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40th FNC: Shame, Snowtown, Faust, A Separation and Guilty of Romance Among Festival Selections
Breaking out around the time where NYFF is on its last legs, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (October 12 to 23) kicks in with about four times the size in volume, and obviously more of an eclectic range. This year is the festival's big 40 - and for the occasion they've commissioned some of the names who've been a part of the festival to each contribute a short film in the context of what is being called the "Cartes Blanches" series. Denis Côté, Deco Dawson, Sophie Deraspe, Rodrigue Jean, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie Losier, Catherine Martin, Bruce McDonald, Théodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve will each submit a four minute short.
Michael Shannon, Shepard and Paulson Stained with ‘Mud’
Jeff Nichols' muse Michael Shannon, Take Shelter player Ray McKinnon, Sarah Paulson (whose stock significantly rose with Martha Marcy May Marlene) and the busier than ever Sam Shepard have signed onto Mud - Nichols third feature film which began shooting today in his native Arkansas.
Weinstein Make Sure That ‘This Must Be the Place’ Has a Place
Critically panned in Cannes. Shut out from North American premieres in Toronto and Telluride, it appeared as if Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place wouldn't find a festival tent let alone a distrib home in the U.S. but an unlikely candidate in the Weinstein Co. have grabbed the rights.
Interview: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky (The Patron Saints)
We've been keeping tabs on this husband-wife filmmaking team the first time we herd about them via Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of 2007...
Review: Nuit #1
"With a confidently stripped bare appearance, with no artifice and for a good portion of the film's 90 runtime without clothes, Nuit #1 might be the more invigorating counter-point to the lazy one night stand themed dramas."
