Eleven of the projects are debut features.
European development programme Less Is More (Lim) has selected 16 feature film projects for its 2022 scheme, plus the 12 ‘development angels’ who will follow the development of the projects, and four tutors who will provide guidance to the selected teams.
Among the titles are Bethan, the debut feature of UK writer-director Zillah Bowes; and Deborah Viegas’ Brazilian-Portuguese debut feature Young Woman Seen From Behind.
Scroll down for the full list of projects, filmmakers and development angels
Eleven of the 16 films are from debut filmmakers, with four from second-time directors and one – Christian Volckman’s Herself – from a third-time filmmaker.
European development programme Less Is More (Lim) has selected 16 feature film projects for its 2022 scheme, plus the 12 ‘development angels’ who will follow the development of the projects, and four tutors who will provide guidance to the selected teams.
Among the titles are Bethan, the debut feature of UK writer-director Zillah Bowes; and Deborah Viegas’ Brazilian-Portuguese debut feature Young Woman Seen From Behind.
Scroll down for the full list of projects, filmmakers and development angels
Eleven of the 16 films are from debut filmmakers, with four from second-time directors and one – Christian Volckman’s Herself – from a third-time filmmaker.
- 3/1/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The pleasure of those careful-what-you-wish-for “Twilight Zone” episodes and the riffs that followed is in watching the protagonists react realistically to an impossible situation. That’s not the case for the two leads of French director Christian Volckman’s English-language debut “The Room,” where Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens defy all rational human behavior after discovering a room in their house can offer them any material thing they ask for. Including a human child. While the film suffers from a screenplay as delusional as its characters,
Childless couple Kate (Kurylenko) and Matt (Janssens) have moved from the big city to a gothic Victorian mansion in rural Maryland as dilapidated as Miss Havisham’s grotesque stomping grounds in “Great Expectations.” Paint’s peeling, wallpaper’s a mess, and the insides are covered in the rusty patina of decay. But they’re keen on repairing the house so Matt, a painter, can...
Childless couple Kate (Kurylenko) and Matt (Janssens) have moved from the big city to a gothic Victorian mansion in rural Maryland as dilapidated as Miss Havisham’s grotesque stomping grounds in “Great Expectations.” Paint’s peeling, wallpaper’s a mess, and the insides are covered in the rusty patina of decay. But they’re keen on repairing the house so Matt, a painter, can...
- 7/21/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
I like the teamwork between Shudder and Rlje Films. Sure, they're under the same umbrella at AMC, but their combined released strategy ensures that quality horror and genre fare is getting out to as many fans as possible. After a stunning debut on Shudder its now Rlje's turn to get Christian Volckman's horror mystery flick The Room to more of the masses. As they prepare to release The Room on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on July 21st we can now prepare to give away a whopping four (4) copies on DVD. First, the press release. Rlje Films Presents The Room The claustrophobic shut in film is the most-watched Shudder Original film of the year and one of the most...
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- 7/13/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Rlje Films is making horror fans dreams (and nightmares) come true when they release Shudder’s The Room (read our review) on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on July 21, 2020. Directed by Christian Volckman (Renaissance), The Room stars Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum of Solace, Vampire Academy) and Kevin Janssens, who can be seen in Revenge. In the film Daniel Kurland called called “a dark, surprising […]...
- 7/8/2020
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s funny how circumstances of the world can alter our perception. On its face, The Room could be a by-the-book horror film like any other. However, in the time of Covid-19, when many of us are (pessimistically) prisoners in our own homes, a warped tale about being trapped seems to hit a little harder. And more effectively.
In The Room, a young couple seeks to start life anew in a remote country house. In the midst of their fixer-upper project, they discover a strange room that has the ability to grant wishes. What starts as shallow wishes for trinkets and extravagances takes a turn when the young wife wishes a baby boy into existence. As their circumstances become increasingly bizarre, the couple begins to wonder if the Room has trapped them forever.
Directed by Christian Volckman in his live-action feature debut, the Shudder Original film stars Olga Kurylenko and...
In The Room, a young couple seeks to start life anew in a remote country house. In the midst of their fixer-upper project, they discover a strange room that has the ability to grant wishes. What starts as shallow wishes for trinkets and extravagances takes a turn when the young wife wishes a baby boy into existence. As their circumstances become increasingly bizarre, the couple begins to wonder if the Room has trapped them forever.
Directed by Christian Volckman in his live-action feature debut, the Shudder Original film stars Olga Kurylenko and...
- 4/3/2020
- by Caitlin Kennedy
- DailyDead
With another month preparing for the grave, Shudder is already looking to conjure more scares in March with an eclectic lineup of films and series from the horror genre's past, present, and future, including Chelsea Stardust's Satanic Panic, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, and Adam Egypt Mortimer's Daniel Isn't Real (with Mortimer's Some Kind of Hate also coming to the streaming service in March).
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in March, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and its scary good lineup!
"Shudder Original/Exclusive Movies
The Room
Best Feature Winner – Bucheon International & Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
He’s a struggling comic book artist, she’s tired of her job in a big law firm. In search of a more authentic and healthy life, they leave the city and...
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in March, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and its scary good lineup!
"Shudder Original/Exclusive Movies
The Room
Best Feature Winner – Bucheon International & Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
He’s a struggling comic book artist, she’s tired of her job in a big law firm. In search of a more authentic and healthy life, they leave the city and...
- 2/20/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In late November, the agency evaluated 37 projects eligible for development and production support. The selection committee of the Film Fund Luxembourg’s national audiovisual support programme has announced that it will be backing 20 new domestic productions. In particular, production and development support for this slate of funding accounted for €9,217,341 and will contribute to the making of ten fiction films, four animated films, four documentaries, one TV series and one short fiction film. The big winners of this round of funding are two animated movies – namely, Kirk Hendry and Neil Boyle’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, and Christian Volckman’s The Kid, both in receipt of a €1.9 million production grant. The first project is an adventure flick penned by Frank Cottrell Boyce and produced by Howald-based outfit Mélusine Productions in co-operation with French, British and Irish partners. Meanwhile, Volckman’s dramedy is a loose adaptation of Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 film of the.
The room giveth and taketh away. Ahead of its premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival, we now have the first trailer for The Room, a new thriller being directed by Christian Volckman (Renaissance). It stars Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum of Solace, Vampire Academy) and Kevin Janssens, who can be seen in Revenge. In the film, “Kate and Matt are a young […]...
- 10/8/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Dread Central has learned that AMC’s Shudder has locked distribution for Christian Volckman’s sci-fi thriller The Room. The streaming service will be releasing the title across all their territories (North America/UK/Ireland/Australia/New Zealand). The deal negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of Shudder and Adeline Fontan Tessaur on behalf of French company Elle Driver. Shudder’s Emily […] The post Exclusive: Christian Volckman’s The Room Heading to Shudder appeared first on Dread Central.
- 7/17/2019
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Best director went to Adam Egypt Mortimer for Daniel Isn’t Real, while Cuban psychological thriller Is That You? won the Jury’s Choice award.
Christian Volckman’s English-language thriller The Room won the Best Of Bucheon award at this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival .
Starring Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens, the film is about a couple who discover a secret chamber in their house, which has the power to materialise anything they want, except the baby they’ve always dreamed of having.
Best director went to Us filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer for Daniel Isn’t Real, about...
Christian Volckman’s English-language thriller The Room won the Best Of Bucheon award at this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival .
Starring Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens, the film is about a couple who discover a secret chamber in their house, which has the power to materialise anything they want, except the baby they’ve always dreamed of having.
Best director went to Us filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer for Daniel Isn’t Real, about...
- 7/7/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Titles include Miguel Llansó’s ’Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway’.
Switzerland’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has unveiled the programme for its 2019 edition (July 5 – 13), with a line-up including 90 feature films.
Among the 16 titles playing in the International Competition strand is the world premiere of Spanish director Miguel Llansó’s Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway, about two CIA agents tasked with destroying a computer virus called ‘Soviet Union’.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The film is Llansó’s first since 2015’s Crumbs, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and subsequently won...
Switzerland’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has unveiled the programme for its 2019 edition (July 5 – 13), with a line-up including 90 feature films.
Among the 16 titles playing in the International Competition strand is the world premiere of Spanish director Miguel Llansó’s Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway, about two CIA agents tasked with destroying a computer virus called ‘Soviet Union’.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The film is Llansó’s first since 2015’s Crumbs, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and subsequently won...
- 6/20/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Snd, the film and TV production/distribution arm of French network M6, is teaming up with Paris-based company Superprod on the feature film adaptation of “Les blagues de Toto,” the popular French comics. Created by Thierry Coppée, “Les blagues de Toto” comprises of 13 volumes and have sold more than 3.7 million units.
The family comedy will start shooting later this month in live action. Pascal Bourdiaux, who directed another comics adaptation, “Boule et Bill 2,” is on board to direct “Les blagues de Toto.”
The cast is headlined by children and completed by Guillaume de Tonquédec (“What’s in a Name?”), Ramzi Bedia (“Taxi 5”) and Daniel Prevost (“Diner de cons”). The movie will follow the adventures of a mischievous little boy – whose parents are separated — and his friends at school.
On top of producing with Superprod, Snd has acquired French distribution and international sales rights to “Les blagues de Toto.” The...
The family comedy will start shooting later this month in live action. Pascal Bourdiaux, who directed another comics adaptation, “Boule et Bill 2,” is on board to direct “Les blagues de Toto.”
The cast is headlined by children and completed by Guillaume de Tonquédec (“What’s in a Name?”), Ramzi Bedia (“Taxi 5”) and Daniel Prevost (“Diner de cons”). The movie will follow the adventures of a mischievous little boy – whose parents are separated — and his friends at school.
On top of producing with Superprod, Snd has acquired French distribution and international sales rights to “Les blagues de Toto.” The...
- 6/13/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
We have two new images from The Room, a new thriller being directed by Christian Volckman (Renaissance). It stars Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum of Solace, Vampire Academy) and Kevin Janssens, who can be seen in Revenge. In the film: “Kate and Matt are a young couple in their thirties in search of a more authentic and healthy life. They leave the […]...
- 6/10/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Genre festival will close with Ko Myoungsung’s first narrative feature The 12th Suspect.
Edgar Nito’s debut feature The Gasoline Thieves will open this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, while Ko Myoungsung’s The 12th Suspect will close the event.
The Gasoline Thieves, which is a co-production between Mexico, Spain, the Us and the UK, won best new narrative director at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Set in central Mexico, it tells the story of an innocent high school student who gets mixed up with a gang of theives who steal gasoline from underground pipes.
The first narrative feature from Ko,...
Edgar Nito’s debut feature The Gasoline Thieves will open this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, while Ko Myoungsung’s The 12th Suspect will close the event.
The Gasoline Thieves, which is a co-production between Mexico, Spain, the Us and the UK, won best new narrative director at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Set in central Mexico, it tells the story of an innocent high school student who gets mixed up with a gang of theives who steal gasoline from underground pipes.
The first narrative feature from Ko,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
So, here’s a new film project that I wasn’t expecting. Charlie Chaplin’s classic 1921 film The Kid is getting an animated sci-fi reimagining called The Kid: An Animated Adventure. Jacob Tremblay (Wonder) has been set to provide the voice of the lead character.
The new story is set in a futuristic New York City which “has been flooded and split vertically into two distinct regions. Tremblay’s eponymous character is a young boy living with his mother in Uptown, a boring, artless place of overprotective safety. When he runs away seeking adventure, he winds up in the mysterious and dangerous Downtown and encounters Chaplin, a robot with a human soul. Together, the two embark on adventures to discover the secret mystery behind Chaplin, while pursued by police, the Kid’s mother, and a colorful cast of modern circus performers.”
Well, this should be interesting. I’m not sure what to think about it.
The new story is set in a futuristic New York City which “has been flooded and split vertically into two distinct regions. Tremblay’s eponymous character is a young boy living with his mother in Uptown, a boring, artless place of overprotective safety. When he runs away seeking adventure, he winds up in the mysterious and dangerous Downtown and encounters Chaplin, a robot with a human soul. Together, the two embark on adventures to discover the secret mystery behind Chaplin, while pursued by police, the Kid’s mother, and a colorful cast of modern circus performers.”
Well, this should be interesting. I’m not sure what to think about it.
- 5/3/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: Jacob Tremblay (Wonder) has been set to lead voice cast on the animation-sci-fi update of Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 classic The Kid.
The reimagining, now titled The Kid: An Animated Adventure, is set in a futuristic New York City which has been flooded and split vertically into two distinct regions. Tremblay’s eponymous character is a young boy living with his mother in Uptown, a boring, artless place of overprotective safety. When he runs away seeking adventure, he winds up in the mysterious and dangerous Downtown and encounters Chaplin, a robot with a human soul. Together, the two embark on adventures to discover the secret mystery behind Chaplin, while pursued by police, the Kid’s mother, and a colorful cast of modern circus performers.
Christian Volckman (Renaissance) is directing with Rupert Wyatt (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) on board as executive producer. Volckman and Wyatt co-wrote the script...
The reimagining, now titled The Kid: An Animated Adventure, is set in a futuristic New York City which has been flooded and split vertically into two distinct regions. Tremblay’s eponymous character is a young boy living with his mother in Uptown, a boring, artless place of overprotective safety. When he runs away seeking adventure, he winds up in the mysterious and dangerous Downtown and encounters Chaplin, a robot with a human soul. Together, the two embark on adventures to discover the secret mystery behind Chaplin, while pursued by police, the Kid’s mother, and a colorful cast of modern circus performers.
Christian Volckman (Renaissance) is directing with Rupert Wyatt (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) on board as executive producer. Volckman and Wyatt co-wrote the script...
- 5/2/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Filming is underway on The Room, a new thriller being directed by Christian Volckman (Renaissance). It stars Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum of Solace, Vampire Academy) and Kevin Janssens, who can be seen in Revenge. In the film: “Kate and Matt are a young couple in their thirties in search of a more authentic and healthy life. They leave the City to move […]...
- 4/17/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Company to launch Christian Volckman’s English-language thriller The Room set to star Olga Kurylenko and show first images for Jorge Michel Grau’s 7:19 Am.
Elle Driver has taken world rights on Christian Volckman’s English-language, fantasy thriller The Room, about a couple who discover a secret chamber in their old house which has the power to materialise anything they want.
Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) is set to co-star as one-half of the couple who discover the room in their old upstate New Hampshire house. Entranced, they dream up increasingly lavish requests. When they ask for a child the game turns sinister.
It is in pre-production and the role of the husband is currently being cast.
The feature marks a live action debut for French animation director and artist Volckman who won best film at the Annecy International Animation Film in 2006 for the dystopian sci-fi drama Renaissance, about a world...
Elle Driver has taken world rights on Christian Volckman’s English-language, fantasy thriller The Room, about a couple who discover a secret chamber in their old house which has the power to materialise anything they want.
Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) is set to co-star as one-half of the couple who discover the room in their old upstate New Hampshire house. Entranced, they dream up increasingly lavish requests. When they ask for a child the game turns sinister.
It is in pre-production and the role of the husband is currently being cast.
The feature marks a live action debut for French animation director and artist Volckman who won best film at the Annecy International Animation Film in 2006 for the dystopian sci-fi drama Renaissance, about a world...
- 5/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Company to launch Christian Volckman’s English-language thriller The Room set to star Olga Kurylenko and show first images for Jorge Michel Grau’s 7:19 Am.
Elle Driver has taken world rights on Christian Volckman’s English-language, fantasy thriller The Room, about a couple who discover a secret chamber in their old house which has the power to materialise anything they want.
Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) is set to co-star as one-half of the couple who discover the room in their old upstate New Hampshire house. Entranced, they dream up increasingly lavish requests. When they ask for a child the game turns sinister.
It is in pre-production and the role of the husband is currently being cast.
The feature marks a live action debut for French animation director and artist Volckman who won best film at the Annecy International Animation Film in 2006 for the dystopian sci-fi drama Renaissance, about a world...
Elle Driver has taken world rights on Christian Volckman’s English-language, fantasy thriller The Room, about a couple who discover a secret chamber in their old house which has the power to materialise anything they want.
Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) is set to co-star as one-half of the couple who discover the room in their old upstate New Hampshire house. Entranced, they dream up increasingly lavish requests. When they ask for a child the game turns sinister.
It is in pre-production and the role of the husband is currently being cast.
The feature marks a live action debut for French animation director and artist Volckman who won best film at the Annecy International Animation Film in 2006 for the dystopian sci-fi drama Renaissance, about a world...
- 5/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
We recently asked Wp users to submit articles about movies and/or the website that we would post on the site. Today is the first installment in the "Wp Users Speak" series and Minkowski is the first person to put together an article. Check it out and feel free to express your opinions in the comments section below. The Future of CGI by Minkowski: Even though there are essentially three possible futures for CGI, photo-realism, alternate-realism and stylized-realism, all three share the same goal: the rendering of artificial reality and ultimately the replacement of live actors with synthetic performers. The recent film "Avatar" took viewers on a sensually exhilarating trip towards all three possible futures, with a heavier emphasis on photorealism, through the use of advanced motion capture techniques on principle actors Sam Washington and Zoe Saldana and by employing powerful new texture and shading methods, captured in brilliant high-definition 3D.
- 2/20/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
Leclerq's psuedo cyberpunk debut, Chrysalis, wasn't perfect , but it put the new director firmly at the top of a short list of new French talent that seemed determined to bring gritty genre cineme to France (read: Christian Volckman, Franck Vestiel, Xavier Gens et al). While none of them pried the gauntlet from Luke Besson's hands, they did provide us much entertainment and thrills for a couple years there.
Now Leclerg returns with a new, much more sombre, film about a real life terrorist event in L'Assault.
Synopsis:
On Christmas Eve 1994 four armed men from the Islamic terrorist group Gia hijacked Air France Flight 8969 in Algiers. When they landed in Marseille the plane was raided by highly trained French forces and all four kidnappers killed.
You can check out the trailer for L'Assault 9via: Twitch) after the break.
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Now Leclerg returns with a new, much more sombre, film about a real life terrorist event in L'Assault.
Synopsis:
On Christmas Eve 1994 four armed men from the Islamic terrorist group Gia hijacked Air France Flight 8969 in Algiers. When they landed in Marseille the plane was raided by highly trained French forces and all four kidnappers killed.
You can check out the trailer for L'Assault 9via: Twitch) after the break.
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- 12/9/2010
- QuietEarth.us
They brought us ‘Cyborg Girl’ now from Japan comes Electronic Girl. Repped through local movie house Ohara Bros (better known for bringing us such lunatic splatter fests as ‘Geisha Vs Ninja’ and ‘Samurai Princess) Electronic Girl is the brainchild of writer director Keita Matsuda who has blended live action film with digital green screen FX and cell animation. Watching the trailer you can’t help but make comparisons, stylistically, to Christian Volckman’s superb Noir thriller Renaissance. No bad thing if this latest creation comes anywhere near as good as that. Electronic Girl stars Maya Koizumi, Go Ayano in the leading roles and opens in Japan September 12th. Plot wise we’ve trawled the net and think we’ve come up with a relatively accurate summary….
- 8/24/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
They brought us ‘Cyborg Girl’ now from Japan comes Electronic Girl. Repped through local movie house Ohara Bros (better known for bringing us such lunatic splatter fests as ‘Geisha Vs Ninja’ and ‘Samurai Princess) Electronic Girl is the brainchild of writer director Keita Matsuda who has blended live action film with digital green screen FX and cell animation. Watching the trailer you can’t help but make comparisons, stylistically, to Christian Volckman’s superb Noir thriller Renaissance. No bad thing if this latest creation comes anywhere near as good as that. Electronic Girl stars Maya Koizumi, Go Ayano in the leading roles and opens in Japan September 12th. Plot wise we’ve trawled the net and think we’ve come up with a relatively accurate summary….
- 8/24/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
They brought us ‘Cyborg Girl’ now from Japan comes Electronic Girl. Repped through local movie house Ohara Bros (better known for bringing us such lunatic splatter fests as ‘Geisha Vs Ninja’ and ‘Samurai Princess) Electronic Girl is the brainchild of writer director Keita Matsuda who has blended live action film with digital green screen FX and cell animation. Watching the trailer you can’t help but make comparisons, stylistically, to Christian Volckman’s superb Noir thriller Renaissance. No bad thing if this latest creation comes anywhere near as good as that. Electronic Girl stars Maya Koizumi, Go Ayano in the leading roles and opens in Japan September 12th. Plot wise we’ve trawled the net and think we’ve come up with a relatively accurate summary….
- 8/24/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
They brought us ‘Cyborg Girl’ now from Japan comes Electronic Girl. Repped through local movie house Ohara Bros (better known for bringing us such lunatic splatter fests as ‘Geisha Vs Ninja’ and ‘Samurai Princess) Electronic Girl is the brainchild of writer director Keita Matsuda who has blended live action film with digital green screen FX and cell animation. Watching the trailer you can’t help but make comparisons, stylistically, to Christian Volckman’s superb Noir thriller Renaissance. No bad thing if this latest creation comes anywhere near as good as that. Electronic Girl stars Maya Koizumi, Go Ayano in the leading roles and opens in Japan September 12th. Plot wise we’ve trawled the net and think we’ve come up with a relatively accurate summary….
- 8/24/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Year: 2007
Directors: D. Jud Jones / Risto Topaloski
Writers: D. Jud Jones
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 8 out of 10
Its nice to know that not everyone is content to live in a world where the only American animation worth getting excited about involves rats that cook or jive talkin' hippos (and I don't care how cute those penguins are, Surf's Up is little else than a noisy, irritating mess). Indeed, with its violent tendencies, cast of bawdy sexual deviants, and roots in the hard-boiled detective genre, D. Jud Jones' Film Noir is a deliciously adult affair - and comes across all the better for it. This is noir American style. Dark after hours streets with gun totting thugs around every corner, sexy dames and, more importantly, that great American tradition, the story about a guy with amnesia.
Right away the story of Film Noir sucks you in.
Directors: D. Jud Jones / Risto Topaloski
Writers: D. Jud Jones
IMDB: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 8 out of 10
Its nice to know that not everyone is content to live in a world where the only American animation worth getting excited about involves rats that cook or jive talkin' hippos (and I don't care how cute those penguins are, Surf's Up is little else than a noisy, irritating mess). Indeed, with its violent tendencies, cast of bawdy sexual deviants, and roots in the hard-boiled detective genre, D. Jud Jones' Film Noir is a deliciously adult affair - and comes across all the better for it. This is noir American style. Dark after hours streets with gun totting thugs around every corner, sexy dames and, more importantly, that great American tradition, the story about a guy with amnesia.
Right away the story of Film Noir sucks you in.
- 9/18/2008
- QuietEarth.us
PARIS -- The Mona Lisa is back in the spotlight in a $35 million film starring Dustin Hoffman and Antonio Banderas that highlights a slate of projects from producer Ilan Girard.
"Lovers, Liars and Thieves", directed by "The Legend of Bagger Vance" and "The Notebook" writer and "Don Juan de Marco" helmer Jeremy Leven, tells the story of two crooks who convince an Italian cabinet maker to steal the Mona Lisa.
Set in the belle epoque era of Paris, the mega-budget European co-production is produced by Ilann Girard of Arsam Prods. Arsam is the film finance-turned-production company behind Christian Volckman's animated feature "Renaissance", last year's international breakout hit Luc Jacquet's award-winning documentary "March of the Penguins" and Bille August's "Goodbye Bafana", currently in competition in Berlin.
"Bafana", a $15 million biopic about Nelson Mandela's warder, James Gregory, starring Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger and Dennis Haysbert, will be released by Paramount in France, the U.K. and Spain and X Film/Warner in Germany.
Arsam's President Ilann Girard has a number of international co-productions in the works.
"Lovers, Liars and Thieves", directed by "The Legend of Bagger Vance" and "The Notebook" writer and "Don Juan de Marco" helmer Jeremy Leven, tells the story of two crooks who convince an Italian cabinet maker to steal the Mona Lisa.
Set in the belle epoque era of Paris, the mega-budget European co-production is produced by Ilann Girard of Arsam Prods. Arsam is the film finance-turned-production company behind Christian Volckman's animated feature "Renaissance", last year's international breakout hit Luc Jacquet's award-winning documentary "March of the Penguins" and Bille August's "Goodbye Bafana", currently in competition in Berlin.
"Bafana", a $15 million biopic about Nelson Mandela's warder, James Gregory, starring Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger and Dennis Haysbert, will be released by Paramount in France, the U.K. and Spain and X Film/Warner in Germany.
Arsam's President Ilann Girard has a number of international co-productions in the works.
- 2/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- The year is 2054. The city, Paris. Walled off from the rest of the world, Paris has been expanded in every direction—up, down, and inward—but out, resulting in a futuristic maze-like metropolis superimposed over the classical architecture for which the city is world famous. A network of streets and passageways (and also waterways) crisscross the airspace between street level and the heights of the city’s towers. Glass enclosed shopping centers operate below ground. Images on billboards move and speak, advertising the sale of eternal youth and beauty. Among these streets a woman in her early twenties is kidnapped outside a dance club in an intense, stylish, and bizarre sequence that projects through the windows of your mind like a scene from a David Lynch remake of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train animated by Frank Miller. The title of the film is Renaissance. Distributed across North America by Miramax Films,
- 10/5/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
ANNECY, France -- The winning feature film at this year's Annecy International Animation Festival was director Christian Volckman's striking black-and-white futuristic thriller Renaissance. The film's title is an apt reflection of what is going on in the Gallic cartoon business, which is undergoing an unprecedented boom. A report released last week by the Center National de la Cinematographie showed eight French animated films were completed in 2005, double the number in any of the previous four years. The lineup at Annecy, which wrapped Saturday, bears testimony to the bursting health of the French toon industry. Two of the five features in competition were French-made, while the fest opened with another local picture, "U," the tale of a princess rescued from misery by a unicorn, directed by Gregoire Solotareff and Serge Elissalde. Michel Ocelot's dazzling Arabian adventure Azur and Asmar also unspooled after its premiere at Cannes in Directors' Fortnight, and Piccolo, Saxo and Company, based on the best-selling musical children's story, also had its premiere in the Alpine lakeside town. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, as French producers known for traditional live-action movies are increasingly becoming involved in animated projects.
- 6/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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