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6 November 2010 8:50 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

I am a fan of sleazy cinema.  I'm not going to lie.  Sometimes I can appreciate it for the art, but sometimes, there really is very little art to it and you just have to meet it on its own terms.  Severin Films has taken a very active interest in the European sleaze cinema of the 1970's, and all fans of this genre are better off for it.  They've taken the time not only to seek out disgusting little gems from the era, but also taken the effort to at least attempt to contextualize the work by creating extras that are worthy of the film and help the viewer better understand.

Severin's catalog has too many of these titles for me to go over each one individually, but I did manage to get a few tidbits out of Severin founder, David Gregory, regarding the procuring of both the films and the extras they include. »

2 April 2010 5:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Eva Green first burst onto the cinema scene as an oft-nude revolutionary in Bertolucci's The Dreamers, then cemented her pin-status as a Bond girl in Casino Royale. The Hollywood-sceptic tells Xan Brooks about the indignities of working in the theatre and why she needs to fall in love

Some years ago I called up a young actor in search of some supporting quotes for an article I was writing on Bernardo Bertolucci. At the time, the actor was still living with her parents in Paris and had just appeared (sometimes clothed, sometimes not) in the director's swooning 60s-set drama The Dreamers. The actor was understandably concerned with how this debut role would be received. She didn't want to wind up like Maria Schneider, who famously ran off the rails after working with Bertolucci on Last Tango in Paris. The actor's mother was scandalised; her agent disapproving. I remember hanging up »

- Xan Brooks

9 March 2010 8:55 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

Now, almost a decade later, those films might have crossed paths, as Despentes has cast Beatrice Dalle (she starred in Trouble Every Day) in the lead role for Bye Bye Blondie. - There was once a time when Virginie Despentes' Baise-Moi and Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day (a pair of films where men meet their demise via the hands of violent women) were often mentioned in the same sentence. Now, almost a decade later, those films might have crossed paths, as Despentes has cast Béatrice Dalle (she starred in Trouble Every Day) in the lead role for Bye Bye Blondie. To be filmed this coming June, the film just received a round of funding, will also see Emmanuelle Béart and Pascal Gregory board the project. Once again working from her own novel that she published in 2004, Gloria (Dalle) lives in Nancy. Unemployed, without a family, »

15 February 2010 8:00 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Released in France on November 25th 2009, "Une Affaire d'Etat" is a suspenseful, action-packed thriller in which three characters cross paths: a corrupt politician (André Dussolier), his henchman (Thierry Frémont), and a hard-boiled female cop (Rachida Brakni). Before you read the lead actress' interview, we'll start with the director, Eric Valette, maker of three other feature films. His first, "Maléfique", was a French production awarded by William Friedkin himself at the Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival. The two others films were made in Hollywood: a remake of Takashi Miike's "One-Missed Call", released in the Us (unfortunately not the director's cut version) and "Hybrid" which involves a devilish car and another action queen (Shannon Beckner); there is still no release date scheduled for this film. In this exclusive interview, we focus on "Une Affaire d'Etat", Eric Valette's most personal work so far...

Frédéric Ambroisine: How did you discover the book »

4 items from 2010