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2010 Cinereach Sundance Institute Grantees Includes Braden King, Victoria Mahoney and Margaret Brown
I'm getting to this press release a little late, but it's worth mentioning that this year's The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute is supporting not one, not two, but three filmmaker names that we profiled in our inaugural American New Wave 25 series.
67th Venice Film Festival: Waddington’s Lope, Scorsese and Kent Jones and the Afflecks Hit the Lido
The Afflecks will celebrate on the Lido together - both actor-turned-directors are featured in the Out of Competition line-up (see below) and will surely jet back to TIFF together with The Town and the Phoenix doc - though those chances are indeed slim. Speaking of Toronto, the OOC also features Anurag Kashyap's That Girl in Yellow Boots and Andrucha Waddington's Lope (TIFF claims they have the World Premiere, but I think we might see a correction on that later on).
67th Venice Film Festival: Gallo, Coppola, Reichardt Selected in the Main Comp
Knowing Quentin Tarantino's appreciation for films that are "out there": if I had to do some really early predictions here, I'd say that the Gold and Silver Lion front-runners are in Alex De La Iglesia's bizarro fantasy film A Sad Trumpet Ballad, Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem or Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (a filmmaker we recently profiled in our American New Wave 25 series - she spent more than a decade in Austin's film scene). I'd also add put Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus high up on any awards list, especially the Lido - it's a film I've been pegging for Venice since the film went into production.
‘Beloved’ Catherine Deneuve Joins Christophe Honoré’s Rom Com
After having worked with her daughter, Chiara Mastroianni in his last film (Making Plans for Lena), Christophe Honoré will now work with Catherine Deneuve in his next project to begin lensing this fall. Entitled Les Bien-Aimés (The Beloved), Deneuve, who was supposed to have played in Ma mère (Huppert would take the role) will play the title character in this rom com - Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier and the frequent Honoré collaborator Louis Garrel, are also joining the project.
Sasha Gray Will Make you ‘Melt’
I'm not sure if there have been cross overs from porn to mainstream cinema, but it appears that for one actress in particular, working in both worlds might be a valid option. Catherine Breillat had Rocco, and now, both Steven Soderbergh and Mark Pellington will have employed the services of Sasha Gray, the adult film star with some gnarly film titles in her filmography. So the The Girlfriend Experience will not have been a "token" experience after all.
