The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
In the mid 1980s there was a big nightclub on rue de la Boetie, off the Champs Elysees, called La Piscine. The center of the club was an Olympic-sized swimming pool, which you’d step down into to dance. Entry was something like 80 francs—steep for someone on an au pair salary–and included a drink. I [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
"Les Plages d'Agnès, a gentle, softly whimsical memoir-like reminiscence on video, pulls at strands of cineaste Agnès Varda's life, from her movies to her childhood, from her husband (filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died in 1990), to her photography and art...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Interview: François Ozon's latest film, Angel, is the latest in a string of cheekily genre-busting projects. But, wonders Ryan Gilbey, will the ex enfant terrible ever grown up?
boy culture (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Find the other parts here. Catherine DeneuveBorn: October 22, 1943, Paris, FranceCatherine Fabienne Dorléac was born in Paris to the French actors Maurice and Renée Dorléac. With showbiz literally in her blood, she was appearing in films as soon as...
Dublin Opinion (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Language has been somewhat of an issue on this site over the last couple of days which gives me the perfect excuse to put up the following clip from FOTC. My own pedagogic approach has always been that the best way to learn a foreign language was to do your best to manage to sleep [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
DVD Video Review: Jacques Demy's follow-up to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - once again a musical but on a much grander scale - gets the double-disc treatment courtesy of the BFI. Anthony Nield takes a peak...
jürgen fauth's muckworld (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
It’s no secret that I love Star Wars — and not just “the old ones” but all six movies: their mythic scope, their conceptual and visual inventiveness, the cheesy characters and blunt dialogue, the structural complexity, the joy they take in speed and color. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the all-new animated Star Wars adventure, [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The best of the new releases.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
News: BFI have announced the UK DVD release of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort on 28th July 2008 priced at £22.99. Following the success of Les Parapulies de Cherbourg (1964), Jacques Demy went on to make Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, a large scale tribute to...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
In some ways the ideal person to view Jacques Demy’s 1969 film MODEL SHOP would be somebody who has already seen his first feature LOLA, loves it, then watches MODEL SHOP with no awareness whatsoever that the lead character from the earlier film is going to turn up once again. The first moment Lola appears in the Los Angeles set-film, a million miles away from the small town of Nantes where we last...
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
I knew that the Jacques Demy musical Les Demoiselles De Rochefort was made into a stage show a few years ago, but I didn't realize how updated the sound was. When Americans make old movie musicals into stage musicals, they usually stick pretty closely to the retro sound, but listen to what happened with the first song from Les Demoiselles in the 2003 stage version. First, here's the the song as it...
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Synopsis A musical set in Cherbourg, France, where lovers Genevive (Catherine Deneuve) and Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) are separated due the Algerian War. Genevive's mother, Madame Emery sells colorful umbrellas which contrast with the sadness as the lovers drift apart.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
French filmmakers have a special place in their hearts for "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," Jacques Demy's 1964 tragic pop opera about young lovers (one of them played by the legendary Catherine Deneuve) who sing all of their dialogue to the breathy melodies of Michel Legrand.
More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
SAMURAI COP (Amir Shervan, 1989) USA Perhaps a step-down from the equally-as-ridiculous HOLLYWOOD COP because of the sheer absence of classic Hollywood tough guys Aldo Ray and Cameron Mitchell, but it's still basically the same hazy, stereotypical-laden plot with a generic LETHAL WEAPON cop team comprised of a white hero (Matt Hannon, whose long golden locks put him in the good graces of seemingly...
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
This post is part of the Invitation To Dance Blog-a-thon happening over at Ferdy On Film. I've been delving into classic Hollywood musicals the last little while...I think it's partially due to having had the chance to catch both "Umbrellas Of Cherbourg" and - in particular - "The Young Girls Of Rochefort" on the big screen with audiences very happy to go along for the ride. Of course,
