The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Although its location inside the Forum des Halles is not the most desirable, Forum des Images is the gem of this underground maze. Nowhere else will you find such an enormously varied film agenda including 1920s silent film, contemporary art house cinema and everything in between. There is a strong emphasis on the French cinema tradition with regular [...]
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
David Britain writing for VINGT Paris, photo courtesy of Forum des images. Although its location inside the Forum des Halles is not the most desirable, the Forum des Images is the gem of this underground maze. Nowhere else will you...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Btms^ for Friday, October 30. TGIF! Drink 4cast 4 2day: Great Lakes Nosferatu 2 get in ghoulishly good spirits for Halloween! Cheers to our Home Teams on Saturday…as the UK Wildcats tackle Mississippi State in Lexington, and the U of L Cardinals battle it out with Arkansas State in Louisville! Complimentary Spirits Samplings at all Liquor Barns today from 5 to 7 pm: - Cruzan [...]
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
tenebrous \TEN-uh-bruhs\, adjective: Dark; gloomy. Tenebrous derives from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae, "darkness." mantrum when a grown man throws a tantrum when he can't have his way. Rick had a mantrum when he found out he couldn't have McDonald's for dinner Trivia When it comes to animal life, what’s a pumpkinseed? A small, speckled freshwater fish with an orangish breast and...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Guangzhou was sacked by Arab and Persian pirates in 758. Prince Wilhelm of Denmark became George I, King of the Hellenes, in 1863. Orson Welles's radio broadcast of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds created panic in several locations across the United States in 1938, as listeners thought they were hearing a real news broadcast. Jackie Robinson, of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, signed a contract...
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
David Britain writing for VINGT Paris Hunched over his trumpet, eyes shut reclusively or hidden behind sunglasses, dead to everything other than the music. It is certainly an iconic image that has come to represent one of the greatest jazz...
Simon King's written outpourings (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Recently, cinema has become one of my main passions. I'm gradually becoming more of a cinephile, but I'm still not all the way there, so this list is far from complete or definite. This list, I must make clear, is a personal selection from what I've encountered and what I've liked the most. Other directors I will be looking into this year are Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky, Jean Renoir, Sam Fuller, Eisenstein,...
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Reviewer: Erin Donovan Rating (out of 5): ****½ Mira Nair 's Monsoon Wedding , just out in a new 2-DVD set from Criterion , is the India native's contribution to the unofficial canon of directors' final works from the homeland before emigrating to the United States. Like Milos Forman 's Fireman's Ball , Louis Malle 's Murmur of the Heart or Susanne Bier 's After the Wedding , Monsoon presents...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The Louis Malle film festival provided a glimpse into the director's genius
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Park Chanwook; Song Kangho; Kim Okvin. Rating:
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
France/West Germany Feature Film Director: Louis Malle Writers: Louis Malle, Joyce Buñuel Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist Cast: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro Oblique, opaque, enigmatic, dreamy, baffling, strange, Malle’s curious follow-up to Lacombe, Lucien (1974) - following an adolescent girl on an odyssey to nowhere in particular, upon which she...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
France/Italy/West Germany Feature Film Writer/Director: Louis Malle Cinematographer: Renato Berta Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand, François Négret Based on an incident from the filmmaker’s childhood, Malle’s immensely moving film - set in a catholic boarding...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Countess Marina Cicogna, the venerable Italian movie producer whose films include Once Upon A Time In The West and whose grandfather, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, founded the Venice Film Festival, has dusted off some old photographs she took in the Sixties of her glamorous friends. Until recently these images were languishing in drawers and forgotten about in old albums.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Obituary: Producer made headlines in Paramount lawsuit -- Producer and literary agent Alain Bernheim, who famously sued Paramount with Art Buchwald, died of bacterial meningitis Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 86.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
There's just something clenched and curious in Ben Foster's features, and maybe in Foster himself. All kinds of currents seem to be running through the guy, like he's thinking about pulling a gun or something. I know...that's his selling point, his edge. But I don't think he can do much else. I don't think he has it in him to play sedate or easygoing, much less serene....
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