Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is generally hard to say what caught my eye about Claude Chabrol's film A Girl Cut in Two. Perhaps it was the poster, seen above, which debuted over on Cinematical yesterday. There was just something about the notion of innocence lost, or about to be lost, in combination with ...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Filed under: Drama , Foreign Language , Independent , Cinematical Indie , Posters Cinematical has just received the above exclusive poster for Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two (click on the image to enlarge). The French film, which opens on Friday in New York (and On Demand), focuses on a French TV weather girl who is caught between two men. One is a famous author she loves who refuses to leave...
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
An actress who took the international market with her act in Francois Ozon Swimming Pool has now become the muse of legend Claude Chabrol.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
New Yorker has a pretty big month coming in October. They've already announced Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life , but you can add four more to their roster. Firstly, the omnibus French comedy Six in Paris [ Paris vu par... ], from directors Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer and Jean Rouch, which Eric mentioned yesterday. Then you have Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
"Starting with the bleak contours of the period preceding the German Occupation and its aftermath's anxious confusion to the stylish rebellion of the New Wave and today's slicker psychological studies, French film directors like Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Becker, Jean-Luc...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Claude Chabrol started making movies when movies started being exciting again. Coming up in the heart of the French New Wave and working alongside the likes of Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, this man is one of cinema's last living legends. His latest film is and it's about sex, betrayal, obsession, murder and all that juicy stuff the French do so well. This movie has been absolutely tearing...
Tativille (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Sandrine Bonnaire Favorite Films: À nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983), Vagabond (Agnès Varda, France), Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette, 1994), The Ceremony (Claude Chabrol, 1995) Irene Dunne Favorite Films: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937), Love Affair (McCarey, 1939) Setsuko Hara Favorite Films: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949), Early Summer (Ozu, 1951), Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953), Sound of the Mountain...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
French actress and four-time César award-winner Nathalie Baye turns 57 today. She rose to fame playing the ’script girl’ in La Nuit américaine (Day for Night, 1974) by François Truffaut. Her 4 year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a leading celebrity couple and their daughter Laura is now actress Laura Smet. Baye has recently [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Anne Billson reviews Everything is Cinema by Richard Brody
Brad Pitt Celebrity News (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Youtube InstructionsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 22 minutes agoAnd I could have gotten more if I thought I WOULD be posting it — Brad Pitt, Fanny Ardant, Claude Chabrol, etc. Before I go to Europe this year, …
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Gerard Depardieu will star in helmer Claude Chabrol's "Bellamy." Depardieu plays a police captain who's intrigued by a phone call from a stranger who thinks he might have killed someone, but refuses to say whom..
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Film News: Actor signs on to French thriller -- Gerard Depardieu will star in helmer Claude Chabrol's "Bellamy."
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Barry Levinson at MD Film Fest Opening Night (photo by Jason Putsche) L-R; Barry Levinson, MFF director Jed Dietz, MFF programmer Skizz Cyzyk (photo by Jason Putsche) Melvin Van Peebles, right, and assistant enter Charles Theatre for MFF 2008 Closing Night May 4, 2008 (photo by George Hagegeorge) YEAST Q+A at MD Film Fest 08 left-to-right: Yeast producer Marc Raybin, co-star Benny Safdie, star Greta...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
By Sara Schieron To say Ludivine Sagnier has played Tinkerbell is an understatement. For Sagnire, Tinkerbell is a roll she might spend much of her career revisiting. She appeared prior to the SF International's screening of Claude Chabrol's newest film A Girl Cut in Two . Here she played weather girl come TV Anchor Gabriel Aurore Snow. Her part is a more elegant rehashing of the same role Joan Collins...
Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Last night Michèle Morgan was on TCM in Higher and Higher , and had the Siren not already seen the star in things like René Clair's deliciously romantic Les Grandes Manoeuvres and The Fallen Idol she might never have wanted to hear of Morgan again. Having seen what Morgan could do with a good script, the Siren can only conclude that when the actress was assigned Higher and Higher she just said there...
