Rather Have The Blues: The Novels of Paul Auster, The Films of Jacques Demy
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Cinematically speaking, there are fewer spectacles less inspiring than physical beauty unaccompanied by any semblance of distinct humanity, character or spontaneous emotion. Unfortunately, we...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Les chansons d’amour [ Love Songs ] – dir. Christophe Honoré Approaching the films of Christophe Honoré is a lot like walking along a tightrope. The odds always seem to be against you making it to the finish line without a gust of wind (or, in Honoré’s case, of bullshit) blowing you off. Even the worst of his films have glimmers of effulgence, but in most cases,...
Sparks In Electrical Jelly (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
As mentioned in an earlier post, Swedish National Radio commissioned the group Sparks to produce a radio musical some time ago. Their only proviso was that it should touch on some Swedish theme. As Ron Mael wryly observed, they didn’t think they could get much material out of a musical about Volvos, so they settled instead on Ingmar Bergman as a subject. The result, entitled The Seduction of...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
The Sky Report (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Yet another fan video made for a Best Coast track. These are so fun! This time we get the new song "When I'm With You", scoring some happy-dappy dance scene from "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort", an old Jacques Demy musical.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
This week I caught up with Anges Varda's The Beaches of Agnes (2 screens), which -- if nothing else -- is a strong contender for the year's best documentary. Of course, it helps if you know who Agnes Varda is, or at least have a passing interest in her work. She was associated with the French New Wave, and made her movie directing debut, La pointe-courte (1954), years before Francois Truffaut or Jean-Luc...
The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
A fascination for musicals rooted from Jacques Demy to something more recent like Christophe Honoré. I've really never imagined myself enjoying musicals because I wasn't particularly thrilled seeing Gene Kelly with his song and dance sequences in An American in...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Eighty-one-year-old Agnès Varda, whose first film heralded the French New Wave, looks back at her life and career in a loose, whimsical and emotional documentary, "The Beaches of Agnès." The film is autobiographical but doesn't seem self-centered because so...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Artificial Eye in the UK has already announced volume 2 of their Agnès Varda Collections. The first set hits stores on 19 October and contains La pointe-courte , Cléo from 5 to 7 [ Cléo de 5 à 7 ], Les glaneurs et la glaneuse [ The Gleaners and I ] and Le bonheur . The second will include Vagabond [ Sans toit ni loi ] and The Beaches of Agnès [ Les plages d'Agnès...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
A shambling 1969 walkabout through the Venice and Hollywood sections of Los Angeles with music by proggy psychedelic band Spirit, “Model Shop” is not for everyone. Shot in gorgeous “Perfect Color” by the late Jacques Demy with dialogue by Carole Eastman (“Five Easy Pieces”), it’s a departure for the most traditional of French New Wave [...]
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
From 10.23 through 11.9, BAMcinematek is running a series of 1962 films. It's partially about celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle, and also about making up for the fact that the NYFCC didn't present awards that year due to a newspaper strike. NYFCC chairman Armond White, the apparent architect of the series, has written that 1962 "was equal to Hollywood's fabled...
Girish (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
I spent a week at the Toronto film festival--more on that in a post coming up next week--and then came down with 'festival exhaustion'. Now I've now been catching up on all the Internet movie reading I missed in the last few weeks. Let me collect some of it here: -- At Slow TV , a terrific debate on the new Tarantino film featuring Adrian Martin and three other critics/scholars. -- Zach Campbell :...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Good luck wasn’t always with blonde French beauty Isabelle Aubret: In 1963, Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand had chosen her for the lead role in Les parapluies de Cherbourg , but then she had a severe car accident and La Deneuve took over. Though she had won the Eurovision song contest with the melancholic Un premier amour a year earlier, Aubret never was a pop starlet, but a true chansonette....
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Varda brings a playful attitude to this whimsical stroll through her life, telling stories and showing photos and clips that chronicle
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
BEACHES OF AGNÈS (18) **** DIRECTED BY: AGNÈS VARDA
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