Film Constellation locks key territories for Man Ray Cannes Classics title ‘Return To Reason’ (exclusive)

London and Paris-based Film Constellation has set a slew of deals on Man Ray’s Return To Reason, ahead of the film’s debut in Cannes Classics. The newly restored 4k version is an assembly of Man Ray’s four cult classic silent films, paired with an original soundtrack by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s New York band Sqürl. It has sold to Potemkine in France, Plaion in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Non Stop in Scandinavia, Filmin in Spain and Portugal and Longride in Japan. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s first…

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New projects from ‘Flee’, ‘On The Adamant’ producers join Full Circle Lab (exclusive)

Upcoming projects from Golden Bear-winning producer Celine Loiseau and Charlotte de la Gournerie of Oscar-nominated Flee are among six titles selected for the Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine workshop programme. The third edition of the lab, organised by France’s Tatino Films, will host four projects at script stage and two in the editing stage, offering support through the development phase, as well as during the post-production and promotion of their features. Scroll down for full list Projects include documentary La Détention by Guillaume Massart, produced by Loiseau of France’s TS Production,…

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‘May December’: Cannes Review

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman have an intriguing synergy – and symmetry – in Todd Haynes’ Competition drama Todd Haynes may no longer be making the kind of conceptually audacious films as the experimental days of Velvet Goldmine and I’m Not There but, now that he has entered his mature phase as an American classicist, he’s still adept at introducing conceptual play into ostensibly mainstream material. As a practitioner of contemporary melodrama – with Far From Heaven and Carol showing how perfectly he had mastered the teachings of Douglas Sirk…

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