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15 items from 2012
'Me and You' Movie Review - 2012 Cannes Film Festival
23 May 2012 8:01 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
In the press notes for Me and You (Io e Te) director and co-writer Bernardo Bertolucci says that since coming to terms with the fact he will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life he wasn't sure if he'd ever be able to make another film. Serving as his first in nine years, and reading between the lines, Me and You plays like a film from a director merely trying to figure out if he can still do it. As such, he's managed to prove he can still make a film, but not a very compelling film.
Me and You is based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti, centering on Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori), a 14-year-old outsider who skips out on a school field trip to live in the basement of his apartment building for a week to get away from those that just don't seem to understand him. »
- Brad Brevet
Sound on Sight Radio #320: Best of French Cinema – Louis Malle, Robert Bresson and Francois Truffaut
22 May 2012 12:20 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
For his birthday show, Ricky D selects…sad French films? He’ll explain his choice soon enough, just be aware of the all-classic lineup: Robert Bresson’s Mouchette (with an assist from Julian), Louis Malle’s revered 1987 autobiographical coming-of-age drama Au revoir, les enfants (with Justine), and finally the unavoidable early New Wave touchstone Les quatre cents coups, aka The 400 Blows, which Ricky and Simon take on solo.
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- Ricky
AFI's Master Class Looks at Art of Collaboration with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg
8 May 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
TCM Presents AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg is filmed in front of an audience of AFI fellows studying at the AFI Conservatory. It's the second in AFI's series exploring artistic film collaborations; the first was between Steven Spielberg and John Williams. TCM will air the special on May 8 (10pm Et). The pair will discuss their meeting, their collaborative process and some of the films that have inspired them, including two films with James Cagney that will bookend the special's screening on TCM; "The Roaring Twenties" (1939; with Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Priscilla Lane) and "Man of a Thousand Faces" (1957, also with Cagney), as well as Frank Capra's Jimmy stewart-starrer "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) and François Truffaut's New Wave classic "The 400 Blows" (1959). Russell and Wahlberg's collaborations include "Three Kings"...
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- Sophia Savage
Blackthorn – review
14 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sam Shepard excels in Mateo Gil's elegiac sequel imagining further adventures in Bolivia for the Wild Bunch leader
Back in 1969 George Roy Hill brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a self-consciously stylish western in which two notorious bandits were celebrated as forerunners of the outlaw sensibility of the 1960s. A decade later, Richard Lester, one of the film-makers credited for shaping the artistic expression of the 60s with The Knack and two Beatles films, made his only western, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Featuring two young actors, Tom Berenger and William Katt, with uncanny resemblances to Newman and Redford, the film took a quirky but generally realistic look at frontier life as it related to the pair's early criminal life and friendship, ending in the 1890s at the point where they were becoming aware of being legends, leaders of a gang called the Wild Bunch. »
- Philip French
2012: The Best Movies of March
8 April 2012 11:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
2012 promises to be a fantastic year in cinema. Not too long ago, we posted a list of thirty of our most anticipated films of 2012, and so I decided I would keep track of my favourite films released each month. Here are my five favorite films released in March.
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1- Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenplay by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is one of the most interesting directors working on the international scene, and Once Upon A Time In Anatolia might just be his best movie to date. This being his sixth feature, it won the Grand Prize at Cannes last year and as since received critical acclaim around the world.
In this metaphysical quasi-police procedural, a group of men (including a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive out in the middle of the night through the Anatolian countryside, »
- Ricky
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Rebecca’
3 April 2012 8:25 PM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Alfred Hitchcock’s name is synonymous with the words thriller, suspense, and intrigue. Films like Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, and The Birds, are a few of the many famous titles that the director became world renowned for; even though he never won a single Academy Award during his lifetime for his direction. Yet, just as there are so many films that are talked about by the British director, there are just as many films that are almost considered hidden treasures by him. Rebecca is by no means a little known film by Hitch. In fact, it went on to win the an Academy Award for Best Picture. However, compared to the endless nods, jokes, and homages made over the years referencing Psycho, Strangers on a Train, and Rear Window, this 1940 film seems to be almost lost in comparison. It’s a film that I had always read about – since »
- Michael Haffner
Martin Scorsese Recommends 39 Foreign Films to Young Filmmaker
26 March 2012 3:14 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Young filmmaker Colin Levy reached out to Martin Scorsese asking him for some film recommendations to further his cinematic education and Scorsese's assistant responded with the following list and a note that read: Mr. Scorsese asked that I send this your way. This should be a jump start to your film education! The list is comprised of 39 foreign films and I've gone through and put a little check mark next to those that I have personally seen, which, I guess, means I have 19 films I need to begin to explore. Of those I haven't seen, Rocco and His Brothers and Children of Paradise are two I've meant to watch for a long time. Rocco was one Francis Ford Coppola told me was one of his favorite films back when I interviewed him for Tetro and I've still yet to give it a watch. (slacking) According to the post from Colin at Reddit, »
- Brad Brevet
Attention NYC: Win The Rialto DVD Box Set & Tickets To 15th Anniversary Screenings At Film Society Of Lincoln Center
19 March 2012 1:23 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While New Yorkers have plenty of opportunity to see classic films on the big screen, you'll be hard pressed to find a lineup as front to back awesome as the Film Society Of Lincoln Center's "15 For 15: Celebrating Rialto Pictures."
The series honors the reknowned arthouse distribution shingle founded in 1997 that has brought some of the best known (and previously unknown) classics of cinema to American audiences. And the selection here by programmers Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern represents the breadth and scope of the films Rialto has put their stamp on, ranging from the French New Wave ("Breathless") to film noir ("Rififi") to comedy ("Billy Liar") and more. There is something here for everybody and with the series kicking off tonight, we've got a special prize for some lucky readers.
Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we've got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Martin Scorsese Talks Hugo Blu-ray
28 February 2012 1:09 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Director Martin Scorsese discusses his first 3D movie Hugo, available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD February 28
Director Martin Scorsese took 3D to new heights with Hugo, his Oscar-nominated adventure which will be available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD February 28. The celebrated filmmaker recently sat down to discuss the unique challenges involved with making his first 3D movie, and you can take a look at what he had to say below.
You faced so many challenges making Hugo. It was the first time in your illustrious career you shot a movie in 3D, the sets were complex, two of the leads were young actors and there were so many other complexities. The question is, was the experience fun or a headache?
Martin Scorsese: It was a lot of fun and yes it was a headache (laughs). But it was a really enjoyable headache. (Cinematographer) Bob (Richardson), (production designer »
- MovieWeb
Ingmar Bergman vs. the Oscar
27 February 2012 2:28 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ingmar Bergman Jean Dujardin, Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer, Michel Hazanavicius, Octavia Spencer, and surely Harvey Weinstein are thrilled they and/or their movies won Academy Awards last night at Hollywood & Highland. Not every Oscar nominee/winner, however, has felt that way. The Criterion Collection has posted (via dizzydentfilms) a May 12, 1960, letter in which Ingmar Bergman scolded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for nominating his 1957 drama Wild Strawberries for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award in 1960. (Wild Strawberries was shown in Los Angeles in 1959.) Here's the text of Bergman's letter, which was displayed at the 2010 Academy exhibit "Ingmar Bergman: Truth and Lies": As Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) didn't compete for "Oscar" I think it is wrong to nominate the picture and therefor [sic] I want to return the "Certificate Of Nomination". I have found that the "Oscar" nomination is one for the motion picture art humiliating institution and »
- Andre Soares
Movie Poster of the Week: François Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”
10 February 2012 10:21 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
If François Truffaut hadn’t been taken from us in 1984, at the age of 52, he would have turned 80 last Monday. At one point he had said that his goal was to make thirty films and then retire to write books. At the time of his death he had made twenty-five.
I recently came across this poster for the American release of Truffaut’s first film, Les quatre cent coups and was struck not only by its lurid and rather innaccurate tagline—"Angel Faces hell-bent for violence"—but also by the fact that it refuses to capitalize on the one thing that made the film such a success: namely the face of Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel. In the poster Léaud’s angel face is barely seen. Doinel’s parents, played by Albert Remy and Claire Maurier (misspelled in the credits), are more prominent, while Doinel seems like one of a number of undistinguished schoolboys. »
Special Features - The Ten Best Movie Stares
6 February 2012 11:14 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Jake Wardle selects his ten favourite movie stares...
Stares, glares, gazes... whatever you want to call them, the movies are full of them, and as far as I can tell nobody’s ever compiled a list of the best. Shocking, I’m sure you’ll agree, but true. For some, even the mention of ‘film’ will bring to mind a good stare, so it’s only fitting that those films which place similar value on the humble gawk are duly recognized...
10. Lyn Cassady – The Men Who Stare at Goats
Not, perhaps, a great film, but a damn good stare. A stare so good it gets the uncommon honour of being ‘the titular stare’. It is, as the title would suggest, a stare between a man (George Clooney) and a goat (a goat), ultimately resulting in said goat’s death. Nobody wins when a stare goes that far. But a classic stare regardless. »
- flickeringmyth
Truffaut @ 80
6 February 2012 3:55 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
For its doodle marking what would have been François Truffaut's 80th birthday today, Google needed an iconic image. Not Catherine Deneuve or Gérard Depardieu in The Last Metro (1980) or Isabelle Adjani in The Story of Adele H. (1975) or even Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim (1962), but rather, and most obviously, the young Antoine Doinel on the beach. The doodle's not exactly the famous final freeze frame but nevertheless very recognizably the young Jean-Pierre Léaud in what would be both the director's and the actor's debut feature, The 400 Blows (1959).
"It's fascinating to consider the similarities and the differences between François and Antoine," wrote Kent Jones in a 2003 essay for Criterion on Antoine and Colette (1962), the short film in which Antoine, all of 17, falls in love for the first time. Kent Jones notes that Truffaut has shifted the "cultural meeting ground" of the young lovers "from the cinematheque," where Truffaut, »
Catherine Breillat Retrospective: The Early Years
23 January 2012 10:34 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Writing a series focused on the depiction of gender and sexuality in films, it would be a massive oversight not to talk about the work of French director Catherine Breillat. Few other directors have as consistently explored these topics as directly or as interestingly. The next few articles will explore Breillat’s 13 feature films in detail.
One can get an idea about Breillat’s filmmaking philosophy through some of her contributions outside of directing in the 1970s. She has a small acting role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango In Paris. She contributes commentary on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Sálo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which is featured in the Criterion release of that film. She is a screenwriter on David Hamilton’s teenage coming-of-age/erotica film Bilitis. All three directors provoke controversy through their work and the open depiction of sexuality, whether due to the graphic nature of the sexuality, »
- Erik Bondurant
The Artist – review
31 December 2011 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
More than a homage to the silent era, Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist is a dazzling tale of love and loss
What better way could one year end and another start than with a pair of charming, funny, moving films celebrating the cinema itself? Three weeks ago Martin Scorsese gave us Hugo, a deeply felt picture about the creation of the cinema in France during the final years of the 19th century. Now the French cineaste Michel Hazanavicius returns the compliment with the complementary The Artist, about the coming of sound to Hollywood. The directors of the Nouvelle Vague were born around the time the talkies began. Hazanavicius was born seven years after Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups and Godard's Breathless but is as steeped in movies as they were. His first feature film, La classe américaine, which I haven't seen, was apparently compiled entirely of clips from old Warner Brothers films, »
- Philip French
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