Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The ultra-chic Marais district in Paris, home to actors, fashion designers and artists, is in uproar amid claims that it will be overrun by spotty teenage fans lusting after the constestants in a reality television show who are to be lodged there.
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Universal has hired Wes Anderson to write a remake of the French film Mon meilleur Ami. The film looks into the life of a cranky old antiques dealer played by Daniel Auteuil in the original, who learns at a diner with his closet acquaintances that none of them really liked him. When his partner bets that he won’t be able to get a best friend he meets an amiable cab driver to pose as his buddy. It...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Wrier/director adapting French movie
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Wes Anderson may be stepping out of his own idiosyncratic and quirky world for only the second time in his career. The director of excellent films like The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and Bottle Rocket almost always directs from his own material. His first exception to the rule was the recently completed ...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Universal has hired Wes Anderson to write the remake of the French comedy My Best Friend, aka Mon meilleur ami. The 2006 film starred Daniel Auteuil as a cranky old antiques dealer who learns at a dinner with his closest acquaintances that none of them really like him because of his harsh manner and selfishness. When his business partner bets him a valuable vase that he can’t produce a best friend,...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Wes Anderson Keeps Me Guessing Indie Schmindie / Daniel Carlson...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Film News: 'Man Who Loves' stars Monica Bellucci -- The Rome Film Festival is going local, with romancer “L’Uomo che ama,” (The Man Who Loves) by Maria Sole Tognazzi, starring Monica Bellucci and leading Italo thesp Pierfrancesco Favino, as the opener of its third edition.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
You just might remember the Patrice Leconte comedy My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, back in 2006. It's the one about the cranky, anti-social antiques dealer whose partner challenges him with a bet to produce a "best friend" within a...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Also eyeing the comedy as a directing vehicle.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have set Wes Anderson to write My Best Friend , a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy Mon meilleur ami . Variety says Anderson is also eyeing the project as a directing vehicle.
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Wes Anderson’s first project with Imagine Entertainment will be a remake of the French comedy Mon meilleur ami, directed by Patrice Leconte in 2006. Anderson will definitely write the screenplay for the Universal/Imagine picture, and looks likely to direct it. (Variety) The original film starred Daniel Auteuil as Francois, a bad mannered, selfish lout that [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Film News: Wes Anderson to redo 'Best' -- Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment has set Wes Anderson to write "My Best Friend," a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy "Mon meilleur ami." Anderson is also eying the project as a directing vehicle.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Universal and Imagine have lined up Wes Anderson to write (and possibly direct) a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy "Mon meilleur ami."
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
screened August 12, 2008 on Fox Lorber DVD in New York, NY TSPDT rank #904 IMDb Wiki A deceptively modest triumph in guileful storytelling and poker-faced acting, Claude Sautet’s late career hit is unabashedly bourgeois to the bone, concerned with little more than the romantic miscues between a trio of classical violin professionals (one plays them, one [...]
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Not for the first time this week we meet a stable couple whose existence seems more or less perfect and contented. Georges (Daniel Auteuil) hosts a televised literary review program. He and his wife, Anne (Juliette Binoche), a publisher, live in Paris with their adolescent son, Pierrot. One day they receive a video cassette that suggests they are under surveillance. The tape is accompanied by a child-like...
