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Lorber Finds a ‘Home’ for Switzerland’s Foreign Oscar Entry
I ultimately thought that helmer Ursula Meier didn't know how to work beyond a paper-thin narrative and relied way too much on metaphor and symbolism.
Top French Thesps ‘Figure’ in Ozon’s Potiche
Coming off the recent, critically well-received, smaller in scale Le Refuge (a drama that initially is conceived as an addiction drama but is better labeled as a film about yearning and loneliness, François Ozon has commenced shooting his 12th feature titled Potiche.
Abu-Assad and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are the New ‘Courier’
What an odd move it would make to see Hany Abu-Assad (who has been waiting, and waiting some more for his next project to unfold) to move from Paradise Now onto a screenplay written from the pair who gave us 3:10 to Yuma, currently lensing The A-Team and the "Wanted" franchise.
Foreign Oscar Nom ‘The Wind Journeys’ Travels to Film Movement
Film Movement have nabbed the North American rights to Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journeys - a film that supported by Cannes Film Festival’s Atelier de la Cinefondation and which received its world premiere at the fest last May before heading out onto the fall film festival circuit (TIFF, San Sebastian, London).
Wayne Wang is a ‘Fan’ of Ziyi Zhang
You can bet Wayne Wang won't be premiering this one on Youtube. Unlike the fate of his last two films (The Princess of Nebraska and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers), if Wang does follow threw with this project, you can pretty much beat it'll come with the same buzz that was wrapped around Memoirs of a Geisha for the better part of two decades.
