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‘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.
67th Venice Film Festival: No Malick, No WKW, but Tons More Possible
Now that all bets are off on Terrence Malick showing up on the Lido, and Wong Kar-wai's The Grand Master appears to be on the same no-show list (the fest have announced that Andrew Lau's The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen has their second opening night flick celebrating the anniversary of Bruce Lee’s 70th birthday).
Incendies: Denis Villeneuve’s Venice Bound Drama
Ask me who Canada's best working filmmaker is at the moment, and I'd make a convincing argument that it isn't Guy Maddin, David Cronenberg or Atom Egoyan, but instead, a French Canadian filmmaker who wasn't at Cannes this year but will be in Venice. I'd bestow the honor on Denis Villeneuve from August 32nd on Earth (1998) and Maelström (2000) fame, and most recently 2008's short film Next Floor and the sobering, Polytechnique (2009) and his fourth feature film, Incendies (Scorched) will be competing in the Venice Days sidebar section which regularly turns out some gems.
TIFF 2010 Viral: interview with Festival Co-Director Cameron Bailey
Sundance has Cooper, Cannes has Frémaux and Venice has Mueller, but in Toronto they have a duo splitting the festival director responsibilities. It sort of makes sense when you've got four to five times the amount of titles that Cannes has. One part of the tag team is Cameron Bailey with whom I got a chance to throw some questions at within the context of today's first release of titles.
