Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Film News: 'Changeling,' 'Palermo Shooting' on slate -- The 2008 Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its Director's Masterclass and Made in America sidebars.
Liverpool Art and Culture (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Liverpool artwork of the week 37. Still from Workers (leaving the factory) by Nancy Davenport at Open Eye for Liverpool Biennial 20 September - 30 November 2008 Open Eye Gallery presents a newly commissioned video installation by Canadian artist...
JESS3 (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
A short film from 1976 where a camera is mounted on the front of a Ferrari driving at up to 140mph through Paris. The film was made by Claude Lelouch, who was arrested when he showed the film to the public. according to wikipedia Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB. Buster!...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Truth may be stranger than fiction but rare is a story without a dash of both.
The Poor Man Institute (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Lots of exasperation over this: Passing acquaintances collide in a moment of transcendent passion. They look at each other shyly and touch tenderly during their Paris cinq à sept, exchange some existential thoughts under exquisite chandeliers, and — tant pis — go their separate ways. Sarko, back to Carla Bruni. Obama, forward to Gordon Brown. A Man [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Can a Citizen of the World settle for Steubenville, Ohio?
Macedonia Daily.org (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Culture. Great legend of the French film, Claude Lelouch has confirmed his attendance at the First Festival of French Film that will be held in Ohrid on 1-5 July. The festival will open with “Life in Pink” (The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf) by Olivier Dahan, an extraordinary film dedicated to the great chanson singer Edit Piaf. An opening of Claude Lelouch’s latest film, “Roman de Gare” (Crossed Tracks)...
Polly Vous Francais? (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Tomorrow is Friday the thirteenth. Sounds prettier in French, of course. To my American ears, Vendredi Treize sounds as if it could be the name of a French movie starlet. Or a new perfume. Or both. "I always wear a dab of Vendredi Treize." Vendredi treize isn't necessarily a portent of bad luck. Some folks think it's just the opposite, the way saying "merde" or "merde puissance 13" is actually
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Claude Lelouch created a blockbuster heavy-date film 42 years ago with A Man and a Woman . He crafts a light, enigmatically seductive mystery with Roman de Gare .
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
French New Wave vet Claude Lelouch returns to form with "Roman de Gare," a stylish, solidly constructed suspense movie full of deceit, misdirection and bubbly charm.
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Obviously, I’m happy to have Indiana Jones back in theaters but really, does he have to be in all of the theaters? Can't there be something else to go see? Have the studios pretty much abandoned the concept of counter-programming? Shouldn't we be getting a romantic comedy this weekend starring Hugh Grant or Julia Roberts or maybe even Hugh Grant AND Julia Roberts? There are some romantic comedies playing...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
'Roman de Gare' **** (Richard Nilsen) Lightweight comedy-mystery by A Man and a Woman director Claude Lelouch leaves us guessing whether his hero is a serial killer and whether he is murdered or not and is buoyed by effervescent acting by rubber-face Dominique Pinon, querulous Audrey Dana and glamorous author Fanny Ardant. In French with subtitles (R - 103 minutes) P, S, V.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
It's too bad you can't shove a new theatrical release into your beach bag, as if it were a well-worn paperback. If you're in the mood for such a read, the twisty new French thriller Roman de Gare would look great next to your bottle of sunscreen and towels. From your sandy spot, you could imagine yourself on the well-appointed yacht where the climax takes place. Your beachfront could become Cannes...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Yippee-Yi-Aye, Yippee-Yi-Oh, Ghost Writers in the Brine Roman de Gare / Nathaniel Rogers...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Wearing his director's hat, Clint Eastwood returns to Cannes with Changeling, a 1920s-set kidnap thriller starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. It has its world premiere here on Tuesday night, but won't open in Ireland until early January, as the awards season builds in the US.
