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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Though MPI, IFC Films has announced several more DVD releases for the first part of 2010, most notably Philippe Garrel's Frontier of the Dawn [ La frontière de l'aube ] for 26 January. The only worthwhile Blu-ray I saw announced was a 20th anniversary edition of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas from Warner, slated for 16 February. Lionsgate also announced a Joel Schumacher film that I (predictably)...
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ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
As long there as there are young people living out their dreams in cities, there will always be young filmmakers eager and willing to follow them around churning out Bohemian anomie portraiture. Kids in urban settings constitute a broad enough arena of exploration that we’ll always have the good (Philippe Garrel), the bad (Joe Swanberg), and the indifferent (Christophe Honoré); the best...
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
For the sake of not going on a tirade about you-kn0w-what, I'll just leave the awards section without any commentary. So here it is. Cannes , held 11-22 May 2005 Palme d'Or : L'enfant [d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne] Grand Prix : Broken Flowers [d. Jim Jarmusch] Prix du jury : Shanghai Dreams [d. Wang Xiaoshuai] Best Director : Michael Haneke - Caché Best Actor : Tommy Lee Jones - The...
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ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
From New Yorker scribe Richard Brody, no stranger to silly proclamations (see also: “If there’s a French filmmaker whose work [Joe] Swanberg’s resembles, it’s Philippe Garrel, who has also made an extraordinary career filming his own stories, starring himself, his family, and his friends.”): This Friday marks the opening of another terrific movie, Lorna’s Silence,...
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Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —It's been too hot to go outside. 7/12/09 - The Big Sleep [Howard Hawks, 1946] # A classy picture, a funny picture. The shamus protagonist makes perfect sense for Hawks. Something to chew on: Bacall's a dime, no doubt, but Vickers (the lil sister) has sass for days, and that kills me. 7/12/09 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Howard Hawks, 1953] # Finished on my computer, and...
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The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Most of the these films I’d go see whenever they screen, and I can also remember vividly exactly how and where I first saw them. I also realize that in making this list I’m drawn to films that are mysterious or complicated or even ugly—and funny, of course—in a way that only movies can get to. These are not ranked, but may be grouped by association. -Some entries have two comparable...
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James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Siobhan, whose 25 Days in Paris aroused in all of us the longing to star in our own tousled, contemplative Philippe Garrel film, has a new blog. Or, as I prefer to pronounce it, blawg, in honor of Al Pacino...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
In Frontier of Dawn, Philippe Garrel's transfixing follow-up to Regular Lovers, love means being obsessed and obsession is a form of
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DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Thanks to Zeitgeist Films and The Film Desk, two more films by Philippe Garrel have recieved subtitled releases: his 1981 “Emergency Kisses” (”Les Baisers de secours”) and his 1991 “I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar” (”J’entends plus la guitar”). Both are highly, almost intimidatingly personal “diary” films that deal, in fictionalized...
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filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
In Frontier of Dawn, Philippe Garrel's transfixing follow-up to Regular Lovers, love means being obsessed and obsession is a form of love. At least that's the idea you get from watching how it chronicles a young photographer (Louis Garrel, the director's lean son) who begins with a doomed affair with an actress (the radiant Laura Smet) and ends in an agonizing state of fatalism with a baby on the way....
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Chained to the Cinémathèque (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Below I've included 2 linguistic and historical digressions that I cut from my piece on Philippe Garrel at The Auteurs . They likely need more fleshing out to stand on their own, but for now: Our difficulty in separating the 'true story' for the 'true' story has its roots in the earliest Western traditions of abstracted thought (themselves products of the historical moment at which leisure combines...
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Chained to the Cinémathèque (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
My article The Mythopoesis of Autobiography: Philippe Garrel's "Emergency Kisses" and "I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar" , about today's dvd release by Zeitgeist Films, is currently up at The Auteurs.
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Recommended The Movies: No one shoots a scene quite like Philippe Garrel. The director always captures his characters' turmoil, conflicts and beauty in the most peculiar, surprising ways. Where we expect an establishing shot to set up a scene, he might provide a tight composition and only reveal more if naturally inclined to do so. Maybe he won't need to pan or cut, and we'll study one person's face...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Northwest Film Forum continues its yearlong tribute to the films of 1969 with a week's run of Woody Allen's hilarious mock documentary "Take...
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eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 03/19/2009
A look at some of the highlights of the third week of screenings at the European Union Film Festival at Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center.In 1998, Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center first presented the European Union Film Festival, a month-long program designed to highlight the newest films emerging from the EU member nations. Over the years, it has grown into an annual event that is one of the...
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