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Critic’s Week 2011: Jeff Nichols, Jonathan Caouette, and Hagar Ben Asher Among 11 Features Selected
A Sundance favorite, a follow-up to a budget-less art house hit, and an anticipated Israeli film are a few of the highlights from the announced lineup for the 2011 Critic's Week (aka Semaine de la Critique), the oldest sidebar in Cannes. The selection only admits films which are either debut or sophomore efforts, so we'll be going in knowing scant details on what to expect, and likely coming out with some new major voices to follow.
Jayasundara To Grow Some ‘Mushrooms’ in Directors’ Fortnight
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, producer of Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara's third feature film Mushrooms announced today that the film will be part of the Directors' Fortnight selection, which is set to be officially unveiled in about T-minus 36 hours. Jayasundara's debut film The Forsaken Land did quite well for itself when it premiered in Cannes in 2005, winning the Camera d'Or for best debut feature.
‘The Lost Bladesman’ Has Been Found by Weinstein
The duo (Felix Chong and Alan Mak) partially behind the Internal Affairs trilogy have a new historical martial-arts picture in the can called The Lost Bladesman. To see it in the States, you'll need to hand over a bit of your hard-earned cash to the Weinstein Company, who have just announced their acquisition of US distribution rights.
Relativity Moves Into ‘House at the End of the Street’
Behold the power of an arthouse smash. Jennifer Lawrence has just about shot up to the A-List in the indie world after her turn in the fantastic Winter's Bone, landing roles in The Beaver (now an official Cannes selection!), Sundance winner Like Crazy, and blockbuster X-Men: First Class. Another film she's starring in, House at the End of the Street, finished shooting last year, and has now been picked up by Relativity Media.
Sony Unleashes Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ On North Americans
Now that Roman Polanski is a free man again, he can go anywhere and do anything - except in North America. That won't stop Sony Pictures Classics from distributing Carnage there, though, as they eye an end-of-year bow for his follow-up to The Ghost Writer.
