Cannes 2017: Coming of
age film marks Jonas Carpignano's follow - up to «Mediterranea,» which company also distributed
Not exact matches
Starring
Mark Wahlberg, Transformers: The Last Knight is the first
film from the franchise since 2014's Transformers:
Age of Extinction made $ 1.1 billion worldwide (with nearly 78 % of it coming overseas).
After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the
film moves to an
aging Durst (here renamed David
Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.
It
marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former
film, made in 1996, was another coming - of -
age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).
Thor and Loki, meanwhile — along with the Hulk (
Mark Ruffalo), last seen piloting a Quinjet to nowhere in particular at the end of Avengers:
Age of Ultron — spend most of the
film in what can charitably be called a subplot.
Written and directed by
Mark Abraham, and based on the book «Hank Williams: The Biography,» the
films traces the life and career of Williams, whose quick climb to fame led to his untimely death at
age 29.
Time is the unifying theme of Linklater's work, and his sequels and remakes feature some of his most perceptive takes on the topic, from
ageing in the face of love's ever - fixed
mark in the Before
films to the precarious boundary of adulthood in Everybody Wants Some!!.
Paramount has delivered the first trailer for Michael Bay's Transformers:
Age of Extinction, the fourth
film in the ongoing cinematic Transformers franchise that introduces a new human cast lead by
Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor.
In Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks
age - old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.The
film stars
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong» o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro.
There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining
film about a middle -
aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (
Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.
On the contrary: in adapting André Aciman's 2007 novel, Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory have produced a
film that simultaneously analyzes and dramatizes issues of sexuality, religious identity, and, once again, privilege — with enough well - read bourgeois lazing about in the sun to give Michael Haneke hives — and yet without straining against its clearly
marked narrative boundaries as a coming - of -
age romance, or exploding its form as an accessible, fundamentally pleasing upper - middlebrow entertainment.
The
film marks Payne's follow - up to 2011's The Descendants and centers on an
aging alcoholic father who decides to take a road trip from Montana to...
It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the
film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and
aging that have
marked out Payne's best previous work.
«Ex Machina»
marks the directing debut of British writer Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle
films «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» and — at
age 26 — wrote the novel that was the basis of Boyle's
film «The Beach.»
Now,
Mark Wahlberg is set to join the cast and crew of the feature
film after finishing Transformers:
Age of Extinction for Paramount.
Today
marks the 20th anniversary of Gregg Araki's post-apocalyptic coming - of -
age The Doom Generation, a genre melting pot of a
film that...
«Son Of Rambow» (2007) Arguably the best
film on this section of the list, «Son Of Rambow,» the impossibly charming coming - of -
age tale that
marked the second
film from music video veteran Garth Jennings, who made his debut with studio picture «The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy,» was the big buy at Sundance 2007, selling to Paramount Vantage for $ 7.5 million.
Filmed in the twilit hues of the California magic hour, this loosely autobiographical coming - of -
age tale
marks Gerwig as an artist with equal talent and creative force — originality, spunk and heart — on either side of the camera.
On hand to discuss the
film were Robert Downey Jr.,
Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Elisabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor - Johnson and Paul Bettany... On on Avengers:
Age of Ultron as a sequel... Joss Whedon: There are restrictions, but a -LSB-...]
«Part of the fun of
Age of Ultron was saying, you've seen another Iron Man adventure before, you see another Thor adventure and another Cap adventure, but we haven't seen the Green Goliath again,» he told JoBlo.com when asked if a Hulk solo
film with
Mark Ruffalo was in the cards, «So that was important in the characters you haven't seen — Hulk being one of them and Hawkeye being one of them — Ultron will make up for it.
Rounding out the cast for the
film is three - time Oscar ® - nominee
Mark Ruffalo («Spotlight,» «The Kids Are All Right,» «Foxcatcher»), reprising his role of Bruce Banner / the Hulk from «Marvel's The Avengers» and Marvel's «Avengers:
Age of Ultron.»
Partisan
marks the feature directing debut of Ariel Kleiman, who made the short
films Young Love and Deeper than Yesterday, and this coming - of -
age story looks like a compelling tale.
The Balthasar Kormákur action comedy 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and
Mark Wahlberg had already been announced as the opening
film, as well as a retrospective of golden -
age Hollywood director George Cukor.
Le Week - End
marks the fourth collaboration between writer Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell, and it mines similar territory as their earlier
films The Mother (2003) and Venus (2006), which also dealt with the challenges of late - middle / old
age.
I missed the kooky, at times cryptically obsessive quality that Joss Whedon brought to «The
Age of Ultron,» but this is a smoother, more consistent
film with its own oddball moments, such as Paul Bettany's Vision making paprikash for Scarlet Witch while listening to Chet Baker, and Falcon's startling name - check of racist police officer
Mark Furhman.
Well,
Mark Ruffalo has since revealed that the green Goliath was indeed in earlier drafts of the
film but was taken out to add to the suspense on where he is after the events of
Age of Ultron:
Other notable
films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring
Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different
ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.
Last year he wrapped
filming in the US to
film director Michael Bay's Hollywood blockbuster Transformers:
Age of Extinction with
Mark Wahlberg.
Transformers:
Age of Extinction,
marked the return of Director Michael Bay to the successful
film franchise with a different core cast and take on the story.
It
marks film number nine for Marvel —
films ten («Guardians Of The Galaxy»), eleven («Avengers:
Age Of Ultron»), and twelve («Ant - Man») are slated for release through July 2015 — and it's entirely uncompromising in its vision.
Based on Augusten Burroughs» bestselling memoir of the same name, Running With Scissors is a hit - and - miss, serio - comic coming - of -
age film, which
marks the feature filmmaking debut of Nip / Tuck creator Ryan Murphy.
Just a few hours after receiving a standing ovation for one of his short
film programs, Jenkins took the stage at the Chuck Jones Cinema for the world premiere of «Lady Bird,» the coming - of -
age comedy that
marks the solo directorial debut of veteran actress Greta Gerwig.
Before she was starring in world - shattering big - screen epics like «Avengers:
Age of Ultron» and «Captain America: Civil War,» Elizabeth Olsen made her
mark in independent
films like «Martha Marcy May Marlene» and «Kill Your Darlings.»
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director
Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the
film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International
Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International
Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark
Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
Look at the careers of actors like
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Ali MacGraw, who found themselves front and center in hugely successful
films at a young
age but did not get to wield star power much beyond their signature hit or franchise.
Written and directed by
Mark Abraham, the
films follows Williams, whose quick climb to fame led to his untimely death at
age 29.
The
film marks a change in direction for DeMonaco, and is described as a period coming - of -
age family drama which -LSB-...]
Boyhood - Richard Linklater has created an achievement in cinema that
marks the most expansive coming - of -
age story
film has ever seen.
Finally, it's here, the
film not a single person has been waiting for, Men, Women & Children, essentially Jason Reitman's «Reefer Madness» for the digital
age, is a decade late tonally conflicted mess that completely misses its
mark.
At a moment when questions of race, equity and representation are paramount, this streak
marks an interesting moment for Los Angeles — one that has allowed for the city to take in a broad range of works by black artists: from the intricate assemblages of Purifoy (who passed away in 2004 at the
age of 86) to the video work of Joseph, who is just 33, and whose art is inspired by everything from Russian avant - garde cinema to African American
films of the 1970s.