Poor Louis J. Gasnier! Doomed to be remembered for a single late work, Reefer Madness, a.k.a. Tell Your Children (1936), the worst film he or maybe anyone else ever made. It's a piece of staggering incoherence and incompetence which can take a simple scene and put it through a kind of fractal mirror-maze of bad cutting and coverage so as to render you constantly uncertain how many people are in a room and which way any of them are facing.
It was not always thus. Gasnier began directing in France around 1905, worked with the great Max Linder, and was a perfectly serviceable craftsman by the standards of the day. By 1925 he was in Hollywood and working at a high level in the industry, directing Clara Bow in Parisian Love, a tale of "Apaches" (French street roughs) and the upper classes, and a forbidden love affair that crosses these class boundaries.
It was not always thus. Gasnier began directing in France around 1905, worked with the great Max Linder, and was a perfectly serviceable craftsman by the standards of the day. By 1925 he was in Hollywood and working at a high level in the industry, directing Clara Bow in Parisian Love, a tale of "Apaches" (French street roughs) and the upper classes, and a forbidden love affair that crosses these class boundaries.
- 2/6/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
The 2009 Newport International Film Festival, which runs from June 3-7 in Newport, R.I., will open with Armando Iannuci's political satire "In the Loop" and present as its closing night film Pierre Marcel's "Tabarly," a documentary about yachtsman Eric Tabarly.
The five-day fest, under the new leadership of executive director Jennifer Maizel, artistic director Tom Hall and programmers Holly Herrick and Andrea van Beuren, will screen more than 90 U.S. and international features, documentaries and short films.
The narrative film lineup encompasses "(500) Days of Summer," "35 Shots of Rum," "Adam," "Bronson," "Children of Invention," "Entre Nos," "Humpday," "Kisses," "Moon," "Natural Causes," "Paris," "Quiet Chaos," "Still Walking," "That Evening Sun," "The Burning Plain" and "White on Rice."
In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, the fest also will offer a selection of films, "Archival Gotham: NYC on Film," from MoMA's annual exhibition "To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.
The five-day fest, under the new leadership of executive director Jennifer Maizel, artistic director Tom Hall and programmers Holly Herrick and Andrea van Beuren, will screen more than 90 U.S. and international features, documentaries and short films.
The narrative film lineup encompasses "(500) Days of Summer," "35 Shots of Rum," "Adam," "Bronson," "Children of Invention," "Entre Nos," "Humpday," "Kisses," "Moon," "Natural Causes," "Paris," "Quiet Chaos," "Still Walking," "That Evening Sun," "The Burning Plain" and "White on Rice."
In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, the fest also will offer a selection of films, "Archival Gotham: NYC on Film," from MoMA's annual exhibition "To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.
- 5/26/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A day following the announcement of the 81st Academy Awards' nominees, the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have uncovered their official selections for the 34th Cesar Awards. On Friday, January 23, gangster movie "Mesrine" has been given ten nominations for the France's top awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Jean-Francois Richet.
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray...
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray...
- 1/24/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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