Salon (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Venice Film Festival takes risks while Toronto promises gems like Claire Denis' "35 rhums," an intimate movie about the pleasures of home -- and knowing when to leave it.
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Things seen and overheard, Day One of the Toronto International Film Festival: Ads hyping the new hybrid Escalade are opening every screening of this year's Toronto Film Festival; whether that's a subconscious meta-commentary on the festival itself, a similar all-consuming mammoth that's uniting unwieldy pomp and flash with more down-to-earth concern, is entirely unknown. While today was the
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Film News: Claire Denis pic screened at Venice -- Robert Beeson and Pam Engel’s new Brit arthouse distrib New Wave Films has acquired Claire Denis’ Paris-set family drama “35 Shots of Rum” from Gallic sales company Elle Driver at Venice.
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
As the Venice Film Festival reached its halfway point Monday, critics were, for once, unanimous: The lineup has been underwhelming....
On The Scene (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
by Shane Danielsen (September 1, 2008) With the press incensed by the lack of major interview opportunities ( George Clooney and Brad Pitt , in town for " Burn After Reading ", politely but firmly declined all requests), and industry numbers noticeably down from previous years, the Venice Film Festival had to deliver in terms of films, if it hoped to silence a growing army of naysayers. After three...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum "is like a dance, like an atmospheric manifestation, like an epic chanting in which stylization plays out in the vibrant presence of bodies, voices, silences, music and sounds," writes Jean-Michel Frodon in a journal...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Four days into the Venice Film Festival, and the programme feels as though it has been temporarily hijacked by hubris and bombast. With a spectacularly inept thriller (Barbet Schroeder’s Inju, La Bete Dans L’Ombre) and an incoherently hallucinatory gangster movie (the unwatchable Plastic City by Lu Lik-wai) on offer, the audience is more than ready for something intimate and meaningful, a film that...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Film Reviews: The warmth radiating from Claire Denis' "35 Shots of Rum," smoother than the finest liquor, reminds viewers how rarely movies capture the easygoing love embodied in a functional family, with all its support and tenderness.
Ansa (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
21 vying for Golden Lion, eight out of competition
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
A film based on the real-life theft of an ancient Scottish artifact from London's Westminster Abbey will close this year's Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday.
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is now less than a month away, and the full line-up of films has been slowly revealing itself through a string of small announcements over the past month or so. Today a large chunk of the Special Presentations were finally announced to round things out, and I am blown [...]
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
About Me Jeremy Richey COMING SOON: A NEW SIDE BLOG DEDICATED TO THE CAREER OF JEAN ROLLIN.If you have any rare films, clippings, promotional materials or anything else Rollin related that you would like to share for the upcoming project please email me. THIS WEEK'S TEMPLATE PICTURE COMES FROM: MY OTHER PAGESMy Friday Screentest at DVD PanacheCURRENTLY ON THE STACK-O-MATICMOON IN THE GUTTER'S CONTINUING...
International - Home (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Collections of short movies by today's most talented film-makers will be screened in Sofia's most "alternative" cinema
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Film News: Cannes Palme D'Or winner to open event -- The 46th New York Film Festival will kick off its opening night with Cannes Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet’s “The Class.”
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
Thanks to Gala.fr , I discovered some quotes by the incomparable Miss Béatrice Dalle. She mentioned her admiration for Isabelle Huppert as an actress (of course; the two starred together in Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup [ Time of the Wolf ]). And did you ever wonder what makes Mlle Dalle shiver? Pasolini's films. Above is a photo that I accidentally, and amiably, stumbled upon using the Google...
