Latest films from Ruben Ostlund and Cristian Mungiu both earn a 2.5 average score.
Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle Of Sadness and Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. achieved an average score of 2.5 on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean star in dark comedy Triangle Of Sadness, which follows a model couple on a yacht with the super-rich who found themselves stranded on a desert island.
Meduza’s Anton Dolin and Postif’s Michel Ciment awarded it four (excellent), but the average was dragged down by a zero (bad) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret. Ostlund...
Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle Of Sadness and Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. achieved an average score of 2.5 on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean star in dark comedy Triangle Of Sadness, which follows a model couple on a yacht with the super-rich who found themselves stranded on a desert island.
Meduza’s Anton Dolin and Postif’s Michel Ciment awarded it four (excellent), but the average was dragged down by a zero (bad) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret. Ostlund...
- 5/22/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to “R.M.N.,” the new film from acclaimed writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu, ahead of its world premiere in Cannes this week.
It’s a grand reunion for the indie studio and the director, marking their fifth distribution collaboration. IFC Films will release “R.M.N.” theatrically in 2022. It may have been a wise preemptive buy. The director’s films tend to get an award-winning reception in the South of France. Mungiu previously won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” a drama about abortion that was set in waning days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era in Romania.
Here’s the official description of “R.M.N.”: “A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son,...
It’s a grand reunion for the indie studio and the director, marking their fifth distribution collaboration. IFC Films will release “R.M.N.” theatrically in 2022. It may have been a wise preemptive buy. The director’s films tend to get an award-winning reception in the South of France. Mungiu previously won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” a drama about abortion that was set in waning days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era in Romania.
Here’s the official description of “R.M.N.”: “A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Hollywood union publicists have selected Warner Bros.’ “Joker” and Disney’s “The Mandalorian” as winners of the Maxwell Weinberg Awards for top publicity campaigns last year.
The awards were announced Friday afternoon at the Beverly Hilton by the International Cinematographers Guild Publicists.
“Joker” won the feature film award and topped the publicity teams behind Netflix’s “The Irishman,” Universal’s “Us,” Sony’s “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” Paramount’s “Rocketman” and Disney-Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame.” The Joaquin Phoenix vehicle was a smash with more than $1 billion in global box office along with receiving 11 Academy Award nominations.
The first season of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian” took the television awards over the campaigns for “Catch 22,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “Pose,” and “Stranger Things.”
Steven Huvane of Slate PR won the Les Mason award, presented by longtime client Jennifer Aniston, who told the audience, “You really are some of the hardest working people in this town.
The awards were announced Friday afternoon at the Beverly Hilton by the International Cinematographers Guild Publicists.
“Joker” won the feature film award and topped the publicity teams behind Netflix’s “The Irishman,” Universal’s “Us,” Sony’s “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” Paramount’s “Rocketman” and Disney-Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame.” The Joaquin Phoenix vehicle was a smash with more than $1 billion in global box office along with receiving 11 Academy Award nominations.
The first season of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian” took the television awards over the campaigns for “Catch 22,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “Pose,” and “Stranger Things.”
Steven Huvane of Slate PR won the Les Mason award, presented by longtime client Jennifer Aniston, who told the audience, “You really are some of the hardest working people in this town.
- 2/7/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
As the coronavirus continues its rapid spread, China continues to struggle with consequences of the disease on myriad levels. The updated count of confirmed cases has crossed 6,000 on the mainland, with 132 people dead.
Separately to the tragic human toll of the virus, the economic impact could exceed $40B on a global level. Today, British Airways said it was cancelling all flights to and from China, following others who have curtailed or kiboshed travel. Hundreds of Britons being flown back from Wuhan tomorrow will be placed in quarantine for two weeks as a precaution, other countries are also repatriating citizens under similar measures.
Within the film industry, most recently, the giant Hengdian World Studios is understood to have closed indefinitely after shuttering its tourist attractions over the weekend in order to “cooperate with the current epidemic prevention and control work.”
Among the high profile projects to have temporarily ceased shooting elsewhere...
Separately to the tragic human toll of the virus, the economic impact could exceed $40B on a global level. Today, British Airways said it was cancelling all flights to and from China, following others who have curtailed or kiboshed travel. Hundreds of Britons being flown back from Wuhan tomorrow will be placed in quarantine for two weeks as a precaution, other countries are also repatriating citizens under similar measures.
Within the film industry, most recently, the giant Hengdian World Studios is understood to have closed indefinitely after shuttering its tourist attractions over the weekend in order to “cooperate with the current epidemic prevention and control work.”
Among the high profile projects to have temporarily ceased shooting elsewhere...
- 1/29/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite winning Best Director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu‘s approach in Graduation will feel safe to many already familiar with the Romanian New Wave, for which he broke major ground when winning the Palme d’Or with 2007’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. But look past the fact that, yes, this is another moral- and social-crisis drama consisting primarily of extended two-shot conversations and a knottier, more rewarding movie is waiting for you.
Mungiu will be the first to say as much, though not in an especially declarative manner — I was simply lucky enough to have a long, winding conversation about Graduation‘s finer aesthetic and thematic points, as well as the many times in which they meet head-on. Have you ever wondered if a movie could perfectly harness the look, sound, and feeling of a school year’s final days? And what is the benefit...
Mungiu will be the first to say as much, though not in an especially declarative manner — I was simply lucky enough to have a long, winding conversation about Graduation‘s finer aesthetic and thematic points, as well as the many times in which they meet head-on. Have you ever wondered if a movie could perfectly harness the look, sound, and feeling of a school year’s final days? And what is the benefit...
- 4/7/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
After an initial trailer came in April of last year, a new preview has just arrived hailing from the U.K. for Cristian Mungiu‘s new drama Graduation. Premiering at Cannes to positive reception last spring, the film will get a limited release in the U.S. this April. Judging from this preview, the drama looks to be an intensely complex, twisting film that pushes psychological drama to the verge of horror.
We said in our Cannes review, “Considering the heights he’s reached in the past, Graduation constitutes a disappointing step backwards for erstwhile Romanian New Wave front-runner Cristian Mungiu. After the painterly exorcism tale Beyond the Hills, Mungiu returns to the realist, handheld aesthetic of his first two features to middling results. Neither blackly comic like his debut, Occident, nor as searingly incisive as his Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Graduation is a well-acted and...
We said in our Cannes review, “Considering the heights he’s reached in the past, Graduation constitutes a disappointing step backwards for erstwhile Romanian New Wave front-runner Cristian Mungiu. After the painterly exorcism tale Beyond the Hills, Mungiu returns to the realist, handheld aesthetic of his first two features to middling results. Neither blackly comic like his debut, Occident, nor as searingly incisive as his Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Graduation is a well-acted and...
- 2/9/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Gallery: Pictures from the closing night and awards ceremony of the 15th Transilvania film festival; festival hands out industry development prizes.
Romanian director Bogdan Mirică’s feature debut Dogs (Câini) was the winner of the Transilvania Trophy at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) which came to a close yesterday (June 5).
The thriller about a young man from the big city coming to a remote village to sell the land he inherited from his grandfather had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes last month and is being handled internationally by Bac Films International.
The co-production between Marcela Ursu’s 42 Km Film, French producer Elie Meirovitz’s Ez Films and Bulgaria’s Stephan Komanderev’s Argo Film is the fourth Romanian film to win the top prize in Cluj-Napoca after Cristian Mungiu’s Occident at the first edition of Tiff in 2002, followed by two films by Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East...
Romanian director Bogdan Mirică’s feature debut Dogs (Câini) was the winner of the Transilvania Trophy at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) which came to a close yesterday (June 5).
The thriller about a young man from the big city coming to a remote village to sell the land he inherited from his grandfather had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes last month and is being handled internationally by Bac Films International.
The co-production between Marcela Ursu’s 42 Km Film, French producer Elie Meirovitz’s Ez Films and Bulgaria’s Stephan Komanderev’s Argo Film is the fourth Romanian film to win the top prize in Cluj-Napoca after Cristian Mungiu’s Occident at the first edition of Tiff in 2002, followed by two films by Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East...
- 6/6/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Considering the heights he’s reached in the past, Graduation constitutes a disappointing step backwards for erstwhile Romanian New Wave front-runner Cristian Mungiu. After the painterly exorcism tale Beyond the Hills, Mungiu returns to the realist, handheld aesthetic of his first two features to middling results. Neither blackly comic like his debut, Occident, nor as searingly incisive as his Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Graduation is a well-acted and efficiently directed but schematic rehash of themes that Mungiu and his fellow new-wavers have expounded time and again over the last decade.
Amongst these themes, the most prominent is systemic corruption and its deeply entrenched roots in Romanian society. Every character in Graduation is in some way implicated. Whether it’s funeral parlors relying on tips from paramedics to stay in business, students hoping to pass their exams, or hospital patients desperately needing to move up the priority list for organ donations,...
Amongst these themes, the most prominent is systemic corruption and its deeply entrenched roots in Romanian society. Every character in Graduation is in some way implicated. Whether it’s funeral parlors relying on tips from paramedics to stay in business, students hoping to pass their exams, or hospital patients desperately needing to move up the priority list for organ donations,...
- 5/22/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
After Abderrahmane Sissako dished out details on what will likely be his next directing gig, reporting from the Doha Film Institute event, Screen Daily landed another update on a Cannes Film Fest winning filmmaker. Palme d’Or crowned Cristian Mungiu is basing his next directorial outing with experiences from home, yes Romania, but more specifically – the family unit. Lensing on his fourth feature film will take place past the midway point this year. Fotografii de familie is a snapshot on parenting dynamics and child-parent rapport.
Gist: From the filmmaker himself, the portrait will be “about compromise, parenting and children and understanding this relationship between what you say to your children and what they see you doing.”
Worth Noting: A golden standard: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and Beyond the Hills collectively collected: one Palme, one Best Screenplay and Best Actress for two female leads.
Do We Care?: Ceaușescu era children who...
Gist: From the filmmaker himself, the portrait will be “about compromise, parenting and children and understanding this relationship between what you say to your children and what they see you doing.”
Worth Noting: A golden standard: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and Beyond the Hills collectively collected: one Palme, one Best Screenplay and Best Actress for two female leads.
Do We Care?: Ceaușescu era children who...
- 3/12/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
From Palme d’Or winner “Amour” to the latest offerings from some of the biggest names of world cinema such as Alain Resnais, Abbas Kiarostami, Bernando Bertoluci, Manoel de Oliveira , Brillante Mendoza, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, 14th Mumbai Film Festival has a lot to offer to the filmbuffs.
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
- 9/27/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
For a director, the only thing better than being invited to the Cannes Film Festival is being invited back. The 65th edition of the world's most prestigious fest featured works by several filmmakers who'd already walked the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals at least once. How did the alumni fare this time around? A brief report. Director: Cristian Mungiu Previous Cannes entries: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Palme d'Or winner); Occident (2002). Cannes 2012 entry: Beyond the Hills. The report: Mungiu's last film, about a woman seeking an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania, catapulted the previously little-known director into the international spotlight, at least within the art-house circuit. Very few critics panned 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, but...
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- 5/29/2012
- by Eric D. Snider
- Movies.com
Sundance Selects announced today that it was snapping up the North American rights to "Beyond the Hills," Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's third film. Set in Romania, the film follows a young woman who returns to her home country after living in Germany and reunites with a friend she has known for years since their childhood in the same orphanage. She has found a family in the nuns and priests of a rural convent, and refuses to return with her to Germany. Mungiu's first film, "Occident," was featured at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. His sophomore outing, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," won the 2007 Cannes Palme d'Or, making...
- 2/18/2012
- by Jacob Combs
- Thompson on Hollywood
#12. Provizoriu Director/Writer: Cristian MungiuProducers: Mungiu's Mobra Films which he runs with Hanno Hoefer and Oleg Mutu along with Why Not Films (who produced his last pair) and Dardenne Bros.' Les Films du Fleuve.Distributor: Rights Available The Gist: Direct translation of the title is "provisionally". This is a Romanian convent-set tale of a 23-year-old girl's overweening love for a girl inmate....(more) Cast: None announced yet - we imagine two young Romanian actresses. List Worthy Reasons...: Unlike the folks at the Academy, Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days hit us like a ton of bricks and 2009's barely noticed Tales from the Golden Age was a welcome side project (five Romania filmmakers contributed to five Pov's of Romanian rural life). Mungiu's third feature film (his debut was 2002's Occident) should be up our alley if it holds some of the strong dramatic core that we associate with this helmer.
- 1/10/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
[Editor's Note: Lorber Films is releasing Tuesday, After Christmas at the Film Forum today -- this interview originally took place back in October of 2010. Additionally, here is footage from the world premiere night in Cannes back in May of 2010.] It was on a Tuesday night I had the pleasure of attending a reception hosted by the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York to honor directors Cristi Puiu and Radu Muntean, actors Mirela Oprisor, Mimi Branescu, producers Bobby Paunescu and Dragos Vilcu, and DPs Tudor Lucaciu and Viorel Sergovici. The event was a celebration of the three selected films at the Nyff: doc film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the pair of narratives, Aurora and Tuesday, After Christmas. It was great to meet and talk with all of these filmmakers because they are truly at the forefront of one of the most exciting movements in international cinema, still relevant and vibrant since Cristi Puiu's Stuff and Dough and Cristian Mungiu's Occident landed in the Cannes' Director's Fortnight editions of 2001 and 2002. Late last week, I had the even greater pleasure of interviewing the team behind the Un Certain Regard selected Tuesday,...
- 5/25/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
It was on a Tuesday night I had the pleasure of attending a reception hosted by the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York to honor directors Cristi Puiu and Radu Muntean, actors Mirela Oprisor, Mimi Branescu, producers Bobby Paunescu and Dragos Vilcu, and DPs Tudor Lucaciu and Viorel Sergovici. The event was a celebration of the three selected films at the Nyff: doc film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the pair of narratives, Aurora and Tuesday, After Christmas. It was great to meet and talk with all of these filmmakers because they are truly at the forefront of one of the most exciting movements in international cinema, still relevant and vibrant since Cristi Puiu's Stuff and Dough and Cristian Mungiu's Occident landed in the Cannes' Director's Fortnight editions of 2001 and 2002. Late last week, I had the even greater pleasure of interviewing the team behind the Un Certain Regard selected Tuesday,...
- 10/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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