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Ben Foster Reteams with Cassavetes, adds Sienna Miller, Lucy Punch, Melanie Griffith and Mom
Mentioned very briefly only two weeks back, we have some major casting news that was announced late yesterday. Nick Cassavetes' will be counting on some familiar faces, casting his mother (Gena Rowlands) and Ben Foster and will most likely throw this trio (Sienna Miller, Lucy Punch, Melanie Griffith) under the bus in Yellow.
90’s Music Video Helmers as Today’s Filmmakers
What's cool about Pitchfork's best 50 videos countdown from the 90's are seeing how some of the least obvious names cut their teeth on music videos -- some became full fledged members of the filmmaking community, while some are still in the cross over stages.
TIFF 2010: Contemporary World Cinema Features World Preems from Koen Mortier, Icíar Bollaín, Bent Hamer and Peter Mullan
I was wondering why Peter Mullan's Neds wasn't included in Venice. I was wondering why the Midnight Madness section didn't name Koen Mortier's latest. I was wondering why Cannes regular Bent Hamer wasn't in Cannes. TIFF's CWC section has all three high profile items, plus Venice Film Festival's Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichard) and Three (Tom Tykwer). Reichard will participate in Kelly Reichardt in a Mavericks discussion about the behind the scenes of her process.
TIFF 2010: Masters Cannes offerings and Palme d’Or Winner, plus Trio from Venice
You can call this year's Masters section the "re-showing of old filmmaker favorites from Cannes". Plenty of the names selected here Godard, Lee Chang-dong, Ken Loach, Manoel de Oliveira and Palme D'or winning Apichatpong Weerasethakul were expected to show up, added to the Cannes titles we have a trio from Venice in: Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins, Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing and Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty. The one world premiere is from Amos Gitai (Roses à Crédit).
TIFF 2010: Discovery Section Highlights in Attenberg, Ceremony, Dirty Girl, Beautiful Boy and Look, Stranger
Deemed as a showcase for innovative new filmmakers, some noticeable inclusions begin with a Greek film hitting the Venice Film Festival that we've profiled on more than one occasion (ATTENBERG), and the world premieres for: Shawn Ku's Beautiful Boy and an opposite sounding title in Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl, we have Max Winkler's directorial debut Ceremony - featuring Uma Thurman, and a Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces mentioned Arielle Javitch and her debut film, Look, Stranger.
