6.8.09

Toronto Film Festival 2009: Contemporary World Cinema & Visions

"Hiroshima", de Pablo Stoll

THE 2009 FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILMS FOR CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA AND VISIONS PROGRAMMES

Toronto – The 34th Toronto International Film Festival adds 11 films to its Contemporary World Cinema (CWC) schedule and seven films to its Visions programme. CWC provides audiences with an annual snapshot of trends in global cinema. Works presented under the Visions banner are films from around the world by filmmakers who push the boundaries and challenge our notions of mainstream cinema.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

Beyond the Circle Golam Rabbany Biplob, Bangladesh

World Premiere

In this political fable from Bangladesh’s leading filmmaker, a simple village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka.

Blessed Ana Kokkinos, Australia

International Premiere

During the course of one day and night, seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey. Blessed is a film about mothers and children, about love and beauty, about being lost and finding your way home.

Down for Life Alan Jacobs, USA

World Premiere

Based on a New York Times article, this film depicts a single, fateful day in the life of a 15-year-old Latina gang leader. Leaving the gang, she discovers, is more difficult than joining. Shot in South-Central Los Angeles, the film stars local youths in the lead roles.

Giulia Doesn’t Date at Night Giuseppe Piccioni, Italy

International Premiere

A young novelist is intrigued by his daughter’s swimming instructor. When he asks her out, he learns that she doesn’t date at night and discovers that she is serving a sentence for a crime of passion. Tentatively they start a relationship that leads both of them in unforeseen directions.

Heiran Shalizeh Arefpour, Iran

World Premiere

A young Iranian girl falls in love with an immigrant student from Afghanistan, causing her family to react with anger.

The House of Branching Love Mika Kaurismäki, Finland

International Premiere

Family therapist Juhani and business trainer Taula decide to divorce in a civilized manner. Despite these good intentions, things turn ugly and the Pandora’s Box of their marriage flies open, releasing plagues of love and hate.

Rabia Sebastián Cordero, Spain/Colombia

World Premiere

Rabia is a romantic thriller about a construction worker on the run for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a housekeeper.

Sawasdee Bangkok Wisit Sasanatieng, Aditya Assarat, Kongdej Jaturanrasmee and Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand

World Premiere

Directed by four distinctly talented Thai directors, this collection of tales about Bangkok is less a love letter than a funny, touching and surprising expression of the city’s reality.

Shameless Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic

International Premiere

This film, freely inspired by stories form Michal Viewegh’s bestseller, Tales of Marriage and Sex, is a wry comedy about sex and marriage and a story about losing and finding love.

Slovenian Girl Damjan Kozole Slovenia/Germany/Serbia/Croatia

North American Premiere

A young university student solicits sex clients through newspaper ads, involving her in a hellish adventure.

Tanner Hall Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg, USA

World Premiere

Tanner Hall a folkloric look into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy but run-down New England town, the knot of adolescence is unravelled through the coming-of-age stories of four teenaged girls.

VISIONS

Between Two Worlds Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka

North American Premiere

Rajith, a young man, flees the city in which he lives and where violent confrontations are common. He goes to a village in a valley where the inhabitants seem to be still strongly influenced by an old legend.

Gaia Jason Lehel, USA

World Premiere

A group of Native Americans discover a young woman, left for dead, in the Arizona desert and take her to their reservation. Through her relationship with American Natives she manages to re-connect with her own innocence, but is forced to make a choice between being reborn out of the chaos of her past and dying in the grips of her darkness.

Hiroshima Pablo Stoll, Uruguay `

World Premiere

Juan sings in a rock band, but he doesn’t talk much. He also works at a bakery during the night and sleeps most of the day. This is the story of one of his days and what happens when he wakes up. Hiroshima is a silent musical, based on real facts.

I Am Love Luca Guadagnino, Italy

International Premiere

Academy Award®-winner Tilda Swinton stars in this drama about the devastating effects of a forbidden passion between a woman who belongs to a rich northern-Italian family and her son’s best friend, a cook.

Lebanon Samuel Maoz, Israel

North American Premiere

Set in June 1982 during the Israel-Lebanon War, the film follows a young and heroic tank crew that finds itself in a situation that cannot be contained. The crew copes with impossible conflicts, losing its way amid the chaos of war.

To the Sea Pedro González-Rubio, Mexico

World Premiere

Before their inevitable farewell, a young Mexican man and his half Italian son, Natan, embark on an epic journey to the second-largest coral reef on the planet.

Trash Humpers Harmony Korine, USA/United Kingdom

World Premiere

Harmony Korine returns to Gummo territory in this handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a non-narrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers.


5.8.09

Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" (trailer)




David Bazan – Curse Your Branches (2009)



Curse Your Branches is the debut full-length album by David Bazan. Bazan's brand of storytelling, with its focus on ethics and relationships between friends and family, will be familiar to those who know his work as the frontman for Pedro the Lion and Headphones. His first solo release, the 2006 EP Fewer Moving Parts, revealed a musican at work as the EP contained two sets of the same five songs, one electric and one acoustic. Curse Your Branches is the culmination of all Bazan's songwriting since; the album contains the B-side to the 2008 single American Flags, "Please Baby Please," and songs that Bazan has performed live since 2007. Mixed and mastered by Bazan's longtime collaborator T.W. Walsh, who worked with Bazan on Pedro the Lion and formed half of the band Headphones, Curse Your Branches is Bazan's vision, and the first to be released under his own name.~ Michael Hoven/Source

Encuentro con el cine coreano


Diez films inéditos en Argentina en la Sala Leopoldo Lugones

El Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, el Centro Cultural Coreano en América Latina y la Fundación Cinemateca Argentina, han organizado un ciclo denominado Encuentro con el cine coreano, que se llevará a cabo del martes 11 al martes 18 de agosto en la Sala Leopoldo Lugones del Teatro San Martín (Avenida Corrientes 1530).

El ciclo estará integrado por diez largometrajes, en su mayoría inéditos en la Argentina, en copias 35mm enviadas especialmente a nuestro país por el Korean Film Council, en lo que resulta una excelente oportunidad para acercarse a una de las cinematografías más pujantes de la actualidad. El programa incluye dos films clásicos de los años 60 y 80 -entre ellos el melodrama feminista de Kim Soo-yong El pueblo a la orilla del mar- y ocho títulos de la más reciente producción de Corea del Sur, representativos de las diversas tendencias del cine de ficción y documental de ese país.
La agenda completa del ciclo es la siguiente:

Martes 11: El show debe continuar
(Uahan segye, Corea del Sur, 2007)
Dirección: Han Jae-rim.
Con Song Kang-ho, Oh Dal-su, Choi Il-hwa.
Ingu es un jefe mafioso en un mundo oscuro. Sin embargo, es el padre y el marido más dulce que pueda existir, lleno de amor por su familia. Su único objetivo en la vida es construirse una casa pintoresca en el campo y vivir una vida de satisfacción junto a su familia. Pero hay un problema: su hija, que está en plena pubertad, se avergüenza del trabajo de su padre y se mantiene distante. Las cuestiones familiares terminarán interponiéndose en el camino de los negocios y la aparición de un ambicioso subordinado con ansias de poder pondrá en jaque toda la estructura mafiosa.
“El show debe continuar desactiva el factor Kitano -o John Wayne, si quieren- y registra de forma ligera la cotidianeidad más básica del protagonista, interpretado por el gigante Song Kang-ho, el ‘rubio’ de The Host. Pero en lugar de hacer más liviano al asunto, lo convierte en algo que duele y aplasta” (Juan Manuel Domínguez, en el catálogo del X Bafici). A las 14.30 y 19.30 horas (112’; 35mm.)

El pueblo a la orilla del mar
(Gaetmaeul; Corea del Sur, 1965)
Dirección: Kim Soo-yong.
Con Shin Yeong-gyun, Ko Eun-a, Hwang Jeong-sun.
Mientras los pescadores se preparan para un viaje en el mar, una serie de malos presagios predicen una tormenta que terminará con sus vidas. La tragedia transforma a muchas mujeres del pueblo en viudas, incluida la bella Hae-sun, casada apenas diez días antes del desastre. Un tiempo después, Sang-su, un pescador que logró evitar el destino de sus compañeros, acecha y termina forzando una relación con Hae-sun. El realizador Kim Soo-yong dirigió 109 películas a lo largo de una carrera de 40 años.
“Aunque la tragedia atraviesa todo el relato, no se trata de un film trágico. Sorprendentemente para el momento en el cual fue realizado, hay en El pueblo a la orilla del mar un toque de feminismo. Por una vez no es la mujer la que es castigada, sino los hombres que utilizan las prerrogativas patriarcales de la violencia” (Adam Hartzell).
A las 17 horas (91’; 35mm.)

Miércoles 12: Milky Way Liberation Front
(Eunha-haebang-jeonseon, Corea del Sur, 2007)
Dirección: Yoon Seong-ho.
Con Lim Ji-gyu, Seo Young-ju, Kim Bo-kyeong.
Young-jae, un cineasta novato, enfrenta una súbita crisis. Primero, es abandonado por su novia, quien ha sido su principal apoyo durante mucho tiempo. En segundo lugar, cuando el joven obtiene un buen reparto y un magnífico presupuesto para financiar su próximo proyecto (sobre un personaje con afasia), su creatividad como escritor se ve bloqueada al enfrentar por primera vez el síndrome del papel en blanco. Para empeorar las cosas, la frustración y el stress aumentan, haciendo que el mismo realizador sufra un ataque de afasia. Un amigo actor lo ayuda utilizando el ventrilocuismo, pero ello no parece ser suficiente ¿Podrá este joven director encontrar una salida a su particular situación? Milky Way Liberation Front fue elegido el Film del Año por la Asociación de Cine y Video Independiente de Corea.
“Los espectadores familiares con el cine coreano disfrutarán de muchas referencias internas a la industria de cine y su funcionamiento (un importante segmento del film transcurre durante el Festival de Cine de Pusan). Pero incluso aquellos que nunca hayan visitado Corea se verán fascinados por el prodigioso ingenio y creatividad de esta ópera prima” (Darcy Paquet).
A las 14.30 y 19.30 horas (98’; dvd).

El hombre con tres ataúdes
(Nageuneneun kileseodo swiji anhneunda; Corea del Sur, 1987)
Dirección: Lee Jang-ho.
Con Kim Myung-gon, Lee Bo-hee, Choo Sok-yang.
Un hombre viaja hacia la costa este del territorio coreano, llevando consigo las cenizas de su difunta esposa. Piensa esparcirlas en un lugar cercano al sitio de nacimiento de la mujer, un pueblo llamado Mul-chi, cercano a la zona desmilitarizada que separa a Corea del Sur de Corea del Norte. Pero en su camino deberá enfrentar el peso de la muerte de otras dos mujeres. Al mismo tiempo, una enfermera acompaña al director de una gran empresa, a quien le quedan pocos días de vida, a su pueblo de origen. La enfermera se topará inexorablemente con el hombre, quien ahora carga tres ataúdes.
“Cuando se discuten las grandes obras del cine coreano del siglo XX, esta película suele pasarse por alto, tal vez porque su realizador, Lee Jang-ho, no posee la misma reputación que Im Kwon-taek o los directores de la Nueva Ola Coreana. Sin embargo, El hombre con tres ataúdes es un film demasiado bueno para ser olvidado: un film que seguirá hablándole a los espectadores por décadas en el futuro” (Darcy Paquet).
A las 17 y 22 horas (104’; 35mm.)

Jueves 13: Como una virgen
(Cheonhajangsa madonna; Corea del Sur, 2006)
Dirección: Lee Hae-young y Lee Hae-jun.
Con Baek Yun-shik, Kim Kyeong-ik, Kim Yun-seok.
Dong-gu es un adolescente bastante particular, pues ya a una temprana edad tiene claro que quiere ser mujer, dedicando todo su tiempo después de la escuela a imitar las canciones y el estilo de baile de Madonna. Durante mucho tiempo lucha por conseguir el dinero que le permita hacerse una operación para cambiar de sexo. Lamentablemente, su padre se ve inmiscuido en un gran problema, por lo que Dong-gu se ve obligado a gastar todos sus ahorros para evitar que vaya a prisión. Ahora, la única oportunidad que tiene de conseguir el dinero para la operación es el premio ofrecido al campeón de un torneo de lucha libre local.
“Como una virgen se disfruta como muchas otras películas de paso a la madurez, donde jóvenes algo excéntricos luchan por ser exitosos en algún deporte inusual. Sin embargo, lo notable de este film es la detallada caracterización de sus personajes y su intrincado humor, piezas fundamentales de una notable originalidad” (Darcy Paquet).
A las 14.30 y 19.30 horas (117'; 35mm).

Navidad en agosto
(Palwolui Christmas, Corea del Sur, 1998)
Dirección: Hur Jin-ho.
Con Han Suk-kyu, Shim Eun-ha, Shin Goo.
En una tranquila esquina de Seúl, Jung-won atiende su pequeño local de artículos fotográficos. Una vida tranquila entre revelados de fotografías y ampliaciones de imágenes para los altares familiares. Su vida es tranquila, casi como un sueño, pero en realidad su tiempo en la Tierra es limitado. Con apenas algo más de treinta años, pero muy consciente del significado de la muerte, Jung-won acepta su destino. Hasta que un día la hermosa Darim aparece en la tienda con un encargo urgente. Tras varios encuentros, ambos se enamoran pero Jung-won no le dice que está a punto de morir.
Navidad en agosto, ópera prima de Hur Jin-ho, participó de la Semana de la Crítica del Festival de Cannes.
A las 17 y 22 horas (97'; 35mm).

Viernes 14: Bunt
(Narara heodongku; Corea del Sur, 2007)
Dirección: Park Gyu-tae
Con Jung Jin-young, Kwon Oh-jung, Choi Woo-hyuk.
Dong-ku es un muchacho de once años y un coeficiente intelectual de 60. El niño va a la escuela todos los días, pero la única tarea que puede realizar de manera consecuente es llevarle agua a sus compañeros durante los recreos. Los otros niños se ríen de él en su cara, pero Dong-ku simplemente les sonríe, y parece disfrutar de sus corridas diarias en busca de agua. Las cosas se complican cuando la escuela pide el traslado del niño a una institución especial.
“Antes de debutar en el largometraje con esta película, Park Gyu-tae era reconocido por su trabajo como guionista para la exitosa comedia de gángsters Hi, Dharma! El niño que interpreta al protagonista es especialmente convincente y natural en su rol” (Darcy Paquet).
A las 14.30 y 17 horas (98’; 35mm).

Sábado 15: Secret Sunshine
(Miryang; Corea del Sur, 2007)
Dirección: Lee Chang-dong.
Con Jeon Do-yeon, Song Kang-ho, Jo Yeong-jin.
El cuarto largometraje del notable realizador coreano Lee Chang-dong cuenta la historia de Sin-ae, quien se instala con su hijo en Miryang, la ciudad natal de su difunto esposo. Mientras intenta recuperarse de su pérdida e iniciar una nueva vida, un acontecimiento aún más trágico la sume en un insoportable dolor.
Con la ayuda del tímido dueño de un garaje tratará de orientarse en el huracán que la destroza por dentro. Recurrirá a la religión para calmar su martirio, pero el perdón divino la decepcionará y la hará estallar. La sensacional Jeon Do-yeon pasa del odio al perdón, de la fe a la histeria, de la apatía a la desesperación y de la rabia a la insensibilidad, en un impresionante trabajo actoral que se vio recompensado en Cannes con el premio a la mejor interpretación femenina. La banda de sonido del film fue compuesta por el argentino Christian Basso.
“El director de Peppermint Candy y Oasis -que hasta hace poco fue ministro de Cultura de su país, en coincidencia con el apogeo del Nuevo Cine Coreano- vuelve a sus personajes extremos, golpeados en lo más profundo por una tragedia. (…) Hay una visceralidad, una furia en el film de Lee Chang-dong que no es frecuente en el cine de hoy y que sólo puede asociarse a algunos films de Rainer Fassbinder o Werner Herzog de los años ’70” (Luciano Monteagudo en Página/12).
A las 14.30 y 17 horas (142’; 35mm).

Domingo 16: Epitafio
(Gidam; Corea del Sur, 2007)
Dirección: Jung Beom-sik y Jung Sik.
Con Choi Jae-hwan, Jeong Ji-an, Jeon Mu-song .
En 1979, el Dr. Park recibe un viejo álbum de fotos de 1942, cuando él tenía poco más de veinte años, una época en la que él y sus compañeros vivieron varias situaciones extrañas. Park fue obligado por sus padres a casarse con una chica que no conocía, pero se enamoró de un cadáver que resultó ser el de su prometida. Entretanto, una niña víctima de un accidente de tráfico mortal llega al hospital sin ninguna lesión y es acosada por fantasmas todas las noches. Al mismo tiempo, un matrimonio de médicos regresa al hospital desde Tokio, rodeado de una incesante cadena de asesinatos en serie.
Los realizadores de este exitoso film de horror, los hermanos Jung, estudiaron cine y participaron en la realización de numerosas películas como asistentes de dirección antes de encarar su primer largometraje conjunto, Epitafio. Jung Sik ha trabajado como ayudante de dirección de Park Chan-Wook en Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy y Three, Monster.
A las 14.30 y 17 horas (98’; 35mm).

Lunes 17: No hay función

Martes 18: Taxi Blues
(Corea del Sur, 2005)
Dirección: Choiha Dong-ha.
Para la realización de este largometraje documental, su director pasó todo un verano trabajando como taxista. Con una cámara montada en el tablero del automóvil, trasladó toda clase de clientes desde y hacia todos los rincones de la ciudad de Seúl. El film se presenta como una serie de retratos cándidos, muchas veces poco favorecedores de los clientes, al tiempo que describe un trabajo complejo y cansador que, por parecer extremadamente ordinario, solemos desestimar o pasar por alto”.
“En Seúl existen 70.000 taxis que recorren diariamente la ciudad. En casi todos los casos, los conductores trabajan turnos de 12 horas y deben completar de 20 a 30 viajes por día para lograr una mínima ganancia luego de pagar entre 80 y 100 dólares a la empresa dueña de los autos. Los taxistas cargan a diario una gran cantidad (y variedad) de pasajeros. Un verano me convertí en taxista, manejando uno de esos 70.000 taxis” (Choiha Dong-ha).
A las 14.30 y 17 horas (105'; dvd).
El pueblo a la orilla del mar
(Gaetmaeul; Corea del Sur, 1965)
Dirección: Kim Soo-yong.
Con Shin Yeong-gyun, Ko Eun-a, Hwang Jeong-sun.
(Ver martes 11)
A las 19.30 horas (91’; 35mm.)

Informamos que las localidades para la Sala Leopoldo Lugones podrán adquirirse personalmente con seis días de anticipación (incluyendo el día de la función) en las boleterías del Teatro San Martín.

Precio de las localidades en la Sala Leopoldo Lugones $ 8.- Estudiantes y jubilados $ 5.- (Los interesados deberán tramitar su credencial de descuento en el 4° piso del Teatro San Martín, de lunes a viernes de 10 a 16 horas.)

4.8.09

Toronto Film Festival 2009: Canadian Films & Closing Night


THE 2009 FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES CLOSING NIGHT GALA

Feisty portrait of Queen Victoria to wrap-up 10 days of movies from around the globe

Toronto – The 34th Toronto International Film Festival will close in royal style on September 19 with the North American premiere Gala Presentation of The Young Victoria, directed by the critically-acclaimed French-Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.) from a script by Academy Award®-winning Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). The film chronicles Queen Victoria’s ascension to the throne, focusing on the turbulent early years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert. The stellar cast includes Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) in the title role, Rupert Friend (Pride and Prejudice), Paul Bettany (Creation, The Da Vinci Code), Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Jim Broadbent (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Mark Strong (Body of Lies) and Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong).

“We’re delighted to close the Festival with such a gorgeous film that completely reinvents our image of Queen Victoria,” said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of TIFF and Cameron Bailey, Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. “This is a movie about a young woman making hard choices and we think our audience will love it. We’re also proud to present the latest work from renowned Québec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée, whose C.R.A.Z.Y. won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film in 2005.”

The Young Victoria is set in the period from 1836, the year before Victoria ascended the throne, to 1840, the year she married Prince Albert, and revises the widely held picture of Queen Victoria as an elderly widow dressed in black. In addition to being a love story and family drama, the film explores the idea of instant celebrity – one minute Victoria is living under virtual house arrest, the next she is the most famous woman in the world.

A GK Films production, The Young Victoria is produced by Graham King, Martin Scorsese, Tim Headington and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Colin Vaines is executive producer and GK Films's Denis O’Sullivan is the film’s co-producer. Alliance Films will distribute the film in Canada.


CANADIAN FAVOURITES RETURN WITH GALAS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Toronto – The Toronto International Film Festival is pleased to announce the addition of three Gala Presentations and five Special Presentations to the programming lineup for this year’s Festival, running September 10 to 19. Canadian favourites include Jay Baruchel, Atom Egoyan, Don McKellar, Dilip Mehta, Ruba Nadda, Sandra Oh, Christopher Plummer, Saul Rubinek, Lisa Ray, Peter Stebbings and Jacob Tierney

GALAS


Chloe Atom Egoyan, France/Canada

World Premiere

Catherine (Julianne Moore), a successful doctor, suspects her husband David (Liam Neeson), a handsome music professor, is cheating on her. To lay her suspicions and fears to rest, she hires an irresistible young woman, Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), to test David’s fidelity. Chloe’s torrid tales of her encounters with David lead Catherine on a journey of sexual and sensual re-discovery. But by opening the door to temptation, she puts her family in great danger.

Cooking with Stella Dilip Mehta, Canada

World Premiere

A warmhearted social satire about a Canadian diplomat (Lisa Ray) and her chef husband Michael (Don McKellar) who are posted to New Delhi. Upon arrival they inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the charming, totally inspiring – and wily – cook, Stella (Seema Biswas). When Stella agrees to become Michael’s cooking guru, to teach him traditional Indian dishes, little does he know that she’s cooking up a scheme of her own.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Terry Gilliam, United Kingdom/Canada

North American Premiere

This fantastical morality tale tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his travelling show, the extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’. Blessed with the remarkable gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, and won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on the condition that when his daughter reached her sixteenth birthday, she would become the property of Mr. Nick.

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Cairo Time Ruba Nadda, Canada/Ireland

World Premiere

Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, arrives in Cairo to meet her husband Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official in Gaza. When he is unavoidably delayed, Mark sends his friend and former security officer Tareq (Alexander Siddig) to show her around the city. As she gets used to the customs and rhythm of life in Cairo, Juliette finds herself falling not only for the city’s charms, but for Tareq as well.

Defendor Peter Stebbings, Canada

World Premiere

Reality intersects with delusion in the mind of Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a regular man who adopts a superhero persona known as Defendor, and combs the city streets at night in search of his arch-enemy, Captain Industry. In his attempts to combat crime and bring down Captain Industry, a drug and weapons dealer who he mistakenly blames for the death of his mother, Defendor ends up befriending a young prostitute, Katerina Debrofkowitz (Kat Dennings). Armed with unconventional weapons of mass confusion, aided by his new friend, and putting his life on the line, Defendor proves that everyone is capable of making a difference.

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel Brigitte Berman, Canada

World Premiere

An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humour and insight, the film captures Hefner’s fierce battles with the government, the religious right and militant feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who’s who of 20th Century American pop culture, present a brilliant and entertaining snapshot of the life of an extraordinary man and the controversies that surrounded him.

J’ai Tué Ma Mère Xavier Dolan, Canada

English Canada Premiere

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

The Trotsky Jacob Tierney, Canada

World Premiere

Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father (Saul Rubinek) sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa’s clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term “student union,” determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.


CANADIAN FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES ANNOUNCED TO SCREEN IN VANGUARD, REAL TO REEL, CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA, MASTERS AND SPROCKETS FAMILY ZONE

Toronto – The 34th Toronto International Film Festival announces 13 Canadian features screening in five different programmes, offering opportunities for audiences to experience vibrant and engaging films from across the country.

VANGUARD

Carcasses Denis Côté, QC

North American Premiere

Québec auteur Denis Côté brings us a beautiful story about an elderly man who lives in a junkyard surrounded by the detritus of culture and who is paid a surprise visit by a group of youths.

Leslie, My Name Is Evil Reginald Harkema, ON

World Premiere

Perry, a sheltered chemist, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he is selected to be a jury member at her hippie, death-cult murder trial. When Perry and Leslie lock eyes in court, Perry is forced to confront his deepest, darkest urges.

REAL TO REEL

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Peter Raymont and Michele Hozer, ON

World Premiere

An enigmatic musical poet and world-renowned pianist, Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his early death. An intimate look at the man alongside the myth, Glenn Gould: The Inner Life casts a new light on a genius whose ideas were as controversial, and his private life as passionate as his music.

Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands Peter Mettler, ON

North American Premiere

Filmmaker and visual artist Peter Mettler takes audiences on an eye-opening aerial tour of Alberta’s tar sands in this beautiful, haunting and vital documentary. This film is co-presented by Short Cuts Canada.

Reel Injun Neil Diamond, QC

World Premiere

Neil Diamond’s documentary Reel Injun is a long-needed corrective to the wildly inaccurate portrayals of native peoples in Hollywood films and filled with revealing and often poignant interviews with key players like actors Wes Studi, Adam Beach and Sacheen Littlefeather.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA

A Gun to the Head Blaine Thurier, BC

World Premiere

A reformed criminal escapes his wife’s dinner party for a quick beer with his cousin and former partner in crime. Over the course of one wild night, he’s dragged back into a world of drugs, women, guns and gangsters; endangering the lives of those he loves the most.

Cole Carl Bessai, BC

World Premiere

Cole (Richard de Klerk) wants to write his way out of small-town Lytton, B.C. and his job at the family gas station. A new romance with Serafina (Kandyse McClure), a woman from his writing class, offers a chance for both of them to change their lives in this emotional and intense drama.

Excited Bruce Sweeney, BC

World Premiere

Writer-director Bruce Sweeney returns with a romantic comedy about a man who may have just met the woman of his dreams, but their romance is complicated by his meddling, officious mother and his inability to confront or discuss his sexual hang-ups.

High Life Gary Yates, ON/MB

North American Premiere

Two drug-addled brothers go for one last major score in writer-director Gary Yates’s energetic and funny crime comedy.

Passenger Side Matthew Bissonnette, ON

Canadian Premiere

In writer-director Matthew Bissonette’s intimate and amusing road movie Passenger Side, two talkative brothers tour Los Angeles while trying to reconcile their romantic lives.

Suck Robert Stefaniuk, ON

World Premiere

A rock’n’roll vampire comedy about a down-and-out band that will do anything for a record deal. Their humdrum image radically changes when the bass player disappears one night with a hip vampire and emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild. Featuring cameos by Alice Cooper, his daughter Calico Cooper, Alex Lifeson, Moby, Iggy Pop, Carole Pope and Henry Rollins.

MASTERS

La Donation Bernard Émond, QC

North American Premiere

Dr. Rainville, an aging country doctor with a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne Dion, an emergency room doctor from Montreal, agrees to go to Normétal to replace him for a few weeks, with no plans for an extended stay. When Dr. Rainville suddenly dies, Jeanne must decide if she’ll take over the job, and its inherent responsibilities, for the long-term.

SPROCKETS FAMILY ZONE

A Shine of Rainbows Vic Sarin, Canada/Ireland

North American Premiere

An extraordinary woman helps an orphan boy find self-acceptance and love through her unique gifts of colour and magic. Set in a small village on wind-swept Corrie Island, just off the coast of Ireland, A Shine of Rainbows is a story about the transformational power of love, finding acceptance, discovering magic and realizing that rainbows are all around you and within you, too.


CANADA FIRST! SHOWCASES THE BEST IN NEW HOMEGROWN TALENT

Toronto – Furthering its commitment to celebrate new Canadian works, the 34th Toronto International Film Festival announces six films for the sixth edition of Canada First! offering audiences a chance to explore the next wave of homegrown talent. This year’s programme focuses on works from first-time Canadian directors as well as those presenting a feature film at the Festival for the first time. Canada First! will launch with Sook-Yin Lee’s Year of the Carnivore, the talented actor’s directorial feature debut, following short films such as Unlocked (2005), Girl Cleans Sink (2004) and a segment of last year’s Toronto Stories (2008).

Year of the Carnivore Sook-Yin Lee, BC

World Premiere

Year of the Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she’s bad in bed, so she goes out to get more ‘experience.’

All Fall Down Philip Hoffman, ON

North American Premiere

Local legend Philip Hoffman’s formally adventurous and emotionally devastating documentary looks at the tortured last years of Toronto writer George Lachlan Brown, setting the account against a backdrop of regional myths and conspiracies.

Crackie Sherry White, NL

North American Premiere

Mitsy (Meghan Greeley) just wants to escape her life in Newfoundland and her overbearing grandmother (Mary Walsh), but a visit from her mother and an affair with the take-out guy (Joel Thomas Hynes) may sidetrack her dreams of becoming a beautician in writer and director Sherry White’s emotional and insightful debut Crackie.

George Ryga’s HUNGRY HILLS Rob King, SK

World Premiere

George Ryga’s HUNGRY HILLS is a beautifully dark adaptation of the acclaimed Canadian novel about one teenager’s struggles to revive the family farm in the foothills of northern Alberta during the Depression.

Machotaildrop Corey Adams and Alex Craig, BC,Canada/USA

World Premiere

Equal parts surreal comedy, fantasy and indictment of our logo-glutted culture, Corey Adams and Alex Craig’s Machotaildrop follows teen skateboarder Walter as he’s recruited by a legendary company to be their next big star.

The Wild Hunt Alexandre Franchi, QC

World Premiere

Fantasy and reality meet in The Wild Hunt when an ancient ritual is reborn in the woods north of Montreal.

No go: Paramount won't show critics `G.I. Joe'

En Estados Unidos prefirieron no hacer screenings previos de "G.I. Joe". Acá la dieron y yo la acabo de ver... El jueves les cuento.

LOS ANGELES – It's the biggest movie of the summer that practically no one has seen.

"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" opens Friday, but Paramount Pictures isn't screening the blockbuster for critics beforehand. Only a select few writers from blogs and movie Web sites have seen it for review — such as Harry Knowles, the self-professed "Head Geek" from Ain't It Cool News — and their opinions have been mostly positive.

Instead, the studio says it's intentionally aiming the movie at the heartland, at cities and audiences outside the entertainment vortexes of New York and Los Angeles. Paramount held a screening Friday for 1,000 military service members and their families at Andrews Air Force Base; it's also focusing marketing efforts in places like Kansas City, Charlotte, N.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

While appealing to a sense of patriotism nationwide, the plan also is inspired by the disparity that existed between the critical trashing "Transformers: Rise of the Fallen" received and the massive crowds it drew at the box office.

"`G.I. Joe' is a big, fun, summer event movie — one that we've seen audiences enjoy everywhere from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to Phoenix, Ariz.," said Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount Pictures. "After the chasm we experienced with `Transformers 2' between the response of audiences and critics, we chose to forgo opening-day print and broadcast reviews as a strategy to promote `G.I. Joe.' We want audiences to define this film."

With a reported production budget of $175 million and a cast that includes Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "G.I. Joe" follows the adventures of an elite team using high-tech spy and military equipment to take down a corrupt arms dealer. It comes from director Stephen Sommers, whose previous films include "The Mummy" and "Van Helsing."

Long before anyone saw the completed product, though, "G.I. Joe" drew mixed buzz at best for its trailer, which premiered during the Super Bowl. Now it's the final action picture of the summer — and it has a lot in common with the highest-grossing film so far this year, the "Transformers" sequel. Both are effects-laden spectacles based on Hasbro toys and both are Paramount releases from producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

"Transformers" has gone on to gross more than $388 million in the United States alone since its opening six weeks ago, despite receiving just 20 percent positive reviews on the Web site Rotten Tomatoes, a critical aggregator. The withholding of "G.I. Joe" from mainstream critics suggests that the studios believe they can succeed at the box office without them.

It's a tactic normally reserved for horror movies or other genre pictures with built-in fans who don't necessarily care about reviews — ones based on video games, for example — not summer blockbusters. Still, "G.I. Joe" has been tracking well because it represents the last big bang of the season, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.

"They don't need (to screen) it and there's no upside to negative reviews. The film is going to open well no matter what," Dergarabedian said. "They're being very strategic in who they show the movie to. If they can win over their core audience from these reviews, that's good for the movie."

Devin Faraci from the film Web site CHUD.com is one of the few writers who have seen it for review purposes, and not just for junket interviews. He's among the critics who've contributed to the movie's 88-percent positive rating as tabulated by Rotten Tomatoes, saying: "If I was 10 years old, `G.I. Joe' would be one of the best movies I had ever seen."

Faraci said he was in Toronto recently when he received a phone call at 8:30 a.m. Los Angeles time, asking if he could come to the Paramount lot that day for a "G.I. Joe" screening. He flew back, got off the plane and headed right over.

"It's silly. It's a film that plays on its own terms," he said. "I don't think reviews will kill it but I think it'll get a more positive response than they expect. It's a big, silly, pulpy, cartoony action film and it makes no apologies for being that way."


Ray Davies - The Kinks Choral Collection (2009)


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Following up on their first collaboration at 2007's Electric Proms, Davies and the 65-strong Crouch End Festival Chorus have gotten together once again to record a cross section of some of The Kinks most celebrated and enduringly popular songs.

Revisiting such an auspicious back catalogue is fine in theory. In practice however, whilst Davies and his backing band are on top form, the addition of the Chorus brings very little to the table.

Whilst many a choral score is capable of bringing widescreen vistas into the pokiest of material, the arrangements by David Temple, Steve Marwick and Davies himself, are myopic, lacking in ambition. Never have so many been given so little to do. Cast very much in SingalongaRay mode, they are largely reduced to oohing and ahhing in a way that is as obvious as it is dull.

The Kinks' 1968 album, The Village Green Preservation Society, has six tracks welded into the Village Green Medley and whilst the tunes themselves remain some of Davies' best work, the choral embellishments ultimately drag rather than lift. This is especially true of the rockier numbers. The famously graphic intensity of All Day And All Of The Night is neutered by the Chorus, who reduce the demotic urgency of the original into little more than a polite request.

Occasionally it works out nicely: Days is re-cast in an agreeably ethereal light and an a cappella See My Friends has a chilled spectral edge. But as Davies shrewdly observed in Celluloid Heroes, ''Success walks with hand in hand with failure''. BBC


3.8.09

Friendly Fires - Burning eyes on the prize (The Independent)


Friendly Fires' album of retro dance-pop is the sleeper on the Mercury judges' shortlist. Fiona Sturges

This year Kasabian, Florence and the Machine and Bat For Lashes are the favourites to walk away with the prize, though of course that is no insurance that any of them will win. More often than not, it's worth looking to the outsiders on the list, those who have been nominated neither through hype nor tokenism but by the sheer uniqueness of their sound.

On this basis, then, let's not overlook the Hertfordshire trio Friendly Fires - who were hugely acclaimed at Glastonbury, T in the Park and others this year - and their self-titled debut, which at the time of writing was way down the bookies' lists at 8-1 but is by some stretch the most interesting prospect on the shortlist. According to their press blurb Friendly Fires are the most critically acclaimed band to have emerged from St Albans – which, let's face it, is no great achievement from a town that has yielded no pop stars of note. Their appearance doesn't promise that much either.

With their shirtsleeves, slacks and sensible shoes, their look is more Reggie Perrin than Razorlight. But anyone who maintains that smarty-pants synth-pop is strictly a female domain clearly is yet to acquaint themselves with this extraordinary threesome whose indie-electro-funk stylings reveal a band expertly riding the zeitgeist while creating their own signature sound.

Friendly Fires are a band born not of industry propaganda but of a burgeoning fan-base gathered through that old- fashioned route to success: touring. Since the beginning of the year, when they appeared alongside Little Boots and fellow Mercury nominees Glasvegas on the NME's annual tour of new artists, Friendly Fires have played sold-out shows as far afield as Mexico, Japan and Germany. They have filled London's Roundhouse, and could have done several times over – 40,000 or so people reportedly tried to buy tickets. And let's not forget their star turn at Glastonbury, a triumphant performance which, through its sheer energy and passion, turned out to be one of their festival's talking points.

Their gigs are typically flamboyant affairs, often accompanied by Brazilian dancers in feathered headdresses, brass and percussion sections and, in Ed Macfarlane, Friendly Fires have a curiously charismatic frontman, a singer whose camp, body-popping stage antics make David Byrne seem graceful.

Friendly Fires' name refers not to war's most notorious oxymoron but to a song by the Factory Records band Section 25, notable for their eclectic and generally uncategorisable sound. Macfarlane and co say that their primary influences are dance-oriented, from the German techno label Kompakt to Chris Clark, the electronic maestro signed to Warp records. But for those old enough to recall early-Eighties pop, one listen to their debut album will leave your head spinning as bands from the era flip through your mind. ABC, XTC, Heaven 17, Thompson Twins, Spandau Ballet and Prince are all there. It's like listening to the Here and Now tour alternately remixed by Aphex Twin and My Bloody Valentine.

Lyrically, Friendly Fires are sparing but effective. Their debut single "Paris" ("One day we're gonna live in Paris, I promise"), recorded on a laptop in Macfarlane's parents' garage, wittily articulates the aspirational pledges made during a drunken night out and then abandoned in the cold light of day, while "Hospital" explores the concept of a love so intense it lands you in casualty. "Jump in the Pool" is an upbeat tale about acting on impulse, augmented by calypso drums, shrouded in shoegazey atmospherics.

But it's "Photobooth" that truly nails their sound. A touching tale of love captured in a passport picture, it's the sound of punk rock, synth-pop and Ibiza-era house locked in a battle for supremacy, and from which all emerge battered but triumphant. It's also the song that cemented Friendly Fires' belief in themselves. They said that after recording it they realised that making music was no longer just a passion, it was a career.

Singer Ed Mcfarlane, drummer Jack Savidge and guitarist Edd Gibson met at the age of 14 at an all-boys public school in St Albans. Before Friendly Fires was born, the trio went by the name of First Day Back, a vocal-less hardcore outfit inspired by Fugazi and whose early gigs extended to friends' birthday parties. A cover of "Born To Be Wild" at a school concert was roundly slated, and prompted the band to rethink their sound.

In late 2007 they were the first unsigned band to appear on the Channel 4 programme Transmission. Early in 2008 the Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe played their single "Paris", and declared them his new favourite band. Their first proper show took place at the Old Queen's Head in north London, and was attended by a gaggle of A&Rs alerted by the growing radio interest. As it turned out, the gig was a catastrophe. The PA broke, punters left in disgust and the talent scouts wrote the band off. This, Macfarlane has said, was their saving grace, allowing them to hone their craft at their own pace, and without the hindrance of hype.

Released last September, Friendly Fires' debut has proved to be what the record industry calls a slow-burner; despite having only grazed the Top 30 it has now been certified silver. TV and advertising types have leapt on the trio's capacity for a pop hook, their songs having appeared on the US series Gossip Girl and on an advert for Nintendo's Wii Fit.

You won't find another band like them. If they win the prize in September, it will be a deserved triumph for the outsider and the innovator. If they don't, well, it will still provide a valuable boost to their career. Either way, they really can't lose.

'Friendly Fires' is on XL Recordings - Live @ Buenos Aires, 19/08, La Trastienda



Entrevista a Marion Cotillard (Clarín)


Residencia del Festival de Cannes

RESIDENCIA DEL FESTIVAL DE CANNES - Fecha límite de candidatura

La selección de la próxima sesión para la Residencia del Festival de Cannes (1° de marzo al 15 de julio 2010) se dessarrollará con el siguiente calendario:

- Fecha límite de recepción de las candidaturas : 15 de septiembre 2009 (fecha de recepción de los dossiers)
- Jurado de selección final : 9 de diciembre 2009

La inscripción se hace en linea en http://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/cinefoundation/residencerules.html

Para mayores informaciones, escribir a: residence@festival-cannes.fr

Turin to fete Kusturica, American Zoetrope (Variety)


ROME -- The Turin Film Festival will be feting helmer Emir Kusturica and Francis Ford Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, during its upcoming 27th edition.

Kusturica will be on hand to receive Turin's new "8 1/2" nod, inspired by Federico Fellini's influential pic. The Sarajevo-born two-time Cannes Palme d'Or winner will bring previously unseen outtakes of his "Time of the Gypsies" and "Arizona Dream," and an eight-hour-plus director's cut of "Underground."

Coppola, who is also a two-time Palme d'Or winner, is expected in Turin to pick up a "8 1/2" nod, awarded to American Zoetrope, and for the Italo preem of his latest work "Tetro," to be released in Italy by BIM.

The fest, headed this year by auteur Gianni Amelio, will also screen Coppola's "Rumblefish," and a freshly restored print of 1948 classic "The Red Shoes," by British directorial duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, a film that Coppola pays homage to in "Tetro."

The fest, which is dedicated to indie cinema, will run Nov. 13-21.

Good Morning, Captain – The Rewind EP (2009)


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Tracklisting:
1.Rewind
2.Song for Ava Grace
3.The 5th of June
4.Come Wander with Me
5.Umbrellas
6.I Wish My Baby Was Born / The Owl
7.Goodbye

Credits:
All songs written by Tyler Chambers except for tracks 3 and 5.
“Come Wander with Me” was written by Jeff Alexander for a 1964 episode of “The Twilight Zone”.
“I Wish My Baby Was Born” is a traditional song.
Banjo on track 3 performed by Vance Reed (sandboxastronomy.com).
Additional vocals on tracks 3, 4 and 6 performed by Leah Chambers.


2.8.09

George A. Romero's "Survival of the Dead" (fotos)





La 30 mejores Palmas de Oro de Cannes (encuesta)


Publicado en Film Comment. Votos de Melissa Anderson, Geoff Andrew, Richard Brody, Michael Chaiken, Chris Chang, Chris Darke, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Alexander Horwath, Kent Jones, Laura Kern, Nathan Lee, Elisabeth Lequeret, Adrian Martin, Olaf Möller, James Quandt, Jonathan Romney, Gavin Smith, Chuck Stephens, y Amy Taubin.

1. Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese, 1976
2. The Leopard Luchino Visconti, 1963
3. Viridiana Luis Buñuel, 1961
4. The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
5. The Third Man Carol Reed, 1949
6. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy, 1964
7. Rosetta Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 1999
8. Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967
9. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
10. The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953

11. La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini, 1960
12. Othello Orson Welles, 1952
13. Under the Sun of Satan Maurice Pialat, 1987
14. Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami, 1997
15. If… Lindsay Anderson 1969
16. The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi, 1978
17. The Cranes are Flying Mikhail Kalatozov, 1958
18. Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa, 1980
19. Padre Padrone Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, 1977
20. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristian Mungiu, 2007

21. The Ballad of Narayama Shohei Imamura, 1983
22. Brief Encounter David Lean, 1946
23. The Working Class Goes to Heaven Elio Petri, 1972
24. The Go-Between Joseph Losey, 1971
25. The Eel Shohei Imamura, 1997
26. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino, 1994
27. The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff, 1979
28. Wild at Heart David Lynch, 1990
29. Underground Emir Kusturica, 1995
30. L’Enfant Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005



Spielberg hará una remake de "Harvey" (Variety)


Steven Spielberg has committed to his next film, and it will be an adaptation of the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Harvey,” which will be done as a co-production between 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks.

It is the first screenplay by the bestselling novelist Jonathan Tropper.

It is the story of an amiable eccentric, Elwood P. Dowd, and his friendship with a six and one-half foot tall invisible rabbit, and how it affects every member of his family and community. The play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944, and was previously turned into the 1950 Universal film that starred Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull.

Project will be produced by Spielberg and Don Gregory, with Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken overseeing for Fox 2000, which acquired the rights in 2008.

“I am very happy to be working again with my friend Tom Rothman who shepherded us through `Minority Report,’ and with Elizabeth and Carla, who I’m looking forward to collaborating with,” Spielberg said. “DreamWorks has experienced a creative and profitable relationship with 20th Century Fox in the past, and I look forward to renewing that time together.”

The picture gets DreamWorks and its new funding and distribution arrangement with Reliance and Disney off the ground in high style.

Jesu - Infinity (2009)


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Full album length song 'Infinity' on Avalanche Recordings (AREC017), written, recorded and mixed early 2009, with all instruments by Justin K Broadrick. 'Infinity' is the most expansive and organic jesu release to date, here JKB revisits his roots of heavy guitar driven music yet still retaining the ethereal atomsphere / soundscape of modern jesu. Approximately fifty minutes of music, CD housed in a beautiful 6 panel digi sleeve. First edition of 2000. Vinyl edition of 1300 copies of which the first 400 are on grey vinyl, the remaining 900 on black, all pressed on super heavvyweight 180grm vinyl will be available late August, MP3 / FLAC available now.

Cine francés inédito


Hoy comienza en la Sala Lugones del Teatro San Martín un interesante ciclo de operas primas francesas en el que se darán seis filmes de ese país inéditos en la Argentina. Se verán copias nuevas en 35mm. con sonido Dolby Stereo, enviadas especialmente desde París por el Ministère des Affaires Etrangères de Francia.

El ciclo empieza con 13m2, de Barthélémy Grossmann (2007), un policial centrado en tres asaltantes que deben esconderse tras robar un camión blindado, que se verá a las 14.30 y a las 19.30. A las 17 y a las 22, se exhibirá Entre las cuerdas, de Magaly Richard-Serrano (2007), con Richard Anconina y Maria De Medeiros, centrado en una familia que posee un club de boxeo.

Mañana será el turno de La cabeza de mamá, filme de Carine Tardieu (2006), protagonizado por Karin Viard y Jane Birkin, centrado en una adolescente que busca a una ex pareja de su madre. El martes se exhibirá Nacimiento de las pulpos, de Céline Sciamma (2007), sobre tres chicas adolescentes que comparten unas verano. El filme ganó el prestigioso Prix Louis Delluc a la mejor opera prima.

Miércoles y jueves se verán los títulos más reconocidos de este programa. Primero será el turno de Todo se perdona, de Mia HansenÅLove, acerca de una familia atravesando una fuerte crisis. El cierre del ciclo será con Capitaine Achab (2007), versión libre de Moby Dick que dirigió Philippe Ramos, con Denis Lavant y Lou Castel.

Entre el viernes y el domingo se verán repeticiones de los títulos anunciados. El martes, al concluir este ciclo, comenzará Encuentro con el cine coreano, integrado por diez largometrajes, en su mayoría inéditos en la Argentina, que incluye dos filmes clásicos (de los años '60 y '80) y ocho títulos de la más reciente producción de Corea del Sur, representativos de las diversas tendencias del cine de ese país.

1.8.09

Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print (2009)


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The Drive-By Truckers plan to release The Fine Print, a 12-track album of previously unreleased and rare songs on September 1st, via New West Records.

The Fine Print Track List:
1. George Jones Talkin’ Cell Phone Blues
2. Rebels
3. Uncle Frank (alternate version)
4. TVA
5. Goode’s Field Road (alternate version)
6. The Great Car Dealer War
7. Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
8. When The Well Runs Dry
9. Mrs. Claus’ Kimono
10. Play It All Night Long
11. Little Pony And The Great Big Horse
12. Like A Rolling Stone

Entrevista a Ricardo Darín (Clarín)



Poco antes del estreno de "El secreto de sus ojos", Darín habla de la película de Juan José Campanella y adelanta su próximo proyecto: en octubre empieza a rodar con Pablo Trapero.



Caetano lleva "Francia" a Venecia (Clarín)


Por Sandra Commisso

Filmada a pulmón, con una producción modestísima y casi sin que nadie se enterara, la nueva película de Adrián Caetano, Francia, acaba de ser elegida para participar de la sección Venice Days del próximo Festival de Venecia, en septiembre. En el filme actúan Natalia Oreiro, Lautaro Delgado, Mónica Ayos y Mex Urtizberea, entre otros. Además de Milagros Caetano, la hija de 12 años del director, en su debut como actriz.

"Hace años que hay una idea que me da vueltas en la cabeza y no me había largado a escribirla", dice Caetano. En la trama, una pareja de clase media con una hija decide separarse, pero por razones económicas, se ven obligados a convivir en la misma casa. Caetano afirma que esta película marca un giro en su carrera y en su estética habitual (
Pizza, birra, faso, Un oso rojo, Crónica de una fuga, entre otras). "Tiene un tono realista, con algo de humor, muy distinto a todo lo que hice hasta ahora. Yo diría que esta es una historia costumbrista, que muestra cómo es la vida hoy para una familia de clase media, trabajadora. Y también indaga sobre los afectos en ese ámbito".

Filmada en video y con un presupuesto mínimo, Caetano está sorprendido por la convocatoria para Venecia. "Es una película pequeña, la filmamos entre diciembre del año pasado y febrero de este año, con el aliento de mucha gente amiga, con gran pasión y escaso apoyo del Instituto de Cine. Quise obviar cierta burocracia y seguir filmando a pesar de todo, porque además, yo dependo de esto para vivir y no quería quedarme parado. Creo que esta participación en Venecia puede ser un gran empujón", asegura el director.

La satisfacción, entonces, es doble por el esfuerzo volcado en contar esta historia pequeña y de gran actualidad y que llamó la atención de los organizadores de uno de los festivales más importantes del mundo.

El mundo de las comunicaciones virtuales también aparece en foco, dentro y alrededor de ese entorno familiar en conflicto que conforman Cristina (Oreiro), Carlos (Delgado) y Mariana (Milagros Caetano). "Hoy pareciera que todo el mundo está super conectado y comunicado con los demás, y pasa todo lo contrario: los afectos están reprimidos", reflexiona el director.

Los personajes delineados para
Francia son, según Caetano, gente tratando de sobrevivir. "Ellos no acuden a la asistencia pública, no son marginales ni parias. Siguen intentando trabajar, de rebuscárselas. Y como los otros personajes de todas mis películas, tienen mucha dignidad. Ellos tuvieron sueños que no pudieron cumplir. Pero así y todo, siguen adelante".

Por eso, Francia, el nombre del país con el que Caetano bautizó su nuevo trabajo, es el símbolo del lugar al que, probablemente, nunca lleguen los protagonistas. "Ellos están ubicados en un lugar y un espacio del que tal vez nunca puedan salir. Francia es el sueño que permanece ahí, pero no se puede cumplir".

Con la presencia del filme en Venecia, Caetano confía en que la película se pueda estrenar en octubre en la Argentina.