Long-time chief critic and reviews editor will also roll out the trade magazine’s new talent programme.
Screen International has promoted Fionnuala Halligan to executive editor, reviews and new talent, formalising the responsibility for developing its new talent ‘Stars’ programme globally alongside her long-term roles as chief film critic and reviews editor.
Halligan, whose association with Screen dates to the late 1990s, will take up the position immediately.
Joining her as deputy reviews editor is Nikki Baughan, who has worked with Screen International as contributing editor since 2016.
Halligan has been building Screen’s reviews desk for the last seven years,...
Screen International has promoted Fionnuala Halligan to executive editor, reviews and new talent, formalising the responsibility for developing its new talent ‘Stars’ programme globally alongside her long-term roles as chief film critic and reviews editor.
Halligan, whose association with Screen dates to the late 1990s, will take up the position immediately.
Joining her as deputy reviews editor is Nikki Baughan, who has worked with Screen International as contributing editor since 2016.
Halligan has been building Screen’s reviews desk for the last seven years,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The event celebrated up-and-coming talent.
Unifrance and Screen International held a dinner to celebrate up-and-coming French talent on May 25 at Le Studio, Cannes.
Back in January, 10 filmmakers and actors were selected by international journalists Lisa Nesselson (Screen International), Fabien Lemercier (Cineuropa), Elsa Keslassy (Variety) and Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) as the most audacious, diverse, fresh and committed new French talents to watch in 2022.
Take a look at a selection of photos from the evening above.
The selected 10 are:
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (director) Alice Diop (writer/director) Arthur Harari (actor/filmmaker) Karim Leklou (actor) Déborah Lukumuena (actor) Rabah Nait Oufella (actor...
Unifrance and Screen International held a dinner to celebrate up-and-coming French talent on May 25 at Le Studio, Cannes.
Back in January, 10 filmmakers and actors were selected by international journalists Lisa Nesselson (Screen International), Fabien Lemercier (Cineuropa), Elsa Keslassy (Variety) and Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) as the most audacious, diverse, fresh and committed new French talents to watch in 2022.
Take a look at a selection of photos from the evening above.
The selected 10 are:
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (director) Alice Diop (writer/director) Arthur Harari (actor/filmmaker) Karim Leklou (actor) Déborah Lukumuena (actor) Rabah Nait Oufella (actor...
- 6/1/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Critics reviewing for 10 international outlets will join Screen’s own reviewing team to give their verdicts on each of the 21 films in Competition.
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2022 Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28).
Critics reviewing for 10 international outlets will join Screen’s own reviewing team to give their verdicts on each of the 21 films in Competition for the Palme d’Or this year.
This year Screen’s long-term Russian contributor to the jury, Anton Dolin, will be joined by his Ukrainian counterpart, Nataliia Serebriakova. Both have had to leave their...
Screen International has revealed its critics for the jury grid that will run throughout the 2022 Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28).
Critics reviewing for 10 international outlets will join Screen’s own reviewing team to give their verdicts on each of the 21 films in Competition for the Palme d’Or this year.
This year Screen’s long-term Russian contributor to the jury, Anton Dolin, will be joined by his Ukrainian counterpart, Nataliia Serebriakova. Both have had to leave their...
- 5/12/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Analyzing the commercial failure of a movie 30 years after its release might not do much, if anything, to offset the film’s financial losses. In the case of Luis Puenzo’s failed big-budget 1992 adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Plague,” perhaps there’s a streamer presentation that might perform a minor financial resuscitation on its P&l for Canal Plus and Gaumont. But given its subject matter, “The Plague” is more valuable as an instructive story illustrating the maxim, “Timing is everything.”
Puenzo’s sober, subdued take on Camus’ trenchant blend of natural catastrophe and political evil might find a more ready audience today, in this time of a pandemic accompanied by strange global political rumblings. In 1992, only a decade after the AIDS pandemic hit, important filmmakers were just beginning to address the tragic dimensions of the outbreak.
Jonathan Demme’s 1993 multi-Oscar winner “Philadelphia,” was also probably a better match for the times.
Puenzo’s sober, subdued take on Camus’ trenchant blend of natural catastrophe and political evil might find a more ready audience today, in this time of a pandemic accompanied by strange global political rumblings. In 1992, only a decade after the AIDS pandemic hit, important filmmakers were just beginning to address the tragic dimensions of the outbreak.
Jonathan Demme’s 1993 multi-Oscar winner “Philadelphia,” was also probably a better match for the times.
- 1/14/2022
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
The cluelessly arrogant secret agent with a name as silly as his retrograde attitudes — Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka agent Oss 117 — is back in Oss 117: From Africa With Love. Everybody loves a secret agent, even a demonstrably buffoonish one, and versatile Jean Dujardin is a deadpan delight as the staunchly patriotic Frenchman whose adventures were last on the big screen in 2009’s Oss 117: Lost In Rio and 2006’s Oss 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies.
Michel Hazanavicius — for whom Dujardin starred in 2011’s five-time Oscar winner The Artist — directed the previous Oss entries. Taking the reins here is talented multi-hyphenate Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Epoque), and while the result is not consistently as funny as the first two installments, this is an entertaining popcorn movie that’s also a healthy satire of imperialist self-assurance, perhaps best summed up by Hubert’s sincere belief that everybody on Earth wishes they were French.
Michel Hazanavicius — for whom Dujardin starred in 2011’s five-time Oscar winner The Artist — directed the previous Oss entries. Taking the reins here is talented multi-hyphenate Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Epoque), and while the result is not consistently as funny as the first two installments, this is an entertaining popcorn movie that’s also a healthy satire of imperialist self-assurance, perhaps best summed up by Hubert’s sincere belief that everybody on Earth wishes they were French.
- 8/20/2021
- by Lisa Nesselson
- Deadline Film + TV
Reviews are beginning to trickle in for Woody Allen’s most recently completed film, “A Rainy Day in New York,” which is headed for theaters in a handful of European countries, including Greece, the Netherlands, and Poland. While the film was originally slated to open in the U.S. from Amazon Studios as part of their four-picture production pact with the disgraced auteur, Amazon dropped the film in the wake of increased attention paid to Allen’s sexual assault allegations, brought upon him by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, dating back to 1992. Allen is currently suing Amazon to the tune of $68 million.
The 83-year-old director/writer’s 49th film and first since 2017’s “Wonder Wheel” — released by Amazon before the studio dumped Allen — “A Rainy Day in New York” stars Timothée Chalamet as the unfortunately-monikered Gatsby Welles, a student at Yardley College torn between his journalist girlfriend Ashleigh (Elle Fanning...
The 83-year-old director/writer’s 49th film and first since 2017’s “Wonder Wheel” — released by Amazon before the studio dumped Allen — “A Rainy Day in New York” stars Timothée Chalamet as the unfortunately-monikered Gatsby Welles, a student at Yardley College torn between his journalist girlfriend Ashleigh (Elle Fanning...
- 8/29/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Sidebar winners directed by Nicolas Pariser and Rebecca Zlotowski.
Nicolas Pariser’s drama Alice And The Mayor and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl have scooped the top prizes at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The selection is non-competitive but there are a number of partner prizes.
Pariser’s intelligent comedy-drama, starring Veteran French actor Fabrice Luchini as a jaded mayor, who seeks the advice of a brilliant young philosopher, played by Anaïs Demoustier, won the Europa Cinema Label for best European film.
It was decided by a jury of four exhibitors from the pan-European network.
“Our selection of Alice And The Mayor was a unanimous one,...
Nicolas Pariser’s drama Alice And The Mayor and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl have scooped the top prizes at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The selection is non-competitive but there are a number of partner prizes.
Pariser’s intelligent comedy-drama, starring Veteran French actor Fabrice Luchini as a jaded mayor, who seeks the advice of a brilliant young philosopher, played by Anaïs Demoustier, won the Europa Cinema Label for best European film.
It was decided by a jury of four exhibitors from the pan-European network.
“Our selection of Alice And The Mayor was a unanimous one,...
- 5/23/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
It is the first time a feature-length animation has won prestigious Cannes parallel selection.
French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin’s feature-length animation I Lost My Body has scooped the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics Week, the prestigious parallel section aimed at emerging directors and showing shorts and first and second-time films.
It is the first time a feature-length animation has won the top prize at Critics’ Week since its launch in 1962.
Sold internationally by Paris-based Charades (which also sold last year’s winner Diamantino), it is about a severed hand which escapes from a laboratory refrigerator and sets off on an...
French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin’s feature-length animation I Lost My Body has scooped the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics Week, the prestigious parallel section aimed at emerging directors and showing shorts and first and second-time films.
It is the first time a feature-length animation has won the top prize at Critics’ Week since its launch in 1962.
Sold internationally by Paris-based Charades (which also sold last year’s winner Diamantino), it is about a severed hand which escapes from a laboratory refrigerator and sets off on an...
- 5/22/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
“Hello Yank, welcome to a very merry little war. And now how about a wee drop for the King and Uncle Sam?”
The 1927 silent classic Wings will screen at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) April 14th at 7:30pm. Wings will be accompanied by an original score by the Prima Vista Quartet. Tickets are $10.00
Ticket information can be found Here
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2844369
In 1927, the first Best Picture Oscar went to Wings, a thrilling silent WW1 drama from director William S. Wellman. Wings told the story of poor boy Jack (Charles Rogers) and rich boy David (Richard Arlen) who are in love with the same woman, which causes the two to become bitter enemies. When WW1 breaks out the two are thrown together and quickly become friends, although David is too nice to let Jack know that the girl back home doesn’t love him. Clara Bow...
The 1927 silent classic Wings will screen at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) April 14th at 7:30pm. Wings will be accompanied by an original score by the Prima Vista Quartet. Tickets are $10.00
Ticket information can be found Here
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2844369
In 1927, the first Best Picture Oscar went to Wings, a thrilling silent WW1 drama from director William S. Wellman. Wings told the story of poor boy Jack (Charles Rogers) and rich boy David (Richard Arlen) who are in love with the same woman, which causes the two to become bitter enemies. When WW1 breaks out the two are thrown together and quickly become friends, although David is too nice to let Jack know that the girl back home doesn’t love him. Clara Bow...
- 4/4/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ten Screen critics select their hidden film gems of the year.Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic
A Date For Mad Mary
Dir Darren Thornton
This big-hearted Irish romcom, which shared the top prize at Galway this summer, has all the smarts to hit with younger audiences should it get the chance. Just released from prison, surly, boozy Mary pines for her bridezilla Bff who has moved on. Now she needs a date for the wedding and rarely has someone looked for love with less interest. Thornton directs a scuzzily radiant Seana Kerslake as the miserably mad Mary, wildly unpredictable and widely misunderstood, in a film that feels like the love child of Weekend and Once.
Contact Mongrel International international@mongrelmedia.com
Tim Grierson, Senior Us critic
The Student
Dir Kirill Serebrennikov
The dangers of religious fervor overwhelming reason is the cauldron into which The Student drops its audience, taking us to a Russian high school where a Bible-quoting...
A Date For Mad Mary
Dir Darren Thornton
This big-hearted Irish romcom, which shared the top prize at Galway this summer, has all the smarts to hit with younger audiences should it get the chance. Just released from prison, surly, boozy Mary pines for her bridezilla Bff who has moved on. Now she needs a date for the wedding and rarely has someone looked for love with less interest. Thornton directs a scuzzily radiant Seana Kerslake as the miserably mad Mary, wildly unpredictable and widely misunderstood, in a film that feels like the love child of Weekend and Once.
Contact Mongrel International international@mongrelmedia.com
Tim Grierson, Senior Us critic
The Student
Dir Kirill Serebrennikov
The dangers of religious fervor overwhelming reason is the cauldron into which The Student drops its audience, taking us to a Russian high school where a Bible-quoting...
- 12/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Manchester By The Sea is second, while Moonlight sits third.
Maren Ade’s comedy Toni Erdmann has been crowned Screen’s critical darling of 2016, narrowly edging out Kenneth Lonergan’s drama Manchester By The Sea on this year’s critics’ poll.
While boths films amassed eighteen points (see below for an explanation of the points system), Toni Erdmann edged out its rival courtesy of having one extra top-place finish.
Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight was third on the overall list with 15 points, while Paul Verhoeven’s Elle was fourth with 12.
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land rounded out the top five with 10 points.
Screen critics’ top films of 2016 in full1) Toni Erdmann (18 points)
“Surprising, tense, funny, unsettling and uplifting,” Lee Marshall.
“A masterclass of building a film over time,” Sarah Ward.
“Superbly written and directed…Sandra Huller and Peter Simonischek both give revelatory performances,” Jonathan Romney.
2) Manchester By The Sea (18 points)
“A story of monumental heartbreak that just crackles...
Maren Ade’s comedy Toni Erdmann has been crowned Screen’s critical darling of 2016, narrowly edging out Kenneth Lonergan’s drama Manchester By The Sea on this year’s critics’ poll.
While boths films amassed eighteen points (see below for an explanation of the points system), Toni Erdmann edged out its rival courtesy of having one extra top-place finish.
Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight was third on the overall list with 15 points, while Paul Verhoeven’s Elle was fourth with 12.
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land rounded out the top five with 10 points.
Screen critics’ top films of 2016 in full1) Toni Erdmann (18 points)
“Surprising, tense, funny, unsettling and uplifting,” Lee Marshall.
“A masterclass of building a film over time,” Sarah Ward.
“Superbly written and directed…Sandra Huller and Peter Simonischek both give revelatory performances,” Jonathan Romney.
2) Manchester By The Sea (18 points)
“A story of monumental heartbreak that just crackles...
- 12/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
The honorary vice president of Fipresci has been a contributor to Screen for 15 years.
Long-standing contributor Dan Fainaru is to become critic-at-large for Screen International, a roving role which caps his 15-year relationship with the title.
Based in Israel, Fainaru has been a film critic for over 55 years and is honorary vice president of Fipresci. He has served as critic for Screen across the full range of international film festivals since he joined the tile.
His critic-at-large role will afford him the opportunity to assess and review titles outside the driver of Screen’s daily coverage at festivals. Formerly the director of the Israeli Film Institute, Fainaru edits Israel’s only film magazine, Cinematheque.
Screen International’s reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan said: “Dan’s knowledge and taste is unrivalled, and I am looking forward to working with him in this new capacity as he becomes an ambassador at large for Screen’s busy reviews desk.”
Screen International...
Long-standing contributor Dan Fainaru is to become critic-at-large for Screen International, a roving role which caps his 15-year relationship with the title.
Based in Israel, Fainaru has been a film critic for over 55 years and is honorary vice president of Fipresci. He has served as critic for Screen across the full range of international film festivals since he joined the tile.
His critic-at-large role will afford him the opportunity to assess and review titles outside the driver of Screen’s daily coverage at festivals. Formerly the director of the Israeli Film Institute, Fainaru edits Israel’s only film magazine, Cinematheque.
Screen International’s reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan said: “Dan’s knowledge and taste is unrivalled, and I am looking forward to working with him in this new capacity as he becomes an ambassador at large for Screen’s busy reviews desk.”
Screen International...
- 12/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
When Les Cowboys premiered in Cannes in the independent Directors' Fortnight section, the trades were, on the whole, upbeat. The Hollywood Reporter's Boyd van Hoeij called it a "promising feature debut of celebrated French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain." Lisa Nesselson took it up a notch in Screen, calling it "an exciting debut in every sense of the word." For Variety's Peter Debruge, Bidegain, "the muscle behind Jacques Audiard’s scripts," had made "a pared-down, elliptical art film that’s tough to watch, yet continues to haunt in the weeks that follow." But going by the latest reviews, it looks like the going will be tougher in New York. » - David Hudson...
- 9/30/2015
- Keyframe
When Les Cowboys premiered in Cannes in the independent Directors' Fortnight section, the trades were, on the whole, upbeat. The Hollywood Reporter's Boyd van Hoeij called it a "promising feature debut of celebrated French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain." Lisa Nesselson took it up a notch in Screen, calling it "an exciting debut in every sense of the word." For Variety's Peter Debruge, Bidegain, "the muscle behind Jacques Audiard’s scripts," had made "a pared-down, elliptical art film that’s tough to watch, yet continues to haunt in the weeks that follow." But going by the latest reviews, it looks like the going will be tougher in New York. » - David Hudson...
- 9/30/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Wendy Ide is to join Screen International’s reviews team as a critic at large.
She will start at Screen by reviewing titles at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival (Oct 1-10) in Korea, and will be based in London.
Ide was a film critic and feature writer for The Times for 11 years. Before that, she was a critic for The Sunday Herald, film editor of Dazed & Confused, a contributer to Elle and the programmer of the short film strand of the BFI London Film Festival.
She joins Screen’s UK-based reviews team of reviews editor and chief film critic Fionnuala Halligan, Allan Hunter and Charles Gant, and colleagues including senior Us critic Tim Grierson, based in Los Angeles, Lee Marshall in Rome and Lisa Nesselson in Paris.
“Wendy is an outstanding writer whose reviews I have long enjoyed reading - I am delighted to have her joining as a critic at large,” said [link=nm...
She will start at Screen by reviewing titles at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival (Oct 1-10) in Korea, and will be based in London.
Ide was a film critic and feature writer for The Times for 11 years. Before that, she was a critic for The Sunday Herald, film editor of Dazed & Confused, a contributer to Elle and the programmer of the short film strand of the BFI London Film Festival.
She joins Screen’s UK-based reviews team of reviews editor and chief film critic Fionnuala Halligan, Allan Hunter and Charles Gant, and colleagues including senior Us critic Tim Grierson, based in Los Angeles, Lee Marshall in Rome and Lisa Nesselson in Paris.
“Wendy is an outstanding writer whose reviews I have long enjoyed reading - I am delighted to have her joining as a critic at large,” said [link=nm...
- 9/15/2015
- ScreenDaily
Variety's Peter Debruge on Marguerite, premiering in Venice and screening at Telluride: "In French director Xavier Giannoli’s pitch-perfect comedy of manners, Marguerite, a shameless chanteuse with a surplus of money and a shortage of talent buys her way into the spotlight, exposing the hypocrisy of her unctuous social circle in the process." Catherine Frot plays the lead role "with stunning dramatic and comical genius," according to Cineuropa's Fabien Lemercier, whose praise is echoed across the board. And as Marguerite's head butler, Denis Mpunga "is a revelation," declares Lisa Nesselson in Screen. We're tracking reviews and we've got the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/5/2015
- Keyframe
Variety's Peter Debruge on Marguerite, premiering in Venice and screening at Telluride: "In French director Xavier Giannoli’s pitch-perfect comedy of manners, Marguerite, a shameless chanteuse with a surplus of money and a shortage of talent buys her way into the spotlight, exposing the hypocrisy of her unctuous social circle in the process." Catherine Frot plays the lead role "with stunning dramatic and comical genius," according to Cineuropa's Fabien Lemercier, whose praise is echoed across the board. And as Marguerite's head butler, Denis Mpunga "is a revelation," declares Lisa Nesselson in Screen. We're tracking reviews and we've got the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jane Campion, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Trapero and Nicole Garcia will serve as Presidents of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Juries.
In Competition Jury
Jane Campion will serve as President of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury, leading a panel of 8 other jury members, including director Sofia Coppola and actor Willem Dafoe.
Campion, a New Zealand filmmaker, is the only woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, winning for her 1993 film The Piano. Since then, Campion has only had one film in competition at the festival, Bright Star (2009), and has served as President of the Cinéfondation & Short Films Jury.
“It is this world wide inclusiveness and passion for film at the heart of the festival which makes the importance of the Cannes Film Festival indisputable. It is a mythical and exciting festival where amazing things can happen, actors are discovered, films are financed, careers are made, I know this because...
In Competition Jury
Jane Campion will serve as President of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury, leading a panel of 8 other jury members, including director Sofia Coppola and actor Willem Dafoe.
Campion, a New Zealand filmmaker, is the only woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, winning for her 1993 film The Piano. Since then, Campion has only had one film in competition at the festival, Bright Star (2009), and has served as President of the Cinéfondation & Short Films Jury.
“It is this world wide inclusiveness and passion for film at the heart of the festival which makes the importance of the Cannes Film Festival indisputable. It is a mythical and exciting festival where amazing things can happen, actors are discovered, films are financed, careers are made, I know this because...
- 5/13/2014
- Uinterview
Argentine director Pablo Trapero to preside over Un Certain Regard; actress-director Nicole Garcia to head Camera d’Or jury.
Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.
As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:
Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)
Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)
Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)
Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)
Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.
Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)
The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...
Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.
As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:
Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)
Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)
Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)
Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)
Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.
Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)
The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...
- 5/11/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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