Final Cut (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Everytime I get a new film-related assignment, I use it as an excuse to buy more DVDs and film books. This time round I figured I'd better scour my own collection first. When searching my collection for films directed by women that I currently own, this is all I came up with: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher Away From Her, Sarah Polley Bend it Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha Bridget Jones's Diary, Sharon Maguire...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
There's a hot new drama from Pedro Almodóvar; it's just not his new movie. Spain's most famous living filmmaker has had a tempestuous relationship with the Spanish Cinema Academy for year. He and his brother Agustín left the Academy in a huff in 2005 to protest the new voting rules for the Goyas (Spain's Oscars). Now the Academy's returned the favor by leaving "Broken Embraces"...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Spain's Oscar shortlist committee snub Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, starring Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz Pedro Almodovar's critically acclaimed Broken Embraces, starring last year's best supporting actress winner Penelope Cruz, has been controversially omitted from Spain's shortlist for next year's Academy Award for best foreign language film, Variety reports. Fernando Trueba's The Dancer and...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
International News: Sanchez-Arevalo, Trueba, Coixet pics compete -- Fernando Trueba's "The Dancer and the Thief," Daniel Sanchez-Arevalo's "Gordos" and Isabel Coixet's "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo" have made the three-pic shortlist for selection as Spain's foreign-language Oscar contender.
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
France/Germany Short Film Compendium Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, The Coen Brothers, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas,...
JEANSNOW.NET (Free subscription) | 19/07/2009
A selection at this year’s Cannes film festival, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo is an upcoming film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Rinko Kikuchi (Babel). The film’s official site has a trailer up. Via Luis Mendo.
Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
MUMBAI: Ultra has released the DVD of Elegy, a critically acclaimed film that stars Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson and Dennis Hopper.The film is directed by Isabel Coixet and produced by Lakeshore Entertainment.Elegy is the story of David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), a cultural critic and ...
a blind flaneur (Free subscription) | 15/06/2009
After I posed the rhetorical question yesterday about video tributes to world-class neighborhoods, Alex sent me Paris, je t’aime-Bastille. Point well-taken, and many thanks! According to Wikipedia: Bastille (XIIe arrondissement) — by Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet. Prepared to leave his marriage for a much younger lover (Leonor Watling), a man (Sergio Castellitto) instead decides...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
A new breed of celluloid hero has arrived: he's a well-groomed, cultured sort of chap, who's fond of flowers. Catherine Shoard hails the 'arthouse stud monkey' A new species was sighted at the Cannes film festival this year. At first, everyone was foxed: who was this lovely creature scampering up the Croisette? What was its genealogy? On the final weekend, critic Leslie Felperin of Variety nailed...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 23/05/2009
Isabel Coixet's new film, "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," has three stars - actors Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez, and the Japanese city itself, a place the Spanish filmmaker says she loves.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 23/05/2009
Isabel Coixet's new film, "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," has three stars - actors Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez, and the Japanese city itself, a place the Spanish filmmaker says she loves.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 23/05/2009
Film Reviews: Pretty to look at but largely vacuous, Spanish helmer Isabel Coixet's romantic drama film plays like a perfume ad without a product.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 22/05/2009
Oh, God: The White Ribbon, likely Palme d’Or pick. CANNES, FRANCE — As of now, nineteen of this year’s twenty competition titles have screened. (The final one, Isabel Coixet’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo , premieres tonight.) The awards ceremony takes place Sunday night, and here’s how we think it’ll play out, factoring in critical reactions, hearsay, and the makeup...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/05/2009
While obscure auteurs such as Isabel Coixet and Brillante Mendoza are feted and fawned over in Cannes, a British film maker whose work has been seen by over a million people in the last fortnight is wandering the festival with no entourage, no publicity team and nowhere to sleep at night.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 15/05/2009
Spotlight: Spain: Film underscores Mediapro's international growth -- Cannes Competition player "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," from helmer Isabel Coixet and shot entirely in Tokyo in Japanese and English, forms part of an ambitious growth strategy for Barcelona-based Mediapro.
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