After a screening of 'Hugo' at L.A.'s DGA Theater, Martin Scorsese & James Cameron discussed 3D for The Hollywood Reporter, and Mr Scorsese evoked a conversation with Gaspar Noé :

Question:  You had alluded to it before, just that the whole nature of the setting—the train station, being inside the walls, the clock towers—things really lent themselves to playing with depth the way you are talking about. 

Martin Scorsese:  But the depth has to tell the story.  Two years ago, I had the opportunity to go on a little family vacation, which I never do (laughter) you know, what I mean?  And the only place I really wanted to go was Egypt.  I was there with a number of Egyptian filmmakers, a Palestinian filmmaker and some others.  And I said, ‘Now 3D is going to be the major thing.’  And this filmmaker said, ‘It might be, but it has to be in the script.  It has to be in the story.’  I said, ‘You’re right.’ 

James Cameron: I think there’s a truth to that.

MS:  And I got scared then.  I said, ‘You’re right, I’ve got to think of it in the script.’  Then Gaspar Noé, who does these very tough movies, he said, ‘Are you going to try 3D?’  I said, ‘Yup.’  He said that the thing with 3D is that you should do these long takes—he’d just finished Enter the Void.  He said, ‘If I were to do it, I’d take one long take, 20 minutes, characters coming and out, tracking them, then digitally combining it.’ 

JC:  That’s a fun challenge.  I don’t think I’m ready for that one yet!

MS:  Me neither!  I said, ‘Well, we’re already thinking this way.  You know, but there’s a stigma.  The fashion to say, ‘Oh, it’s a gimmick.’  But, you gotta understand when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.  They did.  I mean Lumière Brothers’ films have been restored, and two of them are in 3D.  And Méliès was already going there – there’s a two-minute section of his films that are in 3D that have been restored.  And everybody wanted color, so everybody tried color right away –

JC:  Yeah, and the cameras were enormous.  They were the size of a Volkswagen.

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"Following its global outlook, Paris-based Full House's first productions, "7 Days in Havana" and "11 Flowers," have started to rack up worldwide sales as well.

Repped by Wild Bunch, and produced by Spain's Morena Films, Full House and Havana Club Intl., omnibus feature "Havana" has pre-sold to 35-plus territories.

These include Italy (BIM Distribuzione), U.K. (Soda Pictures), Japan (Comstock) and CIS (CP Digital).

Rezo releases "Havana" in France, while Golem has the pic in Spain; both aim to open before summer, Domehri said."

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'J. Edgar', 'November Christmas' star Emily Alyn Lind shares her '10 List' from 2011

By April MacIntyre

"Pretty Emily Alyn Lind boasts a resume in Hollywood that many actresses could only wish for.
The rising star hails from a family of thespians and began her acting career in the role of ‘Young Lily,’ (‘Lily’ played by Dakota Fanning) in 'The Secret Life of Bees.'
When she was just only five years old, she played Young Linda in Gaspar Noe’s critically acclaimed 'Enter the Void' and the following year was the red carpet darling when the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival." (source)

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Read an excellent discussion with Tom Kan & Thorsten Fleisch about the opening credits of Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void :

"Like sighs from a scythe in a wheat field of psychosis, the opening title sequence for Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void is a melting onslaught of typographic design foisted upon the senses. This unrelenting visual overdose hacks pleasurably at the viewer, as the tip of a nail does finding its destiny. Names become bright little deaths fired to a machine gun beat; the images encircle your pupils as LFO’s Freak drives the nail deeper."

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"The 33rd Havana's International Festival of New Latin American Cinema will exhibit 21 full-length fiction films, 21 operas prima, 26 documentaries, and 32 animation movies.

This festival will have the world premiere of "Siete días en La Habana" (Seven Days in Havana), with the attendance of four of its directors, Puerto Rican Benicio del Toro, Cuban Juan Carlos Tabio, French Laurent Cantet, and Palestinian Elia Souleiman." (source & source)

"Le monde hallucinogène de Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noé était de visite au Chili  en tant qu’invité d’honneur de l’inauguration du festival de cinéma B à Santiago.
En tant que journaliste pour le blog étudiant : kilometrocero.cl de l’université catholique du Chili, je me suis rendue à la conférence de presse qui s’est déroulée le 4 novembre en sa présence."

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