HBO Max is saying goodbye to the Sex and the City universe in style.
The streaming service has confirmed a documentary special will launch on the same day as the And Just Like That finale.
Here is the logline for the project:
In the late ‘90s, “Sex and the City” took television by storm with its honest and hilarious perspective on love, relationships… and sex, earning legions of devoted fans.
Over 20 years later, this exclusive and immersive documentary offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the new chapter, “And Just Like That…”
Featuring new and returning cast members, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, as well as writers, costume designers, producers, and crew – many of whom reassume their previous positions – this loving tribute celebrates the return of Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda as they continue navigating their friendship and life in New York City.
The streaming...
The streaming service has confirmed a documentary special will launch on the same day as the And Just Like That finale.
Here is the logline for the project:
In the late ‘90s, “Sex and the City” took television by storm with its honest and hilarious perspective on love, relationships… and sex, earning legions of devoted fans.
Over 20 years later, this exclusive and immersive documentary offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the new chapter, “And Just Like That…”
Featuring new and returning cast members, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, as well as writers, costume designers, producers, and crew – many of whom reassume their previous positions – this loving tribute celebrates the return of Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda as they continue navigating their friendship and life in New York City.
The streaming...
- 2/1/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
HBO Max has revealed the trailer for And Just Like That…The Documentary, set to air Feb. 3. The documentary feature, which coincides with the show’s finale episode, will take a behind-the-scenes look at the Sex and the City reboot, which has received a mixed response from fans.
“This season may be ending, but we’re not done yet,” HBO Max teased alongside the trailer, suggesting audiences may be blessed (or cursed) with a second season of the show, which follows Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw navigating life in her 50s.
“This season may be ending, but we’re not done yet,” HBO Max teased alongside the trailer, suggesting audiences may be blessed (or cursed) with a second season of the show, which follows Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw navigating life in her 50s.
- 2/1/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
In Body Of Truth Evelyn Schels explores the lives and works of Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat, and Katharina Sieverding Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
As the tenth annual Doc NYC Closing Night selection, Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes (based on audio recordings by George Plimpton of Truman Capote) was screening at Sva Theatre 1, I attended the international première of Evelyn Schels’ Body Of Truth, screening in Sva Theatre 2.
Shot by Börres Weiffenbach (Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman), edited by Ulrike Tortora (Nina Wesemann’s Kids) and with a score by Christoph Rinnert (Schels’ Georg Baselitz), Body Of Truth explores the lives and work of four artists - Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, Sigalit Landau, and Katharina Sieverding.
Marina Abramović with Klaus Biesenbach at the Gotham Awards for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At Cinépolis Chelsea, Evelyn Schels and producer Arek Gielnik (Isabella Sandri’s An Uncertain.
As the tenth annual Doc NYC Closing Night selection, Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes (based on audio recordings by George Plimpton of Truman Capote) was screening at Sva Theatre 1, I attended the international première of Evelyn Schels’ Body Of Truth, screening in Sva Theatre 2.
Shot by Börres Weiffenbach (Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman), edited by Ulrike Tortora (Nina Wesemann’s Kids) and with a score by Christoph Rinnert (Schels’ Georg Baselitz), Body Of Truth explores the lives and work of four artists - Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, Sigalit Landau, and Katharina Sieverding.
Marina Abramović with Klaus Biesenbach at the Gotham Awards for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At Cinépolis Chelsea, Evelyn Schels and producer Arek Gielnik (Isabella Sandri’s An Uncertain.
- 11/18/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sarah Jessica Parker is the latest Hollywood celebrity to get into the increasingly lucrative wine business. The "Sex And The City" star is all geared up to raise a toast to her new enterprise in life, come September.
Sarah will bre launching an Invivo x Sjp sauvignon blanc, reports "pagesix.com". She has plans to eventually expand her business to other areas of viticulture.
Also Read:?Angelina Jolie could do with a serious boyfriend
The actress was last seen on the big screen in Fabien Constant's romantic drama, "Here And Now". The film opened in 2018 and co-starred Simon Baker.
While she has not been part of a movie or television project for a while, her wine manufacture passion should keep her busy for now.
becoming, by our count, the last remaining celeb to be a vintner.
Other Hollywood celebrities who have forayed winemaking lately include Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie,...
Sarah will bre launching an Invivo x Sjp sauvignon blanc, reports "pagesix.com". She has plans to eventually expand her business to other areas of viticulture.
Also Read:?Angelina Jolie could do with a serious boyfriend
The actress was last seen on the big screen in Fabien Constant's romantic drama, "Here And Now". The film opened in 2018 and co-starred Simon Baker.
While she has not been part of a movie or television project for a while, her wine manufacture passion should keep her busy for now.
becoming, by our count, the last remaining celeb to be a vintner.
Other Hollywood celebrities who have forayed winemaking lately include Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie,...
- 9/3/2019
- GlamSham
James Crump, in his documentary Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco, shows Karl Lagerfeld acting in Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol's obscure fashion film L'Amour: "Karl would send little personal notes and was always an extraordinarily supportive person."
Karl Lagerfeld died today at the age of 85 at the American Hospital in Paris. Lagerfeld, never shy to be caught on camera, had a cameo in Julie Delpy's Lolo and was seen in Fabien Constant's Carine Roitfeld documentary Mademoiselle C with Sarah Jessica Parker. Frédéric Tcheng, editor of Matt Tyrnauer's Valentino: The Last Emperor, co-director with Lisa Immordino Vreeland of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, and director of Dior And I, sent the following remembrance in honour of Karl Lagerfeld.
Dany Boon with Karl Lagerfeld in Julie Delpy's Lolo
"What news! I thought Karl was going to live forever. I guess he died on stage,...
Karl Lagerfeld died today at the age of 85 at the American Hospital in Paris. Lagerfeld, never shy to be caught on camera, had a cameo in Julie Delpy's Lolo and was seen in Fabien Constant's Carine Roitfeld documentary Mademoiselle C with Sarah Jessica Parker. Frédéric Tcheng, editor of Matt Tyrnauer's Valentino: The Last Emperor, co-director with Lisa Immordino Vreeland of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, and director of Dior And I, sent the following remembrance in honour of Karl Lagerfeld.
Dany Boon with Karl Lagerfeld in Julie Delpy's Lolo
"What news! I thought Karl was going to live forever. I guess he died on stage,...
- 2/19/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It all started, naturally, in the Hamptons. As they sat by her pool in Amagansett two summers ago, watching their children play, Sarah Jessica Parker told Rufus Wainwright about the new movie she was producing and starring in, an updated take on Cléo from 5 to 7, a 1962 French film about a singer who’s awaiting a potentially devastating medical diagnosis. Parker would play the chanteuse in this new version, Here and Now — opening November 9th, it costars Common as her longtime manager, Simon Baker (as her ex) and Renée Zellweger (as...
- 11/8/2018
- by Maria Fontoura
- Rollingstone.com
Your response to “Here and Now,” a first narrative film from director Fabien Constant (“Mademoiselle C”), will very much depend on your response to Sarah Jessica Parker as a performer, for this is very much a vehicle for Parker, and it plays into some of her strengths and many of her weaknesses.
“Here and Now,” which screened at festivals under the title “Blue Night,” gets off to a very rocky start in a first sequence set in a hospital where Vivienne Carala (Parker) waits to see a doctor. The first shot is of her agonized eyes in extreme close-up, and the hand-held camera keeps very close to Vivienne. Constant seems to want us to be inside of Vivienne’s head here, but the editing is so jerky that what results is spatially incoherent rather than emotionally involving.
Vivienne is told that she has a brain tumor and only around fourteen...
“Here and Now,” which screened at festivals under the title “Blue Night,” gets off to a very rocky start in a first sequence set in a hospital where Vivienne Carala (Parker) waits to see a doctor. The first shot is of her agonized eyes in extreme close-up, and the hand-held camera keeps very close to Vivienne. Constant seems to want us to be inside of Vivienne’s head here, but the editing is so jerky that what results is spatially incoherent rather than emotionally involving.
Vivienne is told that she has a brain tumor and only around fourteen...
- 11/7/2018
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Sarah Jessica Parker seems to be on a new stride in her career, taking on the role of a woman who isn’t still parading around New York City looking for love, as she did for so long on “Sex and the City,” but is now grappling with her age and her life’s choices.
In “Here and Now,” Parker plays an established singer coming to terms with her priorities and her career’s direction after receiving some life-altering news. In this exclusive clip from the film, Parker sits with a disinterested young journalist who stingingly refers to as a “seasoned veteran.”
“Sure there are things I haven’t achieved,” Parker says after a long pause and a feeble stock answer. “I’m not done yet.”
Also Read: 'Blue Night' Film Review: Sarah Jessica Parker Loses the Pitch in Lackluster Drama
“Here and Now,” directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason,...
In “Here and Now,” Parker plays an established singer coming to terms with her priorities and her career’s direction after receiving some life-altering news. In this exclusive clip from the film, Parker sits with a disinterested young journalist who stingingly refers to as a “seasoned veteran.”
“Sure there are things I haven’t achieved,” Parker says after a long pause and a feeble stock answer. “I’m not done yet.”
Also Read: 'Blue Night' Film Review: Sarah Jessica Parker Loses the Pitch in Lackluster Drama
“Here and Now,” directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason,...
- 11/7/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The news ain’t good. Famed vocalist Vivienne Carala (Sarah Jessica Parker) is on the cusp of a world tour for her latest (and ninth) album only to find herself in a hospital waiting room calling her manager (Common’s Ben) to say she’s going to be late for rehearsal. She is to celebrate her twenty-fifth anniversary of playing at Birdland with multiple concerts beginning the very next day, an auspicious occasion even her well-known French mother Jeanne (Jacqueline Bisset) has decided to attend. And yet where jubilation and excitement should reside, only despair and dread are present. Best-case scenario is fourteen months of life with or without the ability to ever sing again. Worst-case scenario is death much sooner than she’ll need to correct her charmed life’s many wrongs.
Written by Laura Eason and directed by documentarian Fabien Constant (as his fictional narrative debut), Here and...
Written by Laura Eason and directed by documentarian Fabien Constant (as his fictional narrative debut), Here and...
- 11/6/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Dolly Wells on costume designer Arjun Bhasin: "I mean I had worked out Anna but once I was putting on his clothes, I thought, oh my god, this is so good." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Dolly Wells, star of Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer (Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop) plays Anna, a bookshop owner in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?, co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). Based on the book by Lee Israel, the film stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel with Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, Jane Curtin as her agent Marjorie, Anna Deavere Smith as Israel's ex Elaine, and bookstore owners Alan and Paul, played by Ben Falcone and Stephen Spinella.
Dolly Wells on her role as Anna with Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel: "She instructs her, which is so ironic.
Dolly Wells, star of Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer (Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop) plays Anna, a bookshop owner in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?, co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). Based on the book by Lee Israel, the film stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel with Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, Jane Curtin as her agent Marjorie, Anna Deavere Smith as Israel's ex Elaine, and bookstore owners Alan and Paul, played by Ben Falcone and Stephen Spinella.
Dolly Wells on her role as Anna with Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel: "She instructs her, which is so ironic.
- 10/15/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"What you do is so difficult, but you keep going." Ambi Distribution has released an official trailer for an indie, life-affirming drama titled Here and Now, which originally premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. The film stars Sarah Jessica Parker as a woman named Vivienne, an established singer / songwriter with a successful music career. On the eve of a major performance, Vivienne receives some life-altering news that causes her to reevaluate her priorities. As she traverses the busy streets of New York City, she tries to balance everything going on in her life and her new priorities. The film's cast includes Simon Baker, Common, Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter, with Jacqueline Bisset, and Renée Zellweger. It's not surprising that this look quite forgettable, and there's not much buzz about it from Tribeca anyway. Here's the official trailer (+ new poster) for Fabien Constant's Here and Now, direct from...
- 10/8/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jacques Audiard’s anticipated “The Sisters Brothers,” Melanie Laurent’s “Galveston” and Sahar Jessica Parker starrer “Blue Night” are among the 63 films set to play at the 44th edition of Deauville American Film Festival.
Running Aug.31 to Sept.9, the festival will wrap with Chris Weitz’s “Operation Finale” with Oscar Isaac an Sir Ben Kingsley who will both attend the screening.
Audiard, the Palme d’Or winning director of “Dheepan” and “A Prophet,” will attend the festival with “The Sisters Brothers” stars Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly ahead of the film’s North American premiere at Toronto. Audiard will receive an honorary award which Deauville’s artistic director Bruno Barde said was created for the helmer.
Barde said “The Sisters Brothers” was an instant classic in the veins of Michael Cimino’s masterpiece “Heaven’s Gate.” The artistic director also pointed out Audiard was one of the four French...
Running Aug.31 to Sept.9, the festival will wrap with Chris Weitz’s “Operation Finale” with Oscar Isaac an Sir Ben Kingsley who will both attend the screening.
Audiard, the Palme d’Or winning director of “Dheepan” and “A Prophet,” will attend the festival with “The Sisters Brothers” stars Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly ahead of the film’s North American premiere at Toronto. Audiard will receive an honorary award which Deauville’s artistic director Bruno Barde said was created for the helmer.
Barde said “The Sisters Brothers” was an instant classic in the veins of Michael Cimino’s masterpiece “Heaven’s Gate.” The artistic director also pointed out Audiard was one of the four French...
- 8/23/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Ambi Distribution and Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions have teamed to acquire rights to Here and Now, the drama produced by and starring Sarah Jessica Parker that bowed at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival under the title Blue Night.
The film is directed by Fabien Constant in his feature helming debut and co-stars Simon Baker, Common, Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter along with Jacqueline Bisset and Renée Zellweger. It will hit theaters November 9 via Ambi, day-and-date with digital and VOD through Paramount Home Media Distribution.
Parker stars as Vivienne, a a singer-songwriter who lives in New York City and has enjoyed a successful career with the help of her manager, Ben (Common). Upon receiving world-shattering news, she crisscrosses the city in a single day as she tries to balance her music, family and friends, and reflect on her successes and failures. With the support of her worried mother Jeanne (Bisset) and ex-husband...
The film is directed by Fabien Constant in his feature helming debut and co-stars Simon Baker, Common, Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter along with Jacqueline Bisset and Renée Zellweger. It will hit theaters November 9 via Ambi, day-and-date with digital and VOD through Paramount Home Media Distribution.
Parker stars as Vivienne, a a singer-songwriter who lives in New York City and has enjoyed a successful career with the help of her manager, Ben (Common). Upon receiving world-shattering news, she crisscrosses the city in a single day as she tries to balance her music, family and friends, and reflect on her successes and failures. With the support of her worried mother Jeanne (Bisset) and ex-husband...
- 8/16/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired the North American rights to the Sarah Jessica Parker drama “Here and Now,” which will be released day-and-date in theaters and VOD on Nov. 9.
Ambi Distribution will handle theatrical release with Paramount Home Media Distribution handling digital and VOD.
Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film stars Parker as Vivienne, a successful New York singer/songwriter whose career takes an unexpected blow when she receives some shocking news. With the help of her mother (Jacqueline Bisset) and ex-husband (Simon Baker), Vivienne fights to make peace with the city around her.
Common also stars as Vivienne’s manager, along with Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter, and Renee Zellweger. “House of Cards” writer Laura Eason penned the screenplay, with Fabien Constant directing in his feature debut.
“Sarah Jessica Parker,...
Ambi Distribution will handle theatrical release with Paramount Home Media Distribution handling digital and VOD.
Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film stars Parker as Vivienne, a successful New York singer/songwriter whose career takes an unexpected blow when she receives some shocking news. With the help of her mother (Jacqueline Bisset) and ex-husband (Simon Baker), Vivienne fights to make peace with the city around her.
Common also stars as Vivienne’s manager, along with Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter, and Renee Zellweger. “House of Cards” writer Laura Eason penned the screenplay, with Fabien Constant directing in his feature debut.
“Sarah Jessica Parker,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Drama about singer-songwriter who receives devastating news premiered in Tribeca.
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions has secured North American rights to Sarah Jessica Parker’s drama Here And Now, which Ambi Distribution will release theatrically on November 9.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release digitally and on VOD staring the same day.
Here And Now premiered in Tribeca and follows a New York City-based singer-songwriter on the day she receives earth-shattering news, traverses the city and attempts to make peace with the life she chose.
The cast includes Simon Baker, Common, Taylor Kinner, and Waleed Zuaiter, and features Jacqueline Bisset and Renee Zellweger.
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions has secured North American rights to Sarah Jessica Parker’s drama Here And Now, which Ambi Distribution will release theatrically on November 9.
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release digitally and on VOD staring the same day.
Here And Now premiered in Tribeca and follows a New York City-based singer-songwriter on the day she receives earth-shattering news, traverses the city and attempts to make peace with the life she chose.
The cast includes Simon Baker, Common, Taylor Kinner, and Waleed Zuaiter, and features Jacqueline Bisset and Renee Zellweger.
- 8/16/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
The Mentalist star Simon Baker with Anne-Katrin Titze on the evolution of Tim Winton's Breath, adapted by Baker and Gerard Lee, to become his directorial debut: "I was given the novel by my producing parter Mark Johnson, seven or eight years ago now, just to sign on as a producer." Photo: Denise Sinelov
At the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo before meeting with Simon Baker for a conversation on his film Breath, I was greeted by Pepper, his agent's lovely dog, who is also friendly with Ben Mendelsohn. When Simon joined us I told him that I had just come from an interview with Whit Stillman on the 20th anniversary of The Last Days Of Disco. Simon is also in Fabien Constant's Blue Night, starring Sarah Jessica Parker with Jacqueline Bisset, Renée Zellweger and Gus Birney.
Elizabeth Debicki (who was in Jean Genet's The Maids at...
At the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo before meeting with Simon Baker for a conversation on his film Breath, I was greeted by Pepper, his agent's lovely dog, who is also friendly with Ben Mendelsohn. When Simon joined us I told him that I had just come from an interview with Whit Stillman on the 20th anniversary of The Last Days Of Disco. Simon is also in Fabien Constant's Blue Night, starring Sarah Jessica Parker with Jacqueline Bisset, Renée Zellweger and Gus Birney.
Elizabeth Debicki (who was in Jean Genet's The Maids at...
- 5/26/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New York City – The 17th Tribeca Film Festival wrapped a couple weeks ago and the award winning films of the festival have been named. Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com was there for the first week of Tribeca, and files his personal best of the films that he experienced.
The films are either in release or are still looking for distributors, but many of them are already scheduled for 2018 theatrical runs. The Tribeca Film Festival screenings occur mostly in the Chelsea neighborhood, steps from the famed Hotel Chelsea (now under renovation).
The following are the prime 11 of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival…
Bathtubs Over Broadway
’Bathtubs Over Broadway,’ Directed by Dava Whisenant
Photo credit: Tribeca Film Festival
When is the last time you really saw a miracle take place? The story of “Bathtubs Over Broadway” is one such happenstance, as a disaffected comedy writer named Steve Young unwittingly stumbled upon a lost piece of 1950s/’60s art…...
The films are either in release or are still looking for distributors, but many of them are already scheduled for 2018 theatrical runs. The Tribeca Film Festival screenings occur mostly in the Chelsea neighborhood, steps from the famed Hotel Chelsea (now under renovation).
The following are the prime 11 of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival…
Bathtubs Over Broadway
’Bathtubs Over Broadway,’ Directed by Dava Whisenant
Photo credit: Tribeca Film Festival
When is the last time you really saw a miracle take place? The story of “Bathtubs Over Broadway” is one such happenstance, as a disaffected comedy writer named Steve Young unwittingly stumbled upon a lost piece of 1950s/’60s art…...
- 5/13/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In Fabien Constant’s Blue Night, Sarah Jessica Parker returns to New York City but in a different light than the glitz seen in her iconic TV series Sex and the City.
While Carrie Bradshaw searched for true love in the city that never sleeps, Parker’s aging jazz diva Vivienne Carala grapples with the meaning of life in the city of loneliness. Her Vivienne receives a life-changing medical diagnosis that catapults her into a journey across Gotham where she encounters and sorts her life with a melange of characters from her Uber driver to her manager (Common), her fastidious mother (Jacqueline Bisset), her ex-husband and teenage daughter.
For those on the Croisette now, they’ll find fashion documentarian-turned-feature film director Constant’s drama an ode to Agnes Varda’s French New Wave title Cleo From 5 to 7, in which a female singer awaits her doctor’s dooming medical report while...
While Carrie Bradshaw searched for true love in the city that never sleeps, Parker’s aging jazz diva Vivienne Carala grapples with the meaning of life in the city of loneliness. Her Vivienne receives a life-changing medical diagnosis that catapults her into a journey across Gotham where she encounters and sorts her life with a melange of characters from her Uber driver to her manager (Common), her fastidious mother (Jacqueline Bisset), her ex-husband and teenage daughter.
For those on the Croisette now, they’ll find fashion documentarian-turned-feature film director Constant’s drama an ode to Agnes Varda’s French New Wave title Cleo From 5 to 7, in which a female singer awaits her doctor’s dooming medical report while...
- 5/10/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Blue Night director Fabien Constant on working with star Sarah Jessica Parker, her producing partners Alison Benson, Andrea Iervolino, Lady Monika Bacardi, and screenwriter Laura Eason: "I loved being the only guy on-board." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At Cafe Cluny in the West Village Fabien Constant, director of the meticulously dashing portrait of Carine Roitfeld in Mademoiselle C, is back in New York this time for the Tribeca Film Festival world première of his début feature film Blue Night starring another style icon Sarah Jessica Parker. Shot beautifully by Javier Aguirresarobe and with a supporting cast including Simon Baker, Jacqueline Bisset, Common, Renée Zellweger, Taylor Kinney, Gus Birney, and Waleed Zuaiter, Blue Night attaches us for 24 hours to the life of a woman who has just learned the news that she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
On Sarah Jessica Parker as Vivienne in Blue Night: "For me it's...
At Cafe Cluny in the West Village Fabien Constant, director of the meticulously dashing portrait of Carine Roitfeld in Mademoiselle C, is back in New York this time for the Tribeca Film Festival world première of his début feature film Blue Night starring another style icon Sarah Jessica Parker. Shot beautifully by Javier Aguirresarobe and with a supporting cast including Simon Baker, Jacqueline Bisset, Common, Renée Zellweger, Taylor Kinney, Gus Birney, and Waleed Zuaiter, Blue Night attaches us for 24 hours to the life of a woman who has just learned the news that she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
On Sarah Jessica Parker as Vivienne in Blue Night: "For me it's...
- 5/5/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Blue Night and Tully — two of the highest profile films at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival — share the same formula: stories revolving around vulnerable, middle-aged female characters written by women and starring high-profile actresses…but directed by men. Blue Night, written by Laura Eason and directed by Fabien Constant, stars Sarah Jessica Parker as a mid-career jazz singer who, on the verge of her next concert tour, learns of a fatal medical condition. Virtually in every frame, we spend the next 24 hours with the character as she navigates a series of vignettes between her lovers, offspring, mother, a […]
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- 4/25/2018
- by Greg Ptacek
- Monsters and Critics
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Fabien Constant’s “Blue Night,” a sensitive but shallow homage to 1962’s “Cléo from 5 to 7,” is that it convincingly validates the idea of updating the Agnès Varda classic. The worst thing that can be said about it is that it peaks with a Sarah Jessica Parker cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” during the closing credits, but we’ll get to that later.
The story of a beautiful young woman’s brush with mortality, Varda’s film used the timelessness of its premise as an opportunity to contextualize the topical despairs of the day, which ranged from the ongoing Algerian War to Édith Piaf’s recent stomach ulcer surgeries. Seen through the eyes of a potentially dying chanteuse — the film’s title refers to the anxious hours that its heroine spends waiting for the results of a biopsy — everything became equally small,...
The story of a beautiful young woman’s brush with mortality, Varda’s film used the timelessness of its premise as an opportunity to contextualize the topical despairs of the day, which ranged from the ongoing Algerian War to Édith Piaf’s recent stomach ulcer surgeries. Seen through the eyes of a potentially dying chanteuse — the film’s title refers to the anxious hours that its heroine spends waiting for the results of a biopsy — everything became equally small,...
- 4/20/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Sarah Jessica Parker stars in her first film in three years in Blue Night, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.
The film, directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason, tells the story of a jazz-pop singer named Vivienne (Parker), who has her world shattered after receiving some bad medical news.
Renee Zellweger, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Simon Baker and Common also star in the film.
Although Parker has a background in musical theater, she found singing in the movie to be "theoretically terrifying." But, she explained, “It’s a song that has a...
The film, directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason, tells the story of a jazz-pop singer named Vivienne (Parker), who has her world shattered after receiving some bad medical news.
Renee Zellweger, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Simon Baker and Common also star in the film.
Although Parker has a background in musical theater, she found singing in the movie to be "theoretically terrifying." But, she explained, “It’s a song that has a...
- 4/20/2018
- by Katie Gray
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the early 1990s, Madonna met with French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda about the idea of directing her in a remake “Cléo from 5 to 7.” That film, which was told virtually in real time, followed a free-spirited chanteuse confronted with her own mortality as she wanders the streets of Paris. Though the project never came to pass, its ghost lives on in French director Fabien Constant’s “Blue Night,” which considers itself more of an homage than a remake, pilfering from not just “Cléo,” but Antonioni’s “La Notte” and a handful of other European art films as well.
A mopey indie drama that delivers an unusually introspective role for “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker (who clearly relishes the opportunity to go deep), “Blue Night” wraps with Parker whisper-singing “I Think We’re Alone Now” over the end credits. That’s fitting for what basically amounts to a stylish,...
A mopey indie drama that delivers an unusually introspective role for “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker (who clearly relishes the opportunity to go deep), “Blue Night” wraps with Parker whisper-singing “I Think We’re Alone Now” over the end credits. That’s fitting for what basically amounts to a stylish,...
- 4/20/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Sarah Jessica Parker stars in her first film in three years in <em>Blue Night</em>, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.
The film, directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason, tells the story of a jazz-pop singer named Vivienne (Parker), who has her world shattered after receiving some bad medical news.
Renee Zellweger, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Simon Baker and Common also star in the film.
Although Parker has a background in musical theater, she found singing in the movie to be "theoretically terrifying." But, she explained, “It’s ...
The film, directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason, tells the story of a jazz-pop singer named Vivienne (Parker), who has her world shattered after receiving some bad medical news.
Renee Zellweger, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Simon Baker and Common also star in the film.
Although Parker has a background in musical theater, she found singing in the movie to be "theoretically terrifying." But, she explained, “It’s ...
- 4/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Death comes for Carrie Bradshaw.
At the start of documentarian Fabien Constant’s first fiction feature, Blue Night, New York resident Vivienne (Sarah Jessica Parker) is told she has a likely malignant brain tumor. (Her doctor is played by former “Grams” Mary Beth Peil; it’s the Dawson’s Creek-Sex and the City crossover you never knew you needed!) Unlike Parker’s most famous character, however, Vivienne isn’t the kind of person who can go gab with doting gal pals or turn her tale of woe into a homiletic gossip column. She’s a moody lounge singer after all (Parker at one point gets to croon a Rufus Wainwright...
At the start of documentarian Fabien Constant’s first fiction feature, Blue Night, New York resident Vivienne (Sarah Jessica Parker) is told she has a likely malignant brain tumor. (Her doctor is played by former “Grams” Mary Beth Peil; it’s the Dawson’s Creek-Sex and the City crossover you never knew you needed!) Unlike Parker’s most famous character, however, Vivienne isn’t the kind of person who can go gab with doting gal pals or turn her tale of woe into a homiletic gossip column. She’s a moody lounge singer after all (Parker at one point gets to croon a Rufus Wainwright...
- 4/20/2018
- by Keith Uhlich
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Death comes for Carrie Bradshaw.
At the start of documentarian Fabien Constant’s first fiction feature, <em>Blue Night, </em>New York resident Vivienne (Sarah Jessica Parker) is told she has a likely malignant brain tumor. (Her doctor is played by former “Grams” Mary Beth Peil; it’s the <em>Dawson’s Creek-Sex and the City </em>crossover you never knew you needed!) Unlike Parker’s most famous character, however, Vivienne isn’t the kind of person who can go gab with doting gal pals or turn her tale of woe into a homiletic gossip column. She’s a moody lounge ...
At the start of documentarian Fabien Constant’s first fiction feature, <em>Blue Night, </em>New York resident Vivienne (Sarah Jessica Parker) is told she has a likely malignant brain tumor. (Her doctor is played by former “Grams” Mary Beth Peil; it’s the <em>Dawson’s Creek-Sex and the City </em>crossover you never knew you needed!) Unlike Parker’s most famous character, however, Vivienne isn’t the kind of person who can go gab with doting gal pals or turn her tale of woe into a homiletic gossip column. She’s a moody lounge ...
- 4/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With a cast that includes Sarah Jessica Parker, Renee Zellweger, and Common, “Blue Night” is one of the hottest projects at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Variety has an exclusive first look at the film’s moody poster, which features a forlorn-looking Parker in a sea of anonymous city dwellers.
The film follows Vivienne (Parker), a singer in New York City, whose world is shattered after she receives some bad news. It unfolds over the course of a day as she prepares for an upcoming world tour, navigates various personal and professional relationships, and reflects on her successes and failures, all while trying to find a private moment to share with others the news she has received from her doctor.
“Blue Night” is Parker’s first film in three years. In addition to her work on HBO’s “Sex & the City” and “Divorce,” Parker has appeared in “Failure to Launch,...
The film follows Vivienne (Parker), a singer in New York City, whose world is shattered after she receives some bad news. It unfolds over the course of a day as she prepares for an upcoming world tour, navigates various personal and professional relationships, and reflects on her successes and failures, all while trying to find a private moment to share with others the news she has received from her doctor.
“Blue Night” is Parker’s first film in three years. In addition to her work on HBO’s “Sex & the City” and “Divorce,” Parker has appeared in “Failure to Launch,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Sarah Jessica Parker has become synonymous with New York City since her iconic role in Sex and the City. It shouldn’t be a surprise that her next project takes place in New York City — but it isn’t exactly a comedic Cosmo-fueled study on women and their relationships with men. In Blue Night, she plays a singer whose world is turned upside down when she gets a life-changing medical diagnosis. The clip above gives us a short — and ambiguous — taste of Parker in the drama that will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 19.
The film, written by Laura Eason, marks documentarian Fabien Constant’s narrative debut and also stars Renée Zellweger, Common, Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Waleed Zuaiter and Gus Birney.
In a 24-hour time frame, we see Vivienne (Parker) prepare for an upcoming world tour, navigate her relationships and familial obligations,...
The film, written by Laura Eason, marks documentarian Fabien Constant’s narrative debut and also stars Renée Zellweger, Common, Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Waleed Zuaiter and Gus Birney.
In a 24-hour time frame, we see Vivienne (Parker) prepare for an upcoming world tour, navigate her relationships and familial obligations,...
- 4/17/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
New movie, new hair!
Sarah Jessica Parker is spending the summer on set — filming her new romantic drama, Best Day of My Life, in New York City alongside Renée Zellweger, Simon Baker, and Common.
And to get into character, the 52-year-old actress is rocking some new short golden locks.
Parker was all smiles as she was snapped in Time’s Square with her new ‘do walking on set — wearing a champagne-colored, cocktail-length dress with brown strappy sandals.
The stylish star has had long dark brown hair with blonde highlights over the past few years, a choice for the character she...
Sarah Jessica Parker is spending the summer on set — filming her new romantic drama, Best Day of My Life, in New York City alongside Renée Zellweger, Simon Baker, and Common.
And to get into character, the 52-year-old actress is rocking some new short golden locks.
Parker was all smiles as she was snapped in Time’s Square with her new ‘do walking on set — wearing a champagne-colored, cocktail-length dress with brown strappy sandals.
The stylish star has had long dark brown hair with blonde highlights over the past few years, a choice for the character she...
- 7/12/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Sarah Jessica Parker Rocks Short Blond Hair While Filming New Movie in New York City -- See the Pic!
Sarah Jessica Parker is rocking a bold new hairstyle on the set of her new movie, Best Day of My Life.
Parker was spotted on the streets of New York City on Tuesday while filming her upcoming romantic drama, and the Sex and the City alum was beaming under her new short, blonde 'do.
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Watch: Sarah Jessica Parker Wears Wedding Gown to Golden Globes, Says Hairdo Was ‘Subconscious’ Carrie Fisher Nod
The 52-year-old actress was all smiles as she strolled through the Big Apple set in a silver, shimmering sleeveless dress and strappy burgundy heels.
In Best Day of My Life, Parker plays a Vivienne, a New York jazz vocalist who receives a diagnosis that turns her life upside down, forcing her to reflect on her career, friendships and relationships, all while she's preparing to embark on a world tour.
News: Sarah Jessica Parker Shares Alternate Opening of 'Sex and the City'
Parker...
Parker was spotted on the streets of New York City on Tuesday while filming her upcoming romantic drama, and the Sex and the City alum was beaming under her new short, blonde 'do.
Splash News
Watch: Sarah Jessica Parker Wears Wedding Gown to Golden Globes, Says Hairdo Was ‘Subconscious’ Carrie Fisher Nod
The 52-year-old actress was all smiles as she strolled through the Big Apple set in a silver, shimmering sleeveless dress and strappy burgundy heels.
In Best Day of My Life, Parker plays a Vivienne, a New York jazz vocalist who receives a diagnosis that turns her life upside down, forcing her to reflect on her career, friendships and relationships, all while she's preparing to embark on a world tour.
News: Sarah Jessica Parker Shares Alternate Opening of 'Sex and the City'
Parker...
- 7/12/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney, Gus Birney also join Sarah Jessica Parker romance.
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group have announced that Renée Zellweger, Isabella Rossellini, Common, Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney and Gus Birney have joined the Sarah Jessica Parker romance Best Day Of My Life.
Directed by Fabien Constant from a screenplay by Laura Eason, Best Day Of My Life centres on Vivienne (Parker), a jazz vocalist in New York City who lives her life for herself and for her art.
After she receives a diagnosis that shatters her world, Vivienne spends the next 24 hours preparing for an upcoming world tour, navigating her relationships and family obligations, and reflecting on her life.
Ambi Distribution handles worldwide sales while CAA co-represents North American sales with Ambi. Principal photography will begin this week in New York City. In addition to starring in the film, Parker will also serve as producer alongside Alison Benson, Iervolino and Bacardi...
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group have announced that Renée Zellweger, Isabella Rossellini, Common, Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney and Gus Birney have joined the Sarah Jessica Parker romance Best Day Of My Life.
Directed by Fabien Constant from a screenplay by Laura Eason, Best Day Of My Life centres on Vivienne (Parker), a jazz vocalist in New York City who lives her life for herself and for her art.
After she receives a diagnosis that shatters her world, Vivienne spends the next 24 hours preparing for an upcoming world tour, navigating her relationships and family obligations, and reflecting on her life.
Ambi Distribution handles worldwide sales while CAA co-represents North American sales with Ambi. Principal photography will begin this week in New York City. In addition to starring in the film, Parker will also serve as producer alongside Alison Benson, Iervolino and Bacardi...
- 7/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Renee Zellweger leads a group of six actors who have signed up to co-star alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in Fabien Constant’s romantic drama, “Best Day of My Life,” Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group announced Tuesday. Parker’s casting was previously announced. The film stars the “Divorce” star as Vivienne, a New York jazz vocalist who receives a life-shattering diagnosis. The story follows Vivienne over the next 24 hours as she prepares for her upcoming world tour, deals with her personal relationships, and reflects on her life. Also Read: Annapurna Signs Multi-Year Home Entertainment Deal With 20th Century Fox Along with Zellweger,...
- 7/11/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Renée Zellweger, Isabella Rossellini, Common, Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney (Zero Dark Thirty) and Gus Birney (The Mist) have joined the Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic drama Best Day of My Life for Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's Ambi Group. Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C) is directing the film from a screenplay written by Laura Eason (House of Cards). Principal photography will begin this week in New York City. Best Day of My Life follows Vivienne (Parker), a…...
- 7/11/2017
- Deadline
Emmanuelle Riva with Vanessa Redgrave and Michael Barker for Michael Haneke's Amour Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Emmanuelle Riva, César, Lumière, and BAFTA Best Actress winner and Oscar nominee for Michael Haneke's Best Foreign Language Film winner Amour died at the age of 89 on Friday, January 27, 2017 in Paris.
Riva's performance with Eiji Okada in Alain Renais' Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959 cuts so sharply to the truth about love and war that even after many viewings it is difficult to fully grasp the film's historical significance, storytelling innovations and stylistic brilliance.
Emmanuelle Riva in the hands of Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour
Annette Insdorf, Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts, Mademoiselle C director Fabien Constant, and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman sent their remembrances.
"I consider Emmanuelle Riva one of the greatest actors of the past 60 years. I last saw...
Emmanuelle Riva, César, Lumière, and BAFTA Best Actress winner and Oscar nominee for Michael Haneke's Best Foreign Language Film winner Amour died at the age of 89 on Friday, January 27, 2017 in Paris.
Riva's performance with Eiji Okada in Alain Renais' Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959 cuts so sharply to the truth about love and war that even after many viewings it is difficult to fully grasp the film's historical significance, storytelling innovations and stylistic brilliance.
Emmanuelle Riva in the hands of Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour
Annette Insdorf, Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts, Mademoiselle C director Fabien Constant, and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman sent their remembrances.
"I consider Emmanuelle Riva one of the greatest actors of the past 60 years. I last saw...
- 2/1/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sarah Jessica Parker has signed on to star in an untitled new drama by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Pictures. The story revolves around a heartbreaking diagnosis received by a successful singer named Vivienne one night in New York City. “Forced to confront the questionable choices, hard-won victories, and labyrinthine consequences of a life lived in pursuit of a dream still unrealized, she seeks both a reckoning with and redemption from the ones she loves,” read a press announcement. Also Read: Andrew Garfield's 'Breathe' Bought by Participant Media, Bleecker Street Fabien Constant is directing the...
- 9/11/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
No Home Movie will play at New York Film Festival Chantal Akerman's death came when she was preparing to attend this year's New York Film Festival to present the Us premiere of No Home Movie. This is what she wrote to me on September 9: "I will come at the beginning of October. I don't know yet the exact date. Best. Chantal."
Upon hearing the very sad news, Richard Peña, Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival, filmmakers Catherine Breillat, Atom Egoyan and Fabien Constant, cinematographer Ed Lachman and film curator Delphine Selles-Alvarez sent me their remembrances this morning.
Catherine Breillat writes:
Chantal Akerman: 1950-2015 "I’m completely K.O. With the news of Chantal's disparition, I was friends with her, not very close, but friends with her and her cinema. When we met together at Egs [European Graduate School], they were very surprised how, far from being antagonistic, we held each other in great respect.
Upon hearing the very sad news, Richard Peña, Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival, filmmakers Catherine Breillat, Atom Egoyan and Fabien Constant, cinematographer Ed Lachman and film curator Delphine Selles-Alvarez sent me their remembrances this morning.
Catherine Breillat writes:
Chantal Akerman: 1950-2015 "I’m completely K.O. With the news of Chantal's disparition, I was friends with her, not very close, but friends with her and her cinema. When we met together at Egs [European Graduate School], they were very surprised how, far from being antagonistic, we held each other in great respect.
- 10/6/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Albert Maysles at the premiere of Simon Trevor's White Gold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On October 4, the morning before the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Billy Magnussen and Eve Hewson (Bono and Ali's daughter), during the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family will host a tribute to Albert Maysles.
Filmmakers Morgan Neville, Fabien Constant, Varon Bonicos and Guy Maddin, together with Gay Talese and Frédéric Boyer, sent a tribute when they heard the news about Albert's passing on March 5.
Iris Apfel at The Paris Theatre Iris premiere on Albert Maysles: "Oh, he was the greatest. I'm very lucky, very lucky." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The event at Alice Tully Hall will include a selection of clips from the career of the master documentarian and his brother David. In 2014, the...
On October 4, the morning before the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Billy Magnussen and Eve Hewson (Bono and Ali's daughter), during the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family will host a tribute to Albert Maysles.
Filmmakers Morgan Neville, Fabien Constant, Varon Bonicos and Guy Maddin, together with Gay Talese and Frédéric Boyer, sent a tribute when they heard the news about Albert's passing on March 5.
Iris Apfel at The Paris Theatre Iris premiere on Albert Maysles: "Oh, he was the greatest. I'm very lucky, very lucky." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The event at Alice Tully Hall will include a selection of clips from the career of the master documentarian and his brother David. In 2014, the...
- 10/1/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Paris Theatre première of Albert Maysles' portrait of Iris Apfel
The Paris Theatre Magnolia Pictures première of Albert Maysles' Iris was hosted by Bruce Weber, Jenna Lyons, Alexis Bittar, Stefano Tonchi, Bill Brand, James Gager, Mindy Grossman, Meredith Melling, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, with an introduction of the screening by Albert's daughter Rebekah Maysles.
Among those who attended the glamorous evening were Yigal Azrouel, Lynn Yaeger, Gina Gershon, Dree Hemingway, Carol Alt, Cory Kennedy, Erin Fetherston, Maria Cornejo, Marin Ireland, Robert Verdi, Michelle Harper, Phillip Bloch, Amy Fine Collins, Ike Ude, Hilary Rhoda, Chris Benz, Danielle Snyder, Jodie Snyder, Johan Lindeberg, Kate Foley, Nicky Hilton, Kelly Rutherford, Josh Braun, Dan Braun, Cricket Burns, Allison Serafin, America Olivo, Jay Manuel, Joanna Mastroianni, Christian Campbell, Erin Beatty, Elle King, Hailey Gates, Hal Rubenstein, Willy Muse, Louise Roe, Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra.
Iris Apfel on Albert Maysles: "Oh,...
The Paris Theatre Magnolia Pictures première of Albert Maysles' Iris was hosted by Bruce Weber, Jenna Lyons, Alexis Bittar, Stefano Tonchi, Bill Brand, James Gager, Mindy Grossman, Meredith Melling, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, with an introduction of the screening by Albert's daughter Rebekah Maysles.
Among those who attended the glamorous evening were Yigal Azrouel, Lynn Yaeger, Gina Gershon, Dree Hemingway, Carol Alt, Cory Kennedy, Erin Fetherston, Maria Cornejo, Marin Ireland, Robert Verdi, Michelle Harper, Phillip Bloch, Amy Fine Collins, Ike Ude, Hilary Rhoda, Chris Benz, Danielle Snyder, Jodie Snyder, Johan Lindeberg, Kate Foley, Nicky Hilton, Kelly Rutherford, Josh Braun, Dan Braun, Cricket Burns, Allison Serafin, America Olivo, Jay Manuel, Joanna Mastroianni, Christian Campbell, Erin Beatty, Elle King, Hailey Gates, Hal Rubenstein, Willy Muse, Louise Roe, Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra.
Iris Apfel on Albert Maysles: "Oh,...
- 4/24/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sally Singer with Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Spring Fashion Talks at the French Institute Alliance Française kicked off with Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, moderated by Creative Digital Director for Vogue, Sally Singer, and crossed paths with the Tribeca Film Festival as the Haute Couture on Film series continued.
Inside the Florence Gould Hall Theater on April 15, while Bao Nguyen's Live from New York! was opening Tribeca at the Beacon Theatre, McCollough and Hernandez were referencing Harmony Korine, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cate Blanchett, Gerhard Richter, Pearl Jam, Cindy Sherman, Kurt Cobain and, at one point, Sydney Pollack's Out Of Africa, complete with mid-century craftsmanship and mother nature as shaping Proenza Schouler creations. The designers appeared in Fabien Constant's exquisite documentary Mademoiselle C on Carine Roitfeld. Inspiration for them comes mostly from "posture, movement, attitude and spirit.
Spring Fashion Talks at the French Institute Alliance Française kicked off with Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, moderated by Creative Digital Director for Vogue, Sally Singer, and crossed paths with the Tribeca Film Festival as the Haute Couture on Film series continued.
Inside the Florence Gould Hall Theater on April 15, while Bao Nguyen's Live from New York! was opening Tribeca at the Beacon Theatre, McCollough and Hernandez were referencing Harmony Korine, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cate Blanchett, Gerhard Richter, Pearl Jam, Cindy Sherman, Kurt Cobain and, at one point, Sydney Pollack's Out Of Africa, complete with mid-century craftsmanship and mother nature as shaping Proenza Schouler creations. The designers appeared in Fabien Constant's exquisite documentary Mademoiselle C on Carine Roitfeld. Inspiration for them comes mostly from "posture, movement, attitude and spirit.
- 4/17/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Albert Maysles at Simon Trevor's White Gold premiere at MoMA Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Documentary filmmakers Morgan Neville (2014 Oscar winner for 20 Feet From Stardom), Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C), Varon Bonicos (A Man's Story) and Keyhole director Guy Maddin share their thoughts on the passing of the great documentarian Albert Maysles at the age of 88, Thursday, March 5, in New York City.
Author and journalist Gay Talese on an American Assignment for the New York Times in Selma, Alabama, sent a note, upon hearing the news, from the place where Gay had covered the civil rights march and "Bloody Sunday" 50 years ago.
Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the subject of his film Iris
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer wrote "…this is very sad to lose a master of Cinema. We are playing his last film in the Tribeca [World Documentary] Competition,..." In Transit, co-directed by Maysles with Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui,...
Documentary filmmakers Morgan Neville (2014 Oscar winner for 20 Feet From Stardom), Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C), Varon Bonicos (A Man's Story) and Keyhole director Guy Maddin share their thoughts on the passing of the great documentarian Albert Maysles at the age of 88, Thursday, March 5, in New York City.
Author and journalist Gay Talese on an American Assignment for the New York Times in Selma, Alabama, sent a note, upon hearing the news, from the place where Gay had covered the civil rights march and "Bloody Sunday" 50 years ago.
Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the subject of his film Iris
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer wrote "…this is very sad to lose a master of Cinema. We are playing his last film in the Tribeca [World Documentary] Competition,..." In Transit, co-directed by Maysles with Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui,...
- 3/7/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
You have to love the camera.
If you know who Carine Roitfeld is, then you'll probably love her vanity project, Mademoisell C (2013). The film documents her brief self-employed period--between editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris and Global Fashion Director for Harpers Bazaar--publishing her own fashion book Cr. Many documentaries are pieced together by some nameless technician, Mademoiselle C is directed (mostly) with taste and a particular vision by Fabien Constant (who has a number of other fashion-centric documentaries to his credit). To say "mostly" was generous. In terms of screen time, Mademoiselle C most often resembles yet another Bravo competition fashion show, i.e. pointless, ineloquent, and (whenever possible) name-dropping. But when Constant gets on with the well-accompanied montage, cinematographers Raphael Laski and Matt Elkind create something special, not out of place in a well-produced narrative film.
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If you know who Carine Roitfeld is, then you'll probably love her vanity project, Mademoisell C (2013). The film documents her brief self-employed period--between editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris and Global Fashion Director for Harpers Bazaar--publishing her own fashion book Cr. Many documentaries are pieced together by some nameless technician, Mademoiselle C is directed (mostly) with taste and a particular vision by Fabien Constant (who has a number of other fashion-centric documentaries to his credit). To say "mostly" was generous. In terms of screen time, Mademoiselle C most often resembles yet another Bravo competition fashion show, i.e. pointless, ineloquent, and (whenever possible) name-dropping. But when Constant gets on with the well-accompanied montage, cinematographers Raphael Laski and Matt Elkind create something special, not out of place in a well-produced narrative film.
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- 4/13/2014
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Glenn here. After decades of trying to attain the same critical and cultural awareness as feature films, it appears documentaries are now suffering from a case of too much of a good thing. We’re in a day and age where documentaries are so common that it’s impossible for the Academy’s documentary branch to keep up. Apparently 151 docos have been submitted - an average of three a week! - for this year’s Oscars and just like Diane Keaton, something’s gotta give.
Last year the Academy set up a secret online forum of sorts for documentary branchmembers so they could post recommendations of titles to help whittle down the number of contenders. “Nobody’s recommended that anthopological documentary about North Atlantic fishermen? Fine, I’ll just watch Blackfish.” I like the idea in concept, but Leviathan was highly acclaimed so what then? Admittedly, it would be nice...
Last year the Academy set up a secret online forum of sorts for documentary branchmembers so they could post recommendations of titles to help whittle down the number of contenders. “Nobody’s recommended that anthopological documentary about North Atlantic fishermen? Fine, I’ll just watch Blackfish.” I like the idea in concept, but Leviathan was highly acclaimed so what then? Admittedly, it would be nice...
- 10/10/2013
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Metro Manila | Diana | The Call | Ripd | Kelly + Victor | Hawking | Cold Comes The Night | A Belfast Story | Harrigan | InRealLife | 9.79* | Mademoiselle C | Phata Poster Nikla Hero
Metro Manila (15)
(Sean Ellis, 2013, UK/Phi) Jake Macapagal, Althea Vega, John Arcilla. 115 mins
Street-level social drama slyly develops into gripping crime thriller in this resourceful Anglo-Asian movie, a distinctive spin on the familiar theme of innocent country folk in the corrupting city. The squalor of modern-day Manila is vividly evoked, as our goodly, hard-up couple struggle to gain a foothold, but the opportunities they get only lead them into the moral shadows.
Diana (12A)
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2013, UK/Fra/Bel/Swe/Moz) Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews. 113 mins
History repeats itself as farce in this unintentionally laughable rendition of Diana's final years and her "secret" affair. It's no deeper or better informed than your average celebrity mag.
The Call (15)
(Brad Anderson, 2013, Us) Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund.
Metro Manila (15)
(Sean Ellis, 2013, UK/Phi) Jake Macapagal, Althea Vega, John Arcilla. 115 mins
Street-level social drama slyly develops into gripping crime thriller in this resourceful Anglo-Asian movie, a distinctive spin on the familiar theme of innocent country folk in the corrupting city. The squalor of modern-day Manila is vividly evoked, as our goodly, hard-up couple struggle to gain a foothold, but the opportunities they get only lead them into the moral shadows.
Diana (12A)
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2013, UK/Fra/Bel/Swe/Moz) Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews. 113 mins
History repeats itself as farce in this unintentionally laughable rendition of Diana's final years and her "secret" affair. It's no deeper or better informed than your average celebrity mag.
The Call (15)
(Brad Anderson, 2013, Us) Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund.
- 9/21/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Fashion maven Carine Roitfeld leaves Vogue Paris for pastures new in this documentary. But why should we care?
Fabien Constant's fashion documentary Mademoiselle C. is a lively but exasperatingly incurious and obsequious work about Carine Roitfeld, the former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief who quit the Condé Nast empire in 2011 to start her own publication called Cr Fashion Book. The question of why we should care about Mlle Roitfeld and her new career challenges is never asked or answered, and perhaps even to raise this thought is to break the fashion-butterfly on a wheel of scepticism. Her personal life is not investigated, though at 58 she looks stylish and young without obviously being a slave to those cosmetic procedures that have claimed so many others. But what are the real tensions involved in starting your own magazine? The film hints at competitive reprisals from Condé Nast, but the threat just seems to melt away,...
Fabien Constant's fashion documentary Mademoiselle C. is a lively but exasperatingly incurious and obsequious work about Carine Roitfeld, the former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief who quit the Condé Nast empire in 2011 to start her own publication called Cr Fashion Book. The question of why we should care about Mlle Roitfeld and her new career challenges is never asked or answered, and perhaps even to raise this thought is to break the fashion-butterfly on a wheel of scepticism. Her personal life is not investigated, though at 58 she looks stylish and young without obviously being a slave to those cosmetic procedures that have claimed so many others. But what are the real tensions involved in starting your own magazine? The film hints at competitive reprisals from Condé Nast, but the threat just seems to melt away,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2009, R.J. Cutler’s compelling documentary feature The September Issue allowed us unprecedented access to the sleek – and self-consciously chic – world of American Vogue under the rule of its exacting and mercurial Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour. Carine Roitfeld, Mademoiselle C, was for many years Wintour’s French opposite – until she took the scandalous decision to abandon the hallowed halls of Vogue and strike out on her own with a brand new publication. In gloriously trashy Dynasty style, attempts were made to sabotage Cr before a single issue had been printed. Mademoiselle C chronicles the magazine’s journey from concept to realisation and Carine’s own, more personal, metamorphosis.
Carine Roitfeld’s enthusiasm for the industry is infectious. It bursts from the screen in a rainbow bright prism of girlish joy, expansive gestures and exclamation, to coax a smile from even the most cynical lips. We somehow expect our fashion mavens to...
Carine Roitfeld’s enthusiasm for the industry is infectious. It bursts from the screen in a rainbow bright prism of girlish joy, expansive gestures and exclamation, to coax a smile from even the most cynical lips. We somehow expect our fashion mavens to...
- 9/19/2013
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
That people in the fashion world live lives far different than us is made manifestly clear in Fabien Constant’s documentary about former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfield. Similar to The September Issue except for its relative lack of drama and the fact that Roitield is a far more congenial camera subject than the icy Anna Wintour, Mademoiselle C should please fashion devotees while leaving everyone else scratching their heads. The film chronicles Roitfield’s efforts to start her own New York-based magazine, Cr Fashion Book, when she decided to leave Vogue after a ten-year run as its Paris editor. But
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- 9/12/2013
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The last few years have brought us major fashion world documentaries about bigger-than-life personalities like Valentino and Anna Wintour, but Mademoiselle C -- the new documentary about French fashion icon and former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, directed by Paris documentarian Fabien Constant – is a doc of a different color. Mademoiselle C paints the story of how a warm, well-dressed and hardworking stylist leaves behind a big job and bigger magazine to start her very own publication in New York, Cr Fashion Book. Photos: Nyfw: Fashionistas Fete Carine Roitfeld at 'Mademoiselle C' Premiere "I totally give my confidence to Fabien," Roitfeld said of
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- 9/11/2013
- by Merle Ginsberg, Stephanie Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kim posed for a highly editorial Cr Fashion Book shoot when she was eight months pregnant, baring her bare bump. In a brand new behind-the-scenes video, Kim bares her bulging bump and shows off the shoot’s fashionable accessories. Watch the video here!
Kim Kardashian shot a stunning fashion editorial with industry giant Karl Lagerfeld prior to giving birth to her daughter North West, showcasing her bare pregnant belly. What do you think of her behind-the-scenes video?
Kim Kardashian ‘Cr Fashion Book’ Photo Shoot: Behind-The-Scenes Of The Pregnancy Shoot
Kim showed off her bare baby bump for the fashion spread in Cr Fashion Book — and she was eight months pregnant at the time! A new video from the shoot gives us a special look behind the lens! The film was created by Mademoiselle C director, Fabien Constant for the May 22, 2013 Paris shoot by photographer Karl Lagerfeld and director Riccardo Tisci.
Kim Kardashian shot a stunning fashion editorial with industry giant Karl Lagerfeld prior to giving birth to her daughter North West, showcasing her bare pregnant belly. What do you think of her behind-the-scenes video?
Kim Kardashian ‘Cr Fashion Book’ Photo Shoot: Behind-The-Scenes Of The Pregnancy Shoot
Kim showed off her bare baby bump for the fashion spread in Cr Fashion Book — and she was eight months pregnant at the time! A new video from the shoot gives us a special look behind the lens! The film was created by Mademoiselle C director, Fabien Constant for the May 22, 2013 Paris shoot by photographer Karl Lagerfeld and director Riccardo Tisci.
- 9/10/2013
- by Kristine Hope Kowalski
- HollywoodLife
Carine Roitfeld, super stylist, former editor of French Vogue and now a global director of Harper's Bazaar, has spent decades reinventing the way we wear clothes. Now the subject of a documentary, she talks to Eva Wiseman about becoming a grandmother, fashion politics and why she's sharing her trade secrets
Carine Roitfeld smells of matches and burned vanilla, like the end of a birthday party. She orders a coffee in the elegant café next door to her Paris apartment, and when I tell her how good she smells she leans forward and says: "That is the most wonderful thing I could hear today." She is working on her own perfume, she explains. This is a test scent – "Still too sweet, no?" – and as we talk it fades into the café air, sugaring the things she says.
Roitfeld, the former editor of French Vogue, founder of her own magazine Cr, recently...
Carine Roitfeld smells of matches and burned vanilla, like the end of a birthday party. She orders a coffee in the elegant café next door to her Paris apartment, and when I tell her how good she smells she leans forward and says: "That is the most wonderful thing I could hear today." She is working on her own perfume, she explains. This is a test scent – "Still too sweet, no?" – and as we talk it fades into the café air, sugaring the things she says.
Roitfeld, the former editor of French Vogue, founder of her own magazine Cr, recently...
- 9/9/2013
- by Eva Wiseman
- The Guardian - Film News
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