The Florian Hoffmeister lensed thriller Tár from director Todd Field topped the Camerimage main competition, collecting the Golden Frog during the closing ceremony of the cinematography film festival Saturday.
The Focus Features pic follows the fictional orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, considered one of the greatest at her craft and the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, as her life starts to unravel after she is embroiled in a swirl of #MeToo scandals.
The Golden Frog win gives cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister a new boost in the 2023 Oscars race, with three out of the last five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019), and Nomadland (2020).
In other main competition awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, lensed by Darius Khondji, took home the Silver Frog and Living from cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay and...
The Focus Features pic follows the fictional orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, considered one of the greatest at her craft and the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, as her life starts to unravel after she is embroiled in a swirl of #MeToo scandals.
The Golden Frog win gives cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister a new boost in the 2023 Oscars race, with three out of the last five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019), and Nomadland (2020).
In other main competition awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, lensed by Darius Khondji, took home the Silver Frog and Living from cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay and...
- 11/19/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Sam Mendes was the guest of honor at the opening of the 30th EnergaCamerimage Film Festival Saturday evening, where he picked up the Krzysztof Kieslowski career award and introduced a special screening of his latest film, Empire of Light.
Accepting the award in Toruń, Poland, Mendes praised the festival for its dedication to celebrating the art of cinematography and paid tribute to the cinematographers he has worked with throughout his career, describing them as the key to his success.
Mendes gave special mention to Conrad Hall, who shot his first two films, American Beauty and Road To Perdition. Hall won the best cinematography Oscar for his work on both films.
“Conrad was my guide, and ever since Conrad, cinematographers have always been my guide,” Mendes said before paying tribute to veteran cinematographer Roger Deakins. The pair have worked together on five films over 15 years, including Skyfall and 1917.
Mendes said...
Accepting the award in Toruń, Poland, Mendes praised the festival for its dedication to celebrating the art of cinematography and paid tribute to the cinematographers he has worked with throughout his career, describing them as the key to his success.
Mendes gave special mention to Conrad Hall, who shot his first two films, American Beauty and Road To Perdition. Hall won the best cinematography Oscar for his work on both films.
“Conrad was my guide, and ever since Conrad, cinematographers have always been my guide,” Mendes said before paying tribute to veteran cinematographer Roger Deakins. The pair have worked together on five films over 15 years, including Skyfall and 1917.
Mendes said...
- 11/13/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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Sam Mendes spoke of his collaborations with cinematographers from Conrad Hall to Roger Deakins, while also voicing support for Ukraine, during the opening ceremony of the 30th EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Saturday in Toruń, Poland, the Academy Award-winning helmer accepted the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for a Director while acknowledging that “it’s difficult to speak of celebration” after hearing from and seeing images of those in Ukraine that were presented during the ceremony. “I made a movie (1917) with Roger [Deakins] about two young men caught up in a senseless war. The question I got asked over and over again is, ‘Is this relevant?’ I’m afraid to say, it is and it will always be. We stand with everyone in Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the cinematographers with whom he has worked, starting with the late Hall, who won Oscars for Mendes’ first two movies,...
Sam Mendes spoke of his collaborations with cinematographers from Conrad Hall to Roger Deakins, while also voicing support for Ukraine, during the opening ceremony of the 30th EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Saturday in Toruń, Poland, the Academy Award-winning helmer accepted the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for a Director while acknowledging that “it’s difficult to speak of celebration” after hearing from and seeing images of those in Ukraine that were presented during the ceremony. “I made a movie (1917) with Roger [Deakins] about two young men caught up in a senseless war. The question I got asked over and over again is, ‘Is this relevant?’ I’m afraid to say, it is and it will always be. We stand with everyone in Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the cinematographers with whom he has worked, starting with the late Hall, who won Oscars for Mendes’ first two movies,...
- 11/12/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Richard E. Grant bags guest role in ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ retelling
Withnail & I star Richard E. Grant has joined Disney+’s live-action drama Nautilus, with Muki Zubis (This is Going to Hurt) Benedict Hardie (The Luminaries), Jacob Collins Levy (Young Wallander) and Luke Arnold (Black Sails) also signing up to the cast. The show, from Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, is currently shooting at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland, Australia. The show tells Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from the point of view of Indian prince Captain Nemo (Shazad Latif) for the first time. Grant will guest star as the leader of Karajaan, a port town Nemo and his crew encounter on their adventures.
Vue International appoints Chief Operating Officer
Privately-held European cinema operator Vue International has hired Claire Arksey as Chief Operating Officer. She joins from clothing store Urban Outfitters, where she was responsible for 269 standalone stores across 14 countries.
Withnail & I star Richard E. Grant has joined Disney+’s live-action drama Nautilus, with Muki Zubis (This is Going to Hurt) Benedict Hardie (The Luminaries), Jacob Collins Levy (Young Wallander) and Luke Arnold (Black Sails) also signing up to the cast. The show, from Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, is currently shooting at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland, Australia. The show tells Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from the point of view of Indian prince Captain Nemo (Shazad Latif) for the first time. Grant will guest star as the leader of Karajaan, a port town Nemo and his crew encounter on their adventures.
Vue International appoints Chief Operating Officer
Privately-held European cinema operator Vue International has hired Claire Arksey as Chief Operating Officer. She joins from clothing store Urban Outfitters, where she was responsible for 269 standalone stores across 14 countries.
- 5/19/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The film is based on the writer-director’s own novel.
Michael Cowan’s UK-based sales company Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment has acquired international rights, excluding Poland and Italy, to Lech Majewski’s Brigitte Bardot Forever.
Phoenix will introduce the Polish title to international buyers in Cannes as well as festival programmers.
Majewski, whose credits include The Garden of Earthly Delights andThe Mill and the Cross, based the film on his own novel Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful, in which he settles accounts with his youth, childhood, and all that Poland meant to him.
Set in mid-century communist Poland,...
Michael Cowan’s UK-based sales company Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment has acquired international rights, excluding Poland and Italy, to Lech Majewski’s Brigitte Bardot Forever.
Phoenix will introduce the Polish title to international buyers in Cannes as well as festival programmers.
Majewski, whose credits include The Garden of Earthly Delights andThe Mill and the Cross, based the film on his own novel Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful, in which he settles accounts with his youth, childhood, and all that Poland meant to him.
Set in mid-century communist Poland,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based company’s documentary arm Wide House also achieved deals on Hot Docs title Bloom Up.
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has unveiled a slew of deals done at the European Film Market earlier this month.
It sold French director Julien Hilmoine’s erotic romance The Night Belongs To Lovers to Japan (At Entertainment) and the Cis (Russian Report). The film has also been acquired by Munich-based Alamode Film’s genre label Pierrot le Fou for German-speaking territories.
The drama, which has recently completed post-production, co-stars Laura Müller and Schemci Lauth as two former school friends who meet on the...
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has unveiled a slew of deals done at the European Film Market earlier this month.
It sold French director Julien Hilmoine’s erotic romance The Night Belongs To Lovers to Japan (At Entertainment) and the Cis (Russian Report). The film has also been acquired by Munich-based Alamode Film’s genre label Pierrot le Fou for German-speaking territories.
The drama, which has recently completed post-production, co-stars Laura Müller and Schemci Lauth as two former school friends who meet on the...
- 3/24/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Mariusz Wilczyński’s film, which premiered in the Berlinale’s Encounters section earlier this year, is the first animation ever to win the Polish Film Festival. The Polish Film Festival usually takes place in September and kicks off the autumn slate of local theatrical film releases. This year, owing to the pandemic, it moved to early December and made use of virtual screening rooms. However, not all of the competition titles were available to holders of industry and press badges, including Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s Oscar entry Never Gonna Snow Again and the eagerly awaited Magnesia by Maciej Bochniak, which premiered at the (on-site) Warsaw Film Festival in October. The jury, headed up by Lech Majewski (Valley of the Gods), watched all 14 films in cinemas, though, and deliberated for about seven hours before they reached an unprecedented, but very well received, verdict: the main award, the Golden Lions,...
- 12/14/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Polish-born filmmaker Filip Jan Rymsza, the producer of Venice Film Festival entry “Hopper/Welles,” which he is presenting this week at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, will follow his latest directorial outing “Mosquito State” – also a Venice premiere this year – with “Object Permanence,” Rymsza tells Variety. Partially set in Berlin and shot in English, it will be another Polish co-production, most likely with Germany.
“’Object permanence’ is something that people were aware of already, they just didn’t know how to define it: It’s the understanding that objects continue to exist even if you can’t see them or hear them, or otherwise sense them,” he says, adding that while “Mosquito State” looked at the recent past, this will look into the near future.
With another project, set in Japan, currently put on hold due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Rymsza will once again try to focus on one protagonist.
“’Object permanence’ is something that people were aware of already, they just didn’t know how to define it: It’s the understanding that objects continue to exist even if you can’t see them or hear them, or otherwise sense them,” he says, adding that while “Mosquito State” looked at the recent past, this will look into the near future.
With another project, set in Japan, currently put on hold due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Rymsza will once again try to focus on one protagonist.
- 10/23/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: French actress Bérénice Marlohe has inked with Buchwald.
She first came to international attention in the James Bond film Skyfall opposite Daniel Craig, as the enigmatic Bond Girl, Severine. The movie remains the highest grossing 007 feature of all-time with over $1.1 billion worldwide and was nominated for five Oscars, winning two, in particular the first Academy Award win ever for a Bond title song, Adele and Paul Epworth’s “Skyfall.”
Marlohe can next be seen in Lech Majewski’s surrealist drama Valley of the Gods opposite Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich from Well Go USA Entertainment. The film is set to debut on digital platforms and available on Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 11.
Marlohe appears in the all-star cast of Terrence Malick’s Song to Song alongside Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman, as well as in Joe Miale’s sci-fi thriller Revolt opposite Lee Pace.
She first came to international attention in the James Bond film Skyfall opposite Daniel Craig, as the enigmatic Bond Girl, Severine. The movie remains the highest grossing 007 feature of all-time with over $1.1 billion worldwide and was nominated for five Oscars, winning two, in particular the first Academy Award win ever for a Bond title song, Adele and Paul Epworth’s “Skyfall.”
Marlohe can next be seen in Lech Majewski’s surrealist drama Valley of the Gods opposite Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich from Well Go USA Entertainment. The film is set to debut on digital platforms and available on Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 11.
Marlohe appears in the all-star cast of Terrence Malick’s Song to Song alongside Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman, as well as in Joe Miale’s sci-fi thriller Revolt opposite Lee Pace.
- 7/24/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Weird,” as a presumptive aesthetic and assumed attitude, has been plundered to the point of signifying almost nothing. Thus it was a little system shock bearing witness to Lech Majewski’s truly, madly, unfathomably weird Valley of the Gods at last year’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE, only knowing it concerned Native American mythology, John Malkovich as a reclusive trillionaire, and Josh Hartnett as his biographer “whose imagination has the power to alter reality.” That is not selling even one-third of it, which, if forced to compress to an elevator pitch, I would describe as somewhere between the existential concerns of The Tree of Life, Southland Tales‘ sci-fi satire, and the charming gaudiness of a late Alain Resnais picture. (It’s also produced by Kubrick compatriot Jan Harlan and features Keir Dullea in a supporting role; draw your conclusions as to its other allusions.)
So: precisely the kind of film one sees at...
So: precisely the kind of film one sees at...
- 7/21/2020
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Directed by Lech Majewski and Starring Josh Hartnett, Bérénice Marlohe & John Malkovich Valley Of The Gods The Fantasy/Sci-Fi Drama Debuts on Digital, Blu-ray™ & DVD August 11 Bonus Materials Include a “Making-of” Featurette Valley Of The Gods, the latest film from award-winning Polish filmmaker Lech Majewski (The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Mill and …
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- 7/21/2020
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
"What is it to have all that power?" Well Go USA has released an official trailer for a strange indie feature titled Valley of the Gods, made by a Polish filmmaker named Lech Majewski. This first premiered at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival last year, and it screened at the Warsaw and Camerimage Film Festivals also in Poland. The film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America. With three storylines following a middle-class writer, an eccentric trillionaire, and a struggling Navajo community under existential threat. Starring John Malkovich as Wes Tauros, and a main cast including Josh Hartnett, Bérénice Marlohe, Jaime Ray Newman, John Rhys-Davies, Keir Dullea, Saginaw Grant, and Joseph Runningfox. Whoaaa - this looks especially compelling and more than a bit trippy, almost like a Polish Jodorowsky film about America. Here's the first official trailer...
- 7/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Well Go USA has acquired the North American rights to Lech Majewski’s Valley of the Gods. The company is set to release the surrealist drama starring Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich in theaters and on digital platforms on August 11.
Known for pushing the envelope when it comes to dreamlike visuals and fantasy, Majewski’s Valley of the Gods contrasts opposing social extremes — namely abundance and poverty – through three separate storylines. The story follows a middle-class writer, an eccentric trillionaire and members of a struggling nearby Navajo community. After a difficult divorce, copywriter John Ecas (Harnett) takes on the biography of the richest man on earth (John Malkovich), who is both his boss and the man behind a plan to mine sacred Navajo lands for uranium. Things take a turn when modern advancement runs afoul of the...
Known for pushing the envelope when it comes to dreamlike visuals and fantasy, Majewski’s Valley of the Gods contrasts opposing social extremes — namely abundance and poverty – through three separate storylines. The story follows a middle-class writer, an eccentric trillionaire and members of a struggling nearby Navajo community. After a difficult divorce, copywriter John Ecas (Harnett) takes on the biography of the richest man on earth (John Malkovich), who is both his boss and the man behind a plan to mine sacred Navajo lands for uranium. Things take a turn when modern advancement runs afoul of the...
- 5/12/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Brigitte Bardot cudowna / Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful
Polish director Lech Majewski adapts his own novel Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful for his latest feature, produced by Małgorzata Domin through Domino Film as well as Majewski’s “Angelus Silesius” Association and starring Magdalena Różczka, Joanna Opozda (Bardot), Weronika Rosati (as Elizabeth Taylor), Andrzej Grabowski, Tomasz Sapryk, and Kacper Olszewski. Majewski’s 2011 title The Mill and the Cross premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and his long-gestating sci-fi co-production Valley of the Gods, featuring Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley and John Malkovich is set to release in Us theaters December 31, 2019.…...
Polish director Lech Majewski adapts his own novel Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful for his latest feature, produced by Małgorzata Domin through Domino Film as well as Majewski’s “Angelus Silesius” Association and starring Magdalena Różczka, Joanna Opozda (Bardot), Weronika Rosati (as Elizabeth Taylor), Andrzej Grabowski, Tomasz Sapryk, and Kacper Olszewski. Majewski’s 2011 title The Mill and the Cross premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and his long-gestating sci-fi co-production Valley of the Gods, featuring Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley and John Malkovich is set to release in Us theaters December 31, 2019.…...
- 1/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Torun, Poland – In his latest work, “The Valley of the Gods,” director Lech Majewski explores the ancient mythology of a downtrodden people and the absurd wealth of the world’s richest man in a surreal vision of modern America. The film screened at the EnergaCamerimage Intl. Film Festival as part of special showcase honoring Majewski, who received the Special Camerimage Directing Award. “Valley of the Gods,” which stars Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Keir Dullea, Bérénice Marlohe and John Rhys-Davies, presents the clash between the ancient civilization of the Navajo and the ultra-modern, high-tech world of multi-billionaires. The Navajo “live in really very harsh conditions and their territory is surrounded by this super civilization, the Roman Empire of today, with this epitome of technical innovation,” Majewski told Variety. “I don’t know whether there is another place in the world that has this kind of absolute opposite sides.” Majewski contrasted his...
- 11/16/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Lech Majewski, the Polish film and theater director and writer, will be the recipient of the Directing Award at the Camerimage International Film Festival, which will take place in Torun, Poland, on Nov. 9-16.
Known for helming such films “The Mill and the Cross” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Majewski is a dual U.S. and Polish citizen. In addition to his work in film, he’s also a composer, poet and painter. His installations have been exhibited in multiple countries.
Majewski’s upcoming picture “Valley of the Gods” stars Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. It explores an idiosyncratic and mysterious vision of America and will be introduced by the director at a special Camerimage screening.
The director’s work is nothing if not eclectic. 2010’s “The Mill and the Cross” is a cinematic re-creation and reimagining of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s...
Known for helming such films “The Mill and the Cross” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Majewski is a dual U.S. and Polish citizen. In addition to his work in film, he’s also a composer, poet and painter. His installations have been exhibited in multiple countries.
Majewski’s upcoming picture “Valley of the Gods” stars Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. It explores an idiosyncratic and mysterious vision of America and will be introduced by the director at a special Camerimage screening.
The director’s work is nothing if not eclectic. 2010’s “The Mill and the Cross” is a cinematic re-creation and reimagining of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s...
- 9/5/2019
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Private market screening at the Tiff Bell Lightbox on Monday.
Paris-based Wide Management has picked up sales rights to Polish auteur Lech Majewski’s fantasy drama Valley Of The Gods starring Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich, and kicks off talks with buyers in Toronto this week.
Loïc Magneron’s sales company will host a private market screening at the Tiff Bell Lightbox on Monday (September 9). Wide holds worldwide rights excluding Middle East, Scandinavia, and former Yugoslavia, and represents North America with producers Angelus Silesius and Royal Road Entertainment.
Wide previously handled sales on Majewski’s The Mill And The Cross starring the late Rutger Hauer,...
Paris-based Wide Management has picked up sales rights to Polish auteur Lech Majewski’s fantasy drama Valley Of The Gods starring Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich, and kicks off talks with buyers in Toronto this week.
Loïc Magneron’s sales company will host a private market screening at the Tiff Bell Lightbox on Monday (September 9). Wide holds worldwide rights excluding Middle East, Scandinavia, and former Yugoslavia, and represents North America with producers Angelus Silesius and Royal Road Entertainment.
Wide previously handled sales on Majewski’s The Mill And The Cross starring the late Rutger Hauer,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jaime Ray Newman (The Punisher) is set for a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu’s upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng’s bestselling book.
Developed and written by Casual‘s Liz Tigelaar, the series hails from Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Washington’s Simpson Street and ABC Signature Studios. Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
Newman will play Elizabeth, a gynecologist who works for Planned Parenthood, was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and attended East Shaker High School with Elena (Witherspoon) and Linda (Dewitt). But unlike Elena and Linda,...
Developed and written by Casual‘s Liz Tigelaar, the series hails from Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Washington’s Simpson Street and ABC Signature Studios. Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
Newman will play Elizabeth, a gynecologist who works for Planned Parenthood, was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and attended East Shaker High School with Elena (Witherspoon) and Linda (Dewitt). But unlike Elena and Linda,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ronny Sen’s feature filmmaking debut, “Cat Sticks,” arrives at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival with an eye-catching piece of trivia attached to it: it’s the only Indian film to play at the fest. Yet what will likely set Sen’s work apart is its evocative, eye-catching style and unique approach to dramatizing drug addiction. For the black-and-white film, Sen teamed up with Tanmay Dhanania, who both executive produced and starred in the feature, to help bring Sen’s own experiences to life.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. ‘Cat Sticks’ weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with them through states high and low, spaces real and unreal. A relentless downpour plays backdrop to lives balanced on a precarious high. Some of them seek a release,...
Per the film’s official synopsis: “On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. ‘Cat Sticks’ weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with them through states high and low, spaces real and unreal. A relentless downpour plays backdrop to lives balanced on a precarious high. Some of them seek a release,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Valley of the Gods
Polish director Lech Majewski’s long gestating art-house sci-fi film Valley of the Gods should finally pop up somewhere in 2018. Majewki produced his most ambitious project to date alongside Filip Jan Rymsza, with co-producers Jan Harlan, Alyssa Swanzey Natalia Safran and Carla Rosen-Vacher. Majewski resumes working with his Field of Dogs (2014) Dp Pawel Tybora, and amassed a noted international cast included Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling, John Malkovich, Keri Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. Majewski’s handsome 2011 title The Mill & the Cross premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights bowed at the Rome Film Festival.…...
Polish director Lech Majewski’s long gestating art-house sci-fi film Valley of the Gods should finally pop up somewhere in 2018. Majewki produced his most ambitious project to date alongside Filip Jan Rymsza, with co-producers Jan Harlan, Alyssa Swanzey Natalia Safran and Carla Rosen-Vacher. Majewski resumes working with his Field of Dogs (2014) Dp Pawel Tybora, and amassed a noted international cast included Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling, John Malkovich, Keri Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. Majewski’s handsome 2011 title The Mill & the Cross premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights bowed at the Rome Film Festival.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Shoot has wrapped on Simon Pegg and Juno Temple starrer Lost Transmissions.
Writer-director Katharine O’Brien’s feature also stars Alexandra Daddario, Tao Okamoto, Rosanna Arquette, and Bria Vinaite.
Temple portrays Hannah, an aspiring singer/songwriter, whose mentor, a respected music producer Theo Ross, (Pegg) is struggling with schizophrenia. When Theo goes missing, she and her group of friends search for him throughout Los Angeles, hoping to get him the help he so desperately needs, while navigating the complexities of the mental health care system.
Cast is rounded out by Jamie Harris, Rebecca Hazelwood, Daisy Bishop, Danny Ramirez, Grant Harvey, Jacob Loeb, Nana Ghana and Robert Schwartzman.
Royal Road Entertainment and Underlying Tension are financing and producing the film with Pulse Films. UTA is repping domestic rights.
Producers are Filip Jan Rymsza and Olga Kagan for Royal Road Entertainment, Brigsby Bear producer Al Di for Underlying Tension and Tory Lenosky for Pulse Films.
Writer-director Katharine O’Brien’s feature also stars Alexandra Daddario, Tao Okamoto, Rosanna Arquette, and Bria Vinaite.
Temple portrays Hannah, an aspiring singer/songwriter, whose mentor, a respected music producer Theo Ross, (Pegg) is struggling with schizophrenia. When Theo goes missing, she and her group of friends search for him throughout Los Angeles, hoping to get him the help he so desperately needs, while navigating the complexities of the mental health care system.
Cast is rounded out by Jamie Harris, Rebecca Hazelwood, Daisy Bishop, Danny Ramirez, Grant Harvey, Jacob Loeb, Nana Ghana and Robert Schwartzman.
Royal Road Entertainment and Underlying Tension are financing and producing the film with Pulse Films. UTA is repping domestic rights.
Producers are Filip Jan Rymsza and Olga Kagan for Royal Road Entertainment, Brigsby Bear producer Al Di for Underlying Tension and Tory Lenosky for Pulse Films.
- 8/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Valley of the Gods
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts, such as 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and more recently, the international co-production The Mill and the Cross (2011), a beautiful production aiming to flesh out the lives of a dozen characters of figures depicted in Bruegel’s famed painting, which starred Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling.
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Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts, such as 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and more recently, the international co-production The Mill and the Cross (2011), a beautiful production aiming to flesh out the lives of a dozen characters of figures depicted in Bruegel’s famed painting, which starred Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling.
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- 1/2/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
You see “Iran” and think certain things. You go to Iran and see the people, the shops, street activity, the environment, its museums and you forget the two things about it which shape your emotional reaction to it: politics and history. Being one of two Americans attending the Fajr International Film Festival makes me feel responsible for sharing my best moments with a broader public.
The Fajr International Film Festival is a gala affair, small enough to meet and share time with the many participants, both filmmakers and invitees from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, Turkey, Japan, Mongolia and Korea (and more!). I can only think of one other film event which offered such a luxurious array of experiences to go along with film watching (when Rosskino of Russia invited 25 U.S.distributors and us to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then repeated the event for Brics countries...
The Fajr International Film Festival is a gala affair, small enough to meet and share time with the many participants, both filmmakers and invitees from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, Turkey, Japan, Mongolia and Korea (and more!). I can only think of one other film event which offered such a luxurious array of experiences to go along with film watching (when Rosskino of Russia invited 25 U.S.distributors and us to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then repeated the event for Brics countries...
- 5/1/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Valley of the Gods
Director: Lech Majewski
Writer: Lech Majewski
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts, such as 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and more recently, the international co-production The Mill and the Cross (2011), a beautiful production aiming to flesh out the lives of a dozen characters of figures depicted in Bruegel’s famed painting, which starred Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling.
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Director: Lech Majewski
Writer: Lech Majewski
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts, such as 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and more recently, the international co-production The Mill and the Cross (2011), a beautiful production aiming to flesh out the lives of a dozen characters of figures depicted in Bruegel’s famed painting, which starred Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling.
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- 1/6/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Alex Ross Perry's Golden Exits will feature Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny and Analeigh Tipton. We're also gathering word on other features in the works from Guillermo del Toro (with Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Richard Jenkins), Volker Schlöndorff (with Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss), Ciro Guerra, Carlos Reygadas, David Robert Mitchell, Amat Escalante, Ava DuVernay, Lech Majewski, Andy Serkis… And David Cronenberg "will step to the other side of the camera to star opposite Karine Vanasse in writer/director Geordie Sabbagh's sci-fi short film Tomorrow's Shadows," according to the Hollywood Reporter. » - David Hudson...
- 5/5/2016
- Keyframe
Alex Ross Perry's Golden Exits will feature Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny and Analeigh Tipton. We're also gathering word on other features in the works from Guillermo del Toro (with Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Richard Jenkins), Volker Schlöndorff (with Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss), Ciro Guerra, Carlos Reygadas, David Robert Mitchell, Amat Escalante, Ava DuVernay, Lech Majewski, Andy Serkis… And David Cronenberg "will step to the other side of the camera to star opposite Karine Vanasse in writer/director Geordie Sabbagh's sci-fi short film Tomorrow's Shadows," according to the Hollywood Reporter. » - David Hudson...
- 5/5/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
John Malkovich is set to join the growing cast of Lech Majewski's fantasy drama "Valley of the Gods" for Royal Road Entertainment.
Josh Hartnett ("Penny Dreadful"), Berenice Marlohe ("Skyfall"), Keir Dullea ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), John Rhys-Davies ("The Lord of the Rings") and Charlotte Rampling ("Swimming Pool") also star.
Lech Majewski ("The Mill and the Cross") is helming the project about a Navajo legend and reclusive best-selling writer (Hartnett) who possesses an unbridled imagination and has the ability to alter reality.
The action follows three narratives about characters who attempt to escape the drama that follows when supernatural visions clash with reality.
Majewski and Filip Jan Rymsza are producing and filming begins May 18th in Poland, Italy and Utah.
Source: Variety...
Josh Hartnett ("Penny Dreadful"), Berenice Marlohe ("Skyfall"), Keir Dullea ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), John Rhys-Davies ("The Lord of the Rings") and Charlotte Rampling ("Swimming Pool") also star.
Lech Majewski ("The Mill and the Cross") is helming the project about a Navajo legend and reclusive best-selling writer (Hartnett) who possesses an unbridled imagination and has the ability to alter reality.
The action follows three narratives about characters who attempt to escape the drama that follows when supernatural visions clash with reality.
Majewski and Filip Jan Rymsza are producing and filming begins May 18th in Poland, Italy and Utah.
Source: Variety...
- 5/5/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Somehow not a low-budget, Croatia-shot thriller, To the Bone has added Keanu Reeves to its cast. The feature debut of writer-director Marti Noxon, it’ll see him star opposite Lily Collins, playing “Dr. William Beckham, the doctor with an unorthodox style who pushes Ellen (Collins) to choose life and commit to getting better.” Being that this comes from the helmer’s own experiences, one expects something a cut above the standard afterschool special. [Deadline]
Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro‘s Cold War romance is coming together quickly: after adding Octavia Spencer and Sally Hawkins about two weeks back, the production’s snagged Michael Stuhlbarg for negotiations about a role. As previously reported, it concerns an “otherworldly love story set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1963” — and that’s all we currently know. [THR]
Then there’s Valley of the Gods, a new film from Lech Majewski (The Mill and the Cross...
Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro‘s Cold War romance is coming together quickly: after adding Octavia Spencer and Sally Hawkins about two weeks back, the production’s snagged Michael Stuhlbarg for negotiations about a role. As previously reported, it concerns an “otherworldly love story set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1963” — and that’s all we currently know. [THR]
Then there’s Valley of the Gods, a new film from Lech Majewski (The Mill and the Cross...
- 3/29/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Berenice Marlohe ("Skyfall"), Keir Dullea ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), Joseph Runningfox ("Geronimo") and Steven Skyler are set to join Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling and John Rhys-Davies in the high concept fantasy feature "Valley of the Gods".
The story features the richest man on earth, a Navajo legend and a writer (Hartnett) who possesses an unbridled imagination and has the ability to alter reality.
It involves three narratives about characters who attempt to escape the drama that follows when supernatural visions clash with reality.
Lech Majewski ("The Mill and the Cross") helms the film which Filip Jan Rymsza is producing and filming begins in May in Poland.
Source: Variety...
The story features the richest man on earth, a Navajo legend and a writer (Hartnett) who possesses an unbridled imagination and has the ability to alter reality.
It involves three narratives about characters who attempt to escape the drama that follows when supernatural visions clash with reality.
Lech Majewski ("The Mill and the Cross") helms the film which Filip Jan Rymsza is producing and filming begins in May in Poland.
Source: Variety...
- 3/25/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s A Personal Journey through American Movies and My Voyage to Italian Cinema, Bertrand Tavernier's A Journey Through French Cinema will incorporate interviews and footage from Jean Renoir, Claude Sautet, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, François Truffaut and Jacques Becker. And we've got details on more projects in the works by Terence Davies, Lars von Trier, Alexander Payne, Michael Haneke, Woody Allen, Jill Soloway, Bruno Dumont, Ruben Östlund, Cédric Kahn, Bille August, Xavier Dolan, Joe Wright, Baltasar Kormákur, Paddy Considine, Scott Cooper, Lech Majewski, Felix van Groeningen and Janusz Kaminski, plus forthcoming films starring Saoirse Ronan, Charlotte Rampling, Johnny Depp, Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan. » - David Hudson...
- 2/22/2016
- Keyframe
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s A Personal Journey through American Movies and My Voyage to Italian Cinema, Bertrand Tavernier's A Journey Through French Cinema will incorporate interviews and footage from Jean Renoir, Claude Sautet, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, François Truffaut and Jacques Becker. And we've got details on more projects in the works by Terence Davies, Lars von Trier, Alexander Payne, Michael Haneke, Woody Allen, Jill Soloway, Bruno Dumont, Ruben Östlund, Cédric Kahn, Bille August, Xavier Dolan, Joe Wright, Baltasar Kormákur, Paddy Considine, Scott Cooper, Lech Majewski, Felix van Groeningen and Janusz Kaminski, plus forthcoming films starring Saoirse Ronan, Charlotte Rampling, Johnny Depp, Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan. » - David Hudson...
- 2/22/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Lech Majewski’s sci-fi epic also adds John Rhys-Davies to cast.
Charlotte Rampling and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring) have been cast alongside Josh Hartnett in Lech Majewski’s Valley Of The Gods, which Fortissimo Films is pre-selling at the Efm.
The sci-fi epic intertwines the story of the richest man on earth, an ancient Najavo legend and a writer, John Ecas (Hartnett), who has the ability to alter reality and launches the narrative into the realms of fantasy. Additional casting is expected to be announced in the lead up to principal photography.
The film is produced by Royal Road Entertainment’s Filip Jan Rymsza and Carla Rosen-Vacher and The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and Angelus Silesius. Los Angeles and Luxembourg-based Royal Road also produced Karim Aïnouz’s The Beauty Of Sharks and is currently completing Orson Welles’ last film, The Other Side Of The Wind.
Rampling, who has...
Charlotte Rampling and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring) have been cast alongside Josh Hartnett in Lech Majewski’s Valley Of The Gods, which Fortissimo Films is pre-selling at the Efm.
The sci-fi epic intertwines the story of the richest man on earth, an ancient Najavo legend and a writer, John Ecas (Hartnett), who has the ability to alter reality and launches the narrative into the realms of fantasy. Additional casting is expected to be announced in the lead up to principal photography.
The film is produced by Royal Road Entertainment’s Filip Jan Rymsza and Carla Rosen-Vacher and The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and Angelus Silesius. Los Angeles and Luxembourg-based Royal Road also produced Karim Aïnouz’s The Beauty Of Sharks and is currently completing Orson Welles’ last film, The Other Side Of The Wind.
Rampling, who has...
- 2/13/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Charlotte Rampling's bumper year continues. With one new European Film Market project already in the bag (the Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon) and a best actress Oscar nomination for 45 Years (for which she won the Golden Bear at last year's Berlinale), the British actress has scored herself another high-profile feature. Announced Saturday, the actress will star alongside Josh Hartnett and John Rhys-Davies in Lech Majewski's Valley of the Gods, a sci-fi fantasy following the narratives of three characters attempting to escape the inevitable drama about to unfold when supernatural visions clash with impending reality. Principal photography is
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- 2/13/2016
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Charlotte Rampling and John Rhys-Davies will star alongside Josh Hartnett in Lech Majewski's sci-fi pic Valley of the Gods. Rampling, Academy Award-nominated for her role in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, will play Amanda Joyce. She will next be seen in Ritesh Batra's The Sense of an Ending with Jim Broadbent and Emily Mortimer. Rhys-Davies is next set to star in MTV's fantasy epic, The Shannara Chronicles. Valley of the Gods intertwines the stories of the richest man on earth…...
- 2/13/2016
- Deadline
David Simon, creator of The Wire, has spent the night engaged in an online conversation about Baltimore. Also in today's roundup: Tilda Swinton and Chuck Close in conversation, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Mark Rappaport, David Bordwell on David Koepp, Harun Farocki on Michael Klier, interviews with Lech Majewski, Roy Andersson, Daniel Clowes and Ennio Morricone, essays on Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Laura Mulvey, Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and John Schlesinger’s Darling, remembering cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, plus news of an unseen film by Manoel de Oliveira and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/28/2015
- Keyframe
David Simon, creator of The Wire, has spent the night engaged in an online conversation about Baltimore. Also in today's roundup: Tilda Swinton and Chuck Close in conversation, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Mark Rappaport, David Bordwell on David Koepp, Harun Farocki on Michael Klier, interviews with Lech Majewski, Roy Andersson, Daniel Clowes and Ennio Morricone, essays on Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Laura Mulvey, Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and John Schlesinger’s Darling, remembering cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, plus news of an unseen film by Manoel de Oliveira and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/28/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
If you've seen any of writer/director Lech Majewski's previous movies, I'm particularly fond of The Mill and the Cross (review), you know more or less what to expect from Field of Dogs: a movie that will be beautiful, contemplative and sometimes downright slow to the point where your mind starts to wander. I think there's a certain magic to the flow of thoughts that emerge from watching Majewski's work but it's not for everyone.
His latest, inspired by a modern reading of Dante's "Divine Comedy," is a tale of mirroring tragedies: that of Adam, a poet suffering through sorrow after the love of his life dies in a car crash and the national tragedies th [Continued ...]...
His latest, inspired by a modern reading of Dante's "Divine Comedy," is a tale of mirroring tragedies: that of Adam, a poet suffering through sorrow after the love of his life dies in a car crash and the national tragedies th [Continued ...]...
- 4/21/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Principal photography is set to commence this summer on the fantasy sci-fi.
Lech Majewski is to direct Valley of the Gods for Angelus Silesius, Royal Road Entertainment and The Safran Company.
Principal photography on the fantasy sci-fi is set to commence this summer in Poland, Italy and Utah.
Produced by Filip Jan Rymsza for Royal Road Entertainment and Majewski for Angelus Silesius, the film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer.
Royal Road’s Carla Rosen-Vacher is co-producing, with financing being provided by the Polish Film Institute.
Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross, starring Rutger Hauer, premiered at Sundance in 2011.
Lech Majewski is to direct Valley of the Gods for Angelus Silesius, Royal Road Entertainment and The Safran Company.
Principal photography on the fantasy sci-fi is set to commence this summer in Poland, Italy and Utah.
Produced by Filip Jan Rymsza for Royal Road Entertainment and Majewski for Angelus Silesius, the film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer.
Royal Road’s Carla Rosen-Vacher is co-producing, with financing being provided by the Polish Film Institute.
Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross, starring Rutger Hauer, premiered at Sundance in 2011.
- 3/13/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Birdman, Fury and Leviathan among main competition titles; Roland Joffé to preside over main jury.
Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:
Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha
Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...
Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:
Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha
Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...
- 10/31/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30) will include a focus on Polish cinema with two dozen Polish films taking centre stage, including opening film Warsaw 1944 by Jan Komasa.
Polish films in the Black Nights programme will include Family Life and The Foreign Body by Krzystof Zanussi, Field of Dogs by Lech Majewski and Last Floor by Tadeusz Krol as well as films by Jerzy Hoffman, Elwira Niewira, Kasia Adamik, Andrzej Waja, Aleksander Scibor-Rylski and Agnieszka Holland.
Following its 2013 debut the festival will also bring back its industry Confab strand.
Organized in partnership with Independent Cinema Office (UK) the event sees leaders of the international film festival circuit brought together to discuss topics including competition between festivals, programming and censorship, sponsorship, fundraising, and the role of festivals in creative economies.
Polish films in the Black Nights programme will include Family Life and The Foreign Body by Krzystof Zanussi, Field of Dogs by Lech Majewski and Last Floor by Tadeusz Krol as well as films by Jerzy Hoffman, Elwira Niewira, Kasia Adamik, Andrzej Waja, Aleksander Scibor-Rylski and Agnieszka Holland.
Following its 2013 debut the festival will also bring back its industry Confab strand.
Organized in partnership with Independent Cinema Office (UK) the event sees leaders of the international film festival circuit brought together to discuss topics including competition between festivals, programming and censorship, sponsorship, fundraising, and the role of festivals in creative economies.
- 10/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The 16th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival announced its line-up in a press conference today.
Here is the complete list of films which will be screened at the festival:-
International Competition
Difret
Dir.: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (Ethiopia / 2014 / Col / 99)
History of Fear (Historia del miedo)
Dir.: Benjamin Naishtat (Argentina-France-Germany-Qatar-Uruguay / 2014 / Col / 79)
With Others (Ba Digaran)
Dir.: Nasser Zamiri (Iran / 2014 / Col / 85)
The Tree (Drevo)
Dir.: Sonja Prosenc (Slovenia / 2014 / Col / 90)
Next to Her (At li layla)
Dir.: Asaf Korman (Israel / 2014 / Col / 90)
Schimbare
Dir.: Alex Sampayo (Spain / 2014 / Col / 87)
Fever
Dir.: Raphaël Neal (France / 2014 / Col / 81)
Court
Dir.: Chaitanya Tamhane (India (Marathi-Gujarati-English-Hindi) / 2014 / Col / 116)
Macondo
Dir.: Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria / 2014 / Col / 98)
India Gold Competition 2014
The Fort (Killa)
Dir.: Avinash Arun (India (Marathi) / 2014 / Col / 107)
Unto the Dusk
Dir.: Sajin Baabu (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 118)
Names Unknown (Perariyathavar)
Dir.: Dr. Biju (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 110)
Buddha In a Traffic Jam
Dir.
Here is the complete list of films which will be screened at the festival:-
International Competition
Difret
Dir.: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (Ethiopia / 2014 / Col / 99)
History of Fear (Historia del miedo)
Dir.: Benjamin Naishtat (Argentina-France-Germany-Qatar-Uruguay / 2014 / Col / 79)
With Others (Ba Digaran)
Dir.: Nasser Zamiri (Iran / 2014 / Col / 85)
The Tree (Drevo)
Dir.: Sonja Prosenc (Slovenia / 2014 / Col / 90)
Next to Her (At li layla)
Dir.: Asaf Korman (Israel / 2014 / Col / 90)
Schimbare
Dir.: Alex Sampayo (Spain / 2014 / Col / 87)
Fever
Dir.: Raphaël Neal (France / 2014 / Col / 81)
Court
Dir.: Chaitanya Tamhane (India (Marathi-Gujarati-English-Hindi) / 2014 / Col / 116)
Macondo
Dir.: Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria / 2014 / Col / 98)
India Gold Competition 2014
The Fort (Killa)
Dir.: Avinash Arun (India (Marathi) / 2014 / Col / 107)
Unto the Dusk
Dir.: Sajin Baabu (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 118)
Names Unknown (Perariyathavar)
Dir.: Dr. Biju (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 110)
Buddha In a Traffic Jam
Dir.
- 9/17/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Restored, re-edited version of The Deluge to open Michal Oleszczyk’s first year at Gdynia
Michał Oleszczyk’s first outing as the artistic director of the Gdynia Film Festival (Sept 15-21) will open tonight with the restored and re-edited version of Jerzy Hoffman’s 1974 classic The Deluge.
Under Hoffman’s supervision, the editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski has created Deluge Redivivus, a new, shortened version of the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Henryk Sienkiewicz novel.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the festival’s 39th edition in the Polish city, Oleszczyk says that he has made “two significant changes” this year.
“I reinforced the Young Cinema Competition, which puts emphasis on film directors who have just graduated from film schools - I strongly believe that it’s very important to support the new generation of filmmakers,” he said.
“I have moved this competition into the main festival cinema venue of the Musical Theatre, so that, currently...
Michał Oleszczyk’s first outing as the artistic director of the Gdynia Film Festival (Sept 15-21) will open tonight with the restored and re-edited version of Jerzy Hoffman’s 1974 classic The Deluge.
Under Hoffman’s supervision, the editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski has created Deluge Redivivus, a new, shortened version of the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Henryk Sienkiewicz novel.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the festival’s 39th edition in the Polish city, Oleszczyk says that he has made “two significant changes” this year.
“I reinforced the Young Cinema Competition, which puts emphasis on film directors who have just graduated from film schools - I strongly believe that it’s very important to support the new generation of filmmakers,” he said.
“I have moved this competition into the main festival cinema venue of the Musical Theatre, so that, currently...
- 9/15/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A re-energised Pula Film Festival, the biggest film festival in Croatia, will welcome top guests including Roger Michell, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Gyorgi Palfi, Tudor Giurgiu and Mike Cahill.
Fridriksson [pictured] will serve on a jury and be the subject of a retrospective including his films Rock in Reykjavik, Children of Nature, Devil’s Island, Angels Of The Universe, and Falcons.
The Pula Pro Industry section will include masterclasses from PR expert Charles MacDonald, marketing veteran John Durie, sound expert Ray Gillon of G-Minor and Nik Powell of the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The festival boasts a new artistic team of Mike Downey, Hrvoje Puksec and Tanja Milicic, who took over in April.
The Pula Cinematheque section, under special advistor Rajko Grlic, will focus on the year 1965.
One new strand at the festival will be Dizalica, aimed at cinephiles aged 16-21; selections include We Are The Best! and Bitch Hug. This is added...
Fridriksson [pictured] will serve on a jury and be the subject of a retrospective including his films Rock in Reykjavik, Children of Nature, Devil’s Island, Angels Of The Universe, and Falcons.
The Pula Pro Industry section will include masterclasses from PR expert Charles MacDonald, marketing veteran John Durie, sound expert Ray Gillon of G-Minor and Nik Powell of the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The festival boasts a new artistic team of Mike Downey, Hrvoje Puksec and Tanja Milicic, who took over in April.
The Pula Cinematheque section, under special advistor Rajko Grlic, will focus on the year 1965.
One new strand at the festival will be Dizalica, aimed at cinephiles aged 16-21; selections include We Are The Best! and Bitch Hug. This is added...
- 7/2/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Peter Webber to head jury, David Puttnam to deliver lecture during fifth edition of the Ukranian festival.
Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice and the Camera D’Or recipient Party Girl [pictured] are among the 12 films selected for the International Competition at the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), which runs July 11-19.
UK director Peter Webber will head the jury composed of Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa, Israeli actress Jenya Dodina, Belorussian actress-director Olga Dykhovichnaya and French actor-critic Jean-Philippe Tessé.
The other films in the running for the Golden Duke award are:
Bryan Reisberg’s social and psychological drama Big Significant Things (Us)Levan Koguashvili’s feelgood film Blind Dates (Georgia)Director and painter Lech Majewski’s Field of Dogs (Poland)Alonso Ruizpalacios’ road movie debut Güeros (Mexico)Valentin Hotea’s social and psychological drama Roxanne (Romania)Anna Melikyan’s Kinotavr award-winner Star (Russia)Maximilan Erlenwein’s psychological thriller Stereo (Germany)Tribeca winner [link=nm...
Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice and the Camera D’Or recipient Party Girl [pictured] are among the 12 films selected for the International Competition at the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), which runs July 11-19.
UK director Peter Webber will head the jury composed of Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa, Israeli actress Jenya Dodina, Belorussian actress-director Olga Dykhovichnaya and French actor-critic Jean-Philippe Tessé.
The other films in the running for the Golden Duke award are:
Bryan Reisberg’s social and psychological drama Big Significant Things (Us)Levan Koguashvili’s feelgood film Blind Dates (Georgia)Director and painter Lech Majewski’s Field of Dogs (Poland)Alonso Ruizpalacios’ road movie debut Güeros (Mexico)Valentin Hotea’s social and psychological drama Roxanne (Romania)Anna Melikyan’s Kinotavr award-winner Star (Russia)Maximilan Erlenwein’s psychological thriller Stereo (Germany)Tribeca winner [link=nm...
- 6/11/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French outifit takes world sales rights to Tamar van den Dop’s teen drama.
Loic Magneron’s Paris-based Wide Management has snapped up world sales rights to Dutch actress/director Tamar van den Dop’s Supernova, a deal confirmed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) this week.
The film will premiere in the Berlinale’s Generation 14 Plus next month.
“Right away, I was so positive regarding the artistic aspects, the storyline, acting and especially the directing,” Magneron said of van den Dop’s second feature.
Supernova is about a 17-year-old girl living with her parents in a remote backwater, yearning for love, fantasy and adventure.
The film will be part of Wide’s Eye on Films promotion and distribution initiative, which Magneron said should heighten its visibility further. The film will be shown in the European Film Market next month.
Other new Wide pick-ups include Lech Majewski’s Field Of Dogs and Berlinale Forum entry N...
Loic Magneron’s Paris-based Wide Management has snapped up world sales rights to Dutch actress/director Tamar van den Dop’s Supernova, a deal confirmed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) this week.
The film will premiere in the Berlinale’s Generation 14 Plus next month.
“Right away, I was so positive regarding the artistic aspects, the storyline, acting and especially the directing,” Magneron said of van den Dop’s second feature.
Supernova is about a 17-year-old girl living with her parents in a remote backwater, yearning for love, fantasy and adventure.
The film will be part of Wide’s Eye on Films promotion and distribution initiative, which Magneron said should heighten its visibility further. The film will be shown in the European Film Market next month.
Other new Wide pick-ups include Lech Majewski’s Field Of Dogs and Berlinale Forum entry N...
- 1/28/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Hunger Games DoP Tom Stern and 12 Years a Slave cinematographer Sean Bobbitt among those chosen for jury duty.
The 21st Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Nov 16-23), has revealed the competition jurors who will judge entries at this year’s event in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jury members of the main competition jury are:
Tom Stern, cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Hunger Games);Ed Lachman, cinematographer (Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, I’m Not There);Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic;Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (Paris, je t’aime, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes);Adam Holender, cinematographer (Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh);Timo Salminen, cinematographer (The Man Without a Past, La Havre, The Match Factory Girl);Franz Lustig, cinematographer (Don’t Come Knocking, Land of Plenty, Palermo Shooting);Jeffrey Kimball, cinematographer (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible II, The Expendables).Polish Films Competition
Jost Vacano, the cinematographer behind several Paul Verhoeven films including Total Recall, RoboCop and [link...
The 21st Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Nov 16-23), has revealed the competition jurors who will judge entries at this year’s event in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jury members of the main competition jury are:
Tom Stern, cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Hunger Games);Ed Lachman, cinematographer (Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, I’m Not There);Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic;Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (Paris, je t’aime, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes);Adam Holender, cinematographer (Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh);Timo Salminen, cinematographer (The Man Without a Past, La Havre, The Match Factory Girl);Franz Lustig, cinematographer (Don’t Come Knocking, Land of Plenty, Palermo Shooting);Jeffrey Kimball, cinematographer (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible II, The Expendables).Polish Films Competition
Jost Vacano, the cinematographer behind several Paul Verhoeven films including Total Recall, RoboCop and [link...
- 11/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Our irregular series on smaller film festivals looks at a Polish celebration of independent cinema kicking off this Friday
Festival name: Off Plus Camera – International Festival of Independent Cinema
Location: Krakow, Poland
Website: www.offpluscamera.com
Dates: annually,12-21 April 2013
About: This increasingly dynamic festival of independent cinema is geared towards young and debut directors. Taking place in the picturesque southern Polish city of Krakow, the festival is staged in former palaces – such as the Pod Baranami cinema and Kino Ars just off the main square – and, to a lesser extent, at all seven of the city's other art-house cinemas. This year's festival will also offer rooftop screenings, "for those who like extreme sports", according to the artistic director. By attracting more sponsors and by vastly improving organisation and publicity, Off Plus Camera has developed rapidly under the auspices of festival director, Szymon Miszczak; artistic director, Ania Trzebiatowska (who formerly...
Festival name: Off Plus Camera – International Festival of Independent Cinema
Location: Krakow, Poland
Website: www.offpluscamera.com
Dates: annually,12-21 April 2013
About: This increasingly dynamic festival of independent cinema is geared towards young and debut directors. Taking place in the picturesque southern Polish city of Krakow, the festival is staged in former palaces – such as the Pod Baranami cinema and Kino Ars just off the main square – and, to a lesser extent, at all seven of the city's other art-house cinemas. This year's festival will also offer rooftop screenings, "for those who like extreme sports", according to the artistic director. By attracting more sponsors and by vastly improving organisation and publicity, Off Plus Camera has developed rapidly under the auspices of festival director, Szymon Miszczak; artistic director, Ania Trzebiatowska (who formerly...
- 4/11/2013
- by James Hopkin
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – “Young Goethe in Love” is not the sort of title guaranteed to send American audiences to the theater in droves. For one thing, the title sounds too much like “Shakespeare in Love,” though its original German title, “Goethe!” sounds like a giddy musical along the lines of “Oliver!” Perhaps Goethe’s name should’ve been cut from the title altogether and relegated to a snappy tagline like, “Love Can Cometh and Goethe in an Instant.”
Thankfully, a poorly titled and under-marketed cinematic gem can find the audience it deserves with the help of good critical buzz, and here’s hoping that will happen to Philipp Stölzl’s irresistible 2010 period romance upon its DVD realease. The future master of Weimer Classicism was a mere 23-year-old when he first penned 1774’s “The Sorrows of Young Werner,” which heavily influenced the subsequent Romantic literary movement, as well as inspire a wave of...
Thankfully, a poorly titled and under-marketed cinematic gem can find the audience it deserves with the help of good critical buzz, and here’s hoping that will happen to Philipp Stölzl’s irresistible 2010 period romance upon its DVD realease. The future master of Weimer Classicism was a mere 23-year-old when he first penned 1774’s “The Sorrows of Young Werner,” which heavily influenced the subsequent Romantic literary movement, as well as inspire a wave of...
- 5/3/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The April 2012 issue of frieze is out and artist Lis Rhodes has taken on the "Life in Film" column. Also: Jonathan Griffin reviews work by Alex Israel, who "claims to believe in the 'stardust' of Hollywood, in the magic that transforms an object just through its appearance on film, pictured in association with a star whose image is just as fictitious as the movie itself."
"In the mid-1980s, film novelizations were messages in bottles for those without video recorders or access to a cinema," writes George Pendle. "Even if you had seen the film in question, these novelizations acted as memento vidi, forceful reminders of what you had seen." And yet, they're still being written:
In his 2005 essay "Novelization, a Contaminated Genre?," the cultural theorist Jan Baetens declares novelizations as a unique, if non-canonical, genre: "Novelization does not so much aspire to become the movie's other as it wants to be its double,...
"In the mid-1980s, film novelizations were messages in bottles for those without video recorders or access to a cinema," writes George Pendle. "Even if you had seen the film in question, these novelizations acted as memento vidi, forceful reminders of what you had seen." And yet, they're still being written:
In his 2005 essay "Novelization, a Contaminated Genre?," the cultural theorist Jan Baetens declares novelizations as a unique, if non-canonical, genre: "Novelization does not so much aspire to become the movie's other as it wants to be its double,...
- 3/22/2012
- MUBI
There is a short list of films either titled after or inspired by famous paintings, but I'd wager that none is quite as strange or engrossing as Lech Majewski's The Mill & the Cross. Majewski turns his personal obsession with Pieter Bruegel's The Procession to Calvary into a feature length character study of about a dozen of the five hundred or so subjects of the painting. This approach seems very intuitive, though I can't think of another person using it quite to this effect, focusing on the lesser characters of such a massive piece of work.The Procession to Calvary is one of thousands of images painted by the masters of the journey of Christ to the hill at Golgotha where he was crucified. What makes...
- 2/28/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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