purbeckblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
[ October 10, 2008; 7:15 pm; ] This year's Purbeck Film Festival kicks off on Friday (10th October). The opening gala film at Wareham's The Rex cinema will be the late Anthony Minghella's 'Breaking and Entering', starring Jude Law, Juliette Binoche and Vera Farmiga. The film will be introduced by Roger Laughton, Chair of SW Screen and friend of Minghella. The Lighthouse in Poole will also be showing...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Three adult siblings reunite for a final visit with their mother, and then to manage her estate once she’s passed away, in Summer Hours, a superior family drama that, despite its apparent dissimilarities from his recent work, finds French director...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The most notable thing about “in-i,” a dance piece in repertory through Oct. 20 at London’s National Theater, is the celebrity of its performers, Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
As the NFT in London prepares a Juliette Binoche season, Kim looks at Abel Ferrara's Mary which also stars Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker.
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Olivier Assayas has said that his intention with Summer Hours was to return home and make a “French film” in the wake of his globetrotting trilogy of demonlover, Clean, and Boarding Gate. Given the terrain he’s been plumbing for...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The National Portrait Gallery has put on show a portrait of dancer and choreographer Akram Khan by American-Iranian artist Darvish Fakhr
La Vie Quotidienne (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
I watch a wide range of films, preferring slice-of-life above all other kinds, such as Être et avoir, that I reviewed earlier. I am also partial to good action films such as Bourne and more stereotypical one such as Bond. I can’t stand costume dramas, especially those with Keira Knightley who seems to be unavoidable in [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A portrait of dancer Akram Khan is unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London
Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
(photo by Tristram Kenton from The Guardian) Oh, I am so jealous of anyone who’s in London right now. I went to the bookstore yesterday in search of the new issue of Movmnt magazine. Couldn’t find it but found an article in Dance International magazine about a new performance at the National in London, a collaboration [...]
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Guardian corrections , Thursday September 18 2008. ' Amir Khan, who is a boxer, is not collaborating with Juliette Binoche on In-I at the National Theatre in London as we said in a headline. Akram Khan, who is a dancer and choreographer, is. ’ ' Some confusion crept into a report that defined heavy drinkers as those who regularly consume at least twice the daily guidelines of 35 units a week for women...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Juliette Binoche makes an impressive foray into the world of modern dance in-i Lyttelton Theatre, London SE1 When the French film actor and arthouse icon Juliette Binoche announced last year that she was going to be in a contemporary dance piece, questions abounded. What was she thinking? Would she actually dance? Who with? The answers are: she wasn't, she would, and Akram Khan. Three years ago Binoche's...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
An interview with Nick Hytner has prompted various blogospheric responses this week. Plus public improvisation techniques and the Whingers' return
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Everyone knows the American Film Institute (AFI) for their many thought-provoking (albeit somewhat predictable) Top 100 lists, and the British Film Institute (BFI) handles a similar duty for British cinema. However, in celebration of their 75th Anniversary, the BFI tried something a bit different: they asked 75 people from various professions and backgrounds in the [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Star-gazing theatergoers in London will find Kenneth Branagh in "Ivanov" at Wyndhams Theatre, Juliette Binoche in "in-i" at the National Theatre's Lyttelton auditorium and Josh Hartnett in "Rain Man" at the Apollo Theatre.
Digital Lard (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Network is delighted to announce the release of three unique French films available in three separate packages for the first time in the UK
