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11 articles from 2009
.Toronto is like going to the war with a fork. - Adrian Biniez
11 September 2009 1:24 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
In Adrián Biniez.s .Gigante,. security guard Jara falls in love as he supervises staff through the closed-circuit cameras at a supermarket. First voyeur, then guardian angel, he protects and pursues the cleaning woman who has unknowingly captured his heart. The film screens as part of Toronto.s Discovery section. indieWIRE contacted the film.s director to discuss her career and the film. We gave Biniez and others a free-form style interview to gather their thoughts on their individual projects.You.We finished this film in Amsterdam 24 hours before the first screening in Berlin. It was a nightmare; zero degrees, infernal cold and I was so nervous ... I lost my voice.Your Filmmaking Career and Process.I started with music, I continued with scripts, then the shorts and now here we are..Gigante....Having a film at the Festival is like a ghost in a town because three hundred movies »
Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview
14 July 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Divas and Lions and Moons, Oh My!
By Alex Simon
The Noveulle Vague, or “French New Wave” was launched by a group of film critics and cinefiles who began France’s legendary Cahiers du Cinéma magazine in the 1950s. With Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in 1959, the movement was launched, emphasizing behavior over aesthetics, content over form, and pastiche of other film genres (particularly those born in the U.S., with a healthy dollop of Italian neorealism) over the more traditional narratives of French films from years past. Francois Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda (see our interview with her below) Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette all fell under the spell of magazine co-founder and theorist Andre Bazin, laying the groundwork for a series of articles, monographs and critiques that formed the so-called “auteur theory,” (or more specifically “"La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
DVD Reviews: Claud Chabrol’s A Judgement in Stone and The Color of Lies
25 June 2009 11:57 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
One of the father figures of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol, like François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, took film criticism to new heights through Cahiers du Cinema before turning filmmaker. Influenced greatly by Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, Chabrol has been a prolific filmmaker, and also probably the first among the French New Wave directors to achieve commercial success. Now 79, Chabrol's latest film "Bellamy", his first collaboration with actor Gerard Depardieu, has been released recently. A master who has been traversing from one genre to another effortlessly, Chabrol's films have been marked by explorations of the human psyche... »
- Utpal Borpujari
Claude Chabrol Takes The Girl Cut In Two
1 June 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
The Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupée en deux) is a French comedy directed by Claude Chabrol, starring actors Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand and Benoît Magimel. The film revolves around two men who vie for the love of single, local TV weather girl 'Gabrielle Deneige'. Chabrol is noted as a core member of the 'French New Wave' group of filmmakers who first came to prominence in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Like French directors Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol also worked as a critic for film magazine Cahiers du Cinema before pursuing a career in movies. Often characterized as the most 'mainstream' of the New Wave directors, Chabrol at the age of 78, with The Girl Cut In Two, remains a prolific film-making auteur at the height of his 50-year career... »
Minority View: The Green Ray by Eric Rohmer
21 May 2009 12:30 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Eric Rohmer is, apart from Jacques Rivette, the only filmmaker from the French New Wave whose films have remained true to the filmmaker's original vision. Rohmer's films are distinguished by their ‘smallness' and their disinclination to depart from the one subject that concerns the filmmaker - the relationship between people, especially between young men and women. Rohmer's films are always ‘light' in as much as he does not claim to have great truths to offer either about the world or about the human soul but his efforts are always dazzling and his delineation of social behavior inevitably precise... »
- M. K. Raghavendra
Movie Review: Shall We Kiss?
2 April 2009 7:38 PM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Apr 02, 2009 Emmanuel Mouret's Shall We Kiss? has earned accurate comparisons to the work of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer, particularly thanks to the way its creator is so clearly in love with the way men and women use words in the silly dance of love. It's a relatively delightful, if sometimes forced, examination of the fine line between friendship and romance and the collateral damage caused by crossing it. Like in some of Allen's comedies, the witty banter can sometimes seems overly mannered and a bit too smart for its own good, but there's a ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Shall We Kiss - Movie Review
29 March 2009 8:31 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A tenderhearted romantic comedy with a great plot twist that doesn.t shy away from the sharp edge of love Relative newcomer writer/director/lead Emmanuel Mouret has come up with a sweet and simple story in the romantic comedy .Shall We Kiss.. Said to be a combination of cautionary talester Eric Rohmer and critical romanticist Woody Allen Mouret uses a flashback combination of two romantic stories to describe how even a single kiss can have unintended consequences. Ok, actually the consequences of the kisses in this film are very much intended. The actors are as sexy as French actors can be and there is a marvelous screen chemistry that vibrates right off the screen. The story begins with visiting textile »
- Ron Wilkinson
An Embracing Romantic Farce
26 March 2009 10:14 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
I don't know a lot about French director-writer Emma nuel Mouret, but judging by his romantic farce "Shall We Kiss?" I'm willing to bet that he's seen a lot of films by New Wave titan Eric Rohmer ("Pauline at the Beach," "Claire's Knee," etc.).
As in Rohmer's cerebral love stories, "Shall We Kiss?" contains talk, talk, talk (usually about sex) by attractive, upwardly mobile young people -- with an emphasis on les femmes -- lensed in a no-frills matter.
The story opens in Nantes, where a guy (Michael Cohen) picks up a »
- By V.A. MUSETTO
SXSW Review: For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
20 March 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
(Full disclosure: current Cinematical Managing Editor Scott Weinberg and Cinematical co-founder Karina Longworth, now editor of Spout.com, make brief appearances in this film.)
Some documentaries demand to be seen on the big screen; others are best discovered while channel surfing. Gerald Peary's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism falls into the latter category.
On the film's official site, Peary declares his doc to be "an unapologetic defense of a profession under siege." It's filled with talking head interviews with critics whose bylines are more familiar than their faces: A.O. Scott, J. Hoberman, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Owen Gleiberman, Kenneth Turan, and many others. It's a treat to see the best-known film critic on the planet, Roger Ebert, give a never-before-seen interview. The sound bites are distinctive, the insider's perspective is refreshing, the historical overview is welcome, and the overall impression is positive.
Here's the »
- Peter Martin
DVDs and screeners received: ‘Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember,’ ‘Holly,’ more
26 January 2009 12:11 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
DVDs you can buy: Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember. Collection of three telefilms written by the legendary Dennis Potter: Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof, and Cream in My Coffee. [available February 10; Region 1; available in Region 2 under the name Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television] The Romance of Astrea and Celadon. A new romantic fantasy from Eric Rohmer, nominee for the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion. [available February 10; Region 1; available now in Region 2] Iowa. Drama set among the Midwestern crystal meth epidemic, starring Rosanna Arquette, John Savage, and Michael T. Weiss. [available February 10; Region 1] »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Rob's Favorite Films of 2008
1 January 2009 9:37 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Making a list of ten favorite films as the new year comes into view is a time-honored tradition for a film critic, and it lays your taste on the line for posterity and eventual ridicule. I'm told this builds character. But if you've seen hundreds of films in a calendar year, ten slots feels paltry, so in the spirit of the forthcoming awards season I offer my official list of favorite films, a few brief remarks, and then a batch of categories that try to make sense of the pile of remainders.
My ten favorite films that were released theatrically in the U.S. (somewhere) in 2008:
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou-hsiao Hsien) The Secret of the Grain (Abdel Kechiche) Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke) In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín) Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz »
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11 articles from 2009
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