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Hungarian director Judit Elek addressed the biggest controversy of her career at Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam.

Answering Variety’s question during the launch of “The Lady from Budapest,” a new book dedicated to her legacy, Elek opened up about a scene from her film “Memories of River,” which she still views as “essential” despite accusation of animal cruelty.

In the film, inspired by an actual anti-Semitic incident back in the 1880s, as well as a trial for “ritual murder,” several sheep were burnt alive in front of the camera.

“The beginning of the film is extremely brutal, because we are talking about a pogrom. The scene [depicting] sheep in flames, burning, is a representation of several millions of Jews perishing,” she noted.

“When the day came when we had to shoot the scene of Jákob’s [a shepherd played by Zoltán Mucsi] house being set on fire, it had to be done in one take.

Szabolcs Thuróczy and young Mór Pásztor-Várady topline this feature being produced by Filmteam, Grund and Blue Duck Arts. The shoot for Daddy and Other Wolves, co-directed by Gábor Rohonyi and Csaba Vékes (2017's Beyond the Column), kicked off in Budapest on 22 June. The cast includes Szabolcs Thuróczy (giving a strong performance in Kills on Wheels and set to be seen soon in Bullhorn Lullaby), the young Mór Pásztor-Várady, Patrícia Kovács (nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 2016 Hungarian Film Week for Demimonde), Csaba Vékes himself, Anna Pálmai, Ferenc Elek, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, Juli Básti and Bence Tasnádi. Written by Csaba Vékes, the story depicts an unexpected encounter between a writer who is popular but bereft of inspiration, and his little son, whom he has never seen before. This twisted, cheerful and emotional story...

The celluloid comeback continues. Less than three years ago, Kodak was faced with the prospect of closing its film manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York, which also would have closed the doors on filmmakers’ ability to shoot on film. Now they’re back from the dead, and a number of Hollywood biggest blockbusters are being shot on film (hello, “Dunkirk”), and going analog has become a mark of prestige for award contenders and first-rate TV.

Read More: Cannes 2017 – Here Are the Cameras Used To Shoot 29 of This Year’s Films

To highlight how integral shooting on film is to the top filmmakers, 15 films premiering at the Cannes Film Festival shot on Kodak stock, according to the company.

Seven of the 15 films are in competition, and among the most highly anticipated of the year:

“The Beguiled,” directed by Sofia Coppola, Dp Philippe Le Sourd, stars Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst

“Wonderstruck,...

The Focus Features spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy didn't exactly set the box office on fire last year, taking in just over $80 million worldwide. However, since it didn't cost that much to make, producer Eric Fellner recently revealed that a sequel is in the works, with director Tomas Alfredson and writer Peter Straughan currently working on the script.

"We are working on another one. [Producer] Tim Bevan is putting it together as we speak with [screenwriter] Peter Straughan and Tomas Alfredson, so yes it's in development. It did unbelievably well and it didn't cost hardly anything. But things take time. Tim is passionate about making sure we do another one."

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was adapted from the John le Carr&#233 novel of the same name. The author also wrote the follow-up novel Smiley's People, which follows George Smiley coming out of retirement for another mission. No story details were given for the sequel,...

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At the height of the Cold War, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (Sis), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, has been compromised. An ever-watchful former top lieutenant and career spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman, The Dark Knight,...

Things aren't always as they seem in the Oscar-nominated, suspenseful, and stylish thriller from director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One in), based on the classic novel by John le Carr&#233. Focus Features' Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack with UltraViolet, on DVD, on Digital Download and On-Demand March 20, 2012, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. At the height of the Cold War, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (Sis), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, has been compromised. An ever-watchful former top lieutenant and career spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), is called out of retirement by the government to help identify and track a suspected mole at the top of the agency. The list of suspects is narrowed to five men. Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on...

Focus Features released its critically-acclaimed spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in limited release December 9, and it expanded nationwide January 6. While the Oscar nominations are still a few weeks away, there is some major buzz swirling around Gary Oldman for his performance as George Smiley in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of the John le Carr&#233 novel.

Earlier this week, Gary Oldman did a Q&A after a Hollywood screening of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, as part of a retrospective of his work. The actor discussed the difference between adapting this tale now, after the Cold War era had come and gone, as opposed to the British mini-series adaptation, which aired in 1979.

"Oddly, I think it was a little more nostalgic then. I think the TV series, as brilliant as it is, was a sort of cozy British affair. The characters were a little more huggable, and it was a little more nostalgic.

Director Tomas Alfredson's spy drama Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has enjoyed a successful theatrical run in limited release, and it expands to theaters across the country January 6. We have a new contest lined up to celebrate Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy's national expansion, and we're giving away a $50 Fandango Gift Card, t-shirts, voice recorder pens, Post-it note cube, a movie tie-in book, the CD soundtrack, and a luxury chess set. These prizes will certainly go fast, so enter this contest today.

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An intelligence officer is recalled from retirement when there are signs that one of the top-ranking officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service is a Soviet mole in the new espionage thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Our own Ryan J. Downey recenetly caught up with stars Gary Oldman and Mark Strong, as well as director Tomas Alfredson, to chat about the movie. Check out our exclusive interviews in the clips below.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was released December 9th, 2011 and stars Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja, Gary Oldman, Toby Jones. The film is directed by Tomas Alfredson.

Focus Features has released the second featurette for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, director Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of the John le Carr&#233 spy novel, which arrives in theaters December 9. Click on the video player below to go inside this covert world with interviews from cast members Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Ciar&#225n Hinds, and director Tomas Alfredson.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy comes to theaters December 9th, 2011 and stars Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja, Gary Oldman, Toby Jones. The film is directed by Tomas Alfredson.

[So, yes, I am still catching up on Fantasia Reviews, but now in hindsight, the Camera Lucida program was very much a highlight of the festival, featuring the most challenging and quirky genre films including Rubber, Sell Out!, Air Doll, and this film from Hungarian production designer turned director, Pater Sparrow.  Along with the Serbian Sidebar, there were lots of tasty and unusual treats that stretched even the already offbeat tastes of the massive Montreal genre festival in its 2010 edition.]

So this is one possible outcome when a film, here a science fiction think-piece, is based on an essay?  That essay (or rather a short story taking the form of a piece of criticism) was penned by eastern bloc author Stanislaw Lem perhaps best known as the author of book used for Andrei Tarkovsky's Solyaris (an adaptation the author was not particularly happy with, albeit it is one of the key films of science fiction cinema).  I wonder what Lem, if he were alive today would have to say about 1.  Would he like the ponderously dense wordplay within the film a hybrid of voice-over narration, expository information overload and satirical potshots at a variety of societal institutions including book publishing, news-media and shady governmental secret police.  1 is a curious beast because it does make attempts to 'show-don't-tell' but cannot figure out any coherent way to do so, so it ultimately has to talk-talk-talk,...

Based on the short story/essay One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem, 1 is a Hungarian film adaptation by director Pater Sparrow who has created a baffling, mesmerizing and beautiful film.

1 opens with a series of clips of strange found footage depicting a variety of events from mankind’s history. It then cuts to a bookstore closing for the night where suddenly all the books are seemingly magically replaced by the same book. The book is large and white and bears the title ’1′. Inside are pages and pages of statistical data that boils down everything about the current human existence into raw mathematical data.

Tasked with investigating the ‘theft’ of the original books and the appearance of these ’1′ books and their spread across the world is the mysterious Reality Defense Institute who institutionalize the people who witnessed the bookshop event and try and find out what is going on. Leading the investigation is Phil Pitch,...