Archive for December, 2015

Matthias Schoenaerts – From Antwerp to Hollywood – 2015

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
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    See more photos here.

    Matthias Schoenaerts was born on December 8, 1977 in Antwerp, Belgium.

    Is a graffiti artist under the pseudonym “Zenith”.

    Has appeared in Belgian, Dutch, French, American and British films.

    Filmed four movies in 2013: A Little Chaos (2014), The Drop (2014), Suite Française (2014) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015).

    on the first time he saw Marion Cotillard on the set of Rust and Bone 2012)I saw Marion before the rehearsal, she was in a wheelchair, she looked totally depressed and I thought … ‘It’s not going to work out very well with Marion’ and I thought ‘What do I do? Should I talk to her?’ It wasn’t until we started rehearsing that I realized she was totally in Stéphanie’s world already. She’d actually become Stéphanie. It made me really scared. She is an exceptional actress and she does everything to her utmost ability. Jacques Audiard is always highly demanding, very sensitive, highly intelligent and he enables us to expand and develop and move into areas that we might never have thought of, so I was very very happy to be in this film with Marion, to work with Jacques, it was overwhelming. It was a tremendous gift.

    Kate Winslet on Matt (youtube)

  • Disorder is directed by Alice Winocure who also directed “Home” and “Augustine”.

  • Photo of Shostakovich and Walt Disney + Piano Concerto No.2 from Fantasia

    Saturday, December 5th, 2015
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    Disney and Dimitri Shostakoch

    Fantasia wiki

    Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Based on the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” by Hans Christian Andersen, a broken toy soldier with one leg falls in love with a toy ballerina and protects her from an evil jack-in-the-box.[4] Unlike the original story, this version has a happy ending. Introduced by Bette Midler featuring (youtube) pianist Yefim Bronfman.

  • Fact-Checking the Age-Old Rumors of Walt Disney’s Dark Side


  • Damnation by Bela Tarr

    Sven Nykvist & Roman Polanski in Tenant + Godard in Rivette film

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
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    Mr. Polanski also has a gifted collaborator in Sven Nykvist, the cinematographer whose camera plays the role of narrator, directing our attention to curious details, offering humble asides, as 19th-century authors once felt free to do without embarrassment or excuse. (via)

    Roman Polanski (previous post-2014)

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    More than 10 films with Ingmar Bergman..Outside Bergman films, with Tarkovsky..(the Sacrifice)…Sven collobarated with Louis Malle “Pretty Baby”, with Hallstrom, What’s eating Gilbert Grape, Siddhartha, Unbearable Lightness of Being, worked with Woody Allen and The Tenant by Polanski.

  • See a documentary of Sven Nykvist (previous post)

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    Sven Nykvist and Philip Kaufman
    (Kaufman cast young Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin for the film Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kaufman also had Sven as the cinematographer.. two from Bergman family).

  • Sven Nykvist and Jean Luc Godard shared a birthday but Sven never collaborated with Godard.

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    Happy birthday Jean Luc Godard! (See a video of Une Catastrophe)