News

In 2011, French thesps Omar Sy and Anne Le Ny co-starred in the comedy hit “Untouchable.” Now, the two are reunited in the domestic thriller “Out of Control,” with “Lupin” star Sy in one of the leading roles next to Elodie Bouchez, José Garcia and Vanessa Paradis, while Le Ny serves as director and Axella Cachman’s co-writer.

“There was a real bond and warmth between us then, which was easy to revive 13 years later,” says Le Ny, who shared the screen time with Matt Damon in “Stillwater” and earned her first writing/helming kudos for her breakthrough movie “Those Who Remain” (2008).

Her seventh pic as helmer, “Out of Control (“Dis moi juste que tu m’aimes”) world premieres at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival official competition on Nov. 16, is being produced by Move Movie’s Bruno Levy, in co-production with Sy’s production company Korokoro, France 2 Cinéma and La Compagnie Cinématographique & Panache Productions,...

Actor and singer Vanessa Paradis, a household name in France, captivated audiences with candid and charismatic reflections on her multifaceted career during a masterclass at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon.

When asked about working alongside French cinema legends Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Patrice Leconte’s 1998 action comedy “Half a Chance,” she didn’t beat about the bush.

“Jean-Paul Belmondo was always surrounded by people; there was a lot of laughter while Alain Delon was alone – just him and his dogs,” she recalled. “But when the two of them got together, you could tell they were very fond of each other. They were happy to make this film together.”

Paradis acknowledged the unique privilege of collaborating with such iconic figures. “I knew how lucky I was back then, but today I realize it even more,” she said, adding with a grin, “I got to spend four months with them,...

Jean-Marc Vallée, the Canadian director and producer who helmed films including “Wild” and “Dallas Buyers Club” and the HBO series “Sharp Objects” and “Big Little Lies,” died on December 25 at age 58. The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director’s sudden passing has shocked the industry and his colleagues, with past collaborators paying tribute to the Canadian director on social media. See below.

“Beautiful Jean-Marc Vallee. The world has lost one of our great and purest artists and dreamers. And we lost our beloved friend. Our hearts are broken,” “Big Little Lies” Emmy winner and “Wild” Oscar nominee Laura Dern wrote in an Instagram post. See below.

Fellow Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve shared a tribute on Instagram via his wife, filmmaker Tanya Lapointe, in French: “How must I forget these lonesome tears in my eyes? As you told me before: go out there and shine, crazy diamond! I love you, my friend.”

“I am in shock.

Jean-Marc Vallée, the Quebecois director of films including “Dallas Buyers Club” and TV projects such as “Big Little Lies,” died at his cabin outside Quebec City, Canada. He was 58.

Vallée died from a heart attack, according to his representative Bumble Ward.

His producing partner, Nathan Ross, said in a statement, “Jean-Marc stood for creativity, authenticity and trying things differently. He was a true artist and a generous, loving guy. Everyone who worked with him couldn’t help but see the talent and vision he possessed. He was a friend, creative partner and an older brother to me. The maestro will sorely be missed but it comforts knowing his beautiful style and impactful work he shared with the world will live on.”

Vallée earned an Oscar nomination for best editing for 2013’s “Dallas Buyers Club,” which won Oscars for Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey. The film was based on the true story of Ron Woodroof,...

Careyes, Mexico, a strip of bohemian, palm tree-laden paradise perched along a remote strip of the Pacific coast, is the sort of place creative types dream about, with balmy ocean breezes, bright blue skies and a network of surrounding villages lined with cobblestone walkways and the sound of tropical birds chirping overhead. Arte Careyes, a film and arts festival designed to blend in with the area’s emphasis on nature, ecotourism and a laid-back Latin American vibe, kicks off its 9th year March 20-24, luring a crowd of some 250 filmmakers, photographers and musicians with a desire to slow things down and luxuriate in the town’s unique mystical and awe-inspiring qualities.

“Arte Careyes is a celebration of Mexico and that is always what has been for us the most important thing,” says fest founder Fillipo Brignone, whose father, Italian banker Gian Franco Brignone, spotted Careyes while flying overhead in 1968 and...

The HBO series “Sharp Objects” benefits from one hell of a blunt object: the hammer of the gods that is Led Zeppelin, whose music recurs throughout all eight episodes. Director Jean-Marc Vallée scored a coup by licensing four Zeppelin tracks for the Amy Adams-led mystery tale, which he considered an essential component, even though “Led Zeppelin II” played zero part of Gillian Flynn’s source novel. Getting a four-fer from Robert Plant and Jimmy Page was especially sweet after he was denied even one song for an earlier film, as he relates in an interview with Variety.

Vallée also spoke about some of his other recurring music choices — including the electronic music quartet the Acid, and the roots-based indie rockers M. Ward and Hurray for the Riff Raff — amid a soundtrack that includes everything from LCD Soundsystem and the War on Drugs to Perry Como and Engelbert Humperdinck.

Sneak Peek new images of actress/singer Vanessa Paradis ("Yoga Hosers") in the latest issue of "Grazia" (France) magazine wearing Sprung Frères and Princesse Tam Tam, photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino:

Paradis became a child star with the worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi".

In 1997, she appeared in the film "Un amour de sorcière" with Jeanne Moreau and Jean Reno, before filming "Une chance sur deux", with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Director Jean-Marc Vallée cast Paradis in a starring role in his film "Café de Flore", winning her a 'Genie' film award for 'Best Actress in a Leading Role'.

Paradis released an acoustic album November 2010 titled "Une nuit à Versailles", recorded at 'L'Opéra of the Palace of Versailles' during her 'Vanessa Paradis Concert Acoustique Tour'. She also released a set of DVDs in 2010 called 'Anthologie', collecting live performances and interviews from 1987–2007.

In 2016, she co-starred in the feature...

Oscar-robbed George Miller is back! Well, not in movie theaters (alas) but as president of this year's Cannes Film Festival competition jury. The announcement of the jury is always a cause for excitement since the list provides an annual eclectic mix of international artists both behind and in front of the camera. For 2016 we have:

President

George Miller (Writer/Director/Producer, Australia) fresh off of his across-the-board triumph Mad Max Fury Road

Jury Members (Alpha Order)

Arnaud Desplechin (Writer/Director, France) His current release is My Golden Days (our interview) and he's also responsible for the sublime double of Kings & Queen (2004) and A Christmas Tale (2008) which are must-see feats of intricate storytelling & actressing

Kirsten Dunst (Actress, Us) Little Kiki has long since grown up though she's the youngest member of this jury at 33. There seems to be a renewed appreciation for her talent out there, for which we have Fargo season 2 to thank.

Donald Sutherland, Arnaud Desplechin, Vanessa Paradis among those to join president George Miller.

The 69th Cannes Film Festival jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will be made up of eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.

The jury, made up of four women and four men, will comprise a collection of directors, actors and writers. They will decide on the prizes for the 21 films in Competition.

The jury:

George Miller – President

(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)

Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)

Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)

Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)

Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)

László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)

Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)

Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)

Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)

Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)

Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got...

Donald Sutherland, Arnaud Desplechin, Vanessa Paradis among those to join president George Miller.

The 69th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will comprise eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.

The jury, made up of four women and four men, comprises directors, actors and writers.

The jury:

George Miller – President

(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)

Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)

Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)

Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)

Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)

László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)

Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)

Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)

Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)

Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)

Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, which introduced a new generation of actors. The artists in his films have regularly been awarded the most...

We have what should now be the full line-up for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, featuring many of our most-anticipated films of the year. Coming next in line is the announcement of the competition jury, which director George Miller will be presiding over, returning to Cannes after delivering one of the best films of the festival last year, Mad Max: Fury Road.

Made up of four women and five men, they include Arnaud Desplechin (returning after last year’s My Golden Days), Kristen Dunst, Italian actress Valeria Golino, Mad Mikkelsen (Cannes Best Actor winner for The Hunt), Grand Prix-winning Son of Saul director László Nemes, actress/singer Vanessa Paradis, Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, as well as actor Donald Sutherland. Check out their biographies below as we look forward to seeing what they award the Palme d’Or, and beyond.

Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)

Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel,...

Demolition screenwriter Bryan Sipe with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Omar Gonzales

Jean-Marc Vallée's rockin' Demolition stars Jake Gyllenhaal with Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and introduces Judah Lewis as an impressive teenage mix of Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Paul Valéry, Michael Almereyda's take on Stanley Milgram's "Familiar Stranger" in Experimenter, a Joy Division T-shirt, costume choices by the Dallas Buyers Club and Wild director, a nail in the foot and an ache in the soul, what it means to "deserve", heightened reality in Café De Flore, starring Vanessa Paradis, plus a mini-manual of how to creatively destroy a house - all came up in my Essex House conversation with screenwriter Bryan Sipe.

Bryan Sipe on Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal): "All of a sudden, the most odd things are catching his attention."

Unlike his protagonist, investment banker Davis (Gyllenhaal), who unravels after losing his wife in a car accident,...

Ahhhh, l'amour.  Gigi Hadid and her new beau, Dnce singer Joe Jonas, hit the Parisian streets for a relaxed lunch at Café de Flore after a busy few days of work during Milan Fashion Week, including a catwalk appearance at Versace's Spring 2016 show. After leaving Hôtel Costes, the pair was spotted sporting matching white Adidas sneakers. The 20-year-old blonde beauty flaunted a casual spaghetti-strapped tank top and blue polka-dotted satin pants with a white sweater tied across her shoulders. Jonas, 26, opted for a simple black t-shirt with a graphic print of the Greek mythic monster, Medusa, and dark wash jeans.  The lovebirds topped off their looks with a pair of...

The Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) announced its first slate of films heading to the Festival this year. And, boy, are we excited!

Some of the year’s most hotly-anticipated films will play the festival including Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne’s taking on a transgender role in the biopic The Danish Girl, Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario with Emily Blunt andBenicio del Toro, Cannes’ favourite The Lobster with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, and Ridley Scott’s The Martian starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars, and the Johnny Depp gangster thriller Black Mass co-starring the one and only Benedict Cumberbatch.

Canadians are well represented in the first selection of films revealed in the Gala and Special Presentations categories with films including Deepa Mehta’s Vancouver-set Beeba Boys, Atom Egoyan’s Remember starringChristopher Plummer, and the team-up for father-son acting team Donald and Kiefer Sutherland in Forskaen. The full...

Tim Grady and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky co-created New York-based Adopt Films in 2011. Since banding together, the pair has been savvy in their foreign language pick-ups, pouncing on four fims in Berlin in 2012, for example, with each going on to win prizes there — and three ending up as their respective countries’ submission for the Foreign Language Oscar. Last year, they were in the potentially hot-potato situation of having both the entry from Palestine, Hany Abu Assad’s Omar, and the Israeli elected Bethlehem by Yuval Adler. They scored a nomination with Omar and this year have Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep in contention. I spoke with Grady about the state of foreign language cinema, how the company has grown and what it’s like to handle challenging movies.

Deadline: What has changed on the foreign language landscape since you guys got together to form Adopt in 2011?

Grady: Adopt...

Reese Witherspoon and Jean-Marc Vallée making Wild

Jean-Marc Vallée’s eighth feature film Wild is just about to begin its theatrical release in North America. The film stars Reese Witherspoon, who plays Cheryl Strayed as she goes on an incredible, though unprepared, hike across the Pacific Crest Trail to morn the death of her mother. This new release provides a great opportunity to reflect on the director’s career and survey the literature surrounding him.

Even though I’m sympathetic to Barry Hertz’s article in Maclean’s, "Jean-Marc Vallée: Film’s redemption man" (Sept. 15, 2014), for acknowledging the director’s talent and growing international reputation, it still doesn’t do Vallée justice as it concludes with vague generalizations that, instead of enlightening, overlook his actual merits. Hertz overemphasizes Vallée’s work with actors and argues that he ‘lacks’ a unique style of directing, criticizes him for his modesty, and...

Reese Witherspoon heads off on her own with nothing but the music in her head this month in Wild.

Wild is the latest offering from Canada’s Jean-Marc Vallee, who has made a comfortable nest of late getting top-flight work from Hollywood talents looking to re-establish their artistic currency. Last year, of course, he got his big break – as far as the U.S. is concerned – with Dallas Buyers Club.

While that film broke with Vallee’s tradition in Canadian films of drenching every available second with soundtrack, it did have a musical current running throughout.

The trailer for Wild broke this fall – scored magnificently by the song “Turn Away” from Beck’s stellar 2014 album “Morning Phase” – hinting at a possible return to his traditional musical tendencies.

Unfortunately, Wild is closer to the musical style of Dallas Buyers Club than the sprawling soundtracks ofC.R.A.Z.Y. and Café de Flore.

Reese Witherspoon heads off on her own with nothing but the music in her head this month in Wild.

Wild is the latest offering from Canada’s Jean-Marc Vallee, who has made a comfortable nest of late getting top-flight work from Hollywood talents looking to re-establish their artistic currency. Last year, of course, he got his big break – as far as the U.S. is concerned – with Dallas Buyers Club.

While that film broke with Vallee’s tradition in Canadian films of drenching every available second with soundtrack, it did have a musical current running throughout.

The trailer for Wild broke this fall – scored magnificently by the song “Turn Away” from Beck’s stellar 2014 album “Morning Phase” – hinting at a possible return to his traditional musical tendencies.

Unfortunately, Wild is closer to the musical style of Dallas Buyers Club than the sprawling soundtracks ofC.R.A.Z.Y. and Café de Flore.

Fading Gigolo will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 19.

Read Jim Batts’ review Here. “Kudos to the film’s screenwriter…John Turturro. Fading Gigolo is a charming, sometimes heart-breaking walk on the wild side with a couple of fellas’ who are really more on the mild side.”

In Fading Gigolo, Murray (Woody Allen) talks his friend Fioravante (John Turturro) into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist (Stone). With Murray acting as Fioravante’s “manager,” the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Writer, director and star John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Transformers) leads an all-star cast including Academy Award® winner Woody Allen (Annie Hall, To Rome With Love), Academy Award nominee Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino), Golden Globe® nominee Sofía Vergara (New Year’s Eve, ABC’s...

Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:

Alleluia

Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.

Macaulay Culkin, the child actor-turned-kitsch band member, has officially moved on from his heartbreak over longtime girlfriend Mila Kunis with actress Jordan Lane Price.

Jordan Lane Price Dating Macaulay Culkin

Price was first linked with Culkin, 33, in November, when the couple took a trip to Paris over Thanksgiving. While in the City of Light, Culkin and Price toured the Center Pompidou and ate diner at Chez Georges. The also enjoyed each other's company at Café de Flore, where Culkin was captured leaning over to give Price a quick kiss.

"They were very animated and talked together a lot," a fellow patron told People at the time. "They kissed at the table and were very comfortable. They have the air of being very much in love."

Price’s Twitter and Instagram accounts show she’s a big fan and supporter of her boyfriend’s band, The Pizza Underground, which does covers...

Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth jetted out of La over the weekend and headed to Paris, where they hit the streets for a little shopping on Monday. The couple strolled arm in arm as they went in and out of shops, including A.P.C. and Bonton, and broke from retail therapy for lunch at Café de Flore. Reese and Jim are no strangers to the City of Light, having traveled there for their Pda-filled honeymoon in 2011 after their Summer wedding. The trip is a break from Reese's recent busy schedule, which has included appearances at the March of Dimes Celebration of Babies Hollywood luncheon and the 23rd annual Beat the Odds Awards. The events were a few of the first times Reese debuted her shorter cropped hair on the red carpet, after cutting it following the end of filming for Wild.

When it comes to romantic getaways, it's hard to beat the City of Light. And it looks like Macaulay Culkin has found a Paris match with Jordan Lane Price. The actors spent Thanksgiving at the Center Pompidou in Paris, looking at the museum's modern art collection and dining at Chez Georges, a restaurant boasting panoramic views from the building's top floor. Culkin, 33, was spotted kissing his new love interest and dancing with her in the street. On Nov. 22, the former child star was also spied affectionately greeting the All My Children actress at the French capital's Orly airport - welcoming...

Well, they are in Paris. Macaulay Culkin and his new girlfriend were certainly making the most of one of the romantic cities in the world when the two were spotted smooching there on Tuesday, Nov. 26. The cute couple could be seen getting cozy as they dined on the terrace of Café de Flore. The sighting comes just days afer the Home Alone star greeted his gal at Orly Airport—rose in hand! The budding romance appears to be the 33-year-old actor's first relationship since splitting from Mila Kunis in 2010. They had dated since 2002. Prior to his trip to Paris, Culkin was most recently spotted at the Moustache Bar in Tijuana, Mexico, on Oct. 21. Earlier that month, he...

Exclusive: Montreal-based Item 7 has secured a world premiere for its latest film Meetings With A Young Poet and brought on Paris-based Films Distribution to handle sales.

Meetings With A Young Poet will premiere at the International Film Festival Of India that runs until November 30 in Goa.

Rudy Barichello directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Beaulieu.

Stephen McHattie (pictured, right) stars alongside Maria de Medeiros and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (pictured, left) in the story of a young poet who forges a deep friendship with Samuel Beckett only to discover more about his mentor after the celebrated writer’s death.

Item 7’s Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produced the film. Their credits include last year’s Canadian foreign language Oscar submission War Witch and Café de Flore.

Tva Films will distribute Meetings With A Young Poet in Canada in 2014.

The film is produced with financial contributions by Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Quebec film and television tax credit, [link...

Exclusive: Montreal-based Item 7 has secured a world premiere for its latest film Meetings With A Young Poet and bought on Paris-based Films Distribution to handle sales.

Meetings With A Young Poet will premiere at the International Film Festival Of India that runs until November 30 in Goa.

Rudy Barichello directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Beaulieu.

Stephen McHattie (pictured, right) stars alongside Maria de Medeiros and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (pictured, left) in the story of a young poet who forges a deep friendship with Samuel Beckett only to discover more about his mentor after the celebrated writer’s death.

Item 7’s Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produced the film. Their credits include last year’s Canadian foreign language Oscar submission War Witch and Café de Flore.

Tva Films will distribute Meetings With A Young Poet in Canada in 2014.

The film is produced with financial contributions by Sodec, Telefilm Canada, Quebec film and television tax credit, [link...

Montreal-born filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée has always been drawn to character-driven material that’s emotional and inspiring. His strong sense of storytelling through imagery is evident in his new film, Dallas Buyers Club, based on the real-life story of Texas cowboy turned AIDS activist, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey). Shooting the movie 100% handheld with available light, Vallee’s visceral direction enhances the richness of character and raw emotion in this drama about an imperfect man who was given a death sentence but was determined to beat the odds. Now playing in limited release, the film also stars Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner. At a recent roundtable interview, Vallée talked about looking for the humanity in the story, his directorial approach, wanting to tell a story that’s faithful to Woodroof, finding the balance between seriousness, comedy and respecting the facts, what McConaughey brought to the role and how his way of working...

Jean-Marc Vallée returned to screens this past weekend with his latest offering, Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey as unlikely AIDS crusader Ron Woodroof. Vallée has emerged as one of Quebec and Canada’s most unique and most musically-obsessed voices since he burst on the scene in 2005 with his debut feature C.R.A.Z.Y. but fans expecting another in the lineage of his debut or 2011’s Café de Flore are in for another right turn, of sorts.

In between those two highly emotional, highly musical films, Vallée “went Hollywood” and made his first English-language feature: The Young Victoria. That film marked a major stylistic shift, especially from C.R.A.Z.Y. which had a very personal feel and was absolutely loaded with music.

We dive deep into the films of Vallée, including Dallas Buyers Club, for this week's look at music and movies in Soundtracking!

Title: Dallas Buyers Club Director: Jean-Marc Vallée (‘Café de Flore,’ ‘The Young Victoria’) Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto People often struggle to find their rightful place in society, and prove to their friends, family and the world that their plight is just as important as anyone elses, even if not much is known about their predicament. Director Jean-Marc Vallée’s new drama, ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ which is based on the true story of Ron Wodroof, one of the first advocates who fought for the medical rights of HIV and AIDS patients in the late 1980s and early 1990s, successfully showcases the emotional plight people take in order to [ Read More ]

The post Dallas Buyers Club Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.

Azt & Sympathy: Vallee’s Drama Banks on Unforgettable Performances

Cinematic portrayals of the onset of the AIDS crises have always been a bit nipped and tucked in films intended for mainstream consumption, and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Dallas Buyers Club is no exception. While filmed on a limited budget, the talent on hand and the extreme amount of commitment that went into the making mean this may have been filmed with all the trappings of an independent film, but it was never intended to be treated as such. And there’s much here to prove that attitudes are changing, as the willingness to honestly examine the homophobia that assisted in the spread of the AIDS virus is finally being made and manufactured for more than only an affected demographic. That said, Vallee’s film often does rely on formula and sometimes obvious manipulation in a true story that’s quite moving on its own.

Published back in the spring last year, Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trailer was one of the best-selling books of last year, chosen by Oprah Winfrey to launch Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.

But even before it was published, Reese Witherspoon acquired the rights to turn it into a movie. Production is now officially underway, and Witherspoon has shared the first official photo from the set.

With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.

Reese Witherspoon has tweeted out this first look at her new film Wild.

With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.

On October 11 Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that director Jean-­Marc Vallée had started principal photography in Oregon on Wild.

The film stars Oscar winner Witherspoon (Walk The Line, Mud) and also features Thomas Sadoski (HBO’s “The Newsroom”), Michiel Huisman (World War Z, HBO’s “Treme”), W. Earl Brown (The Lone Ranger, There’S Something About Mary), Gaby Hoffman (Sleepless In Seattle,...

Based on a true story, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club has long been on the radar as one of this year’s Oscar heavyweight contenders, with Matthew McConaughey continuing to diversify his career with incredibly interesting roles.

Set to premiere out in Toronto at the start of next month, Focus Features have now launched the first trailer and poster, via Apple, giving an impressive first glimpse at the upcoming R-rated drama.

Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down...

Quebec writer-director Jean-Marc Vallée, whose previous films include festival faves C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria and Café de Flore, has lined up his next project now that he just wrapped AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Vallée has signed on to direct Demolition, a Black List script, which compiles the hottest unproduced screenplays, a drama that follows an investment banker reeling after the tragic death of his wife. He soon starts trying to pinpoint where it all went wrong, deconstructing his life choices as everything falls apart, only to meet a strange woman in a chance encounter who could save him.

Considering Vallée's affection for doomed romances, this one sounds like a good fit.

Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse have been in Paris for the last few days on a romantic vacation that saw them indulge in Pda around town. Between motorcycle rides and hand-in-hand walks in the park, the duo dined at the legendary Parisian bistro Café de Flore. It seems their time together in France may have come to an end, as they were spotted sharing a kiss with their luggage in hand at night. Bradley's been busy working in the Us on his new David O. Russell film, which is still untitled at the moment. The project brings him back together with his Silver Linings Playbook collaborators David and actress Jennifer Lawrence. Bradley and Jennifer spent a great deal of time side by side promoting that film, which went on to earn Jennifer her first Oscar for best actress. Their togetherness brought about inevitable romance rumors, which 38-year-old Bradley dismissed as...

The Dallas Buyer’s Club

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Writer(s): Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack

Producer(s): Robbie Brenner and Rachel Rothman

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Catherine Kim Poon, Dallas Roberts, Denis O’Hare, Griffin Dunne

Jean-Marc Vallée had to field many requests after the success of C.R.A.Z.Y. – it is with this film were he demonstrated his incredible skill-set and ear for a soundtrack that can supplement performances. It landed him in Europe, where he first worked for Scorsese on The Young Victoria, and then brought him to France and back home for Café de Flore, and finally, with The Dallas Buyer’s Club, he has landed his first U.S production gig. Aesthetically-speaking, Vallée definitely has the touch, and if this true life drama allows for it, it may just enhance the most attention getting role of Matthew McConaughey...

Tom à la Ferme

Director: Xavier Dolan

Writer(s): Dolan and Michel Marc Bouchard

Producer(s): Mk2′s Charles Gillibert and Nathanaël Karmitz

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Xavier Dolan, Evelyne Brochu

Legend has it that Xavier Dolan met with the playwright directly after one of the play’s engagements (see promotional pic above) and asked to bring the film to the big screen. Fast forward a couple of seasons later and Dolan makes it his fourth feature – a departure for him as it’s an adaption for one, and that this source material wasn’t penned by him. It’ll be a nice change of pace to see the director work from material that is somewhat removed from him but yet remains in the confines of the family drama (for which Dolan excelled in with his very first feature, I Killed My Mother). As for now,...

David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" danced atop the 17th Annual Satellite Awards winning Best Picture, Editing, Director, Actor (Bradley Cooper), and Actress (Jennifer Lawrence). In the supporting acting categories, Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress award for "Les Miserables," while Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for playing the big bad in "Skyfall."

Winners were announced Sunday, Dec. 16, at the InterContinental Hotel at Century City in Los Angeles.

Here's the complete winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards (for a complete list of Awards Season winners/nominees, click here):

Motion Picture

Argo .

*** Silver Linings Playbook

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Les MISÉRABLES

Skyfall

Moonrise Kingdom

The Sessions

Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone

Life Of Pi

Zero Dark Thirty

Director

*** David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook

Ben Affleck -- Argo

Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films

Ben Lewin -- The Sessions

Steven Spielberg --...

The International Press Academy has announced the nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards. "Les Miserables" led the pack with 10 nominations including Best Picture.

Winners will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 16 at the InterContinental at Century City in Los Angeles.

17th Annual Satellite Awards Nominees:

Motion Picture

Argo .

Silver Linings Playbook

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Les MISÉRABLES

Skyfall

Moonrise Kingdom

The Sessions

Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone

Life Of Pi

Zero Dark Thirty

Director

David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook

Ben Affleck -- Argo

Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films

Ben Lewin -- The Sessions

Steven Spielberg -- Lincoln

Kathryn Bigelow -- Zero Dark Thirty

Actress in a Motion Picture Name

Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook

Emilie Dequenne Our Children

Keira Knightley Anna Karenina

Emmanuelle Riva Amour

Laura Birn Purge

Laura Linney Hyde Park On Hudson

Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty

Actor in a Motion Picture

John Hawkes The Sessions...

Review by Dana Jung

The sometimes obsessive power of love is just one of the themes portrayed in the complex and often riveting new drama CAFÉ De Flore.

Jumping back and forth in time, and alternating between two storylines, the film weaves an absorbing and unpredictable tapestry out of its characters and plot.  Antoine is a renowned music mixer/deejay who flies to gigs at huge clubs, regularly taking him away from his beloved family.  He seems to be a man who has everything:  successful career, two adorable daughters, and a woman he is madly in love with.  However, we soon learn that the woman he is currently with is not the mother of his children, as we are introduced to Carole, Antoine.s ex-wife.  Carole lives alone, and is struggling through life separated from her family.  She is taking drugs, sleepwalking, and having a series of disturbing dreams involving...

We live in a shrinking world. Boundaries are becoming more porous, commerce straddles the oceans, and communication is wide-reaching and constant. The movies have followed suit. There are hyperlink projects like Babel, of course, but international connections have also been explored on a more modest scale. Québec in particular has produced a mighty handful of films that embrace not only the nation’s multi-cultural character but also its global implications. Recent Oscar nominees Monsieur Lazhar and Incendies weave intercontinental stories with ease. Jean-Marc Vallée has added a new layer to this globally open trend with his new film, Café de Flore. Where other movies have simply been content to tell a single story that happens to span thousands of miles, Vallée has undertaken to make the interconnectedness of humanity itself his thematic focus. He reaches across both space and time, building bridges between the most impossibly distant of characters. He starts in modern-day Montreal. Antoine...

It's another week loaded with music and movie releases, and once again, the world's critics are here to express their opinions on which flopped.

In music Aerosmith has returned with "Music from Another Dimension." The album received lukewarm reviews with many critics highlighting the records production quality as a huge downside to overall work. Meanwhile, Ne-Yo's "Red" seemed to alienate him from the R&B sound for which he's best known; still, it was praised for holding several strongly produced songs. Rounding out this week's new music is Kylie Minogue's "The Abbey Road Sessions" which received some of the weakest reviews due to its stale and predictable sound.

In movies, James Bond made a triumphant return to the big screen in "Skyfall." Most critics gave the film rave reviews but a few felt the movie may have taken a unnecessary leap into more serious storyline. "Nature Calls" faced a...

Love is patient, love is kind . is it? Or does it overwhelm with painful urgency, and rather than being blind, blind those who it captures? There are films where love is tender and romantic, like Titanic, or embarrassing and joyful, like When Harry Met Sally. Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de Flore is neither. With the intensity of a thriller and the emotion of a tragedy, his film gives love fingernails that sink into its characters and its audience and don’t let go until someone finds the strength to pull them out....

“Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished,” says Vanessa Paradis, relaxing on a sofa in an apartment on the Upper East Side on a warm pre-hurricane afternoon in October. “When you hear a man speak and you think what he says is so wonderful, then you are in big trouble—I know I am. It’s about words and action. Words are not enough.” She’s responding in general terms to a question about her new movie, Café de Flore, a love story, but it’s hard not to read something more personal into her answer: Though Paradis is famous in her native France for acting and singing, she’s best known to Americans as the former girlfriend of Johnny Depp, father of her two children, with whom she split in June after fourteen years together.“New York is the city of freedom,” says Paradis,...

While the studios boasted a very strong first weekend of November (thanks to "Wreck It Ralph" and "Flight"), the specialty market struggled. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, popular New York indie venues like the IFC Center, the Sunshine, the Angelika and the Film Forum were among those closed for part of the weekend. And only one film -- Jean-Marc Vallee's "Café de Flore" -- estimated an average of over $10,000 -- and that could easily change with final numbers, as "Flore" averaged exactly $10,000. And it was screening exclusively in a Miami suburb. Read More: Legends (and Failures) of the Fall: Indie Box Office Winners and Losers Among the openers that struggled were "This Must Be The Place," "The Details," "The Bay" and "Vamps," though some hopeful news came care of holdovers like "The Sessions," "The Flat" and the whopping 15th weekend of "Searching...

In an annual New Years tradition of merriment and bonding, the patriarch of a decidedly secular family asks for God's blessing in the coming year.  It is a contradictory detail such as this - a combination of the pragmatic and the spiritual - in which Café De Flore asks (in a round about way) what is probably the most difficult question put to a person, at least someone in privileged first-world society: "Are you happy?" The latest film from Québécois wunderkind Jean Marc-Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.) is a film of moments - intense emotional moments - offered up in a loose, free-wheeling montage (requiring the aid of voice-over) before settling into something deeper. The film further mines two of the more interesting themes that have been slowly emerged in my world-cinema filmgoing last year...

We have learned that Matthew McConaughey dropped 30 pounds for his next project The Dallas Buyer’s Club, about Ron Woodroof, a tough Texas electrician who in the late 1980s, became ‘the nerviest cowboy in the AIDS underground.’

Then, the long-in-the-works true-life drama, to be directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Café de Flore) adds Gael Garcia Bernal as an effeminate member of the ‘club’ who is also suffering from AIDS, and who meets the thin lead, all without a female lead locked in.

Most recently Hilary Swank was attached, but she dropped out of the picture earlier this year, right as Bernal has joined the cast. Now comes word that Jennifer Garner is in talks to star as the female lead, Dr. Eve Saks.

Production begins November 11th in New Orleans with Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack providing the screenplay.

Garner has appeared recently in Butter and cherishes Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green.

With stand out roles in "Magic Mike," "Killer Joe," "Bernie," "The Paperboy" and "Mud," Matthew McConaughey is having arguably the best year of his career in 2012. With Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf Of Wall Street" on deck and a meaty lead role in the intriguing drama "The Dallas Buyer's Club," 2013 should continue Mac's impressive reawakening. Joining him for the ride in the latter project is Jennifer Garner. She replaces Hilary Swank, who dropped out of the picture earlier this year. To be directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ("Café de Flore," "The Young Victoria") "The Dallas Buyer's Club" is based on the true story of a man diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 who was only given months to live. With nothing to lose, he began experimenting with underground, non-fda-approved drugs and wound up living longer than expected. He began getting these drugs into the...

Title CAFÉ De Flore Adopt Films Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Screenwriter: Jean-Marc Vallée Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier, Alice Dubois, Evelyne de la Cheneliere, Michel Dumont, Linda Smith, Joanny Corbeil-Picher Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/16/12 Opens: November 2, 2012 We’re all connected, whether within six degrees of separation or throughout history—the latter point being made in a most pretentious manner by this year’s film “Cloud Atlas.” Thankfully, “Café de Flore” takes only two hours, shaving 54 minutes from “Cloud Atlas,” but Jean-Marc Vallée is just as eager to trot out his film as one that’s almost as arty. That is to say, “Café de [ Read More ]

The post Cafe de Flore Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.

Stella McCartney had her usual roster of celebrities in the front row today during Paris Fashion Week. Kate Moss, Salma Hayek, and Paul McCartney were among those out to see Stella's Spring 2013 collection. Jerry Seinfeld even made the trek to France for the show! Kate made the rounds with her pal Mario Testino after lunching at Café de Flore, while Salma brought her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, whose Ppr company owns Stella's line. Rachel Zoe also stepped out with her man, Rodger Berman. They're the latest celebrities at Paris Fashion Week - make sure to check out all our runway news from the shows straight from our editors in Paris. View Slideshow ›...