Frank may not have appeared too often in last night’s episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but Charlie Day did have quite the story to share about Danny DeVito when he visited Conan on Tuesday night. Over the years DeVito, who is now in his seventies, has had to pull off a lot of crazy stunts, always game to do whatever they ask of him. So when they told him that they’d be filming a scene underwater he probably didn’t even blink an eye. Day explained on Conan how this particular stunt ended up going very wrong: “We did
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- 2/4/2016
- by Laura Schinner
- TVovermind.com
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #41. Gustave Kervern & Benoit Delepine’s Saint Amour
Saint Amour
Directors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Writers: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Eclectic Belgian directing duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delepine have created a variety of bizarre scenarios together ever since their 2004 debut Aaltra. Notable titles also included 2010’s Mammuth starring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, as well as their not-to-be-missed 2012 title Le Grand Soir, which won the top prize out of Directors’ Fortnight. In Venice 2014, they unveiled Near Death Experience while Kervern has been appearing on other French projects in front of the camera, opposite Catherine Deneuve in In the Courtyard (2014) as well as 2015’s delightfully offbeat Ashphalte from Samuel Benchetrit (unveiled out of competition at Cannes). They often recycle the same cast mates in their feature, and a few of them populate their next feature, Saint Amour (previously known as The Wine Route), with leads Depardieu and Benoit Poelvoorde (The Brand New Testament; 3 Hearts) as father and son...
Directors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Writers: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Eclectic Belgian directing duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delepine have created a variety of bizarre scenarios together ever since their 2004 debut Aaltra. Notable titles also included 2010’s Mammuth starring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, as well as their not-to-be-missed 2012 title Le Grand Soir, which won the top prize out of Directors’ Fortnight. In Venice 2014, they unveiled Near Death Experience while Kervern has been appearing on other French projects in front of the camera, opposite Catherine Deneuve in In the Courtyard (2014) as well as 2015’s delightfully offbeat Ashphalte from Samuel Benchetrit (unveiled out of competition at Cannes). They often recycle the same cast mates in their feature, and a few of them populate their next feature, Saint Amour (previously known as The Wine Route), with leads Depardieu and Benoit Poelvoorde (The Brand New Testament; 3 Hearts) as father and son...
- 1/10/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
248 features and nearly 150 shorts will screen at the 58th BFI London Film Festival and, while you'll already know about quite a few of these titles, e.g., tonight's opener, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, there's plenty, of course, yet to discover—including the film that closes London 2014 on October 19, David Ayer's Fury. Here, I'll be gathering notes throughout the festival on films of particular interest that haven't yet been written up in the Daily. For starters: Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern's Near Death Experience with Michel Houellebecq and Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton's Björk: Biophilia Live. » - David Hudson...
- 10/8/2014
- Keyframe
248 features and nearly 150 shorts will screen at the 58th BFI London Film Festival and, while you'll already know about quite a few of these titles, e.g., tonight's opener, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, there's plenty, of course, yet to discover—including the film that closes London 2014 on October 19, David Ayer's Fury. Here, I'll be gathering notes throughout the festival on films of particular interest that haven't yet been written up in the Daily. For starters: Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern's Near Death Experience with Michel Houellebecq and Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton's Björk: Biophilia Live. » - David Hudson...
- 10/8/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Coverage of International Sales Agents (ISAs) has resumed for the Toronto International Film Festival. This segment covers inspirational companies that have officially selected films in the festival. SydneysBuzz features ISAs, as they play an instrumental and necessary role in helping filmmakers to share their visions and voices with the world.
Based in Paris, Funny Balloons is an international sales company handling selected titles in all media from young or established filmmakers with personal, singular visions.
This year's Tiff selections from the Funny Balloons slate includes Pasolini, by Abel Ferrara (Tiff Special Presentation) and Return To Ithaca, by Laurent Cantet (Tiff Special Presentation). Nde (Near Death Experience), by Benoit Delépine & Gustave Kervern also had a Tiff market screening.
Learn more about these official Tiff selections:
Pasolini
American director Abel Ferrara, another outlaw talent, has clearly found a soulmate in Pasolini. Starring Willem Dafoe, a dead ringer for Pasolini, Pasolini offers a kaleidoscopic view of the last day of the artist's life, in 1975. Struggling with the censors as he is about to finish Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, pausing for an interview with a journalist that allows him to reflect on ideas of sex and politics, having lunch with his beloved mother with whom he shared a house, welcoming friends and former lovers — these are all moments that allow Ferrara to piece together the complex jigsaw puzzle that is Pasolini. And then, of course, there is his obsessive predilection for cruising the nocturnal streets of Rome in search of furtive sex.
Return To Ithaca
Return To Ithaca, a film shot entirely in Spanish and set in an apartment and rooftop terrace overlooking Havana's famed ocean avenue, the Malecón, sees Cantet probe into the lives of a group of middle-aged Cubans struggling to make sense of what has happened to their lives and their dreams.
A quintet of old friends, bearing the scars of years spent eking out a living in Havana, by turns joke and needle each other; they commiserate and taunt; they reminisce. Even though the people in the group share a common past, life has taken them in different directions. Each faces a crisis of conscience that Cantet explores delicately, as compromises butt up against principles, pragmatism against ideals, youth against parents.
Visit the Funny Balloons website.
Based in Paris, Funny Balloons is an international sales company handling selected titles in all media from young or established filmmakers with personal, singular visions.
This year's Tiff selections from the Funny Balloons slate includes Pasolini, by Abel Ferrara (Tiff Special Presentation) and Return To Ithaca, by Laurent Cantet (Tiff Special Presentation). Nde (Near Death Experience), by Benoit Delépine & Gustave Kervern also had a Tiff market screening.
Learn more about these official Tiff selections:
Pasolini
American director Abel Ferrara, another outlaw talent, has clearly found a soulmate in Pasolini. Starring Willem Dafoe, a dead ringer for Pasolini, Pasolini offers a kaleidoscopic view of the last day of the artist's life, in 1975. Struggling with the censors as he is about to finish Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, pausing for an interview with a journalist that allows him to reflect on ideas of sex and politics, having lunch with his beloved mother with whom he shared a house, welcoming friends and former lovers — these are all moments that allow Ferrara to piece together the complex jigsaw puzzle that is Pasolini. And then, of course, there is his obsessive predilection for cruising the nocturnal streets of Rome in search of furtive sex.
Return To Ithaca
Return To Ithaca, a film shot entirely in Spanish and set in an apartment and rooftop terrace overlooking Havana's famed ocean avenue, the Malecón, sees Cantet probe into the lives of a group of middle-aged Cubans struggling to make sense of what has happened to their lives and their dreams.
A quintet of old friends, bearing the scars of years spent eking out a living in Havana, by turns joke and needle each other; they commiserate and taunt; they reminisce. Even though the people in the group share a common past, life has taken them in different directions. Each faces a crisis of conscience that Cantet explores delicately, as compromises butt up against principles, pragmatism against ideals, youth against parents.
Visit the Funny Balloons website.
- 9/15/2014
- by Erin Grover
- Sydney's Buzz
Venice -- The no-budget, fascinating-as-a-trainwreck feature Near Death Experience, from eccentric French directorial duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delepine (Le Grand Soir, Mammuth), stars French literary giant Michel Houellebecq as an absolutely average and totally burnt-out employee of a call center who’s driven to suicide. This intimate psychological drama is set in the great outdoors, as it follows the protagonist into the mountains where he might end it all. A one-man-show for practically its entire running time, Nde, as it’s also being called, manages to stay dramatically grounded despite its possibly pretentious casting choice
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- 8/30/2014
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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