When “Drive My Car” received four Oscar nominations this week, it represented a triumph of arthouse cinema at a moment when it could really use the boost. The Academy might have wished that one of the 10 Best Picture slots went to James Bond or Spider-Man, but Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s three-hour adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story has become a better case study for what it takes to keep the movie business alive.
Daring, non-English language cinema challenges even the bravest distributors. That was certainly the situation at Cannes last July, when more than one buyer told me they were having a hard time parsing the marketplace potential for several of the festival’s critical darlings. One of these was “Drive My Car,” which took 30 minutes to roll its opening credits and used a quiet, enigmatic approach to craft the world of a widowed theater director rediscovering his creative passion...
Daring, non-English language cinema challenges even the bravest distributors. That was certainly the situation at Cannes last July, when more than one buyer told me they were having a hard time parsing the marketplace potential for several of the festival’s critical darlings. One of these was “Drive My Car,” which took 30 minutes to roll its opening credits and used a quiet, enigmatic approach to craft the world of a widowed theater director rediscovering his creative passion...
- 2/13/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Chicago-based Mpi Media Group is launching a new theatrical distribution division, Mpi Pictures, to handle six to eight theatrical releases per year – focusing on foreign-language films, indies and high-end genre fare. Photos: The Scene at SXSW 2012 Greg Newman, executive vice president of Mpi Media Group, will oversee the new division. Marie Therese Guirgis, who has been consulting with Mpi for more than five years, has come aboard as head of theatrical distribution. Additionally, Emily Woodburne and marketing executive Dan Goldberg have been hired to help oversee the initial slate. “The mission is to buy films and
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- 4/25/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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