Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Betty Blue is quintessential French cinema material, an uninhibited and tumultuous story of an obsessive relationship that descends into madness. When it premiered in 1986, the film gained notoriety for its full-frontal nudity and explicit sex. With audience members questioning if the sex scenes were simulated or not, the word-of-mouth buzz helped drive it to box-office success. Based on a novel by...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Her new film is inspired by a secret love within her own family, but as ever, it is not Claire Denis's aim to explain - just to show. Kira Cochrane met her As my meeting with the French film director Claire Denis nears, I find myself unusually nervous. In watching her work again, I have been struck by the extraordinary images she creates: the legionnaires of Beau Travail, lifting their muscled arms...
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
by Peter SobczynskiOn the eve of a retrospective in Los Angeles and the release of all his films on DVD (many of which are making their U.S. debuts), the director of the cult classics "Diva" and "Betty Blue" looks back on his career.In 1982, the French film “Diva,” a quirky and flashy thriller about a young courier whose life is put into danger when a bootleg cassette...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Cinema Libre announced the first two DVD releases of their Jean-Jacques Beineix collection , Roselyne and the Lions [ Roselyne et les lions ] on 14 July and IP5: The Island of Pachyderms [ IP5: L'île aux pachydermes ] on 18 August. As Eric pointed out , the studio is re-releasing Beineix's most famous film Betty Blue , with Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hughes Anglade, in theatres before a DVD...
Drifting: A Director's Log (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
I haven't seen Claire Denis' second feature, S'en fout la mort (as far as I can tell, it's only available on an out-of-print VHS) and so can't exactly trace her path from the stateliness of Chocolat to the warm...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
up Wired Science wonders if you really can lift a house with balloons /Film details inside jokes within Pixar's UP down... all around Rants of a Diva names the 25 best performances of the TV season NY Post French Oscar nominee Betty Blue is getting a release with 65 additional racy minutes of Jean-Hugues Anglade & Beatrice Dalle thrown in. Mon dieu Pixar the first teaser for Toy Story 3 My New...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
WHEN Béatrice Dalle, the French actress, married a rapist she met in prison four years ago, critics said that she was behaving like the passionate but unhinged heroine in Betty Blue, her most famous film.
Pop Art Generation (Free subscription) | 05/16/2009
Betty Blue is touted as an “erotic drama” by the distributor, a tag which sells the film grossly short. It certainly has frank depictions of sexuality and much nudity — after all, this is a film that opens on a real-time extended sequence shot of two people having sex — but to call this erotica [...]
Film-Book dot Com (Free subscription) | 03/15/2009
Inside (À l’intérieur) is one of the most exciting, disgusting, provocative and original horror movies ever penned and put on the movie screen. Never will a viewer’s hand come up to their mouths or eyes more than when viewing Inside. Inside’s gruesomeness is akin to the remake of The Hills Have Eyes’ infamous “Trailer Scene” [...]
X17Video.com (Free subscription) | 01/25/2009
January 25th, 2009: We spotted the fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, Kanye West, Beatrice Dalle and Tricky attending the Dior Homme fashion show in Paris. Kanye and Karl were in a really good mood, chatting about fur with our videographers... Be...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 01/25/2009
Black suits that were anything but boring dominated Dior Homme's show Sunday. Asymmetrical cuts, strap and metalwork closures and heaps of pleats created an edgy, bold silhouette that played on volumes and contrast.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 01/25/2009
Black suits that were anything but boring dominated Dior Homme's show Sunday.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
Eight months after the release of the first box set a second three-disc set arrives on DVD.
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Béatrice Dalle [born December 19, 1964, wiki] is a bit of an enfant terrible in French cinema. She scored international success with her 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and USA as Betty Blue), and played a series of major roles in French films. In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film [...]
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Also thanks to IndieWire , the studio CinemaLibre has acquired the rights to just about all of the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix (not including Diva ). Their deal includes the rights to the director's cut of Betty Blue (with Jean-Hughes Anglade and Béatrice Dalle in her star-making performance), which went out-of-print shortly after Sony released it a few years back; Mortel transfert (with Anglade...
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