I had the pleasure to present Hôtel du Nord and Daybreak at “Lumiere 2016” in Lyon to packed houses. In the meantime, Philippe Morisson, the Marcel Carné expert, has published The Green Tower, a collection of texts written by Carné, “ciné reporter”…
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Two international ads
Both with children. A talented young Czech boy for Milka (Wieden Kennedy Amsterdam Agency), and an equally talented girl from Manchester for Ikea. (Mother Londres Agency).
RATP
I’ll be sponsoring a large Instagram photo contest organized by the RATP on the theme of “the vibrant city”… The winning photos will be displayed in super-wide format, in train stations and RATP stations. It’s going to be extraordinary. For more information:
http://www.ratp.fr/fr/ratp/v_148980/concours-photo-ratp-sur-instagram/
Master class at St Andrews, Scotland
The opportunity to see Reif Larsen again, who lives there because his wife teaches at the prestigious university.
Meeting with 3 giants of american cinema
First with Martin Scorsese, who invited me to Lyon for his acceptance of the Lumière prize. If you allow me to boast for a moment, you should know that he whispered to me on stage, in front of 2,000 people, that he has watched TS Spivet in 3D three times in his private screening room…
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Then, filming an advertisement in Prague with the great Janusz Kaminski, Spielgerg’s head director of photography since Schindler’s List.
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Finally, as a jury member of the Marrakech film festival because the president was none other than Francis Ford Coppola… an offer you just cannot refuse…
My favorite movie: Neon Bull by Gabriel Mascaro. A gem of a movie you see once every ten years!
The return of Irvin
After twenty years of absence, Irvin (the brain in the jar in The City of Lost Children, whose voice was played by Jean Louis Trintignant) is back home… that is, my office…
Soon a Caro/Jeunet exhibition?
In any case there is no lack of proposals… So I gathered the countless objects that have appeared throughout our films… Like the poster Caro painted for Delicatessen…
The model for the flea in The City…
Or the tugboat from the same film…
A model from Alien…
Or the Machine of Perpetual Motion from TS Spivet…
And dozens of others…
The City of Lost Children
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The City of Lost Children, the blu-ray version will be released in the USA. The good news is that I will restore it myself, using my own HD component. The bad news is that it will only be available for Zone A, so unreadable in Europe. But Studio Canal has promised to release it for Zone B next year.
Casanova
Regarding Casanova, Amazon has realized that an audience needs more than one episode to find out whether or not they want to watch an entire series. So to get a better idea they have asked the showrunner, Stuart Zicherman, to write six episodes. In January they will decide to launch the series or not.
New critters…
C’est avec Romain Segaud, auteur des animations de Micmacs, que je vais finalement réaliser un petit court-métrage d’animation les mettant en scène, juste pour le plaisir…
