KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Arts & entertainment: Watch an arty but undemanding film, then discuss it while a tasteful CD plays. How did we lose our edge?
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Filmbrain bids a fond farewell to Tartan Films: "Tartan head Hamish McAlpine liked to push people's buttons, referring to his company's releases as 'cultural hand grenades,' which explains acquisitions of controversial titles from Carlos Reygadas, Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noé...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
What do you do if you’re a film maker known the world over for putting one of the most graphic rape scenes ever on celluloid? If you’re Irreversible director Gaspar Noe you make an experimental picture driven by dream and hallucination. That film is the upcoming Enter the Void and while I have no idea if this is going to work it’s certain that the attempt will prove fascinating. Here’s a snippet of...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Thanks to Gala.fr , I discovered some quotes by the incomparable Miss Béatrice Dalle. She mentioned her admiration for Isabelle Huppert as an actress (of course; the two starred together in Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup [ Time of the Wolf ]). And did you ever wonder what makes Mlle Dalle shiver? Pasolini's films. Above is a photo that I accidentally, and amiably, stumbled upon using the Google...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
By Jonathan Romney What's been wrong about this year’s competition? Some very good films, and a consistent level, but nothing that made critics want to have a good argument, or to throttle the director or each other. One real kick...
A Socialite's Life (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Justice seem to make the most interesting videos in the industry--even if they're reminiscent of Gaspar Noe's disconcerting films.
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
[This is another piece for the writing on film class I'm doing which I thought I'd share here; comments and suggestions on improvements / errors welcome] According to right-thinking types British society is under threat from media violence as never before. “Torture porn,” the Internet, gangsta rap and computer games are breeding a generation of desensitised young men. Unable to distinguish between...
Ephemeral Ruminations (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Can't seem to get away from it – I don't even want to use the word in these opening lines for fear of the ‘flogging a dead horse’ bit. But it was Java who had got back last week with the DVD ‘Descent', starring Rosario Dawson – she of ‘Death Trap’ and ‘Planet Terror’ fame [...]
Sunset Gun (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
This may sound a bit odd, and perhaps to dissenters out there, a little sick, but I miss Gaspar Noé. The French enfant terrible who helmed one of the greatest pictures of the 1990’s, I Stand Alone, and who placed...
The Arts blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2007
Phil Hoad: In this week's selection of web movie morsels, here are the films which bucked the Hollywood trend for happy endings in impressive (depressive?) style.
kottke (Free subscription) | 09/14/2007
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian-born French filmmaker whose films are notable for their frank depictions of violence and rape, as in 2002's Irréversible , which features a nine-minute uncut scene of Monica Bellucci's character being raped and beaten. Eva Herzigova is a Czech supermodel and actress. She's appeared on too many magazine covers to count and is fluent in five languages. No one knows what...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 08/10/2007
There's an unavoidable visceral reaction that occurs while watching a victim exact revenge. It can make an audience cheer during the
