We recently got our first look at Isabelle Huppert in her forthcoming effort with Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo in "In Another Country," but with the unveiling of a more in depth synopsis, it now looks like Hong has made the most of having such a renowned thespian at his disposal. Screen Daily reveals that Huppert will play three leading characters all named Anne who "consecutively visit a seaside town. They each stay at the same small hotel by the shore and venture onto the beach where each of the Annes meet a group of the same people including a certain ...

Last summer, the cinema world lost the great, prolific and distinctive filmmaker Raul Ruiz. Probably best known to contemporary audiences for "The Mysteries Of Lisbon," the Cannes winner has in the middle of preparations for his next film, "The Lines Of Wellington," which was set to center around the Battle Of Bussaco in 1810 and the French invasion of Portugal. Well, fans will be relieved to know the movie is still happening. Screen Daily reveals that during a tribute to the filmmaker at the Rotterdam Film Festival, his widow and editor Valeria Sarmiento was unable to attend as she was ...

Abel Ferrara continues to insist disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be the inspiration for an upcoming film. First revealed at the tail end of last year, reports surfaced that the director was looking at Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani to star in a movie that will use the Strasse-Kahn affair, and incidents involving Bill Clinton and Silvio Berlusconi and more to tell a fictionalized tale about sexual scandals. Production company Wild Bunch were quick to downplay any connection to DSK saying the film would only have "a little bit" of influence from his highly publicized incident in New York ...

It was about a year ago that speculation first cropped up that controversial helmer Brillante Mendoza -- who won a divisive Best Director award at Cannes for his audience-splitting "Kinatay" -- would return to the Croisette with his latest effort, "Captured." The film was apparently in post-production and headed to the finish line...and then word went quiet. Well, the movie is now in the can and headed to Berlin, and some fresh images have cropped up to give us a taste. Isabelle Huppert continues her journey through the foreign arthouse world (she also stars in Hong Sang-Soo's upcoming "In Another ...

While Berlin gears up to take place in about a week, with SXSW following next month, all eyes are on Cannes in May. Over the next couple of months, rumor, speculation and, eventually, official confirmation will arrive about who will be making the trek to the Croisette. Walter Salles' "On The Road" was the first movie this year to get the ball rolling on the possibility of a red carpet appearance, and now a Korean auteur looks primed to make his way back to France. Film Business Asia (via ONTD) has dropped the first look at Isabelle Huppert in Hong ...

The 32nd annual Genie Awards nominations were announced today. The Genie Awards are the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Awards. I am really happy to see both Beauty Day and Wiebo’s War received nominations in the Best Feature Length Documentary category. The awards will be handed out on Thursday, March 8, 2012. Here is the full list of nominations: Best Motion Picture A Dangerous Method – Martin Katz, Marco Mehlitz, Jeremy Thomas Café De Flore – Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Jean-Marc Vallée Monsieur Lazhar – Luc Déry, Kim Mccraw Starbuck – André Rouleau The Whistleblower – Christina Piovesan, Celine Rattray Achievement In Direction David ...

There can be few actresses as uncompromising as Isabelle Huppert. The French star has, across a forty year career, consistently sought out tough roles from international auteurs, while even her rare American appearances have, aside from a WTF appearance on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," tended to be in difficult, flawed pictures like "Heaven's Gate" and "I Heart Huckabees." The next year looks to take that even further, with films coming up from acclaimed international directors like Brilliante Mendoza, the late Raoul Ruiz, Hong Sang-Soo and frequent collaborator Michael Haneke, but she's just added one more tick to ...

Soon-to-be fifteen year old actress Isabelle Fuhrman is carving out quite a career for herself. She first came to notice as the creepy Esther in the horror flick "Orphan," went the indie route for "Salvation Boulevard" and this spring she'll feature in her first major tentpole with "The Hunger Games" playing Clove. And it looks like she's impressing the right people and she'll join one of the biggest movie stars on the planet -- and his son -- in another futurist tale. THR reports that Fuhrman has joined M. Night Shyamalan's "After Earth" (formerly known as "1000 A ...

MADE IN CHINA we all know that serge had the magic touch when it came to writing for women. but something didn't work out when he wrote an album for his wife bambou (named because she smoked opium a lot) - it was a total flop. think charlottes wonderful charlotte for ever album mixed with grace jones inside story album - see! that doesn't sound too bad does it?! bambous voice is good enough - again it's reminiscent of charlotte or isabelle adjani. what lets this album down the most is the cheap production and god awful male voice that ...

Update: Wild Bunch has clarified the film will not be about Dominique Strasse-Kahn specifically, but more generally about politicians. "Abel Ferrara is currently writing a script about politics, the weakness of today’s politician, who is at the same time all-powerful and lost, miserable in his personal life," Vincent Maraval said. Both Depardieu and Adjani are nowhere near to being locked. As you were. [THR]  Controversial filmmaker Abel Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant,” “4:44 Last Day On Earth”) is lining up a new project that sounds as intriguing as it does tentative. Ferrara is working with screenwriter Christ Zois (who previously ...

Se nos está marchando el 2011 y el 2012 llama a nuestras puertas cargado de regalos y de buenas intenciones, como todos los años entrantes. Por eso se un buen momento para recomendaros esta canción, “Je veux”, de la cantante francesa Isabelle Geffroy, conocida artísticamente como Zaz. El tema, muy positivista, es un alegato en [...]

It has become a tradition that every year I see a film in honour of my birthday. In the last few years, despite my general dislike for the format, 3D films such have Avatar and Tron Legacy have been films picked for this special day. This year’s selection, Hugo, turned out to an especially fitting choice as the film is a celebration of the magic of film. Taking place primarily in a Paris train station in 1931, young orphan Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) lives in the station tending to the numerous clocks. In his spare time, when he is ...

You can read the first part of our interview with Jessica Chastain here Jessica Chastain has not had a normal year. Not so much breaking through as invading and colonizing multiplexes and arthouse theaters alike (we’ll have more on this in a special end-of-year piece coming soon), when we spoke to her during the Marrakech International Film Festival, she was nonetheless able to identify one defining experience amidst it all: the Cannes red carpet. “I definitely mark it as a special moment,” she told us. “It's like in all the great novels you see a moment where someone ...

vaudeville, cabaret, fahrender zirkus, der ideen einige, wenn man versucht das neo folk korsett von ödland zu sprengen. die vierköpfige truppe aus frankreich treibt es bunt und immer wieder auf die spitze. sie findet ausdruck in einer musik, die grenzen überwindet, als sei es das normalste, dem kunstlied zigeunerhaftes unterzujubeln, das old time piano mit einem banjo zu verbinden. sie selbst sprechen von inspirationsquellen wie neoklassizismus, ragtime und der musik des 19. jahrhunderts, setzen dulcimer genauso ein wie die singende säge, ukulele, violine und vielerlei spielzeug, das zweckentfremdet dienstbar gemacht wird. die auftritte sind zum einen kindlich anmutend, übermütig, folklore ...

J’ai gravé mon premier cd de mp3 en octobre 1999. Je me souviens que je possédais mon ordinateur était un Packard-Bell payé 3500,00$ avec un disque dur de 420 megs et un graveur 1X. Ça me prenait 45 minutes pour graver un disque. Les temps ont bien changé. Après ce premier disque j’en ai gravé 762 autres et je ne compte pas les 4000 et quelques longs-jeux et les centaines de 45 tours ou les centaines de cd achetés que j’ai convertis en mp3 pour les graver aussi sur cd, en plus de leur faire une ...