Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A Flemish teenager drifts towards violence in the bleak debut from Twentynine Palms and Flanders director Bruno Dumont. Rating:3
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
By Jeremiah Kipp When I interviewed Bruno Dumont for his Existential French horror film Twentynine Palms , he said he was very interested in observing his characters from a distance and generating tension as a result of the tenuous links between the scenes. That led him to understand that, "The more you take risks by reducing the script, by reducing character, by reducing all of the constitutive elements...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
DVD Video Review: The first modern feature film from the Masters of Cinema collection is a controversial choice - Bruno Dumont's bleak, provocative examination of the human condition and Christian morality through sex and death in northern France. Noel Megahey review...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Bruno Dumont's La Vie De Jesus (The Life of Jesus) as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 21st July 2008 priced at £19.99. Bruno Dumont's debut feature presents life's brutality and exhi...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Directed by Laurent Cantet, the film follows a year in the life of a French schoolteacher working in a tough multi-cultural section of Paris.
Directors Notes (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Following an almost interview at last year’s London Film Festival I finally got a chance to see Lenny Abrahamson's second feature Garage which was the most successful film of 2007 in its native Ireland and critically well received throughout its festival run, picking up prizes along the way. Lenny joins us today to discuss [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/30/2007
Last updated December 30, 2007 10:44 a.m. PTWatch This: 'Flanders'91 minutes. Not rated.It's a shame that only film critics watch movies like this. No one wanted to see this thing, even the French ... and yet it's good. Bruno Dumont is the closest thing the current cinema has to Robert Bresson. He deals in profound moral issues. But while Bresson viewed things from the lofty vantage point of a religious...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2007
White Sun of the Desert, a western, or rather, "eastern," made in the USSR during the Brezhnev era, remains one of the top five bestselling DVDs in contemporary Russia. Cosmonauts like it, too. "Bizarrely, White Sun has become a...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
The story of Brian De Palma's Redacted , a multi-mediated account of an atrocity perpetrated by American soldiers at war, begins in two places: on the ground in Iraq and in a Japanese restaurant in downtown Toronto.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
Online, the new issue of Sight & Sound opens with a questionnaire. The four questions: "What is Bresson's significance for you'," "What is your favorite Bresson film and why'," "What, if anything, have you borrowed from Bresson's cinema?" and...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/04/2007
DVD Video Review: Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, the new film from Bruno Dumont is another controversial look at the harshness and brutality of life and love seen as war. Noel Megahey reviews the UK release from Soda Pictures.
"Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michae (Free subscription) | 10/02/2007
Carlos Reygadas’ STELLET LICHT screened for the press last Monday morning, kicking off a jam-packed week that featured such heralded titles as 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, SECRET SUNSHINE, THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON, THE MAN FROM...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/29/2007
Both the best director and best actress prizes went to Japanese director Momoi Kaori for her film "Faces of a Fig Tree," in which she also stars. Meanwhile, the best actor award went to Russia's Serge...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/25/2007
"Silent Light [site] is by far the best film I've seen at this year's festival, marking a maturity in [Carlos] Reygadas's vision and a striking purity of the cinematic image," writes Michael Guillén. "Carlos Reygadas disappoints with his follow-up...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/24/2007
The idea of Mr. Bean - the simpering, near-silent king of the British twits - always seems a bit funnier than the reality.
