For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site.
Where are the Boys in Blue when you need em ? Looking for something other than mediocre talent contests or re-runs of “Mock the Weak” to watch on a Saturday night we found on I player the French film "36". It’s a cop film (possibly a un flic flick?) with Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil in it. It’s a classic good cop vs. bad cop drama (well goodish cop vs....
A DUET FOR ONE OCT 17, 2009 – CAMILLE (EMMANUELLE BÉART) IS AN ARTIST, a violinist. Stéphane (Daniel Auteuil) is a craftsman; he makes and restores violins. She plays to an audience; he’s forever backstage. She basks in applause; very few kno...
By Abigail Frazier For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. Night of the Blood Monster: Lee is fine as Magistrate Jeffrey's who is a vicious judge presiding over "Bloody Assizes" after the Monmouth Revolt opposing Baron James...
Palisades Tartan announced a DVD and Blu-ray release on 8 December of Olivier Marchal's 36 [ 36 Quai des Orfèvres ], a crime thriller starring Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Valeria Golino, Roschdy Zem, Francis Renaud, Daniel Duval and Anne Consigny. 36 is currently slated for an American remake directed by Martin Campbell ( Casino Royale , the 2 Antonio Banderas...
With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples.
Until recently, if you wanted to watch a movie, a trip to a video store like blockbuster was your only option. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. Following is a list of a few movies that you can get using a movie download site.
With her beauty and talent Emmanuelle Béart could have had her pick of plum Hollywood parts. Instead of which she keeps going back to the most gruelling art-house roles imaginable. An odd mix of tenderness and hostility: Emmanuelle Béart. The London Guardian How to describe Emmanuelle Béart? If I were a man, I’d probably wax lyrical about her [...]
Capsule Review: The 1960s. Gustave Minda (Daniel Auteuil), nicknamed and#8220;Guand#8221;, breaks out of jail. On the run with his girlfriend Manouche (Monica Bellucci), he hatches a plan for one last job to earn enough money for them both to leave the country. Howe...
Film Festivals: 'Toto' director looks to break out -- The moment Jaco Van Dormael started shooting his third feature "Mr Nobody" in the summer of 2007, newspapers in his native Belgium began to predict glory at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Sometimes French film noir is best left alone, as exemplified here: a remake based on the José Giovanni novel and originally interpreted in 1966 by Jean-Pierre Melville.
Michael Haneke's Caché boasts a thriller premise worthy of Hitchcock (or David Lynch, whose Lost Highway may have inspired the conceit). A French bourgeois couple, Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), begin receiving mysterious videotapes at their home, tapes that mostly just show the exterior of their house in long, static views. The film's famous opening is a lengthy, silent...
Ma saison preferee ( My Favorite Season, Andre Techine, 1993); Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991) Link good for a week, to be replaced by the full text. Excerpt: I haven't seen enough of critic-turned-filmmaker Andre Techine's films as I would like, but "Ma saison preferee" (My Favorite Season, 1993) is easily my favorite. The novelistic, episodic texture of his films, the deceptively simple...
Another long weekend has passed in France - this time it was La Fete de la Transhumance , which is particularly celebrated in my village of Saint Remy de Provence. Pentecost Monday is the day when sheep and goats begin their journey into the mountains and to greener pastures - by the end of May the heat starts to intensify in Provence and the feed begins to dry off. Traditionally it was a ten day journey...