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Yeti, Inuit, Blanche Gardin in Berlin Film ‘The Incredible Snow Woman’

Yeti, Inuit, Blanche Gardin in Berlin Film ‘The Incredible Snow Woman’

“Traveling solo across Greenland, camping on an ice floe, single-handedly wrestling a bear. Not much daunts Coline Morel – except, perhaps, confronting her own existence when it starts to spiral out of control.” Thus reads a synopsis of French writer-director Sébastien Betbeder’s film The Incredible Snow Woman (L’ Incroyable femme des neiges) with French comedian Blanche Gardin (Yannick, The Book of Solutions), Philippe Katerine, Bastien Bouillon, Ole Eliassen, and Martin Jensen, which will world premiere at the 75th Berlin Film Festival. Screening in the Berlinale’s main sidebar Panorama, the new movie from the director of Marie and the Misfits and Ulysses & Mona sees the protagonist, an explorer, turning up unannounced in her native village in the Jura mountains to visit her two brothers Basile and Lolo, whom she hasn’t seen in years. Add in the appearance of her first love and other unexpected developments, and Coline spirals out of control. The journey she decides she must go on, which also includes an inner journey, could turn out to be the most difficult and the …

Star Sightings: Jennifer Lopez Stuns at Sundance Film Festival, Timothée Chalamet Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’

Star Sightings: Jennifer Lopez Stuns at Sundance Film Festival, Timothée Chalamet Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’

Here’s a look at what celebrities have been up to as of late! Jennifer Lopez posed in all-leather ensemble, featuring the Nina Leather Coat With Scarf by DUCIE, at Sundance Film Festival in Park rty, Utah. Millie Bobby Brown snapped a selfie for Instagram in the STAUD Cadence Dress. Pamela Anderson and UTOPIA celebrated the Golden Globe Award nominations for The Last Showgirl at The Hollywood Roosevelt in Hollywood, California featuring El Cristiano Tequila and Peroni Nastro Azzurro. Olivia Rodrigo enjoyed lunch with Lauren at Café Maud in New York City. The singer also starred in Lancôme’s Idôle Power Eau De Parfum Intense campaign. Selena Gomez attended the 2025 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California with a manicure created by Tom Bachik using Olive & June products and the Tweezerman x Tom Bachik Ultimate Nail Care Set and a hair look created by celebrity hairstylist Renato Campora with Joico products and ghd hot tools.   Nicholas Galitzine was featured in the Emporio Armani Stronger With You Parfum campaign video to announce his role as their …

Sympathy for the Troll | Anna Shechtman

Sympathy for the Troll | Anna Shechtman

During the Q&A after the US premiere of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me, last fall at the New York Film Festival, someone asked about his interest in shit. The provocation was not altogether inappropriate: Carax’s forty-two-minute essay film begins, after all, with Monsieur Merde, a recurring character in three of his last four major films. With overgrown nails and the fiery beard of an unshowered leprechaun, Merde moves like a wind-up doll—or like a silent film undercranked—flat-footing through the streets of Paris and the sewers of Tokyo at what seems like more than twenty-four frames per second.  Acted—or, better, animated—by the preternaturally embodied Denis Lavant, with whom Carax has collaborated since 1984, Merde is a compact spectacle. He slakes his horny appetite with mouthfuls of flowers, licks armpits, abducts models, and generally explodes with unsublimated desire. He says nothing and yet transmits the whole history of cinema—he is Chaplin’s tramp, Renoir’s Hyde, with shocks of Nosferatu and Kong—through coos and shrieks, speaking most forcefully through a single feverish eye. The other eye is clouded over, cataracted, his vision …

Jamie Foxx shares big ‘problem’ Leonardo DiCaprio had with Tarantino film Django Unchained

Jamie Foxx shares big ‘problem’ Leonardo DiCaprio had with Tarantino film Django Unchained

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Jamie Foxx has revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio was left uncomfortable by a big “problem” on the set of Django Unchained. The issues arose when DiCaprio, in character as plantation owner Calvin Candie, had to say a racial slur. However, his co-star Samuel L Jackson, who has previously defended director Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in his films, had strong words for DiCaprio. “Leonardo DiCaprio had a problem saying it,” Foxx, the 2012 film’s lead star, said in a new interview, revealing the actor told his co-stars: “It’s tough for me to say this.” Jackson, who played Calvin’s fiercely loyal slave Stephen, quickly jumped to action, though, and tried to make DiCaprio feel OK saying the word while in character. Foxx, who currently stars in Netflix film Back in Action, told Vanity Fair: “I remember Samuel L Jackson going, ‘Get over it, motherf***er! It’s just another …

Hong Kong’s Asia Film Financing Forum 2025 Projects

Hong Kong’s Asia Film Financing Forum 2025 Projects

Hong Kong’s Asia Film Financing Forum, the region’s leading movie project market, has unveiled the 25 titles selected for its upcoming 2025 edition. The program features films that are in development from some of Asia’s most accomplished directors and producers, including Kore-eda Hirokazu, Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Nai An, Stanley Kwan and Yeh Ju-Feng.  The three-day event, the anchor component of the expanded Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Industry Project Market, will take place March 17-19 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre alongside the 29th Hong Kong Filmart.  “Those shortlisted are remarkable for their cultural diversity. They showcase extraordinary storytelling in a broad range of genres, from action to sci-fi, fantasy, suspense, and horror,” noted HKIFF Industry director Jacob Wong, who added that the organization had received 276 in-development project submissions from 45 countries and regions, spanning Hong Kong, Thailand, Turkey, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea. “There are nine projects from female directors this year, as well as several collaborations involving filmmakers from Asia, Europe, and North America, underscoring Hong Kong’s position at the …

Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires

Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires

“This is fire sea­son in Los Ange­les,” Joan Did­ion once wrote, relat­ing how every year “the San­ta Ana winds start blow­ing down through the pass­es, and the rel­a­tive humid­i­ty drops to fig­ures like sev­en or six or three per cent, and the bougainvil­lea starts rat­tling in the dri­ve­way, and peo­ple start watch­ing the hori­zon for smoke and tun­ing in to anoth­er of those extreme local pos­si­bil­i­ties — in this instance, that of immi­nent dev­as­ta­tion.” The New York­er pub­lished this piece in 1989, when Los Ange­les’ fire sea­son was “a par­tic­u­lar­ly ear­ly and bad one,” but it’s one of many writ­ings on the same phe­nom­e­non now cir­cu­lat­ing again, with the high­ly destruc­tive Pal­isades Fire still burn­ing away. Back in 1989, long­time Ange­lenos would have cit­ed the Bel Air Fire of 1961 as a par­tic­u­lar­ly vivid exam­ple of what mis­for­tune the San­ta Ana winds could bring. Wide­ly rec­og­nized as a byword for afflu­ence (not unlike the now vir­tu­al­ly oblit­er­at­ed Pacif­ic Pal­isades), Bel Air was home to the likes of Den­nis Hop­per, Burt Lan­cast­er, Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa …

‘Haunted, Haunted’

‘Haunted, Haunted’

At eighty-one, the British filmmaker Mike Leigh shows few signs of wanting to retire so long as he can find funding for his projects. This has always been a tricky business because of his working method: he never has a script to show potential investors and often doesn’t even know what a movie will be […] Source link

Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”

Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”

In an astonishing feat of laziness, Amazon Prime Video service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film “Nosferatu” with a slapdash poster that was obviously generated using AI. The poster — first discovered by eagle-eyed netizens last fall and resurfaced as Robert Eggers’ remake of the beloved classic wows critics in theaters — turns the vampire Count Orlok’s monstrous visage into a yassified rendition with a strangely slender body, his harrowing appearance replaced with an aesthetic straight out of a “Twilight” movie. To add suck further blood out of the original’s legacy, its iconic use of typography was exchanged for a font that closely resembles Papyrus, a typeface so widely hated that it spawned its own series of “Saturday Night Live” sketches. In other words, it’s exactly the kind of uninspired slop you’d expect an AI image generator to spit out. It’s a sign of the times — highlighting a worrying trend as companies like Amazon continue to undermine the work of human artists by leaning into cheapo AI. The online reaction to the insipid art …

John Landis Film Editor, Producer Was 85 

John Landis Film Editor, Producer Was 85 

George Folsey Jr., the admired film editor and producer who collaborated with director John Landis on such films as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America and the catastrophic Twilight Zone: The Movie, has died. He was 85. Folsey died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his son, fellow film editor Ryan Folsey (Cabin Fever, Renfield), told The Hollywood Reporter. Folsey’s father was George J. Folsey, the famed 13-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose credits included The Cocoanuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930), Thousands Cheer (1944), Meet Me in St. Louis (1945), The Clock (1945), Green Dolphin Street (1947), Adam’s Rib (1949), Million Dollar Mermaid (1953), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1955) and Forbidden Planet (1956). George Folsey Jr. also edited Shawn Levy’s Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and The Pink Panther (2006), as well as Eli Roth’s Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007). After cutting Landis’ directorial debut, Schlock (1973), Folsey edited the Landis-helmed The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Coming to America (1988), which he …

French Film Groups Goodfellas, Rectangle Finalize Merger

French Film Groups Goodfellas, Rectangle Finalize Merger

French film companies Rectangle Productions and Goodfellas have completed their merger, the two companies unveiled on Friday. Rectangle, the production house behind San Sebastian opener Emmanuelle and 2021 Venice festival winner Happening, and Vincent Maraval’s Goodfellas, who have handled international sales on such features as Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning The Boy and The Heron, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, finalized their merger on November 4, 2024. The companies have been collaborating for years, with Goodfellas handling sales on Rectangle productions including Emmanuelle, Valerie Donzelli’s Cannes 2023 film Just the Two of Us, and Charlene Favier’s Oxana, among others. The merger, the companies said, was “carried out in the interests of all stakeholders” and marked “an important milestone for these long-standing partners.” Rectangle Productions, under Alice Girard and Edouard Weil, said it will retain its brand, creative independence, attached talent, and all ongoing projects. In a statement, the company said it was devoted to continuing to “produce ambitious films and TV series in collaboration with their usual talents and partners.” For Goodfellas, the merger gives a major …