Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
New Yorker has just announced the DVD for Alain Resnais' musical/comedy Same Old Song [ On connaît la chanson ], for 9 December. The film stars André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Sabine Azéma, Agnès Jaoui, Lambert Wilson and Jane Birkin; it also walked away with about a hundred Césars when it was released in 1997.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Letters: Linda Grant has slipped up badly in her offhand reference to Alain Resnais and, in particular, to Claude Lanzmann
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
From The Guardian: What an egregious conundrum Dirk Bogarde was. If anything, the present chunky volume of letters, which appears to be the final instalment of the massive memorial to him masterminded by John Coldstream, former books editor at the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Ronald Bergan volunteers for a 170 hour performance of a Marcel Proust epic
Idle Musings (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
The International Documentary Association has complied a list of the 25 best documentaries of all time. More than a few of these I haven’t seen (those in italics I have). Guess I need to change my Netflix queue. 1. Hoop Dreams (1994), Steve James 2. The Thin Blue Line (1988), Errol Morris 3. Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
In public, Dirk Bogarde was shy, reserved, polite to a fault. But in private, he was far more entertaining. In the first of two extracts from a new collection of his most intimate, wickedly funny personal letters, we reveal Dirk as he really was.
The Age (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
It's a film full of yearning, and while assured and controlled, leaves a sense of unresolved mystery.
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Still from Last Year at Marienbad courtesy SIFF If your favorite movies are those that tell an easy-to-follow story in a direct, linear fashion, you might want to avoid SIFF starting this Friday as Last Year at Marienbad is odd even by the avante garde standards of the Nouvelle Vague movement. Both revered and reviled, [...]
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Back in the day, literal-minded audiences had great fun pretending to be baffled by this artiest of European art films. In Alain Resnais' 1961 Last Year at Marienbad, politely avid X (Giorgio Albertazzi) pursues the mysteriously diffident A (an irresistible Delphine Seyr...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Fear Itself may be taking a break next week, but it will resume its schedule on the 17th with more new episodes, reports Shock Till You Drop. The horror anthology series will continue with New Year’s Day, a take on the zombie genre written by Steve Niles. A week later, audiences will be treated [...]
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help. Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film I reviewed in its capacity as a Region 1 Criterion release. And it's really quite excellent. The story of a Japanese man and a French [...]
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
screened Monday June 3 2008 on VHS recording of TV broadcast in Brooklyn, NY TSPDT rank #821 IMDb Wiki The third and final collaboration between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter nabbed the 1971 Cannes Palme d’Or at the expense of such films as Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (TSPDT #207), Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (TSPDT #611) [...]
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
How do you make a real splash for cruise? Just ask Karl Lagerfeld. He and his Chanel studio hit Miami Beach on Thursday for a poolside production that was worthy of an Esther Williams movie. Inspirations
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Wearing his director's hat, Clint Eastwood returns to Cannes with Changeling, a 1920s-set kidnap thriller starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. It has its world premiere here on Tuesday night, but won't open in Ireland until early January, as the awards season builds in the US.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Paris - Among the films being screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, there is one 40-year-old movie that will forever be associated with the most tumultuous chapter in the festival's history. The forced cancellation of Peppermint Frappe, by Spani...
