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I grew up in the Midwest, and even though I didn’t see the 1984 adaptation of Children of the Corn until college, I knew enough people who had, and thus, was always a little wary of the cornfields that bordered my small town. That film went on to spawn a number of sequels and reboots that incorporated various versions of murderous kids and strange, godlike entities that crept among the cornfields. It’s one of those horror franchises that manages to remain present without ever making much of a splash. It’s more than ready for a solid reboot that will jump start the series and breathe some new life into it.

Children of the Corn opens at a group home for children. A teenage boy stumbles in from the corn field, his eyes crazy and his clothes disheveled. On his way, he passes Eden (Kate Moyer), a resident of...

“Close” director Lukas Dhont’s discovery of one of his film’s stars, Eden Dambrine, is straight out of a book of Hollywood legends.

Dhont approached Dambrine on a train in their native Belgium and asked if he’d like to audition for his movie. “I was a bit worried,” Dambrine, 16, recalls. “I asked my friends to search on Google to see if it was really Lukas Dhont who was talking to me. It was so I felt a bit more safe.”

Fast forward to 2023, and “Close” is up for best international feature at the Oscars. The A24 film is a drama about 13-year-old best friends Leo, played by Eden, and Rémi (Gustav De Waele). Tragedy occurs when Leo begins to distance himself from Rémi after they become the target of school bullies who believe the boys are a couple.

I caught up with Dhont, Dambrine and De Waele at...

Discovery+ has acquired the worldwide rights to “Citizen Penn,” a documentary about actor Sean Penn’s humanitarian work in Haiti following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated the region in 2010.

The film is written and directed by Don Hardy (“Pick of the Litter”) and followed Penn over the course of 10 years as he and a team of volunteers set up a long base to bring aid to Haitians, including through his non-profit organization called Core. Discovery+ plans to release “Citizen Penn” on its streaming service beginning May 6.

The documentary also features an original score by songwriter Linda Perry, as well as an original song called “Eden (To Find Love)” performed by Bono and co-written by Bono and Perry.

“Citizen Penn” ​chronicles the moment Penn and his team of volunteers landed in Haiti, just days after the earthquake struck, and the ten years since. The film offers viewers an intimate, honest, and...

The headline news for fantasy fans on Netflix UK this month is the arrival of eight-part adaptation Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy. It’s the story of Alina, a girl who discovers she wields a mighty power that sees her targeted by a covetous foe. You can read more about the cast here. For families, at the end of the month there’s Sony’s latest animated feature The Mitchells Vs the Machines, which is made by the creators of excellent animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Comedy-wise, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer co-star in regular-Joan-gets-superpowers movie Thunder Force. And for anybody looking to brush up their Spanish for a summer holiday, Netflix has the latest Harlan Coben mystery thriller, The Innocent.

On top of that, there’s a clutch of older films, from John Carpenter’s They Live to the Coen Bros.’ The Big Lebowski...

New titles also include Yasuke, directed and executive produced by US anime artist LeSean Thomas.

Netflix unveiled a slate of 40 original anime titles set to premiere in 2021, more than double its output last year, at the ongoing AnimeJapan 2021 virtual event.

The slate is headed by Masao Okubo’s Record Of Ragnarok, an adaptation of the popular manga about the one-on-one battles between humans and gods to determine the fate of humanity. Set to premiere in June 2021, the series is produced by Japanese animation studio Graphinica.

Netflix is also launching two shows combining the work of international and Japanese talents – Yasuke,...

We might not see Brady Corbet’s pop-star drama starring Rooney Mara for a while, but “Vox Lux” isn’t his only musical project. The actor-turned-filmmaker, who made one of the most striking directorial debuts in recent memory with “The Childhood of a Leader,” directed the music video for Jesse Marchant’s “Sister, I” from his upcoming album “Illusion of Love.” IndieWire is happy to exclusively premiere said video, which you can watch below.

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“Brady is a close friend and I’ve been an admirer of his for a while, so I was keen of his proposal to do a video,” said Marchant in a statement. “The skywriting idea was his, probably influenced by reading Bolaño’s ‘Distant Star’ and my having delved deeper into my interest in aviation, spurred by my father...

Greta Gerwig has a story about the moment she knew she would become a director. Shortly after she starred in and co-wrote “Frances Ha” with Noah Baumbach, she met “Orlando” director Sally Potter at a party. Gerwig cornered Potter, to pick her brain.

“I do that with people I admire,” Gerwig said. “I was writing a lot. I was asking her about how she does what she does. Does she do it first thing in the morning in longhand, or many computer drafts? I was being nerdy and needy, and she was answering and being very kind.

“Then she grabbed me by the arm and looked me in the eyes and asked me, ‘What do you really want to ask me about?’ My blood ran cold. ‘You really want to ask me about directing.’

‘How do you know that?’

‘I’m part gypsy and it’s written all over you!

Greta Gerwig has a story about the moment she knew she would become a director. Shortly after she starred in and co-wrote “Frances Ha” with Noah Baumbach, she met “Orlando” director Sally Potter at a party. Gerwig cornered Potter, to pick her brain.

“I do that with people I admire,” Gerwig said. “I was writing a lot. I was asking her about how she does what she does. Does she do it first thing in the morning in longhand, or many computer drafts? I was being nerdy and needy, and she was answering and being very kind.

“Then she grabbed me by the arm and looked me in the eyes and asked me, ‘What do you really want to ask me about?’ My blood ran cold. ‘You really want to ask me about directing.’

‘How do you know that?’

‘I’m part gypsy and it’s written all over you!

French director Mia Hansen-Love is seeing more and more opportunities come to her. The filmmaker’s last film, the critically acclaimed “Things To Come,” starred Isabelle Huppert in a superb performance, and it’s opened even more doors for the respected filmmaker. While her next project will still be the hostage drama “Maya,” starring Romain Kolinka as a reporter who heads to India after being held hostage in Syria, she’s already looking ahead to its follow-up, the relationship drama, “Bergman Island.”

Screen Daily report that Greta Gerwig (who had a small role in Hansen-Love’s “Eden”), Mia Wasikowska and John Turturro have joined the cast.

Continue reading Greta Gerwig & Mia Wasikowska To Star In Mia Hansen-Love’s ‘Bergman Island’ at The Playlist.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s English-language debut, “Bergman Island,” has just added some very compelling inhabitants. ScreenDaily reports that Greta Gerwig, Mia Wasikowska and John Turturro have all signed on for one of the busy French filmmaker’s next features, set on the Swedish island of Faro.

As the outlet details, “The picture revolves around an American filmmaking couple who retreat to the island for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island’s wild landscape.”

There is no word yet on who will be playing each character in the feature.

Read More: Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast: ‘Things to Come’ Director Mia Hansen-Løve Wants Ingmar Bergman’s Career (Episode 16)

The project was just launched at Cannes by Hansen-Løve’s long-time producer Charles Gillibert,...

Exclusive: Producer Charles Gillibert launches project at Cannes.

Greta Gerwig, Mia Wasikowska and John Turturro have signed for French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love’s English-language debut Bergman Island, set on the Swedish island of Faro which was home to the late director Ingmar Bergman.

The picture revolves around an American filmmaking couple who retreat to the island for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman.

As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island’s wild landscape.

Hansen-Love’s long-time producer Charles Gillibert, who previously collaborated with the director on Things To Come and Eden, is launching financing on the project at Cannes under his CG Cinema banner. A sales agent has yet to be set.

The production, which was developed with the support of Sweden’s Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen through...

With her steely hauteur, Isabelle Huppert is utterly arresting in Paul Verhoeven’s provocative film. No other actor could have pulled it off

This film is about an outrage. Maybe it is an outrage. It has invented a new genre: the rape-revenge black comedy, and it could not possibly have existed without Isabelle Huppert. She is the only star capable of carrying this off, the only actor with sufficient hauteur to reassure you that all of the film’s provocations are 100% intentional. It would be inconceivable without her armoury of tics: the Mona Lisa smile of faint amusement, the veiled mask of weary disapproval, or the occasional widening of the eyes to indicate fleeting astonishment at something or someone more than usually stupid. She has a face that makes it look as if she is wearing a pair of exceptionally expensive and stylish dark glasses, even when she isn’t.

Isabelle Huppert is stirring Oscar talk (and she damn well should) for the potent provocation of her acting in Elle, directed by Dutch wildman Paul Verhoeven. But to see her in Things to Come, as a character who is the polar opposite of the powerhouse she plays in that story of rape and revenge, is to cement Huppert's reputation as one of the best actresses on the planet. Written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love (Eden), the film gives the legendary French star the role of Nathalie, a Paris philosophy professor whose academic husband,...

She’s only been making feature films for less than a decade — and truly only gained international recognition this decade — but it seems as if the talents of Mia Hansen-Løve as a writer-director are already fully formed. This isn’t to discount room for certain growth in her relatively young career, but with Goodbye First Love, Eden, and now Things to Come, her ruminations on life are expressed as if conveyed by an elder master director. Looking at her eclectic list of all-time favorite films — provided for the latest Sight & Sound poll — one can get a glimpse at her impeccable taste and where her formative influences come from.

“All of my films are my versions of Heat,” she recently told us, speaking about one of her picks. “Because Heat is actually a film about melancholy, about action, and it’s action vs. melancholy and self-destruction — action becoming self-destruction. It’s a couple.

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life,” said Chuck Dederich, the founder of the rehab cult Synanon, whose followers in the 1970s shaved their heads and lived in a totalitarian Southern California commune, beating each other and stockpiling guns. It’s funny how a bromide can have such sinister origins, or for that matter, how something so insincere can be shaped into an insight by the right hands. In fact, the very gifted French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Goodbye First Love, Eden) has made it the cornerstone of her terrifically succinct style. She makes movies about how lives change course through happenstance and how we redefine ourselves without noticing.

Her new film, which bears the apt English title Things To Come, depicts a year or so in the life of one Nathalie Chazeaux (Isabelle Huppert), as the things she has taken for granted disappear or change, beginning...

It could be said that an introduction to Mia Hansen-Løve is entirely beside the point, given the extent to which her films concern herself and loved ones. Following the portrait of her brother, Eden, she’s centered her fifth feature on her mother. The film is Things to Come, and the woman at its front is Isabelle Huppert — in one of her best performances, which I discussed with the actress here.

I had the good fortune to sit down with Hansen-Løve at this year’s New York Film Festival. The discussion we had two years prior remains one of my favorites, and the consistent ebb and flow between features means this was, in certain ways, a picking-up of where we left off in the fall of 2014. But you don’t have to know her work to find this an engaging read on the nature of art-as-introspection.

The Film Stage: When this movie was in development,...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

It wasn’t a bad Thanksgiving weekend, especially for the Weekend Warrior who pretty much nailed two of his predictions for the weekend! Disney Animation’s Moana indeed at opened at #1 with $55.5 million for the three-day weekend (exactly my prediction), although it ended up with more--$81.1 million--in its first five days. The Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard spy thriller, Allied (Paramount), directed by Robert Zemeckis, also opened with $18 million, right on track with my prediction. I guess I could take some comfort on being spot on with two of the Thanksgiving releases—like I said last week, that holiday weekend is a bear to predict—but I way overestimated the other two movies as sequelitis indeed hit Billy Bob Thornton...

There are so many actors that are huge stars in France but whom haven’t really made much of an impact here outside the arthouses. French actress Isabelle Huppert is definitely one who is greatly appreciated by anyone who has had a chance to watch her amazing work with filmmakers like Michael Haneke and others.

Huppert’s exposure is certainly being elevated this year with her starring roles in two very different French films, Elle, a revenge thriller from director Paul Verhoeven based on Phillippe Djian’s book, and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come, a lighter character drama, both which have been on the festival circuit since February.

In Elle, Huppert plays Michèle Leblanc, the owner of a video game company who is sexually assaulted in her apartment, who proceeds to try to track down her attacker for revenge, while in Things to Come, she plays Nathalie Chazeaux, a philosophy teacher,...

Between this exciting casting news and the U.S. release of her critically acclaimed new drama “Things To Come” on Friday, it’s already quite the week for fans of the great Mia Hansen-Løve. As reported by The Film Stage last night, Hansen-Løve is bringing Juliette Binoche on board for the ensemble of her long-in-the-works “Maya.” This will be the director’s second high profile collaboration with an esteemed French actress, following her pairing with Isabelle Huppert on “Things To Come.”

Read More: With ‘Things To Come,’ Mia Hansen-Løve Proves That She’s One Of The Best Filmmakers In The World

“Maya” tells the story of a French war reporter who returns to his home in western India after being held hostage in Syria. Roman Kolinka, who has worked with Hansen-Løve on “Eden” and “Things To Come,” is attached to star opposite Binoche, Aarshi Banerjee and Cédric Kahn. Binoche’s role has not been revealed,...

After directing one of the year’s finest performances with Isabelle Huppert in Things to Come, director Mia Hansen-Løve is set to team with another French acting legend for her next project. The Eden director has been prepping Maya for some time, and now we have the confirmed ensemble. Alongside newcomer Aarshi Banerjee, frequent collaborator Roman Kolinka, and Cédric Kahn (After Love), Juliette Binoche has also joined the drama.

The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in captivity. The story will mainly focus on his journey to Goa, the state in western India where his childhood home is, to reflect on his life after his harrowing experience. Presumably Kolinka will take the lead role, but there’s no confirmation when it comes to any specifics.

Although it sounds like more of a supporting role,...

Awards season is here, which means it’s time to trade in the cinematic junk food of the summer months in favor of some more nourishing arthouse fare. To extend the metaphor, there’s certainly plenty to chew on in Things To Come, the new film from French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Father Of My Children, Goodbye First Love, Eden). Starring the incomparable Isabelle Huppert as Nathalie, a philosophy professor who thinks she’s got her life all figured out, until her husband announces that he’s leaving her. Singlehood is both terrifying and thrilling for Nathalie, who’s left to figure out who she is after 25 years of marriage.

Things To Come is coming to Chicago on Friday, December 16 after a limited run in New York and L.A. But we’re giving readers of The A.V. Club the chance to see the movie early, on Tuesday ...

This year’s holiday season is full to bursting with new movies, from the expected awards contenders to a number of festival favorites and some true-blue feel-good offerings to round out the pack, and we’re pleased to offer up 22 of the coming weeks’ best bets for film fans of all stripes. Whether you’re looking to beef up on your Oscar contenders, take the whole family to see something they all can enjoy or you just want to lose yourself in the magic of the movies, the rest of 2016 has something for you.

Take our advice, there’s no better place to spend the season than at the movie theater, so start here.

“Allied” (November 23)

Robert Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with on-screen history. “Forrest Gump” reimagined decades worth of Americana and “The Walk” turned a grace note of New York history and crafted a spectacle. “Allied” finds him in historical thriller mode,...

With Things to Come, the great Mia Hansen-Løve is earning some of her best reviews in years, and, along with Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, it represents a banner year for her star, Isabelle Huppert. As is (fortunately0 to be expected of a meditative, lovingly shot French drama, the film’s been given U.S. distribution courtesy of Sundance Selects — and with it arriving at the end of this year, there is now a trailer.

Whatever the preview sells you, trust us when we say Things to Come is worth anticipation. As was written in our review from earlier this year, “While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance. Having been so steadfast in her certainty, Nathalie experiences her world’s collapse by degrees,...

Fans of the always impeccable Isabelle Huppert are in for a double dose of cinematic treats this fall. The actress will be in the awards season race with Paul Verhoeven‘s acclaimed, button-pushing “Elle,” and she also leads Mia Hansen-Løve‘s low-key “Things To Come,” which now has a new domestic trailer.

Read More: Mia Hansen-Love Talks ‘Eden,’ Daft Punk, French Disco & Her Next Film ‘The Future’

Co-starring André Marcon, Roman Kolinka and Edith Scob, this gentle drama follows Nathalie, a philosophy teacher who must reassess her life when her husband suddenly leaves her for another woman.

Continue reading Isabelle Huppert Faces The Future In New Trailer For Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Things To Come’ at The Playlist.

It’s never a good idea to take public transportation home from a funeral, but sexagenarian philosophy professor Nathalie Chazeaux (Isabelle Huppert) insists on learning that lesson the hard way. Crumpled against the window of a bus as it groans its way through the streets of Paris, Nathalie begins to cry. The teenage girl sitting in the seat across from her eyeballs the scene like she’s resisting the urge to Instagram it, like she has no idea that it’s only a matter of time before we’re all the woman crying on the bus. That’s when Nathalie spies Heinz (Andre Marcon), still technically her husband, walking around town with the young woman who recently inspired him to walk out on his wife of 25 years.

Sometimes, life is subtle — sometimes, it’s so in your face that you just have to laugh. And that’s exactly what Nathalie does,...

French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, best known for tales of youth Eden and Goodbye First Love, teams up with iconic actress Isabelle Huppert for Things To Come, a quietly affecting story about a bourgeois middle-aged philosophy teacher and the big changes in her life. Set mostly in the Sarkozy era of domestic reform and government reshuffling, Huppert portrays Nathalie with a subtle wit and optimism, an attitude seemingly inherent from another time entirely. Married to Heinz (André Marcon), a fellow philosophy teacher, and with two grown children, Nathalie is content with life, the relationship to her students and her side work in publishing. She even takes her time with her increasingly difficult and ailing mother Yvette (legendary Edith Scob) in stride. This is not say she...

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The 2016 New York Film Festival line-up has arrived, and as usual for the festival, it’s an amazing slate of films. Along with the previously announced The 13th, 20th Century Women, and The Lost City of Z, there’s two of our Sundance favorites, Manchester By the Sea and Certain Women, as well as the top films of Cannes: Elle, Paterson, Personal Shopper, Graduation, Julieta, I, Daniel Blake, Aquarius, Neruda, Sieranevada, Toni Erdmann, and Staying Vertical. As for other highlights, the latest films from Hong Sang-soo, Barry Jenkins, and Matías Piñeiro will also screen.

Check it out below, including our reviews where available.

The 13th (Opening Night, previously announced)

Directed by Ava DuVernay

USA, 2016

World Premiere

The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,...

With his directorial debut still in theaters, Brady Corbet already has his next behind-the-camera project lined up. The actor-turned-filmmaker will next write and direct “Vox Lux,” which TheWrap (who first broke the news) says has been described as “a 21st century story of Celeste, a pop star who comes to success as a result of unusual circumstances.”

Read More: Brady Corbet On His Directorial Debut ‘The Childhood of a Leader’ and The Problem With Movies Today

Corbet’s “The Childhood of a Leader” won Best Director in the Horizons section of last year’s Venice Film Festival, where he also took home the Best First Film award. No casting announcements have been made regarding “Vox Lux,” which will be produced by Christine Vachon’s Killer Films and Three Six Zero Group’s Brian Young.

Read More: ‘The Childhood Of A Leader’ Review: Brady Corbet’s Directorial Debut Is An Enthralling Mind-f*ck

Corbet,...

Isabelle Huppert might as well be crowned queen of the 2016 festival circuit. Her first film of the year, Mia Hansen-Løve‘s Things to Come, premiered at Berlin, followed by Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle at Cannes; then, at Tiff, she’ll have those two films, as well as the premiere of Bravo Defurne‘s Souvenir. But before that, she’s starring alongside Louis Garrel in Luc Bondy‘s The False Secrets, which will screen at the Locarno Film Festival this weekend.

Today we have a pair of new trailers for two of the films — first from Things to Come, which is one of our favorites of the year. As we said in our review, “While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance.”

Following that,...

Tiff 2016: Our top 10 most anticipated films from today's first announcementTIFF 2016: Our top 10 most anticipated films from today's first announcementAdriana Floridia7/26/2016 11:04:00 Am

It's our favourite time of year!

If you live in Toronto, you know that the Toronto International Film Festival makes for the most exciting time to be in the city. Celebrities wander the streets alongside us normal folk, red carpet premieres are happening everywhere, and some of the best new films see their first light of day to eager audiences who've waited for hours in line for a good seat. Yes, festival season is nearly upon us, and we could not be more excited.

This morning Cameron Bailey, the artistic director, and Piers Handling, the CEO, of Tiff, made the first announcement as to what films will be playing this year's edition of the festival, which we'll further refer to as #TIFF16. It was a giant announcement,...

After winning two awards at the Venice Film Festival last year (Best First Film and Best Director in the Horizons section), Brady Corbet’s striking “The Childhood of a Leader” is now in theaters. Le CiNéMa Club is celebrating that release by screening the actor-turned-filmmaker’s short film “Protect You + Me,” which he wrote and directed when he was 18.

Read More: Read More: ‘The Childhood Of A Leader’ Review: Brady Corbet’s Directorial Debut Is An Enthralling Mind-f*ck

Darius Khondji (“Alien: Resurrection,” “Midnight in Paris,” “The Immigrant”) shot the film on 35mm; he and Corbet also worked together on Michael Haneke’s English-language remake of his own “Funny Games.” “Protect You + Me” won an honorable mention at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Here’s the 11-minute short’s synopsis: “The reminder of a long forgotten event, combined with a challenging situation, provokes a man to extreme reaction while at a dinner with his mother.

In a new interview with Screen Daily, Mia Hansen-Løve mentioned two new projects either on her mind or in the works: “Maya,” which will star her “Things to Come” and “Eden” collaborator Roman Kolinka, and another film “inspired partly” by her husband Olivier Assayas. Assayas, himself a filmmaker, recently premiered “Personal Shopper” at Cannes.

Read More: ‘Fire At Sea’ Takes Golden Bear At Berlin Film Festival, Mia Hansen-Love Wins Best Director And More

The two have been married since 2009 and have a daughter named Vicky. Hansen-Løve has drawn inspiration from her personal life more than once, including her recent film, “Eden,” which is based on her brother Sven’s experiences in the world of electronic music; he co-wrote the script with her. “Things to Come,” which premiered in Berlin (where Hansen-Løve won the Silver Bear for Best Director), stars Isabelle Huppert as a character based loosely on the writer/director’s mother.

Following her French music scene tale "Eden" and the Isabelle Huppert-led "Things To Come," filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love isn't slowing down with two more projects in the way.

The first is the thriller "Maya" which follows a French hostage, held in Syria, who works through his devastating experience by heading to India. Roman Kolinka will star in the project which aims to begin filming next year.

The second though is what's getting people talking - it will be a film inspired Hansen-Love's relationship with her husband, director Olivier Assayas ("Clouds of Sils Maria," "Carlos"). She says she trusts Assayas will be able to be objective as the project develops.

Talking about her working relationship with Screen Daily, she says: "From my first film, he was always the one I gave the script to and showed the first editing. He reads the script in a very early stage, even before I give anything to any producer.

Mia Hansen-Løve fosters no illusion about how her films’ connect to those in her close circle, be it deceased mentors (The Father of My Children), herself (Goodbye, First Love), her brother (Eden) — who, speaking for his family, told me that the experience “is a bit strange, but… I don’t know, we have to deal with it, anyway” — or her mother (the still-to-be-released Things to Come). One territory that has never quite been covered, as far as I can tell, is perhaps the most interesting: her marriage to the great Olivier Assayas, a filmmaker whose influence has been felt more in common narrative and formal interests than the content of stories and traits defining characters.

Perhaps this was only a matter of time: speaking to Screen Daily, Hansen-Løve announced two titles that are in varying states of development, and one of which is “inspired partly” by her husband. (Read: not necessarily some exposé,...

Filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve seems to be in the midst of a particularly productive streak. Coming off “Eden” which delved into the French electronic music scene of the 1990s, she launched right into “Things To Come” starring Isabelle Huppert, about a woman dealing with a series of late life crises, which premiered earlier this year at the […]

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Somewhat frighteningly, Eva Husson’s Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story is loosely based on a true story from 1996. During one particularly hot summer, a series of terrible accidents afflicted the French railways and a spate of teenage orgies really did take hold of a small, provincial French community. This explosive summer clearly piqued Husson’s creative impulses, and the film she created is now often being touted as a provocative erotica. Let us not pigeon-hole Husson’s thought-provoking drama, though. Bang Gang’s beautifully controlled palette of seductive sunset pinks and blues definitely helps it achieve a classy artistic intimacy (in what could have been just a pornographic check-list of things teenagers probably get up to these days). And a bit like Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, this film is importantly...

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The tragedy of the X-Men films is that, despite being responsible for the current boom-industry of comic-book films, they have almost uniformly felt like second-tier properties within their genre. A lot of this can be chalked up to the aesthetic of the films themselves. As other superhero films grew more modern, with sleek effects and more dynamic costuming, the X-Men series has adhered to a more retro look, for good and for ill. The other factor in this also-ran status is, undeniably, a wildly variable quality in filmmaking and storytelling that has plagued the series from the outset.

For every Wolverine, there is an X-Men Origins: Wolverine. For every X2: X-Men United, there is an X-Men: The Last Stand. Each new film seems to exist in a vacuum, its quality worryingly untethered from any other film in the series. You might love X-Men: First Class or Days of Future Past,...

Exclusive: Mustang producer CG Cinema and Son Of Saul distributor Ad Vitam launch Alma Cinema.

Oscar-nominated producer Charles Gillibert (Mustang) is joining forces with French distributor Ad Vitam to launch independent sales company Alma Cinema.

The partners have brought in sales and acquisition executive Sara May, formerly of TF1 and Embankment Films, to head up the new structure, which aims to handle some dozen titles a year.

“It will be in the vein of what the Americans and Brits call a ‘one-stop shop’ company, seeking out, financing and selling films under the same roof,” said May.

“Our aim is to create a structure offering producers support from the financing stage right through to its delivery, even if we don’t necessarily end up being involved in every stage.”

May will also be free to acquire films and projects unrelated to either CG Cinema and Ad Vitam’s activities for world sales.

Her first world...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Deadpool (Tim Miller)

As Hollywood struggles to reinvent their array of superheroes with each iteration, it’s no surprise that audiences would become hungry for something off the beaten path. While it’s not the first post-modern comic-book adaptation, Deadpool is billed as ushering in a new direction: a fan-spurred, self-aware tentpole that’s R-rated to its core, featuring a wise-ass character (don’t call him...

Dr Richard Leakey, Chair of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Turkana Basin Institute Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The 2016 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Perri Peltz and introduced by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff (with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal), holds an impressive list of activists: Brent Stapelkamp, 14 Minutes from Earth's Alan Eustace (featured in the film by Jerry Kolber, Adam "Tex" Davis, Trey Nelson and Erich Sturm);The Birth Of A Nation director Nate Parker who was also an actor in Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden and Amy Berg's Every Secret Thing; The Suskind family in Roger Ross Williams' Life, Animated; Louie Psihoyos,director of Racing Extinction and The Cove; Jennifer Jacquet and Dr. Richard Leakey. From Foo Fighters Learn To Fly to a remembrance of Prince and David Bowie, and past honorees that include Twyla Tharp, David Lynch, Rick Rubin, Kanye West and Keith Richards - creativity,...

"Only in filmmaking do you have time limitation in certain stages of production, while you would never restrain a painter, or a musician, or a novelist from taking the time he needs..." At Berlinale in February, I had the honor of meeting and interviewing the very talented French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve. I first became a big fan of Mia Hansen-Løve after catching her film Father of My Children at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, and I've followed her career closely ever since. I most recently loved her film Eden, we featured it recently on our 19 Best Movies You Didn't See list. Her latest film, Things to Come (also called L'avenir), stars Isabelle Huppert as a woman dealing with major changes in her life. After following her for so long it was a major moment in my own career to sit down and talk with her about making great films. Mia Hansen-Løve...

Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSThai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose brilliant Cemetery of Splendor will be released in the Us this spring, has revealed a new installation work, Home Movie, made for Sydney's 2016 Biennale. According to his website, "an exhibition space hosts a cave-like ritual where people gather to simply take in the light": "In this home-cave, the heat is both comfortable and threatening. A fireball is an organic-like machine with phantom fans to blow away the heat and, at the same time, rouse the fire, which is impossible to put out even in dreams."This season seems to be one of cinema masters passing. In addition to the directors who've died over the last month, we've lost two great cinematographers this week. First, Douglas Slocombe, who shot the first three Indian Jones films,...

With the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival wrapping up this week, we’ve highlighted our five favorite films from the slate. Make sure to stay tuned in the coming months as we learn about distribution news for the titles. Check out our favorites below, followed by our complete coverage, and one can see the winners here.

Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

One has to appreciate Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s winking self-awareness in calling his new feature Creepy. It’s as if the Coen brothers released a film entitled Snarky, or Eli Roth named his next stomach-churner Gory. Kurosawa, who’s still best known for Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), two rare outstanding examples of the highly variable J-Horror genre, instills a sense of creepiness into virtually anything he does, regardless of subject matter. His latest, which sees him return to the realm of horror after excursions into more arthouse territory, certainly lives up to its name...

Read More: Berlin Review: In 'L'Avenir,' Isabelle Huppert Takes Stock of Her Life One of the very best films to emerge from this year's Berlinale, the competition entry "Things to Come" was written and directed by the French director Mia Hansen-Løve, with the always-charismatic Isabelle Huppert in the lead role in a gentle, poignant story about a philosophy teacher whose life falls apart when her husband leaves and her mother dies. For Huppert's Nathalie, the only way to cope with it is to let time take its course — something that proves to be both a curse and a blessing at the same time. In a way, the film resonates with the filmmaker's previous work: While "Goodbye, First love" and "Eden" were films about passions of youth that wane with time, in "Things to Come," Nathalie has been in love with philosophy her whole life, but ultimately discovers she loves life even more.

Having broken onto the scene as a young actress in the films of Olivier Assayas, Paris-born filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve moved into directing with All is Forgiven in 2007. Her star grew with the release of her fourth feature, Eden in 2014, a film based on her brother’s experiences in France’s electronic-music scene in the ‘90s. Her latest work, Things to Come — the story of a Parisian philosophy teacher, Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert), whose life begins to unravel — opened to glowing reviews at Berlinale last week, not least our own. We got the chance to speak with the director during a roundtable at the festival and one can read the conversation below.

The Film Stage: How was it directing Isabelle Huppert? Did you give her a lot of directions or did she want to do it her way?

Mia Hansen-Løve: When Isabelle Huppert decides to take on a role, she gives...

★★★★☆ "Only in movies do women over forty leave their husbands," remarks Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) whilst discussing her impending divorce with a former student. She's right in one sense: how often are the lives of women over forty represented in film? Things to Come, Mia Hansen-Løve's follow-up to last year's Edm drama Eden, finds itself trapped in the fissure between hope and desire. A departure from her recent focus on youth, she instead employs her talent for charting the ephemeral nature of time to explore the onset of age in a powerful yet tenderly ironic portrait of a woman whose life is imploding around her.

Exclusive: Curzon Artificial Eye takes Mia Hansen-Løve’s Golden Bear contender for the UK.

Les Films du Losange has announced a slew of sales on French director Mia Hansen-Løve’s Berlinale competition title Things To Come (L’Avenir), starring Isabelle Huppert as a philosopher facing up to the departure of her husband, children and mother.

The Paris-based company has sold the film to the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye), Canada (Films We Like), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films), Benelux (ABC Cinemien), Scandinavia (Non Stop), Spain (Golem), Portugal (Alambique), Turkey (Fabula), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Andrews Film) and a Japanese deal is close to being signed.

In previously announced deals, IFC has taken North American rights and Weltkino Filmverleih is handling Germany.

Hansen-Løve’s fifth feature, after French techno-scene inspired Eden, Things To Come stars Huppert as a philosophy teacher who is forced to reappraise her life when her husband departs with another woman, her youngest...

Doubt and uncertainty plague Isabelle Huppert’s philosophy teacher after her husband announces he’s leaving her in a smart, earnest drama

It’s a summer of revolution for Nathalie. The high school philosophy teacher has just found out her husband of 25 years is leaving her. In a few weeks her mother will be dead. Then she’ll know freedom for the first time. Suddenly, in her 60s, she’ll be alone and unmoored, with no more excuses for not putting the theories she’s been teaching for years into practice. The way is wide open, but the journey seems terrifying.

Mia Hansen-Løve has flicked from Eden – her drama about youthful uncertainty in the creative arts - to a pension-age version of the same. Nathalie, played by Isabelle Huppert, is no more certain of herself or her future than Paul, the restless, twenty-something house DJ at the centre of Hansen-Løve’s last film.

The twists and turns of fate and the ways in which individuals react to them constitute the central preoccupations of Mia Hansen-Løve’s cinema. Her exceptional second feature, Father of My Children, observed a film producer’s escalating desperation in the face of snowballing debt, and then considered the impact of his unexpected suicide on the family he left behind. Her disappointing follow-ups, Goodbye First Love and Eden, charted the progressive dissolution of its protagonists’ idealism over a period of several years – a teenage couple’s fanciful notions of love and a DJ’s chimeric aspirations of success, respectively. Considering the largely universal relatability of the former and the fact that the latter represented a fictionalization of her own brother’s / co-writer’s path as a DJ, the tremendous accomplishment of Things to Come, which centers on the emotional tribulations of a woman in late middle-age, suggests that the 35-year-old...

Read More: Mia Hansen-Løve On 'Eden,' Her Epic (and Very Personal) Love Letter to House Music What happens when you mix one of France's most accomplished young directors with one of its most iconic stars? The results are as powerful as you might imagine in the debut trailer for "Things to Come," written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve and starring Isabelle Huppert. The movie earned a spot on Indiewire's 20 Movies That Need to Be Released in 2016 list earlier this year, and hopefully this great trailer, combined with a buzzy debut at the Berlinale, will be enough to land it a domestic distributor.  Huppert plays Nathalie, a well-regarded philosophy teacher with two grown-up children and a seemingly great and happy life. She devotes her time to the books she publishes, to her former students who have now become her friends and to taking care of her over-possessive mother, but...