Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Thought I would start doing shorter snippets on things that jump to mind. A few films I've seen recently: Be Kind Rewind (2008 - Michel Gondry) - A slight film in many ways, but it didn't feel like it should have had the drubbing it received. It feels like people simply wanted a long form series of "sweded" videos with Gondry's sleight of hand and when they didn't quite get that, they ignored
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Reviewer: Walt Opie Rating (out of 5): ***½ Classe Tous Risques ("The Big Risk") is a once underappreciated 1960 French film noir by director Claude Sautet (Un Coeur en Hiver), now finally out on DVD thanks to Criterion, that...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Pierrot le fou (1965) is, unignorably, one of Jean-Luc Godard's goofiest movies. Just as Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character’s name freely alternates between his real one, Ferdinand, and that of the film's titular symbol of anarchy, Pierrot—the latter chosen by Anna...
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
They recently released Some Came Running on DVD. Vincente Minelli’s icy hot movie with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley McClain. It was based on a novel by James Jones and it has become an iconic movie, mainly for me because of Dean Martin. Check it out and see what being cool in Technicolor in [...]
Cup Of Joe Powell (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Last Spring, independent filmmakers and music star Mariah Carey came to Tennessee to film a movie called, duh, "Tennessee." Scenes were shot in Nashville, McMinnville, and Dunlap. The movie premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival next weekend. The story follows two brothers who travel from the Southwest to Tennessee in search of their estranged father and they are joined on the journey by Carey, who...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Celebrate the epitome of French cinema cool as Jean-Paul Belmondo kicks Alain Delon's ass.
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Reviewer: Erin Donovan Rating (out of 5): *** Jean-Luc Godard's tenth film Pierrot Le Fou, one of the last he made before going full-tilt Marxist, has been restored and reissued in the extraordinary fashion we've all come to know...
The World Almanac (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Today is the 100th day of 2008 and the 21st day of spring. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. In 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. In 2003, Iraqis celebrating...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Out of sight, out of mind? Granted, we haven't seen much of Jean-Paul Belmondo since his stroke in 2001, but even the French papers seem to have let his 75th pass without notice. I vaguely remember mention of some...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Four decades ago, revolution was in the air across Europe, and Parisians were flinging bricks at gendarmes. But how did the spirit of '68 influence the era's movies and music? Donald Clarke looks back
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
What makes us like a bad guy? Not talking real world, here, talking fiction. Why is Omar Little of The Wire so beloved of the show's fans? He's a thug, a thief, a murderer. But he tries to live by...
B12 Partners Solipsism (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Godard's "Pierrot Le Fou" (1965) is the same film I liked so much when it opened here in 1968, and assigned a 3.5 star rating. ... But while I once wrote of it as "Godard's most virtuoso display of his mastery of Hollywood genres," I now see it more as the story of silly characters who have seen too many Hollywood movies.
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
Interesting that the new Criterion DVD of Godard's Pierrot Le Fou adds color filters to the party scene early in the movie, including a green filter for the famous cameo by Samuel Fuller. As the DVD Beaver comparison shows, other DVD versions don't have this filter and it doesn't seem to be in the actual negative. The cinematographer supervised the new release and some people online report having seen...
In the Company of Glenn (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Part 1 below. When we last left our hero and heroine, Ferdinand and Marianne (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina), they were lamming it out of Paris. And continuing with the literary allusions. Narrating the opening of their next chapter, the...
Second City Style (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
Jean Seberg, 1960 As I was watching Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (1960), better known as Breathless in the UK and US, I heard one of the funniest lines, in my opinion, in cinematic history. Jean Paul Belmondo's character,...
