11 Oct 2010 | Actualité, Insensibles, Longs-métrages
Posted: Mon., Oct. 11, 2010, 7:15am PT Roxbury boards ‘Painless’ Thriller set for first quarter 2011 shoot By JOHN HOPEWELL, EMILIO MAYORGA SITGES, Spain — Miguel Angel Faura’s Roxbury Pictures has boarded Juan Carlos Medina’s « Insensibles » (Painless), one of the most-buzzed about psychological thrillers coming out of Catalonia. With Roxbury on board and nearly all financing pieces now in place, « Painless » looks well on track for a first quarter 2011 shoot. Paris-based Elle Driver, which has a strong line in Spanish-language titles, is selling international rights. It saw a spectacular flurry of early pre-sales when « Painless » was first brought on to the market in 2008. Project’s originators, two go-ahead French companies — Antoine Simkine’s Les Films d’Antoine and Francois Cognard’s Tobina Film — will produce from France. Barcelona-based Roxbury lead produces, putting up 60% of pic’s Euros3.2 million ($4.5 million) budget. Portugal’s Fado Filmes has a 10% participation and the French co-producers the rest, Faura said at the Sitges Festival. Simkine, Cognard and Faura exec produce. A Contracorriente has Spanish theatrical distribution rights. Wild Bunch has home entertainment right in France, and Canal Plus and Cine Cinema share French pay TV rights. « Painless » has also pulled down Eurimages funding. « Painless » is written by Medina and Spaniard Luis Berdejo. Apart from directing Kevin Costner in « The New Daughter, » Berdejo has proved a seminal influence on Barcelona-based genre production, co-writing « REC » with Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. Spanish-born Medina grew up in the U.S. and was a vid clip helmer for the BBC. Set in Catalonia, « Painless » weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through...
23 Sep 2010 | Amer, Longs-métrages
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23 Sep 2010 | Amer, Longs-métrages
GIALLO! / Thursdays in October Blood. Flesh. Madness. Music. Mystery. A black glove holding a bloody knife. A stylish bella donna stripping nude for her killer. These are the familiar elements of the giallo, Italy’s own peculiar brand of bloody pulp fiction: a Mediterranean blend of detective stories, slasher flicks, and sexy ‘70s high-fashion shows that are beloved for their stylishness and sensuality. These films are overflowing with creatively conceived and executed violent set-pieces, killer soundtracks that fans still obsessively collect, and visual delights of all forms — men, women, clothes, cars, lamps, doorstops, everything is beautiful. So beautiful. To celebrate this most cinematic of horror genres, the Cinefamily presents ten rare screenings, including uncut 35mm prints of Dario Argento and Sergio Martino films flown in from Italy, and a sneak preview of the new French homage to the giallo, Amer! Series co-presented by Cinespia. 10/07 @ 8:00pm / SERIES: GIALLO! Dario Argento Double Feature: Deep Red (Uncut!) shown with Opera Deep Red – 8:00pm Dario Argento fans love arguing over whether this or Suspiria is his best film, but there’s a good case to be made that this isn’t just his finest achievement but also the best giallo ever made, period. David Hemmings (in one of his best roles) plays an English pianist who witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor and is drawn into a nightmarish web of clues involving grisly children’s drawings, a nasty Christmas double homicide from the past, a ghoulish lullaby, and a rising body count (including one standout scene swiped by John Carpenter for Halloween). Driven by Goblin’s ferocious and legendary rock score, this all-time classic features some of...
23 Sep 2010 | Actualité, Amer, Longs-métrages
RENCONTRE Projection en présence des réalisateurs Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani Ana est confrontée à la peur et au désir à trois moments clefs de sa vie. Un voyage charnel entre frissons et fantasmes. AMER n’est pas réservé aux initiés, il s’adresse à tous les curieux en quête de nouvelles surprise dans les salles obscures… Une oeuvre troublante et sensuelle rare : plus qu’un film, une expérience unique en son genre. Une étrange demeure. Une malédiction et une mystérieuse présence. Une petite fille apeurée observant à travers les trous de la serrure. Un couple torturé. Un beau cinémascope…et la musique de Morricone et Cipriani… Tous les ingrédients sont réunis pour attirer dans ses filets l’amateur d’inquiétante étrangeté. La photo est splendide – il n’y a qu’à regarder les photogrammes pour s’en apercevoir, on aimerait se les imprimer et les encadrer – et nous renvoie évidemment des années en arrière vers les couleurssaturées de Mario Bava et Dario Agento… Outre l’utilisation – à la Tarantino – de BO préexistantes, la bande son, Amer est au bruit du cuir ce que Microcosmos était à celui des insectes, et ferait presque passer le travail sonore de Lynch pour du Méliès. Amer fourmille de citations, puisant plan par plan, son par son : on s’amusera pêle-mêle à reconnaîtreSuspiria, ses soupirs et ses chambres filmées à travers une ampoule, ou encore une autre baie sanglantepropice aux poursuites sans issue, filmée dans des éclairages bleutés crépusculaires…. « Chaque plan a fait l’objet d’un travail minutieux sur la durée, les couleurs, les formes et les sons (…) La radicalité de ces choix (…) est fascinante (…) Amer ne ressemble à...