The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
By Ed Howard Claude Chabrol has always been especially interested in the dynamics of class power, examining the nature of class with a dry, caustic wit. In La cérémonie , this examination plays out in a remote small town where the isolated lower-class maid Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is hired by the Lelievre family. They're a typical bourgeois family, aloof and condescending. The father,...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Claude Chabrol has always been especially interested in the dynamics of class power, examining the nature of class with a dry, caustic wit. In La cérémonie , this examination plays out in a remote small town where the isolated lower-class maid Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is hired by the Lelievre family. They're a typical bourgeois family, aloof and condescending. The father, Georges (Jean-Pierre...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A recent article in the Boston Review by Evgeny Morozov laments the influence of Wikipedia. I found this passage a particularly interesting take on the epistemology (and ecology) of the web: Wikipedians . . . are obsessed with popular culture and less equipped to document the high-brow. The 711-word entry on nouvelle vague filmmaker Claude Chabrol, for example, is much less impressive than the 1867-word...
madisonian.net (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A recent article in the Boston Review by Evgeny Morozov laments the influence of Wikipedia. I found this passage a particularly interesting take on the epistemology (and ecology) of the web: Wikipedians . . . are obsessed with popular culture and less equipped to document the high-brow. The 711-word entry on nouvelle vague filmmaker [...]
The World Of Kane. (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
"Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque)" - The Trailer. Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéo Featuring Éris Elmosnino (Serge), Lucy Gordon (Jane Birkin), Laetitia Casta (Brigitte Bardot), Anna Mouglalis (Juliette Gréco), Sara Forestier (France Gall), Mylène Jampanoï (Bambou) Orphée Silard (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Lucile Vezier (Kate Barry),...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
An absolute gift to the sub-genre of dark and poor-taste comedies, Claude Chabrol's 1972 excursion from the thriller tells the story Dr. Simay, a lothario with a proclivity to brown baggers (aka...
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
David Britain writing for VINGT Paris, photo courtesy of Forum des images. Although its location inside the Forum des Halles is not the most desirable, the Forum des Images is the gem of this underground maze. Nowhere else will you...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There's a peculiar fascination about ambitious unfinished works that listeners, viewers and readers are left to complete in their minds. In cinema there are a string of pictures left in tantalisingly fragmentary form due to illnesses, accidents or deaths, among them Eisenstein's Que Viva México! , Renoir's Une Partie de Campagne , Von Sternberg's I, Claudius , Welles's Don Quixote and Munk's...
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Oct 29 – Nov 4 Daily @ Landmark Clay Theatre The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The San Francisco Film Society's French Cinema Now proves as much with its slate of contemporary Gallic films. The mini-fest kicks off on a light note with The French Kissers , Riad Sattouf's sharp take on that very American genre:...
The Oxford Times | Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Coverage of the European features showing at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival
The Ministry Of Truth (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
There is a commonly held assumption that the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) movement was a left-wing, politically-charged attempt to destroy the film-making establishment and re-write the rules of Cinema for a new generation – a sort of cinematic punk rock, if you like. It is easy to deduce, from the protagonists’ involvement in the [...]
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
France/Italy Feature Film Director: Claude Chabrol Writers: Claude Chabrol, Paul Gégauff Cinematographer: Henri Decaë Composers: Pierre Jansen, Paul Misraki Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran, Mario David, Lucile Saint-Simon, Pierre Bertin, Jean-Louis Maury, Albert Dinan, Ave Ninchi, Sacha Briquet Chabrol’s misanthropic thriller - populated by repulsive...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
One year after the smash success of its inaugural French Cinema Now (FCN), the SF Film Society has announced the line-up for its anticipated 2009 follow-up fest . This year's expanded program includes 11 new films and one revival, mostly culled from the Berlin Film Festival and Cannes' Directors Fortnight sidebar. It's an impressive roster--there are seven films I've been jonesing to see, plus four...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Award Central: Actress to receive world cinema tribute -- The European Film Academy will honor French actress Isabelle Huppert with its European Achievement in World Cinema tribute at the European Film Awards ceremony on Dec. 12 in Bochum.
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