Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Netflix knows where it's at when it comes to the rental biz; more and more, folks want to stay at home and watch movies instantly. We don't even want to wait for those happy little red envelopes any more. Nope, if it's not on our Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or computer, we get all squirrelly. (Okay, maybe that last part is just me.) And IFC is also on the cutting edge of home entertainment in its steadily...
The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
A fascination for musicals rooted from Jacques Demy to something more recent like Christophe Honoré. I've really never imagined myself enjoying musicals because I wasn't particularly thrilled seeing Gene Kelly with his song and dance sequences in An American in...
The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I find myself put to a certain degree of alienation when I watch films in English nowadays. I feel more comfortable watching films in either French or in my own native tongue, in Filipino. It is more engaging that way....
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
International News: Belgian pics crowd Francophone event -- "Les Barons" by first-time director Nabil Ben Yadir will open the Namur Festival of Francophone Film on Oct. 2.
Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Day four was a day of extremely long lines queueing and curling around everywhere, most I avoided but wow it shows the difference in the volume of people that come out on the weekends. There were also random zombies about for the zombie walk and celebrating George. A Romero newly Canadian citizenship. Saturday was also the night of the Mystery TIFF Screening, which was Making Plans for Lena / Non ma...
Blog Made for the Purposes of One P (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Christophe Honore's Apres Lui (literally: "After Him") came to our attention at this year's misery-filled Cannes. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Guy Marchand and Elodie Bouchez, and it tells the story of a mother losing a son to a car crash, and then finding solace in obsession and obsessing over the one who was driving the car, her son's best friend. Almodovar's All About My Mother may come...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
La Belle Personne RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Drama. Starring Louis Garrel and Lea Seydoux. Directed by Christophe Honore. (Not rated. 97 minutes. At the Sundance Kabuki.) "La Belle Personne," about the amorous misfortunes that befall a group of Parisian students,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Two actresses from the Franco-Italian cinema aristocracy – Carla Bruni's sister and Catherine Deneuve's daughter – are duelling head to head, and hankie to hankie, in rival "weepie" movies released in France this week.
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
As long there as there are young people living out their dreams in cities, there will always be young filmmakers eager and willing to follow them around churning out Bohemian anomie portraiture. Kids in urban settings constitute a broad enough arena of exploration that we’ll always have the good (Philippe Garrel), the bad (Joe Swanberg), and the indifferent (Christophe Honoré); the best...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Film Festivals: 'Chloe' and 'Mother and Child' to bookend event -- The 57th San Sebastian Festival will be bookended by two North American films.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
On the fourth year of the Aughts, I realize that the (Some of) The Worst Films chapter has become rather drab. The lists never really amount to anything of substance, except mildly pissing a few people off, and simply expose the lousy crop of films I had the misfortune of seeing in some form. Is there any need to mention that Christmas with the Kranks blew or that an incompetently-made coming-of-age...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Omar from Texas won a Gentils Garçons copy thanks to this guestpost on his favourite French song, sung by a guy: Alex Beaupain was introduced to me by the movies of Christophe Honore. Both artists have been collaborating together for so long that if you google one, you are bound to find the other's name somewhere in what you are reading. Alex was an artist in his own right before working with...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
| Barry Levinson and John Waters: The boys are back in townThe Maryland Film Festival always offers an embarrassment of riches for area cinephiles. With a line-up heavy with provocative foreign fare (including the latest from French New Wave legend Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes) and the return of the Alloy Orchestra to accompany a Sunday-morning silent (Dzigo Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera),...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
May 6, 2009The Maryland Film Festival always offers an embarrassment of riches for area cinephiles. With a line-up heavy with provocative foreign fare (including the latest from French New Wave legend Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes) and the return of the Alloy Orchestra to accompany a Sunday-morning silent (Dzigo Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera), MFF 2009 should prove no exception.But perhaps the...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 04/19/2009
Director to host opening night's shorts program Director Bobcat Goldthwait will host the opening-night shorts program of the 11th annual Maryland Film Festival and will even bring along one of his short films.
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