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Tahar Rahim is Lou Ye’s ‘Bitch’
In many ways, Cannes is like Disneyland. It's a lieu where dreams come true, where an actor can be plucked from obscurity, as was the case for Tahar Rahim - whose mind-numbing, break-out performance in A Prophet has landed him a wealth of future acting parts, and it's a place that helps sustain a career in filmmaking when you're banned from pursuing the profession in your own country, as was the case for provocateur Lou Ye.
IFC Harvests Claire Denis’ White Material
Not sure how much time after world preems in Venice and TIFF that the IFC Films folks scooped up the rights to Claire Denis' White Material, but if you are like me, both a fan of Denis and this film, or you run Fin de Cinema, you'd have noticed that next month's BAMcinématek presents Focus on IFC Films contains a surprise selection that hadn't been yet announced as an IFC pick-up.
Magnet Gets Bloody for ‘Centurion’
You get a sense that if you had to choose a crowning piece in Magnet Releasing's 2nd edition of the ‘Six Shooter’ series that you'd want to end on a high note such as in today's pick-up announcement. Despite only playing in market screenings, Neil Marshall's Centurion may be a major coup for Tom Quinn.
First Look: Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid
Last week in my Cannes predictions, I attached a first glimpse of the Lee Jeong-jae and Jeon Do-yeon (who won Best Actress in Cannes for Secret Sunshine) pairing we'll find Im Sang-soo's remake of The Housemaid, and now we have a sweet first look at a Jeon Do-yeon again in a pic that gives us a vague idea of the subservient, domesticated nanny persona she embodies before the problems start to mount.
Anjelica Huston and Philip Baker Hall Diagnosed with ‘Cancer’
With principle set pieces of the dramedy already secured in Rogen, McAvoy, Kendrick and Dallas Howard, Variety reports that we now we have vets Anjelica Huston and Philip Baker Hall filling out the secondary roles in Jonathan Levine's (please don't re-title it) I'm With Cancer.
