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Michelangelo Frammartino’s Top Ten Films List
This month we profile Michelangelo Frammartino. His award-winning film, Le Quattro Volte was among our top three back on the Croisette and it receives a theatrical release via Lorber Films -- beginning in Gotham's Film Forum and then expanding into other markets in North America commencing this weekend.
Exclusive: Factory 25 Brings ‘Two Gates of Sleep’ to Final Resting Place
Factory 25, the uber cool Brooklyn NY label responsible for making sure that Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and You Wont Miss Me get some love from the movie-going public have picked up one of my favorite films from the 2010 campaign in the Cannes Director's Fortnight selected Two Gates of Sleep.
Cinema Guild Place Caring Hand Around ‘The Interrupters’
It terms of acquisitions, this Sundance Film Fest was one of the better ones in terms of volume (number of titles sold, not necessarily dollar amount) actually it was such a great fest that we've kind of forgotten that not all titles found a suitor.
Strickland Begins Lensing on His ‘Studio’ Film
Toplined by Toby Jones who finds himself in the engineer's chair, Berberian Sound Studio is going to be a hot title for 2012 as it is being produced by some interesting names in Keith Griffiths (he works with Thai Joe) and Mary Burke (who is coming off the extremely popular festival title, Submarine).
Lars von Trier’s Next: The ‘Nymphomaniac’
If the stars do align for certain Cannes V.I.P member filmmakers, 2012's festival might be one steamy event. We have Gaspar Noe who wants to return to the world of X and if Lars von Trier has it his way, his next project would cause a bigger media storm than the one we are already highly anticipating less than two months from now with Melancholia. Screen reports that the director might go with the idea/title of The Nymphomaniac over Dirt in Bedsores for "a film about a woman’s erotic birth, a woman who discovers her eroticism.”
