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Anne Fontaine Offers a ‘Nightmare’ Scenario for Huppert and Poelvoorde
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 Getting Ready for Theatrical Birth of Benedek Fliegauf’s ‘Womb’
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.
Chris Rock to Spend ‘2 Days in New York’ with Delpy
Chris Rock, who already has a penchant for Euro cinema (he adapted the Rohmer film which gave us I Think I Love My Wife) will get to ask his director and co-lead Julie Delpy about working with the likes of Leos Carax, Schlöndorff and Krzysztof Kieslowski. Rock has been cast to play the American boyfriend role in the sequel to Delpy's 2 Days in Paris.
First Watch: Brady Kiernan’s Stuck Between Stations starring Sam Rosen, Zoe Lister Jones and Josh Hartnett
Thanks to an IONCINEMA.com reader, we've got your first glimpse into the look and feel for Stuck Between Stations - a low budget romantic drama by Brady Kiernan (see below), a first time helmer we featured in our American New Wave 25 series.
Fest Circuit Favorite Translates in The Cinema Guild Pick-Up for ‘Five Elephants’
When you have a distributor who brings to market a select few documentary items, then one would have to think that their might be something special about Vadim Jendreyko’s The Woman with the Five Elephants. The Cinema Guild have picked up the well travelled doc which was featured in the Hot Docs, Viennale, Locarno, Rotterdam and at the AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Film Festival where it picked up the Sterling Award for a World Feature. Expect an early 2011 release.
