Tar will be premiered today at Rome International Film Festival and we have 2 new production stills of the movie with Mila’s character Catherine. Take a look!

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Tar > Production Stills

Program list for 2012 Rome International Film Festival has been released. World premiere of Tar, starring Mila Kunis, James Franco, Jessica Chastain is scheduled for November 16 at 10PM (Rome time). That means 9PM in the UK, 4PM EST/ 1PM PST in the USA.

Attendance of James Franco is confirmed but no more words about Mila or the rest of the cast yet!

We already know Tar is the collection of poems by C.K. Williams. The last poem of the collection called “One of the Muses”, is starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, and Henry Hopper (runtime: 11 mins).

One of the Muses is a lyrical piece recounting the tumultous night of CK in his forties (James Franco). The study room becomes “the house of shadows” as C.K. prepares a lecture the following day and experiences a writer’s block. He slowly plunges into his dark memories and early relationships as a twenty-year old (Henry Hopper), a cathartic experience that strengthens his present day with his wife (Mila Kunis).

Late at night, CK lies in bed and contemplates the shadows that decorate the bedroom walls. A shadow of a woman on the wall brings him back to his first love Sarah from their first seduction to their first silence in bed. A memory that has been warped over time, CK remembers.

TAR will be premiered at the Rome Film Festival this November as a part of the CineMAXXI section.

Rome Film Festival is one of the most important film festivals in the world, with huge media coverage and world-famous artists on attendance. RFF will take place from November 9 – 17, 2012.

Shooting of Third Person is also scheduled for November in Italy (Rome) and that means we actually could see Mila attending.

Who else but James Franco would cobble together his ongoing higher education, books of poetry, NYU graduate students, independent financing and fellow A-list actors to create not one, but two new feature films?

That’s just what the multihyphenate has done with “Tar” and “Black Dog, Red Dog,” two standalone narrative pics based on separate collections of poetry that were adapted by students in Franco’s filmmaking class. Each student directed a short based on an individual poem; their entries were later woven into a cohesive, feature-length narrative.

“Tar,” based on the 1983 book of poems by Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams, has been fully financed by Victorino Noval and Franco’s Rabbit Bandini Productions. Ten NYU student directors helmed segments along with Franco, who also stars as Williams. Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain also took roles.

“I went out to people that I knew, or who I thought would be open to this kind of thing,” Franco told Variety. “They all told me that they were so happy they did it … the students are still at a place where they’re pure, and they’re not jaded.”

Franco, who selected the 10 directors via a competition at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Noval plan to take “Tar” to festivals in search of distribution, and will use any proceeds to fund future student endeavors. Producers include Miles Levy, Vince Jolivette and Edward Bass; Noval serves as an exec producer.

Jolivett said “Tar” has wrapped and could preem as soon as the Toronto Film Fest, while “Black Dog” was still being edited.

IMDB just added page for Tar into the database. As we expected Tar will be a drama about the life of C.K. Williams‘ over the course of 40 years. The cast seems really interesting, contains James Franco as C.K. Williams, Mila Kunis as his wife Catherine, Michelle Williams, Jessica Chastain, Vince Jolivette, Bruce Campbell and so much more.

According a real biography of C.K. Williams, he met his present wife, Catherine Mauger, a jeweller of French descent, in 1973, and they have a son who is now a noted painter.

Release date is scheduled for a next year, 2012. We will bring more info soon

Popular international club DJ John “Jammin’” Collins always dreamed of sitting in on a film set, but never thought it would be in his own home. For eight days in November, a 50-person New York film crew scurried around John’s slickly designed digs inside an historic luxury apartment building in Detroit’s West Village owned by Jason and Dara Hill .

The movie — working title “Tar”— is an independent film about the life of poet C.K. Williams . Starring James Franco (who’s conveniently also filming “Oz” in Detroit) and Mila Kunis (“Black Swan”), the movie is expected to make its film festival debut next summer. For “Tar,” the crew turned John’s apartment into a 1950s era, German-style pad, using different furniture, paint, rugs, wallpaper and accessories

“Hey guys! I have a lot of news! I just came back from Detroit because I was shooting a new film called “Tar” with James Franco, Mila Kunis, Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Campbell, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Williams, and many more! (I bet you can image how excited I was)”

Thanks to Vince Jolivette for releasing this video on the set of Tar with Mila and James Franco. Seems like this is an exclusive new project for her. “Tar” is a short film project of James Franco and his class, inspired by a different C.K. Williams poem about “decay, but also a sense of memory and rejuvenation.”

In November, the class traveled to Detroit, a place where memory and attempts at rejuvenation abound, to shoot the movie. James compared the film to the multidirector mash-ups “New York, I Love You” and its predecessor, “Paris, Je T’aime.”

Unfortunately there is no more info about the movie right now. Just stay tuned and we will keep you informed!

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Tar > On the Set of Tar in Detroit (November 2011) – SCREENCAPTURES