News 1998-2001

Julie Delpy sings on French TV

December 2001: Julie Delpy performs as a singer on the French TV channel france3 - with her own song! (Thanks to Valérie and Lydie for this info :-) Check out this clip (RealPlayer) >> If anybody has a sound-/videorecording or can provide her international fans with more info on this event, please contact the editor

Interview in OH LA!

December 2001: Interview with Julie Delpy in the magazine OH LA! (in french) Read more >>

Villa des Roses to be released in February

November 2001: "Villa des Roses" - to be released on February 27th, 2002. More information and exclusive pictures here >>

Blue, White and Red available on DVD

October 2001: Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colours" trilogy ("Blue", "White" and "Red") - available on DVD (region 2) from October 29th! The trilogy comes on three separate discs and each features some excellent additional material. All of the titles have been remastered, featuring anamorphic widescreen video and 5.1 Dolby Digital French audio with English subtitles. Read more >>

Waking Life in theatres in October

October 2001: "Waking Life" in theatres October 19th (NY/LA). Synopsis: "Visually, "Waking Life" is nothing short of fantastic. Linklater stays true to his Indie style - jerky camera, drifting gaze, and steady head shots that allow non-actors to talk straight into the camera. He shot the film on digital video, edited it, then called on 30 animators to finish it. The characters in the film move and gesticulate like live action, but they are animated with odd color schemes and surreal lines that make them cartoony caricatures. "Waking Life" is a superb work that should be applauded for its atmospheric elements (lovely images of New York and Austin), its amusing bohemian dialogues, and its unique animation." Reviews >>

New project: Cinemagique

October 2001: New project in production: "Cinemagique". Cast: Alan Cumming, Julie Delpy, Martin Short. Director: Jerry Rees. Read more >>

Julie Delpy guest stars in E.R.

September 2001: Julie Delpy guest stars in the TV series "E.R." Links: NBC - Warner - TNT - Telepoche - alt.tv.er

First screening of Villa des Roses

July 2001: First screening of "Villa des Roses" scheduled for October 2001 in Belgium. Plot summary: Paris 1913. In the "Villa des Roses", a small boarding house, the arrival of the new maid, Louise, brings about a welcome change. The male guests try everything they can to seduce Louise, but only the charming Mr Grünewald meets with any success. Louise gives not only her heart to him but also her body. When she discovers that she is pregnant she hides it from him, for it transpires that in the meantime Grünewald has a new focus for his attentions. Villa des Roses is a bitter-sweet story about the other side of love and romance. Cast: Julie Delpy (Louise Créteur), Shaun Dingwall (Richard Grünewald), Shirley Henderson (Ella), Harriet Walter (Olive Burrell), Timothy West (Hugh Burrell) and more. Written by Christophe Dirickx, directed by Frank van Passel and based on a novel by Belgian author, Willem Elsschot. Links: Objectif-Lune - Eurimages

New documentary

July 2001: Julie Delpy is currently directing a documentary on the view of the world through ideals, "The Ideal State". Link: NY Independent Film And Video Festival/LA Festival

Looking for Jimmy screens in Hollywood

July 2001: Julie Delpy's film as a director/writer/star, "Looking for Jimmy", is screening at Sunset 5 Cinema, West Hollywood on July 19th. (Thanks to Maxine at Billy Wirth Fan Club for this info!) Read more >>

TV project with Jacqueline Bisset?

May 2001: Overheard at Ristorante Del Sogno: Actresses Jacqueline Bisset and Julie Delpy, in town for the Avignon Film Festival, discussing a possible joint TV project. Source: alt.gossip.celebrities

World premiere for Investigating Sex

May 2001: World premiere for "Investigating Sex" at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival. Source: Upcomingmovies.com

Looking for Jimmy at the Avignon/New York Film Festival

April 2001: "Looking for Jimmy", directed by Julie Delpy, screens at the 2001 Avignon/New York Film Festival - the only festival of its kind to bring together French and American independent films in a cross-cultural feast of premieres, retrospectives, seminars and parties. The festival will host over 60 events and screen over 30 films in a seven-day festival running from April 16 through April 22 at the French Institute/Alliance Française. Link: Avignonfilmfest.com

Mauvais Sang available on DVD

April 2001: "Mauvais Sang" (1986) - now available on DVD! Directed and written by Leos Carax; featuring Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy et al. Carax found a real star in the homely/handsome Denis Lavant, vulnerable and wound-up, and teamed him with the heavenly, radiant Juliette Binoche for "Mauvais Sang" (aka "Bad Blood"), a crazy crime film/romantic tragedy with a sci-fi twist. It's a "Breathless" for the 1980s in glowing colors, explosive energy, and dynamic style, a film that practically bursts out of its frame in romantic delirium and cinematic exuberance. With such cinematic joy bubbling all around, the Carax ennui turns downright cheery. Mastered from gorgeous prints with Carax's personal involvement, these are the best looking discs Fox Lorber has released to date: sharp, clean, clear, without that video haze of so many previous transfers. Source: Film.com

New project

March 2001: At the premiere party for director Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar-nominated Mexican sensation "Amores Perros", Julie Delpy said not only is she obsessed with all things Spanish, she's casting for a movie she intends to direct after the strike called "Tell Me", which she describes as "film noir with an edge". Young Amores Perros star Gael García Bernal ("he's amazing") charts at the top of her wish list. Source: E! Online

Fan Club

March 2001: New Julie Delpy Fan Club at Yahoo Groups. Click here to join >>

First screening of Beginner's Luck in London

March 2001: First screening of "Beginner's Luck" in London. Cast: James Callis, Steven Berkoff, Julie Delpy. The film is about a troupe of actors who form a little theatre group and chase success with a tour that eventually leads them to Paris. Based on a true story which happened about 10 years ago. (Thanks to Rikkie at James Callis Unofficial Website for this info!)

MacArthur Park at the Sundance Film Festival

December 2000: "MacArthur Park" presented at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition). Cast: Balthazar Getty, Julie Delpy, Rachel Hunter, Lori Petty, Sticky Fingaz, Tom Byrd, Keno K. Deary, Louis "B Real" Fresse, Stephen Perkins, Cynda Williams. This ensemble drama tells the stories of drug users and pushers who frequent Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. Release date: To be announced (2001/2002). Source: Upcomingmovies.com

World premiere for Waking Life

November 2000: World premiere for "Waking Life" at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Nicky Katt, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Peter Atheron, Steve Brudniak, John Christensen, Charles Gunning, Louis Mackey, Steven Prince, Ken Webster. This film features "rotoscoping" animation that takes live-action digital footage of the actors etc, and animates cartoon-like versions of the footage. Each character is handled by a different artist, so the film has a wild, dreamlike quality. Release date: To be announced (2001/2002). Source: Upcomingmovies.com

World premiere for Looking for Jimmy

October 2000: World premiere for "Looking for Jimmy". Cast: Emily Wagner, Julie Delpy, Billy Wirth, Bruce Ramsay, Freddy Sauvignon, Andrew Wagner. Director: Julie Delpy. "Looking for Jimmy" is an improvisational film, shot on digital video over a period of 24 hours, with the camera stopping only to reload. Best friends Al (Julie Delpy) and V (Emily Wagner) find themselves on an elaborate journey throughout Los Angeles in search of Al's boyfriend, and in the process wind up finding out more about each other, their friendship and themselves than they were preprared for. AFI Festival

Investigating Sex

May 2000: New project in pre-production: "Investigating Sex". Cast: Nick Nolte, Neve Campbell, Jeremy Davies, Julie Delpy, Terrence Dashon Howard, Dermot Mulroney, Til Schweiger, Robin Tunney, Tuesday Weld. Director and screenwriter: Alan Rudolph. Plot outline: A group of men and two female stenographers scientifically study sex. Production started in Berlin on May 16th and wrapped in late June. Release date: To be announced (2001). Source: Upcomingmovies.com

Brigitte Bardot Collection

April 2000: "Brigitte Bardot Collection" available on VHS and DVD. Included is a documentary retrospective of Bardot's career, "Brigitte Bardot...Take One" (65 minutes), narrated in English by Julie Delpy. Link: Videoflicks.com

Waking Life

March 2000: Neither would we have pegged Richard Linklater ("Dazed and Confused") as a 'toonsmith. Linklater shot "Waking Life", an ensemble drama starring Julie Delpy ("Before Sunrise"), Adam Goldberg ("Saving Private Ryan", "Dazed and Confused"), and Timothy "Speed" Levitch ("The Cruise"), in less than a month last fall, but audiences won't be seeing any of these actors on screen. The director is now spending six months in postproduction turning "Life", which he describes as "a series of encounters between all kinds of people in a whole nonrational world", into an animated feature. "We're melding the computer world and the animation world", says Linklater of the process, which, like rotoscoping, requires artists to trace the live-action characters and "paint" each scene by hand on a computer screen. On becoming a cartoon, the already cartoonish Levitch says, "It was really cool. It's like a freewheeling graffiti artist drawing over the reality you and I see". Linklater hopes to find a distributor for the film on the festival circuit this summer. "It's definitely something you haven't seen before", says the director, "but that doesn't mean it's good"... Source: Entertainment Weekly Online

MacArthur Park

February 2000: Julie Delpy takes a walk in MacArthur Park. The French actress will costar in the ensemble urban drama about a family man who succumbs to drug addiction, abandons his family and begins a new life in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. She'll join Lori Petty, Cynda Williams and Sticky Fingaz ("Next Friday"). The pic starts shooting later this year. Source: E! Online

Tell Me

October 1999: French actress Julie Delpy will make her directing debut with the $4.5 million film "Tell Me", one of a slate of new pictures being developed by producer Donald Ranvaud ("Farewell My Concubine", "Central Station"). Delpy will also star alongside Michael Rapaport, Adam Goldberg and Giovanni Ribisi in the modern-day reworking of "1001 Nights", in which a young woman tells dark, disturbing stories in an effort to keep a would-be rapist at bay. The film is one of five new projects that Ranvaud is ramping up after his most recent endeavor, director Walter Salles' Oscar-nominated "Central Station", on which he was one of the executive producers. Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Passion of Ayn Rand

July 1999: Julie Delpy's performance as Barbara Branden is powerful; Delpy is a superb actress... Source: Liberty

Voices for Peace

June 1999: Julie Delpy reads Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Michael Gorbachev, Joseph Rotblat and Frederik de Klerk on the CD "Voices for Peace"... Source: Amazon.de

Julie Delpy models for H&M

August 1998: Als "Amateur"-Model tritt für H&M auch die Schauspielerin Julie Delpy auf. "Julie strahlt Schönheit, Vitalität und Sinnlichkeit aus und bringt damit die idealen Voraussetzungen für die Präsentation von Trends für junge Frauen mit"... Source: Hamburger Morgenpost

The Passion of Ayn Rand

February 1998: Julie Delpy is truly beautiful, a rare mixture of delicacy and strength. Months ago, when the producers and I were discussing casting, they asked whom I'd like to portray me. I said, "I don't know most of today's young actresses, so I can't choose - so long as she's breathtakingly beautiful!" I got my wish. (Barbara Branden in a letter to her good friend, philosopher John Hospers, describing her experiences on the set as "The Passion of Ayn Rand" was being filmed.) Source: BarbaraBranden.com

An American Werewolf in Paris

1998: French actress Julie Delpy pulls no punches as to her feelings about her latest movie, "An American Werewolf in Paris", not to mention Hollywood. Paul Fischer sat down with Delpy on the set of her latest movie, "Los Angeles Without a Map", for this candid interview... Source: Urban Cinefile