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Daily | In the Works | Coppola, Schipper, Refn
21 April 2016 6:54 AM, PDT | Keyframe | See recent Keyframe news »
"At the age of 77, Francis Ford Coppola is attempting what may be his most ambitious project yet." Graham Winfrey reports for Indiewire. Also in today's roundup on projects in the works: Darren Aronofsky will produce the next film by Sebastian Schipper (Victoria). Nicolas Winding Refn, whose The Neon Demon will compete at Cannes, will be a showrunner on the Italian TV series Les Italiens. Azazel Jacobs (Terri) will direct Debra Winger and Tracy Letts in The Lovers. Sean Baker will follow up on Tangerine with The Florida Project. John Ridley will direct Idris Elba in Guerrilla, a six-episode limited series. And: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens breakout Daisy Ridley and producer J.J. Abrams are planning to reteam on Kolma, a fantasy thriller that Diary of a Teenage Girl filmmaker Marielle Heller is in negotiations to direct," reports TheWrap's Jeff Sneider. » - David Hudson »
'Victoria' Director Sebastian Schipper To Helm 'Undeniable,' Produced By Darren Aronofsky
20 April 2016 7:39 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
German filmmaker Sebastian Schipper made some major waves last year with "Victoria." Shot in one continuous take, it wasn't just a gimmicky movie, but an effective thriller in its own right, and marked the filmmaker as one to watch. Well, someone certainly took notice — Darren Aronofsky. And he's helping Schipper get his next movie off the ground. Cineuropa reports that Schipper will direct "Undeniable," an adaptation of the memoir "Denial" by Jessica Stern, with Aronofsky producing through his Protozoa Pictures banner. The book tells the story of how the author and her sister were raped as teenagers, and were initially met with doubts when they reported the crime to police. Over three decades later, she asked the police to complete the file on her case, and shared her experiences about the long lasting effects of trauma. Here's the book synopsis: One of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Constantin Film named top German producer-distributor
8 April 2016 4:41 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Constantin Film has been named Germany’s most successful producer and distributor of German films for 2015.
The Munich-based company was presented with the “Ffa Industry Tiger” by the German Federal Film Board (Ffa) at an awards ceremony in Berlin last night.
The award came with $3.8m (€3.4m) “reference” funding for the company to invest in future film projects and theatrical campaigns.
Constantin attracted more than $2.9m (€2.6m) in production “reference” funding for five in-house productions, including the year’s leading film at the box office Fack Ju Göhte 2 and the comedy Er Ist Wieder Da, and distribution “reference” support of $968,000 (€851,000) based on the performance of nine releases.
“2015 was a superb year for us,” Constantin’s CEO Martin Moszkowicz said as he accepted the Industry Tiger Award. “[Fack Ju Gothe 2] was the best film in the company’s history.”
He added that Constantin is set to produce or co-produce 14 feature films in 2016 and said that the €2.6m in production “reference »
- screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
Aronofsky, "Victoria" Helmer Team For New Film
7 April 2016 7:39 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Darren Aronofsky is set to produce "Undeniable," a film adaptation of Jessica Stern's best-selling memoir "Denial," through his Protozoa Pictures.
Stern, a leading expert in terrorism and Ptsd, opens up in the memoir about being raped along with her sister by an unknown assailant when they were both teens. The story chronicles her attempts, decades later, to investigate the unsolved crime and address her own trauma surrounding it.
Sebastian Schipper ("Victoria") will direct from a script by "Shame" screenwriter Abi Morgan who rewrote a first draft by Schipper.
Source: Variety »
- Garth Franklin
Darren Aronofsky to Produce Film Based on Jessica Stern’s Memoir ‘Denial’ (Exclusive)
7 April 2016 11:18 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Darren Aronofsky is set to produce “Undeniable” — based on the best-selling memoir “Denial” by Jessica Stern.
Sebastian Schipper, who helmed the critically acclaimed “Victoria,” will direct the movie from a script by “Shame” screenwriter Abi Morgan. Schipper penned the first draft of the script.
Stern, one of the leading experts in terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, published “Denial” in 2010. She opens up in the memoir about being raped along with her sister, as teenagers, by an unknown assailant. The book also chronicles her attempts, decades later, to investigate the unsolved crime and address her own trauma surrounding it.
Aronofsky will produce through his Protozoa Pictures. Although he has a first-look deal with New Regency, sources tell Variety that the company has passed on the project. It is unknown if Aronofsky will wait for more talent to come on board before shopping the package to other studios or take it out as is. »
- Justin Kroll
Incredible scenes in the new TV Spot for first person action movie Hardcore Henry
5 April 2016 3:03 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Choosing a gimmick on which to hang your movie is a tough job. The various ‘one continuous take’ films over the years have met with varying degrees of success – notably Sebastian Schipper‘s Victoria (in cinemas now, and really worth seeing) being one of the best. Point is – a good film is a good
The post Incredible scenes in the new TV Spot for first person action movie Hardcore Henry appeared first on HeyUGuys. »
- Jon Lyus
Victoria review – an authentic piece of cinematic magic
3 April 2016 1:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
One seamless shot follows a young woman through the dark underbelly of Berlin, in a unique thriller that uses its technical trickery to mesmerising effect
Years ago, I was watching a 1950s British drama about a woman led astray by a dashing roué. It included a whirlwind montage of highlights from their wild, cosmopolitan affair: boxing matches, popping magnums, roulette wheels, flights to Paris and the glamour of the Moulin Rouge… At which point a friend nudged me and whispered: “Now that’s what I call a crammed night out.”
The young heroine of the German film Victoria really does have a busy night on the town – a mere few hours that take in flirtation, peril, dancefloor euphoria, an impromptu piano recital and, to cap it all, some reckless criminality. What’s more, director Sebastian Schipper gets it all into a taut 140 minutes – and one single continuous shot. But, more than a technical prodigy, »
- Jonathan Romney
Film Review: Victoria
1 April 2016 8:09 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★★ The one-shot feature has yet to work its way into the cinematic landscape in the same ubiquitous way that the found footage conceit once did. But even if it grows into a popular storytelling tool, it's doubtful we'll see as stunning an achievement as what director Sebastian Schipper and his creative team have pulled off with Victoria. Remarkably, the film doesn't have any magic masking cuts in the whole of its ambitious 138 minute running time. It exists as an entirely immersive and immediate experience without once drawing attention to the framing device.
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- CineVue UK
Victoria review – gripping one-take thriller on the streets of Berlin
31 March 2016 7:30 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Captured in a continuous 138-minute shot, Sebastian Schipper’s stylish heist movie is carried along on a giant wave of adrenaline and logistical daring
Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria is a gripping heist drama set on the streets of Berlin that plays out in real time in one continuous, 138-minute camera shot, carried along on a giant skittery wave of adrenaline and logistical daring. Shooting this must have felt like pulling off an actual bank job, with the mind-boggling levels of planning and imposture it surely entailed. Like a bank robber, Schipper must have been terrified of some random passerby showing up and wrecking everything.
Now, there’s traditionally a fair bit of cinephile machismo involved in the continuous tracking shot, both doing it and praising it. No movie flourish draws attention to itself quite as emphatically as this, with its swaggering mastery of time and space. Despite murky nightclub scenes, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Second Secret Cinema X revealed as 'Victoria'
29 March 2016 9:59 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Sebastian Schipper’s Berlin Silver Bear winner screened at London’s Ministry of Sound.
German crime-thriller Victoria has been revealed as the second Secret Cinema X title, a spin-off strand from the London-based events specialist that launched last year with Oscar-winning documentary Amy.
The one-off event was held at London superclub Ministry of Sound and 455 tickets at £28 ($40) were sold, totalling £12,740 ($18,000). A maximum capacity of 500 filled the venue.
Ministry of Sound was turned into Schwester, the fictional Berlin nightclub in the film, where actors mingled with the audience who continued their night following the screening with DJs into the early hours.
The film follows Victoria, a young Spanish ex-pat in Berlin whose chance encounter with four young Germans in a nightclub launches an epic journey into the capital.
Shot in one, uninterrupted take, director Sebastian Schipper’s film won the Berlin Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography.
Victoria, which debuted at the 2015 Berlinale, is set for »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
How Sebastian Schipper created a one take thriller that surpassed Hitchcock
24 March 2016 7:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Since launching at last year’s Berlin film festival, the audacious one-take heist movie, Victoria, has everyone talking. How did its makers pull off something that a movie legend could not?
There’s a scene in Victoria in which the camera follows a girl from a dancefloor to the bar, to the street, to a corner shop, to a rooftop, to a car, to a bank robbery, to a shootout. You wait for the cut. But, throughout the German thriller’s two-hour running time, it never comes. In Victoria, a scene is the scene. All of it – the setup, the action, the climax – is one continuous take.
Shot by a solo cameraman across multiple locations on the streets of Berlin, Victoria is an amazing achievement. It’s being sold on a Usp that isn’t (Mike Figgis pulled off the first genuine one-take film with his sprawling split-screen experiment, Timecode, »
- Henry Barnes
Recommended Discs & Deals of the Week: ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Paris Belongs to Us,’ ‘The Forbidden Room,’ and More
8 March 2016 9:12 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
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The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
Dense and lacking the playful quality of his more straightforward work, this represents a new multi-narrative direction for Maddin, and a kind of rabbit hole. Working within the art world verses the film world, Maddin’s work, style and influences have a tremendous amount of power applicable to cinema within the space of a gallery installation. Night Mayor, his first collaboration with the Nfb, fictionalized the tension between the Nfb’s mission and government controls, »
- TFS Staff
Victoria | Blu-ray Review
9 February 2016 8:00 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Earning about as much praise as criticism (including tying for the Silver Berlin Bear in 2015) is actor/director Sebastian Schipper’s fourth feature, Victoria, the impressively formulated, single take romance/bank heist thriller. Completed after three attempts and largely improvised (the initial script was only twelve pages), it’s a testament to the ambitious possibilities of cinema, and potentially an argument for the necessity for multiple takes in the first place. Although its limited Us theatrical release in October, 2015 courtesy of distributor Adopt Films didn’t garner the same excited response it received on the international circuit (it was actually bypassed by the Toronto International Film Festival), this will be a title now referenced as the gold standard for narratives transpiring within a single take.
Opening in the throes of a dance floor of a packed techno club, Victoria (Costa), makes her way to the exit. Dawn is approaching, and she’s scheduled to work, »
- Nicholas Bell
No One Believed Sebastian Schipper Could Make 'Victoria' in One Take
1 February 2016 12:11 PM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
"Victoria," German writer/director Sebastian Schipper's fourth feature, was shot in one continuous, uninterrupted take with a small cast and crew, in the wee small hours in Berlin around 4:30am on April 27, 2014, finishing at about 7:00am. What you see in this impressive, tightrope act of pure cinema, which follows exchange student Victoria (Laia Costa) on a dark night of the soul with a band of criminal Berliners, is exactly what you get, and it's not a gimmick. Which is why Schipper gives his Dp Sturla Brandth Grøvlen top billing in the end credits. Not since Alexander Sokurov's 2002 "Russian Ark" has a film, by my watch, so exuberantly used the one-take form to drive its narrative, which in "Victoria" is a sort-of heist thriller story, but as the director insists, "it's not about a bank heist; it is a bank heist." Director Schipper, whose film won three prizes in Berlin, »
- Ryan Lattanzio
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