Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
I always make a point of keeping up with the latest productions of the French cinema industry, seeing what I can, when I can, where I can. I have a particular interest in anything to do with life in France during the German occupation, movies like The Army of Shadows and Lacombe Lucien , the first about resistance, the second about collaboration. So, off I trotted at the weekend to see The Army of...
Avuncular American (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
L'Armée du Crime The lump that was in my throat during the 139 minutes of L'Armée du Crime, Robert Guédiguian's dramatization of the "Manouchian Group" story has subsided, but the emotion remains. This is a good, old fashioned, based-on-fact war...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Shocking, captivating, disturbing, groundbreaking ... the opening credits of Vinyan are quite something. First you're thumped between the eyes by screen-filling white-on-black block capitals that are probably used in secret brainwashing experiments, and then there's a low rumble that builds to a dentist-drill screech. If you're disorientated by the nightmarish psychodrama that follows, you can't say...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Marseilles film-maker Robert Guédiguian was just the man to make substantially true tale Army of Crime.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Directed by Robert Guediguian. Starring Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stevenin, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Yann Tregouet
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
A sombre and gripping account of guerrilla fighters in Paris during the Nazi occupation, its difference being that this brave band were not French but a coalition of Jewish émigré and communists (Poles, Italians, Romanians) who loved their adopted country.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
French Resistance saga Rating:4
The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Most British cinema-goers will recognise Virginie Ledoyen only as the exotic nymph who enchanted Leonardo Di Caprio in the 2000 movie, The Beach. But her gritty portrayal…
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
The songs are weaker, the bowdlerised R&B version of the original theme tune is abominable and in this reimagined School for Performing Arts, the leads are white and the supports are blacks and cinema-goers have to wonder whether that should bother them. Compared with Alan Parker's 15-cert original, the plotting has been toned down to a High School Musical-friendly PG, with more dance routines...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Movietalk is happy to invite our correspondent in Cambridge, Jan Gilbert, to give us the low-down on this year’s Cambridge Film Festival. A veritable feast of Independent Cinema, the CFF may be smaller than the sprawling London Film Festival, but it’s also a lot more intimate, making it another [...]
Tom Catchesides' photoblog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The first day of the 2009 Cambridge Film Festival launched the festival in style with a wide range of events and filmmakers attending. Festival director Tony Jones introduces the opening night gala screening of The Army of Crime: Director Robert Guediguian was on-hand to introduce the film and answer the audience's questions: Meanwhile, across the road from the Arts Picturehouse in Emmanuel College,...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
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iArarat (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
Here is a trailer of Robert Guediguian’s upcoming new film L’Armée du crime about the Missak Manouchian led resistance against the Nazi occupation of Paris during the World War II. Looks really good. Hopefully it will be released in the States.
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
My decision to fly out to France a few days early has paid off. Earlier today, I went down to explore the Croisette, the famous street where everything takes place during the Cannes Film Festival. It is traditional that all major and minor studios and distributors line the street with new posters and marketing material, not only to capture the interest of the thousands of cinephiles who have come to...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 04/23/2009
For the most part, the majority of the films Variety speculated would be included at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival made the final list. The only ones that didn’t were Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant and Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro out of the group I listed from their early report. However, to make up for it [...]
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