International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Spike Lee's film about black soldiers in World War II sometimes stumbles under its self-imposed burden of historical significance.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
"Miracle at St Anna will doubtless be extolled by people who mistake [Spike] Lee's righteous clobbering for moral seriousness," writes David Edelstein in New York. "But compare any scene to Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (stupidly retitled Days of Glory in...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Days of Glory, a film directed by Rachid Bouchareb on at the The Progressive Film Club, New Theatre 43 East Essex Street Dublin. Where would you get this quality of films in such a fabulous setting?
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
The were announced this past Sunday in what turned out to be a star studded affair. Robert De Niro himself presented La Palme D'Or to the winner while the President of the Jury was actor extraordinaire Sean Penn.As for the Jury itself, here's who was doing the judging this year: Jeanne Balibar (Actress) - Rachid Bouchareb (Director) - Sergio Castellitto (Actor) - Alfonso Cuaron (Director) - Alexandra...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Backstage on awards night: Cannes Film Festival jurors Maria Lara (left), Sean Penn (standing, left), Rachid Bouchareb and Jeanne Balibar (center), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (white coat, right), Marjane Satrapi and Alfonso Cuaron (background, right). [photo by eugene hernandez/indieWIRE]...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
Film News: Montand film, Bouchareb thriller on slate -- France's StudioCanal is preparing a biopic on Gallic actor and singer Yves Montand and producing a thriller from "Days of Glory" director Rachid Bouchareb.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Sean Penn may be president of the Cannes Film Festival jury - but don't expect any buttoned-up presidential behavior from the Hollywood rebel.
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
Natalie Portman joins other jury members for the Jury Photocall during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on Wedesday in Cannes, France. Portman, 26, talked a bit about American politics at the photocall. She was not endorsing anyone but “that for the first time in a while we have to chose between who we like [...]
O B L I Q U I T Y (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
The curtain rises on the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008. This year’s feature film jury members include: Sean Penn, President (American actor, director, screenwriter), Jeanne Balibar (French actress), Alexandra Maria Lara (German actress), Natalie Portman (Israeli-American actress), Marjane Satrapi (Iranian author, director), Rachid Bouchareb (French director), Sergio [...]...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Cinema Review: With an all-star cast of the best young acting talent, Claude Miller confronts the experience of the Jewish community during the period of the Nazi Occupation of France, a time of dark family and historical secrets. Noel Megahey reviews.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Film News: Director prep Blythyn film -- Franco-Algerian helmer Rachid Bouchareb, whose Oscar-nominated 2006 pic "Days of Glory" generated boffo box office, is prepping "London River," starring Brenda Blethyn.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 26/04/2008
Having served on a film festival jury and about to again, I'm always interested to know who will be taste-making for the Cannes festival. (Or course my duties and Cannes duties are dissimilar. Perhaps it's like neighborhood junior league to the World Series but I don't know sports so my analogy is surely wanting. Shut up!) To be on the jury at Cannes you generally have to be world reknowned or heavily...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
The Cannes Film Festival today announced its lineup - and, as always, the big guns will be out in force on the French Riviera. The 20 films in competition (down from 22 last year) will include Clint Eastwood's '20s mystery "The Changeling" with Angelina Jolie, and Steven Soderbergh's four-hour biography of Che Guevera, "Che." Also in competition: Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, "Synecdoche
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Veteran directors Clint Eastwood and Wim Wenders will face up and coming filmmakers in the battle for the coveted Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
Links and Things (Free subscription) | 19/04/2008
Just back from (most of ) an Open University French Film day at the Cornerhouse with a showing of Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes. The film was introduced by Isabelle Vanderschelden in French(!) which I understood pretty well and was helpful as a prologue to the film. Unfortunately the film then had English subtitles - some were necessary but French would have been better. The film tells the story
