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Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Inferno Ent.
Sales agent and Prod co. Inferno Ent.’s Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson must totally be stoked at finding one of their own in the Main Competition this year. Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly (aka
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Hanway Films
They might only have a trio of Out of Competition items in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me and You, Laurent Bouzereau’s Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, and Trashed by Candida Brady, but there are some definite
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Fortissimo Films
Michael J. Werner’s Fortissimo Films was surprisingly almost shut out from showing in any of the sections at Cannes (they’re repping the Un Certain Regard title Miss Lovely), which only means they’ll got plenty
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Focus Features Int.
Focus Features Int. have the honor of opening Cannes with Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson’s seventh film and it appears that the future is definitely rosy with the number of items they have in pre
Read MoreInside Cannes 2012 Day 2: Five Quotes from the Rust & Bone Press Conference
1. “I cut them off”. - Jacques Audiard When asked about how he made Marion Cotillard disappear, the filmmaker explains that he would not have been able to create the amputee look a decade back
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Film Distribution
This year the Paris based sales agent only has a pair of films in Cannes – Gilles Jacob’s own doc about the day of the 60th anniversary festivities called A Special Day, and in
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Coproduction Office
Founded by Philippe Bober in the late 80′s, the Coproduction Office - a Sales Agent/Production Company based out of Paris comes to Cannes with only one item in the Main Competition in a filmmaker
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Filmnation Ent.
If you think Glen Basner’s Filmnation Ent. had a stellar year last year, 2012 is the cherry on the sundae with John Hillcoat and Jeff Nichols in the Main Comp line-up. But even better:
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Films Boutique
The German sales company based out of Berlin nabbed a pair of spots in this year’s Critics’ Week for David Lambert’s Hors Les Murs and one of our most anticipated films of the fest,
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Elle Driver
The all women French sales agent company based out of Paris oddly has 2/3rds of the New Wave Indian films featured on the Croisette this year in Vasan Bala’s Peddlers and the epic film
Read MoreKey Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Celluloid Dreams
Outside of the highly anticipated Rust & Bone from helmer Jacques Audiard, Celluloid Dreams is much more immersed in the market aspect of Cannes this year. Headed by Hengameh Panahi, Celluloid Dreams brings to
Read MoreInside Cannes 2012: A Top 10 Survivor’s Guide
By no means do I consider myself a seasoned pro when it comes to the Cannes Film Festival, but going into my sixth edition, I’ve set out a flight path that works miraculously well
Read MoreCannes Critics’ Panel Day 1: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
Click to enlarge. Irrefutably signed Wes Anderson, co-scripted along with Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom is this U.S. indie filmmaker’s 7th feature film. Starring newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as two 12 year-olds who
Read MoreCannes 2012: After the Battle | Review
Nasrallah tackles Tahrir Uprising Barely a Year Later, Will Suffer his own Battle Scars Taking as its topic the Tahrir Square uprising in February 2011, Yousry Nasrallah’s After the Battle is a melodramatic soap
Read MoreLive from Cannes 2012: Introducing Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
And the tradition continues here on IONCINEMA.com. Our twice daily critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films (22 films in all, plus the closing film) as rated by 16 film critics is in
Read MoreInside Cannes 2012 Day 1: Five Quotes from Moonrise Kingdom Press Conference
1. “I use my memory of what I remember wanting to have happened, and having not actually occured.” – Wes Anderson Filmmaker comments on the basis of his film – children falling in love
Read MoreHysteria | Review
Your Mind’s in Disturbia: Tanya Wexler Gives Us a Lobotomized History of the Vibrator Another example of boring, banal people ruining potentially great ideas has been birthed in the form of director Tanya Wexler’s
Read MoreCriterion Collection: La Haine | Blu-ray Review
In 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz’s exceptional debut, La Haine, was a shocking realization of the unjust ghettoizing of immigrants taking place in France, and the violent abuse of power by police forces, but its surprising
Read MoreCannes 2012: How the Nanni Moretti Lead Jury Might Vote
Which film is the odds-on favorite to grab the Palme d’Or this year. It depends not on who you ask, but who is assigned a jury seat. We’ve decided to offer our readers a
Read MoreElena | Review
A Touch of Class: Zvyagintsev’s latest slow burn reaches a masterful boil. Over the past decade, one of the most celebrated new filmmakers to come out of Russia is Andrei Zvyagintsev, with his highly
Read MoreTop 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Alice Winocour’s Augustine
Augustine – Alice Winocour Buzz: Selected as a Special Screening status for this year’s Critics’ Week, it was no secret to us that Alice Winocour was going to premiere her directorial debut at a
Read MoreTop 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Short Films from Tsai Ming-liang and Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Critics Week Closing Night: Walker – Tsai Ming-liang + Morning of Saint Anthony’s Day – João Pedro Rodrigues Buzz: Two of the most ambitious, singular, and intelligent auteurs currently working in world cinema, the
Read MoreTop 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
Paradise: Love – Ulrich Seidl Buzz: While part of the elite class of filmmakers who’ve attained Main Competition status (now for a second time), I still feel that the Dog Days and Import/Export helmer
Read MoreTop 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Pablo Larrain’s No
No – Pablo Larrain Buzz: Pablo Larrain needs little introduction – Tony Manero announced the arrival of a talent to watch out for and the Venice Film Festival showing of his last film, Post
Read MoreTop 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3
3 – Pablo Stoll Ward Buzz: After attaining international acclaim with his break out pair of films (25 Watts and Whisky) alongside Juan Pablo Rebella, helmer Pablo Stoll understandably had a rebirth of sorts.
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