Thierry Frémaux has circled Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (which we thought would have been an OOC offering) and the already battle-ready nouveau item by...
Casting is complete and cameras are currently rolling on Catherine Corsini's Le retour. We recently reported that Aïssatou Diallo Sagna was the first to...
Lee Daniels will have trouble topping 2009, unless 2010 scores him tons of awards. After receiving the acclaim from Sundance and making a stop in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section, Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire will receive some more media nurturing during the Toronto Film Festival. After wowing audiences with Whale Rider, Niko Caro re-teams with Keisha Castle-Hughes and adds vets Vera Farmiga and Jérémie Renier to The Vinter's Luck mix.
Partir - Catherine Corsini
Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire – Lee Daniels
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story - Yousry Nasrallah
Solitary Man - Brian Koppelman and David Levien
Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Refn
Vengeance - Johnnie To
The Vintner’s Luck - Niki Caro
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.