CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival wrapped last night with a gala screening of Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning The Class. The screening was preceded by the award ceremony for the audience and jury prizes.
Filmjourney.org (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
With its 2008 line-up unveiled yesterday, AFI FEST has become the preeminent film festival for world cinema in Los Angeles. This is a dramatic improvement over past years, when the Palm Springs or Los Angeles festivals seemed destined to carry the torch for movies common to the critical dialogue from major festivals around the world. [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008 has been awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." What a...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
This year's winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes is a French film titled The Class aka Entre les Murs. A trailer for the film has been discovered, courtesy of The Playlist, and is worth watching for those interested in seeing what this year's big Cannes winner is all about. Although it doesn't have subtitles (I wish I knew what they were saying!), you should be able to get through it anyway with this...
Celebrity gossip Celebrity news (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Forget the fanboys and their comic-book movies, it’s time to hail a long-neglected fan base-the mature women who kept “Mamma Mia!” on top in the international market for the fifth week in a row. One woman in Germany is reported to have seen the ABBA-inspired musical romance more than 70 times. Thanks to a top-of-the-market bow in [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
One is a cheap, gritty docudrama carved from the muddled, energetic lives of teenagers in a troubled, multi-racial suburb. The other is an all-singing, all-dancing tribute to the bonhomie of the lost working-class Paris of the 1930s.
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Grey and waterlogged, Jerzy Skolimowski's Four Nights with Anna is something like the Eastern European answer to Rear Window and Chungking Express, a deeply gothic, but no less romantic tale of voyeurism, breaking and entering, and secret love. Instead...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The technology has the potential to save the film industry up to $3 billion per year in distribution costs.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
This year’s New York Film Festival opened Friday night with a screening of French director Laurent Cantet’s The Class . The film, which has already won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, focuses on a multicultural classroom in Paris’ rapidly gentrifying 20th arrondissement. With the exception of the role of the teacher, who is played by the author whose memoir inspired the movie, the cast...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The 46th New York Film Festival includes a striking number of features that might be called quasi documentaries.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
THE New York Film Festival opened its 2008 edition Friday night with a screening of French director Laurent Cantet's "The Class" and a blowout at Tavern on the Green. Now it's down to the serious task of watching movies. Trying to decide which to...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Despite—or perhaps because of—its Palme d’Or win at Cannes earlier this year, word on the street is that Laurent Cantet’s The Class is a weak opening night selection for 2008 New York Film Festival, a tepid piece of liberal...
Reverse Shot - (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Class is a welcome corrective to a significant omission in the vast majority of junior high or high school movies—actual classroom activity. Because, presumably, nobody wants to relive the tedium and obligation of school, the teaching of young people is ignored or else dismissively mocked despite its integrality, for good or ill, to the formative adolescent experience. read more
Movies (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
by Leo Goldsmith (September 26, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] Realism is the mode du jour of international art cinema, so it's fitting that the New York Film Festival opens with Laurent Cantet 's Palme d'Or winner, " The Class ," an exercise in naturalist mise-en-scene, improvisatory nonprofessional acting, and immediate handheld cinematography. These tropes should by now be familiar...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The young bodies crowding "The Class," an artful, intelligent movie, come in all sizes, shapes and colors.
