Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
It's nice to feel wanted. Quite a few organazizations have requested that I participate in their year-end polls, post best-of-year lists on their websites, and so on. It's kind of hard to keep up. It was all so simple when...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
If you ever want your film to be actually seen outside the festival circuit, please don't let IFC pick up your distribution. Both Catherine Breillat's Last Mistress and Abel Ferrara's Go-Go Tales star Asia Argento, got great reviews at the festivals, were picked up by IFC and promptly shelved into oblivion. These films are from 2007, for God's sake. What are we waiting for here? Meanwhile, the other...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Bad Love (film) by Catherine Breillat Bad Love (2007) Catherine Breillat Bad Love is a French film by Catherine Breillat scheduled for 2009, starring fashion model Naomi Campbell and impostor/con artist Christophe Rocancourt, produced by Jean-François Lepetit, based on Breillat’s own novel published by Léo Scheer in 2007. Bright Lights Film Journal (along with Senses of Cinema[1] [...]
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly (portrait by Émile Lévy, ca. 1882) Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly’s grave. Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly (November 2, 1808 – April 23, 1889), was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in a kind of mysterious tale that examines hidden motivation and hinted evil bordering (but never crossing into) the supernatural. He had [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
It is certainly possible to make a transgressive movie about children in sexual jeopardy, and to do so in ways that realistically and intelligently depict the abuse while not revelling in it.
The Blemish (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh cast Sasha Grey, best known as that girl gagging on a penis or as the youngest winner of the Adult Video News’ Female Performer of the Year award, as the lead in his low budget indie drama The Girlfriend Experience. Written by the same people who did Ocean’s 13, the film ...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
So what you are suggesting is that I align myself to a degree with the escapees… or that is what intrigues me about the subject of this book. You are probably heading me in the right direction. Perhaps though, unlike many an escapee, I’ve been on the lam for too many years now, & that despite what the system has done to trap or force me into submitting to their whims & caprices. I’ve managed to be...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Collaborations were a running theme at Alexander McQueen's show on Friday night.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
£22.99, EurekaMaurice Pialat might not be the first name that leaps to mind when discussing French directors
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball's directorial debut take on hot topic after hot topic without taking time to catch its breath.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Sex scenes in period drama can't rescue this sumptuous piece from pointlessness
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
It's very rare these days for me to get the opportunity to see a foreign film of any kind on the big screen due to the area where I live, so it is always a treat when I can take a little road trip to Nashville or Louisville to take take one in. Over the holiday weekend Catherine Breillat's 2007 French feature Une vieille maîtresse ( The Last Mistress ) stormed into Nashville's Belcourt Theater and...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
DVD Video Review: Along with Rohmer and Rivette in 2007, Catherine Breillat returns to filmmaking after a brief absence and finds inspiration in the classics, but perhaps retains more of her own character in the process. Noel Megahey reviews the UK release from Artif...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
by Steve Finbow. Catherine Breillat , Pornocracy , Semiotext(e) , 2008. I was initially wary of this book — Chris Kraus’s introduction claims the narrative’s discourse to be “pure Sade, minus Sade’s irony” — and so, faced with reading as masochism, I gingerly tucked into Pornocracy . I found the translation by Paul Buck and Catherine Petit viscerally beautiful — poetic prose and detached almost scientific...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
There’s plenty of skin and acrobatic positioning in Catherine Breillat’s “The Last Mistress,” but the ferocious passions they signify are far more interesting.
