August 29th 2002:Juliette
Binoche will be on Bravo's "Inside the Actor's studio", an American tv
show, in late October
Since its creation eight years ago,
Bravo's alluring show "Inside the Actor's studio" had never left New
York, USA. But last night, in the Opera Comique, in Paris, France, the program's
host, James Lipton, interviewed 2 of the most famous French actresses of the
past 40 years, Juliette Binoche and Jeanne Moreau, during two hours. The two actresses evoked their beginnings and their working methods, their
meetings and some bits of their intimacy. Juliette Binoche notably made a performance
in a French style by interpreting an extract from "The miser", a Moliere
play (original title: "l'avare"). Besides, the presenter and Jeanne Moreau
sang in chorus "I am the navel of the world". Rare moments that Bravo tv will
diffuse on October 27th at 8pm in the USA, and that Paris Premiere should
broadcast a few days later in France, in November.
August 21st 2002:Juliette
Binoche at the Toronto film festival for the world premiere of Jet lag
Piers
Handling, director of the 27th annual Toronto International Film Festival,
announced the line-up of films for this years event during a media conference in
Toronto, August 20, 2002. The festival, which runs from September 5-14, will
include 343 movies from over 50 countries. The "gala presentations"
include Danièle Thompson's Jet lag, a world premiere, which will be screened in presence of Juliette
Binoche. For further information, please visitthe
official website of the Toronto international film festival
August 14th 2002:Juliette
Binoche is writing the preface of "The book of tenderness", within 2
months of its publication
Godmother,
since 1997, of the festival "Tenderness in the cycles of life"
which takes place each summer in Avignon (France), Juliette Binoche is currently
working on the foreword of "The book of tenderness" (Clés essays,
Editions Albin Michel), a collection of the best interventions of the festival.
Waitingfor
its publication in the end of this summer, she explains the reasons of her
involvement to Nouvelles Clés magazine (number 34 - summer 2002, currently in
kiosk in France): "Fusion in love is not necessarily tender, it can even be
violent. Tenderness supposes that one keeps a certain distance from his
impulses..."
July 28th, 2002: Spider
man to costar with Juliette Binoche
Tobey
Maguire, who headlines the box office smash Spider-Man and plays the title
character, is being wooed by Steve Martin and director Fred Schepisi to
play Einstein in the film version of Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, whose
shooting is scheduled to
start in February 2003.
And, the
feeling is that Maguire will sign on the dotted line. He will join a cast that
includes Ryan Phillippe, Kevin Kline, Juliette Binoche, and Martin. Phillippe's
wife, Reese Witherspoon, had been courted for the part of Picasso's girlfriend,
but she's got other plans.
July 6th, 2002: Two
Juliette Binoche films will be screened free in the open air, this summer in
France
Born
in 1993 in Bordeaux (France), the Cinesites festival organises free projections
in the open air, each year, in some France's historical places (castles...).
From June 15th to December 15th, 2002, Cinesites will show more than a hundred
of films free, 2 of which star Juliette Binoche.
The
horseman on the roof will be screened on August 2nd, in Nohant-Vic (in the
center of France), in Georges Sand's house. Inquiries: 02.54.31.06.04.
Chocolat
will also be screened on saturday September 14th in La Chevrolière (Northwestern
France), Prairie
de la Chaussée. Inquiries: 02.40.13.30.00. For further information (full
calendar...),
please visit the official site www.cinesites.tm.fr
June 15 2002: The
La Rochelle film festival will pay hommage to Juliette Binoche, in her presence
The
30th La Rochelle film festival (France, from june 29th to july 8th) is going to
pay hommage to Juliette Binoche, in the presence of the actress. 13 Juliette
Binoche films will be screened during the whole festival, so that one can find
out or see again Hail Mary, Rendez vous, Bad blood, The unbearable lightness of
being, Lovers on the bridge, Men and women, Three colors: Blue, The horseman on
the roof, The English patient, Alice and Martin, The widow of Saint Pierre, Code
unknown and Chocolat.
Besides,
Juliette Binoche has been given a "carte blanche" that allowed her to
select 4 films among her favorites to be screened at the festival. She chose
They live by night (1949, by
Nicholas Ray, USA), Tom Horn (1977, by William Wiard, USA), Boogie nights (1997,
by Paul Thomas Anderson, USA) and Guizi Lai Le (2000, by Jiang Wen, China), that
will also be screened in honour of Juliette.
For
further information, please phone the La Rochelle tourist office 05 46 41 14 68
and/or visit the official site of the La
Rochelle film festival and/or email festival.de.la.rochelle@wanadoo.fr
June 13th 2002: Reporters
Without Borders raises 53,000 euros for the cause of defending press freedom,
notably thanks to Juliette Binoche
Photos
personally snapped by 99 famous people raised 53,000 euros when the disposable
cameras they were taken on were auctioned off to the public in Paris on 12 June
to help Reporters Without Borders' efforts to defend press freedom worldwide.
Juliette Binoche, who was the main figure of the occasion, succeeded in selling
her camera to TV personality Thierry Ardisson for 4,500 euros. Actress Sophie
Marceau's camera, which contained pictures of herself pregnant, fetched
2,300euros. The Sanofi-Synthélabo pharmaceutical group bought nine of the
cameras - including those used by filmmakers Constantin Costa-Gavras, Robert
Altman and actress Charlotte Rampling. The buyers are free to develop the photos
in the cameras but had to promise not to make money out of them. The stars had
been given the cameras by Reporters Without Borders and invited to take whatever
photos they liked.
The money
raised will enable Reporters Without Borders to continue its work of defending
press freedom, especially by helping the families of the 120 journalists
currently imprisoned around the world and hiring lawyers to represent them in
court.
May 12th 2002:
Juliette Binoche to costar with Einstein, Picasso and Presley
Ryan
Philippe and Kevin Kline are among the actors set to star in a film adaptation
of Steve Martin's play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile". Martin himself
will also appear in the film, a comedy set in the early 1900s in Paris and
featuring characters such as Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, and a young Elvis
Presley. Australian film maker Fred Schepisi will direct, while Juliette Binoche
will also be making an appearance. Filming is scheduled to start in
February 2003.
May 3rd 2002:
The assumption is now scheduled for a late 2004 release, Juliette Binoche should
work again with Anthony Minghella
Based upon the novel, The Assumption
of the Virgin, by Katie Campbell, which takes its title from one of Fra Lippi's
most famous paintings (much like Girl with a Pearl Earring), this project was
originally titled The Assumption of the Virgin, like the novel. It is now The
assumption. This is the story of the 15th century Florentine artist, Fra Filippo
Lippi (Javier Bardem), who fell in love with the beautiful nun (Juliette
Binoche) who served as the model of his many paintings...
Production had been scheduled to
start in Florence, Italy in February, 2002, delayed a few months from a fall,
2001 start because of Benicio Del Toro's serious wrist injury. Production is now
scheduled to start in late 2003 on a budget of $28 million. Benicio Del Toro had
been signed to star as Lippi, but has since dropped out. Javier Bardem will
replace him. Among the cast that were expected to costar when this was scheduled
to start filming in early 2002 were Juliette Binoche (who has since confirmed),
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave, Geoffrey Rush, and Chloe Sevigny. This film
will be directed by Richard Eyre (Iris), and produced by Anthony Minghella and
Sydney Pollack.
April 16th 2002:
Samuel L. Jackson and Jon Voight to costar with Juliette Binoche in Country of
my skull
Juliette Binoche will star in
"Country of My Skull", a John Boorman drama about the anti-apartheid
struggles in South Africa in the early 60s. Binoche will play a journalist
covering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, who falls in love
with an American reporter. Samuel L Jackson and Jon Voight are also rumoured to
be appearing in the movie. Boorman will shoot the film in South Africa later
this year. The Brit director's last movie was "The Tailor of Panama".
April 9th 2002:
Daniel Auteuil will costar again with Juliette Binoche, in Caché, directed by
Michael Haneke
Juliette
Binoche is headlining next Michael Haneke's Caché, opposite Daniel
Auteuil. The French film, based on Algeria's war for independence, is slated to
begin production next year.
Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil
have already costarred in The widow of Saint Pierre (2000), by Patrice Leconte.
Juliette Binoche stars in a Michael
Haneke film for the second time, after Code unknown, in 2000.
Since its creation eight years ago,
Bravo's alluring show "Inside the Actor's studio" had never left New
York, USA. But last night, in the Opera Comique, in Paris, France, the program's
host, James Lipton, interviewed 2 of the most famous French actresses of the
past 40 years, Juliette Binoche and Jeanne Moreau, during two hours. The two actresses evoked their beginnings and their working methods, their
meetings and some bits of their intimacy. Juliette Binoche notably made a performance
in a French style by interpreting an extract from "The miser", a Moliere
play (original title: "l'avare"). Besides, the presenter and Jeanne Moreau
sang in chorus "I am the navel of the world". Rare moments that Bravo tv will
diffuse on October 27th at 8pm in the USA, and that Paris Premiere should
broadcast a few days later in France, in November. 
Tobey
Maguire, who headlines the box office smash Spider-Man and plays the title
character, is being wooed by Steve Martin and director Fred Schepisi to
play Einstein in the film version of Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, whose
shooting is scheduled to
start in February 2003. 
Ryan
Philippe and Kevin Kline are among the actors set to star in a film adaptation
of Steve Martin's play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile". Martin himself
will also appear in the film, a comedy set in the early 1900s in Paris and
featuring characters such as Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, and a young Elvis
Presley. Australian film maker Fred Schepisi will direct, while Juliette Binoche
will also be making an appearance. Filming is scheduled to start in
February 2003. 
Juliette
Binoche is headlining next Michael Haneke's Caché, opposite Daniel
Auteuil. The French film, based on Algeria's war for independence, is slated to
begin production next year.