/showings for the feature, including one this weekend in Houston.
Additional limited releases over the holiday include Screen Media action-thriller Cold Blood...
Additional limited releases over the holiday include Screen Media action-thriller Cold Blood...
- 7/3/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
No Man of Her Own: Vigne’s Classic Medieval Identity Drama Resurrected
In the early 1980s, French director Daniel Vigne seemed poised to be one of his generation’s noted forerunners with his celebrated sophomore film The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), a medieval period identity drama based on the true account of a French peasant who claimed to be a prodigal community member who had disappeared from his village under mysterious circumstances years prior. Comparable to favored film noir tropes, this compelling case study is gently relayed as a period melodrama and courtroom thriller, featuring standout performances from leads Gerard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye, not to mention a stellar supporting cast, many of whom would go on to be fixtures of French cinema.…...
In the early 1980s, French director Daniel Vigne seemed poised to be one of his generation’s noted forerunners with his celebrated sophomore film The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), a medieval period identity drama based on the true account of a French peasant who claimed to be a prodigal community member who had disappeared from his village under mysterious circumstances years prior. Comparable to favored film noir tropes, this compelling case study is gently relayed as a period melodrama and courtroom thriller, featuring standout performances from leads Gerard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye, not to mention a stellar supporting cast, many of whom would go on to be fixtures of French cinema.…...
- 7/3/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
When it comes to stories about medieval identity theft in France, the tale of Martin Guerre’s life has to be the king. Based on true events, the story has been told in books, plays, opera, and two films. So it clearly resonates, and is not going away anytime soon, but the best telling is still undoubtedly Daniel Vigne’s 1982 film “The Return of Martin Guerre.”
The movie tells the story of a soldier who returns to his small town after a brutal war and displays more wisdom and compassion than he had ever exhibited in the past. While he can recall intimate details from his life, his small town has a hard time believing he is the same Martin Guerre they once knew. His wife and family begin to suspect that he is an imposter, and he is taken to court for theft of identity.
It also comes with a bit of film trivia,...
The movie tells the story of a soldier who returns to his small town after a brutal war and displays more wisdom and compassion than he had ever exhibited in the past. While he can recall intimate details from his life, his small town has a hard time believing he is the same Martin Guerre they once knew. His wife and family begin to suspect that he is an imposter, and he is taken to court for theft of identity.
It also comes with a bit of film trivia,...
- 6/17/2019
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Writer, actor and director to receive Lifetime Achievement Award.
French writer-director-actor Jean-Claude Carrière is to receive this year’s Efa Lifetime Achievement Award.
He will be honorary guest at the 29th European Film Awards Ceremony on 10 December in Wroclaw.
Carrière started out writing short novels based on the films of Jacques Tati. Through Tati he met Pierre Étaix with whom he made several films, among them the short Happy Anniversary (1962), which won them an Oscar.
Together with Luis Buñuel, the Frenchman wrote the screenplay for Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964), in which he also played the part of a village priest. This started a 19-year-collaboration on the scripts of almost all of Buñuel’s later films, including Belle De Jour (1967) and The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie for which they won the BAFTA for Best Screenplay.
He received another BAFTA for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), which he co-wrote with the film’s director Philip Kaufman, and a French...
French writer-director-actor Jean-Claude Carrière is to receive this year’s Efa Lifetime Achievement Award.
He will be honorary guest at the 29th European Film Awards Ceremony on 10 December in Wroclaw.
Carrière started out writing short novels based on the films of Jacques Tati. Through Tati he met Pierre Étaix with whom he made several films, among them the short Happy Anniversary (1962), which won them an Oscar.
Together with Luis Buñuel, the Frenchman wrote the screenplay for Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964), in which he also played the part of a village priest. This started a 19-year-collaboration on the scripts of almost all of Buñuel’s later films, including Belle De Jour (1967) and The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie for which they won the BAFTA for Best Screenplay.
He received another BAFTA for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), which he co-wrote with the film’s director Philip Kaufman, and a French...
- 9/13/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Imposter Indomina Releasing Director: Bart Layton Cast: Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker, Nancy Fisher, Bryan Gibson, Bruce Perry, Philip French, Adam O’Brian, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach, Alan Teichman, Ivan Villanueva, Maria Jesus Hoyos Screened at: A&E, NYC, 7/3/12 Opens: July 13, 2012 Admit it: You’ve sometimes imagined what it would seem to be like someone else; to have Bill Gates’s money, President Obama’s prestige, Tom Cruise’s popularity, Brad Pitt’s looks, Angelina Jolie’s lips. But how often have you wished to actually Be someone else? There are precedents. in Daniel Vigne’s movie “The Return of Martin Guerre,” a man leaves his family and friends for the war [ Read More ]...
- 7/13/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
She pretty much defined French cinema in the 70s and 80s: intimate, kooky, charming. Now Nathalie Baye can add 'properly funny' to her CV
In Nathalie Baye's new film, there are lots of funny scenes, but this one's especially good: she hobbles fantastically through the streets of Sète one broiling summer morning, in bare feet and nightie, tailing a young man who has just deposited a love letter in her mailbox. (The love letter wasn't actually intended for her, or at least it was, but it isn't a real love letter. And the young man isn't supposed to have delivered it, still less been seen doing so. But more of that later.)
Anyway, there's one of the undisputed greats of French cinema, 63 years of age, 80-odd films to her name, an actor who has worked with Truffaut and Godard, Pialat, Chabrol and Tavernier, who has won four Césars and...
In Nathalie Baye's new film, there are lots of funny scenes, but this one's especially good: she hobbles fantastically through the streets of Sète one broiling summer morning, in bare feet and nightie, tailing a young man who has just deposited a love letter in her mailbox. (The love letter wasn't actually intended for her, or at least it was, but it isn't a real love letter. And the young man isn't supposed to have delivered it, still less been seen doing so. But more of that later.)
Anyway, there's one of the undisputed greats of French cinema, 63 years of age, 80-odd films to her name, an actor who has worked with Truffaut and Godard, Pialat, Chabrol and Tavernier, who has won four Césars and...
- 8/4/2011
- by Jon Henley
- The Guardian - Film News
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