In a scene from Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa’s trilogy-concluding “Xalé” – the opening film at Joburg Film Festival – a bunch of kids sit on a beach and watch a movie as a projector throws grainy images on a white canvass while the magic of filmmaking transports them to another world.
About the scene, the 65-year-old director, who says he still wants to be a rebel filmmaker, tells Variety from Dakar he included the scene as a homage to his own past and how film can help transform lives.
“I started seeing films like this in the open air, next to the beach. I shot ‘Xalé’ in the place I was born. This beach is my beach. It’s a bit of my own childhood. I felt that I had to include in ‘Xalé’ a memory of my own childhood – a moment where you can jump on a boat and...
About the scene, the 65-year-old director, who says he still wants to be a rebel filmmaker, tells Variety from Dakar he included the scene as a homage to his own past and how film can help transform lives.
“I started seeing films like this in the open air, next to the beach. I shot ‘Xalé’ in the place I was born. This beach is my beach. It’s a bit of my own childhood. I felt that I had to include in ‘Xalé’ a memory of my own childhood – a moment where you can jump on a boat and...
- 1/30/2023
- by Thinus Ferreira
- Variety Film + TV
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Jan 14 (Ians) Jose Ignacio Cornejo was the man of the day during the second part of the marathon stage at the Empty Quarter, claiming the second stage victory for the Honda Team in the 12th Stage of Dakar Rally here.
On arrival at Shaybah bivouac, the Chilean was 49 seconds faster than Daniel Sanders and had 1:48 minutes to Toby Price.
Stage number 12 was 185 km long and a quite fast route, in a mix between dunes and quicksand tracks.
Pablo Quintanilla arrived in seventh position with a gap of 03:06 minutes, while Adrien Van Beveren was ninth with a gap of 03:16 minutes to Nacho.
In the overall standings, Quintanilla kept his fourth position in the overall standings (14:45 minutes to the leader), Van Beveren maintained his fifth position (16:14 minutes to the leader) and Nacho was still eighth (23:14 minutes to the leader).
The Honda’s Crf...
On arrival at Shaybah bivouac, the Chilean was 49 seconds faster than Daniel Sanders and had 1:48 minutes to Toby Price.
Stage number 12 was 185 km long and a quite fast route, in a mix between dunes and quicksand tracks.
Pablo Quintanilla arrived in seventh position with a gap of 03:06 minutes, while Adrien Van Beveren was ninth with a gap of 03:16 minutes to Nacho.
In the overall standings, Quintanilla kept his fourth position in the overall standings (14:45 minutes to the leader), Van Beveren maintained his fifth position (16:14 minutes to the leader) and Nacho was still eighth (23:14 minutes to the leader).
The Honda’s Crf...
- 1/14/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
The five college-aged kids in Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise speak like revolutionaries. They discuss violent means of change, necessary evils to alter the current course of France’s collective cultural direction. In multiple senses of the word, they were actors. Only one person in Godard’s film was actually a Maoist, a revolutionary fighting for justice across continents: Senegalese activist Omar Blondin Diop, subject of the new documentary Just a Movement.
Directed by Vincent Meessen, it examines Diop’s life through a series of interviews with his brothers, extended family, and friends, using the framework of Godard’s film to tell his story. With archival footage and photographs of Godard and Diop, scenes from La Chinoise, and current activists, musicians, and events within Dakar, Meessen creates a fuller picture of the connection between these two time periods. He gives little explanation for the images being shown, choosing not to employ lower-thirds,...
Directed by Vincent Meessen, it examines Diop’s life through a series of interviews with his brothers, extended family, and friends, using the framework of Godard’s film to tell his story. With archival footage and photographs of Godard and Diop, scenes from La Chinoise, and current activists, musicians, and events within Dakar, Meessen creates a fuller picture of the connection between these two time periods. He gives little explanation for the images being shown, choosing not to employ lower-thirds,...
- 10/11/2021
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
The 2021 Cannes Film Festival has announced the jurors who will join Spike Lee in determining the winners of this year’s event. The “BlacKkKlansman” Oscar winner is serving as the 2021 jury president and will be accompanied by director Mati Diop, singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer, actress-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, writer-director Jessica Hausner, actress-director Mélanie Laurent, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, actor Tahar Rahim, and actor Song Kang-ho. The Jury will unveil its list of winners Saturday, July 17 during the Cannes Closing Ceremony.
The majority of the jury has deep connections with the Cannes Film Festival. Mati Diop won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival with “Atlantics,” while Jessica Hausner also competed at Cannes 2019 with “Little Joe,” which won star Emily Beecham the Best Actress prize. Tahar Rahim got his breakout in Jacques Audiard’s Grand Prix-winning “A Prophet.” Melanie Laurent starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Palme d’Or contender “Inglourious Basterds,” while...
The majority of the jury has deep connections with the Cannes Film Festival. Mati Diop won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival with “Atlantics,” while Jessica Hausner also competed at Cannes 2019 with “Little Joe,” which won star Emily Beecham the Best Actress prize. Tahar Rahim got his breakout in Jacques Audiard’s Grand Prix-winning “A Prophet.” Melanie Laurent starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Palme d’Or contender “Inglourious Basterds,” while...
- 6/24/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Launched just over 50 years ago by Marin Karmitz and now headed by his sons, Nathanael and Elisha, Paris-based MK2 films accomplished a double deed at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not only does it have five movies playing in competition for the second consecutive year, it represents in international markets three of the four female-directed films competing, Mati Diop with “Atlantics,” Justine Triet’s “Sybil” and Celine Sciamma with “Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire.”
Aside from the competition, MK2 also has Monia Chokri’s “A Brother’s Love” and Danielle Lessovitz’s “Port Authority” playing in Un Certain Regard.
Nathanael Karmitz and Juliette Schrameck, the managing director of MK2, said the company was not following any quota or positive discrimination to ramp up their roster of female-directed films but were simply drawn to the originality and quality of the projects.
“Three of the four women directors in...
Aside from the competition, MK2 also has Monia Chokri’s “A Brother’s Love” and Danielle Lessovitz’s “Port Authority” playing in Un Certain Regard.
Nathanael Karmitz and Juliette Schrameck, the managing director of MK2, said the company was not following any quota or positive discrimination to ramp up their roster of female-directed films but were simply drawn to the originality and quality of the projects.
“Three of the four women directors in...
- 5/18/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Out of Africa: Lionel Basse and Omar Sy in Yao Photo: Wild Bunch
When lofty Omar Sy strides in to the subterranean depths of veteran director Claude Lelouche’s luxury screening rooms on the Avenue Hoche in Paris, he almost touches the ceiling. He is here to press the flesh of international film buyers who have just seen a special preview of Yao, directed by Phlippe Godeau, which Sy helped to co-produce and was screened as part of the 21st Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Omar Sy and his young co-star Lionel Basse on the interview circuit in Paris Photo: Wild Bunch
Outside in the bustle of Paris Sy, standing 6ft 3in, figures on virtually every bus shelter with a poster to promote the imminent French release of the film. Dedicated to his father Demba, it has many personal echoes. His parents were immigrants from West Africa who came to...
When lofty Omar Sy strides in to the subterranean depths of veteran director Claude Lelouche’s luxury screening rooms on the Avenue Hoche in Paris, he almost touches the ceiling. He is here to press the flesh of international film buyers who have just seen a special preview of Yao, directed by Phlippe Godeau, which Sy helped to co-produce and was screened as part of the 21st Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Omar Sy and his young co-star Lionel Basse on the interview circuit in Paris Photo: Wild Bunch
Outside in the bustle of Paris Sy, standing 6ft 3in, figures on virtually every bus shelter with a poster to promote the imminent French release of the film. Dedicated to his father Demba, it has many personal echoes. His parents were immigrants from West Africa who came to...
- 1/28/2019
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“The patient’s screaming is disturbing me. Perform removal of vocal chords!”
Doctor Butcher M.D. screens Midnights this weekend (August 12th and 13th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Mo 63108) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse film series.
Doctor Butcher M.D. (“Medical Deviate” – aka: Zombie Holocaust), is a hybrid of the dumbshits-go-to-the-jungle-and are-eaten-by cannibals genre (think Cannibal Holocaust), with some living dead shenanigans thrown in. It’s similar to Lucio Fulci’s Zombie, but twice as cheesy and three times as funny. The gore effects are completely over the top and hilarious; disembowelments, impalements, slit throats, eye gouging, machetes through the head, death by outboard motor – all the stuff to keep the Late Night Grindhouse crowd happy.
Ian McCulloch returns from Zombie and his dialogue and delivery are really funny, with the good doctor spewing such lines as, “I could easily kill you now,...
Doctor Butcher M.D. screens Midnights this weekend (August 12th and 13th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Mo 63108) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse film series.
Doctor Butcher M.D. (“Medical Deviate” – aka: Zombie Holocaust), is a hybrid of the dumbshits-go-to-the-jungle-and are-eaten-by cannibals genre (think Cannibal Holocaust), with some living dead shenanigans thrown in. It’s similar to Lucio Fulci’s Zombie, but twice as cheesy and three times as funny. The gore effects are completely over the top and hilarious; disembowelments, impalements, slit throats, eye gouging, machetes through the head, death by outboard motor – all the stuff to keep the Late Night Grindhouse crowd happy.
Ian McCulloch returns from Zombie and his dialogue and delivery are really funny, with the good doctor spewing such lines as, “I could easily kill you now,...
- 8/8/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stars: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O’Neal, Donald O’Brien, Dakar, Walter Patriarca, Roberto Resta | Written by Fabrizio De Angelis, Romano Scandariato | Directed by Marino Girolami (aka Frank Martin)
One of the bizarrest horror films to come out of Italy in the early 80s, Zombi Holocaust is – as the title suggests – a mix of the two genres Italian horror cinema became predminantly known for: cannibal and zombie movies…
For those unaware of Zombi Holocaust, the film finds Ian McCulloch (who found fame in Italy following his appearance in British sci-fi show Survivors) venture to a tropical island in the East Indies to investigate just why a tribesman, working at New York City hospital was chomping down on the limbs of the cadavers in the cold storage. He and his crew, including Alexandra Delli Colli (who would later star in Lucio Fulci’s controversial New York Ripper...
One of the bizarrest horror films to come out of Italy in the early 80s, Zombi Holocaust is – as the title suggests – a mix of the two genres Italian horror cinema became predminantly known for: cannibal and zombie movies…
For those unaware of Zombi Holocaust, the film finds Ian McCulloch (who found fame in Italy following his appearance in British sci-fi show Survivors) venture to a tropical island in the East Indies to investigate just why a tribesman, working at New York City hospital was chomping down on the limbs of the cadavers in the cold storage. He and his crew, including Alexandra Delli Colli (who would later star in Lucio Fulci’s controversial New York Ripper...
- 11/14/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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