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Closer Look: Fairy Tale Adventures in Catherine Breillat’s La belle endormie
Make this 2 for 2 for French author Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) and Catherine Breillat. The controversial French filmmaker is presenting La Belle endormie (Sleeping Beauty) in Venice Film Festival this year and is tipped for TIFF directly after.
Visit Films’ Ryan Kampe and Sylvan Tron Introduce Baxter Bros.
The New York-based duo behind Visit Films -- the International Sales Agents responsible for such films The Myth of the American Sleepover, The Taqwacores, Trash Humpers, The Freebie and Aaron Katz's Cold Weather, are getting into the distribution game with the newly launched division called Baxter Brothers Film Releasing.
Film in Pictures: Contempo Film Noir in Monte Hellman’s Road to Nowhere
Couple of days ago we showed you this still of Shannyn Sossamon, and now we've got the full synopsis and a batch of new images for Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere (Venice Film Festival Main Competition). Shot in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, the West End of London, Lago di Garda in Northern Italy, the ancient parts of Rome and Hellman's own living room, reading from the film's press kit, this promises to be a twisty, turny item with Sossamon's character borrowing certain doppelganger-like features.
Closer Look: Sex Ed in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg
In adding this new batch of new images to the synopsis and other images we exclusively preemed, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is shaping up to be the most curious looking title from this year's Venice comp - here's hoping it makes it among the Toronto titles and thus make my future schedule, a little bit edgier.
Randomness: Take This Waltz, The Loneliest Planet, Higher Ground, Midnight in Paris, Melancholia
Here's a collection of paparazzi, normal folk shot and press conference photo odds & ends on projects that we're already keeping close tabs on. Not sure if I'm going to make this a regular feature on the site, perhaps an infrequent Friday visual update. In descending order we have Sarah Polley giving direction to Sarah Silverman who plays Geraldine -- a probable BFF to Michelle Williams romantically involved character in Talk this Waltz.
