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From Hollywood Pam found at the Hollywood Reporter
'Misfortunates' to close Munich Film Fest
Winner of Prix Art et Essai award at Cannes
By Scott Roxborough
June 4, 2009BERLIN -- Belgian black comedy "The Misfortunates" by director Felix van Groeningen will close this year's Munich International Film Festival (June 26 – July 4).
The film premiered in Cannes in the Director's Fortnight section where it won the Prix Art et Essai award. The cast turned heads on the Croisette by cycling nude through central Cannes to promote the movie.
Other Cannes entries heading to Munich this year include Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" and Golden Camera winner "Samson and Deliah."
Palme d'Or winner "The White Ribbon" will have a special screening in Munich July 3 in honor of director Michael Haneke, who will receive the festival's CineMerit lifetime achievement award.
Other highlights at this year's Munich Fest include Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience" starring porn performer Sasha Grey, Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" and "The Hurt Locker" from Kathryn Bigelow.
Munich's opening film has yet to be announced.
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From emma from Cover of French newspaper Direct Matin, 4 June 2009
You can pre-order the Public Enemy Soundtrack from Amazon
From Empire found by emma
Your sneak preview of what you'll find in the July 2009 issue of Empire magazine.
1. Public Enemies
Johnny Depp. Michael Mann. Christian Bale. The question is why you’re still here reading this instead of booking tickets for Public Enemies, the Mann film that casts Depp as legendary 1930s gangster John Dillinger and Bale as Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent assigned to track him down. We talked to the filmmakers (including Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard) to get the full story on the film’s history – which goes back to a script Mann wrote in the 1970s) and see what we can expect from this latest Mann opus. Also, Kim Newman lays out the 20 Greatest Gangster Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen.
From the Daily Post & Mail
Depp 'could really empathize' with Dillinger, director says
by RUTHE STEIN of the San Francisco Chronicle
May 18, 2009Johnny Depp and director Michael Mann circled around John Dillinger for decades. Independently, each imagined the infamous Depression-era bank robber filling the big screen. Good-looking, sexy and charismatic, Dillinger is a role Depp was destined to play. Meanwhile, the rat-a-tat style Mann displayed in Miami Vice and Heat seems well suited to a 1930s gangster movie.
The gestation of what became Public Enemies - a promising summer movie pitting Dillinger against federal agent Melvin Purvis (played by Christian Bale) - began in earnest three years ago. Mann is known for working slowly, accounting for an output of just 10 movies in 30 years, and he took his time even after Depp and Bale were cast.
So how does one explain releasing Public Enemies at a time when people loathe banks almost as much as they did during the Depression and might cheer a bank robber, as they cheered Dillinger back then?
"The timing is an accident," Mann said. "We couldn't have planned it."
All the filmmaker's instincts told him that he had the right leading man, a feeling confirmed when he talked to Depp and found out the actor had thought about playing Dillinger for 20 years. Depp's inspiration was a grandfather who ran home-distilled alcohol during Prohibition.
"A lot of what goes on inside Johnny Depp could be used and revealed," Mann said. "I know there are dark currents within Johnny and also from his past life, and I know he has a lot of John Dillinger inside of him. He has a deep understanding of a troubled past and a troubled life, but is someone who is a very passionate man. He could understand those currents in unique ways.
"I'm not saying Johnny Depp was troubled," the director clarified, but that the actor "could really empathize" with Dillinger's troubles.
Mann is eager to defend his other star in the wake of Bale's expletive-riddled outburst at his director of photography on the set of Terminator Salvation. Almost two million people have checked out Bale's rant on YouTube.
There was "absolutely no" similar behaviour on the Public Enemies set," Mann said.
"Christian is a sweetheart to work with," Mann insisted. "This is a guy who doesn't even travel with assistants. I can only surmise, if something like that happened, the provocation to Christian must have been extreme and going on for a long, long time."
Even in a shoot-'em-up there's got to be a girl. In Public Enemies, she's played by Marion Cotillard, an Academy Award winner in 2008 for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose. Cotillard takes on another actual person: Billie Frechette, who was Dillinger's girlfriend and drove a getaway car for him.
Growing up in Paris and Orleans, Cotillard had never heard of Dillinger.
"I only knew Bonnie and Clyde because of the movie," she said.
Cotillard, who did extensive research on her character, dismisses rumours that Dillinger beat up Frechette.
"I cannot picture him doing those kind of things," she said. "He was a real gentleman."
Listening to her praise Depp to the skies - "generous," "amazing," "a passionate actor" - it's possible she may be blurring her co-star with his role.
As an example of Depp's generosity, she talked about how supportive he was during scenes together when she was struggling to achieve a proper accent. Frechette was half French and half American Indian - so Cotillard could get away with a little bit of a French accent, but nothing as pronounced as the way she normally speaks.
"I needed many takes to have the accent right, and I was very stressed out about the whole thing because it was my first movie after La Vie en Rose," she said. "Johnny was very nice and reassuring."
Mann encouraged his cast to do research, sending Cotillard to the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, where Frechette had grown up, and Depp to places in the Midwest that Dillinger had passed through. The director gave Depp toiletries and shirts that Dillinger had abandoned in a close escape. In one hotel, the actor was able to touch the same doorknobs Dillinger had.
With Dillinger, as well as Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson, also portrayed in Public Enemies, there was a "disconnect between cause and effect. If you trusted the wrong person and got shot, it wasn't because of an error of judgment. It just happened," Mann said. The expressions "a bullet with your name on it" and "when your time is up" were popular in the 1930s and reflect a sense of things being out of your control.
In the same period, the FBI was forming, making use for the first time of a network of data management that made it possible to track criminals. Before then, anyone who robbed a bank in Wisconsin had to deal only with local law enforcement. This is the background for the cat-and-mouse game that ensues between Dillinger and the FBI's Purvis.
Mann discounts the contention that Public Enemies glorifies Dillinger.
"He was a tough guy who killed people, absolutely, and that's how we show him," he said. "He wasn't a sweetheart. But he was charming as hell, and he knew how to manipulate people."
From Screen Rant
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Unfortunately, they don’t really reveal too much new or different than what we’ve seen from the full Public Enemies trailer and they seem to have chosen the cheesier dialogue to show off in these clips.I don’t know what to expect of this film. I find myself not overly excited to see it from the videos I’ve seen so far. The leads and supporting cast are incredible and the story is a given to be great, but I can’t seem to get over the visual quality of the movie.
Michael Mann’s trademark style is using digital video instead of film and it’s very evident from the trailers for this movie or if you’ve seen Collateral (a pretty good movie) and Miami Vice (a pretty bad movie).
This is a big concern for me. The movie doesn’t seem have a good style for this sort of period drama and to me, it visually looks cheap and amateurish when combined with the many handheld unsteady shots; I’m not digging that at all for this type of movie - It just feels too generic and bland and almost takes me out of the movie. For a period piece epic like this, digital video does not fit and I was hoping for something more.
I’m not going to let that ruin the movie for me though and I’ll definitely be seeing this opening weekend.
What do you think of the clips and of the use of digital video?
Public Enemies hits theaters this July 1st.
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From Entertainment Weekly
'Public Enemies': Why can't more summer movies be like Johnny Depp and Christian Bale's period thriller?
May 14, 2009, 08:34 PM | by Christine SpinesUniversal just rolled out two new TV promos for Public Enemies, director Michael Mann's period heist picture about legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, starring Johnny Depp in the title role and Christian Bale as the hot-headed cop on his tail. Watching Depp ignite the screen as the dapper and gleefully anarchic noble savage that was Dillinger makes me giddy as a little girl on Christmas morning. This is the one picture in this summer's men-with-guns lineup that I truly can't wait to lay eyes upon. Why? Not for all the usual reasons entertainment journos whine about during the season of things that go boom. Sure, it looks like Universal mercifully decided to throw a bone to moviegoers hungry for intelligent spectacle. Mann has always been dependable that way. And watching two heavyweights like Depp and Bale go nozzle to nozzle in a smart shoot-em-up is undeniably tantalizing enough to send me sprinting to the ticket booth.
But what makes this movie look like such a relief from everything else splashed up on the big screen this summer is that all the footage we've seen so far is infused with a kind of joy and mischief that so often gets lost in the extreme end-of-the-world doomsday scenarios screenwriters and studios seem to think they need to ladle onto action movies to make audiences care. Think: Terminator Salvation and Transformers, for starters. I say this approach has officially played itself out. Is it too much to ask for some kinetic mainstream entertainment that doesn't take itself so freaking seriously? Movies like Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are just two examples of the kind of light-on-its-feet action I'm talking about. Heck, even the Lethal Weapon movies were fun, funny, and didn't take everything down the doom-ageddon well. What about you? Are you fed up with paint-by-numbers earnest end-of-the-world plot devices? And are you as psyched as we are for Public Enemies?
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