Jan Komasa’s “Corpus Christi,” which screened this week at the Toronto Film Festival, has been selected by Poland to be its official entry in the Best International Feature Film category of the Academy Awards.
The film, which world premiered as part of Venice Days earlier this month, follows 20-year-old Daniel, who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a youth detention center. He wants to become a priest, but this is impossible because of his criminal record.
When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic “preacher” is an opportunity for the community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.
The film is produced by Leszek Bodzak and Aneta Hickinbotham for Aurum Film. The co-producers are Canal Plus Polska,...
The film, which world premiered as part of Venice Days earlier this month, follows 20-year-old Daniel, who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a youth detention center. He wants to become a priest, but this is impossible because of his criminal record.
When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic “preacher” is an opportunity for the community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.
The film is produced by Leszek Bodzak and Aneta Hickinbotham for Aurum Film. The co-producers are Canal Plus Polska,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Six months after Poland unveiled a new 30% cash rebate at the Berlin Intl. Film Festival, a wave of applications have been approved for the incentive scheme, with the first projects to access the rebate going into production in recent weeks.
“The cash rebate is a game-changer for the Polish film industry,” said Radosław Śmigulski, general director of the Polish Film Institute, citing an uptick in interest from foreign producers. “Poland has a very strong cinematographic tradition, amazing talents and great conditions for filmmaking, but it’s the incentive program that makes us truly visible on the map of Europe.”
The most high-profile project currently shooting in Poland is “Der Überläufer” (The Turncoat), directed by Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger. Based on Siegfried Lenz’s international bestseller, the historical drama is set in the summer of 1944, when a German soldier prevented from returning to the eastern front realizes he can only...
“The cash rebate is a game-changer for the Polish film industry,” said Radosław Śmigulski, general director of the Polish Film Institute, citing an uptick in interest from foreign producers. “Poland has a very strong cinematographic tradition, amazing talents and great conditions for filmmaking, but it’s the incentive program that makes us truly visible on the map of Europe.”
The most high-profile project currently shooting in Poland is “Der Überläufer” (The Turncoat), directed by Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger. Based on Siegfried Lenz’s international bestseller, the historical drama is set in the summer of 1944, when a German soldier prevented from returning to the eastern front realizes he can only...
- 9/7/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Argentinian filmmaker and Us actor honoured in Poland.
Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
- 7/21/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Argentinean filmmaker and Us actor honoured in Poland.
Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
- 7/21/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s winners include film-makers from Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.
The winners of this year’s Open Doors Hub co-production platform at Locarno Film Festival (Aug 3-13) have been revealed.
Bangladesh director Kamar Ahmad Simon’s first feature documentary Day After Tomorrow (working title) was awarded an Open Doors production grant worth $30,500 (CHF30,000) as well as the Arte International Open Doors Prize with a cash prize of $6,700 (€6,000).
The second in the planned Water trilogy, Day After Tomorrow already has French producer-consultant Dominique Welinski’s company Dw onboard as a co-producer.
Whilst attending Open Doors in Locarno this week, Simon was also able to meet the German producer Jakob D. Weydemann who will be serving as a co-producer on his next feature Silence Of The Seashell which received funding from Creative Europe-backed World Cinema Fund Europe fund last month.
Weydemann was in Locarno for the Alliance for Development initiative with the Italian-German co-production Children Of The Ice...
The winners of this year’s Open Doors Hub co-production platform at Locarno Film Festival (Aug 3-13) have been revealed.
Bangladesh director Kamar Ahmad Simon’s first feature documentary Day After Tomorrow (working title) was awarded an Open Doors production grant worth $30,500 (CHF30,000) as well as the Arte International Open Doors Prize with a cash prize of $6,700 (€6,000).
The second in the planned Water trilogy, Day After Tomorrow already has French producer-consultant Dominique Welinski’s company Dw onboard as a co-producer.
Whilst attending Open Doors in Locarno this week, Simon was also able to meet the German producer Jakob D. Weydemann who will be serving as a co-producer on his next feature Silence Of The Seashell which received funding from Creative Europe-backed World Cinema Fund Europe fund last month.
Weydemann was in Locarno for the Alliance for Development initiative with the Italian-German co-production Children Of The Ice...
- 8/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
'Finding Neverland' movie: Johnny Depp as James M. Barrie, with the Llewelyn Davies family: Kate Winslet, Freddie Highmore, Joe Prospero, Nick Roud and Luke Spill. 'Finding Neverland' movie review: Losing reality Back in 2001, German-born director Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, World War Z) brought a much welcome non-Hollywood touch to the independently made psychological drama Monster's Ball. Besides the daring (if way overlong) sex scenes, that film imparted a refreshingly realistic atmosphere that was much enhanced by Forster's minimalist approach. As the title implies, his follow-up effort, Finding Neverland (2004), has absolutely nothing to do with reality, whether Peter Pan author James M. Barrie's or anyone else's. Even so, Forster's early, no-nonsense directorial touch is sorely missing from what is little more than your usual big-studio holiday movie whose “magical moments” might as well have been created by a computer. 'Finding Neverland' plot: James M. Barrie...
- 12/23/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Late last week, we had another shortlist hit the internet, courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (or AMPAS, as we all know by now). This one concerned which films were eligible to compete in the Oscar category of Best Original Score. Basically, the Academy decided that 112 movies had scores that met eligibility criteria, so they’re the ones who will be whittled down to the ultimate five Original Score nominees. Obviously, a group as large as this one doesn’t necessarily indicate anything about what Oscar voters might pick, but that won’t stop me from trying to do a bit of analysis, will it? Didn’t think so. So, let’s do it, let’s take a look at the Best Original Score contenders and see what Academy members might be likely to go for… As a point of reference, here are the most recent...
- 12/21/2015
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' poster. With Daniel Radcliffe. Rupert Grint. Emma Watson. 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' quiz question: Does state-of-the-art CGI equal movie magic? (Oscar Movie Series) Alfonso Cuarón seems like an odd choice for director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment in the Harry Potter movie series. That is, if one thinks only of Cuarón's pre-Harry Potter sleeper hit, the François Truffaut-esque Y tu mamá también, while ignoring two of his earlier efforts, the critically acclaimed A Little Princess and the moderately respected Great Expectations. This time around, working with a reported $130 million budget (approx. $163 million in 2015), state-of-the-art special effects, and the Harry Potter franchise, Cuarón surely could do no wrong. At the box office, that is. For although Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is stylistically superior to Chris Columbus' previous work in the series,...
- 6/7/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lithuanian documentaries will be in the spotlight at this year’s 55th Krakow Film Festival (May 31-June 7) which opens with Krzysztof Kopczynski’s The Dybbuk. A Tale Of Wandering Souls.
It marks is the fourth time Krakow has selected a guest country and will include a special screening of Giedrė Žickytė’s How We Played The Revolution, produced by Dagne Vildziunaite, one of Screen’s Future Leaders in Cannes last month.
Vildziunaite also has the latest film by Žickytė, Master And Tatjana, screening in the festival’s International Documentary Competition.
She will also be participating with such colleagues as the Lithuanian Film Centre’s chief Rolandas Kvietkauskas, filmmaker Audrius Stonys and broadcaster Izolda Keidosiute of Lrt in a conference during the festival to discuss the various strategies adopted by the documentary community in her country .
Other films shown in the “Focus on Lithuania” will include Linas Mikuta’s Dinner, Rimantas Gruodis’ Lucky Year, and Ričardas...
It marks is the fourth time Krakow has selected a guest country and will include a special screening of Giedrė Žickytė’s How We Played The Revolution, produced by Dagne Vildziunaite, one of Screen’s Future Leaders in Cannes last month.
Vildziunaite also has the latest film by Žickytė, Master And Tatjana, screening in the festival’s International Documentary Competition.
She will also be participating with such colleagues as the Lithuanian Film Centre’s chief Rolandas Kvietkauskas, filmmaker Audrius Stonys and broadcaster Izolda Keidosiute of Lrt in a conference during the festival to discuss the various strategies adopted by the documentary community in her country .
Other films shown in the “Focus on Lithuania” will include Linas Mikuta’s Dinner, Rimantas Gruodis’ Lucky Year, and Ričardas...
- 5/29/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
This past Thursday "Joanna" (2013, 40'), a Polish documentary directed by Aneta Kopacz, was included among a prestigious group of five films that received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Documentary Short Subject category. The documentary produced by Wajda Studio with the support of the National Audiovisual Institute will compete for the award alongside these productions: “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1” , “Our Curse”, “The Reaper" (La Parka) and “White Earth”.
"The nomination for the Academy Award is far more than I have ever expected. It sounds so surreal that it's almost unbelievable. Since the very beginning, I was making a modest film about the simplest things in life and - for me - the most beautiful ones. There were sweat and tears, not enough funding, but also a lot of passion and support. Until the very end we didn't know if this film would ever be completed. At any moment my protagonist could say 'let's stop shooting'. This was her sacred right.
The film was created, traveled around the world, and, hopefully, became truly significant to a lot of viewers. Today it has reached the heights, indeed. I would like to thank all the wonderful people that I was fortunate to work with. My special thanks go out to Joanna and her family, who decided to share a part of their life with me. This is a success for all of us," said Aneta Kopacz after receiving the news about the nomination.
Apart from "Joanna”, another Polish film made to the list of nominated films "Our Curse” directed by Tomasz Śliwiński, who happens to be a current student of Wajda School. Highly praised "Ida”, directed by one of the Wajda School tutors Paweł Pawlikowski, received an Oscar© nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The same film received a Best Cinematography nomination for Łukasz Żal, who was also the Dp for "Joanna."
So far, "Joanna" has been screened at more than 30 festivals all over the world and won over 20 awards, including the Best Documentary Short award in Palm Springs, Silver Eye Award in Jihlava, Prize of the Youth Jury in Leipzig, Special Mention at DocsBarcelona, Audience Award at Warsaw Film Festival, a Cinema Eye Honors nomination and many others.
"The unique thing about 'Joanna' is the subtle vision of the director. There is no narration to tell the viewer how to feel or what to experience. And this approach, which punctuates the things not said becomes a very powerful experience for the viewer." wrote Kay Shackleton at examiner.com
Th film is uses great visual poetry to portray the simple and meaningful moments in the Joanna's family life. Diagnosed with an untreatable illness, Joanna promises her son that she will do her best to live for as long as possible. It's a story of close relationships, tenderness, love and thoughtfulness.
The film was shot by one of the most talented young cinematographers, now an Oscar nominee, Łukasz Żal, and the music was composed by Oscar-winning Jan A.P. Kaczmarek.
The film was produced by Wajda Studio, co-produced by the Polish National Audiovisual Institute, and sponsored by Codemedia. Film was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. "Joanna" was developed within the Dok Pro Documentary Program run by Wajda School, under the artistic supervision of distinguished Polish documentary filmmakers: MarcelŁoziński, Jacek Bławut and Vita Żelakeviciute.
"The nomination for the Academy Award is far more than I have ever expected. It sounds so surreal that it's almost unbelievable. Since the very beginning, I was making a modest film about the simplest things in life and - for me - the most beautiful ones. There were sweat and tears, not enough funding, but also a lot of passion and support. Until the very end we didn't know if this film would ever be completed. At any moment my protagonist could say 'let's stop shooting'. This was her sacred right.
The film was created, traveled around the world, and, hopefully, became truly significant to a lot of viewers. Today it has reached the heights, indeed. I would like to thank all the wonderful people that I was fortunate to work with. My special thanks go out to Joanna and her family, who decided to share a part of their life with me. This is a success for all of us," said Aneta Kopacz after receiving the news about the nomination.
Apart from "Joanna”, another Polish film made to the list of nominated films "Our Curse” directed by Tomasz Śliwiński, who happens to be a current student of Wajda School. Highly praised "Ida”, directed by one of the Wajda School tutors Paweł Pawlikowski, received an Oscar© nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The same film received a Best Cinematography nomination for Łukasz Żal, who was also the Dp for "Joanna."
So far, "Joanna" has been screened at more than 30 festivals all over the world and won over 20 awards, including the Best Documentary Short award in Palm Springs, Silver Eye Award in Jihlava, Prize of the Youth Jury in Leipzig, Special Mention at DocsBarcelona, Audience Award at Warsaw Film Festival, a Cinema Eye Honors nomination and many others.
"The unique thing about 'Joanna' is the subtle vision of the director. There is no narration to tell the viewer how to feel or what to experience. And this approach, which punctuates the things not said becomes a very powerful experience for the viewer." wrote Kay Shackleton at examiner.com
Th film is uses great visual poetry to portray the simple and meaningful moments in the Joanna's family life. Diagnosed with an untreatable illness, Joanna promises her son that she will do her best to live for as long as possible. It's a story of close relationships, tenderness, love and thoughtfulness.
The film was shot by one of the most talented young cinematographers, now an Oscar nominee, Łukasz Żal, and the music was composed by Oscar-winning Jan A.P. Kaczmarek.
The film was produced by Wajda Studio, co-produced by the Polish National Audiovisual Institute, and sponsored by Codemedia. Film was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. "Joanna" was developed within the Dok Pro Documentary Program run by Wajda School, under the artistic supervision of distinguished Polish documentary filmmakers: MarcelŁoziński, Jacek Bławut and Vita Żelakeviciute.
- 1/17/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Best Documentary Short Films Oscar 2015: Illness and death are top subjects (photo: 'White Earth' by J. Christian Jensen) Eight films — most of them featuring illness and/or death as their focus — remain in the running for the 2015 Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced. Of those eight semi-finalists, three to five titles will be shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards. (Scroll down to vote in our Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar 2015 poll.) The remaining eight Oscar 2015 contenders are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their directors and, in parentheses, their production companies: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, directed by Ellen Goosenberg Kent (Perry Films) Joanna, directed by Aneta Kopacz (Wajda Studio). Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, directed by Jeff Dupre (Show of Force) The Lion's Mouth Opens, directed by Lucy Walker (Tree Tree Tree) One Child,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Sundance Film Festival has entered into a partnership with Poznan’s Transatlantyk Film Festival to present a selection of its titles at the forthcoming fourth edition running from August 8-14.
The new sidebar, Sundance at Transatlantyk, will screen such films as Fishing Without Nets, The Green Prince, Watchers Of The Sky, 52 Tuesdays, Difret and A Most Wanted Man, and invite the films’ creators to meet with the audience for Q&As after the screenings.
Transatlantyk was founded in 2011 by the Oscar-wining musician and composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek as ¨a new artistic platform aimed at building a stronger relationship between society, art and the environment through music and movies¨ as well as inspiring discussion on social issues.
Another innovation is the introduction of the new section Cinema of the Third Age targetted at maturer audiences with screenings in early afternoon slots during the weekdays. Films selected for this first edition include Philomena, Gloria and [link...
The new sidebar, Sundance at Transatlantyk, will screen such films as Fishing Without Nets, The Green Prince, Watchers Of The Sky, 52 Tuesdays, Difret and A Most Wanted Man, and invite the films’ creators to meet with the audience for Q&As after the screenings.
Transatlantyk was founded in 2011 by the Oscar-wining musician and composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek as ¨a new artistic platform aimed at building a stronger relationship between society, art and the environment through music and movies¨ as well as inspiring discussion on social issues.
Another innovation is the introduction of the new section Cinema of the Third Age targetted at maturer audiences with screenings in early afternoon slots during the weekdays. Films selected for this first edition include Philomena, Gloria and [link...
- 7/31/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Transatlantyk Festival in Poznan, Poland ended near dawn Aug. 10 with a rowdy party at fest founder Jan A.P. Kaczmarek’s palatial villa, where Lezdek Możdżer (the pianist for Kaczmarek’s Oscar-winning Finding Neverland score) did duets with Gloria Campaner, Chopin best performance award-winner at La International Piano competition. “Admissions were 67,000, more than we thought at first count – it was 41,000 last year,” said Kaczmarek, beaming like a happy Gatsby. “It’s amazing growth for a three-year-old festival,” said Waldemar Kalinowski, the Crazy Heart production designer who staged a reading of
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- 8/10/2013
- by Tim Appelo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Poznan, Poland: Composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2005 for Marc Forster’s “Finding Neverland,” has put his writing on hold for the last few years to get his latest production off the ground. But now, he’s ready to return to his first love. Kaczmarek, who also scored such films as “Unfaithful,” “The Visitor,” and “Washington Square,” started the Transatlantyk Festival, a music and film event here, in 2011. The Polish native attended college in Poznan and now splits his time between Poznan and Los Angeles. “I took a sabbatical from writing,” he says....
- 8/6/2013
- Hitfix
Poznan, Poland— Last night, I had the great good fortune to sit at a concert with three-time Oscar winner David MacMillan at a concert here at the Transatlantyk Festival, a film and music festival put on by Oscar-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. Kaczmarek grew up in Poland and adopted Poznan as his hometown after attending college here. MacMillan, who won his gold statues for “The Right Stuff,” “Speed” and “Apollo 13," is here teaching a master class. His other credits include "Twilight," "The 40-Year Old Virgin," "Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom," and "Hairspray." At 71, MacMillan has just retired. His last film, “Paranoia,”...
- 8/5/2013
- Hitfix
Rural Russian film takes top prize at Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Russian director Alexander Fedorchenko’s Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari received the Grand Prix and a €20,000 ($27,000) cash prize at the 13th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) in Wroclaw.
The decision by the International jury, headed by Hungary’s Bela Tarr and including Polish film-maker Joanna Kos-Krauze and Berlinale Forum director Christoph Terhechte, was announced ahead of the Polish premiere of Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of on Saturday evening.
Fedorchenko’s film had its world premiere at last year’s Rome Film Festival.
Review: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
In June, it won three awards - best script, best cinematography and the Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics - at the Kinotavr “Open Russian” Film Festival in Sochi.
The $2m production by Fedorchenko’s 29 February Film Company explores the myths of the Russian...
Russian director Alexander Fedorchenko’s Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari received the Grand Prix and a €20,000 ($27,000) cash prize at the 13th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) in Wroclaw.
The decision by the International jury, headed by Hungary’s Bela Tarr and including Polish film-maker Joanna Kos-Krauze and Berlinale Forum director Christoph Terhechte, was announced ahead of the Polish premiere of Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of on Saturday evening.
Fedorchenko’s film had its world premiere at last year’s Rome Film Festival.
Review: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
In June, it won three awards - best script, best cinematography and the Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics - at the Kinotavr “Open Russian” Film Festival in Sochi.
The $2m production by Fedorchenko’s 29 February Film Company explores the myths of the Russian...
- 7/29/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Premiering last year in the midst of the always busy and expansive Toronto International Film Festival, Nenad Cicid-Sain's directorial debut "The Time Being" may have a flown a bit under the radar. But the talent and premise are intriguing enough that it could be a good option against the emptier fare at your local multiplex this weekend. Starring Wes Bentley, Frank Langella, Corey Stoll and Sarah Paulson, the story follows Daniel (Bentley) an ambitious, struggling young artist whose work captures the interest of reclusive millionaire Warner (Frank Langella). When the man commissions Daniel for a piece, it instead turns out to involve a series of increasingly bizarre surveillance assignments. And as you'll see in this exclusive clip, Daniel is already wary of Warner's intentions from the start as they negotiate just what his work will involve. Featuring a score by Academy Award winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, and shot by...
- 7/26/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Time Crime: Cicin-Sain’s Debut an Empty Trinket
On a positive note, the benefit of watching Nenad Cicin-Sain’s directorial (and screenwriting debut) could definitely serve as a testament for the necessity of a well-written screenplay in the filmmaking process. Co-written with producer Richard N. Gladstein (also a feature screenplay debut), The Time Being is an underwhelmingly written piece of cinematic sod, made all the more disappointing for sporting a dazzling visual scheme and fantastic original score. An elaborate set-up moonlighting as a mystery thriller morphs into a confoundingly stagnant familial drama.
A struggling artist, Daniel (Wes Bentley), pursues his artistic endeavors to the detriment of his family’s economic well-being. A recent art exhibit of his work doesn’t result in any sales, but a possible commission is called into Eric (Corey Stoll), who has funded the exhibition space. A man named Warner (Frank Langella) has requested that Daniel...
On a positive note, the benefit of watching Nenad Cicin-Sain’s directorial (and screenwriting debut) could definitely serve as a testament for the necessity of a well-written screenplay in the filmmaking process. Co-written with producer Richard N. Gladstein (also a feature screenplay debut), The Time Being is an underwhelmingly written piece of cinematic sod, made all the more disappointing for sporting a dazzling visual scheme and fantastic original score. An elaborate set-up moonlighting as a mystery thriller morphs into a confoundingly stagnant familial drama.
A struggling artist, Daniel (Wes Bentley), pursues his artistic endeavors to the detriment of his family’s economic well-being. A recent art exhibit of his work doesn’t result in any sales, but a possible commission is called into Eric (Corey Stoll), who has funded the exhibition space. A man named Warner (Frank Langella) has requested that Daniel...
- 7/25/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With the first big weekend at Tiff out of the way, there is still an exciting week of movies and premieres to come, and among the titles big and small still looking to make a splash is Nenad Cicid-Sain's directorial debut "The Time Being." Starring Wes Bentley, Frank Langella and Corey Stoll ("Midnight In Paris"), the mystery follows Daniel (Bentley), a struggling artist who encounters an eccentric would-be benefactor (Langella), who commissions him to shoot a series of specific, but enigmatic videos, for reasons that are kept secret. Adding to the prospects of the film is an incredible array of talent lending their skills to the film including a score by Academy Award winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ("Finding Neverland"), and it was shot by Dp Mahai Malaimare Jr. who recently earned his stripes on "The Master." "The Time Being" premieres at Tiff at the Winter Garden Theater on September 11th.
- 9/10/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Los Angeles, CA and Santa Monica, CA, July 31, 2012 – Warner/Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, and Miramax, one of the world’s leading independent film and television studios, today announced an agreement under which Warner/Chappell will acquire the masters and publishing rights for all film music owned by Miramax. The agreement builds on the companies’ existing relationship through which Warner/Chappell administered Miramax’s film music publishing across most of Europe and South America. Terms are not being disclosed. The Miramax music library contains music from Academy Award® winners The Cider House Rules, Chicago, Cold Mountain and Frida, acclaimed movies such as Gangs of New York, Finding Neverland, Good Will Hunting, Chocolat, Sin City, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and music from several hundred other Miramax films. The catalog includes works from celebrated composers such as Academy Award® winners Howard Leslie Shore, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek,...
- 7/31/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Dario Marianelli has written the music for the upcoming comedy drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The film based on the bestselling novel by Paul Torday is directed by Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat). Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, The Full Monty, 127 Hours) has adapted the novel for the screen. The movie starring Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas follows a fisheries scientist who is sent to introduce salmon to the Highlands of the Yemen. The project is produced by Paul Webster who has worked with the composer on Atonement and Pride & Prejudice. Marianelli received an Academy Award nomination for both movies and won the award for Atonement. Hallstrom and Marianelli are collaborating for the first time on the film. Some of the composers the director has previously worked with include Rachel Portman, Alexandre Desplat, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young and Deborah Lurie. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen...
- 6/24/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
Question: At this point, it seems more likely than not that three of this year’s best picture Oscar nominees — “127 Hours,” “The Kids Are All Right,” and “Winter’s Bone” — will go without an Oscar win in any category on the night of February 27. What were the last five best picture nominees to do the same?
Prize: The first person to correctly answer this question in the comments section below will win the soundtrack to “Get Low,” composed by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. (Be sure to provide your email address so that we can contact you for your mailing address in the event that you win!)
Contest Over: The first person to identify “Frost/Nixon” (2008), “An Education” (2009), “District 9” (2009), “A Serious Man” (2009), and “Up in the Air” (2009) was Lucas, who will be contacted shortly — congratulations!
Photo: Robert Duvall in “Get Low.” Credit: Sony Pictures Classics.
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Prize: The first person to correctly answer this question in the comments section below will win the soundtrack to “Get Low,” composed by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. (Be sure to provide your email address so that we can contact you for your mailing address in the event that you win!)
Contest Over: The first person to identify “Frost/Nixon” (2008), “An Education” (2009), “District 9” (2009), “A Serious Man” (2009), and “Up in the Air” (2009) was Lucas, who will be contacted shortly — congratulations!
Photo: Robert Duvall in “Get Low.” Credit: Sony Pictures Classics.
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- 2/17/2011
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Jeremy Irons, Tom Sturridge and Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) have been confirmed as leads for the $7.5m production which is set to begin shooting at locations in Germany and Poland from May 2.
Us producer Michael London’s Groundswell Production has boarded Lajos Koltai’s next feature film The Treehouse (The Master of Farnow) which is being produced by Hamburg-based Transcorda Filmproduktion.
A time-honored story is set among an noble family on a Pomeranian estate in 1910. Paul Mayerberg adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s novel “Schwüle Tage.” The novel follows a failed student, his glamorous cousin and family, and is set in pre-wwi Germany.
The director of photography on the movie will be Hungarian Gyula Pados who had also worked on Koltai’s Evening and Fateless, while production design will be controled by Academy Award winner Allan Starski. The score will be composed by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. Costume design is by Anne Sheppard,...
Us producer Michael London’s Groundswell Production has boarded Lajos Koltai’s next feature film The Treehouse (The Master of Farnow) which is being produced by Hamburg-based Transcorda Filmproduktion.
A time-honored story is set among an noble family on a Pomeranian estate in 1910. Paul Mayerberg adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s novel “Schwüle Tage.” The novel follows a failed student, his glamorous cousin and family, and is set in pre-wwi Germany.
The director of photography on the movie will be Hungarian Gyula Pados who had also worked on Koltai’s Evening and Fateless, while production design will be controled by Academy Award winner Allan Starski. The score will be composed by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. Costume design is by Anne Sheppard,...
- 2/15/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Get Low opens with a grizzled coot named Felix Bush firing his gun in the air while running a group of kids off his property. Robert Duvall, pushing 80, has been delivering this type of earthy character for decades now and could probably play Felix Bush in his sleep. Duvall has always been a compelling presence, whether performing in big-budget studio films or smaller independent films like Get Low, a film that finds him at his best, but it’s a showcase performance adrift in a sincere but mediocre drama.
Get Low is set in the early 1930’s in a small town that has heard rumors and gossip about Felix Bush for many years – that he’s an outlaw and a murderer. One day, Felix strolls into the office of the local undertaker, Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) and his young apprentice Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), with the idea that they throw him a funeral party,...
Get Low is set in the early 1930’s in a small town that has heard rumors and gossip about Felix Bush for many years – that he’s an outlaw and a murderer. One day, Felix strolls into the office of the local undertaker, Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) and his young apprentice Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), with the idea that they throw him a funeral party,...
- 8/20/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The long list of deeply and realistically flawed characters legendary actor Robert Duvall has portrayed now has one, more name added to it. Felix Bush, the character at the center of Get Low, has a mystery about him, a deep-seeded kernel down within that drives him away from civilization and towards the backwoods of 1930’s Tennessee.
When the film opens, after an absolutely amazing first shot that heightens the sense of the mystery, we see children throwing rocks at Felix’s house, busting out a window. Felix runs out of the house bearing rifle and chases one of the children into his barn. The child, terrified at the prospect of what may come about him, vomits, and Felix, only wanting to scare the children (and seeing he has done just that), steps aside, allowing the child to run along.
Felix just wants to be left alone, and, so, it’s...
When the film opens, after an absolutely amazing first shot that heightens the sense of the mystery, we see children throwing rocks at Felix’s house, busting out a window. Felix runs out of the house bearing rifle and chases one of the children into his barn. The child, terrified at the prospect of what may come about him, vomits, and Felix, only wanting to scare the children (and seeing he has done just that), steps aside, allowing the child to run along.
Felix just wants to be left alone, and, so, it’s...
- 1/23/2010
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won the Oscar for his Finding Neverland score in 2005, hs composed the original score for Get Low, a drama from director Aaron Schneider (Two Soldiers) which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Produced by Zanuck Independent and co-produced by Polish company Tvn, the film tells the story about a man in a small town who is trying to solve an old murder ...
- 9/4/2009
- by moviescore
- MovieScore Magazine
I have no idea how I ended up coming across this website on Friday, but I must say I'm happy I did as Upcoming Film Scores is about as simple as they come when looking for who will be scoring what upcoming feature films. Want to know who is directing Werner Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant? Mark Isham (Lions for Lambs, The Mist, Running Scared) How about X-Men Origins: Wolverine? Harry Gregson-Williams (Spy Game, Narnia films, Gone Baby Gone) Or what's Steve Jablonsky up to? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Friday the 13th. Alexandre Desplat will follow up his Curious Case of Benjamin Button score with Meryl Streep's Julie and Julia and Terrence Malick's Tree of Life while Jan A.P. Kaczmarek will follow up his The Visitor score with The Horsemen and Hachiko - A Dog's Story. The site is simple, offers very little additional information outside...
- 1/11/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Upcoming Film Scores lists the ten most exciting, promising and anticipated film scores of 2009, according to its editor Mikael Carlsson who can't wait to hear what will come out musically of these projects:
1. Avatar (James Horner)
Director James Cameron and composer James Horner are of course best known for the multi-zillion-whatever-megahit Titanic, but they also gave us Aliens in 1986 which stands out as one of the most exciting nailbiter scores in sci-fi history. On that film, Cameron gave Horner a pretty hard time as judging from the composer interview on the special edition DVD, and basically what you hear in the film is the result of a composer writing under enormous pressure. On Avatar, the situation is the complete opposite. A luxury in film scoring today, the total time given to the scoring process on this film will probably exceed one year! Horner is currently working exclusively on this film,...
1. Avatar (James Horner)
Director James Cameron and composer James Horner are of course best known for the multi-zillion-whatever-megahit Titanic, but they also gave us Aliens in 1986 which stands out as one of the most exciting nailbiter scores in sci-fi history. On that film, Cameron gave Horner a pretty hard time as judging from the composer interview on the special edition DVD, and basically what you hear in the film is the result of a composer writing under enormous pressure. On Avatar, the situation is the complete opposite. A luxury in film scoring today, the total time given to the scoring process on this film will probably exceed one year! Horner is currently working exclusively on this film,...
- 1/3/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund's new film, thriller The Horsemen, gets an original score by Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (who won an Oscar for Finding Neverland). The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang and is a serial killer story about a detective who discovers that the suspects are linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Mandate Pictures and Michael Bay produces for release in 2009. Jonas Åkerlund is best known as a music video director. Coincidentally, Kaczmarek's other upcoming films include another project with a Swedish director, Lasse Hallström's Hachiko: A Dog's Story.
- 12/27/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
Academy Award-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarkek, who won the Oscar for his Finding Neverland score, has written and recorded the music for Swedish director Lasse Hallström's new film, Hachiko: A Dog's Story. The film, which stars Richard Gere and Joan Allen, is a heartwarming drama about a college professor's bond with an abandoned dog. Grand Army Entertainment produces, release date to be announced. This is Hallström's first film with music by Kaczmarek, his previous composers include Rachel Portman, Christopher Young, Alexandre Desplat and Carter Burwell. Kaczmarek recorded the score with the Polish Radio Orchestra featuring pianist Leszek Mozdzer and cellist Marek Szpakiewicz. Kaczmarek also recently scored the British tv production Pinocchio, starring Bob Hoskins as Geppetto.
- 12/6/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended membership invitations to 112 artists and executives. The invitees range from such recent Oscar winners as best actor Jamie Foxx, best original score composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek and best animated short-film creator Chris Landreth to such moguls as Paramount Pictures' Brad Grey, Sony Pictures Entertainment's Michael Lynton and Pixar Animation Studios' Steve Jobs. While the Academy adopted a new policy last year to slow the growth of the Academy to a maximum of 30 new members annually, it was able to issue more than 100 invitations because the Academy's ranks of voting members decline during the course of the year because of deaths and members opting for retired (nonvoting) status.
- 6/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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