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2009 | 2008
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勝手にしやがれ: Japanese Film & Media on Its Own Terms, #1: Out of Sight
27 December 2009 6:18 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
勝手にしやがれ (Katte Ni Shiyagare)
In François Truffaut’s fourth episode of the Antoine Doinel saga, Bed and Board (1970), Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) embarks on an affair with a Japanese woman, Kyoko (Hiroko Berghauer), culminating in a restaurant sequence in which Antoine keeps excusing himself to call his wife Christine (Claude Jade). Kyoko exits the restaurant, leaving a small piece of paper on which she’s written, in kanji, ‘katte ni shiyagare,’ a declaration of frustration and independence, of having had enough, which can be translated politely, as above, as well as in a far more casual manner. Antoine is unable to read this of course, it suffices that she’s gone. In Truffaut’s film, this subtitle appears on the shot of the brief note, ‘va te faire foutre’/'go to hell'. What French audiences at the time did not know at the time was that this Japanese expression was also »
Stella Artois and The Auteurs Present 7 French Classics
10 December 2009 3:27 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
From December 15 through 22, The Auteurs and Stella Artois will be presenting to viewers over 18 in the UK a daily series of French films for free. Titles include Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, Féminin and Vivre sa vie, François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Jules et Jim, Jacques Demy's Lola, Chris Marker's La Jetée and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour.
The occasion is France 7 Ways | 7 Days | 7 Films: French New Wave Film Festival, celebrating the closing week of Stella Artois' Recyclage de Luxe campaign. Enjoy! »
Youth in Revolt | Review
16 November 2009 8:16 AM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Miguel Arteta Writer(s): C.D. Payne (novel), Gustin Nash (screenplay) Starring: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Mary Kay Place, M. Emmet Walsh, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long special appearances by: Fred Willard, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a 14-year old going headstrong through puberty. Equal parts a derivation from J.D. Salinger, Daniel Clowes, François Truffaut and Wes Anderson, Nick is obsessed with girls and enjoys great literature, foreign cinema and Frank Sinatra – which means, of course, that he is still a virgin. Nick’s parents are divorced. He lives with his mother (Jean Smart) and her white trash boyfriend, Jerry (Zach Galifianakis doing what he does best). Jerry rips off some sailors – thus Jerry, Nick’s mother and Nick thrust forward into the narrative as they go on vacation (into hiding) at a Christian trailer park. This is where Nick falls instantly head-over-heels for »
- Don Simpson
Birthday Suits: Hamlets & Hydes
13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/131312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death. That Gibson's sperm could magically endure beyond the grave is far more likely. He already has eight children.1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, famous influential thespian and the 19th century's most prominent Hamlet. He's been portrayed onscreen and stage by famous thespians like Richard Burton and Frank Langella, usually in stories connected to his estranged brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Will someone play him in the Spielberg helmed Lincoln film?
Oskar, Steve and Whoopi
1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies. »
- NATHANIEL R
French Connections: François Truffaut, Tsai Ming-Liang, Jerry Lewis
13 November 2009 6:36 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Updated through 11/13.
François Truffaut: A Winter Portrait, running Tuesdays through December 22 at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York, showcases the less-heralded work of the 1970s. "The 'efficiency' of his output during the decade could be cause for quality-control concerns," writes Justin Stewart in the L Magazine. "Nearly always using the same small crew, the same cinematographer (the great Nestor Almendros), and making his own Hitchcockian cameos, Truffaut produced a run of films that have an unsurprisingly similar tenor, even as he seesawed from melodrama (The Story of Adele H.) to a lighthearted kids romp (Small Change). It's because all is nuance in them. Elements like the relentlessness of Adele H.'s devotion to love itself (not the man), which that led Pauline Kael to consider it a half-comedy, or the horrifying windowsill leap by a kid in Small Change, pull the movies back from the edge of »
The Forgotten: Chains of Love
12 November 2009 6:41 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
With the fragments of Henri-Georges Clouzot's never-completed L'enfer (1964) finally gathered together and released as part of the making-of/unmaking-of documentary Inferno (2009), now seems a good time to revisit Clouzot's last feature, the criminally neglected La prisonnière (1968).
Made at the urging of admirer François Truffaut, this perverse romance utilized many of the pop-art gimmicks and psychedelic visual tricks Clouzot had planned to use in the abortive L'enfer, but in the four years since that project had rolled over and died, nearly taking its director with it, times had changed, and Clouzot's experiments no longer looked as startling as they would have in '64. (Plus, L'enfer would have been a black and white film whose naturalistic style would have been violently ruptured by bursts of hallucinatory color.) In fact, it probably looked as if the old man was straining to be hip and counter-cultural. The film was passed over with a degree of embarrassment. »
10 Awesome Foreign Actresses in Movies You Must See!
25 September 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
They're young, beautiful and talented, but some of them maybe quite unfamiliar to some of you. In our latest List of 10, tMF compilled 10 Foreign (if you like, Non-American) actresses and the must-see movies that made them 'hot properties' locally. Some of them joined Hollywood already - but have you seen them at their Best?
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- - - It's a pity many of the roles given to them in Hollywood are not what you can call 'prestige' roles. Most of them are given the usual run-of-the-mill characters. Why not take a good look at their previous works and find out why we think they're awesome!
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# 10 - Maria Valverde (Spain) - Maria Valverde was born in Madrid and says she always wanted to become an actress. She finally fulfilled her dream at the age of 16 with a leading role in Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
21 New Movies to be shown at Chicago International Film Festival
19 September 2009 11:39 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
The Scorecard Review will be there to cover the interviews, movie reviews and red carpet moments of the Chicago International Film Festival in October. Here’s a list of 21 movies that will be a part of the event. We’ll have all the news you’ll need to be ready for the fest right here.
October 8 – 22, 2009
Chicago, September 16, 2009 – Cinema/Chicago is proud to announce another 20 films that will appear at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival. From dazzling CGI animation to tales of existential ennui and little white lies gone wrong, The 45th Chicago International Film Festival promises an impressive array of diverse films that will excite cinema fans in Chicago and beyond. Below is a newly released sampling of the 145 films that will be shown at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, which will take place October 8th through the 22nd at the AMC River East 21 Theater (322 E. »
- Jeff Bayer
Shane Meadows Takes to the Road
16 July 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Write what you know, the old chestnut echoes, and that's precisely what celebrated British filmmaker Shane Meadows has been doing since his 1997 feature debut "TwentyFourSeven." Meadows' naturalistic, working class dramas all seem to be at least partly based on real-life experiences, from the drug-addled friend who was bullied into suicide -- the inspiration behind his revenge thriller "Dead Man's Shoes" -- to the violence-prone skinhead pals from his youth that turn up in "This is England." One of the films is even entitled "Once Upon a Time in the Midlands," which is precisely where the BAFTA Award-winner was born, raised, and still lives today.
The rare exception to Meadows' typical small-town locales, then, is his latest, "Somers Town," which still features what film buffs might call kitchen-sink realism, but is transplanted to the titular neighborhood in central London. In a second collaboration with young Thomas Turgoose (who stole the show »
- Aaron Hillis
Little Scene : Céline and Julie Go Boating
8 July 2009 2:35 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
(Rivette, 1974) I saw David Lynch's Inland Empire, on release, with a good friend and fellow fan one rainy night at the Ritzy in Brixton, South London. We had dodged the reviews and the hype and those ugly screen shots of Laura Dern's grimaced face and made it through all 180 chaotic, muddled minutes... only to be totally devastated. We hated it. What had we missed? After all, Lynch had already attacked the darker realms of Tinsel town once before in the dark wonderland of Mullholland Drive. Why was he retreading his own path? I admired some of the ideas, I respected the free thinking way Lynch conceived and wrote the film day by day, on set, allowing actors and to be involved, I thought some of the moments in it were very powerful and that the dirty Dv shooting worked to highlight the "its only skin deep" beauty of film. »
- Neil Innes
DVD Reviews: Claud Chabrol’s A Judgement in Stone and The Color of Lies
25 June 2009 11:57 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
One of the father figures of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol, like François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, took film criticism to new heights through Cahiers du Cinema before turning filmmaker. Influenced greatly by Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, Chabrol has been a prolific filmmaker, and also probably the first among the French New Wave directors to achieve commercial success. Now 79, Chabrol's latest film "Bellamy", his first collaboration with actor Gerard Depardieu, has been released recently. A master who has been traversing from one genre to another effortlessly, Chabrol's films have been marked by explorations of the human psyche »
- Utpal Borpujari
Claude Chabrol Takes The Girl Cut In Two
1 June 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
The Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupée en deux) is a French comedy directed by Claude Chabrol, starring actors Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand and Benoît Magimel. The film revolves around two men who vie for the love of single, local TV weather girl 'Gabrielle Deneige'. Chabrol is noted as a core member of the 'French New Wave' group of filmmakers who first came to prominence in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Like French directors Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol also worked as a critic for film magazine Cahiers du Cinema before pursuing a career in movies. Often characterized as the most 'mainstream' of the New Wave directors, Chabrol at the age of 78, with The Girl Cut In Two, remains a prolific film-making auteur at the height of his 50-year career »
Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies
21 April 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher. Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series. Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night. The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June 2), Fritz Lang (June 8), John Huston (June 11), Jacques Tourneur (June 12), Robert Wise (June 16), Blake Edwards (June 19), Otto Preminger (June 23), David Lean (June 26) and Sidney Lumet (June 29). Weeknight primetime directors include John [...] »
- Andre Soares
Salute Your Shorts: Godard, Truffaut and A Story of Water
2 April 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.
The French New Wave more or less began with Claude Chabrol’s first films, but by the end of 1960 it was clear who the movement’s superstars were. Sure, there were a lot of great films made during that period, many of which hold up beautifully, but it was obvious early on who its Lennon and McCartney were. On the one hand, there was François Truffaut, who bled urgency into his movies with inventive, playful framing and camera use. He put out impossibly polished films on a budget, and with the success of his first feature, took France’s previously ubiquitous “cinema of quality” out back and killed it, with a look towards characters and topics previously untouched by the country's output. »
17th Annual Jewish Film Festival in Portland
2 April 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
The Nw Film Center along with the Institute for Judaic Studies brings you the 17th Annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.
The big film this year might just be another chance to see Waltz with Bashir on the big screen. Some feel this was the best animated film of 2008 … yes, even better than Wall-e. Others think it was the top documentary.
Here’s a complete list of films … each is single admission.
April 16 Thur 7 Pm
Max, Minsky And Me
Germany 2007
Director: Anna Justice
Nelly, a precocious 12-year-old, lives in Berlin with her German Christian dad and American Jewish mom, who is very eager for Nelly to crack down on her bat mitzvah studies. But her twin obsessions—astronomy and her distant fantasy heartthrob, 16-year-old Edouard, Prince of Luxembourg and fellow stargazer—occupy all of her time. Nor is she much interested in the simple-minded girls’ basketball team, which fills the lives of her schoolmates. »
- Jeff Bayer
DVD: Review: The Last Metro
24 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
The title of François Truffaut’s 1980 film The Last Metro comes from the importance of catching the final train of the night for Parisians living under a Nazi-imposed curfew during World War II. While it’s set in a theater where finishing a performance on time takes on a new urgency, Paris’ public transportation doesn’t otherwise factor directly into the plot. In fact, Truffaut limits the action almost entirely to the theater, the block of Montmarte outside its doors, and a few nearby locations. But it’s still the best possible title for the film, connecting directly »
DVD: Review: The Last Metro
24 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
The title of François Truffaut’s 1980 film The Last Metro comes from the importance of catching the final train of the night for Parisians living under a Nazi-imposed curfew during World War II. While it’s set in a theater where finishing a performance on time takes on a new urgency, Paris’ public transportation doesn’t otherwise factor directly into the plot. In fact, Truffaut limits the action almost entirely to the theater, the block of Montmarte outside its doors, and a few nearby locations. But it’s still the best possible title for the film, connecting directly »
Blu-ray Review: Truffaut's '400 Blows' and 'Last Metro' on Criterion Blu-ray
24 March 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Jean-Pierre Leaud in The 400 Blows
Photo: Criterion Collection Blu-ray via DVD Beaver I debated on writing individual reviews for Criterion's Blu-ray releases of The 400 Blows and The Last Metro, both hitting store shelves on March 24, but I couldn't help believe director Francois Truffaut is just as interesting as the films he made, if not more interesting. It was that angle I wanted to bring to my commentary and I didn't see how that would be possible or helpful to the reader if broken up into two parts. Before receiving my review copies of The 400 Blows and The Last Metro I already owned 400 Blows as well as Truffaut's Jules and#038; Jim on DVD as part of my Janus Collection, but I had not watched either. I was a Truffaut virgin and had actually held off watching 400 Blows since owning the collection because I knew the Blu-ray would be »
- Brad Brevet
DVD Playhouse--March 2009
10 March 2009 11:25 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Film: Review: Gomorrah
12 February 2009 2:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have repeatedly emphasized their abhorrence of gangsterism. And they’ve had to since, no matter what price their characters end up paying, movies like Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino, and Coppola’s Godfather trilogy inadvertently glamorize gangster life. Which is not to diminish their greatness or claim they’re irresponsible by any means, but there’s an outlaw allure to the life that cannot be denied; it’s a little like François Truffaut’s famous statement that you can’t make a war movie without making war look like fun. Say this »
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