The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
By Edmund Mullins The eponymous, middle-aged heroine (Kim Hye-ja) in Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother , looks puzzlingly at a youngster retouching photographs on a computer and remarks: “There’s nothing you can’t do these days.” In Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass , mercurial retiree Georges Palet (André Dussollier) spots the outline of a girl’s black panties showing...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
by Steven Boone Film Festivals come and go. What's important is what stays with you. I saw some things at this year's New York Film Festival. Moments out of time, as they say (and used to say in a provocative yearly Film Comment roundup). Here are some fragments that are still stuck to my shoe: A Dutch-angle, chiaroscuro long-take of singer Jeanne Balibar recording a drunkenly sexy number with her...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Palisades Tartan announced a DVD and Blu-ray release on 8 December of Olivier Marchal's 36 [ 36 Quai des Orfèvres ], a crime thriller starring Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Valeria Golino, Roschdy Zem, Francis Renaud, Daniel Duval and Anne Consigny. 36 is currently slated for an American remake directed by Martin Campbell ( Casino Royale , the 2 Antonio Banderas...
The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
The 2009 New York Film Festival opened with Alain Resnais' loopy and lovely film Wild Grass . You can read my Meniscus Magazine review here . Below are clips from the afternoon press conference on September 25, 2009. From left to right are Resnais, translator Lucius Barre, and actors Andre Dussollier and Mathieu Amalric. In this clip, Resnais offers his thoughts on the future of film, which he believes...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
At age 87, Alain Resnais has produced one of his boldest films. "Wild Grass," which opened the New York Film Festival on Friday, is just wild, blending the audacity of "Punch Drunk Love" with the mindbinding qualities of Charlie Kaufman. The film's about a married man (André Dussollier) who finds a woman's (Sabine Azéma) stolen wallet and becomes obsessed with her...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
NYFF TAKEPART ROUND-UP André Dussollier, Alain Resnais, Mathieu Amalric Photo by Godlis The actual NY Film Festival kicked off this past Friday night with Alain Resnais’s wonderful Wild Grass . As the actual festival starts, I’m about halfway through the festival’s press screening schedule. With all of that I thought it would be a good time to do a little round-up of our coverage...
Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
NEW YORK - Tonight is the opening for the 47th New York Film Festival. I have been invited to cover it, but due to the recession (and as this site is self-financed), I will not be able to attend its full schedule; however, fear not... I will begin covering it from the Big Apple a week from today. The coverage will take much the same form as it did last year, with a series of dispatches to cover the...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
NYFF OPENING NIGHT Wild Grass / Les herbes folles - Alain Resnais, 2009, France, 104m Screens: 9/25/09 6:00pm I’m not quite sure what I could say about Alain Resnais’s marvelous Wild Grass that would really help you understand the film. So, instead of trying to I’m just going to post the synopsis from the NYFF below, assure that it is pure genius and then list five awesome things...
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The 47th Annual New York Film Festival Returns to the Fully Renovated Alice Tully Hall September 25 - October 11, 2009 The 47th edition of the New York Film Festival will open with the U.S. premiere of Alain Resnais's Wild Grass (Les herbes folles) and close with Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces. This year's Centerpiece will be Lee Daniels' Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. In...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The lineup for next month's New York Film Festival was unveiled today, and there's pretty much something to suit all preferences. The highlights: the opening-night premiere of Alan Resnais's Wild Grass , Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime , Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or–winning White Ribbon , a cleaned-up print of The Wizard of Oz , and — rejoice, castration fans! — Lars von Trier's...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Shortly after Venice announced their 2009 line-up, Toronto added another 8 titles, and while I took a mental note of it at the time, I forgot to post them here. The titles include World Premieres of the new Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jason Reitman films, as well as Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen 's North American Premiere. Also, Dagur Kári's English-language The Good Heart , which reteams Brian Cox and...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
I don't put much stock in movie nostalgia, but I still remember how thrilled I was by my first viewing of Delicatessen over fifteen years ago. Even with the weak elements of the movie taken into consideration, the world realized within is still one I like going back to. So I've been eager for actual footage from Micmacs A Tire-Larigot, the first film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet since 2004's A Very Long...
http://www.availableimages.com/feed (Free subscription) | 16/03/2009
Browse the eleven images of Micmacs à tire-larigot on L’Express website. Micmacs à tire-larigot is set to hit French theaters on October 29. The film stars Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Dominique Pinon, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Julie Ferrier, Omar Sy and Yolande Moreau. The film is directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Jeunet is best known as the director [...]...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
New Yorker has just announced the DVD for Alain Resnais' musical/comedy Same Old Song [ On connaît la chanson ], for 9 December. The film stars André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Sabine Azéma, Agnès Jaoui, Lambert Wilson and Jane Birkin; it also walked away with about a hundred Césars when it was released in 1997.
The SNG Machine!! (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Pediatrician Alexandre Beck still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex ... Starring Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussollier... Download This movies In High Quality 300x faster downloads then anywhere else online. Watch new movies in theater in streaming divx format....
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