'Non-Fiction' Review: Olivier Assayas' Latest Film Is A Droll Delight [TIFF]
In our Non-Fiction review, we take a closer look at the new film from modern master Olivier Assayas and it's a total delight.
Read MoreIn our Non-Fiction review, we take a closer look at the new film from modern master Olivier Assayas and it's a total delight.
Read MoreFor his English-language debut, French filmmaker Guillaume Canet chose to do a remake of a French film that he himself had starred in a few years previous: Rivals (a.k.a. Les liens du sang), based on a novel by Bruno Papet and Michel Papet. Canet's version, titled Blood Ties, hit Cannes last year and is now headed…
Read MoreWith seemingly half of Hollywood racing to bring a Lance Armstrong biopic to the big screen, the first one to reach the starting line is Stephen Frears. His untitled picture began shooting a few days ago, with Ben Foster in the lead role of the disgraced cyclist. A first-look image has just hit the web,…
Read MoreAnother big Cannes premiere this year was the crime drama Blood Ties, co-written by Two Lovers director James Gray, and the first English-language film directed by Guillaume Canet (Tell No One). The film has quite a cast, and a period '70s setting in Brooklyn, as it remakes the 2008 French thriller Les liens du sang by…
Read MoreTribeca Film is teaming with Miramax to release some of the films that were left in the Miramax library when Disney closed the label a while back; one of them is Last Night, in which Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington play a married couple who, when separated for a night, end up confronting temptation. There's…
Read MoreOne smaller film I've been looking forward to is Massy Tadjedin's Last Night, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. The movie centers around married couple Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington, who each find themselves tempted to stray on one fateful night. Worthington's character goes on a business trip with sexy coworker…
Read MoreMiramax has new ownership, and is making moves as a real working company once more. This might mean good things for some of the films that were looking orphaned when Disney decided to shutter the label. The first filmto get a new lease on life is Last Night -- not the Don McKellar millennial drama,…
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