Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #94 :: May 11•17

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It was a full week of films across the decades with a few notable titles, for better or worse. 1932 had a serial adaptation of a literary classic that is not as well-regarded as some of the other film adaptations, 1942 teamed Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland in a film that got its source material all wrong, and 1952 took an autobiographical sequel and turned it into a filmic sequel to the film based on the original autobiographical film and book. 1962 saw the teaming of Corman and Shatner for a controversial box office flop, and 1972 paired Taylor and Burton again in a film that has fallen into obscurity. 1982 produced an eerily prescient film, 1992 had a second sequel to a popular buddy-cop film, 2002 saw a breakout performance for Ryan Gosling, and 2012 brought a classic TV soap to the big screen. Read on to learn more and tell us if your favorites are celebrating this week!

1922

May 14 – Beauty’s Worth (USA)

• Cast: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge, Truly Shattuck, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Hallam Cooley, Antrim Short, Thomas Jefferson, Martha Mattox, Aileen Manning
• Director: Robert G. Vignola
• Production Company: Cosmopolitan Productions, distributed by Paramount Pictures
• Trivia: The film premiered in New York City on March 18, 1922. The film’s pageant scenes were originally tinted.

1932

May 12 – The Sign of Four (London)

• Cast: Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson, Herbert Lomas, Gilbert Davis, Margaret Yarde, Roy Emerton, Charles Farrell, Clare Greet, Moore Marriott, Edgar Norfolk, Kynaston Reeves, Ernest Sefton, Mr. Burnhett, Togo
• Director: Graham Cutts
• Production Company: Associated Talking Pictures, distributed by RKO Pictures
• Trivia: Based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four (1890). The film was released in the US on August 14, 1932, and in the wider UK on September 26. Also known as The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case. Third film in the 1931–1937 film series starring Wontner as Sherlock Holmes.

May 17 – The Last of the Mohicans (USA, serial)

• Cast: Harry Carey, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Coghlan Jr., Edwina Booth, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Bob Kortman, Walter McGrail, Nelson McDowell, Edward Hearn, Mischa Auer, Yakima Canutt
• Director: Ford Beebe, B. Reeves Eason
• Production Company: Mascot Pictures
• Trivia: Based on the 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. The film made its TV premiere in New York City on April 24, 1940. The serial was edited and condensed into a 1948 feature titled The Return of the Mohicans. Nelson McDowell also played the part of David Gamut in the 1920 silent film.

1942

May 12 – This Above All (USA)

• Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper, Philip Merivale, Sara Allgood, Alexander Knox, Queenie Leonard, Melville Cooper, Jill Esmond, Holmes Herbert, Denis Green, Arthur Shields, Dennis Hoey, Thomas Louden, Miles Mander
• Director: Anatole Litvak
• Production Company: 20th Century Fox
• Trivia: Adapted from Eric Knight’s 1941 novel of the same name. The film won the Oscar for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White. It was also nominated for Cinematography, Editing and Sound Recording.

May 15 – Escape from Hong Kong (USA)

• Cast: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Marjorie Lord, Don Terry, Gilbert Emery, Leyland Hodgson
• Director: William Nigh
• Production Company: Universal Pictures

May 15 – The Next of Kin (UK)

• Cast: Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Reginald Tate, Stephen Murray, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Hibbert, Philip Friend, Phyllis Stanley, Mary Clare, Basil Sydney, Joss Ambler, Brefni O’Rorke, Alexander Field, David Hutcheson, Torin Thatcher, Thora Hird
• Director: Thorold Dickinson
• Production Company: Ealing Studios
• Trivia: The film was released in the US on May 5, 1943. Originally commissioned by the British War Office as a training film to promote the government message that ‘Careless talk costs lives’. After the war and up until at least the mid 1960s, services in British Commonwealth countries continued to use The Next of Kin as part of security training. The US version was drastically edited to remove any suggestion that Great Britain was overrun with spies, cutting the run time to 75 minutes. The title was also shortened to Next of Kin.

May 16 – In This Our Life (USA)

• Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Frank Craven, Billie Burke, Charles Coburn, Ernest Anderson, Hattie McDaniel, Lee Patrick, Mary Servoss, William B. Davidson, Edward Fielding, John Hamilton, William Forrest
• Director: John Huston
• Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Trivia: Based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow. The film began engagements in New York City and Los Angeles on May 8, 1942. It opened in London on September 18. Walter Huston appears in an uncredited cameo. Second film directed by John Huston. Raoul Walsh took over directing, uncredited, when Huston was called away for a war assignment. Davis clashed with Walsh and refused to reshoot already competed scenes. The film was disapproved in 1943 for foreign release by the wartime Office of Censorship, because it dealt truthfully with racial discrimination as part of its plot. Bette Davis and the novel’s author were unhappy with the film, particularly the happy ending that deviated from the novel. Huston had difficulties casting an African-American actor for the role of Parry Clay. Davis spotted Ernest Anderson working in the studio commissary as a waiter and suggested he audition for the role. Huston cast Anderson and he won the 1942 National Board of Review Award for his performance. Davis took control of her hair, makeup and costumes. The first preview audience reacted negatively to Davis’ appearance which she had controlled. Davis was busy preparing for Now, Voyager and disregarded the comments because she felt the film was mediocre. She was, however, proud of the casting of Anderson, performing the role as an ‘educated person’ rather than the typical portrayal of Black characters at the time.

1952

May 15 – Red Planet Mars (USA)

• Cast: Peter Graves, Andrea King, Herbert Berghof, Walter Sande, Marvin Miller, Willis Bouchey, Morris Ankrum, Robert House Peters Jr., Orley Lindgren, Philip Bayard Veiller
• Director: Harry Horner
• Production Company: Melaby Pictures, distributed by United Artists
• Trivia: Based on a 1932 play Red Planet written by John L. Balderston and John Hoare. Harry Horner’s directorial debut. The movie foresaw the flat panel TV set almost 40 years before they were commercially available.

May 16 – Belles on Their Toes (USA)

• Cast: Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Barbara Bates, Debra Paget, Robert Arthur, Carol Nugent, Tommy Ivo, Jimmy Hunt, Anthony Sydes, Teddy Driver, Tina Thompson, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold, Hoagy Carmichael, Martin Milner, Verna Felton
• Director: Henry Levin
• Production Company: 20th Century Fox
• Trivia: Based on the autobiographical book Belles on Their Toes (1950) by siblings Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Sequel to the film Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), based on Gilbreth and Carey’s eponymous 1948 book. The film began a New York City engagement on May 2, 1952.

May 16 – Denver and Rio Grande (USA)

• Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers, Lyle Bettger, J. Carrol Naish, Zasu Pitts, Tom Powers, Robert Barrat, Paul Fix, Don Haggerty, James Burke
• Director: Byron Haskin
• Production Company: Paramount Pictures
• Trivia: The film features a spectacular head-on collision between two Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotives that were slated for retirement and scrapping, filmed July 17, 1951.

1962

Pathé-America Distribution Co.

May 14 – The Intruder (USA)

• Cast: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Leo Gordon, Charles Barnes, Charles Beaumont, Katherine Smith, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, Jeanne Cooper, Phoebe Rowe
• Director: Roger Corman
• Distributor: Pathé-America Distribution Co., Astor Pictures
• Trivia: Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own 1959 novel of the same name. The film was screened at the Venice Film Festival on September 7, 1962. It was released in the UK in January 1964. Also known under its US reissue titles as I Hate Your Guts! and Shame, and The Stranger in the UK release. The film was shot in southeast Missouri, but locals objected to the racial and segregation elements of the script. To film William Shatner’s racist speech, Corman advertised the production of a town hall meeting on local radio in order to draw a crowd. With the camera facing the crowd Shatner only delivered certain lines from the speech, and in the early morning hours after the crowd had dispersed, they filmed the full speech after turning the camera on Shatner. His voice had become horse by that time, but Corman felt it added to the performance. Production had been thrown out of East Prairie, MO by the chief of police who labelled them ‘communists’. Corman blamed the film’s failure — the only one of Corman’s films to lose money — on Shatner’s performance. Shatner joked that the re-release title I Hate Your Guts! was probably aimed at him.

May 17 – Bon Voyage! (USA)

• Cast: Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Jessie Royce Landis, Tommy Kirk, Georgette Anys, Kevin Corcoran, Ivan Desny, Françoise Prévost, Alex Gerry, Howard Smith, Max Showalter, James Millhollin, Marcel Hillaire, Richard Wattis
• Director: James Neilson
• Production Company: Walt Disney Productions, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution
• Trivia: Based on a 1956 novel by Joseph and Merrijane Hayes. The film was released in the UK on June 8, 1962. Universal originally bought the rights to the book with Esther Williams and James Cagney announced to star. Production was delayed and Bing Crosby became attached. Disney optioned the rights in 1960 with Karl Malden, James MacArthur and Janet Munro to star, and Robert Stevenson set to direct. Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, and Tommy Kirk were eventually confirmed as the three leads. Deborah Walley was cast on the basis of her performance in Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Kirk did not get along with Wyman, whom he described as a ‘cold, hard woman’ and assumed her dislike of him was because she suspected he was gay. Kirk said he also received a verbal lashing from MacMurray for some unprofessional behavior, which he admitted he deserved. Filming took place partly on location on a genuine ocean cruiser travelling across the Atlantic and in France. Walt Disney accompanied the film on location.

1972

May 12 – Hammersmith Is Out (USA)

• Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges, Leon Ames, Leon Askin, Anthony Holland, George Raft, John Schuck
• Director: Peter Ustinov
• Production Company: J. Cornelius Crean Films Inc., distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation
• Trivia: Based on the legend of Faust. The film was released in the UK on October 25, 1972. While the film has yet to be released on DVD, it appears there is no truth to the rumor that Richard Burton hated the film so much that he bought all prints and had them destroyed.

May 17 – The Legend of Nigger Charley (USA)

• Cast: Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Thomas Anderson, Jerry Gatlin, Alan Gifford, Will Hussung, Gertrude Jeannette, Fred Lerner, Marcia McBroom, Bill Moor, Tricia O’Neil, John Ryan, Doug Row, Joe Santos
• Director: Martin Goldman
• Production Company: Spangler & Sons Pictures, distributed by Paramount Pictures
• Trivia: The film was renamed The Legend of Black Charley for showing on TV. Newspapers at the time of the film’s release also used the less offensive title, or just shortened it to Black Charley. Fred Williamson spent a total of one week learning how to shoot a gun and ride a horse.

1982

May 13 – Veronika Voss (Netherlands)

• Cast: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Doris Schade, Erik Schumann, Peter Berling, Günther Kaufmann, Volker Spengler, Elisabeth Volkmann, Peter Zadek, Johanna Hofer, Rudolf Platte, Juliane Lorenz
• Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Production Company: Laura Film, Tango Film, Rialto Film, Trio Film, Maran Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, distributed by Filmverlag der Autoren (West Germany), United Artists Classics (US)
• Trivia: Loosely based on the career of actress Sybille Schmitz. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 18, 1982. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 16, 1982, the New York Film Festival on September 24 and the Chicago International Film Festival in October before its US release on October 13. The second of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy, though chronologically made last. It was also Fassbinder’s penultimate film, and the last released during his lifetime.

May 14 – Angel (Ireland)

• Cast: Stephen Rea, Veronica Quilligan, Honor Heffernan, Alan Devlin, Peter Caffrey, Gerard McSorley, Ray McAnally, Anthony Tyler Quin
• Director: Neil Jordan
• Production Company: Bórd Scánnon na hEireaan, Channel Four Films, Motion Picture Company of Ireland, distributed by British Film Institute (UK), Triumph Films (US)
• Trivia: The film’s world premiere was held at the Celtic Film Festival on March 31, 1982. The film screened at TIFF on September 18, 1982, and was released in the UK in December 1982. The film opened in New York City on May 18, 1984 followed by a wider US release on May 30 under the title Danny Boy. The film opened in Canada on July 13, 1984. Neil Jordan’s directorial debut. Honor Heffernan makes her acting debut and sings all of her songs herself. Executive Producer John Boorman wanted Liam Neeson to play Danny.

May 14 – The Return of Martin Guerre (France)

• Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Isabelle Sadoyan, Rose Thiéry, Chantal Deruaz, Maurice Jacquemont, Roger Planchon, Dominique Pinon, Philippe Babin, Valérie Chassigneux, Adrien Duquesne, Tchéky Karyo
• Director: Daniel Vigne
• Distributor: European International
• Trivia: Based on a true story. The film did not open in the US until August 26, 1983. An American remake of the film titled Sommersby, starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, was set during the Civil War. A West End musical, Martin Guerre, was also loosely inspired by the film. The film received an Oscar nomination for Costume Design.

May 14 – Wrong Is Right (USA)

• Cast: Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, George Grizzard, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, John Saxon, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen, Hardy Krüger, Robert Webber, Ron Moody, Rosalind Cash, Dean Stockwell, Cherie Michan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mickey Jones, Angelo Bertolini
• Director: Richard Brooks
• Production Company: Columbia Pictures
• Trivia: Based on Charles McCarry’s novel The Better Angels. The film was screened at the USA Film Festival on May 3, 1982. It does not appear to have received a UK theatrical release, but did premiere on TV in the UK on October 28, 1985 under the title The Man With the Deadly Lens in order to play on star Sean Connery’s James Bond legacy. Rosalind Cash was nominated for an Image Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture. The film has been said to have anticipated future world events with eerie similarities to the Bush White House and the US going to war in the Middle East over dubious claims of terrorists’ possession of weapons of mass destruction. The final Hollywood film of Hardy Krüger, and the final work of special effects legend L.B. Abbott. The penultimate film of Richard Brooks.

1992

May 13 – The Waterdance (USA)

• Cast: Eric Stoltz, Wesley Snipes, William Forsythe, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Peña, Grace Zabriskie
• Director: Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg
• Distributor: The Samuel Goldwyn Company
• Trivia: The film was screened at Sundance in January 1992, and at the USA Film Festival on April 23. The film was released in the UK on November 27. Semi-autobiographical film for co-director Neal Jimenez, and the only film he has directed to date. Eric Stoltz spent three months in a wheelchair in preparation for his role in this movie, and stayed in the chair throughout filming as well.

May 15 – The Dark Wind (UK)

• Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, John Karlen, Gary Farmer, Michelle Thrush, Guy Boyd, Blake Clark, Gary Basaraba
• Director: Errol Morris
• Production Company: Carolco Pictures, Le Studio CanalPlus, distributed by Seven Arts
• Trivia: Based on The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman. The film was screened at the BFI London Film Festival in November 1991. Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’ dramatic feature directorial debut. Producer Robert Redford was unhappy with the production and director, and Morris did not finish the film due to artistic differences with Redford. The film was co-written by Neal Jimenez (The Waterdance).

Warner Bros. Pictures

May 15 – Lethal Weapon 3 (USA)

• Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson, Steve Kahan, Darlene Love, Ebonie Smith, Nick Chinlund, Alan Scarfe, Mary Ellen Trainor, Delores Hall, Gregory Millar, Andrew Hill Newman, Traci Wolfe, Damon Hines, Jason Rainwater, Mark Pellegrino, Jack McGee
• Director: Richard Donner
• Production Company: Silver Pictures, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Trivia: The film’s premiere was held on May 11, 1992. The film also opened in Canada on May 15, and in the UK on August 14. Bill Frederick, the Mayor of Orlando, Florida, is the policeman who says ‘Bravo’ to Murtaugh and Riggs after the explosion of the building in the opening scene, which was the old Orlando City Hall. Carrie Fisher was an uncredited script doctor on the film. Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) was originally not in the script, and all of his scenes were written in afterward. In the original script, Leo had left Los Angeles for New York City.

2002

May 17 – The Believer (USA)

• Cast: Ryan Gosling, Jacob Green, Billy Zane, Theresa Russell, Summer Phoenix, Ronald Guttman, Glenn Fitzgerald, Garret Dillahunt, Heather Goldenhersh, A.D. Miles, Tommy Nohilly, Henry Bean, Joshua Harto, Chuck Ardezzone, Elizabeth Reaser, Dean Strober, Frank Winters, Judah Lazarus, James G. McCaffrey, Sascha Knopf, Tovah Feldshuh, Roberto Gari, Eileen B. Weiss
• Director: Henry Bean
• Production Company: Seven Arts Pictures, distributed by Fireworks Pictures, IDP Distribution
• Trivia: Loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros. The film was screened at Sundance on January 19, 2001. It opened in Russia on August 23, 2001, and in the UK on December 7, 2001. It received a limited release in the US. Widely regarded as Ryan Gosling’s breakthrough role. Directorial debut of Henry Bean. Elizabeth Reaser’s and Natasha Leggero’s debut.

2012

May 11 – All in Good Time (UK)

• Cast: Reece Ritchie, Amara Karan, Harish Patel, Meera Syal
• Director: Nigel Cole
• Production Company: Left Bank Pictures, distributed by StudioCanal
• Trivia: Based on Ayub Khan-Din’s 2007 play Rafta, Rafta, which was based on Bill Naughton’s 1963 play All in Good Time and the 1966 film adaptation The Family Way.

May 11 – Dark Shadows (USA)

• Cast: Johnny Depp. Justin Tracy, Eva Green, Raffey Cassidy, Bella Heathcote, Alexia Osborne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gully McGrath, Jackie Earle Haley, Ray Shirley, Christopher Lee, Alice Cooper, Ivan Kaye, Susanna Cappellaro, Josephine Butler, William Hope, Guy Flanagan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Hannah Murray, Shane Rimmer
• Director: Tim Burton
• Production Company: Village Roadshow Pictures, Infinitum Nihil, GK Films, The Zanuck Company, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (United States), Roadshow Entertainment (Australia)
• Trivia: Based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name. The film opened in several international markets on May 9 and May 10, then debuted in the US, Canada and UK on May 11. It continued to roll out to other territories through May and June with the last release in Venezuela on September 28. Original Dark Shadows stars Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby, and Kathryn Leigh Scott made cameo appearances at the Collinwood Manor ball. Frid died a month before the film’s release, making this his final film appearance. The film marked the 200th film appearance of Christopher Lee. When Michelle Pfeiffer heard the film was being made, she called Tim Burton to ask for a part. The entire town of Collinsport was constructed from scratch at Pinewood Studios.

May 11 – Jeff, Who Lives at Home (UK)

• Cast: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong, Steve Zissis, Evan Ross
• Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
• Production Company: Right of Way Films, Indian Paintbrush, Mr. Mudd, distributed by Paramount Vantage
• Trivia: The film was screened at TIFF on September 14, 2011, and received a limited release in the US and Canada on March 16, 2012. It received a wide UK release on May 11. The bathtub scene between Jason Segel and Ed Helms was all improvisation. Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass allowed the actors to riff for 40 minutes straight before calling ‘cut’.

May 11 – Outpost: Black Sun (UK)

• Cast: Catherine Steadman, Richard Coyle, Clive Russell, Daniel Caltagirone, Gary Abbot, Ali Craig, Nick Nevern, Johnny Meres, Julian Wadham, Michael Byrne, Martin Bell, David Gant
• Director: Steve Barker
• Distributor: ContentFilm
• Trivia: Also known as Outpost 2. A third film in the series is titled Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz.

May 15 – The Man with the Jazz Guitar (UK, documentary)

• Cast: Ken Sykora, Martin Taylor, Jimmie Macgregor, Andy Park
• Director: Marc Mason
• Production Company: Five Feet Films
• Trivia: The film was screened in the US at the Tucson Film & Music Festival on October 13, 2013.

Paramount Pictures

May 16 – The Dictator (USA)

• Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Mantzoukas, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Bobby Lee, Sayed Badreya, Adeel Akhtar, Fred Armisen, Adam LeFevre, Megan Fox, Busty Heart, Chris Elliott, Chris Parnell, Aasif Mandvi, Rizwan Manji, Horatio Sanz, Fred Melamed, Joey Slotnick, Jessica St. Clair, Kathryn Hahn, Anna Katarina, Kevin Corrigan, J.B. Smoove, Sondra James, Jon Glaser, Nasim Pedrad, Mitchell Green, Jenny Saldana, David El-Badawi
• Director: Larry Charles
• Production Company: Four By Two Films, distributed by Paramount Pictures
• Trivia: The film also opened in Canada, the UK and many other foreign markets on May 16. John C. Reilly, Edward Norton and Garry Shandling appear in uncredited roles. The unrated cut of The Dictator runs an additional fifteen minutes from the original 83-minute theatrical version. The mock-Arabic language that Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Nadal (Jason Mantzoukas) speak on the helicopter tour is in fact Hebrew. This was the final live-action appearance of Garry Shandling.

May 17 – Careless Love (Australia)

• Cast: Nammi Le, Penny McNamee, Ivy Mak, David Field, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Yukata Izumihara, John Duigan, Jeff Truman, Peter O’Brien
• Director: John Duigan
• Production Company: Luminous Pictures, Spirited Films, distributed by Antidote Films
• Trivia: The film was released in New Zealand on September 27, 2012.

May 17 – Rust and Bone (Belgium)

• Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Corinne Masiero, Céline Sallette, Bouli Lanners, Mourad Frarema, Jean-Michel Correia, Yannick Choirat
• Director: Jacques Audiard
• Production Company: Why Not Productions, CanalPlus, CinéPlus, France Télévisions, distributed by UGC Distribution, Lumière, StudioCanal
• Trivia: Based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection Rust and Bone. The film was screened at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2012 and at TIFF on September 6. The film was released in the UK on November 2, and received a limited US release on November 23. It opened in Canada on December 21. The film received Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress – Drama for Marion Cotillard. Director Jacques Audiard stated that Marion Cotillard was his first and only choice to play Stéphanie. Cotillard was shooting the film in France and The Dark Knight Rises in the US at the same time.