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Two Shades of Blue; Music Box Makes Post Sundance-Berlin Pick-Up of ‘Keep the Lights On’
Contempo Queer cinema is alive and well. After showings at Sundance and in Berlin, Ira Sachs' Keep the Lights On is following along in...
Cannes’ L’Atelier 2012: Marco van Geffen and Mahmoud Al Massad Among 15 Selected
In the seven previous editions (with 2007 being the best crop of films with noteworthy titles such as Bertrand Bonello's De La Guerre, Michelangelo...
IFC Tags Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Gimme the Loot’
Hot off the heels of a huge SXSW premiere and with a Grand Jury Prize win to boot, Adam Leon's feature debut has been picked up by the folks at IFC and keeping with a stellar month of March, it'll be highlighted at the New Directors/New Films festival which officially kicks off this week. While no release date has been mentioned, we expect Gimme the Loot to show this summer with, if lucky, an international premiere at a sidebar such as Cannes Critics' Week.
Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways: Trailer and Poster!
We threw you a batch of photos of Laurence Anyways last week, and earlier today Quebec's daily La Presse nabbed the first look at the poster (see below - I'll look in finding a better high res pic shortly) and the much anticipated trailer which features Melvil Poupaud in an all-encompassing lead role and what appears to be strong supporting female characters which bridges actresses from Quebec and France. Click on the screen cap below to see the trailer.
Cannes’ L’Atelier 2012: Marco van Geffen and Mahmoud Al Massad Among 15 Selected
In the seven previous editions (with 2007 being the best crop of films with noteworthy titles such as Bertrand Bonello's De La Guerre, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, Semih Kaplanoglu's Milk, Ciro Guerra's The Wind Journey, João Pedro Rodrigues' To Die Like A Man and So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain), L’Atelier has been a pivotal stop for new auteurs in world cinema finding some coin. And while this doesn't carry the same weight as Rotterdam, so far the ratio is 72 for 115. Among the 15 projects selected this year we find find the likes of Dutch helmer Marco van Geffen (pictured) who gave us last year's Among Us (Locarno, TIFF), docu helmer Mahmoud Al Massad (Sundance's Recycle) and a foursome of filmmakers who've workshopped their nascent projects at the well-regarded Torino Film Labs. Here's the list below:
