Underscoring its historical importance, a further production marking the 50th death anniversary of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende could well be in the works. The historical drama, provisionally titled “The Meeting,” details a historical encounter between the doomed president, whose downfall heralded the rise of the infamous military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in 1973.
Producers Patricio Ochoa of Chile’s La Merced Prods., Cristóbal Sotomayor of Twentyfour Seven, Spain and U.S.-based executive producer Hebe Tabachnik of Lokro Production are in talks with potential production partners in Vietnam and France and with possible international sales agents.
Gonzalo Maza, the screenwriter behind Chile’s Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman” is attached as a script doctor to the screenplay penned by filmmaker-writer Antonio Luco.
“The Meeting” relates the fateful 1969 meeting between Allende, who was then Chile’s Senate president, and Vietnam’s President Ho Chi Minh, a frail 79 and on his last days.
Producers Patricio Ochoa of Chile’s La Merced Prods., Cristóbal Sotomayor of Twentyfour Seven, Spain and U.S.-based executive producer Hebe Tabachnik of Lokro Production are in talks with potential production partners in Vietnam and France and with possible international sales agents.
Gonzalo Maza, the screenwriter behind Chile’s Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman” is attached as a script doctor to the screenplay penned by filmmaker-writer Antonio Luco.
“The Meeting” relates the fateful 1969 meeting between Allende, who was then Chile’s Senate president, and Vietnam’s President Ho Chi Minh, a frail 79 and on his last days.
- 9/28/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Laura Poitras’ documentary about Julian Assange and Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Defoe, among line-up.Cannes 2016Official SelectionCritics’ WeekScroll down for full list
An 18-strong line-up of titles for the 48th Directors’ Fortnight (May 12-22), a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival run by the French Director’s Guild, has been announced by artistic director Edouard Waintrop at a press conference in Paris this morning.
Opening the section is Sweet Dreams (Fai bei sogni), from six-time Palme d’Or nominated Italian director Marco Bellocchio. The film, based on a novel by Massimo Gramellini, stars Bérénice Bejo and Valerio Mastandrea, with sales handled by The Match Factory.
Closing Directors’ Fortnight is Dog Eat Dog, Paul Schrader’s film starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Defoe that centres on three men fresh out of prison who attempt to adapt to civilian life. Arclight Films handles sales.
Overall, the titles...
An 18-strong line-up of titles for the 48th Directors’ Fortnight (May 12-22), a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival run by the French Director’s Guild, has been announced by artistic director Edouard Waintrop at a press conference in Paris this morning.
Opening the section is Sweet Dreams (Fai bei sogni), from six-time Palme d’Or nominated Italian director Marco Bellocchio. The film, based on a novel by Massimo Gramellini, stars Bérénice Bejo and Valerio Mastandrea, with sales handled by The Match Factory.
Closing Directors’ Fortnight is Dog Eat Dog, Paul Schrader’s film starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Defoe that centres on three men fresh out of prison who attempt to adapt to civilian life. Arclight Films handles sales.
Overall, the titles...
- 4/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Argentine miniseries from the director of Wakolda screening at Toronto.
Pyramide International has picked up sales on Argentine Lucia Puenzo’s eco-thriller miniseries Cromo ahead of its world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s new TV strand Primetime tomorrow (Sept 11).
“We signed it last week after seeing the episodes which will be shown at Toronto. We thought it looked fabulous,” Pyramide chief Eric Lagesse told ScreenDaily.
Episodes one, two and eight will premiere in Tiff’s new Primetime section aimed at cutting-edge projects blurring the boundaries between film and TV.
It is the first time the Paris-based auteur film specialist Pyramide has handled sales on a TV series.
“The wall between cinema and TV is no longer as impermeable as it was in the past,” said Lagesse. “There is still a strong cinematic quality to the look and feel of the series.
“You can tell that it’s made by people with a cinema background who are...
Pyramide International has picked up sales on Argentine Lucia Puenzo’s eco-thriller miniseries Cromo ahead of its world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s new TV strand Primetime tomorrow (Sept 11).
“We signed it last week after seeing the episodes which will be shown at Toronto. We thought it looked fabulous,” Pyramide chief Eric Lagesse told ScreenDaily.
Episodes one, two and eight will premiere in Tiff’s new Primetime section aimed at cutting-edge projects blurring the boundaries between film and TV.
It is the first time the Paris-based auteur film specialist Pyramide has handled sales on a TV series.
“The wall between cinema and TV is no longer as impermeable as it was in the past,” said Lagesse. “There is still a strong cinematic quality to the look and feel of the series.
“You can tell that it’s made by people with a cinema background who are...
- 9/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
The 68th Tony Awards on Sunday, hosted by Hugh Jackman, took place at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, where the best of the stage were honored.
Tony Awards Recap
A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder picked up steam leading up to Tony night. At the end of the show, the musical, which follows a destitute man looking to remove the eight ahead of him inline for a title, won four awards Sunday. Gentleman’s Guide won for best musical, book of a musical, director and costume design.
How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris, who has previously been a favorite Tony host, picked up his first award – best lead actor in a musical – for starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hedwig won for best musical revival, and Harris’ costar Lena Hall won best featured actress in a musical.
Jessie Mueller beat out...
Tony Awards Recap
A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder picked up steam leading up to Tony night. At the end of the show, the musical, which follows a destitute man looking to remove the eight ahead of him inline for a title, won four awards Sunday. Gentleman’s Guide won for best musical, book of a musical, director and costume design.
How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris, who has previously been a favorite Tony host, picked up his first award – best lead actor in a musical – for starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hedwig won for best musical revival, and Harris’ costar Lena Hall won best featured actress in a musical.
Jessie Mueller beat out...
- 6/9/2014
- Uinterview
Call it A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder & Winning Big.
The musical comedy dominated the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, taking home a leading seven trophies at the gala held Sunday night at The Town Hall in New York City. Based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: the Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman, the farce was named outstanding musical and received the musical direction award for Darko Tresnjak.
Star Jefferson Mays won for outstanding actor in a musical, an honor he shared with Neil Patrick Harris for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Lauren Worsham was named outstanding featured actress in a musical.
The musical comedy dominated the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, taking home a leading seven trophies at the gala held Sunday night at The Town Hall in New York City. Based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: the Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman, the farce was named outstanding musical and received the musical direction award for Darko Tresnjak.
Star Jefferson Mays won for outstanding actor in a musical, an honor he shared with Neil Patrick Harris for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Lauren Worsham was named outstanding featured actress in a musical.
- 6/2/2014
- by Amber Ray
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York (AP) — It was a brutal Tuesday morning for some A-list stars on Broadway. Snubbed for Tony Award nominations were Denzel Washington, James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Michelle Williams, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Zach Braff, Billy Crudup, Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig. Daniel Radcliffe struck out for his third consecutive Broadway show. Neil Patrick Harris, who won a nomination for his brilliant performance in the punk-rock show "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," said he was surprised by the final list. But he's been a Tony host and knows from experience the process is often rough. "Having been the host in previous years, it's always interesting and surprising," he said. "It's a small group of people that nominate and you're never quite sure what they're responding to. That being said, it does get to showcase the talents of people who often don't get their moment in the spotlight." One of the...
- 4/29/2014
- by Mark Kennedy (AP)
- Hitfix
Warning: Do not keep reading if you'd like to remain spoiler-free for the 2014 Winter Olympics primetime broadcast on NBC on Thursday (Feb. 20), which will feature the results of the women's figure skating long program and medals.
There were a couple surprises in the women's finals. Russia's Yulia Lipnitskaya and Gracie Gold of the U.S. both fell and still finished ahead of other U.S. skater Ashley Wagner, who skated a clean program. The commentators didn't get into it too heavily, but they expressed some surprise at Wagner's low score, which left her in 7th place. Gold ended up in 4th and the third U.S. skater, Polina Edmunds, placed 9th. It is the first time the U.S. has been shut out of a singles figure skating medal since Bavaria in 1936, as no U.S. men medaled in 2014 either.
Meanwhile, Russia's Adelina Sotnikova skated a very clean, beautiful program...
There were a couple surprises in the women's finals. Russia's Yulia Lipnitskaya and Gracie Gold of the U.S. both fell and still finished ahead of other U.S. skater Ashley Wagner, who skated a clean program. The commentators didn't get into it too heavily, but they expressed some surprise at Wagner's low score, which left her in 7th place. Gold ended up in 4th and the third U.S. skater, Polina Edmunds, placed 9th. It is the first time the U.S. has been shut out of a singles figure skating medal since Bavaria in 1936, as no U.S. men medaled in 2014 either.
Meanwhile, Russia's Adelina Sotnikova skated a very clean, beautiful program...
- 2/20/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Warning: Do not keep reading if you'd like to remain spoiler-free for the ladies' figure skating short program, which will be featured during NBC's 2014 Winter Olympics primetime broadcast Wednesday (Feb. 19).
It was an interesting night of women's figure skating, with Yulia Lipnitskaya of Russia, the darling of the team event last week, and Japan's Mao Asada, the reigning Olympic silver medalist, each taking an uncharacteristic fall and ending up lower in the standings than expected (much lower, in Asada's case, as she had more mistakes than just the one fall).
Meanwhile, South Korea's Yuna Kim (pictured), the reigning Olympics gold medalist, skated a nearly flawless short program and was awarded with the top spot. Russian skater Adelina Sotnikova is right on her heels, though the commentators thought the judges were "generous" with the scores for the hometown girl.
The U.S. skaters had a solid showing, though Ashley Wagner...
It was an interesting night of women's figure skating, with Yulia Lipnitskaya of Russia, the darling of the team event last week, and Japan's Mao Asada, the reigning Olympic silver medalist, each taking an uncharacteristic fall and ending up lower in the standings than expected (much lower, in Asada's case, as she had more mistakes than just the one fall).
Meanwhile, South Korea's Yuna Kim (pictured), the reigning Olympics gold medalist, skated a nearly flawless short program and was awarded with the top spot. Russian skater Adelina Sotnikova is right on her heels, though the commentators thought the judges were "generous" with the scores for the hometown girl.
The U.S. skaters had a solid showing, though Ashley Wagner...
- 2/19/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Warning: Don't keep reading if you want to remain spoiler-free as to the outcome of the team figure skating event, which enters its third and final day Sunday (Feb. 9). It will be featured in NBC's primetime broadcast this evening, which begins at 7 p.m. Et/Pt.
The first event in the 2014 Winter Olympics team figure skating finals is the men's free skate. The U.S., Canada and Japan all chose to have a different man skate in the long program than who competed earlier in the short program.
For the U.S., Jason Brown was subbed in for Jeremy Abbott. Brown, in his Olympics debut, put forth a solid performance but did fall on one of his jumps. With Canada finishing in second place for the men, it mathematically eliminated the U.S. for the silver medal.
The final men's results:
Russia, Yevgeny Plushenko, 168.20
Canada, Kevin Reynolds, 167.92
Japan, Taksuti Machida,...
The first event in the 2014 Winter Olympics team figure skating finals is the men's free skate. The U.S., Canada and Japan all chose to have a different man skate in the long program than who competed earlier in the short program.
For the U.S., Jason Brown was subbed in for Jeremy Abbott. Brown, in his Olympics debut, put forth a solid performance but did fall on one of his jumps. With Canada finishing in second place for the men, it mathematically eliminated the U.S. for the silver medal.
The final men's results:
Russia, Yevgeny Plushenko, 168.20
Canada, Kevin Reynolds, 167.92
Japan, Taksuti Machida,...
- 2/9/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
By Adrian Smith
Valentina (Isabelle De Funès) is a marxist fashion photographer in Milan. She is intelligent, talented and sexy, so it's no wonder that the leftist intellectuals all want to sleep with her. On her way home from a totally swinging party, the kind where alcohol and topless chicks are readily available, Valentina is almost run down by a car. Whilst sitting dazed at the side of the road, the driver emerges to check if she is okay. This is none other than the bizarrely-named Baba Yaga (former Hollywood sex symbol Carroll Baker). She tells Valentina that fate has brought them together. Baba Yaga gives her a lift home and explains that they will become firm friends. To ensure this she steals a clip from the top of one of Valentina's stockings and touches it to her lips suggestively. Baba Yaga is a witch, and clearly has sapphic feelings towards her.
Valentina (Isabelle De Funès) is a marxist fashion photographer in Milan. She is intelligent, talented and sexy, so it's no wonder that the leftist intellectuals all want to sleep with her. On her way home from a totally swinging party, the kind where alcohol and topless chicks are readily available, Valentina is almost run down by a car. Whilst sitting dazed at the side of the road, the driver emerges to check if she is okay. This is none other than the bizarrely-named Baba Yaga (former Hollywood sex symbol Carroll Baker). She tells Valentina that fate has brought them together. Baba Yaga gives her a lift home and explains that they will become firm friends. To ensure this she steals a clip from the top of one of Valentina's stockings and touches it to her lips suggestively. Baba Yaga is a witch, and clearly has sapphic feelings towards her.
- 11/22/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Europe had a steady release of odd horror/sex films in the 1970′s, and lesbian vampires were everywhere, with titles such as The Blood Spattered Bride from Spain and The Vampire Lovers from Hammer in England. Italy jumped into the fray with their own spin, only the main “monster” was a witch.
Baba Yaga is based on the Italian comic strip Valentina by Guido Crepax, which inspired a series of short films before this feature was produced in 1973. Valentina (Isabelle de Funès) is a fashion photographer who meets the mysterious Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker) one night. The two continue to meet, under more and more odd circumstances, and soon the two strike up a strange “friendship”.
For a film with a reputation for being so sexually provocative, it is fairly tame by today’s standards. In context, it is easy to see how the film’s lesbian S&M moments would be shocking.
Baba Yaga is based on the Italian comic strip Valentina by Guido Crepax, which inspired a series of short films before this feature was produced in 1973. Valentina (Isabelle de Funès) is a fashion photographer who meets the mysterious Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker) one night. The two continue to meet, under more and more odd circumstances, and soon the two strike up a strange “friendship”.
For a film with a reputation for being so sexually provocative, it is fairly tame by today’s standards. In context, it is easy to see how the film’s lesbian S&M moments would be shocking.
- 9/10/2012
- by Derek Botelho
- DailyDead
The '70s were a great time for creepy/groovy films, and Baba Yaga is a prime example of this style of film. The witch, Baba Yaga, is a component of many ancient Slavic folk tales, but I'm not sure that she was ever depicted quite the same way that illustrator Guido Crepax and director Corrado Farina shaped their story. This sexy, stylish entry into the '70s art-cinema oeuvre is a welcome addition to Blue Underground's Blu-ray collection, and they've done right by it, though not without controversy.Valentina (Isabella de Funes) is a popular fashion photographer who works as much as possible in all strata of society. In her journey and mingling she comes across an older woman named Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker of How the West...
- 2/23/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Here's what I have to say to all the people who bemoan the state of classical music: My classical list is the last one I'm posting (as has often been the case) because there were so many great releases to listen to that I didn't finish until now.
I want to once again admit the biases operating in my best-of-the-year classical lists: I am most interested in the piano, choral, and symphonic literatures. I’m happy to listen to other things when they come my way, but those are what I seek out, vastly tipping the balance in their favor (tipping the balance against opera is the increasing disinclination of record companies to send promos for new opera recordings unless one specifically asks -- and even that is no guarantee). Also note: no reissues or compilations here. That disqualified even the first box-set appearance of David Zinman's fine Mahler cycle,...
I want to once again admit the biases operating in my best-of-the-year classical lists: I am most interested in the piano, choral, and symphonic literatures. I’m happy to listen to other things when they come my way, but those are what I seek out, vastly tipping the balance in their favor (tipping the balance against opera is the increasing disinclination of record companies to send promos for new opera recordings unless one specifically asks -- and even that is no guarantee). Also note: no reissues or compilations here. That disqualified even the first box-set appearance of David Zinman's fine Mahler cycle,...
- 1/5/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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