Other winners included P.S. Vinothraj’s ‘Pebbles’ and Martín de los Santos’s ’That Was Life’.
Russian director Philipp Yuryev was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca, clinching the €10,000 Transilvania Trophy for his debut feature The Whaler Boy.
Distributed internationally by Laurent Danielou’s Paris-based Loco Films, the Russian-Polish-Belgian co-production also won the Director’s Award on its premiere at last year’s Venice Days.
It is the second Russian film in TIFF’s 20-year history to be presented with the top award: Ilya Krzhanovsky’s 4 shared the trophy with Juan Pablo Rebella...
Russian director Philipp Yuryev was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca, clinching the €10,000 Transilvania Trophy for his debut feature The Whaler Boy.
Distributed internationally by Laurent Danielou’s Paris-based Loco Films, the Russian-Polish-Belgian co-production also won the Director’s Award on its premiere at last year’s Venice Days.
It is the second Russian film in TIFF’s 20-year history to be presented with the top award: Ilya Krzhanovsky’s 4 shared the trophy with Juan Pablo Rebella...
- 8/2/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Philipp Yuryev’s “The Whaler Boy,” which took home the Venice Days award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, won the top prize at the Transilvania Film Festival on Saturday.
The jury praised the Russian director’s feature debut, an offbeat story of a teenage whale hunter on the Bering Strait who sets out to meet a webcam model, for being “beautiful and meticulous in its sense of time and place” while also being “really resonant and contemporary at the same time as being classic.”
Yuryev, who had not attended the festival, was hastily flown to Cluj from Moscow on Saturday morning, telling the audience: “It is really something surprising to be here, and to have a chance to visit this place and to see you all.” He dedicated the award to the remote whale-hunting community in Chukotka where the movie was filmed, as well as to its young...
The jury praised the Russian director’s feature debut, an offbeat story of a teenage whale hunter on the Bering Strait who sets out to meet a webcam model, for being “beautiful and meticulous in its sense of time and place” while also being “really resonant and contemporary at the same time as being classic.”
Yuryev, who had not attended the festival, was hastily flown to Cluj from Moscow on Saturday morning, telling the audience: “It is really something surprising to be here, and to have a chance to visit this place and to see you all.” He dedicated the award to the remote whale-hunting community in Chukotka where the movie was filmed, as well as to its young...
- 8/1/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Of all the international film festivals to roll out the red carpet this summer in what feels like a global industry reboot, few can fall back on past experience when it comes to the logistics of an in-person pandemic edition. But amid the wave of cancellations that all but wiped out the calendar year in 2020, the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival managed to pull off what few others could, relying on a host of open-air venues to successfully welcome moviegoers to the medieval city of Cluj.
One year later, for what in a different era might have been a splashy 20th anniversary edition, TIFF founder Tudor Giurgiu admits, “I thought this year would be easier.” Just days after confusion over Pcr tests and vaccine certificates reigned on the Croisette, however, Giurgiu and the TIFF organizing team have realized that as the coronavirus’ deadly Delta variant sweeps across the globe, a return...
One year later, for what in a different era might have been a splashy 20th anniversary edition, TIFF founder Tudor Giurgiu admits, “I thought this year would be easier.” Just days after confusion over Pcr tests and vaccine certificates reigned on the Croisette, however, Giurgiu and the TIFF organizing team have realized that as the coronavirus’ deadly Delta variant sweeps across the globe, a return...
- 7/22/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Cluj, Romania — The off-beat, the avant garde and the boundary-defying take center stage at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, which kicked off Friday night with a soggy start to the 17th edition.
Unspooling over 10 days in the lively medieval city of Cluj, a festival known for bold and provocative programming will feature 12 films in competition for the Transilvania Trophy, starting with fest opener “Foxtrot,” Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s Oscar-shortlisted portrait of a grieving family who lose their soldier son in the line of duty.
Though evening showers threatened to turn the night into a washout, the skies cleared over the historic Piata Unirii (Union Square), where Maoz’s controversial film, which won the Silver Lion in Venice last year, played to a damp but upbeat crowd.
With lightning flashing over what the Israeli helmer described as “the biggest screen and the biggest screening my film has ever had,” Maoz...
Unspooling over 10 days in the lively medieval city of Cluj, a festival known for bold and provocative programming will feature 12 films in competition for the Transilvania Trophy, starting with fest opener “Foxtrot,” Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s Oscar-shortlisted portrait of a grieving family who lose their soldier son in the line of duty.
Though evening showers threatened to turn the night into a washout, the skies cleared over the historic Piata Unirii (Union Square), where Maoz’s controversial film, which won the Silver Lion in Venice last year, played to a damp but upbeat crowd.
With lightning flashing over what the Israeli helmer described as “the biggest screen and the biggest screening my film has ever had,” Maoz...
- 5/25/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Hannaleena Hauru’s debut feature is produced by company behind Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Maki.
Paris-based Premium Films has boarded sales for Hannaleena Hauru’s debut feature The Thick Lashes Of Lauri Mantyvaara (working title).
The film will shoot in Finland from August with Aamu Film Company, which was also behind the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Maki.
Hauru, who attended Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2015, has made more than 30 short films including festival hits Mercy All The Way, Whispering In A Friend’s Mouth and If I Fall.
The film will tell the story of two teenage girls who want to sabotage weddings on the Finnish archipelago to “reclaim love from capitalism.” Their plans are complicated when one of the girls falls in love, surprisingly, with an ice hockey player.
Jussi Rantamaki of Aamu produces the $1.3m (€1.1m) production...
Paris-based Premium Films has boarded sales for Hannaleena Hauru’s debut feature The Thick Lashes Of Lauri Mantyvaara (working title).
The film will shoot in Finland from August with Aamu Film Company, which was also behind the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Maki.
Hauru, who attended Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2015, has made more than 30 short films including festival hits Mercy All The Way, Whispering In A Friend’s Mouth and If I Fall.
The film will tell the story of two teenage girls who want to sabotage weddings on the Finnish archipelago to “reclaim love from capitalism.” Their plans are complicated when one of the girls falls in love, surprisingly, with an ice hockey player.
Jussi Rantamaki of Aamu produces the $1.3m (€1.1m) production...
- 6/30/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The festival will also honour Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith.
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren and Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith will be guests of honour at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff, May 27 – June 5).
The festival kicks off this evening with the world premiere of Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9. On The Richter Scale.
The festival’s closing gala on June 4 will see Loren [pictured in 2014 short Human Voice] – who is visiting Romania for the first time - receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Smith – who came to Romania to produce Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain in 2003 - will be presented with the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema on the same evening in Cluj’s National Theatre.
Competition
This year’s 12-strong Competition includes nine first features such as Bogdan Mirică’s Balkan anti-Western Dogs, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s horror film Shelley, and [link=nm...
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren and Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith will be guests of honour at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff, May 27 – June 5).
The festival kicks off this evening with the world premiere of Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9. On The Richter Scale.
The festival’s closing gala on June 4 will see Loren [pictured in 2014 short Human Voice] – who is visiting Romania for the first time - receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Smith – who came to Romania to produce Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain in 2003 - will be presented with the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema on the same evening in Cluj’s National Theatre.
Competition
This year’s 12-strong Competition includes nine first features such as Bogdan Mirică’s Balkan anti-Western Dogs, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s horror film Shelley, and [link=nm...
- 5/27/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Jewish Film Festival launches inaugural best debut feature prize; competition titles include Son Of Saul and Labyrinth Of Lies.
The 19th UK Jewish Film Festival (Nov 7-22) is to present a best debut feature award for the first time.
The jury, headed by Nfts (National Film and Television School) director Nik Powell, comprises actor Jason Isaacs (The Patriot), director Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco), producer Michael Kuhn (Being John Malkovich), actress Kerry Fox (The Dressmaker) and actress Sarah Solemani (Mrs Henderson Presents).
The winner, which will be announced at the festival’s closing gala on Nov 21, will be selected from a shortlist of five films: Son of Saul; Orthodox; The Farewell Party; Labyrinth Of Lies; and 5 To 7.
This year’s festival programme has also been revealed.
The opening film will be Nae Caranfil’s Closer To The Moon, the comedy drama starring Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong that won multiple prizes at this year’s Gopo Awards, Romania...
The 19th UK Jewish Film Festival (Nov 7-22) is to present a best debut feature award for the first time.
The jury, headed by Nfts (National Film and Television School) director Nik Powell, comprises actor Jason Isaacs (The Patriot), director Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco), producer Michael Kuhn (Being John Malkovich), actress Kerry Fox (The Dressmaker) and actress Sarah Solemani (Mrs Henderson Presents).
The winner, which will be announced at the festival’s closing gala on Nov 21, will be selected from a shortlist of five films: Son of Saul; Orthodox; The Farewell Party; Labyrinth Of Lies; and 5 To 7.
This year’s festival programme has also been revealed.
The opening film will be Nae Caranfil’s Closer To The Moon, the comedy drama starring Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong that won multiple prizes at this year’s Gopo Awards, Romania...
- 9/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
The saying goes that the punishment should fit the crime, but what if the punishment involves recreating the crime? That's the surreal angle behind the based on a true story drama "Closer To The Moon," and today we have the exclusive U.S. trailer and poster for the film. Starring Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, and Jack Huston, and written and directed by Nae Caranfil, the story is set in 1959 Bucharest where a group of WWII Jewish resistance fighters pull off the robbery of the Romanian National Bank under the guise of filming a movie. Having, things take a strange twist when the group is arrested and forced to re-enact the heist for a propaganda film before being executed. Yes, this actually happened, and it looks like one to watch for those intrigued by history's stranger chapters. "Closer To TheMoon" opens in theaters and VOD April 17th via IFC Films. Watch below.
- 4/3/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
New film from Pascal Chaumeil, director of A Long Way Down, secures biggest support of more than $500,000; next film in the Department Q series also receives support.
Eurimages is to plough $4.7m (€4,444,000) into 18 feature films and two documentaries, following its latest meeting in London from March 9-12.
Among the titles to receive support is Walking To Paris, from British auteur Peter Greenaway, which received $300,000 (€280,000).
The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer Kees Kasander. The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
The film is due to begin shooting this month in Switzerland.
Speaking to ScreenDaily about the feature early this year, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building...
Eurimages is to plough $4.7m (€4,444,000) into 18 feature films and two documentaries, following its latest meeting in London from March 9-12.
Among the titles to receive support is Walking To Paris, from British auteur Peter Greenaway, which received $300,000 (€280,000).
The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer Kees Kasander. The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
The film is due to begin shooting this month in Switzerland.
Speaking to ScreenDaily about the feature early this year, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building...
- 3/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
During the Transylvania International Film Festival, Twitch sat down with a major figure in Romanian cinema, Nae Caranfil, whose films are zealously expected events in Romania. The director's latest film, Closer to the Moon, was part of the Romanian Days selection. It's the most expensive Romanian film to date and features an international cast. Twitch: How has the Romanian industry changed over the last couple of years? At the beginning of the 90s, we could still talk about film industry in Romania because there was a certain number of films produced every year. Now, we can talk only about film agriculture. You just plant a film into the ground and awards grow. I mean the industry changed a lot. I was privileged enough to start by making...
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- 6/18/2014
- Screen Anarchy
A gala open-air screening of Stephen Frears’ Philomena will tonight (May 30) launch the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) which is expanding its industry dimension for its 13th edition.
This weekend will see the festival focusing its attention on the ¨Save The Big Screen¨ campaign, launched under the auspices of Romania Film Promotion, which aims to halt the disappearance of cinemas outside of the main centres of population and create a network of digital cinemas throughout the country.
A conference will be held on May 31 bringing together officials from the Ministry of Culture, local authorities, Romania Film, cinema managers, film-makers and foreign guests such as Marta Materska-Samek, from Poland’s Cinema Development Foundation Bard, Ivo Andrle of Czech exhibitor Aero Films, and Tina Hajon, Head of Exhibition at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
Debate will centre, for example, on the foreign guests’ experiences of accessing European funds for cinema renovation and digitisation programmes, as well as...
This weekend will see the festival focusing its attention on the ¨Save The Big Screen¨ campaign, launched under the auspices of Romania Film Promotion, which aims to halt the disappearance of cinemas outside of the main centres of population and create a network of digital cinemas throughout the country.
A conference will be held on May 31 bringing together officials from the Ministry of Culture, local authorities, Romania Film, cinema managers, film-makers and foreign guests such as Marta Materska-Samek, from Poland’s Cinema Development Foundation Bard, Ivo Andrle of Czech exhibitor Aero Films, and Tina Hajon, Head of Exhibition at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
Debate will centre, for example, on the foreign guests’ experiences of accessing European funds for cinema renovation and digitisation programmes, as well as...
- 5/30/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Two of Us producer Michael Fitzgerald’s productions to be sold by Celluloid Dreams.
Celluloid Dreams is teaming with Us The Homesman producer Michael Fitzgerald to sell two of his productions.
They comprise Australian director Bruce Beresford’s upcoming romantic comedy Cooking with Fernet Branca and Nae Caranfil’s English-language bank robbery comedy Closer To The Moon [pictured] starring Vera Faminga and Harry Lloyd. Celluloid is market premiering the latter.
Based on the novel by James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernat Branca revolves around Gerald and Marta, two holidaymakers renting adjacent villas in a small hillside town in Tuscany and plays on how misperceptions men and women have of one another.
“It’s generating a lot of interest from buyers,” said Celluloid’s founding chief Hengameh Panahi.
Through her Celluloid Nightmares genre label, Panahi is also selling Zak Hilditch’s critically acclaimed apocalyptic These Final Hours which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight.
Upcoming productions...
Celluloid Dreams is teaming with Us The Homesman producer Michael Fitzgerald to sell two of his productions.
They comprise Australian director Bruce Beresford’s upcoming romantic comedy Cooking with Fernet Branca and Nae Caranfil’s English-language bank robbery comedy Closer To The Moon [pictured] starring Vera Faminga and Harry Lloyd. Celluloid is market premiering the latter.
Based on the novel by James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernat Branca revolves around Gerald and Marta, two holidaymakers renting adjacent villas in a small hillside town in Tuscany and plays on how misperceptions men and women have of one another.
“It’s generating a lot of interest from buyers,” said Celluloid’s founding chief Hengameh Panahi.
Through her Celluloid Nightmares genre label, Panahi is also selling Zak Hilditch’s critically acclaimed apocalyptic These Final Hours which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight.
Upcoming productions...
- 5/16/2014
- ScreenDaily
Two of Us producer Michael Fitzgerald’s productions to be sold by Celluloid Dreams.
Celluloid Dreams is teaming with Us The Homesman producer Michael Fitzgerald to sell two of his productions.
They comprise Australian director Bruce Beresford’s upcoming romantic comedy Cooking with Fernet Branca and Nae Caranfil’s English-language bank robbery comedy Closer To The Moon [pictured] starring Vera Faminga and Harry Lloyd. Celluloid is market premiering the latter.
Based on the novel by James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernat Branca revolves around Gerald and Marta, two holidaymakers renting adjacent villas in a small hillside town in Tuscany and plays on how misperceptions men and women have of one another.
“It’s generating a lot of interest from buyers,” said Celluloid’s founding chief Hengameh Panahi.
Through her Celluloid Nightmares genre label, Panahi is also selling Zak Hilditch’s critically acclaimed apocalyptic These Final Hours which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight.
Upcoming productions...
Celluloid Dreams is teaming with Us The Homesman producer Michael Fitzgerald to sell two of his productions.
They comprise Australian director Bruce Beresford’s upcoming romantic comedy Cooking with Fernet Branca and Nae Caranfil’s English-language bank robbery comedy Closer To The Moon [pictured] starring Vera Faminga and Harry Lloyd. Celluloid is market premiering the latter.
Based on the novel by James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernat Branca revolves around Gerald and Marta, two holidaymakers renting adjacent villas in a small hillside town in Tuscany and plays on how misperceptions men and women have of one another.
“It’s generating a lot of interest from buyers,” said Celluloid’s founding chief Hengameh Panahi.
Through her Celluloid Nightmares genre label, Panahi is also selling Zak Hilditch’s critically acclaimed apocalyptic These Final Hours which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight.
Upcoming productions...
- 5/16/2014
- ScreenDaily
New films from Peter Webber, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Oliver Schmitz, Eran Kolirin.
A total of 39 features have been selected for Berlin’s co-production market (Feb 9-11).
Directors with work in the market include Peter Webber, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Oliver Schmitz, Eran Kolirin, Christos Georgiou, Erik Skjoldbjaerg and Nir Bergman.
All projects have 30% of their financing in place while budgets range from €700,000 to €6.5m.
This year’s Residency participants comprise Emir Baigazin, Alistair Banks Griffin, Bence Fliegauf, Sebastián Lelio, Elina Psykou and José Luis Valle. The participants will present new projects to potential partners at the co-production market.
The Talent Project Market will see ten new producers and directors primed for the international market. Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox featured last year, while Italian filmmaker Fabio Mollo’s Il Sud e Niente plays in this year’s Generation programme.
Five companies have been selected for the Company Matching programme and three more projects have been picked for the...
A total of 39 features have been selected for Berlin’s co-production market (Feb 9-11).
Directors with work in the market include Peter Webber, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Oliver Schmitz, Eran Kolirin, Christos Georgiou, Erik Skjoldbjaerg and Nir Bergman.
All projects have 30% of their financing in place while budgets range from €700,000 to €6.5m.
This year’s Residency participants comprise Emir Baigazin, Alistair Banks Griffin, Bence Fliegauf, Sebastián Lelio, Elina Psykou and José Luis Valle. The participants will present new projects to potential partners at the co-production market.
The Talent Project Market will see ten new producers and directors primed for the international market. Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox featured last year, while Italian filmmaker Fabio Mollo’s Il Sud e Niente plays in this year’s Generation programme.
Five companies have been selected for the Company Matching programme and three more projects have been picked for the...
- 1/10/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
New films by Krzysztof Zanussi, Merab Kokochashvili and Jan Cvitkovic are among the projects from Eastern Europe being presented at platforms in Warsaw, Brindisi and Cottbus in the coming weeks.
The CentEast Warsaw-Moscow initiative will be presenting nine ‘works in progress’ from Eastern Europe on October 18 as part of Warsaw Film Festival’s CentEast Market.
The showcase will then be repeated two days later on October 20 in Moscow as part of Project For Tomorrow and, in a new development, during the Beijing Film Market next April.
The nine ‘works in progress’ include:
veteran Polish film-maker Krzysztof Zanussi’s new feature the Polish-Italian-Russian co-production Foreign Body;
Ukrainian Oles Sanin’s $2m historical drama The Guide, previously presented at Odessa’s industry platform in July;
Alexander Mitta’s art film Chagall-Malevich, which is being handled internationally by Intercinema and was given a special promo-reel screening in Venice;
Romanian Dan Chisu’s sixth feature Bucharest Nonstop about four interconnected stories...
The CentEast Warsaw-Moscow initiative will be presenting nine ‘works in progress’ from Eastern Europe on October 18 as part of Warsaw Film Festival’s CentEast Market.
The showcase will then be repeated two days later on October 20 in Moscow as part of Project For Tomorrow and, in a new development, during the Beijing Film Market next April.
The nine ‘works in progress’ include:
veteran Polish film-maker Krzysztof Zanussi’s new feature the Polish-Italian-Russian co-production Foreign Body;
Ukrainian Oles Sanin’s $2m historical drama The Guide, previously presented at Odessa’s industry platform in July;
Alexander Mitta’s art film Chagall-Malevich, which is being handled internationally by Intercinema and was given a special promo-reel screening in Venice;
Romanian Dan Chisu’s sixth feature Bucharest Nonstop about four interconnected stories...
- 9/26/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Farmiga on Higher Ground: Religious dogma and the search for spiritual enlightenment Academy Award-nominated actress Vera Farmiga discussed issues such as religious dogma, the striving for spiritual enlightenment, and the making of Higher Ground, her first tryout as a director, while chatting with entertainment journalist Tim Cogshell. (Although Higher Ground was released in 2011, Cogshell's interview was just recently published on YouTube.) Please scroll down to check out the six-minute interview. For the most part set in Iowa from the '60s to the '80s, Higher Ground follows a young couple (Farmiga and Boyd Holbrook), who become enmeshed with a radical Christian denomination. Real life interferes, however, something that eventually makes Farmiga's character begin to question her beliefs in god. Loosely based on Carolyn Briggs' memoir This Dark World: A Story of Faith Found, the film as co-written by Briggs and Tim Metcalfe. It had its world premiere...
- 2/12/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
[1] If you happened to catch a screening of Attack the Block this summer, you probably walked away thinking the same thing we did: this John Boyega kid is going to be a huge star. Well, Boyega's now landed his first part since Attack the Block opened, and it sounds like a great one. He'll play the lead, Donnie, in HBO's series Da Brick, a fictionalized telling of the earliest days of Mike Tyson's boxing career. Spike Lee is set to direct the pilot episode from a script by John Ridley (Three Kings), and will also executive produce along with Tyson, Ridley, Jim Lefkowitz, and Entourage creator Doug Ellin. Da Brick centers around a young man in modern-day Newark, NJ who gets released from juvenile detention on his 18th birthday. The series will aim to deal with larger issues like "what it means to be a young, black man in...
- 9/1/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Disney's dance with "The Lone Ranger" just keeps getting trickier.
Deadline reports that Disney must accept the $215 million-ish budget that director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are presenting, or move forward without Verbinski... and, by extension, without Johnny Depp, who reportedly won't shoot the film without Verbinski behind the camera. Disney originally pulled the plug on "The Lone Ranger" because the budget got a bit too out of control, though last we heard they were negotiating. We'll keep you posted with further updates as soon as we have them.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Amy Adams To Run "The Orphanage"?
File this under rumors we'd love to see happen. Bloody Disgusting has learned that New Line is in talks with Amy Adams to play the lead role of Laura in their remake of "The Orphanage." "The Mothman Prophecies" director Mark Pellington is set to helm the project.
Deadline reports that Disney must accept the $215 million-ish budget that director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are presenting, or move forward without Verbinski... and, by extension, without Johnny Depp, who reportedly won't shoot the film without Verbinski behind the camera. Disney originally pulled the plug on "The Lone Ranger" because the budget got a bit too out of control, though last we heard they were negotiating. We'll keep you posted with further updates as soon as we have them.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Amy Adams To Run "The Orphanage"?
File this under rumors we'd love to see happen. Bloody Disgusting has learned that New Line is in talks with Amy Adams to play the lead role of Laura in their remake of "The Orphanage." "The Mothman Prophecies" director Mark Pellington is set to helm the project.
- 9/1/2011
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
With the popularity and critical acclaim of HBO's "Game of Thrones," David Benioff and D. B. Weiss' adaptation of George R. R. Martin's "Fire And Ice" series of novels, it was only a matter time before we started seeing the vast array of acting talent on that show moving on to film projects during the production downtime, or after their stints have ended (we'll politely overlook Jason Momoa's "performance" in "Conan"). One of 'Thrones''s other stars, Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen on the show) has now scored a leading role in Nae Caranfil's period drama "Closer To The Moon" and will…...
- 9/1/2011
- The Playlist
Closer to the Moon already has a lot of things going for it. It’s got Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga cast in lead roles, an interesting story about Communism and bank robberies, and an experienced Romanian director named Nae Caranfil putting it all together. And now you can add to the pile of positives that they’ve managed to poach one of the standout actors from HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones for another lead role. This one is starting to look like a project to pay attention to. We already know that Strong will be playing Max Rosenthal, a former police officer who is implicated in a bank robbery and is forced to re-enact his crimes in a propaganda film produced by the Communist-era Romanian government before being put to death. And it’s old news to us that Farmiga will be playing the mother of his child, a...
- 8/31/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
All it takes is one great project to launch a career in Hollywood, and the people behind the hit HBO series Game of Thrones are starting to reap their rewards. Both Sean Bean and Peter Dinklage are now household names due to their badassness; Brian Kirk, one of the series' directors, is now attached to helm the blockbuster Thor 2; and now British actor Harry Lloyd, who played Viserys Targaryen on the show, has landed a new film role. Deadline reports that Lloyd is now set to star with Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon. Directed by Nae Caranfil, the film is a period piece about a "Jewish group of former anti-Nazi revolutionaries" who try to rob a bank while pretending to set up a film shoot. Caught and sentenced to death, the group is forced to reenact their plot for a propaganda film. Lloyd will...
- 8/31/2011
- cinemablend.com
I’m fairly confident that all casting for The Great Gatsby from this point on will only be for smaller characters, with every addition over the past few weeks not feeling like anything too momentous. This is only continuing, as Variety has learned that Callan McAuliffe is set to play a young Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann‘s 3D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
Previous film credits for McAuliffe include a lead role in Rob Reiner‘s Flipped, in addition to I Am Number Four. If this is similar to the original text, then his scenes should be small, serving more of a thematic purpose than a narrative one for Leonardo DiCaprio‘s older version of Gatsby. The cast also includes Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth DeBicki, Jack Thompson, and Kim Knuckey. With production set to begin next month, it’s expected to open in November 2012.
Meanwhile,...
Previous film credits for McAuliffe include a lead role in Rob Reiner‘s Flipped, in addition to I Am Number Four. If this is similar to the original text, then his scenes should be small, serving more of a thematic purpose than a narrative one for Leonardo DiCaprio‘s older version of Gatsby. The cast also includes Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth DeBicki, Jack Thompson, and Kim Knuckey. With production set to begin next month, it’s expected to open in November 2012.
Meanwhile,...
- 8/31/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
British actor Harry Lloyd, best known for playing white-haired Viserys Targaryen in HBO's "Game of Thrones" and Will Scarlett in the BBC's "Robin Hood", has scored the lead role in Nae Caranfil's period drama "Closer To The Moon" says Deadline.
Set in 1959 Bucharest, the story follows a group of Jewish former revolutionaries who're now united against the communists. After being sentenced to death for robbing a bank under the guise of staging a film shoot, they're first forced to reenact the caper for a propaganda film.
Lloyd plays a cameraman recruited to shoot that film and falls in love with Vera Farmiga's character who has a child with one of the men sentenced to die (Mark Strong).
Shooting kicks off early fall in Bucharest and Michael Fitzgerald is producing.
Set in 1959 Bucharest, the story follows a group of Jewish former revolutionaries who're now united against the communists. After being sentenced to death for robbing a bank under the guise of staging a film shoot, they're first forced to reenact the caper for a propaganda film.
Lloyd plays a cameraman recruited to shoot that film and falls in love with Vera Farmiga's character who has a child with one of the men sentenced to die (Mark Strong).
Shooting kicks off early fall in Bucharest and Michael Fitzgerald is producing.
- 8/31/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: British thesp Harry Lloyd has landed the lead role in Closer to the Moon, joining Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong in the period drama. The film’s set in 1959 Bucharest, where a Jewish group of former anti-Nazi revolutionaries refocus their skills against the communists and are arrested for robbing a bank under the guise of staging a film shoot. A year later, the culprits are sentenced to death but first are forced to reenact the caper in a propaganda film. Lloyd plays a cameraman recruited to shoot that film. He falls in love with the character played by Farmiga, who has a child with one of the men (Strong) sentenced to die. Nae Caranfil is directing the film, which shoots early fall in Bucharest. Michael Fitzgerald is producing. Lloyd’s Game of Thrones character, the wannabe king Viserys Targaryen, suffered one of the most shocking deaths on that series...
- 8/31/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:
Closer to the Moon – Vera Farminga teams up with Mark Strong in this eastern European-set heist drama from Romanian director Nae Caranfil. Farminga plays the ex-girlfriend of Strong's corrupt cop character who stages a phony film shoot at a bank as a cover to rob the place.
Man of Tai Chi – Whoa, guess what Keanu Reeves really wants to do, dude? The Matrix star is stepping behind the camera for the first time in this U.S.-Chinese co-production set up at China Film Group and Village Roadshow. Reeves will direct and star in the project opposite established stunt guy Tiger Hu Chen.
Quantum Hoops – Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films has optioned this 2007 documentary about the losingest team in college basketball – The CalTech Beavers, who went 21 seasons without winning a single game. Moneyball scribe Stan Chervin is adapting the screenplay.
Guardians of the Galaxy – As if the all-star superhero line-up of The Avengers wasn't enough for comics giant Marvel, the studio is also prepping a feature film based on their stable of lesser-known stars, a team originally made-up of such out-of-this-world characters like Vance Astro, Charlie-27, Aleta Ogord, Martinex and Yondu, who never quite reached the level of fame that, say, Captain America, The Hulk or Thor did.
Motor City – Albert Hughes directs this jailhouse revenge thriller written by Chad St. John. Joel Silver produces.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
Closer to the Moon – Vera Farminga teams up with Mark Strong in this eastern European-set heist drama from Romanian director Nae Caranfil. Farminga plays the ex-girlfriend of Strong's corrupt cop character who stages a phony film shoot at a bank as a cover to rob the place.
Man of Tai Chi – Whoa, guess what Keanu Reeves really wants to do, dude? The Matrix star is stepping behind the camera for the first time in this U.S.-Chinese co-production set up at China Film Group and Village Roadshow. Reeves will direct and star in the project opposite established stunt guy Tiger Hu Chen.
Quantum Hoops – Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films has optioned this 2007 documentary about the losingest team in college basketball – The CalTech Beavers, who went 21 seasons without winning a single game. Moneyball scribe Stan Chervin is adapting the screenplay.
Guardians of the Galaxy – As if the all-star superhero line-up of The Avengers wasn't enough for comics giant Marvel, the studio is also prepping a feature film based on their stable of lesser-known stars, a team originally made-up of such out-of-this-world characters like Vance Astro, Charlie-27, Aleta Ogord, Martinex and Yondu, who never quite reached the level of fame that, say, Captain America, The Hulk or Thor did.
Motor City – Albert Hughes directs this jailhouse revenge thriller written by Chad St. John. Joel Silver produces.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
- 8/12/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
Rose Byrne is headed into the forest for a role in "The Place Beyond The Pines."
The "X-Men: First Class" actress will be replacing Greta Gerwig as the wife of Bradley Cooper's character, a police officer turned politician, Vulture is reporting. "The Place Beyond The Pines," which also stars Ryan Gosling, is currently filming in Schenectady. "Blue Valentine's" Derek Cianfrance is directing the crime drama.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Three More For "Game Of Thrones"
The casting news for "Game of Thrones" season two continues with one major and two minor roles being filled. Author George R.R. Martin announced that Michael McElhatton will be playing Roose Bolton, who has a major role to play in Arya's storyline in season two. Martin also revealed that Ben Crompton will be playing the role of Dolorous Edd Tollett, a man of the Night's Watch...
The "X-Men: First Class" actress will be replacing Greta Gerwig as the wife of Bradley Cooper's character, a police officer turned politician, Vulture is reporting. "The Place Beyond The Pines," which also stars Ryan Gosling, is currently filming in Schenectady. "Blue Valentine's" Derek Cianfrance is directing the crime drama.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Three More For "Game Of Thrones"
The casting news for "Game of Thrones" season two continues with one major and two minor roles being filled. Author George R.R. Martin announced that Michael McElhatton will be playing Roose Bolton, who has a major role to play in Arya's storyline in season two. Martin also revealed that Ben Crompton will be playing the role of Dolorous Edd Tollett, a man of the Night's Watch...
- 8/10/2011
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
If I had to name a couple current actors that deserve to be huge stars but haven’t quite gotten to that level, Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong would both be up at the top of that list. They both have been getting a lot of jobs lately, and both of them always do strong work in every job they take, but they’re not quite there when it comes to star power. Farmiga has had high profile roles in movies like The Departed, Up in the Air, and Source Code, and Strong has impressed in big movies like Sherlock Holmes and Green Lantern while simultaneously appearing in quirkier films like Sunshine and Kick-Ass. They both have familiar faces and a lot of momentum behind their careers; but if you mention their names to random people on the street, generally they wouldn’t know who you’re talking about. Despite that, either...
- 8/9/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids) is replacing Greta Gerwig in Derek Cianfrance's dramatic thriller The Place Beyond the Pines where she will join Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta and Ben Mendelson. In the film Gosling plays Luke, a professional motorcycle rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, but when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer their violent confrontation spirals into a tense generational feud. The film began shooting two weeks ago in Schenectady and is the reason photos such as the one to the right (via NY Daily News) of Gosling-gone-blonde began popping up online. [Vulture]
Vera Farmiga is set to star with Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon, a period drama set in communist Romania to be directed by Romanian helmer Nae Caranfil. In the film Strong will star as Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for...
Vera Farmiga is set to star with Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon, a period drama set in communist Romania to be directed by Romanian helmer Nae Caranfil. In the film Strong will star as Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for...
- 8/9/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Oscar-nominated Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) has signed on along British character actor Mark Strong to star in communist bank-robber drama Closer To The Moon directed by Romanian helmer Nae Caranfil and produced by Michael Fitzgerald (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – no word on whether Tommy Lee Jones is involved). The story [...]
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- 8/9/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Vera Farmiga is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading ladies. Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in "Up in the Air", and "Green Lantern's" Mark Strong, are going to star opposite each other in "Closer to the Moon", reports Deadline. The movie which, produced by Michael Fitzgerald, is a period drama set in communist Romania.
The Oscar nominated actress is to play Strong's former lover and mother of his child in the drama. Meanwhile Strong's character Max Rosenthal is "a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie."
But that's not all. Because they are Jews, the are sentenced to death, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film.
Nae Caranfil will be directing the film,...
The Oscar nominated actress is to play Strong's former lover and mother of his child in the drama. Meanwhile Strong's character Max Rosenthal is "a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie."
But that's not all. Because they are Jews, the are sentenced to death, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film.
Nae Caranfil will be directing the film,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Crystal Bell
- Huffington Post
Though we recently saw the trailer for her first venture behind the camera as director of the religious family drama Higher Ground, actress Vera Farmiga is still keeping busy in front of the camera. She recently finished shooting the action thriller Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, but now Deadline reports she's booked a new role in Closer to the Moon, a period drama set in communist Russia with Mark Strong also starring. Romanian filmmaker Nae Caranfil will direct the film which is slated to begin production sometime in the early fall on location in Bucharest. Story details below! The film follows Strong as Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie. They are tried and sentenced to ...
- 8/9/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Closer to the Moon is the next project for accalimed Romanian director Nae Caranfil and tonight the two lead actors have been announced, names which will guarantee a lot of interest for the production.
According to Deadline Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga have signed on to star in the period drama about a former Bucharest police officer who robbed a bank under the pretence of filming a movie and are then made to re-enact the robbert for a propaganda film. Farmiga plays Strong’s former partner and mother of his child who returns during the incident. It’s an odd sounding tale but Strong and Farmiga have chosen some interesting projects in recent years with Strong’s forthcoming slate comprising of John Carter, Black Gold and Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy while Farmiga has Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds as well as the leading role in Robert Connolly...
According to Deadline Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga have signed on to star in the period drama about a former Bucharest police officer who robbed a bank under the pretence of filming a movie and are then made to re-enact the robbert for a propaganda film. Farmiga plays Strong’s former partner and mother of his child who returns during the incident. It’s an odd sounding tale but Strong and Farmiga have chosen some interesting projects in recent years with Strong’s forthcoming slate comprising of John Carter, Black Gold and Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy while Farmiga has Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds as well as the leading role in Robert Connolly...
- 8/9/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Briefly: Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong are going to Romania. The two have just been cast in a period story set in the country's communist era. Closer to the Moon will feature the two actors in a politically-charged and strange-sounding tale that, given the insanity that reportedly took place in some Easern Bloc countries during the communist years, could almost be true. Mark Strong will be Max Rosenthal, once a Bucharest cop and leader of a criminal investigation unity. He and four other men, all Jews, rob a bank right under the nose of onlookers, using a great cover story: "we're shooting a movie!" (Cinematic immunity to the rescue, as always.) The crew is captured, tried and sentenced to death, with the strict sentence derived in part from their Jewish heritage. But before being killed they have to re-enact their heist for a government propaganda film. Farmiga will be "Max's...
- 8/9/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
According to deadline the ever sinister Mark Strong and the ever beautiful Vera Farmiga are going to star in the upcoming film Closer To The Moon. The film is being directed by Nae Caranfil is directing, and here's the synopsis that Dl gave:
Strong plays Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie. They are tried and sentenced to death because they are Jews, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film. Farmiga plays Max's former lover and mother of his child, who returns from studying in Moscow as the drama unfolds.
The film has a great cast and what sounds like a great story. We will see how this develops. Production begins early fall in Bucharest.
Strong plays Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie. They are tried and sentenced to death because they are Jews, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film. Farmiga plays Max's former lover and mother of his child, who returns from studying in Moscow as the drama unfolds.
The film has a great cast and what sounds like a great story. We will see how this develops. Production begins early fall in Bucharest.
- 8/9/2011
- by rpmcmurphy
- GeekTyrant
Vera Farmiga ("Up in the Air") and Mark Strong ("Sherlock Holmes") have joined Nae Caranfil's Russia-set period drama "Closer to the Moon" reports Deadline.
Strong plays Max Rosenthal, the former head of a Bucharest police criminal investigation unit. He and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie.
The group are tried and sentenced to death, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film.
Farmiga plays Max's former lover and mother of his child, who returns from studying in Moscow. Michael Fitzgerald is producing and shooting begins in the early Fall in Bucharest.
Strong plays Max Rosenthal, the former head of a Bucharest police criminal investigation unit. He and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie.
The group are tried and sentenced to death, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film.
Farmiga plays Max's former lover and mother of his child, who returns from studying in Moscow. Michael Fitzgerald is producing and shooting begins in the early Fall in Bucharest.
- 8/9/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Two powerhouses, Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong, are going to star opposite each other in "Closer to the Moon". Per Deadline, the movie which is produced by Michael Fitzgerald is a period drama set in communist Romania.
The Oscar nominated actress is to play Strong's former lover and mother of his child in the drama. Strong's character Max Rosenthal is "a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie."
Due to their Jewish roots, the gang are tried and sentenced to death, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film. Farmiga's character returns from studying in Moscow as it happens.
Romanian film director and screenwriter Nae Caranfil is taking the directing duty and production will begin early this fall in Bucharest.
The Oscar nominated actress is to play Strong's former lover and mother of his child in the drama. Strong's character Max Rosenthal is "a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie."
Due to their Jewish roots, the gang are tried and sentenced to death, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film. Farmiga's character returns from studying in Moscow as it happens.
Romanian film director and screenwriter Nae Caranfil is taking the directing duty and production will begin early this fall in Bucharest.
- 8/9/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Deadline is reporting actress Vera Farmiga will star alongside Mark Strong in the period drama “Closer to the Moon.” Strong plays Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force set in a communist Romania. He leads a group of Jewish criminals to commit to a bank robbery and reassures the public they were filming a movie. Upon capture, they are sentenced to death because they are Jews after they forced them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film. Farmiga plays Max’s former lover and the mother of his child. She was best known in films such as “Up in the Air,” and “The Departed.” She will be seen in the upcoming film “Safe House” with Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington. “Closer to the Moon” will be directed by Nae Caranfil (“The Rest is Silence,” “Philanthropy”). The production will begin in Bucharest in the fall.
- 8/9/2011
- LRMonline.com
Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong, two actors you can't help but adore in pretty much anything they do, are about to make a powerhouse duo in Closer to the Moon, an upcoming period drama set in Communist Romania. According to Deadline, the actors will play lovers in a fairly complicated story about a group of five Jewish men who pulled off a bank robbery under the cover of making a movie; the conspirators were sentenced to death thanks to their religion, but were also forced to re-enact the crime for the sake of a propaganda film. Strong plays one of the robbers, while Farmiga plays his partner and the mother of his child, who returns from her studies in Moscow once the crime goes down. Nae Caranfil, the director behind the 2007 Romanian drama The Rest is Silence, will start production in Bucharest in early fall, though presumably Closer to the...
- 8/9/2011
- cinemablend.com
Exclusive: Up in the Air star Vera Farmiga is set to star with Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon, a period drama set in communist Romania. Nae Caranfil is directing, and production begins early fall in Bucharest. Strong plays Max Rosenthal, a former head of a criminal investigation unit for the Bucharest police force after he and four prominent Jews pulled off a bank robbery while assuring the crowds they were filming a movie. They are tried and sentenced to death because they are Jews, but only after the communist government forces them to re-enact their crime in a propaganda film. Farmiga plays Max's former lover and mother of his child, who returns from studying in Moscow as the drama unfolds. Michael Fitzgerald is producing. Farmiga's directorial debut, Higher Ground, will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in late August. She most recently starred in Source Code and Henry's Crime,...
- 8/9/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Vera Farmiga remained one of the more eclectic actresses working today shifting easily from large-budget studio releases like Source Code to independent fare like Henry’s Crime opposite Keanu Reeves. Farmiga kept up her diverse work schedule by boarding the next drama from Romanian filmmaker Nae Caranfil. Deadline reported today that Farmiga signed on to co-star with British actor Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon, set in Communist era Bucharest. Strong boarded the project to play Max, a Jewish man and former criminal investigator who robs a bank with four other prominent Jewish men while convincing bystanders they are filming a movie, with Farmiga co-starring as Max’s former lover and the mother of his child. Caranfil last directed The Rest is Silence, about the making of the 1911 film Romania’s Independence, and the comedy Philanthropy.
- 8/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Vera Farmiga remained one of the more eclectic actresses working today shifting easily from large-budget studio releases like Source Code to independent fare like Henry’s Crime opposite Keanu Reeves. Farmiga kept up her diverse work schedule by boarding the next drama from Romanian filmmaker Nae Caranfil. Deadline reported today that Farmiga signed on to co-star with British actor Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon, set in Communist era Bucharest. Strong boarded the project to play Max, a Jewish man and former criminal investigator who robs a bank with four other prominent Jewish men while convincing bystanders they are filming a movie, with Farmiga co-starring as Max’s former lover and the mother of his child. Caranfil last directed The Rest is Silence, about the making of the 1911 film Romania’s Independence, and the comedy Philanthropy.
- 8/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Vera Farmiga remained one of the more eclectic actresses working today shifting easily from large-budget studio releases like Source Code to independent fare like Henry’s Crime opposite Keanu Reeves. Farmiga kept up her diverse work schedule by boarding the next drama from Romanian filmmaker Nae Caranfil. Deadline reported today that Farmiga signed on to co-star with British actor Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon, set in Communist era Bucharest. Strong boarded the project to play Max, a Jewish man and former criminal investigator who robs a bank with four other prominent Jewish men while convincing bystanders they are filming a movie, with Farmiga co-starring as Max’s former lover and the mother of his child. Caranfil last directed The Rest is Silence, about the making of the 1911 film Romania’s Independence, and the comedy Philanthropy.
- 8/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
2010 has been another good year for Romanian cinema. Lots of awards and many new young directors that confirmed films like 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu or Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective weren't accidents. As some people call it, the "Romanian New Wave", continued to gain the world’s attention at film festivals through 2010, featuring new filmmakers that have just made their first feature film. Florin Şerban’s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Bogdan George Apetri’s Periferic or Marian Crişan’s Morgen are among the highlights of the year. For the next year, there are many films waiting an international film festival and domestic release: Adrian Sitaru’s second feature From Love, with Best Intentions (Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune intenții), Virgil Nicolaescu’s The Godmother (Nașa), Alexandru Maftei’s Hello! How are you? (Bună! Ce faci?), Cătălin Mitulescu’s second feature Loverboy, another...
- 1/5/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
In 2010, filmmakers Mihai Ionescu and Tiberiu Iordan will have completed their first feature film. In June, at Moscow Film Festival, their movie – Different Mothers (Despre alte mame) – received the Award of the International Film Club's Federation. This Friday, the film will be released domestically in Romania. Different Mothers is based on a true story that happened to polish movie director Krzysztof Kieslowski during the filming Dworzec (Station). Kieslowski and his small team were filming in a railway station during the night for a documentary when the police came and asked them for their footage to see if it can be used as evidence in a criminal case. What Kieslowski filmed couldn’t help the police at all. But the Polish director started to think a lot about “What if… the police found something useful? What if… I had moved the camera a little to the left and not to the right?...
- 11/1/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Prabhat Chitra Mandal is organizing a film festival of contemporary Romanian films in Mumbai, in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies in India (Ffsi).
The Rest Is Silence (2008) directed by Nae Caranfil will be screened on 23rd August, Monday. On 26th August, Thursday, The Survivor directed by Serqiu Nicolaesca will be screened. Both these screenings will take place at 6:30 pm.
On 30th August, Monday, two films will be shown. Crossing Dates (2008) directed by AnCa Damien will be screened at 6:30 pm while The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) directed by Radu Muntean at 8.10pm. Rangswar at the fourth floor of Chavan Centre will be the venue for all screenings.
This month onwards, Prabhat Chitra Mandal will also screen a regional film at Dadar Matunga Cultural Centre. The first film is this series is ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ by Ritwik Ghatak which will be screened at 6:30 pm on 17th August.
The Rest Is Silence (2008) directed by Nae Caranfil will be screened on 23rd August, Monday. On 26th August, Thursday, The Survivor directed by Serqiu Nicolaesca will be screened. Both these screenings will take place at 6:30 pm.
On 30th August, Monday, two films will be shown. Crossing Dates (2008) directed by AnCa Damien will be screened at 6:30 pm while The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) directed by Radu Muntean at 8.10pm. Rangswar at the fourth floor of Chavan Centre will be the venue for all screenings.
This month onwards, Prabhat Chitra Mandal will also screen a regional film at Dadar Matunga Cultural Centre. The first film is this series is ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ by Ritwik Ghatak which will be screened at 6:30 pm on 17th August.
- 8/14/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A record 67 countries have submitted films for consideration for best foreign-language film for the 81st Academy Awards, Academy president Sid Ganis said Friday. Nominations will be announced on Thursday, Jan. 22, and the awards will be presented on Sunday, Feb. 22.
The complete list of foreign-language submissions follows. For more details on some of the films, visit THR.com/foreignoscars.
Afghanistan, "Opium War," Siddiq Barmak
Albania, "The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider," Piro Milkani and Eno Milkani
Algeria, "Masquerades," Lyes Salem
Argentina, "Lion's Den," Pablo Trapero
Austria, "Revanche," Gotz Spielmann
Azerbaijan, "Fortress," Shamil Nacafzada
Bangladesh, "Aha!," Enamul Karim Nirjhar
Belgium, "Eldorado," Bouli Lanners
Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Snow," Aida Begic
Brazil, "Last Stop 174," Bruno Barreto
Bulgaria, "Zift," Javor Gardev
Canada, "The Necessities of Life," Benoit Pilon
Chile, "Tony Manero," Pablo Larrain
China, "Dream Weavers," Jun Gu
Colombia, "Dog Eat Dog," Carlos Moreno
Croatia, "No One's Son," Arsen Anton Ostojic
Czech Republic, "The Karamazovs," Petr Zelenka
Denmark,...
The complete list of foreign-language submissions follows. For more details on some of the films, visit THR.com/foreignoscars.
Afghanistan, "Opium War," Siddiq Barmak
Albania, "The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider," Piro Milkani and Eno Milkani
Algeria, "Masquerades," Lyes Salem
Argentina, "Lion's Den," Pablo Trapero
Austria, "Revanche," Gotz Spielmann
Azerbaijan, "Fortress," Shamil Nacafzada
Bangladesh, "Aha!," Enamul Karim Nirjhar
Belgium, "Eldorado," Bouli Lanners
Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Snow," Aida Begic
Brazil, "Last Stop 174," Bruno Barreto
Bulgaria, "Zift," Javor Gardev
Canada, "The Necessities of Life," Benoit Pilon
Chile, "Tony Manero," Pablo Larrain
China, "Dream Weavers," Jun Gu
Colombia, "Dog Eat Dog," Carlos Moreno
Croatia, "No One's Son," Arsen Anton Ostojic
Czech Republic, "The Karamazovs," Petr Zelenka
Denmark,...
- 10/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- So far, about one third (35 countries to be exact) of the 96 invited to submit their entry for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Picture category have done so. While tomorrow's list will beef up the finally tally, there are three pictures that first caught everyone's attention at Cannes this year that are destined to make it to the final five. After last year's fiasco (the exclusion of Persepolis and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days), I'm hoping that this year's measures (a new voting system broken into phases) will make sure that voting members don't mess up once again and If I'd had to handicap the race this early on, I'd say The Class, Gomorra and Waltz with Bashir -- all films that are currently being showcased at the 46th Nyff, will each be considered as top tier noms. I'd also love to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys in
- 9/30/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- France has just announced their selection for the Oscar's Best Foreign picture category and there's no doubt that the Palme d'or winner will make it from the round of 96 down to the final five list of nominees. Variety reports that Thierry Fremaux, Alain Terzian, Jeanne Moreau, and filmmakers Jean-Jacques Annaud, Costa-Gavras and Regis Wargnier selected Laurent Cantet's schoolyard/classroom drama to rep La France. Sony Pictures Classics showcases The Class as the opening film of the upcoming New York Film Festival and in select markets starting December 12th. Here are some of the films that have been selected by their respective countries so far...submissions occur Oct. 1st, the nominations will be announced Jan. 22nd. Austria: Gotz Spielmann's Revanche Belgium: Bouli Lanners's Eldorado Brazil: Bruno Barreto's Last Stop 174 Canada: Benoit Pilon’s Necessities Of Life (Ce Qu’il Faut Pour Vivre)Denmark: Niels Arden Oplev's
- 9/19/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
The biggest budget movie ever made in Romanian history played for free at Telluride 2008 today. Nae Caranfil is the central figure of the current Romanian film renaissance (they call him "The Dean"). The Rest is Silence is a period piece loosely based on the true story of Grigore "Grig" Brezianu's determination to create of the first epic Romanian movie and establish cinema as an art form. The War of Independence (1912) is about the Romanians war with the Turks, made about 35 years after the fact. According to Caranafil, the monarch at the time offered Grig 80,000 soldiers for his production. It's Bucharest in 1911. Live theater reigns supreme ...
- 8/31/2008
- by Paul Moore
- Spout
Directors David Fincher and Jan Troell and actress Jean Simmons will trek this weekend to the Rockies, where each will be feted with a tribute at the 35th Telluride Film Festival.
The pocket-size festival, which traditionally doesn't reveal its lineup until the last minute, gets under way today in the Colorado mountain town and runs through Monday. Despite the all-American locale, this year's event will have an especially international feel.
"Internationally, this has been another terrific year," Gary Meyer, who serves as fest director along with Tom Luddy, said of the lineup the two have assembled.
The only soft spot might be the U.S. component.
"The trend that all the fall festivals are facing," Meyer said, "is that because of the writers strike, a lot of high-profile American films that might have been available just aren't going to be ready in time."
That, in turn, could affect the way...
The pocket-size festival, which traditionally doesn't reveal its lineup until the last minute, gets under way today in the Colorado mountain town and runs through Monday. Despite the all-American locale, this year's event will have an especially international feel.
"Internationally, this has been another terrific year," Gary Meyer, who serves as fest director along with Tom Luddy, said of the lineup the two have assembled.
The only soft spot might be the U.S. component.
"The trend that all the fall festivals are facing," Meyer said, "is that because of the writers strike, a lot of high-profile American films that might have been available just aren't going to be ready in time."
That, in turn, could affect the way...
- 8/28/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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