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5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him

Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director says, keeps him warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He was wearing it in the heat of Cannes last May when I first met him, on a blazing roof terrace; and he's wearing it again today, in London, on an autumnal Monday when I catch him smoking his pipe outside the hotel where we're due to meet. 

With horn-rimmed glasses, smart jacket and a cravat, he looks a bit like an English gentleman, a »

- Jason Solomons

11 September 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

This Monday we can welcome Tom Hanks and Jason Statham into our living rooms as well as some smaller films that could be worth your attention. By far the most exciting aspect of the DVD new releases next week belongs to Luc Besson as 6 of his best films are re-issued. One of the 6 happens to be the brilliant Leon starring Jean Reno and a very young Natalie Portman.

Angels & Demons

Dan Brown’s books have sold millions of copies worldwide so the transfer over to film was only a matter of time.

Back in 2006 director Ron Howard made The Da Vinci Code. The critics hated it, the church loathed it but despite all this it still didn’t do that badly at the box office.

The fact is that it’s not an awful film at all. The best way to describe The Da Vinci Code is painfully average. In »

- Alex Wagner

2 articles from 2009