Film Movement have made their second Cannes pick-up. Jury Prize winning A Screaming Man (receiving a release next April) is joined by Olivier Masset-Depasse's prize-winning Illegal - the only picture that has been selected for both premium European film festivals: Cannes (Director's Fortnight) and Venice (Venice Days) section.

You can call IONCINEMA.com the "all things Attenberg channel." We profiled Athina Rachel Tsangari in our special American New Wave 25 series, we've updated you with films stills, we've highlighted how her film was selected at Venice and TIFF, and now in preparation for Venice (which officially begins today with the Black Swan reviews) we have the poster one sheet for Attenberg.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau & Suzanne’s Career make of a pair of films that are simply heartbreaking. Circa 1963, Rohmer displays why women don’t trust men as best as has been done on film. Not to be dismissed because they are short films, along with the other Moral Tales, these are some of his best works.

There'll soon be a casting call for young Brit and Aussie actors and actresses looking to board a psychological thriller/love story signed by an Oscar-winning scribe. Robert Jones' Jonescompany Productions will produce the Julian Fellowes adaptation of Paul Torday's The Girl on the Landing, and the pair are now on the look out for a director who can work in duel genres. Production would be set for Spring of next year.

Principal photography began on 23-F - the latest feature by Sud Express director Chema de la Peña. Produced by the production company Lazona (Concursante), the film will be the first cinematographic reinterpretation of the coup d´état that took place in Madrid February 23rd 1981.

Anne Fontaine, a filmmaker who hasn't had many problems exporting her films to the U.S. (Nathalie..., The Girl From Monaco), has began shooting her 12th feature film this week. The unlikely rom com tale about the fusion of two families stars Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Poelvoorde, who was in Fontaine's last film, Coco Before Channel.

Olive Films will be presenting not one, but two films at TIFF next month, they've got the rights to Rafi Pitts' The Hunter, and have grabbed the highly anticipated French-German-Hungarian co-production that just preemed in Locarno. Prospects look good for Benedek Fliegauf's Womb - it stars Eva Green and works with the basic cloning/sci-fi premise.

This set of six domestic French character posters for François Ozon's Potiche (featuring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Lucchini, Karin Viard, Jérémie Renier and Judith Godreche) sells the film as a non-highbrow comedy, and is perhaps the first indication as to why Cannes was less welcoming to include the film in their main comp. Ozon was probably amongst the first to land spots in Venice and Toronto.

Competing in Venice and showing at NYFF (where it is one among a pair of film offerings from Chile), here are a set of stills for Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem. Such as his last feature Tony Manero, Larrain once again uses the violent backdrop of Allende era to work in certain thematic and atmospheric details.

The film tells the story of a disturbing revenge plan led by a plastic surgeon, and a film adaptation of the Thierry Jonquet novel “Tarantula” and stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Roberto Álamo and Marisa Paredes. The three month shooting will take place first in Santiago de Compostela, in the north of Spain, moving thereafter to Pazo de Oca and finishing in Madrid and the whereabouts of Toledo.

Last week, the Locarno film festival wrapped up with another award for veteran Israeli helmer Eran Riklis (see picture above). The helmer's The Mission of the Human Resources Manager won the Prix du Public - the same award he won six years ago for The Syrian Bride. It's rumored next stop is TIFF - that will be confirmed in tomorrow's final programming announcement.

Make this 2 for 2 for French author Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) and Catherine Breillat. The controversial French filmmaker is presenting La Belle endormie (Sleeping Beauty) in Venice Film Festival this year and is tipped for TIFF directly after.

In adding this new batch of new images to the synopsis and other images we exclusively preemed, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is shaping up to be the most curious looking title from this year's Venice comp - here's hoping it makes it among the Toronto titles and thus make my future schedule, a little bit edgier.

Toasted by the Pialats, Godards, Chabrols, Hanekes and Claire Denis, almost in her fourth decade in front of the camera, in my opinion, Isabelle Huppert is perhaps the most versatile actress in film today. By the looks of the first set of stills below, I'd say there is no typecasting her. Special Treatment is being released in France at the end of the month of September, and just prior, is receiving a world premiere showing at TIFF.

Proving she's just not a pretty face, Laetitia Casta took a really interesting turn in her acting career when she appeared in Tsai Ming-liang's Face, and made for a surprisingly good xerox of Bardot in Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque). Now the actress is setting foot in Bulgaria for a filmmaker I'm sure, not even the most ardent cinephile is aware of.

Variety confirms that Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined the project and breaks the news that Hugh Dancy will be ready for the October shoot of Hysteria, the true story about the invention of the first vibrator set in Victorian England to be directed by Tanya Wexler.

We've all seen the pic of Catherine Deneuve in her red track suit, and now we've got two more to pad up our enthusiasm for what could be a great film from distinguished filmmaker François Ozon. Potiche is receiving its world premiere in Venice and is tethered to a logical release at TIFF, and what I'm expecting is a lighter commentary on gender and class differences.

Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate.

"I’ve been asked many times to include the film into a genre: fantastic drama? a legend? a ballad? a folkloric myth? a fairy tale? The only thing I can say is that it’s fiction. Against today’s author cinema trending, against this hyper-realistic current, Europolis doesn’t wish to copy reality; the reality is just a starting point for a imaginative foray in human’s soul"

Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful will receive a December release. Last time we checked, Roadside Attractions were circling the drama -- and by all logic should announce a domestic distribution deal well before it screens in the much needed post Cannes spotlight in Toronto next September.