Indie icon Kim Gordon, whose excellent solo album “The Collective” dropped last week, is this month’s featured film curator for Galerie, the new online film club launched by Indian Paintbrush. Below, Gordon shares a deeply personal curation of eight films that influence and reflect audio, visual art, and personal style. While best known as a musician and cofounding member of Sonic Youth, Gordon’s art has long stretched into multiple other disciplines, with film being just one.
“Morvern Callar,” dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2002
I love the way Lynne Ramsay uses sound dynamics. In this movie the music is like another character. The mixtape that her dead boyfriend made and left for her (saying “Keep the music to yourself”) becomes a thread throughout the film. He is the music — it not only keeps him alive for her but replaces him.
“Clouds of Sils Maria,” dir. Olivier Assayas, 2014
The relationship in this...
“Morvern Callar,” dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2002
I love the way Lynne Ramsay uses sound dynamics. In this movie the music is like another character. The mixtape that her dead boyfriend made and left for her (saying “Keep the music to yourself”) becomes a thread throughout the film. He is the music — it not only keeps him alive for her but replaces him.
“Clouds of Sils Maria,” dir. Olivier Assayas, 2014
The relationship in this...
- 3/13/2024
- by Kim Gordon
- Variety Film + TV
Last Summer... (Catherine Breillat).There’s nothing quite like the rush of a bolt-from-the-blue discovery—the real-time realization, while in a darkened theater, that one is witnessing the emergence of a major cinematic voice. The closest this year’s Cannes came to offering such an experience was with the premiere of Pham Thien An’s Directors’ Fortnight selection Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, a deserving recipient of this year’s Caméra d’Or. Immediately notable for its expansive 182-minute runtime, the film, Pham’s first, comprises numerous extremely long takes which call to mind the sequence shots of Shinji Sōmai, with complex choreography that does not conceal the artificiality (and occasional strain) of their production, and which are ultimately less concerned with Bazinian realism than with creating an indiscernibility between the real and the imaginary. Until its title card drops over half-an-hour in, Yellow Cocoon Shell impresses not just for its technical prowess,...
- 6/1/2023
- MUBI
French director Catherine Breillat has been breaking taboos throughout her career and her new Cannes Palme d’Or contender Last Summer is no exception.
The erotic thriller stars Lea Drucker as Anne, a family lawyer specializing in child protection, who embarks on a forbidden affair with her dissolute 17-year-old stepson Theo (Samuel Kircher), with devastating consequences. Read Stephanie Bunbury’s review for Deadline here.
The film has been warmly received in Cannes where it world premiered to a long standing ovation on Thursday evening.
Breillat addressed the provocative plotline in the press conference for the film on Friday, saying the initial relationship between Anne and Theo was “pure love”.
“I think that when they fall in love it’s unconscious, there’s a kind of happiness, a sort of intoxication that takes over. They’re not analyzing what’s going on. That’s why she is not a predator, it’s something else,...
The erotic thriller stars Lea Drucker as Anne, a family lawyer specializing in child protection, who embarks on a forbidden affair with her dissolute 17-year-old stepson Theo (Samuel Kircher), with devastating consequences. Read Stephanie Bunbury’s review for Deadline here.
The film has been warmly received in Cannes where it world premiered to a long standing ovation on Thursday evening.
Breillat addressed the provocative plotline in the press conference for the film on Friday, saying the initial relationship between Anne and Theo was “pure love”.
“I think that when they fall in love it’s unconscious, there’s a kind of happiness, a sort of intoxication that takes over. They’re not analyzing what’s going on. That’s why she is not a predator, it’s something else,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
New films from Wes Anderson, Jessica Hausner, Nanni Moretti, Catherine Breillat, Todd Haynes, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders have all been selected for the 2023 Cannes competition.
The Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) has unveiled its 2023 official selection already buzzing with the return of veteran auteurs In Competition including Todd Haynes, Jessica Hausner, Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Catherine Breillat, Wes Anderson, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
They join the previously announced Martin Scorsese, whose Killers Of The Flower Moon was announced for Out of Competition but who still could end up in Competition, it was suggested at today’s press conference.
The Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) has unveiled its 2023 official selection already buzzing with the return of veteran auteurs In Competition including Todd Haynes, Jessica Hausner, Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Catherine Breillat, Wes Anderson, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
They join the previously announced Martin Scorsese, whose Killers Of The Flower Moon was announced for Out of Competition but who still could end up in Competition, it was suggested at today’s press conference.
- 4/13/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
SportsThe 47th Tamil Nadu State Shooting Championship, held in Trichy this year, began on July 24 and is scheduled to go on until Sunday, July 31. IANSCredit: Twitter/ Jonathan SelvarajPopular actor Ajith Kumar has so far won a total of four gold and two bronze medals at the 47th Tamil Nadu State Shooting Championship that is being held in Trichy. Ajith has won gold medals in four team events including the Cfp Master Men team event, the Std P Master Men team event and the 50 metres Fp Master Men team event. The Championship, which began on July 24, is scheduled to go on until Sunday, July 31. Pictures and video clips of the actor shooting at the Trichy Rifle Club have been shared widely on social media and went viral on Wednesday, July 27. Ajith regularly participates in shooting events, and last year, the actor had won six gold medals at the shooting championship which was held in Chennai.
- 7/31/2022
- by AditiKumar
- The News Minute
What better way to kick off a new month than a look at the many movies coming to Hulu? Ok, if you don’t have a Hulu subscription you might need an alternative. Maybe this list will convince you to take one out, though (not that I’m there salesperson). But enough patter, let’s crack on with it.
Here’s every new film that arrived on July 1st:
12 and Holding (2006)
2001 Maniacs (2005)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2009)
A Kid Like Jake (2018)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
A Storks Journey (2017)
An Eye for a Eye (1966)
The Axe Murders of Villisca (2017)
The Bellboy (1960)
Beloved (2012)
Best In Show (2000)
Between Us (2017)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Birdwatchers (2010)
Boogie Woogie (2010)
The Bounty (1984)
Brokedown Palace (1998)
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Bug (1975)
Buried (2010)
Cadaver (2009)
California Dreamin’ (2009)
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
Catcher Was A Spy (2018)
The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
Change of Plans (2010)
Cheech & Chong...
Here’s every new film that arrived on July 1st:
12 and Holding (2006)
2001 Maniacs (2005)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2009)
A Kid Like Jake (2018)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
A Storks Journey (2017)
An Eye for a Eye (1966)
The Axe Murders of Villisca (2017)
The Bellboy (1960)
Beloved (2012)
Best In Show (2000)
Between Us (2017)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Birdwatchers (2010)
Boogie Woogie (2010)
The Bounty (1984)
Brokedown Palace (1998)
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Bug (1975)
Buried (2010)
Cadaver (2009)
California Dreamin’ (2009)
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
Catcher Was A Spy (2018)
The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
Change of Plans (2010)
Cheech & Chong...
- 7/1/2020
- by Alex Crisp
- We Got This Covered
Hulu is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in July.
Highlights include season three of “90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days” and season one of “90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Complete Season 1,” as well as some classic movies like “The Color Purple” and “Best in Show,” all coming July 1.
A new Hulu original movie “Palm Springs” drops on July 10, and a new episode of “Into the Dark” called “The Current Occupant” premieres July 17.
Movies leaving Hulu on July 31 include “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight,” “Thelma & Louise” and “Wayne’s World.”
See the full list of everything new and leaving the streamer below.
Also Read: ABC Already Changes Fall TV Schedule, Moves 'Black-ish' Up From Midseason
July 1
1000-lb Sisters: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days: Complete Season 3 (TLC)
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
BBQ Rig Race: Complete Season...
Highlights include season three of “90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days” and season one of “90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Complete Season 1,” as well as some classic movies like “The Color Purple” and “Best in Show,” all coming July 1.
A new Hulu original movie “Palm Springs” drops on July 10, and a new episode of “Into the Dark” called “The Current Occupant” premieres July 17.
Movies leaving Hulu on July 31 include “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight,” “Thelma & Louise” and “Wayne’s World.”
See the full list of everything new and leaving the streamer below.
Also Read: ABC Already Changes Fall TV Schedule, Moves 'Black-ish' Up From Midseason
July 1
1000-lb Sisters: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days: Complete Season 3 (TLC)
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
BBQ Rig Race: Complete Season...
- 6/18/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Never a stranger to controversy, “Fat Girl” director Catherine Breillat made some provocative remarks during a recent Variety interview in the lead-up to her new role as Locarno Film Festival jury chief. The interview runs the gamut of topics, with Breillat touching on everything from Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche to disgraced #MeToo crusader Asia Argento, with whom Breillat worked on 2007’s “The Last Mistress.”
Breillat said she feels that Kechiche, whose 2019 Cannes film “Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo” appalled audiences with its graphic and some say misogynistic depictions of sex and nudity, overdid it with the sex scenes in 2013’s Nc-17-rated lesbian romance “Blue Is the Warmest Color.”
“Well, I do think Kechiche spent way too long shooting that sex scene. He shot it over two weeks, whereas I would have done it in a day,” Breillait said. “You can’t put actresses in that position for 15 days. I’ve...
Breillat said she feels that Kechiche, whose 2019 Cannes film “Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo” appalled audiences with its graphic and some say misogynistic depictions of sex and nudity, overdid it with the sex scenes in 2013’s Nc-17-rated lesbian romance “Blue Is the Warmest Color.”
“Well, I do think Kechiche spent way too long shooting that sex scene. He shot it over two weeks, whereas I would have done it in a day,” Breillait said. “You can’t put actresses in that position for 15 days. I’ve...
- 8/9/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Actress Asia Argento struck back at Catherine Breillat after the French director called her a “mercenary and a traitor,” and attacked the #MeToo movement. In a series of tweets, Argento said Breillat abused her during filming of the 2007 film “The Last Mistress,” and said she was “a sadistic and downright evil director.” The sharp exchange started when Breillat spoke openly about her thoughts on #MeToo during an appearance on the podcast “Murmur.” The episode has been taken down, but according to IndieWire, Breillat said that the downfall of Harvey Weinstein over sexual assault allegations was a “loss” for European...
- 3/31/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Actress Asia Argento, one of the many women to call out Harvey Weinstein for alleged sexual harassment, has hit back hard at some stinging words from French director Catherine Breillat, with whom she collaborated on 2007 drama The Last Mistress.
After the Fat Girl and Bluebeard filmmaker called Argento a “traitor” and a “mercenary” and accused her of “semi-prostitution” during a stunningly frank recent podcast appearance, the xXx star this morning roared back with some choice words of her own calling the auteur filmmaker “the most sadistic and downright evil director I’ve ever worked with.”
During the explosive appearance on the Murmur podcast, which seems to have been taken down this morning but was caught yesterday by Indiewire, Breillat discussed a range of topics from Weinstein (whose downfall she said was a “loss” for European cinema) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”), Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized...
After the Fat Girl and Bluebeard filmmaker called Argento a “traitor” and a “mercenary” and accused her of “semi-prostitution” during a stunningly frank recent podcast appearance, the xXx star this morning roared back with some choice words of her own calling the auteur filmmaker “the most sadistic and downright evil director I’ve ever worked with.”
During the explosive appearance on the Murmur podcast, which seems to have been taken down this morning but was caught yesterday by Indiewire, Breillat discussed a range of topics from Weinstein (whose downfall she said was a “loss” for European cinema) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”), Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized...
- 3/30/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, March 30: The Murmur Podcast has since pulled the episode featuring Breillat.
Like several other luminaries of French cinema, Catherine Breillat has a complicated, even negative view of the #MeToo movement. The “Fat Girl,” “Abuse of Weakness,” and “Bluebeard” filmmaker recently appeared on the Murmur podcast to discuss everything from Harvey Weinstein (whose downfall is a “loss” for European cinema) and Asia Argento (“a mercenary and a traitor”) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”) and Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized “Last Tango in Paris”). It’s a compelling, increasingly out-there listen.
“Despite everything, I think that Europeans have lost a lot with the loss of Harvey Weinstein,” Breillat says of the disgraced former mogul. “You have to remember that there are French producers who we haven’t denounced — I won’t mention them; I won’t mention names, although I know three who are extremely respected...
Like several other luminaries of French cinema, Catherine Breillat has a complicated, even negative view of the #MeToo movement. The “Fat Girl,” “Abuse of Weakness,” and “Bluebeard” filmmaker recently appeared on the Murmur podcast to discuss everything from Harvey Weinstein (whose downfall is a “loss” for European cinema) and Asia Argento (“a mercenary and a traitor”) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”) and Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized “Last Tango in Paris”). It’s a compelling, increasingly out-there listen.
“Despite everything, I think that Europeans have lost a lot with the loss of Harvey Weinstein,” Breillat says of the disgraced former mogul. “You have to remember that there are French producers who we haven’t denounced — I won’t mention them; I won’t mention names, although I know three who are extremely respected...
- 3/29/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Mubi's retrospective, Catherine Breillat, Auteur of Porn?, is showing April 4 - June 3, 2017 in Germany.Sex Is ComedyThroughout her career, Catherine Breillat has provided viewers with a long-form meta-cinema experience. While metacinema is as old as the medium itself, since her debut feature A Real Young Girl in 1976, Breillat has developed a distinct form of it: one that collapses ‘autobiographical’ material, various artistic sensibilities, and the process of filmmaking itself.Like dozens of other English words—such as ‘aesthetic’ or ‘abject’—the word ‘meta’ has been largely misused or misapplied with regard to the film and literary criticism. Regarding the consumption of fiction, the appropriate use of the term 'metafiction,' 'metafilm,' et cetera, has its basis in the Greek meta, which does not translate directly into English but can be understood as a preposition similar to the English word ‘about’ (‘having to do with,’ or ‘on the subject of’). Metafiction is therefore,...
- 4/24/2017
- MUBI
On Mubi / Off is a bi-weekly column exploring two films: one currently available on Mubi in the United States, and the other screening offsite (in theaters, on VOD, Blu-ray/DVD, etc).On Mubi Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat, 2013)Two films, this week, about trauma to body and soul. One is clear-eyed and cutting, the other ostentatiously grim, lugubrious. Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness (Abus de faiblesse, 2013) is the work of clarity—analytic autobiography of the best sort in which the French writer-director dissects her own swindling at the wily hands of career con artist Christophe Rocancourt, who took her for a high-six-figures sum after she suffered a debilitating stroke. The names have been changed, but innocence has not been protected. Breillat's onscreen surrogate, Maud Shainberg (Isabelle Huppert, at the height of her icy powers), is an especially harsh self-portrait—a victim, yes, but one whose so-called weakness (the title...
- 12/13/2015
- by Keith Uhlich
- MUBI
On Mubi / Off is a bi-weekly column exploring two films: one currently available on Mubi in the United States, and the other screening offsite (in theaters, on VOD, Blu-ray/DVD, etc).On Mubi Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat, 2013)Two films, this week, about trauma to body and soul. One is clear-eyed and cutting, the other ostentatiously grim, lugubrious. Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness (Abus de faiblesse, 2013) is the work of clarity—analytic autobiography of the best sort in which the French writer-director dissects her own swindling at the wily hands of career con artist Christophe Rocancourt, who took her for a high-six-figures sum after she suffered a debilitating stroke. The names have been changed, but innocence has not been protected. Breillat's onscreen surrogate, Maud Shainberg (Isabelle Huppert, at the height of her icy powers), is an especially harsh self-portrait—a victim, yes, but one whose so-called weakness (the title...
- 12/9/2015
- by Keith Uhlich
- MUBI
We first told you about Horsehead (Fievre) two years ago, and it's only looking weirder now. Come on in and check out a trailer that certainly has our attention.
Fievre (or Fever in English) is an English-speaking French horror film and it's Basset's feature film directorial debut. The film is being brought to us by HorseHead Pictures. It was co-written by Basset and Karim Chériguène and stars starring legendary Catriona MacColl (Lucio Fulci's muse), Franco-Australian revelation Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, famous English singer and actor Murray Head (Say It Ain't So, One Night In Bangkok), French model and actor Fu'ad Aït Aattou (The Last Mistress) and the French horror icon Philippe Nahon (I Stand Alone, High Tension).
For more visit the official Fievre website and "like" Fievre on Facebook.
Synopsis
Jessica has never dreamed in her life but has had regular nightmares, the meanings of which have escaped her. This peculiarity...
Fievre (or Fever in English) is an English-speaking French horror film and it's Basset's feature film directorial debut. The film is being brought to us by HorseHead Pictures. It was co-written by Basset and Karim Chériguène and stars starring legendary Catriona MacColl (Lucio Fulci's muse), Franco-Australian revelation Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, famous English singer and actor Murray Head (Say It Ain't So, One Night In Bangkok), French model and actor Fu'ad Aït Aattou (The Last Mistress) and the French horror icon Philippe Nahon (I Stand Alone, High Tension).
For more visit the official Fievre website and "like" Fievre on Facebook.
Synopsis
Jessica has never dreamed in her life but has had regular nightmares, the meanings of which have escaped her. This peculiarity...
- 5/16/2014
- by Matt Serafini
- DreadCentral.com
‘La Cage aux Folles’ director Edouard Molinaro, who collaborated with Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, dead at 85 Edouard Molinaro, best known internationally for the late ’70s box office comedy hit La Cage aux Folles, which earned him a Best Director Academy Award nomination, died of lung failure on December 7, 2013, at a Paris hospital. Molinaro was 85. Born on May 31, 1928, in Bordeaux, in southwestern France, to a middle-class family, Molinaro began his six-decade-long film and television career in the mid-’40s, directing narrative and industrial shorts such as Evasion (1946), the Death parable Un monsieur très chic ("A Very Elegant Gentleman," 1948), and Le verbe en chair / The Word in the Flesh (1950), in which a poet realizes that greed is everywhere — including his own heart. At the time, Molinaro also worked as an assistant director, collaborating with, among others, Robert Vernay (the 1954 version of The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Jean Marais) and...
- 12/8/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In 2004, French director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl, The Last Mistress) suffered a massive stroke that left one side of her body paralyzed. In 2007, she met a con man that would eventually bilk her out of over 700,000 Euros. In 2009, she wrote a book about the experience. In 2012, con can Christopher Rocancourt was convicted of the crime and sent to prison. In 2013, she made a movie about it. Understanding that the story of Abuse of Weakness (or “abus de faiblesse,” a French legal term that perfectly describes the film at hand) is actually Breillat’s story isn’t essential to either the film’s power or strength, but it sure helps clarify some things (a few of which haven’t been clarified in Breillat’s own life). Isabelle Huppert stars as bawdy, whipsmart Maud, the film’s version of Breillat, who also happens to be a French director with a signature style (at one point, her...
- 10/6/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In late-2004, Catherine Breillat suffered a debilitating stroke that paralyzed the left side of her body and precipitated a five-month hospital stay. After learning to walk again, she soon returned to work, finalizing pre-production on The Last Mistress (2007). Her next project was to have been an adaption of her novel, Bad Love, starring Naomi Campbell and Christophe Rocancourt, a notorious criminal who, by the time Breillat met him, had already served five years in an American prison for defrauding his victims out of millions of dollars.
In a 2008 interview, Breillat said of Rocancourt: "He is so intelligent, so sincere, so arrogant. You have to be arrogant to achieve anything in this life. When I first saw him, I knew he would be perfect for my film." Breillat was, in fact, under the spell of Rocancourt at the time of that interview. Borrowing small sums at first, he would eventually swindle her out of nearly 700,000 euros,...
In a 2008 interview, Breillat said of Rocancourt: "He is so intelligent, so sincere, so arrogant. You have to be arrogant to achieve anything in this life. When I first saw him, I knew he would be perfect for my film." Breillat was, in fact, under the spell of Rocancourt at the time of that interview. Borrowing small sums at first, he would eventually swindle her out of nearly 700,000 euros,...
- 9/25/2013
- by Darren Hughes
- MUBI
#9. Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness
Gist: Abuse of Weakness will trace the autobiographical experience of Breillat with a notorious swindler. Isabelle Huppert stars as Maud, a film director recently paralyzed on one side, and she becomes entrenched in a destructive relationship with Vilko (rapper Kool Shen of Ntm, in his screen debut), a man she wishes to cast in her next film. (Photo credit: Photo ©: Fabrizio Maltese)
Prediction: Certainly this is one film that contains a heady mix of intriguing elements. The much publicized swindling of Breillat resulted in the fallout of the film she had been putting together. The project would have been a follow-up to her 2007 film The Last Mistress, which played in the Main Competition at Cannes. Since then, she has focused on adapting several fairy tales for the big screen. But this latest project, which unites the infamous provocateur with Huppert and Kool Shen,...
Gist: Abuse of Weakness will trace the autobiographical experience of Breillat with a notorious swindler. Isabelle Huppert stars as Maud, a film director recently paralyzed on one side, and she becomes entrenched in a destructive relationship with Vilko (rapper Kool Shen of Ntm, in his screen debut), a man she wishes to cast in her next film. (Photo credit: Photo ©: Fabrizio Maltese)
Prediction: Certainly this is one film that contains a heady mix of intriguing elements. The much publicized swindling of Breillat resulted in the fallout of the film she had been putting together. The project would have been a follow-up to her 2007 film The Last Mistress, which played in the Main Competition at Cannes. Since then, she has focused on adapting several fairy tales for the big screen. But this latest project, which unites the infamous provocateur with Huppert and Kool Shen,...
- 4/14/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Dear Roger,
I’m not going to pretend that we were close; nonetheless, you were my friend. You were generous and supportive, and I never properly expressed to you how much your generosity and support meant to me. You were the only person I’ve ever asked for advice.
When I learned that you’d died, I had just filed a review for your website. I was about to start wrapping up one for this site—a pan of Simon Killer. I no longer feel like working on that review. I don’t feel like writing about bad movies at all. I want to write about good movies and good people.
In the past 24 hours, I’ve given several interviews about your death and what it meant to work with you. The thing that I’ve tried to stress in all of them—aside from your generosity—is that good...
I’m not going to pretend that we were close; nonetheless, you were my friend. You were generous and supportive, and I never properly expressed to you how much your generosity and support meant to me. You were the only person I’ve ever asked for advice.
When I learned that you’d died, I had just filed a review for your website. I was about to start wrapping up one for this site—a pan of Simon Killer. I no longer feel like working on that review. I don’t feel like writing about bad movies at all. I want to write about good movies and good people.
In the past 24 hours, I’ve given several interviews about your death and what it meant to work with you. The thing that I’ve tried to stress in all of them—aside from your generosity—is that good...
- 4/5/2013
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- MUBI
It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a very light week this week, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, February 11th 2013.
Pick Of The Week
Sinister (DVD/Blu-ray)
Desperately in need of a best seller to revive his struggling career, true crime writer Ellison (Ethan Hawke), moves his family to the scene of his most recent story; the unsolved, gruesome murder of a loving, happy suburban family. Shunned by the local community and strained by his obligations to his family, the discovery of a batch of home movies in the attic offers Ellison shocking proof to the crime he is investigating and the terrifying realisation that his investigation may be putting his family in mortal danger.
Pick Of The Week
Sinister (DVD/Blu-ray)
Desperately in need of a best seller to revive his struggling career, true crime writer Ellison (Ethan Hawke), moves his family to the scene of his most recent story; the unsolved, gruesome murder of a loving, happy suburban family. Shunned by the local community and strained by his obligations to his family, the discovery of a batch of home movies in the attic offers Ellison shocking proof to the crime he is investigating and the terrifying realisation that his investigation may be putting his family in mortal danger.
- 2/11/2013
- by Phil
- Nerdly
We've given you the information as we've gotten it about the upcoming Roman Basset film Fievre. You can now take your first look at the movie in a teaser trailer that left us wondering what exactly we saw, and wanting to see more.
Fievre (or Fever in English) is an English-speaking French horror film and it's Basset's feature film directorial debut. The film is being brought to us by HorseHead Pictures. It was co-written by Basset and Karim Chériguène and stars starring legendary Catriona MacColl (Lucio Fulci's muse), Franco-Australian revelation Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, famous English singer and actor Murray Head (Say It Ain't So, One Night In Bangkok), French model and actor Fu'ad Aït Aattou (The Last Mistress) and the French horror icon Philippe Nahon (I Stand Alone, High Tension).
For more visit the official Fievre website and "like" Fievre on Facebook.
Synopsis
Jessica has never dreamed in her life but has had regular nightmares,...
Fievre (or Fever in English) is an English-speaking French horror film and it's Basset's feature film directorial debut. The film is being brought to us by HorseHead Pictures. It was co-written by Basset and Karim Chériguène and stars starring legendary Catriona MacColl (Lucio Fulci's muse), Franco-Australian revelation Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, famous English singer and actor Murray Head (Say It Ain't So, One Night In Bangkok), French model and actor Fu'ad Aït Aattou (The Last Mistress) and the French horror icon Philippe Nahon (I Stand Alone, High Tension).
For more visit the official Fievre website and "like" Fievre on Facebook.
Synopsis
Jessica has never dreamed in her life but has had regular nightmares,...
- 9/10/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Here's the fist teaser trailer for {Romain Basset}}'s first feature "Fievre", co-produced by Oh My Gore !. As a reminder, the casting of "Fever" is composed of: -- Catriona MacColl (Lucio Fulci's muse), -- Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux ("Platane" - French TV Show), -- Murray Head (actor - "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Singer - "Say it ain't so", "One Night in Bangkok"), -- Vernon Dobtcheff ("The Spy Who Loved Me", "The Name Of The Rose", "Indiana Jones And The Last Cruisade"), -- Emmanuel Bonami ("Djinns"), -- Fu'ad Ait Aattou ("The Last Mistress", he's the lead role in the next Alexander Arcady movie "Ce Que Le Jour Doit A La Nuit"), -- Joe Sheridan ("The Ninth Gate", "Dangerous Liaisons"); -- Gala Besson ("Romeo And Juliet" stage play), -- Philippe Nahon ("I Stand Alone", "The Crimson...
- 9/2/2012
- www.ohmygore.com/
We recently dropped the news that Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux and Gala Besson were the newest lovely ladies added to the cast of Romain Basset's French horror film Fever (Fievre). Today co-production company Oh My Gore! has announced the rest of the cast.
Joining the also previously announced Catriona MacColl and Emmanuel Bonami, the official cast of Fever includes: Murray Head (actor - Sunday Bloody Sunday, singer - Say it Ain't So, One Night in Bangkok), Vernon Dobtcheff (The Spy Who Loved Me, The Name of the Rose, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), Fu'ad Ait Aattou (The Last Mistress, he's also the lead in the next Alexander Arcady film Ce Que Le Jour Doit A La Nuit), Joe Sheridan (The Ninth Gate, Dangerous Liaisons) and Philippe Nahon (I Stand Alone, The Crimson Rivers, War Horse). Those players bring some pretty impressive resumes to Fever, which takes place in the world of lucid dreams.
Joining the also previously announced Catriona MacColl and Emmanuel Bonami, the official cast of Fever includes: Murray Head (actor - Sunday Bloody Sunday, singer - Say it Ain't So, One Night in Bangkok), Vernon Dobtcheff (The Spy Who Loved Me, The Name of the Rose, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), Fu'ad Ait Aattou (The Last Mistress, he's also the lead in the next Alexander Arcady film Ce Que Le Jour Doit A La Nuit), Joe Sheridan (The Ninth Gate, Dangerous Liaisons) and Philippe Nahon (I Stand Alone, The Crimson Rivers, War Horse). Those players bring some pretty impressive resumes to Fever, which takes place in the world of lucid dreams.
- 3/26/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Following the announcement of Catriona MacColl, Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Gala Besson and Emmanuel Bonami, the official cast of Fever, the first feature film of Romain Basset.
Murray Head (yes, the man who sang "One Night in Bangkok"), Vernon Dobtcheff (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), Fu'ad Ait Aattou (The Last Mistress), Joe Sheridan (The Ninth Gate) and Philippe Nahon (Crimson Rivers) just finished completing the cast of this fantastic movie which takes place in the world of lucid dreams.
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Murray Head (yes, the man who sang "One Night in Bangkok"), Vernon Dobtcheff (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), Fu'ad Ait Aattou (The Last Mistress), Joe Sheridan (The Ninth Gate) and Philippe Nahon (Crimson Rivers) just finished completing the cast of this fantastic movie which takes place in the world of lucid dreams.
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- 3/26/2012
- by ryanrotten@shocktillyoudrop.com (Ryan Turek)
- shocktillyoudrop.com
While her best films may still be more unconventional in style, in recent years Catherine Breillat has made a successful turn toward films that could almost be called mainstream while keeping the focus firmly on gender. The sexuality, while present, is slightly toned down in its explicitness. The storytelling is a bit more clearly drawn. These are the films one can watch to ease into Breillat’s filmography.
Breillat has on multiple occasions explored the dynamic of a relationship between a teen girl and an older man. With 2001′s Brief Crossing, she reverses the dynamic as French teen Thomas meets British thirty-something Alice on a ferry across the English Channel. In many ways the film draws out the gender role reversal in this dynamic. The use of nudity is commendable in that, while Alice is certainly attractive, she does show those subtle signs of aging on her body. An emotionally...
Breillat has on multiple occasions explored the dynamic of a relationship between a teen girl and an older man. With 2001′s Brief Crossing, she reverses the dynamic as French teen Thomas meets British thirty-something Alice on a ferry across the English Channel. In many ways the film draws out the gender role reversal in this dynamic. The use of nudity is commendable in that, while Alice is certainly attractive, she does show those subtle signs of aging on her body. An emotionally...
- 2/14/2012
- by Erik Bondurant
- SoundOnSight
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently streaming on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to Safe House, The Vow, & Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D.
Facing off against the Galactic Empire in theaters this weekend are two ill-matched secret agents and a pair of lovers more beautiful than lucky. But if this isn’t enough to satisfying your thirst for action, adventure and romance, you’re in luck as we’ve got some choice titles that are Now Streaming.
Ryan Reynolds is a desk-bound secret agent thrown into the fray when a disgraced ex-operative (Denzel Washington) barges into his safe house, throwing his whole world into free-for-all. Vera Farmiga co-stars.
Craving crime thrillers?
Blitz (2011) Jason Stratham stars as a furious cop who channels his overdrive aggression into tracking down a grisly serial killer.
Facing off against the Galactic Empire in theaters this weekend are two ill-matched secret agents and a pair of lovers more beautiful than lucky. But if this isn’t enough to satisfying your thirst for action, adventure and romance, you’re in luck as we’ve got some choice titles that are Now Streaming.
Ryan Reynolds is a desk-bound secret agent thrown into the fray when a disgraced ex-operative (Denzel Washington) barges into his safe house, throwing his whole world into free-for-all. Vera Farmiga co-stars.
Craving crime thrillers?
Blitz (2011) Jason Stratham stars as a furious cop who channels his overdrive aggression into tracking down a grisly serial killer.
- 2/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Release Date: Nov. 8, 2011
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
The Sleeping Beauty is the second film in a planned trilogy of movies wherein French provocateur Catherine Breillat (Anatomy of Hell, The Last Mistress), explores female sexuality via a classic fairy tale.
The first movie in the series was writer/director Breillat’s 2009 Blue Beard and the third, still in the planning stages, will be her interpretation (deconstruction?) of the tale of Beauty and the Beast.
Also adding in elements from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 story The Snow Queen, drama-fantasy The Sleeping Beauty follows the tale of young Anastasia. Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of 16. But a trio of fairy sisters devise an alternate plan so that rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love,...
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
The Sleeping Beauty is the second film in a planned trilogy of movies wherein French provocateur Catherine Breillat (Anatomy of Hell, The Last Mistress), explores female sexuality via a classic fairy tale.
The first movie in the series was writer/director Breillat’s 2009 Blue Beard and the third, still in the planning stages, will be her interpretation (deconstruction?) of the tale of Beauty and the Beast.
Also adding in elements from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 story The Snow Queen, drama-fantasy The Sleeping Beauty follows the tale of young Anastasia. Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of 16. But a trio of fairy sisters devise an alternate plan so that rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love,...
- 9/17/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Catherine Breillat is fearless, and at this point in her career that’s almost taken for granted. Provocateur is the word that seems to come up most, as if critics can’t even find a more English word to depict her unique and challenging portrayals of sexuality and female independence. “Anatomy of Hell” pushed the envelope farther than almost any film of recent memory, while “Sex Is Comedy” and “The Last Mistress” are no less frank in their treatment of sexual politics. That’s why there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding her recent plunge into the world of fairy tales,…...
- 7/8/2011
- Spout
Exploding heads. Now that’s what we’re talking about. Hulu released the red band trailer for the horror film “Rubber.” The official synopsis is: “’Rubber’ is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to prey on small desert creatures and various discarded objects, his attention soon turns to humans, especially a beautiful and mysterious woman who crosses his path. Leaving a swath of destruction across the desert landscape, Robert becomes a chaotic force to be reckoned with, and truly a movie villain for the ages.” The film is directed and written by Quentin Dupieux (“Steak,” “Nonfilm”). It stars Stephen Spinella (“Desperate Housewives”), Roxane Mesquida...
- 3/3/2011
- LRMonline.com
After grabbing the U.S. rights to Johnny Tri Nguyen’s actioner “The Clash”, Indomina Releasing is now going into the French horror movie business with Franck Richard’s “The Pack”. Press release below. Indomina Releasing, a new distributor of feature films, acquired all North American rights to the French horror film, The Pack , from international sales agent, Films Distribution. The Pack first premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where Indomina executives first saw the movie. The film, starring Yolande Moreau ( Micmacs, The Last Mistress ) and Emilie Dequenne ( The Girl on the Train ), was written and directed by Franck Richard, produced by Verane Frediani, Christophe Louis and Frank Ribiere, and executive produced by Priscilla Bertin, Jeremy Burdek, Nadia Khamlichi and Adrian Politowski. Indomina Releasing’s Vice President of Acquisitions Rob Williams and Films Distribution’s Managing Partner Nicolas Brigaud-Robert negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers. The deal was...
- 11/3/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Robert here, with another entry in my series about great contemporary directors.
Maestro: Catherine Breillat
Known For: movies about sex
Influences: Chantal Akerman, Bertolucci
Masterpieces: Fat Girl
Disasters: Yes there are some films of hers that are disasters, perhaps Anatomy of Hell most of all. But you can't make an omelet...
Better than you remember: Fat Girl, The Last Mistress and Bluebeard (which conveniently will be the subjects of this post) are the good ones
Box Office: 1999's Romance broke a million.
Favorite Actor: Has made three films with actress Roxane Mesquida
Sex is complicated. In general, as a society we've decided to react to this by compartmentalizing sexuality into concepts that are easier to understand. There's the obscene or pornographic, the safe and loving, the dangerous, the forbidden, the passionate and so on in ways that seem to attach each separate sexual experience to a single emotion. Movies reflect...
Maestro: Catherine Breillat
Known For: movies about sex
Influences: Chantal Akerman, Bertolucci
Masterpieces: Fat Girl
Disasters: Yes there are some films of hers that are disasters, perhaps Anatomy of Hell most of all. But you can't make an omelet...
Better than you remember: Fat Girl, The Last Mistress and Bluebeard (which conveniently will be the subjects of this post) are the good ones
Box Office: 1999's Romance broke a million.
Favorite Actor: Has made three films with actress Roxane Mesquida
Sex is complicated. In general, as a society we've decided to react to this by compartmentalizing sexuality into concepts that are easier to understand. There's the obscene or pornographic, the safe and loving, the dangerous, the forbidden, the passionate and so on in ways that seem to attach each separate sexual experience to a single emotion. Movies reflect...
- 9/2/2010
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
Three Australians, one New Yorker and one French woman have seemingly emerged as the rumoured final candidates to play Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's upcoming Hollywood adaptation of the bestselling "The Girl with Dragon Tattoo" reports IndieWire and Showbiz 411.
The quintet have beaten out more familiar names like Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska, Keira Knightleyand Anne Hathaway who are apparently no longer in the running. Over the weekend Portman admitted no-one had been in contact with her about the project at all in fact. Here's a look at the list of candidates:
1. Rooney Mara
The 25-year-old New Yorker has several TV guest spots along with some gay-themed indie dramas like "Dream Boy" and "Dare" to her resume.
After appearing in small roles in "Youth in Revolt" and "The Winning Season" last year, Mara has broken out this year with the lead heroinne role in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street...
The quintet have beaten out more familiar names like Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska, Keira Knightleyand Anne Hathaway who are apparently no longer in the running. Over the weekend Portman admitted no-one had been in contact with her about the project at all in fact. Here's a look at the list of candidates:
1. Rooney Mara
The 25-year-old New Yorker has several TV guest spots along with some gay-themed indie dramas like "Dream Boy" and "Dare" to her resume.
After appearing in small roles in "Youth in Revolt" and "The Winning Season" last year, Mara has broken out this year with the lead heroinne role in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street...
- 7/26/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
She has a love-hate relationship with her home country and specialises in sex and scandal. What made the French director opt for a fairytale?
Catherine Breillat used to be the pariah of French cinema; she even wrote an essay called The Importance of Being Hated. Controversy seems to shadow every step of her film-making career: in 1999 Romance was the first mainstream film to show an erect penis; she gave Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi his 15 minutes of arthouse fame when she cast him in the lead role of Anatomy of Hell in 2004 (its 18-certificate activities included drinking menstrual blood and penetration with a rusty garden rake). These films left her with the nickname "the auteur of porn".
In truth, although these films were sexually explicit – exploring women's relationships with desire – they were meticulously unerotic. And in the last couple of years, outrage, ridicule, exasperation – all standard responses to a new...
Catherine Breillat used to be the pariah of French cinema; she even wrote an essay called The Importance of Being Hated. Controversy seems to shadow every step of her film-making career: in 1999 Romance was the first mainstream film to show an erect penis; she gave Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi his 15 minutes of arthouse fame when she cast him in the lead role of Anatomy of Hell in 2004 (its 18-certificate activities included drinking menstrual blood and penetration with a rusty garden rake). These films left her with the nickname "the auteur of porn".
In truth, although these films were sexually explicit – exploring women's relationships with desire – they were meticulously unerotic. And in the last couple of years, outrage, ridicule, exasperation – all standard responses to a new...
- 7/15/2010
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, it appears as though the Tiff Cinematheque is set to pull out all the stops.
According to Criterion, the Tiff, formerly known as the Cinematheque Ontario, will be bringing out a rather superb and cartoonishly awesome summer schedule, that will include films ranging from Kurosawa pieces, to films from Pier Paolo Pasolini. Other films include a month long series dedicated to James Mason, Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, a tribute to Robin Wood, and most interesting, a retrospective on the works of one Catherine Breillat.
Personally, while the Kurosawa, Pasolini, and Rohmer collections sound amazing, the Breillat series is ultimately the collective that I am most interested in. Ranging from films like the brilliant Fat Girl, to the superb and underrated Anatomy of Hell, these are some of the most interesting and under seen pieces of cinema of recent memory, and are more than...
According to Criterion, the Tiff, formerly known as the Cinematheque Ontario, will be bringing out a rather superb and cartoonishly awesome summer schedule, that will include films ranging from Kurosawa pieces, to films from Pier Paolo Pasolini. Other films include a month long series dedicated to James Mason, Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, a tribute to Robin Wood, and most interesting, a retrospective on the works of one Catherine Breillat.
Personally, while the Kurosawa, Pasolini, and Rohmer collections sound amazing, the Breillat series is ultimately the collective that I am most interested in. Ranging from films like the brilliant Fat Girl, to the superb and underrated Anatomy of Hell, these are some of the most interesting and under seen pieces of cinema of recent memory, and are more than...
- 5/26/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
Movies and fashion blend beautifully together. The recent Menswear fashion show featuring the latest collection by Dolce and Gabbana was inspired by the film Baarìa - La porta del vento, an upcoming Sicilian-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival last September 2009. It is also the Italian entry for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Will fashion and films stay close together like business partners or lovers?
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
An article entitled Film and Fashion: Just Friends by Ruth La Ferla made some rather important observations: As an engine that drives fashion, film may have lost steam. But to fashion insiders it remains a rich and constant reference point. “What film can do better than almost anything else,” said Paulicelli, the curator, “is establish a powerful intimacy with viewers’ gaze. " Wittingly or not, those viewers take in colors, subtle...
- 4/15/2010
- by zandyjoelcastro@gmail.com (Zandy Joel Castro)
- The Movie Fanatic
New York-based independent film company Paladin, formed last fall by distribution veteran Mark Urman, announced today that it will release Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors, a celebration of films and filmmaking starring ten of the world’s most acclaimed, provocative, and individualistic living directors. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, and was produced through Ismailos’ Anisma Films. Paladin will open the film in NY, Los Angeles, and other top markets in late Spring.
A deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, Great Directors features original, in-depth conversations with world-class filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, The Dreamers), David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, The Queen, High Fidelity), Agnes Varda (Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule), Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, Land and Freedom, Land and Freedom...
A deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, Great Directors features original, in-depth conversations with world-class filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, The Dreamers), David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, The Queen, High Fidelity), Agnes Varda (Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule), Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, Land and Freedom, Land and Freedom...
- 2/18/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
I'd bet that workaholic Catherine Breillat didn't take much "vaca" time off between The Last Mistress and her lastest film. This would explain why I was unaware of Bluebeard's existence up until it was announced for Berlin back in February. - I'd bet that workaholic Catherine Breillat didn't take much "vaca" time off between The Last Mistress and her lastest film. This would explain why I was unaware of Bluebeard's existence up until it was announced for Berlin back in February. Its current "second life" on the Fall festival circuit has perhaps sparked renewed interest - Strand Releasing who are notorious for announcing deals after the fact, have made the acquisition just in time for its Nyff premiere. Strand plans a spring 2010 release. Hopefully the news will please the filmmaker, who had some recent production woes. Once again frolicking in an other century, this looks at how fairy tales often...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the Nyff selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to Nyff for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is Doa. - Thanks to Fin De Cinema's Joe Bowman for piecing together an update on provocatrice filmmaker Catherine Breillat. If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the Nyff selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to Nyff for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is Doa. It would have starred model Naomi Campbell,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
The old—make that ancient—Charles Perrault fairy tale of Bluebeard seems such a natural text for the ever-provocative French filmmaker Catherine Breillat to twist into knots that one wonders why the notion of making a film of it didn't occur to Breillat sooner. As Breillat reveals below, the project had in fact been kicking around for a few years, and Breillat's visually stunning, droll, and yes, sometimes horrific realization of the tale proved one of the most bracing highlights of 2009's New York Film Festival. (New York was pretty much its last stop on the festival circuit; Daniel Kasman weighed in, most eloquently, on the film from Berlin earlier this year, here.)
Breillat suffered a stroke in 2004, and went on after that to make one of her best-received films, 2007's The Last Mistress. When I interviewed her in connection with that film in Toronto that year, she was frail,...
Breillat suffered a stroke in 2004, and went on after that to make one of her best-received films, 2007's The Last Mistress. When I interviewed her in connection with that film in Toronto that year, she was frail,...
- 10/31/2009
- MUBI
Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress impressed a good number of top critics, even making some of these critics' Top 10 Films of 2008. Will her follow-up film entitled Bluebeard receive the same kind of critical acclaim? - - -
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- 10/19/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress impressed a good number of top critics, even making some of these critics' Top 10 Films of 2008. Will her follow-up film entitled Bluebeard receive the same kind of critical acclaim? - - -
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- 10/19/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress impressed a good number of top critics, even making some of these critics' Top 10 Films of 2008. Will her follow-up film entitled Bluebeard receive the same kind of critical acclaim? - - -
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- 10/19/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress impressed a good number of top critics, even making some of these critics' Top 10 Films of 2008. Will her follow-up film entitled Bluebeard receive the same kind of critical acclaim? - - -
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- - - About the Movie: Fairy tales often have main characters who are sort of serial killers of children: in other words, ogres. But Bluebeard is its symbolic figure. In the 1950s, it was also the favorite tale of good little girls. One of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne, by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. But Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hung before her. Because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill.
- 10/19/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
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