Tuesday 16 May 2017




Cannes Film Festival 2017:
Films in competition.


http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/selection/competition-1



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Sunday 19 April 2015

Image: Isabelle Huppert in "Louder Than Bombs"



Norwegian director Joachim Trier's "Louder Than Bombs" in the Cannes main Competition. 

Anja Breien's "Next of Kin (1979) was the last Norwegian fim in the main comptetion. 36 Years later, Joachim Trier's third feature film, "Louder Than Bombs", starring  Gabriel Byrne, Isabele Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid, will have its red carpet screening. .

Trier's excellent last film, "Oslo, August 31st", was screened in  the offical Cannes program ("Un Certain Regard") in 2011.Audun EnghNews story on the Norwegian Film Institute website:http://www.nfi.no/english/news/triers-louder-than-bombs-competes-at-cannes

Trier’s Louder Than Bombs competes at Cannes

Published: 16/04/2015 | Edited: 16/04/2015
Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs will be the only Nordic entry in the main competition at the Cannes International Film Festival between 13-24 May

36 years after Norway last had a contender for the Palme d’Or in Cannes – Anja Breien’s Next of Kin (Arven/1979) - Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s third feature, Louder Than Bombs, will screen as the only Nordic selection for the main competition on the Côte d’Azur, which runs between 13-24 May. 

 “My grandfather Erik Løchen participated with his first film «The Hunt» (Jakten) in Cannes in 1960, in the same programme as Antonioni, Fellini, Bunuel og Bergman, and Cannes has always meant something special to me on a personal level. Cannes is the perfect place for my film to meet the world,” said Trier. 
“Trier’s selection for the main competition at Cannes is a great recognition for him as a filmmaker as well as confirming confirming the quality of Norwegian cinema,” added Sindre Guldvog, CEO of the Norwegian Film Institute. 
The director’s previous features, Reprise (2002) and Oslo, August 31st (Oslo, 31. August) were both awarded at international festivals, including Toronto and Sundance, as well as being distributed in several territories. 
In Louder Than Bombs Trier continues his collaboration with Vogt, who has co-written his films since his short film Proctor (2002). Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid star in the Thomas Robsahm production for the Norwegian producer Motlys, which was shot in New York. 

Synopsis


An upcoming exhibition celebrating renowned photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death brings her eldest son back to the family house - forcing him to spend more time with his father and withdrawn younger brother than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, the father Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the wife and mother they remember so differently.
One of the 20 entries vying for the Palme d’Or, Trier’s first English-language film was co-produced by France’s Memento Films, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute. SF Film will release domestically in October; Memento handles international sales.

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Joachim TrierMore about the film and director Joachom Trier:

http://www.nfi.no/english/127516/louder-than-bombs
JOACHIM TRIER (b. 1974) has received international recognition both for his feature film debut Reprise(2006) and his sophomoric featureOslo, August 31st (2011). Known for existential, yet accessible character studies and weaving between dreamscapes and reality, Trier has been hailed as ”sensationally talented“ (New York Times). Selected for the Cannes Official Selection - Un Certain Regard - in 2011, as well as Toronto, Sundance, and numerous other festivals, Oslo, August 31st has also received many awards. Last year, it was nominated for the César award for Best Foreign Film 2013, after reaching over 160.000 admissions at theatres in France. Joachim started filmmaking in 1995, writing and directing several short films, which won a dozen international prizes, while he was attending film school in Denmark and The National Film & TV School, England.
Filmography:
Oslo, August 31st (2011), feature
Reprise (2006), feature
Procter (2002), short
Still (2001), short
Pietá (1999), short
Passport (1998), short
The Transparency of Evil (1996), short
Neglection (1996), short
Fatal Strategies (1995), short

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Presentation of the 2015 Cannes films in competition, in The Guardian.

Peter Bradshaw writes this about the Norwegian entry, "Louder Thn Bonds" by Joachom Trier:

Louder Than Bombs, starring Jesse Eisenberg and written by Eskil Vogt, is the new film by the Norwegian director Joachim Trier (distantly related to Lars von Trier, who like Josef von Sternberg added Von to the family name). Trier’s drama Oslo, August 31st made a great impression in the Un Certain Regard section in 2011. Louder Than Bombs is his first English-language movie, and reportedly a complex, Rashomon-type drama centring on facts that emerge about a war photographer after her death, as a retrospective of her work is being assembled.

 Article link: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/apr/16/cannes-2015-british-directors-peter-bradshaw-preview

Cannes 2015: the Brits aren't coming, but I'm still glad to go

Peter Bradshaw

It is always an exciting moment, and not just for trainspotters. The announcement of the Cannes competition list is effectively the beginning of a new film year, and this is the first with the festival’s new president, Pierre Lescure, who is taking over from the legendary, mandarin-figure Gilles Jacob. Although the bullish, vigorous Thierry Frémaux is, of course, the general delegate and prime mover in the choice of films, the choice of jury members and therefore the likely choice of winners. The dominance of Cannes on the international film festival circuit is such that these are the films that will be seen, distributed, talked about and given prizes in the months to come.
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CANNES 2015 - THE OFFICIAL SELECTION.


The Official Selection of films for the Cannes 2015 film festival was announced April 16.
A Norwegian director is participating in the competition; Joachim Trier with "Louder Then Bombs". 

Festival website: http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/61306.html

Greffiti/Panoptikon will be represented at the festival 12-22 May.

Audun Engh

 

IN COMPETITION


Opening Film  
   
Emmanuelle BERCOT
LA TÊTE HAUTE
(STANDING TALL)
Out of Competition
2h00
   
 *** 
Jacques AUDIARD   DHEEPAN (TEMPORARY TITLE)1h49
   
Stéphane BRIZÉ   
LA LOI DU MARCHÉ
(THE MEASURE OF A MAN )   
1h32
   
Valérie DONZELLI   
MARGUERITE ET JULIEN
(MARGUERITE AND JULIEN)
1h50
   
Matteo GARRONE
   		IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI
(TALE OF TALES)		2h05
   
Todd HAYNESCAROL1h58
   
HOU Hsiao HsienNIE YINNIANG
(THE ASSASSIN)		2h00
   
JIA Zhang-Ke    
       		SHAN HE GU REN
(MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART)		2h00
   
KORE-EDA Hirokazu     
       		UMIMACHI DIARY
(OUR LITTLE SISTER)		2h08
   
Justin KURZEL         MACBETH1h53
   
Yorgos LANTHIMOSTHE LOBSTER1h58
   
MAÏWENN    MON ROI2h10
   
Nanni MORETTI           
MIA MADRE
1h42
   
László NEMES    
   
SAUL FIA
(SON OF SAUL)
1st film   
1h47
   
Paolo SORRENTINOYOUTH1h58
   
Joachim TRIERLOUDER THAN BOMBS       1h45
   
Gus VAN SANT           
THE SEA OF TREES
1h50
   
 Denis VILLENEUVE   SICARIO       2h01
   

 

 


UN CERTAIN REGARD

Neeraj GHAYWANMASAAN
1st film		1h43
 

 
Grímur HÁKONARSONHRÚTAR 
(RAMS)		1h30
   
KUROSAWA KiyoshiKISHIBE NO TABI
(JOURNEY TO THE SHORE)		2h08
 

 
Laurent LARIVIÈREJE SUIS UN SOLDAT(I AM A SOLDIER)
1st film		1h36
   
Dalibor MATANICZVIZDAN 
(THE HIGH SUN)		2h03
   
Roberto MINERVINITHE OTHER SIDE1h30
   
Radu MUNTEANUN ETAJ MAI JOS
(ONE FLOOR BELOW)		1h33
 

 
OH Seung-UkMU-ROE-HAN 
(THE SHAMELESS)		1h58
   
David PABLOSLAS ELEGIDAS 
(THE CHOSEN ONES)		1h45
 

 
Ida PANAHANDEHNAHID1h44
 

 
Corneliu PORUMBOIUCOMOARA 
(THE TREASURE)		1h30
 

 
Gurvinder SINGHCHAUTHI KOOT 
(THE FOURTH DIRECTION)		1h55
   
SHIN SuwonMADONNA2h01
   
Alice WINOCOURMARYLAND1h40
 

 

 


OUT OF COMPETITION



Woody ALLENIRRATIONAL MAN  1h36
   
Pete DOCTER
Ronaldo DEL CARMEN		INSIDE OUT  1h42
   
George MILLERMAD MAX : FURY ROAD  2h00
   
Mark OSBORNETHE LITTLE PRINCE  1h48


MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS



HONG Won-ChanO PISEU
(OFFICE)
1st film		  1h49
   
Asif KAPADIA AMY  2h07




SPECIAL SCREENINGS



Samuel BENCHETRITASPHALTE1h40
   
Souleymane CISSE
OKA 1h50
   
Elad KEIDANHAYORED LEMA'ALA
1st film		 1h45
   
Natalie PORTMANSIPUR AL AHAVA VE CHOSHECH
(A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS)
1st film		 1h35
   
Barbet SCHROEDERAMNESIA 1h36
   
Pavle VUCKOVICPANAMA
1st film		 1h45


http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/61306.html


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Tuesday 22 April 2014


The Allen Ginsberg Interview - Oslo 1993. 50 minute documentary in production 2014.

Link to 4 min trailer

http://naboskap.blogspot.no/2011/04/4-min-trailer-allen-ginsberg-interview.html

We shot a 90 minute interview with the poet Allen Ginsberg at the Continental hotel in Oslo, 24 October 1993. The interview was transcribed and translated to Norwegian for publication in our underground paper Gateavisa - The Street Paper - but the video has never been screened. We have now decided to turn it into a 50 minute documentary, with additional new footage to be shot at the City Lights bookshop and other locations in San Francisco, including an interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926 and died April 5, 1997.



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Cannes Film Festival - 14 to 25 May 2014

THE OFFICIAL SELECTION



http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/60533.html

In Competition

Opening Film    
     
Olivier DAHAN GRACE DE MONACO 1h43
     
  ***  
     
Olivier ASSAYAS CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA 2h03
     
Bertrand BONELLO SAINT LAURENT 2h15
     
Nuri Bilge CEYLAN WINTER SLEEP
 3h16
     
David CRONENBERG MAPS TO THE STARS 1h51
     
Jean-Pierre DARDENNE,
Luc DARDENNE		 DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT 1h35
     
Xavier DOLAN MOMMY 2h20
     
Atom EGOYAN CAPTIVES 1h53
     
Jean-Luc GODARD ADIEU AU LANGAGE 1h10
     
Michel HAZANAVICIUS THE SEARCH 2h29
     
Tommy Lee JONES THE HOMESMAN 2h02
     
Naomi KAWASE FUTATSUME NO MADO
(Still the water)
 1h50
     
Mike LEIGH MR. TURNER 2h29
     
Ken LOACH JIMMY’S HALL 1h46
     
Bennett MILLER FOXCATCHER 2h10
     
Alice ROHRWACHER LE MERAVIGLIE 1h50
     
Abderrahmane SISSAKO TIMBUKTU 1h40
     
Damian SZIFRON RELATOS SALVAJES
(Wild Tales)
 1h55
     
Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV LEVIATHAN 2h20
     

 

Un Certain Regard

Opening Film    
     
Marie AMACHOUKELI,
Claire BURGER,
Samuel THEIS
 PARTY GIRL
1st film
 1h35
     
  ***  
     
Lisandro ALONSO JAUJA 1h41
     
Mathieu AMALRIC LA CHAMBRE BLEUE 1h15
     
Asia ARGENTO INCOMPRESA
 1h43
     
Kanu BEHL TITLI
1st film
 2h04
     
Ned BENSON ELEANOR RIGBY
1st film		 1h59
     
Pascale FERRAN BIRD PEOPLE 2h07
     
Ryan GOSLING LOST RIVER
1st film
 1h45
     
Jessica HAUSNER AMOUR FOU 1h36
     
Rolf de HEER CHARLIE’S COUNTRY
 1h48
     
Andrew HULME SNOW IN PARADISE
1st film
 1h48
     
July JUNG DOHEE-YA
(A Girl at my Door)
1st film
 1h59
     
Panos KOUTRAS XENIA 2h03
     
Philippe LACÔTE RUN
1er film		 1h40
     
Ruben ÖSTLUND TURIST
 2h
     
Jaime ROSALES HERMOSA JUVENTUD
 1h40
     
WANG Chao FANTASIA 1h25
     
Wim WENDERS
Juliano RIBEIRO SALGADO
 THE SALT OF THE EARTH
 1h40
     
Keren YEDAYA LOIN DE SON ABSENCE
(Away From His Absence)
 1h35

 


Out of Competition


Dean DEBLOIS DRAGONS 2 1h45 
     
ZHANG Yimou GUI LAI
(Coming Home)		 1h51  


Midnight Screenings


CHANG PYO JEOK
(The Target)		 1h39   
     
Kristian LEVRING THE SALVATION 1h30   
     
David MICHOD THE ROVER 1h40



Special Screenings


Aida BEGIC, Leonardo DI COSTANZO, Jean-Luc GODARD, Kamen KALEV, Isild LE BESCO, Sergei LOZNITSA, Vincenzo MARRA, Ursula MEIER, Vladimir PERISIC, Cristi PUIU, Marc RECHA, Angela SCHANELEC, Teresa VILLAVERDE LES PONTS DE SARAJEVO
(Bridges of Sarajevo)		 1h50   
     
Gabe POLSKY RED ARMY  1h25 
     
Sergei LOZNITSA MAIDAN  2h  
     
Ossama MOHAMMED EAU ARGENTEE, SYRIE AUTOPORTRAIT (Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait) 1h50 
     
Stéphanie VALLOATTO CARICATURISTES - FANTASSINS DE LA DÉMOCRATIE
(Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy)		 1h46   



70th anniversary celebration of Le Monde newspaper:



Yves JEULAND LES GENS DU MONDE  1h22   




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Sunday 12 May 2013


 CANNES 2013: THE OFFICIAL SELECTION.

Go to this website and click on film titles and directors`names for further details.

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/inCompetition.html

Competition

BEHIND THE CANDELABRA directed by Steven SODERBERGH
BORGMAN directed by Alex VAN WARMERDAM
GRIGRIS directed by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN
HELI directed by Amat ESCALANTE
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS directed by Ethan COEN, Joel COEN
JEUNE & JOLIE (YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL) directed by François OZON
JIMMY P. (PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN) directed by Arnaud DESPLECHIN
LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY) directed by Paolo SORRENTINO
LA VÉNUS À LA FOURRURE (VENUS IN FUR) directed by Roman POLANSKI
LA VIE D'ADÈLE - CHAPITRE 1 & 2 (BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR) directed by Abdellatif KECHICHE
LE PASSÉ (THE PAST) directed by Asghar FARHADI
MICHAEL KOHLHAAS directed by Arnaud DES PALLIÈRES
NEBRASKA directed by Alexander PAYNE
ONLY GOD FORGIVES directed by Nicolas WINDING REFN
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE directed by Jim JARMUSCH
SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU (Like Father, Like Son) directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu
THE IMMIGRANT directed by James GRAY
TIAN ZHU DING (A TOUCH OF SIN) directed by JIA Zhangke
UN CHÂTEAU EN ITALIE (A CASTLE IN ITALY) directed by Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI
WARA NO TATE (Shield of Straw) directed by Takashi MIIKE

Un Certain Regard

AS I LAY DYING directed by James FRANCO
BENDS directed by Flora LAU
DAST-NEVESHTEHAA NEMISOOSAND (Manuscripts Don’t Burn) directed by Mohammad RASOULOF
DEATH MARCH directed by Adolfo ALIX JR.
FRUITVALE STATION directed by Ryan COOGLER
GRAND CENTRAL directed by Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI
L'IMAGE MANQUANTE (The missing picture) directed by Rithy PANH
L'INCONNU DU LAC (Stranger by the Lake) directed by Alain GUIRAUDIE
LA JAULA DE ORO directed by Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ
LES SALAUDS (BASTARDS) directed by Claire DENIS
MIELE directed by Valeria GOLINO
MY SWEET PEPPER LAND directed by Hiner SALEEM
NORTE, HANGGANAN NG KASAYSAYAN (NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY) directed by Lav DIAZ
OMAR directed by Hany ABU-ASSAD
SARAH PRÉFÈRE LA COURSE (SARAH PREFERS TO RUN) directed by Chloé ROBICHAUD
THE BLING RING directed by Sofia COPPOLA
TORE TANZT (NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN) directed by Katrin GEBBE
WAKOLDA directed by Lucía PUENZO

Out of Competition

ALL IS LOST directed by J.C CHANDOR
BLIND DETECTIVE directed by Johnnie TO
BLOOD TIES directed by Guillaume CANET
LE DERNIER DES INJUSTES (THE LAST OF THE UNJUST) directed by Claude LANZMANN
MONSOON SHOOTOUT directed by Amit KUMAR
THE GREAT GATSBY directed by Baz LUHRMANN
ZULU directed by Jérôme SALLE

Special screenings

BOMBAY TALKIES directed by Zoya AKHTAR, Dibakar BANERJEE, Karan JOHAR, Anurag KASHYAP
MAX ROSE directed by Daniel NOAH
MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT directed by Stephen FREARS
OTDAT KONCI (BITE THE DUST) directed by Taisia IGUMENTSEVA
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED directed by James TOBACK
STOP THE POUNDING HEART directed by Roberto MINERVINI
WEEKEND OF A CHAMPION directed by Frank SIMON

Cinefondation

ASUNCIÓN directed by Camila LUNA TOLEDO
AU-DELÀ DE L’HIVER (AFTER THE WINTER) directed by JOW Zhi Wei
BABAGA directed by Gan DE LANGE
CONTRAFÁBULA DE UNA NIÑA DISECADA (FABLE OF A BLOOD-DRAINED GIRL) directed by Alejandro IGLESIAS MENDIZÁBAL
DANSE MACABRE directed by Malgorzata RZANEK
DUET directed by Navid DANESH
EN ATTENDANT LE DÉGEL (Waiting for the Thaw) directed by Sarah HIRTT
EXIL (EXILE) directed by Vladilen VIERNY
GOING SOUTH directed by Jefferson MONEO
ÎN ACVARIU (IN THE FISHBOWL) directed by Tudor Cristian JURGIU
MAÑANA TODAS LAS COSAS (TOMORROW ALL THE THINGS) directed by Sebastián SCHJAER
NEEDLE directed by Anahita GHAZVINIZADEH
O ŠUNCE (HAM STORY) directed by Eliška CHYTKOVÁ
PANDY (PANDAS) directed by Matúš VIZÁR
SEON (THE LINE) directed by KIM Soo-Jin
STEPSISTER directed by Joey IZZO
THE MAGNIFICENT LION BOY directed by Ana CARO
THE NORM OF LIFE directed by Evgeny BYALO

Short films in Competition

37°4 S directed by Adriano VALERIO
BISHTAR AZ DO SAAT (MORE THAN TWO HOURS) directed by Ali ASGARI
CONDOM LEAD directed by Mohammed ABUNASSER (ARAB), Ahmad ABUNASSER (TARZAN)
HVALFJORDUR (WHALE VALLEY) directed by Gudmundur Arnar GUDMUNDSSON
INSEKI TO IMPOTENCE (METEORITE + IMPOTENCE) directed by Omoi SASAKI
MONT BLANC directed by Gilles COULIER
OLENA directed by Elzbieta BENKOWSKA
OPHELIA directed by Annarita ZAMBRANO
SAFE directed by Byoung-Gon MOON
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Wednesday 16 May 2012



"ON THE ROAD" in Cannes Competition.


I look forward to the 23 May Palais screening of ON THE ROAD, based on the novel by Beat author Jack Kerouac, and directed by Walter Salles.


My review of the film will be published on this blog and in Norwegian media.


There is a reason for my special interest in this film

In 1993, I interviewed Jack Kerouac´s close friend; beat poet Allen Ginsburg for the Norwegian alternative / underground  mazazine  Gateavisa.

During in the interview. Allen Ginsberg several times  mentioned  Kerouac and the significance of On The Road as an inspiration for millions of people worldwide since its publication.

The interview was also shot on video, but the 90 minutes of´high quality footage was never used. I am now working  on a documentary based on the interview,  with additional new footage to be shot in San Francisco in fall 2012.

You can see the trailer for the Ginsberg documentary here. On The Road is mentioned several times.


http://naboskap.blogspot.fr/2011/04/4-min-trailer-allen-ginsberg-interview.html

On The Road film website:

http://www.ontheroad-themovie.com/?page_id=236&lang=en

On The Road.
Directed by: Walter Salles
With: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen
Country of origin: France/Brazil
Genre: Road movie
Duration: 2h17
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