The films of prolific director Anne Fontaine range from the serious (Agnus Dei, Nathalie) to the ridiculous (Perfect Mothers) to the slickly entertaining (The Girl from Monaco, Coco Before Chanel, Gemma Bovery), making her one of the more diversified filmmakers operating in this sort of semi-commercial vein in France.
Her latest effort, Reinventing Marvin (or just Marvin in French), is a stab at yet another genre: the queer coming-of-age story, which she mixes into a confessional performance piece that includes, among other fourth wall-breaking elements, Isabelle Huppert co-starring as herself. The result is a hodgepodge that...
Her latest effort, Reinventing Marvin (or just Marvin in French), is a stab at yet another genre: the queer coming-of-age story, which she mixes into a confessional performance piece that includes, among other fourth wall-breaking elements, Isabelle Huppert co-starring as herself. The result is a hodgepodge that...
- 9/2/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Few filmmakers move so effortlessly between genres quite like Anne Fontaine, and while her most recognised endeavour came in the form of biopic Coco Before Chanel, her most recent production was the enchanting, comedically inclined Gemma Bovery. Now the eclectic director returns in rather contrasting fashion, with the tonally bleak, slow-burning drama The Innocents; a […]
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- 10/14/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Damien (Kacey Mottet Klein, “Gemma Bovery”) and Tom (Corentin Fila) dislike each other very much. It’s the kind of hate that blooms at first sight, and with little to no provocation these French 17-year-olds trip each other up, deliver schoolyard beatings, and make appointments to really bring the pain in the nearby woods with private brawls that bruise torsos, scrape knuckles and fracture bones. “Being 17,” André Téchiné‘s crisply executed examination of teenage self-discovery, pairs the 73-year-old director with screenwriter Céline Sciamma (“Girlhood”) and returns him to territory he marked in his 1994 hit “Wild Reeds.” Yet this time around,...
- 10/5/2016
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
The first trailer for Anne Fontaine‘s (Gemma Bovery, Adore) latest feature The Innocents (alternatively titled Agnus Dei) depicts the struggle of a young Red Cross doctor in Poland, 1945, who realizes several nuns are pregnant when she goes to assist survivors of a German camp.
With largely locked down compositions mixed with controlled, gliding shots, the imagery is reminiscent of 2014’s wonderful Ida. However, The Innocents has a more vintage, grainy filmic quality that lends itself to its darker, cooler color palette and low light imagery.
We said in our review: “Despite an ending that is far too obvious and tidy, Agnus Dei is a moving drama about the struggle to keep one’s faith in the most difficult of situations. Also working as an allegory for humanity’s enduring difficulty to stay true to one’s ideals when a quandary is thrown in the mix, Agnus Dei is a...
With largely locked down compositions mixed with controlled, gliding shots, the imagery is reminiscent of 2014’s wonderful Ida. However, The Innocents has a more vintage, grainy filmic quality that lends itself to its darker, cooler color palette and low light imagery.
We said in our review: “Despite an ending that is far too obvious and tidy, Agnus Dei is a moving drama about the struggle to keep one’s faith in the most difficult of situations. Also working as an allegory for humanity’s enduring difficulty to stay true to one’s ideals when a quandary is thrown in the mix, Agnus Dei is a...
- 6/17/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Soda Pictures
To celebrate the release of Gemma Bovery, available on DVD and Blu-ray from 8th February 2016, we have 2 Blu-rays to give away.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds, Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Madame Bovery.
Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon becomes tired of their simpler life and finds distraction with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin (Luchini), a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.
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To celebrate the release of Gemma Bovery, available on DVD and Blu-ray from 8th February 2016, we have 2 Blu-rays to give away.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds, Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Madame Bovery.
Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon becomes tired of their simpler life and finds distraction with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin (Luchini), a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.
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- 2/1/2016
- by Laura Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
To mark the release of Gemma Bovery on 8th February, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. After moving to the French countryside with her husband (Jason Flemyng), a British beauty (Gemma Arterton) draws the attention of a local baker (Fabrice Luchini), a young playboy and her magnetic ex. Gemma Arterton &
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- 2/1/2016
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine)
It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable tonal control from director Anne Fontaine and a winning pair of performances from Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Bovery somehow manages to be an affecting and hilarious treat. Set in modern day Normandy,...
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine)
It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable tonal control from director Anne Fontaine and a winning pair of performances from Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Bovery somehow manages to be an affecting and hilarious treat. Set in modern day Normandy,...
- 11/27/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
[Editor's Note: This post is presented in partnership with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand in support of Indie Film Month. Today's pick, "Gemma Bovery," is available now On Demand. Need help finding a movie to watch? Let TWC find the best fit for your mood here.] Read More: 9 Indies That Were Better Than the Books On Which They Were Based Based on Posy Simmons' graphic novel of the same name (which, in turn, spun off Gustave Flaubert's classic "Madame Bovery"), Anne Fontaine's "Gemma Bovery" explores the wild life of the titular Gemma (Gemma Arterton, naturally), as her own experience oddly echoes the plots and machinations of Flaubert's beloved novel (coincidence? nah). Part romance, part comedy and part drama, "Gemma Bovery" gives new life to the classic novel it pulls so generously from, while honoring the grand tradition of movie characters who are just nuts...
- 9/13/2015
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
★★☆☆☆ "A boring woman sick of her boring life is not boring," claims Martin (Fabrice Luhini), the nosey French neighbour of Gemma Arterton's titular Gemma Bovery (2014). He's the narrator of this strangely quaint adaptation of Posy Simmons's graphic novel that updates Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary into a sarky modern setting. Martin, a former publisher who has relocated to Normandy, is struck by how closely his new neighbour's life mirrors that of his literary heroine, Bovary - even to the name. Gemma moves with her husband (Jason Flemyng) to a dilapidated cottage and embraces Gallic life drinking wine, visiting the market, going to the boulangerie so she can learn the French for croissant.
- 8/26/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Gemma Arterton is a joy to watch but can’t carry this Posy Simmonds-meets-Flaubert caper alone
Mercurial Gemma Arterton provided the spark that sold Tamara Drewe to cinema audiences, and she’s the main attraction again in this latest Posy Simmonds adaptation. Arterton plays Gemma Bovery (the on-screen title initially withholds the “G”), a restless Brit who decamps to bucolic Normandy, where her life imitates that of literature’s most infamously bored housewife. Under the lustful gaze of Flaubert fan Martin (Fabrice Luchini, all startled eyes and hangdog mouth), Gemma is soon bedding the local young buck, unnoticed by husband Charlie (Jason Flemyng), who’s too busy restoring antiques to keep track of his marriage.
Arterton has flirty fun with the title role, and her scenes with Luchini boast a satirical crackle that’s missing elsewhere. Cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne drools over the picturesque landscapes while Bruno Colais’s music...
Mercurial Gemma Arterton provided the spark that sold Tamara Drewe to cinema audiences, and she’s the main attraction again in this latest Posy Simmonds adaptation. Arterton plays Gemma Bovery (the on-screen title initially withholds the “G”), a restless Brit who decamps to bucolic Normandy, where her life imitates that of literature’s most infamously bored housewife. Under the lustful gaze of Flaubert fan Martin (Fabrice Luchini, all startled eyes and hangdog mouth), Gemma is soon bedding the local young buck, unnoticed by husband Charlie (Jason Flemyng), who’s too busy restoring antiques to keep track of his marriage.
Arterton has flirty fun with the title role, and her scenes with Luchini boast a satirical crackle that’s missing elsewhere. Cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne drools over the picturesque landscapes while Bruno Colais’s music...
- 8/23/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Infidelity is generally portrayed in very melodramatic fashion in movies. Husbands try to kill their wives' lovers. Affairs end in suicides and broken families. Parents are torn away from their children. The sense of guilt and treachery tends to be all pervasive. It is therefore a relief to encounter a drama as sly and playful as Anne Fontaine's Gemma Bovery.
- 8/20/2015
- The Independent - Film
Fabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton star in a watchable if contrived adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel about a French baker and his British neighbour
This Anglo-French co-production is a watchable if contrived entertainment, sugary and soapy at the same time, bringing a touch of Albert Square to the very heart of picturesque Normandy. It’s an adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery, which began life as a serial in the Guardian; satirising middle-class lifestyle aspiration and, a little like the Woody Allen short story The Kugelmass Episode, it surreally drops modern characters into the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
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This Anglo-French co-production is a watchable if contrived entertainment, sugary and soapy at the same time, bringing a touch of Albert Square to the very heart of picturesque Normandy. It’s an adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery, which began life as a serial in the Guardian; satirising middle-class lifestyle aspiration and, a little like the Woody Allen short story The Kugelmass Episode, it surreally drops modern characters into the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
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- 8/20/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The film team review this week's new releases, including The Wolfpack, about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation and Gemma Bovery, a sleepy adaptation of the Posy Simmonds comic, starring Gemma Arterton
Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's satire The President
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Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's satire The President
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- 8/20/2015
- by Presented by Xan Brooks, with Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes. Produced by Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s satire The President
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- 8/20/2015
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Dan Susman and Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
Gustave Flaubert’s perennial novel Madame Bovary is the subject of a faithful adaptation this year, with Mia Wasikowska playing the eponymous protagonist. But it’s not the only retelling of this definitive tale, as Anne Fontaine’s whimsical comedy Gemma Bovery tells a somewhat more subtle, and certainly more creative version – taken directly from Posy
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- 8/18/2015
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Most junkets take place in the cosy environment of a fancy hotel in the centre of town. As lovely as that is of course, sometimes it’s nice to shake things up – and so to mark the UK premiere of Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery – which aired at Somerset House as part of the Film4
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- 8/17/2015
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
August 7
Fantastic Four - Tbc mins / 12A
The Gift - 100 mins / 15
Max - 111 mins / 12A
August 14
Pixels - 100 mins / PG
Absolutely Anything - 86 mins / 12A
The Man From Uncle - 116 mins / 12A
Trainwreck - 122 mins / 12A
August 21
Paper Towns - Tbc mins / Tbc
The Bad Education Movie - Tbc mins / 15
Gemma Bovery - 99 mins / 15
Good People - 88 mins / 15
Sinister 2 - Tbc mins / 15
Vacation - Tbc mins / Tbc
August 28
Hitman: Agent 47 - Tbc mins / 15
45 Years - 95 mins / 15
American Ultra - Tbc mins / 15
Masterminds - Tbc mins / 12A
Straight Outta Compton - Tbc mins / Tbc
Strange Magic - 99 mins / U
We Are Your Friends - Tbc mins / 12A...
Fantastic Four - Tbc mins / 12A
The Gift - 100 mins / 15
Max - 111 mins / 12A
August 14
Pixels - 100 mins / PG
Absolutely Anything - 86 mins / 12A
The Man From Uncle - 116 mins / 12A
Trainwreck - 122 mins / 12A
August 21
Paper Towns - Tbc mins / Tbc
The Bad Education Movie - Tbc mins / 15
Gemma Bovery - 99 mins / 15
Good People - 88 mins / 15
Sinister 2 - Tbc mins / 15
Vacation - Tbc mins / Tbc
August 28
Hitman: Agent 47 - Tbc mins / 15
45 Years - 95 mins / 15
American Ultra - Tbc mins / 15
Masterminds - Tbc mins / 12A
Straight Outta Compton - Tbc mins / Tbc
Strange Magic - 99 mins / U
We Are Your Friends - Tbc mins / 12A...
- 7/16/2015
- Digital Spy
Review by Dana Jung
Martin is living a rather mundane life in the south of France, operating a bakery in a small quaint village. He has an attentive but rather shrewish wife and a teenage son, but they don’t really alleviate the boredom he feels. Martin’s existence, however, gets more interesting when a new neighbor arrives in the form of Gemma Bovery. Martin is immediately smitten with the beautiful and vivacious Englishwoman who at first seems to love her new life in the French countryside. As a fan of the Flaubert classic Madame Bovery, Martin also quickly sees similarities between Gemma and the iconic fictional heroine. But are the similarities real or simply a figment of Martin’s rekindled imagination?
The new film Gemma Bovery presents a modernized and sometimes playful account of Flaubert’s literary classic. The 160-year old tale about the rise and fall of a...
Martin is living a rather mundane life in the south of France, operating a bakery in a small quaint village. He has an attentive but rather shrewish wife and a teenage son, but they don’t really alleviate the boredom he feels. Martin’s existence, however, gets more interesting when a new neighbor arrives in the form of Gemma Bovery. Martin is immediately smitten with the beautiful and vivacious Englishwoman who at first seems to love her new life in the French countryside. As a fan of the Flaubert classic Madame Bovery, Martin also quickly sees similarities between Gemma and the iconic fictional heroine. But are the similarities real or simply a figment of Martin’s rekindled imagination?
The new film Gemma Bovery presents a modernized and sometimes playful account of Flaubert’s literary classic. The 160-year old tale about the rise and fall of a...
- 7/10/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
On its surface, Sophie Barthes’s film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes at us like a musty blast of Quality — what the French New Wave critics once called “le cinema du papa.” An immaculate period adaptation seemingly lacking any ironic distance or newfangled reinvention, this feels at first like the kind of Bovary you can lose yourself in — all petticoats and proprieties. (That this is the second Madame Bovary adaptation to open on U.S. shores this month, hot on the heels of Anne Fontaine’s well-acted, but ultimately thin modernization Gemma Bovery, maybe adds to the been-there, done-that quality.) But look closely and you may see that this madame is alive in all sorts of ways. At least for its first half, this is a textured, haunted, remarkably empathetic film. Barthes and her co-writer Felipe Marino feel this Emma Bovary — and they make sure we do, too.
- 6/13/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
The combination of George Clooney, a dual Oscar-winning director and an astronomical budget hasn.t paid off for Tomorrowland, least of all in Australia where Disney.s mystery-adventure was shaken by San Andreas last weekend.
In other B.O. news, global receipts for Mad Max: Fury Road climbed to $US281 million after its third weekend, including an estimated $116 million in the Us and $165 million in the rest of the world.
Ariel Kleiman.s debut feature Partisan had a quiet opening in Oz on 14 screens, despite an extensive social media campaign orchestrated by Madman Entertainment.
Directed by Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), disaster pic San Andreas seized the top spot in Australia, grabbing $3.2 million. Pro-rata, that was well below the weekend Us opening of $US54.6 million, perhaps because Dwayne Johnson is a bigger drawcard at home than here.
Johnson plays a search and rescue helicopter pilot who is joined...
In other B.O. news, global receipts for Mad Max: Fury Road climbed to $US281 million after its third weekend, including an estimated $116 million in the Us and $165 million in the rest of the world.
Ariel Kleiman.s debut feature Partisan had a quiet opening in Oz on 14 screens, despite an extensive social media campaign orchestrated by Madman Entertainment.
Directed by Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), disaster pic San Andreas seized the top spot in Australia, grabbing $3.2 million. Pro-rata, that was well below the weekend Us opening of $US54.6 million, perhaps because Dwayne Johnson is a bigger drawcard at home than here.
Johnson plays a search and rescue helicopter pilot who is joined...
- 6/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery is a cinematic hall of self-referential mirrors. The English actress Gemma Arterton plays Gemma Bovery, an English woman who moves to Normandy with her husband, and whose life begins to echo that of Emma Bovary, the protagonist of Madame Bovary, which the 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert wrote and set in Normandy. Meanwhile, a local baker and literature aficionado, played by Fabrice Luchini, marvels at the fact that the great heroine of his youth appears to have found her reincarnation and is living next door. Life imitates art imitating life imitating art. Got all that?First, the good news: This might be the best performance the real-life Gemma (a.k.a. Arterton) has yet given, broken French and all. The actress is best known for stuff like Quantum of Solace, or Clash of the Titans, or Prince of Persia, or Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, in...
- 5/29/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
We’re used to directors working with the same actors more than once, but it’s much more rare to connect a performer with an author whose work is being adapted to the screen, unless that author is William Shakespeare. The last example that comes to mind is Richard Benjamin, starring in the back-to-back Philip Roth movies “Goodbye, Columbus” and “Portnoy’s Complaint” during the Nixon era. While Benjamin was the ideal manifestation of a certain brand of Roth hero, actress Gemma Arterton steps up as another complex and bewitching Posy Simmonds heroine in “Gemma Bovery.” It’s a complex relationship between author,...
- 5/29/2015
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
This weekend, Bradley Cooper finds himself caught between Rachel McAdams and Emma Stone in "Aloha," while Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson goes on a dangerous mission to save his daughter after a massive earthquake hits California in "San Andreas."
Also in theaters this weekend:
"Results" stars Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders as personal trainers whose lives are interrupted by an eccentric new client. In "Gemma Bovery," a new spin on the novel "Madame Bovary," life imitates art when the tittle character and her husband move to the village where the classic tale was written a century before. "Club Life" follows a man struggling with financial trouble as he attempts to make some fast cash in the Manhattan club scene.
Also in theaters this weekend:
"Results" stars Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders as personal trainers whose lives are interrupted by an eccentric new client. In "Gemma Bovery," a new spin on the novel "Madame Bovary," life imitates art when the tittle character and her husband move to the village where the classic tale was written a century before. "Club Life" follows a man struggling with financial trouble as he attempts to make some fast cash in the Manhattan club scene.
- 5/28/2015
- by Rachel Horner
- Moviefone
A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine's Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of watching the lives around us — and of wishing those lives were literature. Or films: Here's a French film thick with liaisons in the chateaus of Normandy, one whose principal lover, Gemma (Gemma Arterton), upon her arrival at a preciously rustic bakery, announces in English one of the chief pleasures American audiences derive from such movies: “Oh, this is France, darling. Look at it — it's so different!”
That bakery is owned by Martin (Fabrice Luchini), middle-aged, married, and stoutly, comically French, right down to his ennui and na...
That bakery is owned by Martin (Fabrice Luchini), middle-aged, married, and stoutly, comically French, right down to his ennui and na...
- 5/27/2015
- Village Voice
Gemma Bovery Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director: Anne Fontaine Screenwriter: Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine, based on Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier, Niels Schneider, Mel Raido Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 5/20/15 Opens: May 29, 2015 Life follows art. Art follows life. Sometimes art follows art. In that last category, let’s say an author modernized Dave Eggers’s stunning 2014 novel “The Circle,” about the influence of social media by bringing it right up to the present moment. Unless the modernizing author is Dave Eggers, he or she would be sued for [ Read More ]
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- 5/22/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Also playing as part of the 14 night open air programme at London’s Somerset House will be Guy Ritchie’s A Man From U.N.C.L.E and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
Film4’s programme of open-air screenings at London’s Somerset House will kick off with Anne Fontaine’s comedy Gemma Bovery starring Gemma Arterton, based on the character by British writer Posy Simmonds.
Film4 Summer Screen (August 6-19) will feature 14 nights of open air films at Somerset House, accompanied by a series of talks and special events in Behind the Screen.
Also screening will be Guy Ritchie’s A Man from U.N.C.L.E. – a reimagining of the classic 1960s TV series starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
The closing night film will be Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s teen comedy Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
The line up will also include Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, Wrath of God...
Film4’s programme of open-air screenings at London’s Somerset House will kick off with Anne Fontaine’s comedy Gemma Bovery starring Gemma Arterton, based on the character by British writer Posy Simmonds.
Film4 Summer Screen (August 6-19) will feature 14 nights of open air films at Somerset House, accompanied by a series of talks and special events in Behind the Screen.
Also screening will be Guy Ritchie’s A Man from U.N.C.L.E. – a reimagining of the classic 1960s TV series starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
The closing night film will be Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s teen comedy Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
The line up will also include Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, Wrath of God...
- 5/12/2015
- by [email protected] (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
The Chicago-based distributor of this year’s best foreign language Oscar winner Ida has announced key staffing changes.
Long-time head of marketing and Music Box Theatre programmer Brian Andreotti has been named director of theatrical sales while Lisa Trifone has been brought in as director of marketing and publicity.
Both executives report to managing director Ed Arentz and assume their new roles immediately.
Andreotti has been on staff since 2007 and will oversee distribution strategy for theatrical releases. Music Box Films releases approximately 15 films a year theatrically.
Trifone joins from New York-based distributor Film Movement, where she served as head of marketing and publicity.
“We’re thrilled to have Lisa join us,” said Arentz, “and we’re confident this new staff configuration gives us a smart and innovative management team to negotiate a challenging distribution and marketing landscape.”
Music Box’s upcoming releases include The Film Critic on May 15, Gemma Bovery on May 29, Paulo Coehlo’s Best Story...
Long-time head of marketing and Music Box Theatre programmer Brian Andreotti has been named director of theatrical sales while Lisa Trifone has been brought in as director of marketing and publicity.
Both executives report to managing director Ed Arentz and assume their new roles immediately.
Andreotti has been on staff since 2007 and will oversee distribution strategy for theatrical releases. Music Box Films releases approximately 15 films a year theatrically.
Trifone joins from New York-based distributor Film Movement, where she served as head of marketing and publicity.
“We’re thrilled to have Lisa join us,” said Arentz, “and we’re confident this new staff configuration gives us a smart and innovative management team to negotiate a challenging distribution and marketing landscape.”
Music Box’s upcoming releases include The Film Critic on May 15, Gemma Bovery on May 29, Paulo Coehlo’s Best Story...
- 4/27/2015
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Gemma Arterton Turns Heads in Exclusive 'Gemma Bovery' Poster Based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel of the same name, "Gemma Bovery" is a cinematic adaptation of Flaubert's classic, anti-romantic novel "Madame Bovary." The film revolves around British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) who moves to a provincial French town with her husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng). There, she befriends local baker Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), who sets out to be her mentor. In the trailer, we see how clearly the plot mirrors that of Flaubert's novel. What makes this adaptation fresh, however, is that Joubert is apparently a fan of "Madame Bovary" and is fully aware of the parallels between the novel and this woman's life. It should be interesting to see how this self-awareness unfolds throughout the film. "Gemma Bovery" opens May 29 in select theaters. Check out the trailer above. Read More: Gemma Arterton On Life After James Bond,...
- 4/24/2015
- by Jena Keahon
- Indiewire
Read More: Gemma Arterton On Life After James Bond, the 'Clash of the Titans' Nightmare and Why She's a 'Quite a Sexual Person' Many British actors often feel trapped behind period pieces, with their difficult costumes and restrictive mannerisms, but that's not an issue facing Gemma Arterton in this classic literary update. Based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel of the same title, "Gemma Bovery" is a reimagining of Flaubert's literary classic "Madame Bovery." The film's synopsis reads: "Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng) move to the very same Norman village where the novel was written. Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) falls for the lovely and charming newcomer and sets out to be her mentor. It doesn't take long before his wild imagination leads him to draw parallels between the.
- 4/24/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
Premiering on the fall festival circuit last year, the latest film from Coco Before Chanel director Anne Fontaine, Gemma Bovery, will touch down in the U.S. later next month and today brings the trailer. Featuring Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Candelier and Niels Schneide, it follows our lead as the titular Gemma, who along with her husband […]...
- 4/23/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
If you're a fan of literary adaptations, then May is your lucky month. It'll kick off with Thomas Vinterberg's take on Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd," and then closing off the month will be "Gemma Bovery." It's a spin on Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," and after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, it's now headed to cinemas and a new U.S. trailer is here. Directed by Anne Fontaine ("Adore," "Coco Before Chanel"), the film follows a stunning British woman who moves with her husband to rural France. But soon her presence stirs all sorts of passion, via a local baker and a playboy. But for all the promise, this is one that we found "attempts to bring new heat to an old story, but mostly winds up cooling on the sill." "Gemma Bovery" opens on May 29th. Watch below.
- 4/22/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
On the heels of the premiere of the first footage from Mad Max: Fury Road at the SXSW Film Festival the film has now scored a hard-r rating from the MPAA for "intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images." That should make fans of the franchise happy as we are now just under two months away from the film's May 15 release. Also in today's bulletin in Fox Searchlight's Sundance acquisition and Oscar hopeful Brooklyn, David Gordon Green's Manglehorn starring Al Pacino, the new Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy (read Mike's review from SXSW right here) and a re-rate of Johnny Depp's Mortdecai, most likely for home video release. You'll also notice an R-rating for a movie called Tooken, which is, as you probably guessed, a Taken parody starring the likes of Donnie Wahlberg, Lukas Haas and Jenny McCarthy. Check out the complete bulletin below. The 100-Year Old...
- 3/17/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
17th edition of festival to open with Quentin Dupieux’s Reality and Sacha Jenkins’ Fresh Dressed.
RiverRun International Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its 17th edition, expanding from 10 to 11 days and running April 16-26.
The festival will open with Quentin Dupieux’s Reality and Sacha Jenkins’ hip-hop and fashion documentary Fresh Dressed, while David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn will close this year’s edition.
Overall, the festival will screen 165 films, 74 of which are features, from 35 countries.
Its narrative competition will screen 10 films, including Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou, Keith Miller’s Five Star and Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water, while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence and Nick Broomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper are among the 10 films screening in the documentary competition.
Along with its openiing and closing films, RiverRun will host special presentations of Benoit Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery and John Maclean’s Slow West, among...
RiverRun International Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its 17th edition, expanding from 10 to 11 days and running April 16-26.
The festival will open with Quentin Dupieux’s Reality and Sacha Jenkins’ hip-hop and fashion documentary Fresh Dressed, while David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn will close this year’s edition.
Overall, the festival will screen 165 films, 74 of which are features, from 35 countries.
Its narrative competition will screen 10 films, including Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou, Keith Miller’s Five Star and Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water, while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence and Nick Broomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper are among the 10 films screening in the documentary competition.
Along with its openiing and closing films, RiverRun will host special presentations of Benoit Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery and John Maclean’s Slow West, among...
- 3/17/2015
- by [email protected] (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: StudioCanal executive Nick McKay to start in April.
UK distributor Soda Pictures has appointed StudioCanal executive Nick McKay as head of distribution.
McKay will start at Soda in April and manage the core distribution team, working across acquisitions, partnerships and business development.
The London-based exec, an 12 year-StudioCanal [previously Optimum in the UK] veteran who is currently head of theatrical sales, was recently responsible for booking recent box office hits Paddington and The Imitation Game.
Recent acquisitions for Soda include Gemma Bovery, starring Gemma Arterton; Michael Winterbottom’s Face of an Angel; Christian Petzold’s Phoenix; and Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club.
Last year, the company merged with Canadian film and TV outfit Thunderbird Films to grow their business in the UK and build a distribution division in North America.
Co-founders and managing directors of Soda, Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher said: “We are very excited about Nick joining Soda to work with us on taking the business to the...
UK distributor Soda Pictures has appointed StudioCanal executive Nick McKay as head of distribution.
McKay will start at Soda in April and manage the core distribution team, working across acquisitions, partnerships and business development.
The London-based exec, an 12 year-StudioCanal [previously Optimum in the UK] veteran who is currently head of theatrical sales, was recently responsible for booking recent box office hits Paddington and The Imitation Game.
Recent acquisitions for Soda include Gemma Bovery, starring Gemma Arterton; Michael Winterbottom’s Face of an Angel; Christian Petzold’s Phoenix; and Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club.
Last year, the company merged with Canadian film and TV outfit Thunderbird Films to grow their business in the UK and build a distribution division in North America.
Co-founders and managing directors of Soda, Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher said: “We are very excited about Nick joining Soda to work with us on taking the business to the...
- 1/21/2015
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
L’hermine
Director: Christian Vincent // Writer: Christian Vincent
A woefully underrated writer and director, Christian Vincent (pictured above) won a Cesar for his directorial debut back in 1990 with La Discrete, which starred Fabrice Luchini. In 2013, his latest film, The Weinstein Co. distributed Haute Cuisine, featuring a fantastic performance from Catherine Frot, perhaps garnered him his most international acclaim since his 1994 Isabelle Huppert headlined La Separation. Now, with The Stoat (L’hermine), Vincent reunites with Luchini and Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (seen last year in the terrific Peter Strickland film, The Duke of Burgundy). According to Vincent, the story will revolve around “the president of a criminal court in the twilight of his career, who is alone and feared by everyone. The story kicks off the day before a trial, and during the hearing, something will happen that will change everything.” Indeed, sitting on the jury of a case that...
Director: Christian Vincent // Writer: Christian Vincent
A woefully underrated writer and director, Christian Vincent (pictured above) won a Cesar for his directorial debut back in 1990 with La Discrete, which starred Fabrice Luchini. In 2013, his latest film, The Weinstein Co. distributed Haute Cuisine, featuring a fantastic performance from Catherine Frot, perhaps garnered him his most international acclaim since his 1994 Isabelle Huppert headlined La Separation. Now, with The Stoat (L’hermine), Vincent reunites with Luchini and Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (seen last year in the terrific Peter Strickland film, The Duke of Burgundy). According to Vincent, the story will revolve around “the president of a criminal court in the twilight of his career, who is alone and feared by everyone. The story kicks off the day before a trial, and during the hearing, something will happen that will change everything.” Indeed, sitting on the jury of a case that...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) has announced its complete line-up including Premieres, New Voices/New Visions and Modern Masters.
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
- 12/18/2014
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) has announced its complete line-up including Premieres, New Voices/New Visions and Modern Masters.
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
All in all 192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres (seven world, five international, 20 North American and 33 Us) will screen from January 2-12.
Premieres including Some Kind Of Love (Canada), Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco and Twenty-Five Palms from Luxembourg, a documentary about the festival’s quarter-century anniversary.
Among the international premieres are: Accused (Netherlands), The Grandad (Iceland) and Arteholic (Germany), a documentary featuring Udo Kier and Lars von Trier, among others.
The Secret Screening will take place on January 6.
The New Voices/New Visions Award focuses on directors whose feature debuts are currently without Us distribution.
The selections are: Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz; Chubby (Belgium), Bruno Deville; Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Lucie Borleteau; Grand Street (USA), Lex Sidon; Henri Henri (Canada), Martin Talbot; Manpower (Israel), [link...
- 12/18/2014
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the complete slate for the 2014 edition of its AFI European Union Film Showcase, set to run from December 3-21 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The 27th edition showcases more than 50 films from 27 of the 28 European Union member states and opens with Jan Komasa’s Polish selection Warsaw Uprising.
Komasa’s City 44, a fictionalised version of the Warsaw Uprising story, will screen on December 5 and 9.
Special presentations includes Mr. Turner, ’71, The Imitation Game, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Two Days, One Night and Song Of The Sea.
The Us premiere of Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery will close the festival.
The 27th edition showcases more than 50 films from 27 of the 28 European Union member states and opens with Jan Komasa’s Polish selection Warsaw Uprising.
Komasa’s City 44, a fictionalised version of the Warsaw Uprising story, will screen on December 5 and 9.
Special presentations includes Mr. Turner, ’71, The Imitation Game, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Two Days, One Night and Song Of The Sea.
The Us premiere of Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery will close the festival.
- 11/20/2014
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Wild, Gemma Bovery bookend festival.
The Turin Film Festival (Nov 21-29) is to open with Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild and close with Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovary.
In total, 197 films will presented at the Italian festival with 45 world premieres and 65 first or second features.
The 15-strong competition line-up includes New Zealand Vampire film What We Do in the Shadows by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, and Bryan Reisberg’s Big Significant Things, a road trip through Southern America’s larger tourist attractions.
Jim Mickle’s crime thriller Cold in July, starring Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard, will get its Italian premiere.
The Festa Mobile section will include Michael R. Roskam’s thriller The Drop, screening ahead of its March premiere in Italy.
Other highlights include Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight, Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman and David Michod’s The Rover while Dario Argento will screen a long-awaited restoration of his 1975 film Deep Red.
Director...
The Turin Film Festival (Nov 21-29) is to open with Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild and close with Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovary.
In total, 197 films will presented at the Italian festival with 45 world premieres and 65 first or second features.
The 15-strong competition line-up includes New Zealand Vampire film What We Do in the Shadows by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, and Bryan Reisberg’s Big Significant Things, a road trip through Southern America’s larger tourist attractions.
Jim Mickle’s crime thriller Cold in July, starring Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard, will get its Italian premiere.
The Festa Mobile section will include Michael R. Roskam’s thriller The Drop, screening ahead of its March premiere in Italy.
Other highlights include Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight, Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman and David Michod’s The Rover while Dario Argento will screen a long-awaited restoration of his 1975 film Deep Red.
Director...
- 11/12/2014
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The festival’s 25th edition will feature a contribution from Ai Weiwei and competition titles including Whiplash, Nightcrawler and Foxcatcher.
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
- 10/16/2014
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
After shoring up in Toronto with their Cannes pick-ups in Alleluia and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, the Music Box Films folks have landed their Tiff item. In what should be a significant month of post Tiff month of deal announcements, Music Box’s William Schopf has, according to Variety, made his first item pick-up (we feel that there’ll be more in the pipeline) in Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery. Starring another Gemma in Gemma Arterton, the title had the odd distinction of being included at the fest alongside Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovery. Fontaine’s film as an outside chance at picking up France’s Foreign Oscar nom, and though the trade doesn’t mention it, we expect a 2015 release.
Gist: Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a...
Gist: Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a...
- 9/18/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.
Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.
Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.
We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.
Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...
Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.
Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.
We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.
Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...
- 8/29/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Toronto International Film Festival announced more selections Tuesday for the upcoming 2014 edition of the annual awards season kick-off. The majority of the festival's program was announced last month, but this group includes intriguing world premieres from notable directors such as Todd McCarthy ("The Cobbler") and Gina Prince-Bythewood ("Beyond the Lights"). A number of the titles revealed have screened at other festivals including the underrated "Infinitely Polar Bear" and "Laggies" from Sundance as well as Cannes players "Two Days, One Night," "The Search" and "Clouds of Sils Maria." And yes, the presence of "Sils Maria," which is a favorite of this particular writer, means Kristen Stewart will likely hit one of the festival's many red carpets. As you'd expect for Toronto, the world premieres feature some big names including Josh Hutcherson and Benicio Del Toro in "Escobar: Paradise Lost," Jean Dujardin in "The Connection (La French)," Dustin Hoffman in "Boychoir,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
This morning the Toronto Film Festival added several more films to their lineup including the world premiere of Thomas McCarthy's The Cobbler which stars Adam Sandler as a New York City cobbler who, disenchanted with the grind of daily life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. The film co-stars Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman. Additionally, Sundance standouts Infinity Polar Bear and Laggies starring Keira Knightley and Chloe Grace Moretz were added to the Gala selection. Joining The Cobbler as new additions to the Special Presentations field include Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria starring Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche and Two Days, One Night from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and starring Marion Cotillard. Both films made a splash at Cannes earlier this year,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Just how much sway do Tiff programmers have? Looking at today’s Gala and Special Presentation add-ons, measurably, when it comes to films with star-wattage and acquisitions titles, the industry sides with high value world premiere slot in downtown Toronto. Complimenting Sundance (Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar Bear and Lynn Shelton’s Laggies) and Cannes (Assayas, the Dardennes), the wide net includes Francois Girard’s Boychoir, Richard Loncraine’s Ruth & Alex, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights, Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler, Shira Piven’s Welcome to Me, and in a very Gustave Flaubert type of year includes Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery and Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary. In directorial debuts, Henry Hobson presents Maggie, actor Paul Bettany presents Shelter (see pic of star and his wife above), Andrea Di Stefano’s Escobar: Paradise Lost and Philip Martin’s The Forger. Here are the additional items:
Galas
“Boychoir,” Francois Girard / World...
Galas
“Boychoir,” Francois Girard / World...
- 8/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2014 Toronto Film Festival, which begins Sept. 4, added seven Galas and 17 Special Presentations to its lineup, including a semi-serious Adam Sandler project from Tom McCarthy, the director of The Station Agent and The Visitor. In The Cobbler, Sandler plays a man who has the unique ability to walk in his customers’ shoes. The movie features Dustin Hoffman, who also stars in Boychoir, François Girard’s tale of an orphan’s steep learning curve at a prestigious music school. In Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig plays a mentally unstable woman who wins the lottery and decides to sink her winnings into a talk show.
- 8/12/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin zombie drama Maggie, Dustin Hoffman drama Boychoir, Kristen Wiig comedy Welcome To Me and Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary have landed world premieres, Tiff gala and special presentation slots.
Also in line to screen for the first time anywhere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) are crime thriller The Forger starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan, thriller Escobar: Paradise Lost starring Benicio Del Toro, Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler, and Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Wavelengths, Future Projections, Tiff Cinematheque and shorts programmes.
Wp = World premiere / Nap = North American premiere / IP = International premiere / Cp = Canadian premiere.
Galas
Boychoir (Us), François Girard Wp
The Connection (La French) (France-Belgium), Cédric Jimenez Wp
Escobar: Paradise Lost (France), Andrea Di Stefano Wp
The Forger (Us), Philip Martin Wp
Infinitely Polar Bear (Us), Maya Forbes Cp
Laggies (Us), Lynn Shelton IP
Ruth & Alex...
Also in line to screen for the first time anywhere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) are crime thriller The Forger starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan, thriller Escobar: Paradise Lost starring Benicio Del Toro, Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler, and Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Wavelengths, Future Projections, Tiff Cinematheque and shorts programmes.
Wp = World premiere / Nap = North American premiere / IP = International premiere / Cp = Canadian premiere.
Galas
Boychoir (Us), François Girard Wp
The Connection (La French) (France-Belgium), Cédric Jimenez Wp
Escobar: Paradise Lost (France), Andrea Di Stefano Wp
The Forger (Us), Philip Martin Wp
Infinitely Polar Bear (Us), Maya Forbes Cp
Laggies (Us), Lynn Shelton IP
Ruth & Alex...
- 8/12/2014
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin zombie drama Maggie, Kristen Wiig comedy Welcome To Me and Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary have landed world premieres, Tiff gala and special presentation slots.
Also in line to screen for the first time anywhere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) are crime thriller The Forger starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan, thriller Escobar: Paradise Lost starring Benicio Del Toro, Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler, and Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Wavelength, Future Projections, Tiff Cinematheque and shorts programmes.
Wp = World premiere / Nap = North American premiere / IP = International premiere / Cp = Canadian premiere.
Galas
Boychoir (Us), François Girard Wp
The Connection (La French) (France-Belgium), Cédric Jimenez Wp
Escobar: Paradise Lost (France), Andrea Di Stefano Wp
The Forger (Us), Philip Martin Wp
Infinitely Polar Bear (Us), Maya Forbes Cp
Laggies (Us), Lynn Shelton IP
Ruth & Alex (Us), Richard Loncraine Wp
Special...
Also in line to screen for the first time anywhere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14) are crime thriller The Forger starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan, thriller Escobar: Paradise Lost starring Benicio Del Toro, Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler, and Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Wavelength, Future Projections, Tiff Cinematheque and shorts programmes.
Wp = World premiere / Nap = North American premiere / IP = International premiere / Cp = Canadian premiere.
Galas
Boychoir (Us), François Girard Wp
The Connection (La French) (France-Belgium), Cédric Jimenez Wp
Escobar: Paradise Lost (France), Andrea Di Stefano Wp
The Forger (Us), Philip Martin Wp
Infinitely Polar Bear (Us), Maya Forbes Cp
Laggies (Us), Lynn Shelton IP
Ruth & Alex (Us), Richard Loncraine Wp
Special...
- 8/12/2014
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Get ready Toronto…Adam Sandler is coming to town. The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a huge batch of new films for it slate today, and anyone doubting the strength of the lineup this year will quickly be silenced. The brace of world premieres coming to the festival is impressive, so let's point out the highlights: Thomas McCarthy's "The Cobbler" with the aforementioned, erstwhile Billy Madison; "Madame Bovary" starring Mia Wasikowska and Paul Giamatti; "Escobar: Paradise Lost" with Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson; "Boychoir" with Dustin Hoffman; "The Forger" with John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan; and "Gemma Bovery" with Gemma Arterton. And as for festival films making a stop in Toronto, there's also the Dardennes' "Two Days, One Night," Michel Hazanavicius' "The Search," Lynn Shelton's "Laggies" and more. Tiff runs from September 4-14. Check out...
- 8/12/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Expect to see a bevy of stars on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival this September. Today, more Gala and Special Presentation titles were announced, with some star-studded projects in the mix. Now, Escobar: Paradise Lost, starring Benicio del Toro as the infamous drug lord, will have its world premiere at Tiff, as will The Forger, with John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan.
Other promising projects newly announced to be screening at Tiff are Win Win director Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler, which finds Adam Sandler taking on a rare dramatic role; Clouds of Sils Maria, which stars Juliette Binoche as an aging actress who confronts the young starlet (Chloe Grace Moretz) taking on the role that made her famous decades earlier; and Gemma Bovery, starring Gemma Arterton as the sensual object of a French food critic’s affection. Check out the full list of new...
Other promising projects newly announced to be screening at Tiff are Win Win director Thomas McCarthy’s The Cobbler, which finds Adam Sandler taking on a rare dramatic role; Clouds of Sils Maria, which stars Juliette Binoche as an aging actress who confronts the young starlet (Chloe Grace Moretz) taking on the role that made her famous decades earlier; and Gemma Bovery, starring Gemma Arterton as the sensual object of a French food critic’s affection. Check out the full list of new...
- 8/12/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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