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Europe Elsewhere: Chabrol, Spanimation, English leaders and Klapisch |
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Written by the editor
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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
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 An overview of interesting European film-related articles published elsewhere on the web.
- Over at Greencine, Michael Fox writes about the work of Claude Chabrol in article intriguingly titled "Chabrol's Quietly Savage War on Complacency". The French master of suspense's one-but-last film La demoiselle d'honneur (The Bridesmaid) has just come out on DVD in the US, while his latest, L'ivresse du pouvoir (The Comedy of Power) , will be available on DVD in the US on May 8. Chabrol is currently in postproduction on the thriller La fille coupée en deux (lit. "The Girl Cut in Two"). The film stars Benoît Magimel and Ludivine Sagnier and will premiere in France on August 15.
- The Hollywood Reporter's Pamela Rolfe explores the new wave of high quality Spanish animation (or "Spanimation") that tries to compete on an international level with the likes of US giants Pixar and Dreamworks. Spanimated films in the pipeline include Donkey Xote, Nocturna, Zombie Western and the US$ 50 million project Planet One, written and directed by the very Spanish Shrek veteran Joe Stillman.
- Recent Oscar-winner Martin Scorcese will produce a film that recounts the early years of Queen Victoria. Bits of News fills us in on the latest, including the fact that UK actress Emily Blunt (My Summer of Love, The Devil Wears Prada) has apparently signed on the dotted line to play the young monarch for Canadian (or should it be "Commonwealth"?) director Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.).
- To stay with British leaders of the past: the BBC has the latest on the plans of the makers of the highly successful The Queen to make a film about the seventeen days in the life of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that preceded the political gamble that was the Falklands war.The real question is not even who is going to direct it, though there is still no director attached, but who will play the Iron Lady.
- French director Cédric Klapisch -- currently in postproduction on his latest film Paris, which stars Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris and Karin Viard and could be a Cannes contender -- talks to Fernando Garcia Acuna and Ariadna Matamoros of the European magazine cafébabel.com about what European cinema means for him and for those outside of Europe. Two of his recent films, L'auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) and its follow-up Les poupées russes (Russian Dolls) deal directly with questions of national and European identity. (via Greencine and Ray Pride.)
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