Laurent Cantet

Movie Review: The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or Winner

Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Out in UK cinemas now, The White Ribbon answers why Michael Haneke deserves the Palme d'Or.

The Decade List: Entre les murs (2008)

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

Entre les murs [ The Class ] – dir. Laurent Cantet It’d be too easy (and too satisfying) to claim that Hollywood has fallen out of love with the inspirational teacher subgenre that brought us such ham-fests as Dangerous Minds , Dead Poets Society , Mr. Holland’s Opus and (sorry Sister Mary Clarence) Sister Act 2 , for that would be forgetting the unsavory offerings they gave us over...

Haitian-born Montrealer wins Blue Met writing prize

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the 2010 Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix.

DVD Update - 14 October

Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009

I'm suffering a seasonal malady, so there may be a lag in posting for the next few days. We'll see. For now, here's a DVD update. It looks as though Magnolia acquired a number of Netflix's former distribution studio Red Envelope Entertainment's releases and are making them available again come 3 November. All of the titles were previously released by Genius and sadly does not include the two Lukas...

St. Trinian's - 10/8/2009

filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

Though it offers a few smiles and steers clear of laughs altogether, Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's British import St. Trinian's, the sixth film to date to be adapted from Ron Searle's classic cartoon drawing series, is to be taken as farce. At least, that's what it seems to be getting at, but who the hell knows really? Buried under a deluge of rousing bad-girls-are-better rhetoric and an overwhelming...

'City of Life and Death' wins Spanish film award

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009

Chinese director Lu Chuan's film "City of Life and Death" has won the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival.

• 'City of Life and Death' wins Spanish film award - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The desire to break free of society's...

bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009

The desire to break free of society's template and find one's more true self is, through no specific intention of my own, the theme of both the novel I am reading and the the two films I watched this weekend. Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps ( Timeout is the American title) concerns Vincent, a reasonably well off French family man. Mom and 3 kids are installed in a well equipped and modern home,...

Cantet to head San Sebastian jury

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009

International News: 'The Class' director to be joined by celeb attendees -- Palme d'Or winning Gallic helmer Laurent Cantet ("The Class") will head the main competition jury at this month's San Sebastian Festival.

The Space Cinema Club: join now!!

Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009

The latest programme for the Cinema Club @ The Space: September-December 2009 is now out and I've got permission to republish it below - some excellent films. Membership - £2 (annual) Tickets £6.00, £5.00concs., £3.00 U.20’s Available on the door. EVERYONE WELCOME.Photo: last week on the wireSundays: Doors open 7.30pm Films begin at 8.00pmWednesdays: Doors open 8.00pm...

WWTW Interview: ‘Surveillance’ director Jennifer Lynch - Part I

WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009

Director Jennifer Lynch doesn’t mind cursing in casual conversation, nor does she mince words about how much she missed being behind the camera. Shooting “Surveillance,” her first feature since 1993’s “Boxing Helena,” was “sheer (expletive) heaven.” “I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home,” Lynch tells WWTW. “Everybody’s...

New on DVD: 'The Class,' 'I Love You, Man'

USA Today (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009

A French Oscar nominee set in a modern, multi-racial Parisian classroom and a retrospective on James Dean's early career are ...

DVD: Review:DVDs In Brief: August 12, 2009

A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009

The strength of male bonds has been a running theme in the Apatow Age, but I Love You, Man (Paramount) goes that next step by attaching the unctuous term “bromance” and sending its sensitive hero on “man-dates” to find himself a best man for his wedding. But the immensely likeable Paul Rudd and Jason Segal make a winning team, and their genuine chemistry together goes a long...

Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 8/11

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

I Love You, Man Bro-mance, schmo-mance, this is a funny movie, centered by a very good performance by Paul Rudd as a befuddled "ladies' man" in search of a best man for his upcoming wedding to Rashida Jones. He starts awkwardly 'man dating' until he stumbles across the happy-go-lucky bachelor Jason Segal, and an unlikely triangle is formed. "A sweet, amusing, and perfectly acceptable...

Movies You May Have Missed: The Class

Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009

The Class / Entre les murs (2008) **** I’m a little surprised Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Palme d’Or winner is just now coming to DVD, but then it lingered in theaters for nearly 6 months on the way to around $3.76 million at the US box office thanks to its Foreign Language Oscar nomination. That’s not too [...]

Bipashu Basu starrer Shob Charitro Kalponik selected for Durban Film Fest

Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009

MUMBAI: BIG Pictures' Bengali film directed by Rituparno Ghosh - Shob Charitro Kalponik (Afterword) starring Bipasha Basu has been selected for the 30th Durban Film Festival 2009.The festival will be held from 22 July to 2 August 2009. Ghosh will be traveling to Durban, South Africa for the screening of the film, which is scheduled for 30 July.Written and directed by ...

The MEDIA programme in the spotlights

patrickguillard | 02/19/2009

Slumdog Millionaire is one of the films that have been selected to participate to the competition in 13 categories in this year's Academy Award ceremonies. This film has been financed by the MEDIA programme. This year, 7 films funded by this programme have been nominated and in the last three years, MEDIA funded films have won a total of eight Oscar awards. This programme seems to be a very positive