Olivier Assayas

IFC Films nabs rights to 'Carlos'

Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Film News: Film unit acquires Assayas pic -- IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to the theatrical version of "Carlos," directed by Olivier Assayas ("Summer Hours").

'Carlos' finds a home Stateside

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Film News: IFC to acquire Assayas-directed film -- IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to the theatrical version of "Carlos," directed by Olivier Assayas ("Summer Hours").

The Decade List: Le voyage du ballon rouge

Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

Le voyage du ballon rouge [ Flight of the Red Balloon ] – dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien [Edited together from previous entries] There are so many singular aspects of Flight of the Red Balloon , Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film made outside of Asia, to marvel at that it's almost stupefying that the film encompasses them with such ease. Firstly, there's Mark Lee Pin Bing's cinematography, with is so ravishing...

Night and Day - 10/23/2009

filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009

The central figure of Hong Sang-soo's new film Night and Day, like most of the director's artist-type protagonists, is a pretentious buffoon. Intelligent only in his ability to co-opt other peoples' opinions, Korean painter Seong-nam (Kim Yeong-ho) has fled to Paris after getting ratted out over smoking marijuana with some friends. At night, he cries on the phone to his smart, loving wife about how...

'Wallace & Gromit' Producers Team With UK Museum For Film Made By Children

MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

Aardman Animation, the UK studio responsible for the "Wallace & Gromit" films and "Chicken Run" have announced a new movie in the works. But it won't be directed by Nick Park, Peter Lord or any of the other great animators employed by Aardman. Instead, children throughout Britain will collaborate on every aspect of the project, [...]

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New York, I Love You

Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

New York, I Love YouDir. Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Natalie Portman, et. al. [Vivendi Entertainment; 2009]110 minutesGenre: “collective feature,” romanceOthers: Paris, Je T’AimeLinks: On the way home from a screening of New York, I Love You, I made my daily descent into New York’s subway and sat down on a bench to read a book while waiting for the train. Across the platform, I...

Big Apple IIc or Not To See?

Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

New York, I Love You Heart of Larkness Trailers & Mo | Official Website I love New York, and so do you. If we didn't, what kinda persons would we be? Maybe persons who are lamer than people who owned a LeCar ? Speaking of things French, I love Paris, and you do too! And if you didn't then obviously you've never been to the Musée d'Orsay . So many people loved Paris that they made a movie...

Child rapist supporters boycott list.

Red Ink: Texas (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009

Most are two bit "arts film" nobodies, and most are from the french film industry as well, but there are a few big names that you'll recognize. I'll update with new names and/or links as time permits. Polanski petition signatories, as of September 29th : Fatih Akin Stephane Allagnon Woody Allen known pedophile, married his adopted daughter and was accused of molesting his 7 year old stepdaughter...

What if Glenn Beck did it?

The Lonely Conservative (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

It’s sickening to witness liberal Hollywood elites defend Roman Polanski. Whoopie Golberg said it wasn’t “rape-rape.” What’s that supposed to mean? Drugging a thirteen year old girl and then raping and sodomizing her while she says “no” isn’t “rape-rape?” Where? In Whoopie’s mind? Follow the link for the video, I don’t even want...

Herzog's BAD LIEUTENANT Coming To VOD!

Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

Very good news here for those of us who fell in love with Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans at the Toronto International Film Festival. Cinetic Media's new FilmBuff VOD channel has announced a string of new acquisitions and the Herzog picture is among them. While the release date is not yet set - and will likely depend on the theatrical release - it is definitely coming and,...

Seeing Stars at the International Rome Film Festival

The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

The great city of Rome has provided a backdrop to some of the most famous moments in cinema history, from screen siren Anita Ekberg's famous dance in the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita to Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn's...

My Ten Favourite Films Of 2008: 1.5: Summer Hours

FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

(Doesn’t count cos I saw it on DVD). Perhaps I wasn’t clear at the start of this little project, but the list of favourite films from last year were films I saw in the cinema. This is not a problem because I tend to see over 100 films in the cinema a year, and so rarely [...]

Father of My Children: Toronto Movie Trailers

TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

I know of Mia Hansen-Løve for 2 reasons - first that she starred in some films of a director I love, Olivier Assayas, and second, many of my male cinephile friends seem to be in love with her. If the trailer(clip) below is to be believed my knowledge of her is for all the wrong reasons. Her film, Father of My Children , is playing at TIFF and looks really good. The film tells the story of an...

Cinetic Gears Up to Distribute Arthouse Fare Online and On Demand

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009

Movie blogging is cool and all, but I would argue that cinema's best use of the Internet is making rare fare available to the audience at large. That's slowly but surely starting to happen, and CRM (Cinetic Rights Management) is adding to the pile with a new arthouse deal. Teaming up with a bunch of arthouse film distributors, CRM will slip content online through their FilmBuff label, hitting desinations...

IFC upgrades Criterion deal

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009

Home Ent News: Titles to get Blu-ray makeover -- Several titles from the IFC Films library will be getting the full bells-and-whistles treatment on Blu-ray and DVD, thanks to a deal between IFC and top-shelf homevid distrib the Criterion Collection.