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Strand Makes Sure that ‘Uncle Boonmee’ Has a Final Resting Place
Strand Releasing, the official North American distributor for all things Apichatpong Weerasethakul will indeed be releasing his latest, Cannes-winning film. The trades report that Marcus Hu's longstanding co. will distribute Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives in Spring of next year, but you can bet that the local premiere will occur at the Weerasethakul-friendly film festival in Toronto this September.
Pedro Gonzalez Rubio
I was yearning to explore a story about a very simple and primitive activity in the nurturing of a child, because I felt my previous film explored the incapacity of teaching since the characters are stuck in a solitary self destructive loop. In ALAMAR I wanted to have a timeless relationship and love between family, this could be achieved by focusing on the initiation of a boy with his father’s roots.
Tracking Shot July 2010: Melancholia, Moneyball, Take This Waltz
July is a pretty big month for movie productions worth keeping tabs on - this month's IONCINEMA.com's "Tracking Shot" features a mix of indie and studio project, with helmer Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) making the jump for low budget to huge budget with Summit Ent. distributing and Timur Bekmambetov producing an alien invasion project.
Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Next: Hard Boiled, Film Noir, Book to Film Project
Much of the attention at Cannes this year went to one Thai filmmaker, next year's edition is most likely going to welcome the other Thai helmer (hint: Last Life in the Universe). Pen-ek Ratanaruang who last directed Nymph and more recently contributed to Sawasdee Bangkok, will according to Twitchfilm via (Wise Kwai) tackle a novel by award winning author Win Lyovarin which would move the director into a noir filled world about a hitman.
SPC is ‘Above All’ A World Cinema Specialist; Grab Cannes Un Certain Regard Drama
Sony Pictures Classics have put their hands on a Cannes' Un Certain Regard title that Variety calls "a sun-scorched African version of recent Sundance hit "Winter's Bone." Directed by German/South African helmer Oliver Schmitz (you may recognize his name as among the Paris, Je t'aime participants) Life, Above All is based on Allan Stratton's book Chanda’s Secrets and counts as strictly adult fare programming.
