French auteur premiered his most recent feature, Kommunisten, at the festival in 2014.
French director Jean-Marie Straub will be presented with the Leopard of Honor at the 70th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
Born in France but having worked primarily in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, his filmmaking career has spanned more than sixty years.
Straub, who regularly collaborated with his partner Danielle Huillet (who died in 2006), was known for radical and political films, including From The Clouds To The Resistance in 1968 and Sicilia! in 1999, both of which premiered in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival.
His full...
French director Jean-Marie Straub will be presented with the Leopard of Honor at the 70th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
Born in France but having worked primarily in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, his filmmaking career has spanned more than sixty years.
Straub, who regularly collaborated with his partner Danielle Huillet (who died in 2006), was known for radical and political films, including From The Clouds To The Resistance in 1968 and Sicilia! in 1999, both of which premiered in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival.
His full...
- 6/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
The 44th edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema has just announced their entire lineup and it’s pretty insane! The festival which takes place in Montreal from October 7 to 18 is screening nearly 400 films and events in only 11 days. This includes 151 feature films and 203 short films from 68 countries – 49 world premieres, 38 North American premieres and 60 Canadian premieres. Give credit to the team of programmers: Claude Chamberlan, Dimitri Eipides Julien Fonfrède, Philippe Gajan, Karolewicz Daniel, Marie-Hélène Brousseau, Katayoun Dibamehr and Gabrielle Tougas-Frechette.
Below is the lineup. There’s a lot to process so take your sweet time!
Opening and closing
The whole New Testament directed by Jaco Van Dormael (Toto the Hero, Mr Nobody, The Eighth Day), will kick off this 44th edition.
After its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes last May, the new opus unconventional Belgian director, starring Benoît Poelvoorde (Three Hearts, Ransom of Glory), Yolande Moreau (Mammuth,...
Below is the lineup. There’s a lot to process so take your sweet time!
Opening and closing
The whole New Testament directed by Jaco Van Dormael (Toto the Hero, Mr Nobody, The Eighth Day), will kick off this 44th edition.
After its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes last May, the new opus unconventional Belgian director, starring Benoît Poelvoorde (Three Hearts, Ransom of Glory), Yolande Moreau (Mammuth,...
- 9/29/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
In today's roundup of news and views: Jean-Marie Straub's Kommunisten, a translation of the latest short film by Jean-Luc Godard, a reassessment of Michael Snow's Wavelength, interviews with Lisandro Alonso, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, Nick Broomfield and Eugène Green, plans to restore Buster Keaton's silent films, a Goodfellas reunion with Martin Scorsese and his cast and crew, an award for Richard Gere, a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Albert Maysles's documentaries on the making of two Wes Anderson films—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/19/2015
- Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Jean-Marie Straub's Kommunisten, a translation of the latest short film by Jean-Luc Godard, a reassessment of Michael Snow's Wavelength, interviews with Lisandro Alonso, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, Nick Broomfield and Eugène Green, plans to restore Buster Keaton's silent films, a Goodfellas reunion with Martin Scorsese and his cast and crew, an award for Richard Gere, a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Albert Maysles's documentaries on the making of two Wes Anderson films—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Jean-Marie Straub's Kommunisten, a translation of the latest short film by Jean-Luc Godard, a reassessment of Michael Snow's Wavelength, interviews with Lisandro Alonso, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, Nick Broomfield and Eugène Green, plans to restore Buster Keaton's silent films, a Goodfellas reunion with Martin Scorsese and his cast and crew, an award for Richard Gere, a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Albert Maysles's documentaries on the making of two Wes Anderson films—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/19/2015
- Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Jean-Marie Straub's Kommunisten, a translation of the latest short film by Jean-Luc Godard, a reassessment of Michael Snow's Wavelength, interviews with Lisandro Alonso, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, Nick Broomfield and Eugène Green, plans to restore Buster Keaton's silent films, a Goodfellas reunion with Martin Scorsese and his cast and crew, an award for Richard Gere, a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Albert Maysles's documentaries on the making of two Wes Anderson films—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
[...] and also, indeed more, perhaps in those who were in no way exceptional and have left no trace, there was something that went beyond the struggle against Nazism, something – be it only for a moment, the last one – that contributed, whether they knew it or not, to the “dream of a thing” which men have had “for so long,” to the enormous dream of men.These words of Franco Fortini, spoken in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Fortini/Cani (1978), are a kind of summation of one of the major themes of their work. From one film to the next, they return to this “dream of a thing”: the day Camille dreams of in Eyes Do Not Want to Close At all Times (1969) when “Rome will allow herself to choose in her turn,” human’s desire to commune with the gods in From the Cloud to the Resistance (1979), the “new duties,...
- 3/17/2015
- by Ted Fendt
- MUBI
The 19th Human Rights Watch Film Festival is returning to the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton from the 18th to the 27th of March. You can find the whole program here, along with a statement from the Festival Director John Biaggi. For Film Comment, Jordan Osterer interviews Buzzard director Joel Potrykus:
"Film Comment: There’s a divide in the film between idle, detached moments and pretty graphic content. How do you negotiate the gap between these very quiet moments and the more extreme situations?
Potrykus: My whole theory of making films is that I want to lull audiences to sleep—I almost want to bore them—and then right before they fall asleep, kick them in the balls."
David Robert Mitchell's It Follows is Sight & Sound's film of the week; Kim Newman reviews. Not one, not two, but three successful Kickstarter campaigns to take note of:
1. Living Los Sures...
"Film Comment: There’s a divide in the film between idle, detached moments and pretty graphic content. How do you negotiate the gap between these very quiet moments and the more extreme situations?
Potrykus: My whole theory of making films is that I want to lull audiences to sleep—I almost want to bore them—and then right before they fall asleep, kick them in the balls."
David Robert Mitchell's It Follows is Sight & Sound's film of the week; Kim Newman reviews. Not one, not two, but three successful Kickstarter campaigns to take note of:
1. Living Los Sures...
- 3/4/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In today's roundup of news and views: Martin Scorsese, Laurie Anderson, Nastassja Kinski, cinematographer Ed Lachman and novelist Siri Hustvedt on Wim Wenders, Gertjan Willems on Jean-Marie Straub's Kommunisten, Ilsa Leaver-Yap on Stan Brakhage, Damon Smith on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, J. Hoberman on David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars and Ari Forman's The Congress, Frank Rich on Bob Hope, a new restoration of The Breakfast Club, awards for Xavier Dolan and Bille August; Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) will likely reunite with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke; and it looks like Steven Spielberg will soon be directing Jennifer Lawrence. » - David Hudson...
- 3/3/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Martin Scorsese, Laurie Anderson, Nastassja Kinski, cinematographer Ed Lachman and novelist Siri Hustvedt on Wim Wenders, Gertjan Willems on Jean-Marie Straub's Kommunisten, Ilsa Leaver-Yap on Stan Brakhage, Damon Smith on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, J. Hoberman on David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars and Ari Forman's The Congress, Frank Rich on Bob Hope, a new restoration of The Breakfast Club, awards for Xavier Dolan and Bille August; Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) will likely reunite with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke; and it looks like Steven Spielberg will soon be directing Jennifer Lawrence. » - David Hudson...
- 3/3/2015
- Keyframe
This year's poster for the Vienna International Film Festival is of a flame, and while around the world in other cinema-loving cities and at other cinema-loving festivals one might that that as a cue for a celluloid immolation and a move forever to digital, here in Austria cinema and film as film aren't burning up but rather are burning brightly.
The tributes and special programs in artistic director Hans Hurch's 2014 edition make this position clear: John Ford, Harun Farocki and 16mm, with new films by Tariq Teguia, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean-Marie Straub accompanying older ones by the same directors. These aren't just retrospectives, they are revitalizing redoubts, inexhaustible fountains of flame, of sensitivity, of consciousness, and of intervention. With such a profound retrospective program, I hope you'll forgive me telling you very little of anything new at the festival; unless, that is, you like me count cinema revived as something always new.
The tributes and special programs in artistic director Hans Hurch's 2014 edition make this position clear: John Ford, Harun Farocki and 16mm, with new films by Tariq Teguia, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean-Marie Straub accompanying older ones by the same directors. These aren't just retrospectives, they are revitalizing redoubts, inexhaustible fountains of flame, of sensitivity, of consciousness, and of intervention. With such a profound retrospective program, I hope you'll forgive me telling you very little of anything new at the festival; unless, that is, you like me count cinema revived as something always new.
- 11/12/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
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