GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
"Olivier Assayas has said that his intention with Summer Hours [site] was to return home and make a âFrench filmâ in the wake of his globetrotting trilogy of demonlover, Clean and Boarding Gate," notes Jeff Reichert in Reverse Shot....
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Three adult siblings reunite for a final visit with their mother, and then to manage her estate once she’s passed away, in Summer Hours, a superior family drama that, despite its apparent dissimilarities from his recent work, finds French director...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Olivier Assayas has said that his intention with Summer Hours was to return home and make a “French film” in the wake of his globetrotting trilogy of demonlover, Clean, and Boarding Gate. Given the terrain he’s been plumbing for...
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Everyone in Elite Squad, which won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, works the system of pervasive drug trafficking that extends its stranglehold out of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to implicate even the members of BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion), the roughest, toughest and least corruptible ranks of the city’s police corps.
The Reeler (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Olivier Assayas keeps France's NYFF streak alive with Summer Hours
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Fans of auteur Olivier Assayas ( Irma Vep , Demonlover , Clean ) who plan to catch his latest, Summer Hours , which screens tomorrow and Thursday at the Ziegfeld Theater as part of the New York Film Festival , should be apprised that there's absolutely nothing kinky about this new one. Instead, Summer Hours marks Assayas's return to the bourgeois domestic concerns of earlier ensemble films like Late...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Earlier this week, I traveled to Columbia, Missouri to present two Olivier Assayas films ( Irma Vep; Late August, Early September ) in the first installment of Ragtag Cinema's Critic's Series. It was the first time I met filmmaker Todd Sklar, although I had reviewed his self-distributed feature comedy debut, Box Elder , earlier this year. (It's still out there, including a scheduled return engagement...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Film News: U.S., European films play major part in festival -- U.S. and European indie pics play prominently in the Rome Film Festival's Extra sidebar, a mix of cutting-edge and vintage offerings including onstage conversations with Al Pacino, Wes Anderson, Michael Cimino and David Cronenberg.
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
If you're asking that question, then a further question arises: What on earth are you doing here at Reverse Shot? Then again, if you have stumbled here, stay a while, peruse our brand new 23rd symposium and all (well...most)...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
On Monday and Tuesday, I'll be the first guest at Ragtag Cinema's Critics Series in Columbia, Missouri, showing and discussing two films by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep and Late August, Early September . If you're in central Missouri and haven't seen 'em... [ Below, a half-hour conversation with Assayas, David Poland and myself, which I remember as being a treat, but I concede that I look unaccountably...
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
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Omnibus films, by their very nature, tend to be hit-and-miss affairs. Even Paris, je'Taime, as much as I loved it, had its weak links (most notably Olivier Assayas' Quartier des Enfants Rouges). The same is true for Chacun son Cinema (To Each His Cinema), a collection of 34 short films by 36 of the world's most renowned filmmakers, that was commissioned to honor the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
"So here it is: The Full List," announces Darren Hughes at 1st Thursday, responding to news that the Toronto Film Festival has completed its marathon round of unveilings. The lineup for the festival running September 4 through 13 is...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Cinema Review: Olivier Assayas abandons the expansive global filmmaking of his recent work for an apparently smaller-scale Chekhovian drama that nonetheless has wider resonance and larger generational implications. Noel Megahey reviews.
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Starring : Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny Directed By : Olivier Assayas Let me not divulge the story of this film because that might cause many of you to loose track of what the director is trying to show. The film jumps in and out of reality without even sounding as preachy as the popular Matrix series. It begin is a plane where the screens are filled with images of violence and torture....
