by admin on Thu 22 Jul 10
Here’s the trailer for Notre Jour Viendra (Our Day Will Come), the first feature by up-and-coming French director Romain Gavras, starring Vincent Cassel and Olivier Barthelemy. Gavras’ last two video clips, ‘Stress’ for Justice, and ‘Born Free’ for M.I.A. have been notable for a hard-core, dystopian view of humanity (the film shares the [...]
by admin on Sat 17 Jul 10
‘Youth is an art’ said Oscar Wilde. For their 20th birthday, the Villette’s fabulous outdoor cinema program examines what it is to be 20 years old; so youth through the lens of François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Loach, Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch…. The program opens tonight with László Benedek’s 1953 outlaw biker [...]
by m.hicks on Thu 03 Jun 10
So what if the film’s been panned by nearly every movie critic this side of Abu Dhabi? All the single ladies would burn their Louboutins before passing up the occasion to suck down sugar sludge cocktails and flounce around in Jenny Packham just like Manhattan’s own bedazzled and vajazzled fantasy foursome. Want to learn how [...]
by admin on Fri 28 May 10
As soon as the Cannes Film Festival closes, the always interesting and edgy Quinzaine des Réalisateurs program is relocated to the Forum des Images where the entire program is screened, for the most part prior to the film’s general release. See Stones in Exile, a documentary on the recording of the Stones album [...]
by admin on Sun 23 May 10
The third chapter in the Lady Dior saga, ‘Lady Blue Shanghai’, is directed by the immense David Lynch (after Olivier Dahan and Jonas Akerlund for Lady Noire and Lady Rouge), inspired by John Galliano, and stars Marion Cotillard. The 15 minute + short is a typically Lynchian little number, enigmatic and dreamy, and [...]
by admin on Wed 12 May 10
The Cannes Film Festival opens tonight with Hollywood blockbuster Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. Another out-of-competition Hollywood premiere is Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, starring Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas. Jury president Tim Burton is presiding over films in competition including new works from Mike Leigh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Takeshi [...]
by admin on Fri 07 May 10
Two years after his controversial clip for Justice, ‘Stress’, French director Romain Gavras explores similar, violent, territory with a new clip for the first single from brilliant UK artist M.I.A’s new album. Gavras illustrates MIA’s hardcore electro track (whose power, btw, comes from heavy samples of Suicide’s brilliant 1977 track ‘Ghost Rider’) with a 9 [...]
by admin on Fri 26 Mar 10
Ridley Scott’s take on the heroic outlaw boasts a heavyweight cast including two Australian actors Russell Crowe (Robin) and Cate Blanchett (Lady Marion), as well as William Hurt, Mark Strong, Vanessa Redgrave, Max von Sydow. The rest of the festival line-up will be made public on April 15.
by admin on Wed 24 Mar 10
Tim Burton’s take on Lewis Carroll’s delirious story is an epic 3D fantasy adventure starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasiowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, [...]
by s.nellis on Thu 11 Mar 10
We’ve all heard of Cannes and Sundance, but what about The European Independent Film Festival? Taking place at Left Bank arthouse cinema Le Grand Action and Le Triomphe this weekend , the European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) seeks to discover, promote and screen the very best independent filmmaking talent from across the world, focusing particularly [...]
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