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The twenty first entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Mubi will be showing Chantal Akerman's Tomorrow We Move (2004) from March 8 - April 7, 2017 in most countries around the world. Tomorrow We Move (2004) is Chantal Akerman’s most underrated film. A recent, ambiguous “tribute” to the director in Cineaste magazine dismissed most of her work in fiction filmmaking beyond the 1970s, and was especially down on those fictions involving music, comedy, love, passion, and obsession. So, into the bin go Night and Day (unmentioned in the article), Golden Eighties (“dated and silly”), La Captive (“elephantine, imitative, and strangely fake”), and Almayer’s Folly (sunk by that “terrible French actor Stanislas Merhar”). And Tomorrow we Move? It and A Couch in New York (1996) are merely “exercises that Akerman had to get out of her system.”There is frequently an element of self-portraiture in Akerman’s work,...

The new issue of Necsus features an interview with Eric de Kuyper, who worked with Chantal Akerman for decades, and audiovisual essays on Monica Vitti and Jules Dassin's Topkapi. Also in today's roundup: Simon Callow and Alex Ross on Orson Welles, Carlotta Films co-founder Vincent Paul-Boncour on Jacques Rivette's Out 1, and a big New York magazine cover package on Adam McKay's The Big Short featuring interviews with Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling book. And the Berlinale will present an Honorary Golden Bear and an Homage series to cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, best known for his work with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese. » - David Hudson...

The new issue of Necsus features an interview with Eric de Kuyper, who worked with Chantal Akerman for decades, and audiovisual essays on Monica Vitti and Jules Dassin's Topkapi. Also in today's roundup: Simon Callow and Alex Ross on Orson Welles, Carlotta Films co-founder Vincent Paul-Boncour on Jacques Rivette's Out 1, and a big New York magazine cover package on Adam McKay's The Big Short featuring interviews with Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling book. And the Berlinale will present an Honorary Golden Bear and an Homage series to cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, best known for his work with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese. » - David Hudson...

A total of 24 co-production projects and sections devoted to China, digital and remakes help make up Rome’s industry events.

The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.

Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.

Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.

Single venue; digital focus

For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.

But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.

The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...

"One of the finest literary adaptations ever made, Chantal Akerman's La Captive (2000) distills La Prisonnière, the fifth volume of Marcel Proust's sprawling In Search of Lost Time, to a spare, inventive rumination on the author's key themes: jealousy and possession." Melissa Anderson for Artforum: "Akerman, who co-wrote La Captive with Eric de Kuyper, dispenses with the novel's belle epoque time frame, setting her film in present-day Paris. Marcel and Albertine, Proust's mismatched lovers, become Simon (Stanislas Merhar) and Ariane (Sylvie Testud), who live together in Simon's enormous apartment. A neurasthenic writer, Simon is feverishly jealous, first seen studying Super 8 footage of Ariane playing on the beach with a group of women — a time he refers to as her 'other life,' when her romantic relationships were exclusively same-sex."...