The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Martin Provost's engrossing biopic is to be believed, the artist was never cut out for a life of stardom, says Xan Brooks Séraphine de Senlis was a lowly French domestic who painted on the sly. She spent her coppers on brushes and oils and daubed primitive still lifes that caught the eye of a visiting art critic. And yet, if Martin Provost's engrossing biopic is to be believed, the artist...
Waggish (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Childhood, says the Children's Encyclopaedia, is a time of innocent joy, to be spent in the meadows amid buttercups and bunny-rabbits or at the hearthside absorbed in a storybook. It is a vision of childhood utterly alien to him. Nothing he experiences in Worcester, at home or at school, leads him to think that childhood is anything but a time of gritting the teeth and enduring. J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Current Template: Isabelle Adjani and Roman Polanski in Polanski's The TenantWednesday, November 18, 2009 Posted by Jeremy Richey at Labels: , , , , , 2 comments: said... Mmmm, I love Gerard Depardeau (sp!), but I have not seen this. He's just amazing. said... Mmmm, I love Gerard Depardeau (sp!), but I have not seen this. He's just amazing. Subscribe to: THE LAST LULLABY DVD AND SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE...
Ten Percent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I so enjoyed this film I have to pass on how good it is. An absolutely brilliant performance by Nina Kervel-Bey as Anna who is the centre of the story as we view through her 9-year-old eyes her parents becoming increasingly politically engaged and the confusion and obstinacy it inspires in her, until she too [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Award Central: Actress to receive world cinema tribute -- The European Film Academy will honor French actress Isabelle Huppert with its European Achievement in World Cinema tribute at the European Film Awards ceremony on Dec. 12 in Bochum.
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight — Where do you heal? Where could he be? Elena and her men [Jean Renoir, 1956] It's Ingrid's show, no doubt, but I was more taken by the sly Mel Ferrer and his lanky-limber rogue. That said, it's a fine metaphor for the star system, and Ingrid's go-anywhere constitution; she's great at aloof twined with cunning. Renoir says he had to improvise the whole thing, for the most...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
A weirdly arresting image from Maurice Pialat's remarkable 1979 picture Passe ton Bac d'abord... (Graduate First...) upon which I muse today, over at the Auteurs'. As for this quieter-than-normal blog, well, I'm in the middle of Mamet's peculiar Homicide, an...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Maurice Pialat's debut feature was L'enfance nue , a quiet, unassuming film about childhood confusion and isolation, following the lead of his predecessors in the French film tradition, Zero For Conduct and The 400 Blows . Like those Jean Vigo and François Truffaut films, Pialat's first film concerns itself with a troubled youth, a delinquent drifting aimlessly through an unstable childhood...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Maurice Pialat's debut feature was L'enfance nue , a quiet, unassuming film about childhood confusion and isolation, following the lead of his predecessors in the French film tradition, Zero For...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
DVD Video Review: Masters of Cinema's exemplary series of Maurice Pialat films continues with Passe ton bac d'abord, made in 1979, which focuses on a group of teenagers in Northern France. Review by Gary Couzens.
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
No, seriously, for it is indeed Marlene Jobert... ...at the end of Maurice Pialat's staggering Nous ne viellirons pas ensemble (We won't grow old together), which I examine in some detail over at The Auteurs'. Next week,I look at Pialat's...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
DVD Video Review: Maurice Pialat's second feature from 1972 brutally and violently depicts the breakup of a couple who definitely won't grow old together. Noel Megahey reviews the Masters of Cinema release.
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Sandrine Bonnaire in Maurice Pialat´s film Sous le soleil de Satan from 1987, also featuring Gerard Depardieu. Note: the movie of choice for this week is mainly directed to French and/or Chinese speaking cinephiles and book lovers who don't necessaril...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
France Feature Film Original Title: À nos amours Director: Maurice Pialat Writers: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat Cinematographer: Jacques Loiseleux Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent, Dominique Besnehard, Cyril Collard, Jacques Fieschi, Valérie Schlumberger, Evelyne Ker, Pierre Novion, Tsilka Theodorou, Cyr Boitard Pialat’s strangely inconsistent effort...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
France Feature Film Director: Maurice Pialat Writers: Catherine Breillat, Sylvie Danton, Jacques Fieschi Cinematographer: Luciano Tovoli Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard, Sandrine Bonnaire, Frank Karaoui, Jonathan Leïna, Jacques Mathou, Bernard Fuzellier, Bentahar Meaachou Pialat’s curious film - a Paris-set tale of cops, lawyers, drug dealers,...
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