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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
This week I caught up with Anges Varda's The Beaches of Agnes (2 screens), which -- if nothing else -- is a strong contender for the year's best documentary. Of course, it helps if you know who Agnes Varda is, or at least have a passing interest in her work. She was associated with the French New Wave, and made her movie directing debut, La pointe-courte (1954), years before Francois Truffaut or Jean-Luc...
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The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A fascination for musicals rooted from Jacques Demy to something more recent like Christophe Honoré. I've really never imagined myself enjoying musicals because I wasn't particularly thrilled seeing Gene Kelly with his song and dance sequences in An American in...
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Artificial Eye in the UK has already announced volume 2 of their Agnès Varda Collections. The first set hits stores on 19 October and contains La pointe-courte , Cléo from 5 to 7 [ Cléo de 5 à 7 ], Les glaneurs et la glaneuse [ The Gleaners and I ] and Le bonheur . The second will include Vagabond [ Sans toit ni loi ] and The Beaches of Agnès [ Les plages d'Agnès...
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Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
A shambling 1969 walkabout through the Venice and Hollywood sections of Los Angeles with music by proggy psychedelic band Spirit, “Model Shop” is not for everyone. Shot in gorgeous “Perfect Color” by the late Jacques Demy with dialogue by Carole Eastman (“Five Easy Pieces”), it’s a departure for the most traditional of French New Wave [...]
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
From 10.23 through 11.9, BAMcinematek is running a series of 1962 films. It's partially about celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle, and also about making up for the fact that the NYFCC didn't present awards that year due to a newspaper strike. NYFCC chairman Armond White, the apparent architect of the series, has written that 1962 "was equal to Hollywood's fabled...
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Girish (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I spent a week at the Toronto film festival--more on that in a post coming up next week--and then came down with 'festival exhaustion'. Now I've now been catching up on all the Internet movie reading I missed in the last few weeks. Let me collect some of it here: -- At Slow TV , a terrific debate on the new Tarantino film featuring Adrian Martin and three other critics/scholars. -- Zach Campbell :...
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Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Good luck wasn’t always with blonde French beauty Isabelle Aubret: In 1963, Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand had chosen her for the lead role in Les parapluies de Cherbourg , but then she had a severe car accident and La Deneuve took over. Though she had won the Eurovision song contest with the melancholic Un premier amour a year earlier, Aubret never was a pop starlet, but a true chansonette....
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Cheapskate Chic (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Sometimes I sing this while waiting for the cutest blouse to arrive. photos from: Kitbits I think it is also about time that I big up Kitbits , Even if I do feel a little reluctant as it is my favorite etsy store, and like a secret lover, I don’t want share (but I am anyway, how… promiscuous') While they don’t stock the most ‘trend led’ pieces, I like fact most of their...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) "Model Shop" is an intriguing discard in the corner of the Hollywood closet - yet how would it be thought of today if director Jacques Demy ("Umbrellas of Cherbourg") had been able to cast his first choice, a young and unknown...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Whether positive or negative in outlook—and whether helmed by insiders or outsiders—most of the late-’60s/early-’70s movies that dealt with the American counterculture tended to adopt a tourist’s point of view, treating the long hair, music, drugs, and revolutionary rhetoric as curiosities, to be feared or forgiven. Whatever the failings of Jacques Demy’s lone American...
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Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Part of Sony's Martini Movies* Collection Photo Slideshow Bookmark this on Delicious Print Page Since Jacques Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of my favorite films of all-time, more than any other Martini Movies release from Sony Pictures, Model Shop was the one I was looking forward to the most. Yet, in the same token, I realized that sometimes when French New Wave directors journeyed to America...
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DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Reviewed by Bill Gibron Quote: "Supposed to suggest the growing disconnect between the younger generation and the world around them. Instead, it suggests Demy's disconnect from accomplished moviemaking."
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Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The New York Times reviews Model Shop , the 1969 film by French Director Jacques Demy about draft notice-awaiter George and pinup model Lola, just out on DVD. Demy's only LA-set film loves the city: "The only obvious thing binding George and Lola is their shared affection for Los Angeles, a city that George, an aspiring architect, praises as 'pure poetry.' It’s an enthusiasm that Demy shares,...
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DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Sony has slipped out Jacques Demy’s rare and beautiful “Model Shop” as part of their latest batch of “Martini Movies” — a concept I’m still not clear on, but any excuse to smuggle a forgotten gem like this onto DVD is a good one in my book. A review, plus a quick glance at [...]
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