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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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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Eighty-one-year-old Agnès Varda, whose first film heralded the French New Wave, looks back at her life and career in a loose, whimsical and emotional documentary, "The Beaches of Agnès." The film is autobiographical but doesn't seem self-centered because so...
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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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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Varda brings a playful attitude to this whimsical stroll through her life, telling stories and showing photos and clips that chronicle
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
BEACHES OF AGNÈS (18) **** DIRECTED BY: AGNÈS VARDA
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
This patchwork self-portrait charts the life and work of the French New Wave director Agnès Varda: it's basically "bits of memory, jumbled up", interwoven with her special fondness for the Belgian coast where she grew up.
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
AGNES Varda is renowned as the grandmother of the French nouvelle vague.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
THE BEACHES OF AGNES (18) **** Director: Agnès Varda Running time: 110 minutes
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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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