Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
MUMBAI: French actress, Isabelle Huppert, will be the president of the jury of the 62nd Festival de Cannes, which will be held 13-24 May, 2009. "I am very glad and very proud. I've had a long relationship with Cannes and this next meeting will definitely seal my love for the Festival and thus for global cinema. Cannes is the open door to all the new ideas of the world. I am ...
Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
As many of you noticed, this wasn't the first time I used Claude Sautet's César et Rosalie for a screen capture quiz. Though I make best efforts not to, I had little choice but to use the film again given...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Claude Sautet (1924-2000) was something of a late bloomer within the French movie industry. Though active as an assistant director, then a screenwriter and script doctor from the middle 1950s, his breakthrough as a director was postponed until 1970, when a tearjerker titled "The Things of Life" opened the door for a distinctive cycle of seriocomic domestic and romantic melodramas about upper-middle-class...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ A deceptively modest triumph in guileful storytelling and poker-faced acting, Claude Sautet’s late career hit is unabashedly...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
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Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
screened August 12, 2008 on Fox Lorber DVD in New York, NY TSPDT rank #904 IMDb Wiki A deceptively modest triumph in guileful storytelling and poker-faced acting, Claude Sautet’s late career hit is unabashedly bourgeois to the bone, concerned with little more than the romantic miscues between a trio of classical violin professionals (one plays them, one [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
103 minutes. Not rated
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Thought I would start doing shorter snippets on things that jump to mind. A few films I've seen recently: Be Kind Rewind (2008 - Michel Gondry) - A slight film in many ways, but it didn't feel like it should have had the drubbing it received. It feels like people simply wanted a long form series of "sweded" videos with Gondry's sleight of hand and when they didn't quite get that, they ignored
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This small, impeccably civilised drama of familial inheritance recalls the late great works of master miniaturist Claude Sautet.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Claude Sautet’s somber 1960 gangster film got swallowed up by the French New Wave, but it’s finally getting its due now.
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Reviewer: Walt Opie Rating (out of 5): ***½ Classe Tous Risques ("The Big Risk") is a once underappreciated 1960 French film noir by director Claude Sautet (Un Coeur en Hiver), now finally out on DVD thanks to Criterion, that...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Film News: Kim directing new take on French 'Junkmen' -- Investment from outside the U.S. continued to fuel high-profile projects at Cannes, as Kim Jee-woon, the sought-after Korean director whose "The Good the Bad the Weird" wrapped the fest's special screenings, signed to helm a remake of 1970s French classic "Max et les Ferrailleurs" (Max and the Junkmen).
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: By the time Claude Sautet's Classe tous risques was released in 1960, what many consider to be the classic film noir period in Hollywood was already over. If Orson Welles' Touch of Evil served as a sort of grand finale of the movement, one could possibly call Classe tous risques the denouement. This is what happens when the party's over. Abel Davos, played by granite-jawed...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Oh, yeah, The Criterion Collection is still releasing DVDs, in case you had forgotten. I nearly had with their ho-hum line-up so far this year (aside from the Malle). They've actually got five DVDs lined up for June: Paul Scrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters , Yukio Mishima's Patriotism , Claude Sautet's Classe tous risques , Anthony Mann's The Furies with Barbara Stanwyck and Milcho Manchevski's...
