Tag: Raw
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Palme d’Or Winner Julia Ducournau on Groundbreaking ‘Titane’: ‘I Don’t Want My Gender to Define Me’
The lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was filled with unpredictability, but at least one certain outcome: “Titane” would get people talking. By the end of the festival, the arrival of the second feature from 37-year-old French director Julia Ducournau would find her becoming the second female director in history to win the Palme…
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Cannes 2021: Julia Ducournau makes history as ‘Titane’ wins Palme d’Or
Jury president Spike Lee appeared to accidentally let slip Titane’s win early on stage.Julia Ducournau’s Titane has been awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).Scroll down for full list of winnersDucournau becomes the first solo female filmmaker to take home the Palme d’Or (Jane Campion’s The Piano shared the award…
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Wild, Woman-Made ‘Titane’ Wins Palme d’Or in Upside-Down Cannes Film Festival Awards
Cannes — Spike Lee jumped the gun, announcing Palme d’Or winner “Titane” before the other prizes at the Cannes Film Festival awards. The unplanned goof could have robbed the awards of their usual suspense, but instead, created a thrillingly unpredictable energy as presenters and attendees alike tried to imagine how to get the train back…
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‘Titane’: The New flesh Is Thriving, Living Rent-Free in Julia Ducournau’s F*cked Up Metallica Brain [Cannes Review]
We can all stop wishing it a long life: the new flesh is thriving, living rent-free in Julia Ducournau‘s fucked-up titanium brain, oozing from every frame of her bizarrely beautiful, emphatically queer sophomore film, and thence seeping in through your orifices, the better to colonize your most lurid, confusing nightmares, as well as that certain…
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‘Titane’ Trailer: The Director of ‘Raw’ Has a New Movie That Looks Like David Cronenberg Meets ‘Fast and Furious’
Just what the hell is Titane? Well, it’s the latest movie from Julia Ducournau, director of the acclaimed horror movie Raw. Beyond that, though, I am at a complete loss – and I mean that as a compliment. This Titane trailer is bonkers – a weird, sexy, cold blend of imagery that looks like a…
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‘Misbehaviour’ Giveaway: Win a Digital Code of the Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw Movie and a Copy of the Autobiography It’s Based On
Well-behaved women rarely make history, and people who don’t enter contests for giveaways of free digital download codes never win them. But you have the chance to win a digital code for the Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw pageant drama Misbehaviour, as well as a copy of the autobiography on which it’s based. Read on…
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Raw, former Film4 exec Katherine Butler joins The Ink Factory
‘American Animals’ producer to join in early 2020.The Ink Factory, the London and Los Angeles-based production company behind Fighting With My Family and The Night Manager, has hired Katherine Butler as creative director.Butler joins from American Animals-producer Raw, where she was scripted creative director, and will take up the newly-created position in early 2020. She…
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Nadia Turincev, Omar El Kadi Launch First Slate at Easy Riders Films (Exclusive)
San Sebastian — Rouge International co-founder Nadia Turincev, whose credits included the Oscar-nominated “The Insult,” “Raw” and “Mimosas,” has teamed with Omar El Kadi, head of acquisitions and sales, Emea, at Lebanon’s Mc Distribution, to launch Easy Riders Films, a new Paris-based production company.If Easy Riders Films first titles are anything to go by –…
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‘Raw’ Director Julia Ducournau Has a New Film Called ‘Titane’, and No One Knows What It’s About
Julia Ducournau, director of the coming-of-age cannibal film Raw, has a new movie in the works. It’s called Titane, and it was just scooped up by the folks at Neon. What’s it about? Uh…we don’t know. No one knows, in fact – except Julia Ducournau, and (presumably) some people at Neon. Details are being kept…
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Film Review: ‘Girls With Balls’
Festival midnight slates are always teeming with Z-grade splatter comedies like “Girls with Balls,” which offer the uncomplicated pleasure of attractive young people fighting for their lives in the great outdoors. But first-time director Olivier Afonso, a skilled makeup-effects artist on such films as “Raw” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” could have complicated…