Tracking Shot March 2010: 127 Hours, Dirty Girl, Le Havre, Source Code

At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com’s “Tracking Shot” features a half dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This March, we’ve got a good grouping – apart from Fox Searchlight’s wild card film from Danny Boyle, most of these films will be 2011 releases.

On the world cinema front, we have a new film from Aki Kaurismäki (filming in the North of France), we have Lou Ye joining forces with Tahar Rahim, and another auteur in Phillippe Garrel who will be directing Monica Bellucci.

In the indie production world, Killer Films will be commencing production on Abe Sylvia’s feature debut (Sylvia’s bio can be found here). Plum Pictures is backing George Ratliff’s next feature – he directed a little seen gem with a Sam Rockwell in excellent Rockwellian form in 2007’s Joshua.
Finally, Larry Clark is set for a long awaited return in Savage Innocent and Duncan Jones will move from his Moon fame into his sophomore project Source Code, which is being talked about as a great sci-fi film on paper (this was a Blacklist mentioned project in 2007). Day 1 of shooting begins today, so stay tuned to his twitter account for more details during his Montreal shoot.

127 Hours 
Director: Danny Boyle
Screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy
Producer: Christian Colson (Slumdog Millionaire)
Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara 
Filming in Salt Lake City and Moab, Utah

Bitch (Chienne) 
Director/Screenwriter: Lou Ye
Cast: Tahar Rahim 
Paris and Beijing

Dirty Girl 
Director/Writer: Abe Sylvia 
Producer: Christine Vachon, Pam Koffler, Rob Paris, Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Charles Pugliese, Michael Lesser
Cast: Juno Temple – Sally Hawkins – William H. Macy – Lisa Kudrow – Jeremy Dozier
Filming in Los Angeles

J’ai Regarde les anges 
Director/Writer: Phillippe Garrel
Producer: Edouard Weil
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Grégory Fitoussi, Louis Garrel
Filming in France

Le Havre 
Director/Screenwriter: Aki Kaurismäki
Producer: Haije Tulokas
Cast: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo and Ilkka Koivula
Filming in France

Salvation Boulevard 
Director: George Ratliff
Screenwriter: Ratliff and Douglas Stone
Producer: Cathy Schulman and Celine Rattray
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Ed Harris, Jim Gaffigan
Filming in New Mexico – Michigan

Savage Innocent 
Director: Larry Clark  
Screenwriter: Clark and Evan Wiener
Producers: Paulo Branco, Hans C. Ritter
Cast: Dakota Johnson – Rory Culkin – Ray Liotta
Filming in Los Angeles

Source Code
Director: Duncan Jones 
Screenwriter: Billy Ray, Ben Ripley
Producers: Mark Gordon, Philippe Rousselet , Jordan Wynn
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright
Filming in Montreal