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French director Anne Fontaine continues to be a perennial presence in 2020 with her seventeenth feature, Night Shift (formerly titled Police). Produced by Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne and lensed by Yves Angelo, Fontaine has assembled a quartet of notables to headline her latest, including Virginie Efira, Omar Sy, Payman Maadi and Gregory Gadebois. Fontaine has become an increasingly prolific director over the past thirty years, competing in Venice in 1997 with Dry Cleaning, a festival she returned to in Horizons in 2017 with Reinventing Marvin (which won the Queer Lion).…...

Jean-Pierre Marielle played in more than 100 films Photo: Unifrance

The death of veteran French cinema and theatre actor Jean-Pierre Marielle, at the age of 87, leaves another gap in the group who became known as “the band of the Conservatoire” whose ranks included his late life-long friend Jean Rochefort, as well as Claude Rich and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

He played in more than 100 films, both comic and tragic, with such directors as Michel Audiard, Bértrand Blier, Claude Sautet, Bértrand Tavernier, Claude Miller and Alain Corneau for whom memorably he created the role of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (opposite Gérard Depardieu) as the musician Marin Marais in All The Mornings Of The World (Tous Les Matins Du Monde) in 1991.

With his warmly distinctive deep vocal timbre, imposing stature and pepper and salt beard and moustache, Marielle – who was born in Paris on 12 April, 1932 and died yesterday (24 April) in hospital after a long illness –started his career.

Simon Brew Nov 29, 2017

Daniel Day-Lewis wasn't thinking of retiring from acting. But then he started making his new film, and something happened...

Once his promotional duties for his next movie are complete, Daniel Day-Lewis will bring down the curtain on a rich acting career. His final movie is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, and he’s admitted in a new interview that he didn’t start that project with a view to it being his last. In fact, it was during the making of Phantom Thread that he came to his decision.

“Not wanting to see the film is connected to the decision I’ve made to stop working as an actor”, he explained to W magazine.

“But it’s not why the sadness came to stay. That happened during the telling of the story, and I don’t really know why. One of my sons is interested in musical composition,...

Alain Corneau, the French director who died in 2010 at the age of 67, shortly after completing this glossy thriller, was little known in Britain. After working as an assistant to Costa-Gavras he made some notable crime movies, including Choice of Arms (starring Yves Montand) and Série noire, a transposition of Jim Thompson's pulp novel A Hell of a Woman from Chicago to suburban Paris starring Patrick Dewaere. But his masterpiece is the stately 1991 Tous les matins du monde, featuring Depardieu père et fils and set in the world of 17th-century baroque musicians.

Already remade by Brian De Palma as Passion, Love Crime starts well as a psychological drama in which two highfliers – bitchy, sadistic Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) and seemingly submissive Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) – come into conflict as their heads batter the glass ceiling of the American multinational they work for in Paris. It goes badly off course, however, when...

I first met Bingham Ray in 1992, when I interviewed him and October Films partner Jeff Lipsky about their company’s expansion and move to New York. It was for Filmmaker‘s second issue, and in our talk, Bingham was all the things he’s now being remembered for — committed, combative, intelligent and garrulous. He was pitching me on his upcoming slate, a diverse lot that included Alain Corneau’s Tous Les Matins Du Monde, Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet, and a shorts package that included Michael Moore’s Pets or Meat. The ostensible hook for the article, though, was Ray and Lipsky’s move from L.A., where they founded the company in Lipsky’s garage, to swanky Rockefeller Center offices.

So this was the moment when Ray would have been expected to tone it down a bit, to slowly modulate his speaking into that hollowed-out blah-blah “corporate voice” that,...

Stunning and deeply saddening news: "The San Francisco Film Society regrets to announce that Executive Director Bingham Ray passed away on January 23 while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah." He'd taken over the position after Graham Leggat passed away in August. Further into today's statement:

Ray came to the San Francisco Film Society from New York City, where he recently served as the first run programming consultant to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, executive consultant to the digital distribution company SnagFilms and adjunct professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Ray cofounded October Films in 1991 and served as its copresident until its sale to USA Networks in 1999. October was one of the foremost independent film companies of the 1990s, winning two Oscars and garnering 13 Oscar nominations and top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival on three occasions. Some of October Films' credits include the internationally acclaimed Secrets & Lies,...

When it comes to murder it's best to be thorough. That's the primary take-away from late French director Alain Corneau's (perhaps best known for 1991's "Tous les Matins du Monde", or "All the Mornings of the World") 2010 dramatic thriller "Love Crime", currently making its way through Western art house cinemas. Wading fully into territory that Hitchcock built if not a career, then a persona upon, Corneau's "Love Crime" decompresses the before and after of a shocking if also cinematically inevitable homicide. The "during" portion occurs around the middle point of the film, and is treated as a messy and unappealing necessity. Motivation and process is key here, which is to the film's slow-churning credit....

Love Crime feels like the kind of film Claude Chabrol could (and sometimes did) make in his sleep: a sly divertissement about power and manipulation that inevitably leads to crime. The last film directed by Alain Corneau before he died last year (he was a chameleon, best known for the pretty-looking period piece Tous les Matins du Monde), it’s a predictable cat and mouse game between the ruthless, feline business executive played by Kristin Scott Thomas and the all-too-mousy-looking junior exec played by Ludivine Sagnier. But the actresses’ bold, incisive performances surpass the script (by Corneau and Natalie Carter) and…...

Award-wining French film director best known for Tous les Matins du Monde

It is fair to say that the majority of audiences who saw the film Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World, 1991) – directed by Alain Corneau, who has died of lung cancer aged 67 – had previously never heard of (or heard) the music of the baroque composer and viola da gamba virtuoso Marin Marais. However, the lacuna was soon filled after this sensitive, painterly and vivid recreation of 17th-century French musical life had won seven Césars (France's Oscars), become an international success and resulted in a bestselling CD of the soundtrack by Le Concert des Nations ensemble.

Starring Gérard Depardieu as the older Marais, looking back on his reckless younger self (played by Depardieu's son, Guillaume), it remains Corneau's biggest success outside France. In fact, Tous les Matins du Monde, one of the few films...

Well known French film director, Alain Corneau has passed away at the age of 67 after losing his battle with cancer.

The famous director best known for the acclaimed movie, Tous les Matins du Monde, died of lung cancer on Sunday according to his agent.

Corneau’s latest film Love Crime, starring English actress Kristin Scott-Thomas, had its French release on 18 August and is due for its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on 11 September.

Born on 7 August 1943, Corneau made a name for himself on the French film circuit with a number of thriller movies and historical epics about his home country.

Throughout his career Corneau worked with actors as famous as Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve and won seven Cesar awards – the French version of Oscars - for Tous les Matins du Monde in 1991.

According to the BBC, the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has issued a statement...

Le Monde and other French news outlets are reporting that Alain Corneau has succumbed to cancer at the age of 67. Just last week, Jordan Mintzer reviewed Corneau's latest, Crime d'amour (Love Crime), for Variety, calling it a "taut, sinister psycho-procedural." Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier and having just opened in theaters in France, the film is set to screen in a couple of weeks at the Toronto International Film Festival.

In 1992, Corneau's Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World) swept France's César Awards, winning best film, director, cinematography (Yves Angelo), supporting actress (Anne Brochet), music (Jordi Savall), costume design (Corinne Jorry) and sound. In 2004, Corneau was awarded the Prix René Clair.

Updates, 8/31: "Mr Corneau's movies included science fiction, police thrillers, a look at office politics in Japan and a mood piece about ancient India," writes Douglas Martin in the New York Times, "but...

It’s not been a great week for cinema’s elites as two influential filmmakers sadly pass away. French Director Alain Corneau (67) and Japanese animator Satoshi Kon (46), the latter being described as the “Animator who inspired Inception.”

Alain Corneau

Originally a musician, Alain Corneau started his film career in France in 1976 and has had a very successful career as an international director. His catalogue of seven films was popular among lovers of world cinema but in France he was considered quite the legend. 1991′s “Tous les matins du monde” won seven Cesar awards, the French equivalent of the Academy Awards.

After a long battle with cancer Alain sadly departed but managed to hold on long enough to finish his final film, Love Crimes which hit French Cinemas two weeks ago. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier, it is scheduled to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival next week.

Just days before the Toronto premiere of Love Crime, Alain Corneau, the celebrated French director who won the best director Cesar for Tous Les Matins Du Monde in 1992, has died from cancer. He was 67. He started out as a jazz musician before a long career in cinema. He studied at L'idhec (La Femis), France's top film school. From Mubi: Just last week, Jordan Mintzer reviewed Corneau's latest, Crime d'amour (Love Crime), for Variety, calling it a "taut, sinister psycho-procedural." Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier and having just opened in theaters in France, the film is set…...

French director Alain Corneau has died at the age of 67. The AP reports that the filmmaker, who gained international acclaim for 1991's Tous les Matins du Monde, passed away at his home overnight on Sunday after a battle with cancer. Corneau worked with many of the most well-known French stars including Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu and Yves Montand over the course of his 35 years of moviemaking. He began a career famous for thrillers after (more)...

Revered French film director Alain Corneau has died at the age of 67.

The movie-maker/writer, who worked with high profile stars including Gerard Depardieu and Monica Bellucci, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning.

The cause of his death was not known as WENN went to press, but he is believed to have been battling cancer.

Corneau's latest movie, Love Crime (Crime d'Amour) starring Kristin Scott Thomas, was released just two weeks ago.

He made his first film, France Inc, in 1973 and went on to carve out a successful career, working with Yves Montand on 1976's Police Python 357 and again on 1977's La Menace.

He directed Depardieu in 1984's Fort Saganne and their 1991 collaboration Tous Les Matins Du Monde won Corneau two coveted Cesar awards, for best film and best director.

French actor Gerard Depardieu's son Guillaume Depardieu has died at a hospital in Paris after suffering from a severe bout of pneumonia.

The 37-year-old passed away on Monday at the Garches hospital.

He had been filming new movie L'Enfance d'Icare in Romania when he suddenly fell ill. He was taken to seek medical help at the weekend but died early on Monday.

A spokesperson for Depardieu Sr.'s agency Artmedia says, "He caught a virus which gave him a very severe pneumonia."

Guillaume Depardieu starred in a number of movies, including 1991's Tous les matins du monde, 1993's Cible emouvante, Pola X in 1999, and 2007's Ne touchez pas la hache.

He was a multiple-nominee of the Cesar Awards in France, and in 1996 he won the accolade for Most Promising Actor for his role in Les Apprentis.

But it was Guillaume's reputation as a rebel which attracted the most attention. In 2003, he was handed a nine-month suspended prison sentence and fined $9,000 (GBP4,865) for threatening a man with a gun.

And in June this year, he was jailed for two months for driving under the influence (DUI). In addition, he has been in trouble with police over various drug offences.

He also suffered personal turmoil when he was injured in a severe motorbike accident in 1995, which later resulted in his right leg being amputated in 2003.

He is survived by his six-year-old daughter Louise with his ex-wife Elise Ventre, whom he divorced in 2006.

PARIS -- Actor-writer-director James Toback will be honored at the 31st Deauville Festival of American Cinema, which runs Sept. 2-11 in the chic resort town in Northern France, organizers said Tuesday. The festival plans to screen all of Toback's films as part of the tribute, including the 1978 Harvey Keitel starrer Fingers, which was recently remade as The Beat That My Heart Skipped by French helmer Jacques Audiard. Toback's 2004 When Will I Be Loved, starring Neve Campbell, and Nicholas Jarecki's 2005 documentary, Toback: The Outsider, also will unspool. Celebrated French director Alain Corneau (All the Mornings of the World) is presiding over the 31st edition of the festival. It will include a retrospective of boxing cinema, including screenings of Rocky, Raging Bull, When We Were Kings and Million Dollar Baby. The competition lineup remains to be announced.

French acting star Gerard Depardieu has severed ties with his son Guillaume, who was this week convicted of threatening a man with a gun. The Cyrano De Bergerac legend has had a fraught relationship with his 32- year-old son, who fired a gun after a man mocked his clothes in a bar in Normandy, France. Depardieu told Paris Match magazine, "He's a real poet who touches me enormously, but who is very difficult, incorrigible. At the moment, we have no ties. I cut things off because I no longer want to be the wall, or the trash bin where one dumps anything one wants. He has tried to contact me but I don't reply because I think that it's better for his mental health. We'll see." The pair starred together in 1991 film All The Mornings Of The World.