Eurocinema Video-On-Demand Channel Premieres International Box Office Hit Alice’s House To North American Television Audiences

Film to Debut This Month On Eurocinema, Available Now in Over 22 Million Homes; Title Also Available on DVD By Figa Films
(Los Angeles, March 4, 2009) – Delivering the very best European and international box office films to North American television audiences via video-on-demand, Eurocinema is pleased to debut the multiple, award- winning Brazilian film Alice’s House (A Casa de Alice) this March, in conjunction with the film’s national DVD release.

The film will debut this month on the video-on-demand platforms on Time Warner, Charter, Verizon, RCN and BrightHouse systems, in top markets across the country including New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Charlotte, San Diego, Boston, Tampa and St. Louis.

Directed by award-winning director Chico Teixeira, Alice’s House is the winner of an impressive 40 global film prizes, including 12 awards for Brazilian actress Carla Ribas, who plays the title role. Movie trailer available at http://eurocinema.com/index.php?film_id=94

“We’re delighted to present the foreign box office title Alice’s House for the first time to TV audiences across North America,” said EuroMedia Holdings Chairman & CEO Sebastien Perioche. “The film is part of our impressive slate of hit international films, most of which have not been distributed theatrically in the US or Canada. Eurocinema viewers across the country will now for the first time be able to enjoy the very best world cinema has to offer on video-on-demand from their own living rooms.”

Alice’s House is the story of Alice, a middle class woman and her family, who reside in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. She has an unfaithful husband, works in a beauty salon and lives in a house with three sons and her mother. In her life journey, Alice discovers that in every house you never know what secrets lie behind the front door. The film offers a refreshing look at Brazil, with an innovative and intelligent portrayal of an urban middle class Brazilian family. The story that deals with the life of a great number of Brazilians so rarely seen on cinema screens. In many ways, it is the portrait of an urban middle class found around the world: the day-to-day life of common people shown with depth and perception, centered in human feelings and flaws.

Among its many prizes are the Best Film Awards at the Kuala Lumpur, Fribourg, and Havana International Film Festivals, the Special Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Guadalajara International Film Festival, as well as Best Actress Awards at the 2007 Miami, Lisbon, Rio and Sao Paulo International Film Festivals.

Offered on-demand on cable and broadband services, including such influential powerhouses as Time Warner, Charter, DISH and DIRECTV, Eurocinema is currently carried in over 22 million homes across the U.S. and Canada, and pending deals will increase carriage exponentially in the coming months.

Television’s home for international and European box office films, Eurocinema features a combination of movies from legendary directors and gems of the international film world, rarely or never before seen in the U.S. Its diverse selection of quality theatrical films, comprised of both mainstream studio titles and festival award winning independent productions, acquired from more than 20 global distributors, feature the work of such directors as Pedro Almodovar, Claude Chabrol, Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi, and Vincente Aranda, as well as globally-recognized stars including Carice van Houten, Monica Bellucci, Victoria Abril, Isabelle Huppert, Penelope Cruz, Joaquim de Almeida, and many more.

Each feature film serves as the centerpiece of a hosted, two-hour thematic programming block designed to provide perspective on the film’s main theme, with such supplemental content as: host commentary, original documentaries and director interviews, as well as rarely seen short-format films relevant to the feature.

About Eurocinema
Eurocinema is a Video-On-Demand service offering fans of global cinema access to feature movies otherwise unavailable to them and providing foreign film makers unprecedented visibility in front of North American viewers and the Hollywood creative community. Eurocinema is available on cable and satellite TV systems serving 22 million subscribers, with new systems being added monthly. Eurocinema is a service mark of EuroMedia Holdings Corp http://www.eurocinema.com

The lattest film with Spanish Actress Victoria Abril

48 Hours a day

http://eurocinema.com/index.php?film_id=95

French w/English subtitles, 2008, Directed by Catherine Castel. US Premiere at Romance in a Can film festival and by VOD on Eurocinema. Marianne played by Aure Atika (PEUR DU NOIR, OSS117:CAIRO NEST OF SPIES, THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED), is a young woman with a bright professional future. She is tired of seeing her career stall due to her endless family obligations. She adopts a fairly radical method to force her husband Bruno played by Antoine de Caunes, (MR. BEAN’S VACATION, LOVE BITES), a financial wheeler-dealer to do his share of daily chores. This is an amusing glimpse into the complex life of today’s woman. This very funny film also stars Spanish film star Victoria Abril (DON’T TEMPT ME, TIE ME UP, TIE ME DOWN, AMANTES) Catherine Jacob (WHO KILLED BAMBI, DIKKENIK) Aurora Clement (APOCALYPSE NOW, MARIE ANTOINETTE).

Interview With Eurocinema’s Larry Namer

Do you love foreign films? Are you interested in learning from the leaders shaping the business of media? Tune in to this Interview with Larry Namer discussing EuroCinema, trends in media, and lessons from the industry. Learn how Eurocinema is partnering with artists and experiential marketing to define and build the brand.  “Larry Namer, the co-founder of E! Entertainment who now heads North American operations for Eurocinema, the only TV channel

dedicated exclusively to presenting foreign films to North American audiences, and I. Martin Pompadur, chairman of News Corp Europe, have been selected by the government of China to keynote the First International Media and Technology Conference in that country.” http://www.ljnmedia.com Listening you will get the inside scoop on what is evolving from Larry’s presence (Attention) in Chinese media markets.

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Le Coeur Des Hommes 2 On Watch Eurocinema This January

Le Coeur Des Hommes 2

Le Coeur Des Hommes 2

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Produced by Pierre Javaux, Marc Esposito. Directed, written by Marc Esposito;

With: Gerard Darmon, Bernard Campan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marc Lavoine, Zoe Felix, Valerie Stroh, Fabienne Babe, Valerie Kaprisky, Florence Thomassin, Catherine Wilkening, Ludmila Mikael.

A conventional but enjoyable continuation of its hit predecessor, “THE HEART OF MEN 2″ drops in on the lives of its quartet of middle-aged Parisian guys four years later. Examining the ebb and flow of love and sex from the male point of view. allows writer Marc Esposito to reiterate that sometimes hormones do the talking, and sometimes the heart is most audible

Jeff (Gerard Darmon), now 57, has moved to an idyllic country house to live with his way younger girlfriend. Elsa (Zoe Felix) and their son. At pic’s outset, he announces to his three best friends — gym teacher Antoine (Bernard Campan), chef Manu (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and high flying publisher Alex (Marc Lavoine) — that he plans to come out of retirement and return to Paris with his second family.

That gets the joshing buddies back to the same location. Camera then follows their interwoven lives, cluing viewers in to what the men do and don’t choose to share with each other. Sometimes funny, often touching narrative is at its best when examining the heartbreak of constraints.

Manu, who is married to adoring Juliette (Florence Thomassin), is having a wonderful affair with also-married Karine (Valerie Stroh). Unbeknownst to their teen son, Antoine is still having sex with his ex-wife (Fabienne Babe) — until, that is, he spots Jeanne (Valerie Kaprisky), who would seem too classy for a sort of jock.

Alex’s wife of 20 years, Nanou (Catherine Wilkening), throws him out of their luxury apartment when she realizes that — from a private detective’s conservative estimate — he’s probably cheated on her at least 400 times. Even Alex’s three pals think his Peter Pan complex has landed him where he deserves to be, but he loves his wife and doesn’t see why compulsive womanizing necessarily makes him a callow jerk (“I stopped smoking, so I’m sure I could stop sleeping around”).

Parallel storylines are assembled with workmanlike clarity. Lensing adequately shows off a Paris in which people actually go to work, in addition to eating and leading complicated private lives. Refreshingly, the actors are permitted to look their respective ages, warts and all.

The movie is heavy on English-lyric source music.

LE COEUR DES HOMMES 2

Credits:

Writer/director: Marc Esposito

Producer: Pierre Javaux

Antoine: Bernard Campan

Jeff: Gerard Darmon

Manu: Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Alex: Marc Lavoine

Lili: Fabienne Babe

Elsa: Zoe Felix

Jeanne: Valerie Kaprisky

Francoise: Ludmila Mikael

Info on Marc Esposito:

Born in Algeria

56 years old

Founded French cinema magazine STUDIO

Written, directed or written/directed. 4 feature films, 1 documentary

Flash-Back: We’re on 16 July 1952 in Algeria. Birth of Marc Esposito. The young man is raised in Algiers, with his father Jacques Esposito, commercial attache at SHELL, and Josette Faus. A country he left in May 1962. After living in Carcassonne and Charleville-Mezieres in the Ardennes, where he studied in high school until Chanzy tray. It is in this context that is passionate about cinema … Marc Esposito becomes active member of the Cine-Club “8 1⁄2″, created by her teacher geo-history. Once a month, he presented a film of “arthouse”, with a debate, mostly driven by a critic in Paris. Coup de heart to Ingmar Bergman. His license in his pocket, towards the French capital …. Marc Esposito is at the entrance of IDHEC, film school and CFJ. He joined the Training Center for Journalists. Graduate, he connected the odd jobs: the newspaper Provencal, in Avignon, Marc Esposito covers all the summer festivals in the region. It is in this context that befriends Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, a freelancer. The two men later started Studio Magazine in 1987. Previously (1976 to be precise), he joined the First Film magazine. He became the editor in 1980. Over the years, Marc Esposito become detached from his job to devote himself to new activities. His first feature film, Patrick Dewaere, a documentary is presented at the Festival de Cannes in official selection, out of competition. Its theatrical release does not attract many people.

Quite the opposite of feature films THE HEART OF MEN and THE HEART OF MEN 2, an ode to male friendship, with a quartet of players: Gerard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Marc Lavoine and Bernard Campan. The actor and singer Marc Esposito finds time for a shooting with Zoe Felix, the beauty of his world, according to his book.

Former journalist and editor of Studio and Premiere, Marc Esposito was converted to the successful: THE HEART OF MEN, THE HEART OF MEN 2, ALL THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD.

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PARIS — Four years ago, former film critic Marc Esposito, who used to run the French magazines Premiere and Studio, directed his debut feature “Le Coeur des hommes”. After the dreadful “Toute la beaute du monde” in 2006, he chose to do a sequel to his first film. The huge success of this second “Coeur des hommes” — which topped the French boxoffice and has attracted over a million spectators in two weeks — should facilitate international sales, despite the fact that the first part didn’t sell well abroad. Certainly one can enjoy the sequel (which is much better) without knowing the original. A foreign — i.e., American — remake is always a possibility.

The pattern is the same in both films, which centers on four longtime male friends and the women in their lives. Jeff is happily living an epicurean life with a much younger girl. Alex is married but falls for a married woman. Manu just got divorced and meets the right person. Antoine goes from one affair to the next, until his wife finds out about his cheating and forces him to divorce.

Love, passion and faithfulness are the issues addressed by the film, which is in this aspect a very French romantic comedy. It adopts a bittersweet tone that helps the credibilty of situations that are occasionally bigger than life. The key value here is friendship. Most sequences bring the four friends together, and their conversation is enlightened by very funny lines.

This pleasant comedy is well served by a well-balanced cast of favorite actors. Gerard Darmon’s Jeff is the eldest. His dialogue is mainly composed of hilarious maxims such as, “Eternal love was invented when life expectancy was of 35 years,” which he pronounces with the tone of the wise man who lived many lives.

Marc Lavoine, a popular romantic singer less known as an actor, plays Alex, a hypocrite with an infectious joie de vivre. The scene in which he says, a cigarette in hand, that if he stopped smoking he can stop seducing defines pretty well this character.

Bernard Campan, a renowned comedian, has the most dramatic part as Antoine, a true romantic who does find eternal love. Jean-Pierre Darroussin has the best dialogue and situations. His Manu is not far from the parts he has played for Robert Guediguian as a man who genuinely experiences real passion for two different women.

Eurocinema’s Sebastien Perioche

Sebastien Perioche

Sebastien Perioche, 36, is the founder, Chairman and CEO of EuroMedia Holdings, Corp, which operates Eurocinema, the first and only on demand TV network dedicated solely to presenting award-winning European and global theatrical and short films to North American audiences.

He is responsible for overseeing EuroMedia Holdings (EMH) development strategy and investments, in addition to managing relationships with European film and entertainment distributors.

Perioche successfully launched Eurocinema and since its inception in 2005, Eurocinema has become the leading cable provider of European films in North America and is currently available in 20 million homes US and Canada, with plans to expand to other countries. As head of EMH he is also working on developing new TV channels.

A native of France, Perioche earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and after graduation he began traveling to Latin America, the United States and throughout Europe, facilitating deals between countries. In 1995, he moved to Boston to attend Harvard University eventually obtaining a degree in Finance and Economics. Armed with a keen understanding of global business and cultural practices, he used this knowledge to help create a distribution/expansion plan for many European companies trying to penetrate the U.S. market.

Having a preference for European films over those made in Hollywood and hearing his many American friends bemoan their limited access to these films, the entrepreneur decided to do something about it. Thus the creation of Eurocinema, which features a combination of movies, with works by legendary directors and gems of the international film world never before seen in the U.S. This diverse selection of quality international theatrical films comprises both mainstream studio titles and independent productions, acquired from more than 40 global distributors.

Perioche, who has lived in the United States for more than 12 years, resides in Miami.

 

 

 

My best enemy (Il mio miglior nemico) Presented by Eurocinema. November 2008

Go to WWW.EUROCINEMA.COM for more information and/if you would like to watch this movie.

You can’t choose who you fall in love with… or their family!

Achille De Bellis (Carlo Verdone) is the CEO of a major hotel chain owned by his wife Gigliola (Agnese Nano) and brother-in-law Guglielmo (Paolo Triestino). He seems to have everything a man could desire: a beautiful home, a sound marriage and an excellent professional position. However, as his silver wedding anniversary draws near, every certainty in his life is overturned when he meets – or bumps into – a 23-year-old good-for-nothing called Orfeo (Silvio Muccino).

Orfeo lives in a working-class neighbourhood of Rome. Like his friends, he lacks much ambition, and manages to keep himself afloat with small unskilled jobs, while his afternoons tend to be passed in pointless discussions and chat. He never met his father, but grew up fast, forced to care for his unbalanced mother who is incapable of facing everyday life and whose mood swings between depression and euphoria.

When Achille fires Annarita (Sara Bertelà) for theft, Orfeo is convinced that his mother has been wrongly accused, and decides to take his revenge. He starts following Achille in order to discover his weaknesses and ruin his existence.

Achille’s main weakness is called Ramona (Corinne Jiga), his sister-in-law.

Things get complicated for Orfeo too, when he falls in love with Cecilia (Ana Caterina Morariu).

After their first encounter, Achille and Orfeo’s lives start to fall to pieces in a curious parallel way, although this forced closeness will explode into a strange friendship, a kind of father-son relationship.

Nominated for 12 David di Donatello awards My best enemy (Il mio miglior nemico) is a delightful comedy that reunites actor-director Carlo Verdone with his Manual of love co-star Silvio Muccino in an hilarious tale of two nemeses coming together for the love of a girl: One happens to be her boyfriend, the other, her father.

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

• Film drama Italy romance Italian comedy wedding anniversary adultery mistress family

Persons of interest

• Carlo Verdone …. Achille De Bellis
• Silvio Muccino …. Orfeo Rinalduzzi
• Ana Caterina Morariu …. Cecilia
• Agnese Nano …. Gigliola Duranti
• Sara Bertelà …. Annarita Rinalduzzi
• Nicola Di Gioia …. Tonino
• Corinne Jiga …. Ramona
• Paolo Triestino …. Guglielmo Duranti

 

Cinematic intelligence sources

• My best enemy (Il mio miglior nemico) official movie site
• Awards and film festivals:
  • Australian Italian Film Festival 2006: Screening
  • David di Donatello Awards 2006: Nominated: Best Actor (Carlo Verdone), Best Actress (Ana Caterina Morariu), Best Cinematography (Danilo Desideri), Best Costume Design (Tatiana Romanoff), Best Director (Carlo Verdone), Best Editing (Claudio Di Mauro), Best Film (Aurelio De Laurentiis, Carlo Verdone), Best Producer (Aurelio De Laurentiis), Best Production Design (Maurizio Marchitelli), Best Screenplay (Silvio Muccino, Pasquale Plastino, Silvia Ranfagni, Carlo Verdone), Best Sound (Gaetano Carito), David of the Youth (Carlo Verdone)
• NB: Italian language dialogue with English language subtitles
• Studios and distributors:
  • Palace Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

My best enemy is a warm, fuzzy, fumbly comedy-romance-drama about arseholes (men) and the women whom they drive insane. It’s an unchallenging look at the modern world but an enjoyable one and very Italian. If there was any more hand-waving you’d mistake it for semaphore school.

The drama, Italy, romance movie My best enemy (Il mio miglior nemico) is directed by Carlo Vedone and stars Silvio Muccino, Ana Caterina Morariu, Agnese Nano.

Government security censorship classification

M (Moderate coarse language, moderate drug and sexual references)

Surveillance time

108 minutes (1:48 hours)

Cinema surveillance images 

Eurocinema’s Larry Namer Biography

Larry Namer

Larry Namer is a well-known entertainment and media entrepreneur. He is the founder of E! Entertainment Television, Inc., Movies USA Magazine, Steeplechase Media and Comspan Communications, Inc. He began his career in 1971 within Time Incorporated video group (Manhattan Cable TV) where he ultimately became Director of Corporate Development. This group was charged with moving the company from a magazine publisher to a full blown media company. While starting as an installer, his last position there put him in charge of developing new uses of cable television beyond being a simple provider of better TV reception. He is widely credited with pioneering the use of cable television lines for data communications.

After leaving Time, Inc., he moved to Los Angeles and established Valley Cable Television (VCTV), the nation¹s first 61-channel two-way cable system. VCTV¹s accolades included being recognized by Forbes Magazine as the national model for local cable television programming. In his role as Vice President and General Manger, he negotiated contracts with all major cable television networks as well as ran all other aspects of the company’s operations. In 1984, he co-founded Movietime Channel Inc. (renamed E! Entertainment Television, Inc.) and raised the capital to launch the channel in 1987. Serving as President and CEO, he guided the network as it expanded to 14 international markets and a successful radio network syndicated in over 110 markets. He negotiated programming deals with all major Hollywood studios as well as affiliate carriage deals with the nations largest cable operators. He was also responsible for negotiating investments from 8 of the nations largest media conglomerates. In his role as CEO he oversaw every aspect of the company’s operations from its finance and investor relations, to the production of several thousand hours of television programming annually.

In 1989, Mr. Namer founded Comspan Communications, Inc., and established Comspan Russia to manage the company¹s rapidly growing international activities. Comspan Communications, Inc. remains the most prolific producer of live entertainment events in the former Soviet Union (concerts, to fashion shows, to sporting events). Comspan also made its mark in television in Russia as the syndicator of the soap opera Santa Barbara, which ran for 10 years. Under his leadership Comspan grew to become the leading producer and promoter of live events in the former Soviet Union. Additionally Comspan has helped many western companies, from telephone companies to consumer goods, establish operations there. In the United States, Comspan’s focus is the development of new TV networks and services that capitalize on new technologies such as streaming video, video on demand, and delivery to storage devices (such as TIVO and Replay). It has been a key player in the development of Recovery Network, Expo, Hobby and Craft Network, and Documentary Channel. Mr. Namer has also served as the primary consultant for planning and strategy to Microsoft Interactive TV (MiTV) for several years.

Currently Larry Namer is working on Marketing and Advertising of Eurocinema. Eurocinema is a Video on Demand Channel that brings the best of European films into over 20 million homes via leading cable networks in United States and Canada. Teamed up with Sebastien Perioche – the Chairman of Eurocinema, Larry Namer’s main goal is not only to build Eurocinema as a brand, but also open a window to Europe by showing the best of European Cinema.

 

 

 

Blanca Li Biography

A multi-sided talent

Blanca Li is a choreographer, a film director, a dancer and an actress. From flamenco to feature film, from classical ballet to hip hop, she has created and produced a great number of projects with her energetic Mediterranean temperament.

Born in Granada (Spain), Blanca Li is already competing with the Spanish national team for rhythmic gymnastics by the age of 12. At 17 she sets out for New York to study with Martha Graham for five years. She also studies extensively with Paul Sanasardo and Alvin Ailey. Back in Madrid, she sets up her first dance company with a commission for the world exhibition in Seville in 1992.

A year later, Blanca Li moves to France, where she is enthusiastically received by audiences and press alike with various choreographies : Nana et Lila (Festival d’Avignon, 1993), Salomé (1995), Stress (Théâtre Jean Vilar de Suresnes, 1997) and two operas in Nancy, La Vida breve and El Amor Brujo. She creates her one-woman show Zap! Zap! Zap!, and, at the Lyon Dance Biennial Blanca Li stages Le Songe du Minotaure with her company, a piece inspired by Ancient Greece. Two months later, she’s commissioned by the Nancy Opera to direct and choreograph the world premiere of Un Tango Pour Monsieur Lautrec.

In 1998, the choreographer creates her own production space, the Centre Chorégraphique Blanca Li, 3 studios dedicated to the work of the Company, and opened to theatre and dance professionals.

Not subsidized, the Spaniard finances her company by participating in Films, commercials, and choreographing music videos. She works for Perrier, Gap, Daft Punk, Blur. She is particularly struck by cinema, writes a script and shoots her first short film : Angoisse (4 “Best Film” Awards).

In 1999 she’s invited by the Suresnes Festival to create a hip-hop piece, Macadam Macadam which successfully begins to tour worldwide. The same year, the Paris Opera asks her for a contemporary choreography for the Baroque opera Les Indes Galantes conducted by William Christie and produced by Andrei Serban. (Once more presented during the following years, Rameau’s ballet opera, now part of the Opéra’s repertoire, was released in DVD in 2005). For the turn of the millennium Blanca Li creates, together with trapeze artists, the air ballet Univers Unique. She is also celebrated in Paris (Théâtre de Chaillot) and New York for the festival France Moves (The Kitchen) in recognition of her first one-woman-show “Zap! Zap! Zap!”. Monique Loudières, Danseuse Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet company, asks Li to create a solo for her : Silhouette, to be performed at the Avignon Festival in 2000.

Blanca Li’s first feature film, Le Défi, a hip hop musical comedy with 150 hip hop dancers, is released in May 2002. Box office : 300 000 spectators in France and continued showing for 4 months (director, choreographer, dancer and actress: Blanca Li.) In May 2004, Le Defi is selected by the Tribeca Film festival in New York.

Highest honors in the dance world in 2001 : the famous Paris Opera Ballet invites Li to create a new ballet on Shéhérazade, together with Christian Lacroix as costume designer. Blanca Li is nominated director and choreographer of the Berlin Ballet at the Komische Oper in Germany, a company of 24 dancers, for whom she creates a new version of “Le Songe du Minotaure”, which is also performed at the Merida Festival in Spain. Borderline is produced as world premiere in Berlin in June 2002.

Back in France, the choreographer tours the show “Borderline” with her dance company in France and in Europe. That same year, the Blanca Li company obtains a subsidy from the French Culture Ministry and is invited by the Massy Opera as a resident company. In March 2003, Blanca Li creates at the Paris Opera Bastille a choreography for Guillaume Tell, produced by Francesca Zambello. Al Andalus is created at the Massy Opera (before being performed at the Alhambra Palace for the International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada in June 2004). In March 2004, Blanca Li is invited as choreographer for the new Don Giovanni production at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC produced by Marthe Keller. In September 2004, Alarme, a new creation by Blanca Li for her company, is presented at The Lyon Dance Biennial fot their European program. The company tours Alarm and a new version of Al Andalus in France and Europe in 2004-2005 (Festival Madrid en Danza, Festival Italica).

In May 2004 Blanca Li is made “Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite” by the French Ministry of Culture then receives the prestigious Manuel de Falla award in December 2004 in Spain, in recognition for her career in choreography.

In 2005 she creates the choreography for the musical comedy Bagdad Café. In January 2006, the choreographer re-creates her hip hop musical Macadam Macadam with a new team at the Massy Opera. Also performed at the Théâtre Mogador of Paris in June, the show is now on tour.

In July 2006, Blanca Li is nominated artistic director of the Centro Andaluz de Danza in Sevilla (CAD).

Corazón Loco, a new company’s creation with the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3, on a contemporary score by Edith Canat de Chizy, was produced in January 2007 at Odyssud-Blagnac and the Théâtre National de Chaillot. Corazón Loco and Macadam Macdam are presently touring in France and Europe. In February, Macadam Macadam receives the award Globe de Cristal for best choreography (Opera / Dance). In Mars, Blanca Li is made “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture.

Poeta en New York, is created in July 2007 in Granada (Spain), Alhambra Gardens. This creation is inspired by the poems and the experience of Federico García Lorca in New York from 1929 to 1930. A group of twenty dancers, the solist dancers Andrés Marín and Blanca Li, singing by Carmen Linares or Encarnita Anillo, and by Rob-Li, and an original music by Tao Gutierrez give life to the interior world of Lorca, his images and words, between jazz and flamenco. Blanca Li has received the award for best choreography for Poeta en New York at the Gala evening for Premios Max for stage artists (equivalent of “Tony awards” in USA or “Moliere” prizes in France). This spectacle is presented 10 evenings immediately to the Theater national of Chaillot to Paris in May 2008, with always the same success, and performed a new time in Granada during summer 2008, for a series of representations.

Blanca Li is invited by the MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y Leon, for her first exhibition “Te voy a enseñar a bailar” (“I’ll teach you how to dance”) (from January 26 to May 4 2008).

Eurocinema Posters by Julia Lurie

Julia Lurie about Eurocinema Project and Her Art:

“The creative force behind my work is my subconscious. It’s everything I am and want to be. It’s fantasy and suppressed emotion. It’s chaos. I tap into a meditative wave of “unthought” and I free whatever is waiting there. I want to make you see it the way I see it, even if its blurry and out of focus. My art has emotional range and randomness. It might not spell a complete sentence but it will make sense to a certain part of you. The same part that lives and creates within me.” “I think there are too many concept artists that find one medium or mode that works and because they hit a nerve, this concept blemishes into a career that limits them and stunts their artistic point of view.” “I paint freedom and yearning and anger and pain. I paint to release my subconscious and numb my neurosis. I try to capture vulnerability and imperfection. I arch my body and wrap around the canvas and nail my wrists to the frame. Can you see me? I hope you can. That’s my aim.

Here are some of the posters created by Jula for Eurocinema. If you would like to order any of therse posters in 8.5×11 and/or 27×36 size, please email us at info@eurocinema.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eurocinema Presents À tout de suite (Right Now)

Right Now

À Tout de Suite (directed by Benoît Jacquot) begins with a voice-over by Lili (Isild Le Besco). She explains that it is 1975, just before spring, and she is 19 years old. The first visual is of two pairs of feet exposed under rumpled bedsheets. The camera pans up to reveal two girls waking up in bed. Lili hides her friend from her sister when she enters the room to question her about going to school. Lili explains that she plans on going to class, but has missed the first hour. After attending art class the girls go out to a cafe, where Lili has a discrepancy with a young man. The girls leave the cafe and enter a pub. A strange man approaches them with two glasses of champagne and they all flirt together. At their request he orders them ham sandwiches. Then, his Arabic friend arrives. The friend says nothing and is dark and mysterious. The strange man says that he must go, because his friend is there. First, he tells the girls that his name is Gérard and invites them to meet at a club called Smoking that evening. The girls attend art class again and the teacher places a painting of a landscape on an easel. He explains that the assignment is to draw a silhouette of the image with no face. Lili draws the Arab man’s face on her paper, instead of a silhouette of the painted image. Lili eats dinner with her family and then sneaks dinner and wine into her room for her friend. Then they go out to Smoking and meet Gérard and Bada (Ouassini Embarek). Lili dances with Gérard and then Bada. Bada returns to Lili’s home with the girls and sees the portrait of himself on her wall. They all sleep in bed, but Lili doesn’t rise for class in the morning.

She stays with Bada while her friend goes to school. Then, Bada buys an expensive bracelet for her with cash. In a taxi, Lili asks Bada where he gets so much cash and he replies that it is from his real estate job. That evening, Lili recieves a phone call from Bada. He wants to say goodbye and explains that he is involved in a bank robbery gone wrong. He tells her that Gérard and a bank teller were killed. Upset, Lili makes her way through the crowd around the bank. Another spectator explains that the bandits are leaving with the hostages. They get into two cars and drive away. Lili returns home and tunes her radio to a news story that explains that the robbers set the hostages free unharmed and then escaped. Bada calls Lili again and asks to come to her house. She agrees and Bada shows up with his accomplice Alain (Nicolas Duvauchelle). When Alain and Bada are asleep Lili unzips their bag to reveal bundles of 500 franc notes. Lili wakes to find Alain standing over her. He orders her to make a phone call and hands her a number. She makes the call and gives her address and floor number. Bada announces that they are leaving and asks if she will come. Lili agrees to come. The doorbell rings and Lili answers it to find a girl her age, Joelle (Laurence Cordier) standing outside. Lili kisses her cheeks like she is an old friend and leads her back to her room. The four of them leave in a car with Bada and Alain hidden under blankets in the back seat. They pass the Champs-Elysée. Then, they enter a ramshackle hideout. Here bada repents to Lili about the deaths and she consoles him saying that he didn’t kill them. Bada opens up to her about his childhood in the poor area of Belleville. He describes he and his friends as Robin Hoods giving away stolen color TVs and Dupont lighters to the neighbors. He explains that his parents own a hair salon, adore one another, and him.

Lili draws sporadically, anything that catches her interest. Bada and Lili go out to get identification photos at a photo booth, then they have dinner and see a movie. Bada didn’t want to leave the apartment, but Lili was adamant. During the movie, Bada excuses himself and runs to the loo to throw up. They return to the apartment where Alain confronts Bada about exposure and then breaks a chair. Lili wakes in the night and wanders up the stairs of the apartment building. She finds a framed picture of Bada on a dresser. As she descends the stairs a brunette woman, who we later learn is named Laurence (Emmanuelle Bercot) enters and proclaims that it is her place. The woman leaves after asking Lili a few questions. Afterwards, Lili draws a portrait of Laurence. Fake passports are obtained and the group leaves that evening. On a train they cleverly hide the bag of money from a customs official when he comes through to check their passports. Then they clear Spanish customs and stay in a fancy hotel. In the morning, Joelle wakes Lili and informs her that the boys have gone shopping, but they left them some cash so that they could go out and buy stockings for all of them. Over breakfast the girls discuss how they are both bourgeois and state their feelings about their new positions as girlfriends of criminals. Instead of meeting the trio for lunch, Lili goes to a bull fight on her own. That evening Lili asks Bada what will happen if they are ever separated and he replies that he will come and find her. He tells her that they are going to his homeland Morocco. They smoke cigarettes on a train. Then they stuff francs into their stockings and pants. They are on board a boat. After a plainclothesman questions Bada he forces Lili to take the rest of the money and hide it in her jacket and bag. Customs in Morocco let Lili though after she smiles sweetly at the inspector. They rent rooms at a luxurious hotel in Tangiers. Then they rent cars and drive from town to town. They begin to have problems converting the stolen money and they suspect that the bills are marked. They have to pay a higher percentage for every exchange. Then comes the headline in the newspaper, “Ils sont les tueurs” with photos of both Bada and Alain. Lili comforts Bada by passionately kissing his mouth. They rent an apartment in Casablanca, Casa.