Tag: europeanfilmnews
Euro Beat: Chinese Exhibition Bans Portuguese Film Last Minute, Controversy Ensues
Also in today's jam-packed Euro Beat: Ingmar Bergman week resurrects Scenes from a Marriage, extreme film-exhibition in Iceland, the VOD numbers for Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, rare Alain Resnais short films, European box office and more. Read on!...
Euro Beat: Cannes Unveils Slew of Exciting European Films On The Horizon
Also in today's Euro Beat: The Jean Luc-Godard video/collage/letter/whats-it that you must watch, Transylvania becomes a haven for Czech and Slovak Cinema and the latest European box office news!...
Euro Beat: New Project In Ireland Asks Filmmakers To Complete Features In 12 Hours
Also in the first Eurobeat of 2014: Cannes picks a formidable jury president, the worst French movie titles of the year, and the latest European box office. Click through below to get it all....
Euro Beat: Luc Besson's Company Accused of Embezzlement, Takes Legal Action
In today's Euro Beat: All is not fine in Luc Besson's giant European Hollywood complex. Or maybe it actually is fine and the journalists are the ones to blame! Either way, law suits are coming. Also, the Rome Film Festival...
Euro Beat: Notable Upcoming Films From Spain, Denmark, France And More
The American Film Market (AFM) is gearing up in Los Angeles. For the small bubble of industry folks, this means wheeling, dealing, meetings, drinks, dinner and whining/bragging about busy schedules. But for the rest of us film lovers, it means...
Euro Beat: First Image From Mike Leigh's J.M.W. Turner Project!
Also in today's edition of Euro Beat: Catherine Deneuve turns 70 and remains awesome, Alain Delon goes a little nuts at 77 (or has he always been?), promising films win at the London Film Festival, plus, Europe takes back its...
Euro Beat: Michael Hazanavicius Works In Secret, James Marsh Takes On Stephen Hawking
After our exhaustive look at the European Oscar submissions, Euro Beat is back to its normally scheduled Tuesday spot with good news about upcoming projects, bad news about Spain, Portugal and a great director and some very interesting European box...
Euro Beat: French Zombies Will Attack The States, Funding Woes for Joachim Trier, And More!
We've got a slew of news in today's Euro Beat, including French zombies, Venice awards, Spanish Oscar hopefuls, disheartening Joachim Trier news and some scandalous tidbits about the upcoming erotic coming of age drama Blue is the Warmest Color. Plus,...
Euro Beat: Art-Porn-Surrealism Master To Be Honored In Paris
Today's eclectic edition of Euro Beat features a spotlight on a singular adult filmmaker, a simple way to help save Portuguese cinema culture, a guide to watching Venice film festival premieres at home, European box office and more. We'll...
Euro Beat: New Films From Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and... Orson Welles!?
In the latest installment of Euro Beat, I'll be taking a look at several brand new (at least,new to the public), very significant projects originating from unlikely places. As always, click through the gallery below for additional European news briefs...
Euro Beat: 7 Bernadette Lafont Movies You Should Know About
In most of the world, only dedicated cinephiles noted the passing of French actress Bernadette Lafont, but in France, citizens nation-wide are still mourning the loss of one of the country's great cinematic icons. Lafont passed away from a heart...
Euro Beat: Boys And Girls Of Larry Clark's New Paris Film, THE SMELL OF US, Get A Web Series
Larry Clark (Kids, Bully) is branching out a bit for his upcoming film, The Smell of Us, which takes place in France and is co-written by a French poet he met at an exhibition in Paris, Matthieu Landais. Emphasis...
Euro Beat: 7 Highlights From A Visit To The Set Of Jean-Luc Godard's 3-D FAREWELL TO LANGUAGE
"Experience has taught that we never learn anything about a film by visiting the set... We can capture an atmosphere, a way of being and acting, trying to discern intentions, but we never get a complete or tangible impression." So...
Euro Beat: Is It Art Or Porn? France Re-Opens The Debate
For the first time in many years (at least since 2000's Baise-Moi), sex in cinema has become a point of controversy in France. That's thanks in large part to the fact that the two most critically acclaimed films to come...
Euro Beat: Ben Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND Will Screen At Karlovy Vary Film Festival Before Release
As we reported already, Ben Wheatley's psychedelic civil-war horror story, A Field In England, is being distributed via a day-and-date theatrical VOD strategy in the UK, and will be available July 5. But it looks like some lucky folks will...
Euro Beat: Jo Nesbø Brings OCCUPIED To TV, Plus Paris Gets A Drive-In Movie Theater
If you don't know the work of Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, you will very soon. Not only has a U.S. adaptation of his wacky thriller Headhunters (already adapted quite well in Norway by Morten Tyldum) been confirmed, but a U.S....
Euro Beat: France Campaigns To 'Free John McTiernan,' Plus Abel Ferrara Finds His Anne Sinclair
Die Hard and Predator director John McTiernan has been ordered to begin a one year prison sentence by April 3 (eight days from now) ... but not if the French have anything to say about it. Citizens of the country...
Euro Beat: Abel Ferrara's DSK Movie Loses Lead Actress, Plus Czech Noir and New Alain Resnais
For the moment, Abel Ferrara's probably-controversial film about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex-scandal is still moving forward, but actress Isabelle Adjani (Possession) has announced that she's leaving the project, in which she was supposed to play Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclaire. Her...
Euro Beat: Berlinale Finally Finishes Unveiling Massive Lineup
Most festivals send out one or two line-up announcements at most -- but not Berlinale. Perhaps they are worried that their insanely huge lineup would be too overwhelming in one press release, or perhaps they just get very excited every...
Euro Beat: France In Uproar Over Gérard Depardieu and Actors in General
French stars are under attack! First the president François Holland promised to instate a 75% tax on salaries over a million euros, which is almost solely aimed at famous entertainers, and now a big player within the industry is arguing...
