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Gilles Carle obituary
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Leading light in the emergence of French Canadian cinema
After years of neglect and discrimination by the dominant Anglophone culture, a distinctive French Canadian cinema emerged in the 1960s with the victory of René Lévesque's Liberal party in Quebec and the sponsorship of the National Film Board of Canada and the Quebec Film Commission. Among the beneficiaries was a group of young directors headed by Claude Jutra, Denys Arcand and Gilles Carle, who has died aged 80.
Carle, the most senior, was always an anti-elitist, independent figure, a social satirist whose films sought to expose "the secret order of things". Eroticism and violence are dominant themes in his critiques of middle-class rectitude, corruption and religious hypocrisy. He once described his movies as "social fables, allegorical tales rather than films of social protest".
At the heart of most of Carle's films is a beautiful, commanding, impulsive and defiant woman. The role »
- Ronald Bergan
Youth in Revolt Poster Featuring Michael Cera
29 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Check out the latest movie poster featuring Michael Cera in the upcoming comedy “Youth in Revolt” starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long, Fred Willard and Ray Liotta. Synopsis: As a teenage fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is most definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni (Portia Doubleday) plays records by French crooners, it’s love at first sight for frustrated virgin Nick. Upon learning that Sheeni is already dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni’s heart, [...] »
- Brian Corder
Agnès Varda: The Hollywood Interview
28 December 2009 12:12 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Filmmaker Agnès Varda and friend.
Editor's note: "The Beaches of Agnes" opens in a limited run in New York and L.A. this week for Academy Award consideration. If you reside on either coast, do yourself a favor and run, don't walk, to "Beaches."
Agnès Varda Hits the Beach
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Born in Belgium in 1928, Agnès Varda is renowned for being the only female member of France’s legendary “Nouvelle Vague” (which also includes such luminaries as Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Varda’s late husband, Jacques Demy) school of filmmaking when, in 1954, she formed a film company called Cine-Tamaris for her first feature, La Pointe Courte. It earned her the title of “Grand Mother of the French New Wave,” at the tender age of 26.
Varda has made 33 films since then, alternating between shorts and features, fiction and documentaries. Some of her most famous titles include Cleo from 5 to 7 »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
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 »
Habib Azar's Top Ten Films of All Time
22 December 2009 7:28 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we bent the rules a little, our profiled filmmaker Habib Azar explains why below, and keep in mind in less than a month, he'll be presenting his debut film, Armless at Sundance. He gave us his top seven (*) as of December 2009. - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we bent the rules a little, our profiled filmmaker Habib Azar explains why below, and keep in mind in less than a month, »
"Vivra sa vie": Shouldn't Love Be the Only Truth?
19 December 2009 2:45 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
"A chic tragedy recasting the archetypical fallen angel as modern woman (or is that vice versa?), Jean-Luc Godard's fourth film is a heartfelt, headstrong attempt to push his own concept of a deconstructed cinema even further into the stratosphere." David Fear in Time Out New York on today's feature in the Recyclage de luxe Online Film Festival: "Most of the ingredients of his early period are present: pulp-fiction posturing, quotes from poets and philosophers, puckish formal innovations. The manner in which these elements are presented, however, is the first step toward the cohesive blend of intellectual savviness and emotional resonance Godard would perfect down the road. Though this story of a gamine gone bad is subtitled A Film in 12 Chapters (it's subdivided into as many sections), the director could have substituted A Revolution in Miniature and still captured the essence of his experimental melodrama."
"Star Anna Karina was in »
"Masculin féminin": A Film in Several Acts About Youth and Sex
17 December 2009 9:49 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
"Not since Dw Griffith was knocking out a weekly two-reeler at the Biograph studio on 14th Street had there been anything to equal the 15-feature run that Jean-Luc Godard began with Breathless (1960) and ended, still accelerating, in the cataclysm of Weekend (1967)," J Hoberman wrote in the Voice back in 2005. "Directed by anyone else, Masculine Feminine - one of three movies that Godard made in his peak year, 1966 - would be a masterpiece. For the young Jlg it's business as usual."
Much of last summer was spent looking back at 1968, forty years on, and of course, the 60s in general. Accordingly, Film Forum ran a series, Godard's 60s, and Masculin féminin, today's feature in the Recyclage de luxe Online Film Festival, was part of the lineup. Click here, scroll way down the film's section and you'll see that you can download a 13-minute introduction to the May 25 screening by Richard Brody, »
Rome, Open City
15 December 2009 6:03 AM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
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The film follows the fate of several Romans during the last days of the German occupation. Central to the film are Aldo Fabrizi’s Don Pietro, a priest dedicated to helping members of the resistance and the heart-rending performance of Anna Magnani as Pina. Rome, Open City is considered as a major turning point in film history and as a testament to the film’s lasting impact, Jean-luc Godard famously said “All roads lead to Rome Open City”. Widely regarded as the father of Neorealism movement in cinema, Roberto Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) brought the real world into films by mixing non-actors and authentic locales with actors and studio sets. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after WorldWar II—Rome, Open City, Paisan, and »
- NewsDesk
Tao Ruspoli's Top Ten Films of All Time
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Godard's Breathless is the film that made me want to become a filmmaker. I saw it my freshman year in college and I couldn't believe how a director could take a few great characters and a mostly hand-held camera and make a film that said so much about life in a world in which absolute values had become irrelevant (both filmically and ethically.) And what a face Belmondo had! - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Tao Ruspoli, helmer behind Fix which ropens November 20th at the Village East in NY. He gave us his top ten (as of November 2009). 8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini I'm sure this film has been on this list 100 times, »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
The New World: a masterpiece?
10 December 2009 2:45 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Terrence Malick's The New World doesn't have fans, just fanatics – John Patterson among them. He explains the purity and beauty of this bottomless movie, which came and went in a month in the middle of the decade
This decade hasn't been up to much, movie-wise, but I am more than ever convinced that when every other scrap of celluloid from 2000-2009 has crumbled to dust, one film will remain, like some Ozymandias-like remnant of transient vanished glory in the desert. And that film is The New World, Terrence Malick's American foundation myth, which arrived just as the decade reached its dismal halfway point, in January 2006.
It's been said that The New World doesn't have fans: it has disciples and partisans and fanatics. I'm one of them, and my fanaticism burns undimmed 30 or more viewings later. The New World is a bottomless movie, almost unspeakably beautiful and formally harmonious. »
- John Patterson
Clip joint: the best film clips featuring montages
10 December 2009 7:35 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week Pinkos wants your help to assemble a sequence of clips featuring Eisenstein's much-copied creation
Sergei Eisenstein presented his theory of montage to an august group of cineastes in the 1920s. It was, he said, "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema". Eighty odd years later, his theory finally came to the attention of the wider world, as the subject of a song in Team America: World Police.
The word can be taken in several different ways. Deriving from the French word for "assembly", in Gallic film practice it simply refers to the editing process. For Eisenstein's Soviet colleagues, it was a means to derive an abstract meaning from a combination of shots in sequence. Nowadays, thanks to Rocky et al, a montage is a cliched sequence where a song (usually a pounding rock anthem) or »
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! »
Whistler 09: Skidlove Review
9 December 2009 8:13 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]
An unlikely romance blooms between Rennie (Ryan Arnold), a young artist who's scraping by and has hopes of one day making a living off his paintings, and Paige (Jayme Keith), a party girl with big debts and dirty secrets. Actually, Paige's big secret - she sells her panties, pee, and other delicacies to a broker (Roger Bainbridge) who supplies perverts with their monthly fix - is revealed to us all too early, and isn't nearly as salacious as the filmmakers might have hoped. There's a lot of content that seems intended to shock but isn't nearly as racy as it might have looked on paper, and the punch is further diminished by an absolute lack context for these actions in our mystery girl's life.
The best thing Skidlove really has going for it is a consistent sensibility - a low-fi aesthetic that suggests the limitations and obtuse reasoning of the »
Paul Carpita obituary
8 December 2009 10:54 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
French director known for his film about the 1950 Marseille dock strike
In 1990, a large, expectant audience filled the Cinémathèque Française in Paris for the premiere of a film that had been made 35 years previously. The film was Le Rendezvous des Quais (Meeting On the Docks), directed by Paul Carpita, who has died aged 86. Why did it take so long for this masterly film to be shown to the public?
Interweaving fact and fiction, Le Rendezvous des Quais told a love story between a young docker and a factory girl, against the background of the 50-day great dockers' strike of 1950, when the employees of the port of Marseille stopped work to protest against the war in Indochina, and when the dockers' passive demonstrations were brutally put down by the riot police (Crs). The dockers refused to unload the coffins of returning dead French soldiers killed in Dien Bien Phu "as if »
- Ronald Bergan
King of cool
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
Peter Bradshaw: Richard Brody's list of the decade's finest movies tops my chart
2 December 2009 2:41 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this season for critical lists, the Best of the Decade survey from the New Yorker's movies editor genuinely stands out
It's the end of the year, and for film critics this is the season for making lists – the best films of the year and, now of course, the best films of the decade. All the papers are doing it and we here are in the process of drawing up our list of the decade's top 100 movies for guardian.co.uk/film. Making lists appeals to the nerdy, Hornby-esque and anally retentive side of all of us. And of course it offers huge opportunities for – whisper it – showing off.
The seasoned list-maker will know how to combine the obscure choices with the mainstream ones, and this latter consideration is important. The seasoned lister knows that the more MoR candidates provide the resonant C-major chords which give solidity and plausibility to the list. »
- Peter Bradshaw
Liv Ullmann, François Truffaut and, well, "The Princess and the Frog"
25 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
"Liv Ullmann wasn't Ingmar Bergman's muse, she was his partner in angst - a fellow weary existential traveler conspiring with him to invent some of the most psychologically complex men and women in cinema history." In the L Magazine, Benjamin Strong previews BAMcinématek's Ullmann retrospective (through December 6), arguing that it "provides a timely opportunity to reassess the oeuvre, to see anew how varied and experimental a body of work it really is." Persona, for example, is "a movie that's too often remembered solely for its gorgeous B&W framing of its two lead actresses and not for the pair of rather startling montages (is that a hairy penis I see before me?) with which the film begins and ends - philosophical passages that still look as formally daring as anything by more celebrated postmodern radicals like Jean-Luc Godard." »
Kurosawa's 'Ran' Will Still Find Its Way to Blu-ray
24 November 2009 3:38 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Those upset (myself included) that Criterion had to withdraw their planned Blu-ray edition of Ran due to a rights issue can cheer up as the holder of those rights was making the same plans. Lionsgate Home Entertainment in cooperation with StudioCanal are set to release Ran as well as 1955's The Ladykillers starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mepris) on Blu-ray on February 16, 2010.
Unfortunately there isn't any box art available yet, but below are the list of features for each:
Ran 1080P High Definition Widescreen format with Japanese, English, Spanish, French, German and Italian DTS Master Audio "A.K." - the acclaimed feature-length documentary on the making of the film "Akira Kurosawa: The Epic and the Intimate" - documentary on the director Portrait of Akira Kurosawa by Japanese cinema expert and interpreter Catherine Cado "The Samurai" - documentary on Samurai art "Art of the Samurai »
- Brad Brevet
Ken Wlaschin obituary
19 November 2009 10:42 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Influential programmer for the Nft and London film festival
Anyone whose love of the cinema was burnished by the National Film Theatre in the 1970s and early 80s owes a considerable debt to Ken Wlaschin, who has died aged 75. He not only programmed the theatre for some 15 years, but also directed the London film festival. During that time, he expanded both indefatigably, often in the teeth of financial constraints.
At first, when the Nft had only a single auditorium, he also edited the monthly programme booklet, writing the notes and cropping the photographs himself. By the time he left, there were two auditoriums, a restaurant and a clubroom, putting the Nft (now called the BFI Southbank) on a par with the famous cinematheques of Paris, Brussels and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The festival was also enlarged to well over 130 films and drew journalists from all over the world. »
- Derek Malcolm
TCM Classic Film Festival: A Star Is Born, Metropolis, Breathless, 2001
18 November 2009 2:23 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom) Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...] »
- Andre Soares
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