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Summer Hours (review)

18 June 2009 7:59 AM, PDT | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news

What is the value of stuff? Perhaps it’s not at all paradoxical that as some of us begin to reject the rampant consumerism into which our culture has descended, the idea that at least some of our crap is not crap will start to see more play. As in writer-director Olivier Assayas’ (Demonlover) heartbreaking meditation on the worth of our things, which explicitly rejects the idea that made-in-China, made-to-be-scraped junk is worth our sentiment while embracing with melancholy bittersweetness the notion that even very pricey objets -- like, say, an art vase -- are priceless only in what they mean to us as everyday items, for the memories attached to them. After the death of their mother (Edith Scob: Bon Voyage), three siblings (Juliette Binoche [Dan in Real Life], Charles Berling, and Jérémie Renier [In Bruges]) face the daunting prospects of what to do with her rambling cottage in the French countryside, which is chock

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MaryAnn Johanson

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Kiarostami's 'Certified Copy' Gets Certified Start

8 June 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Certified Copy suffered from multiple false starts, but after three years of nonsense it appears that Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has his two feet on Italian soil making this his first film outside his home. Filming begins today in Italy's Cortona, Lucignano and Arezzo in Tuscany.  Based on an original script by Kiarostami, this tells the story of a British author (William Shimell replaces Sami Frey) who travels to Italy to hold a conference on the relationship between originals and copies in the art world. During the conference he meets a French art gallery owner (Juliette Binoche). The author plays along but the innocent charade becomes a dangerous game as the lines between reality and make-believe blur. Marin Karmitz will produce the picture which will should be seeing at Cannes next year. Certified Copy is a MK2 production in co-production with Bibi Films and France 3 Cinema with support from Canal Plus and the Cnc.

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May. It's a Wrap

1 June 2009 8:21 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

One more month and the year is half over! Yikes. I only have six months left to churn out some fantastic life-saving (my life anyway) "best of the decade" book for you to purchase. In case you missed anything, here's the best of May.

The Blockbuster Loop I buried the lead. Everyone thought it was about Christian Bale but what I really wanted to discuss was the loop!

May Flowers My favorites were Vertigo and My Fair Lady. Yours?

9 for Nine I should talk about this everyday given your enthusiasm.

Juliette Binoche Ja thinks she's the "best crier" in cinema. A lively discussion followed.

Terminator a retrospective and the debut vodcast.

'Precioussssss' the new movie looks great but I can't stop thinking about the white poodle and the girl in the pit.

John Cameron Mitchell on Nicole Kidman "a stradivarius"

Signatures: Jamie Lee Curtis Adam chose a truly undervalued actress to celebrate.

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NATHANIEL R

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Indie Roundup: Gondry's Aunt, Jessica Biel's 'Easy Virtue,' French 'Summer'

27 May 2009 6:16 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Deals. Michel Gondry's doc The Thorn in the Heart may not have generated much positive buzz when it premiered at Cannes last week, but it impressed the folks at Oscilloscope Laboratories. They acquired North American rights to the film and are planning a theatrical release, according to indieWIRE. Thorn examines the life of Gondry's aunt, a schoolteacher for more than 30 years in rural France. David Hudson at IFC's The Daily gathered links to the coverage, in which one critic calls Thorn a "glorified home movie" and another predicts that "normal people will simply walk out of it," while others defend it as "a lovely, minor-key ode" and "mildly diverting."

Box Office. Stephen Elliott's Easy Virtue led the way, earning a very tidy $110,443, according to Box Office Mojo, which averages out to $11,044 per screen. Jessica Biel gives her best performance so far as an American race car driver who

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Peter Martin

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Juliette Binoche...

21 May 2009 9:41 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

... is the best crier working in movies today.

Ja from Mnpp here. There is a scene in Summer Hours - a wonderful film, by the way - that exists only to play off of my above-stated theory. The film literally stops in its tracks, zooms in on her face and stares at her for what must have been at the very least a full minute and watches as she fights off tears, and it's perhaps the most hypnotic thing I've seen on a screen all year.

Obviously director Oliver Assayas knew what he was gonna get when he pointed his camera there, and Juli delivered, as she always does.

I dare anyone to name a better crier than her.

Double dog dare ya!

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JA

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'Angels & Demons' Blessed With Box-Office #1

18 May 2009 6:28 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news

'Star Trek' pushed to #2 by Tom Hanks sequel.

By Elisabeth Rappe

Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer in "Angels & Demons"

Photo: Sony

Are you ready for a sneak peek at tomorrow's blockbusters today? Check out our new series "Behind the Screen" Sunday night at 11 p.m. on MTV for the broadcast premiere of the "Brüno" trailer, the very first visit to the set of Russell Brand's "Get Him to the Greek" and much more!

The Box-Office Top Five

#1 "Angels & Demons" ($48 million)

#2 "Star Trek" ($43 million)

#3 "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" ($14.8 million)

#4 "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" ($6.86 million)

#5 "Obsessed" ($4.55 million)

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks' papal thriller "Angels & Demons" enjoyed a bit of a miracle this weekend and fought off the sophomore strength of "Star Trek" to take the #1 spot with a $48 million debut. Though it wasn't as domestically blessed as its predecessor, "The Da Vinci Code" (which opened three years ago

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Weekend Box Office Report: May 15-17: The Demons Beat the Angels

17 May 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Two years ago, around this same time, director, Ron Howard and novelist, Dan Brown, unleashedThe Da Vinci Code on the planet.  It pulled in about $77 million in North America and blew away everyone’s expectations.  The book itself was a phenomenon and that spilled over onto the screen and across the planet.  That said, people may have flocked to see it but they didn’t leave happy.  Howard and Brown are back again with Angels & Demons but it seems to me that despite their angelic efforts, the demonic taste their last outing left in people’s mouths has ultimately won out. Angels & Demons has brought in an estimated $48 million in returns but that is a far cry from the opening gross of its predecessor.  Reviews for both the book and the film were better this time out but there was no urgency this time out.  Still, the haul was

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Cannes #3: Fings ain't wot they used t'be

16 May 2009 3:39 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

I want things to stay the way they always were. This is insane, because they weren't that way in the first place. I see friends who have grown older, and want them to grow younger. In Cannes, I look around and see a new building where an old one was. A new franchise store where once there was a bookshop, or a little cafe, or a woman who thought she could make a living selling flowers. Here was a store where I bought my papers every morning, and Tintin comics so I could improve my reading French. Now it is a Häagen-Dazs, which has splendid ice cream but is a company name made of words in no known language.

I would take my newspapers to a little cafe nearby named Le Claridge. That was when all the action in Cannes was down at the other end of the Croisette, huddled

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Summer Hours

15 May 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news

Release Date: May 15 (limited)

Director/Writer: Olivier Assayas

Cinematographer: Eric Gautier

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob

Studio/Run Time: IFC Films, 103 mins.

A poignant family flick

After making several films about cat women who jet across the globe and slink through buildings of glass and steel, Olivier Assayas has returned to the lower-key interests of his earlier films with Summer Hours. When Hélène reunites with her grown, far-flung children at their old home in rural France, the siblings remember growing up on the estate. And when she dies shortly thereafter, they must decide what to do with the house and its contents now that they’ve all moved on.

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Summer Hours a Bittersweet Time

15 May 2009 8:28 AM, PDT | From newser.com | See recent newser news

Critics are enchanted by Summer Hours , a French story of three siblings (including a splendid Juliette Binoche) weighing what to do with their mother’s estate in a simple yet thought-provoking tale: Don’t be fooled by the apparent modesty of its ambitions, writes Ao Scott in the New York Times . Sometimes a small, homely object—a teapot, a writing desk, a sketchbook, a movie about such things—turns out to be a masterpiece. “From familiar material, writer-director Olivier Assayas crafts a near perfect blend of humor and heartbreak, a lyrical masterwork that measures loss in terms practical and evanescent,” notes Peter ...

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Family Values

14 May 2009 11:09 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

A chamber piece resolutely devoid of flash and glitter, "Summer Hours" isn't a film one would have anticipated from the director of such disparate provocations as "Irma Vep," "Clean," Demonlover" and "Boarding Gate." Then again, Olivier Assayas' new release is subtly provocative in its own right. Its willingness to lay out ideas about art and life in the age of globalization makes it his biggest dare yet. What distinguishes this Assayas movie from the others is the manner with which it sustains an unspoiled blend of the intimately emotional with the unequivocally intellectual. The cumulative strengths of "Summer Hours" as a philosophic elegy and a generational saga are powerful enough to throw everything else Assayas has done in illuminated relief.

The movie's first summer dream is an idyllic one, with children playing on the grounds of an old country house whose widowed owner Hélène (Edith Scob) is celebrating her

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Gene Seymour

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"Summer Hours" review - French master Olivier Assayas reaches new heights.

14 May 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

  "Summer Hours" review  By Steve Ramos, Writer ____________________________________   French master Olivier Assayas reaches new heights with family drama 'Summer Hours'     For French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, moving to the highest levels of filmmaking excellence, after 23 years of directing, involves making a subtle and somewhat intimate family drama distinctly different from his sexy thrillers “Demonlover” and “Boarding Gate” and his hip movie- about-making-movies “Irma Vep,” the film that earned him international acclaim in 1996.   “Summer Hours,” (“Heure d’été”) perhaps the closest Assayas will ever come to an Anton Chekhov-like drama, showcases the storytelling talents of the former writer for France’s “Cahiers du Cinema” and veteran director. Lyrical, well told (Clémentine Schaeffer supplied the script) and beautifully shot (cameraman Eric Gautier first worked with Assayas on “Irma Vep”), “Summer Hours” is a mature drama about children, parents and the value they place on past experiences and the family home. It

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Hump Day Hotness: Marital Bliss

13 May 2009 3:33 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Have you seen Vanity Fair's list of Hollywood's rarest unions: the longterm actor/actress marriage? I don't need to tell you that most Tinseltown marriages end in divorce. Yet some couple stick by each other and anyone in a long term relationship or marriage will know what a feat that often is. The immortal Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are the longest lasting dual movie star marriage -- they were married for 50 years before Newman's death (2008, Rip). But the lengthiest dual actor marriages ever? The Reagans with 52 years and, up at the tippity top, recent Oscar nominee Ruby Dee (American Gangster) and Ossie Davis (2005, Rip) with 56 years of happily ever after.

I'm sure you've heard the famous Newman paraphrase about fidelity Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home? but what I loved most about their celebrated marriage was that they weren't overly sentimental about it in interviews,

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NATHANIEL R

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New "Inglourious Basterds" poster added!

8 May 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Check out the latest poster for the Quentin Tarantino-written and directed "Inglourious Basterds." Mélanie Laurent is a basterd! These are the posters that will be used at the Cannes Film Festival.   Distributed by the Weinstein Company who produced the film along with Universal Pictures, Neunte Babelsberg Film and Lawrence Bender Productions. Before "Inglourious Basterds" Mélanie Laurent was in "Paris" with Juliette Binoche, Romain Duries and Fabrice Luchini; a romantic dramedy directed by Cédric Klapisch. In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known

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New "Inglourious Basterds" poster added!

8 May 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Check out the latest poster for the Quentin Tarantino-written and directed "Inglourious Basterds." Mélanie Laurent is a basterd! These are the posters that will be used at the Cannes Film Festival. Distributed by the Weinstein Company who produced the film along with Universal Pictures, Neunte Babelsberg Film and Lawrence Bender Productions. Before "Inglourious Basterds" Mélanie Laurent was in "Paris" with Juliette Binoche, Romain Duries and Fabrice Luchini; a romantic dramedy directed by Cédric Klapisch. In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema...

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New "Inglourious Basterds" poster added!

8 May 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Check out the latest poster for the Quentin Tarantino-written and directed "Inglourious Basterds." Mélanie Laurent is a basterd! These are the posters that will be used at the Cannes Film Festival. Distributed by the Weinstein Company who produced the film along with Universal Pictures, Neunte Babelsberg Film and Lawrence Bender Productions. Before "Inglourious Basterds" Mélanie Laurent was in "Paris" with Juliette Binoche, Romain Duries and Fabrice Luchini; a romantic dramedy directed by Cédric Klapisch. In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema...

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Summer Movie Preview

6 May 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

We're all for getting out in the summertime, but there might not be anything more refreshing than cooling off in a movie theater... or seeing a movie in the comfort of your air-conditioned home on demand, on DVD, or online... or better yet catching a classic on the big screen at a nearby repertory theater. With literally hundreds of films to choose from this summer, we humbly present this guide to the season's most exciting offerings.

May 1

"Eldorado"

The Cast: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon, Didier Toupy, Franise Chichy

Director: Bouli Lanners

Fest Cred: Cannes, Warsaw, Glasgow, Palm Springs,

The Gist: When Elie (Adde), a hapless young thief attempts to rob Yvan (Lanners), a 40-year-old car dealer, the two form a unlikely friendship that leads to a road trip across Belgium in this slight comedy that won the Best European Film at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes last year.

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Stephen Saito

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May 2009 Monthly Movie Preview

27 April 2009 9:51 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

The movie studio executives play God around this time every year. Don’t listen to mother nature … summer starts May 1. The blockbusters are upon us, and it looks like May might just be The big month of movies this year. Sure, we have to wait for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but we’ve already been waiting for that last one for a while now. And it looks like each week we will have a new box office winner … my hunch is Wolverine will have the biggest opening weekend, but when it’s all said and done, Star Trek will be box office king. Let’s get to the films.

May 1 Movie of the Week

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The Stars: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will I Am, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch

The Plot:

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Jeff Bayer

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Ta Talks Back: Twilight Gives Back (Wuthering Heights)

24 April 2009 3:11 PM, PDT | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news

Ta fan Ashley writes about how Twilight gives backnbspTwilight Gives Back by AshleyIf all else perished and he remained I should still continue to be and if all else remained and he were annihilated the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. These words should not be unfamiliar to Twilighters for they are found in the twentiethseven chapter Needs of Eclipse. But these are not Bellas wordsno they belong to a literary heroine onehundredsixty years before Bellas time Catherine Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights. Though the stories are worlds and ages apart Stephenie Meyers comparisons between the tumultuous Wuthering Heights and her own Eclipse are spot on. Anyone acquainted with both novels for instance could see the irony behind Bellas argument during Eclipses beginning Well I hope youre smart enough to stay away from someone so selfish. Catherine is really the source of all the trouble not Heathcliff 29. Wuthering Heights a

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Binoche's 'Certified Copy' Begins Filming in June

2 April 2009 2:47 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

I wouldn't have mentioned this story if it hadn't been for In Contention's Guy Lodge showing a serious amount of excitement for the teaming of Juliette Binoche and Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, a director I apparently need to become more familiar with. The film is titled Certified Copy and a story at Screen International brings word it will begin shooting in Tuscany on June 8 and serves as Kiarostami's first feature to be shot outside of his native Iran. IMDb lists William Shimell as Binoche's co-star as a middle-aged English writer who meets a young French woman (Binoche) and jets off to San Gimignano with her. Of course, I have no idea when the synopsis originated and the Screen International article only refers to the film as a love story set in the Chianti countryside, which will be in French and parts in English. I have never seen a film from Kiarostami,

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Brad Brevet

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