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Strand Picks Up Berlin Film Fest Entry ‘Service Entrance’
Strand Releasing have been plucking select French cinema titles over the years (Breillat's Bluebeard, Ozon's Le Refuge and Téchiné's The Girl on the Train) but their latest pick-up in Philippe Le Guay's comedy definitely goes against their usual targeted title...
We Have a Trailer! Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope
We're about one month away from the April 14th date when the Cannes Film Festival announce their line-up and we're exactly 54 days from what should be one of the better competition line-ups in years (here is an idea of what & who might turn up on the Croisette in 2011). Among the titles we figure we should be seeing in the Main Comp is the latest from Nanni Moretti. To be released in Italy weeks before it plays out to international critics, we've got the Italian trailer below for Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope).
Logan’s Run Out: What Will Aronofsky Direct Next?
Just when we were getting used to the idea that the Requiem For a Dream/Black Swan director was joining the Marvel universe, now comes word that Darren Aronofsky has officially dropped The Wolverine --- he cites being away from home, but if I were in his shoes I'd be weary about radiation and earthquakes so I wouldn't shoot a film in Japan either.
Bogdan Mustata’s ‘Wolf’ Enters Cannes’ L’Atelier
Bogdan Mustata is in preparation mode for Wolf and a major push forward might come from the Croisette this may - he was selected to attend L'Atelier program of Cinefondation - now in it's 6th edition from the folks at Cannes. Each year, L'Atelier selects about 15 feature length projects from around the world and invites their directors to the Festival de Cannes in order to put them in contact with film professionals.
Incendies Cleans Up 2011 Jutra Awards (Quebec Oscars)
Unlike last year's two filmmaker/film horse race between Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique and Xavier Dolan's J'ai tué ma mere, this year it was all "Villeneuve" and "Incendies". Repeating his wins in all the same categories it won at the Canadian Oscars (Genies) this week (this includes Editing, Screenplay, Best Cinematography by the excellent André Turpin, Best Actress in Lubna Azabal (who forced here co-star Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin to give her own thank you speech).
