versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
Coppola, Schrader & Lucas back on la Croisette !
Francis Ford Coppola is back with Megalopolis in the official competition.
Paul Schrader is back with Oh, Canada in the same section.
George Lucas will get the Honorary Palm of the Festival.
Photo posted by Paul Scharder on his FB account, someone asks -but could you please make peace with De Palma xo
and Scharder's answer is: Re: BDP. Not my call.
Happening Now / maintenent
Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, present the Official Selection of the 77th Festival de Cannes on April 11 2024 at 11:00 am. The Festival de Cannes will be held from May 14 to May 25, 2024.
In English here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
...after so many incarnations, starting with Plein Soleil/Purple Noon (1960), where Alain Delon was Tom Ripley, the Patricia Highsmith absolute spellbinding psycho-sociopath is back !
In black and white and extended duration ! Since y-day- 4.4.24- on Netflix (they bought it from Showtime)!
Steven Zaillian, master screenwriter (from Schindler's List to The Irishman) and art-house director (Searching for Bobby Fisher), social activism ( A Civil Action), unlucky remake (All the King's Men), great HBO mini-series (The Night Of, in my Top 2016), took the time (it feels and it looks) to write and direct RIPLEY, an ambitios, artsy adaptation of the NOVEL The Talented Mr. Ripley (published in 1955 and followed by 4 sequels!) set in Italy in 1960, in no less than 8 episodes, marked I to VIII (V Lucio, man, loved the pun! and the last shot, that was a genius finesse touch). Another masterful touch and change from the novel can be found here. Zaillian is slowly developing his painting on a vast canvas and takes his time to boil into the mind and psyche of Ripley, one of the most fascinating characters in literature and film history ! The novel has been also adapted in a highly successful film that I am not a big fan of (in 1999 by Anthony Minghella, with Matt Damon as Tom Ripley).
An older Ripley has been portrayed by Dennis Hopper in Der Amerikanishe Freund (Wim Wenders, 1977), John Malkovich in Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani, 2002) and Barry Pepper in Ripley Under Ground (2005, Roger Spotiswoode).
Irishman Andrew Scott who did a brilliant mastermind villain in the BBC Sherlock series, namely Moriarty and recently a grand acting job in All of Us Strangers, kills (metaphorically and practically ;) as the best Tom Ripley 2 date.
Robert Elswit's cinematography is an homage to all greatness of black and white cinema. He and Zaillian take the time to shoot a lot of inserts and details, architectural symmetries or mathematical constructed shots. Loved the Caravaggio puns. Elswit is PTA's collaborator, he won an Oscar for There Will Be Blood and worked with Zaillian before in The Night Of. The set design, the locations, lavish production on a "no problemo" budget, period reconstruction, and great Italian casting. Jeff Russo (Fargo) does a great job with the tense music. Also a poignant sound design all over.
Here's a Vanity Fair article on the cinematography of the project.
Trailer out on April 9th.
great song on it (and it's featured in the film): What the World Needs Now Is Love, the Burt Bacharach & Hal David's 1965 song, here performed by Tom Jones
Expected Release date: Oct. 4th 2024
My review of the JOKER (2019) here. (in Romanian;)
|
