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- 11/8/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Bobbi Salvör Menuez is in talks to join an international cast for “Lipstick on the Glass,” the English-language debut of acclaimed Polish director Kuba Czekaj (“Baby Bump”), Variety has learned exclusively.
Pic will star Agnieszka Podsiadlik (“Mug”), who previously collaborated with Czekaj on Berlin player “The Erlprince.” The international cast includes American actor Mari Malek (“The Nile Hilton Incident”), English-French thesp Laura Benson (“Touch Me Not”), and German actors Stipe Erceg (“The Baader Meinhof Complex”), Lena Lauzemis, and Mina Tander.
“Lipstick on the Glass” is a dystopian vision of reality in which a woman is induced to abandon her gangster husband to join a feminist sect. Producer Paweł Kosuń described it as a story about every person’s right to self-determination, regardless of their gender identity or imposed social and cultural norms.
“It poses a fundamental question: who am I?” he said. “This is a question which an ever-growing number...
Pic will star Agnieszka Podsiadlik (“Mug”), who previously collaborated with Czekaj on Berlin player “The Erlprince.” The international cast includes American actor Mari Malek (“The Nile Hilton Incident”), English-French thesp Laura Benson (“Touch Me Not”), and German actors Stipe Erceg (“The Baader Meinhof Complex”), Lena Lauzemis, and Mina Tander.
“Lipstick on the Glass” is a dystopian vision of reality in which a woman is induced to abandon her gangster husband to join a feminist sect. Producer Paweł Kosuń described it as a story about every person’s right to self-determination, regardless of their gender identity or imposed social and cultural norms.
“It poses a fundamental question: who am I?” he said. “This is a question which an ever-growing number...
- 2/22/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: This article reveals detail about tonight’s Season 6 finale of The Blacklist.
Well, that’s one way to capture the attention of Raymond “Red” Reddington. James Spader’s enigmatic Reddington is both the mystery man and the main mystery at the center of The Blacklist and no one navigates the thriller’s knotted conspiracies, underworld plots, and black-bag riddles, as deftly as the former government agent. But even Red gets blindsided by some of life’s unexpected moments. That was the case during the closing minutes of Friday night’s Season 6 finale when Red is drugged and dragged into a waiting van by minions of Katarina Rostova (Laila Robins), the very-much alive mother of Liz Keen (Megan Boone).
The finale was packed with revelations but ended with fans wondering where the show (and its kidnapped lead) are headed next. To get some answers Deadline went to Creator and...
Well, that’s one way to capture the attention of Raymond “Red” Reddington. James Spader’s enigmatic Reddington is both the mystery man and the main mystery at the center of The Blacklist and no one navigates the thriller’s knotted conspiracies, underworld plots, and black-bag riddles, as deftly as the former government agent. But even Red gets blindsided by some of life’s unexpected moments. That was the case during the closing minutes of Friday night’s Season 6 finale when Red is drugged and dragged into a waiting van by minions of Katarina Rostova (Laila Robins), the very-much alive mother of Liz Keen (Megan Boone).
The finale was packed with revelations but ended with fans wondering where the show (and its kidnapped lead) are headed next. To get some answers Deadline went to Creator and...
- 5/18/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s hard to choose the most arresting scene in “Touch Me Not,” the documentary/narrative hybrid that captivated jurors at the 2018 Berlinale to earn the festival’s top prize. There’s the opening shot of a flaccid penis, of course, but nudity quickly loses its luster as the various depictions of sex unfold like a kaleidoscopic tour through human sexuality. It’s hard to forget watching a woman (Laura Benson) who can’t stand being touched encounter a portly Bdsm expert punch her chest in a steady, thumping rhythm until she lets out a guttural roar. Or witnessing the intimacy required for a reserved man with alopecia (Tómas Lemarquis) to admit to a man with spinal muscular atrophy (Christian Bayerlein) the discomfort he feels during their prolonged eye contact.
Directed with sensitivity by Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie, the two-hour epic is a mesmerizing look at human sexuality from a wide diversity of perspectives.
Directed with sensitivity by Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie, the two-hour epic is a mesmerizing look at human sexuality from a wide diversity of perspectives.
- 3/14/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
A year after being suddenly cut loose from The Blacklist over alleged harassment of a crew member, the NBC series’ long-time director and executive producer Michael Watkins is aiming to give Sony TV, producers Woodbridge Productions and others a legal black eye.
The move comes in a breach of implied contract and failure to conduct investigation complaint filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court by the TV vet. In the paperwork, attorneys for Watkins alleges he was fired and suffered “blackballing” as a result of “power-hungry” co-ep Laura Benson, also named as a defendant.
“In furtherance of the scheme, moreover, Defendants launched a smear campaign to justify Watkins’s unlawful termination under the guise of remedying physical harassment,” the jury trial demanding complaint says. “Blinded by their determination to oust Watkins, Defendants disregarded the truth and the substantial harm that would accrue to Watkins as a result of their illegal and brazen scheme.
The move comes in a breach of implied contract and failure to conduct investigation complaint filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court by the TV vet. In the paperwork, attorneys for Watkins alleges he was fired and suffered “blackballing” as a result of “power-hungry” co-ep Laura Benson, also named as a defendant.
“In furtherance of the scheme, moreover, Defendants launched a smear campaign to justify Watkins’s unlawful termination under the guise of remedying physical harassment,” the jury trial demanding complaint says. “Blinded by their determination to oust Watkins, Defendants disregarded the truth and the substantial harm that would accrue to Watkins as a result of their illegal and brazen scheme.
- 2/15/2019
- by Bruce Haring and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
A former executive producer of the NBC show “The Blacklist” has filed suit against Sony, alleging he was fired after being wrongfully blamed for a workplace scuffle.
Michael Watkins is a veteran TV director and cinematographer. He was an executive producer for several seasons of “The Blacklist,” the NBC crime show starring James Spader.
According to his suit, he was fired in February 2018 after he allegedly “laid hands” on a male camera assistant. Watkins alleges that the claim was never investigated, and that if it had been, the company would have discovered that it was the assistant who become frustrated and laid hands on Watkins.
Watkins claims that Laura Benson, a co-executive producer on the show, used the incident as a pretext “in order to facilitate her own rise in position and power” on the show. He also alleges that after he was gone, executives bad-mouthed him to various people,...
Michael Watkins is a veteran TV director and cinematographer. He was an executive producer for several seasons of “The Blacklist,” the NBC crime show starring James Spader.
According to his suit, he was fired in February 2018 after he allegedly “laid hands” on a male camera assistant. Watkins alleges that the claim was never investigated, and that if it had been, the company would have discovered that it was the assistant who become frustrated and laid hands on Watkins.
Watkins claims that Laura Benson, a co-executive producer on the show, used the incident as a pretext “in order to facilitate her own rise in position and power” on the show. He also alleges that after he was gone, executives bad-mouthed him to various people,...
- 2/15/2019
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
“All emotions are welcome here.” So says male escort/therapist Seani Love during a session with Laura (Laura Benson) in Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie's startling and provocative film Touch Me Not, which follows Laura and several other characters as they explore their relations to their own bodies and to other people, explorations that often involve sexuality and other intimate realms. And in the generously accepting spirit of Seani Love's statement, the characters featured are quite a varied lot, including: Tomas (Tómas Lemarquis), a man with alopecia; Hanna (Hanna Hofmann), a transgender sex worker/therapist whom Laura also meets with; Christian (Christian Bayerlein), a severely disabled man with spinal muscular atrophy, and his able-bodied girlfriend Grit (Grit Uhlemann). Through these characters, Pintilie explores her themes by blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, mixing professional actors with nonprofessionals, and appearing in her own film as one...
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- 1/14/2019
- Screen Anarchy
It’s ironic that Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not” was received as something of a provocation when it premiered at (and won) the 2018 Berlinale, because for all of its nudity and kink — its unashamed erections and Bdsm — this beguiling film is defined by an almost childlike innocence. Of course, almost and childlike are the critical words, there; this is a movie that opens with a middle-aged woman paying a male prostitute to masturbate in her sheets so that she can sniff them after he leaves, so please don’t think that IndieWire is suggesting you take your kids.
Both clinical and radically humane, inscrutable and beautifully straightforward, scripted and unimpeachably real, “Touch Me Not” is a bold treatise about the strange (and often estranged) relationship humans have with their own bodies. Approaching the subject with the antiseptic detachment of a scientist and the warmth of a healer — often at...
Both clinical and radically humane, inscrutable and beautifully straightforward, scripted and unimpeachably real, “Touch Me Not” is a bold treatise about the strange (and often estranged) relationship humans have with their own bodies. Approaching the subject with the antiseptic detachment of a scientist and the warmth of a healer — often at...
- 3/15/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A blend of documentary, fiction, staged therapy, and biography–with considerable full-frontal nudity and sex–the surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear is a film not easily summed up in an elevator pitch. It is, however, a studious, intelligent, if flawed and scattershot, work with an open mind about modern sexuality and intimacy. That open mind will need to be replicated in the audience too.
Much of Adina Pintilie’s career has been spent in works more comfortable in gallery spaces. This, her first feature, is certainly worthy of theatrical release, however limited, as it deals with the capacity we have to touch others and be touched, emotionally and, inevitably, sexually. Pintilie has said that she thought her ideas of love and sex were fully-formed at 20-years-old, but the two decades since have made her re-evaluate her certainties. The film of that result of that self-interrogation.
The launching...
Much of Adina Pintilie’s career has been spent in works more comfortable in gallery spaces. This, her first feature, is certainly worthy of theatrical release, however limited, as it deals with the capacity we have to touch others and be touched, emotionally and, inevitably, sexually. Pintilie has said that she thought her ideas of love and sex were fully-formed at 20-years-old, but the two decades since have made her re-evaluate her certainties. The film of that result of that self-interrogation.
The launching...
- 2/25/2018
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Films features ensemble cast that mixes actors and non-professionals - including Laura Benson, Tomas Lemarquis and Irmena Chichikova.
Source: Manekino Film
‘Touch Me Not’
Paris-based Doc & Film International has boarded world sales on Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s hybrid study of intimacy Touch Me Not ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
“This debut feature has completely overwhelmed us,” commented Doc & Film CEO Daniela Elstner.
“On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not is a film about how human beings can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, about how to love another without losing ourselves.”
The film is a co-production between Bucharest-based Manekino Film, German film company Rohfilm Productions, Prague-based Pink Productions, Budapest Agitprop and French production company Les Films de L’Etranger.
It features an equally cosmopolitan, ensemble cast - mixing actors and non-professionals - including Paris-based British actress Laura Benson, Icelandic actor Tomas Lemarquis...
Source: Manekino Film
‘Touch Me Not’
Paris-based Doc & Film International has boarded world sales on Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s hybrid study of intimacy Touch Me Not ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
“This debut feature has completely overwhelmed us,” commented Doc & Film CEO Daniela Elstner.
“On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not is a film about how human beings can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, about how to love another without losing ourselves.”
The film is a co-production between Bucharest-based Manekino Film, German film company Rohfilm Productions, Prague-based Pink Productions, Budapest Agitprop and French production company Les Films de L’Etranger.
It features an equally cosmopolitan, ensemble cast - mixing actors and non-professionals - including Paris-based British actress Laura Benson, Icelandic actor Tomas Lemarquis...
- 1/30/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Louisa Mellor Apr 11, 2017
Spoilers from the start in our review of the penultimate episode of Broadchurch…
This review contains spoilers.
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You know why Mark Latimer couldn’t die, don’t you? Because Broadchurch couldn’t do it to Beth. You don’t create a character with her strength and courage and pain then do something like that just before going away for good. Not if you’ve a heart, anyway.
And God, Broadchurch has a heart. Yes, it has the worst things happen, but it’s about the people who survive them. It’s about Beth and Chloe and Ellie and Trish and Leah. It’s about Cath,...
Spoilers from the start in our review of the penultimate episode of Broadchurch…
This review contains spoilers.
See related Game Of Thrones season 6: new deleted scene released Game Of Thrones: HBO ruling out spin-offs, for now Game Of Thrones season 6: breaking down Blood Of My Blood's vision Game Of Thrones season 6: 9 questions about The Door
You know why Mark Latimer couldn’t die, don’t you? Because Broadchurch couldn’t do it to Beth. You don’t create a character with her strength and courage and pain then do something like that just before going away for good. Not if you’ve a heart, anyway.
And God, Broadchurch has a heart. Yes, it has the worst things happen, but it’s about the people who survive them. It’s about Beth and Chloe and Ellie and Trish and Leah. It’s about Cath,...
- 4/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Mar 27, 2017
Cruelty was a theme of episode five, which saw threats and accusations flying around town. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
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Welcome back to Broadchurch, or, to call it by its Chinese translation, Terrible Things Happen in Beautiful Rural Locations. This week, a gorgeous cornfield joined the bucolic, rolling grounds of Axehampton House as a site of human misery. Following new testimony and a fresh lead thanks to Beth’s mentor, it’s looking as though the man who attacked Trish is a serial rapist.
Episode five opened on a distressing interview with Laura Benson, the woman who came forward at the end of last week’s hour. Two years ago, she was attacked by a rapist with a strikingly similar Mo to Trish’s attacker,...
Cruelty was a theme of episode five, which saw threats and accusations flying around town. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Fast & Furious 8, and cinema’s strangest family The forgotten casualties of the Fast & Furious franchise Fast & Furious 9 and 10 release dates confirmed
Welcome back to Broadchurch, or, to call it by its Chinese translation, Terrible Things Happen in Beautiful Rural Locations. This week, a gorgeous cornfield joined the bucolic, rolling grounds of Axehampton House as a site of human misery. Following new testimony and a fresh lead thanks to Beth’s mentor, it’s looking as though the man who attacked Trish is a serial rapist.
Episode five opened on a distressing interview with Laura Benson, the woman who came forward at the end of last week’s hour. Two years ago, she was attacked by a rapist with a strikingly similar Mo to Trish’s attacker,...
- 3/27/2017
- Den of Geek
Ten projects from South-East Europe, Middle East and North Africa comprise Sarajevo’s Work in Progress section.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s (Aug 12-20) Works in Progress strand is set to present the line-up of projects, which will compete for three awards during the festival’s Industry Days on Aug 17-18.
Ten projects in post-production - from Southeast Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus region - will be screened to about 40 industry decision-makers who are active on the supply end of the chain: funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers.
Prizes will include the traditional post-production in-kind awards from Slovenia’s Restart (€20,000) and Berlin-based The Post Republic (€50,000), as well as a newly established €30,000 cash prize from Turkish broadcaster Trt.
The jury is comprised of Jan Naszewski of New Europe Film Sales, Giona A. Nazzaro from the Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week, Michael Reuter of The Post Republic and a representative from the Trt.[p...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s (Aug 12-20) Works in Progress strand is set to present the line-up of projects, which will compete for three awards during the festival’s Industry Days on Aug 17-18.
Ten projects in post-production - from Southeast Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus region - will be screened to about 40 industry decision-makers who are active on the supply end of the chain: funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers.
Prizes will include the traditional post-production in-kind awards from Slovenia’s Restart (€20,000) and Berlin-based The Post Republic (€50,000), as well as a newly established €30,000 cash prize from Turkish broadcaster Trt.
The jury is comprised of Jan Naszewski of New Europe Film Sales, Giona A. Nazzaro from the Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week, Michael Reuter of The Post Republic and a representative from the Trt.[p...
- 8/17/2016
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
A regrettable result of the enormous arthouse success of the late Alain Resnais's early films (movies which transformed audience expectations of what a movie could be), is that a lot of his later films are relatively underseen. Perhaps his career would have taken a different path if he had ever made his dream project, Mandrake the Magician, potentially kickstarting the comic book adaptation boom years early...
Mandrake, the crime-fighting hypnotist, does actually make a kind of appearance in 1989's I Want to Go Home, at a costume party where guests dress as strip cartoon characters. Geraldine Chaplin bends gender as Mandrake, Gerard Depardieu, years before giving us his Obelix, convulses as an absurdly perfect Popeye ("I yam what I yam" sounds just the same with a French accent), and there's also Olive Oyle, Tweety Pie, Spiderman and Crepax's Valentina. And songwriter Adolph Green, in his only leading man role,...
Mandrake, the crime-fighting hypnotist, does actually make a kind of appearance in 1989's I Want to Go Home, at a costume party where guests dress as strip cartoon characters. Geraldine Chaplin bends gender as Mandrake, Gerard Depardieu, years before giving us his Obelix, convulses as an absurdly perfect Popeye ("I yam what I yam" sounds just the same with a French accent), and there's also Olive Oyle, Tweety Pie, Spiderman and Crepax's Valentina. And songwriter Adolph Green, in his only leading man role,...
- 12/4/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
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