Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
2008 Chicago International Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand It's hard to believe another year has come and gone and that I'm back in training for another Chicago International Film Festival. It's a time that I relish even as I agonize...
Limitless Cinema (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
FILMS SEEN ON 25-26 SEP 2008 1.NOW SHOWING (2008, Raya Martin, Philippines, 280 minutes, A+++++++++++++++) 2.PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS (2007, Rithy Panh, Cambodia, A+++++++++++++++) 3.A CHRISMAS TALE (2008, Arnaud Desplechin, France, A+) 4.A LIFE WITH SLATE (2006, Dipesh Kharel, Nepal, documentary, A+) 5.LEMON TREE (2008, Eran Riklis, Israel, A+/A) 6.SLINGSHOT (2007, Brillante Mendoza, Philippines,...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
LAURENT Cantet's "The Class," which opens the New York Film Festival to morrow night, has already won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and is France's submission for the foreign-language Oscar. Excusez moi, but what is all the...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
On a provocative day, Bill Maher inflames the devout, French horror hits new extremes, and Paris Hilton drifts through a fiasco.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
TORONTO - While Tattle has been at the Toronto International Film Festival getting a first look at films that will open in our area throughout the fall, Ray Murray and Lewis Tice from TLA and the Philadelphia International Film Festival (and Gay & Lesbian Film Festival) have been checking out films unlikely to see our city unless Murray and Tice book them for their fests.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Film News: Fest to screen 315 movies in 8 days -- South Korea's 13th Pusan Film Festival will kick off Oct. 2 with Kazakh helmer Rustem Abdrashev's "The Gift to Stalin" and close Oct. 10 with Korean helmer Yoon Jong-chan's "I Am Happy."
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Saturday, September 6------- The facts and figures of this year's Toronto International Film Festival go something like this: 312 films from 64 countries, including 249 feature-length films, 76 per cent of which are world, international or North American premieres, and 61 of which are feature directorial debuts. read more
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale) read more
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Film Reviews: After successfully portraying the perverse literary ambitions of several wannabe writers in "Poison Friends," writer-helmer Emmanuel Bourdieu takes a stab at intellectualizing a B-grade family revenge tale in the French thriller "Intrusions."
The Hot Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Great cinema in times of war is rarely about war directly. I am not 100% sure whether this is the subtext or context for the wave of deep, rich, but lighter films about family in Toronto this year. The finest example so far is Arnaud Desplechin's magnificent A Christmas Tale, which launched at Cannes in May. Two films from the sublime Kings & Queen, the film tells the tale of a family broken and mended...
scanners (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
I regret I haven't seen Guillermo Del Toro's "Hellboy" (2004) or "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (2008), though De. Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" was my top movie of 2006. Andrew Tracy at Reverse Shot evidently isn't impressed with the Hellboys,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Film News: Film distrib buys 'Noel,' 'Sleep' -- Neophyte U.K. arthouse distrib New Wave Films has continued its recent buying spree with the purchase of Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel" (A Christmas Tale) and Gideon Koppel's docu "Sleep Furiously."
LA Times (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
"Un Conte de Noel" (directed by Arnaud Desplechin): This was one of my favorite films at the festival. It's about a family gathering that happens over Christmas and is full of intense, crazy characters who always do unexpected things. Catherine Deneuve plays the mother and Mathieu Amalric (the star of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") is the most troublesome son. I thought the film was terrific....
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival made way for some Cannes heavyweights Thursday, unveiling Special Presentation slots for Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner "The Class" and Matteo Garrone's Grand Prix winner "Gomorrah" among a group of about two dozen North American premieres. Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel" and Canadian helmer Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" -- both Cannes Competition titles...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
The U.S. distribution rights to Matteo Garonne's Cannes Grand Prix-winning Gomorra have been acquired by IFC for $1 million.
