British cinematographer Peter Suschitzky is known for his collaborations with David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis, A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Spider, eXistenZ, Crash, Naked Lunch and Dead Ringers). His eclectic career saw him start working in fantastical “what if” tales on It Happened Here (1966) and Privilege (1967). He worked with Peter Watkins, Albert Finney, Peter Watkins, John Boorman, Ken Russell and Warris Hussein in Britain, before Hollywood came calling. is first trip to Cannes, working on Charlie Bubbles by Albert Finney, was cancelled after the festival was stopped by the May ’68 protests led by Jean Luc-Godard. This year, I met him at the […]...
- 6/9/2016
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This week on ABC’s Castle, as a murder cast suspicion on an Esl class, it was Rick who learned a most unexpected lesson — about his missing time.
RelatedMatt’s Inside Line: Scoop on a Castle Poi and More
As I previously shared, this episode, “And Justice for All,” was a companion piece of sorts to next week’s L.A.-bound escapade, guest-starring Summer Glau, Gerald McRaney and the Gds. Though even I was caught a bit off guard with how randomly the seed was planted for the revisiting of Rick’s missing time.
When Eddie, an Esl student,...
RelatedMatt’s Inside Line: Scoop on a Castle Poi and More
As I previously shared, this episode, “And Justice for All,” was a companion piece of sorts to next week’s L.A.-bound escapade, guest-starring Summer Glau, Gerald McRaney and the Gds. Though even I was caught a bit off guard with how randomly the seed was planted for the revisiting of Rick’s missing time.
When Eddie, an Esl student,...
- 3/1/2016
- TVLine.com
Maybe you remember this, maybe you don't, but back in 1999, before the word "viral" was even used in an Internet context, there was this song. The Picard Song is a thing of internet beauty. It's captivating in the way Jean Luc's spherical and glossy head is. I'm building it up too much...just watch an relive the pre-Y2K magic.
- 2/24/2016
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Update with Martin Scorsese statement: Veteran French filmmaker Jacques Rivette has died at the age of 87. The French New Wave director has an illustrious list of credits including La Belle Noiseuse, Celine and Julie Go Boating and L’Amour Fou. The news was confirmed today by French culture minister Fleur Pellerin, who tweeted Rivette was "one of the greatest filmmakers of intimacy and impatient love." Rivette started his career alongside New Wave luminareis Jean Luc…...
- 1/29/2016
- Deadline
Breathless is not playing at this year’s Classic French Film Festival, but St. Louis classic French film fans get to see it on the big screen anyway! It’s part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum’s series A Critical Eye: Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1960s and is screening this Tuesday night (March 24th) at the Tivoli (6350 Delmar Blvd. University City, Mo). The show starts at 7pm. Admission is Free!
Breathless was remade in 1983 with Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky (remember her? Me neither). The remake, directed by Jim McBride, is excellent but has been hard to see in recent years. It will be available on Blu-ray on April 7th, which means this is a perfect time to take in the original to compare and contrast.
The part that Jean Luc-Godard played in The French New Wave was tremendous. Breathless (1960), with its innovative jump-cuts, catapulted Godard into international fame.
Breathless was remade in 1983 with Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky (remember her? Me neither). The remake, directed by Jim McBride, is excellent but has been hard to see in recent years. It will be available on Blu-ray on April 7th, which means this is a perfect time to take in the original to compare and contrast.
The part that Jean Luc-Godard played in The French New Wave was tremendous. Breathless (1960), with its innovative jump-cuts, catapulted Godard into international fame.
- 3/23/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation goes way off template with shore leave/parental visit episode, Family...
Warning: this review contains spoilers.
The Enterprise is in drydock (well, space-drydock), getting repairs following the Borg attack, when the crew decides to take some well-earned shore leave.
As Picard prepares to visit home, Troi stands around doing what is basically a parody of Freudian psychoanalysis ("Going home? Interesting choice. How does that make you feel?") to the point where it's almost a miracle he doesn’t fire her there and then. And as if that level of badgering wasn't improper enough, she kisses him on the cheek before wishing him a good trip. Counsellor, your position has been upgraded to inappropriate.
On Earth, Picard has arrived in France, or as it is known in the future, RoboFrance 29. As he walks up to the Picard residence, Picard bumps into his nephew, Rene, and then his sister-in-law Marie.
Warning: this review contains spoilers.
The Enterprise is in drydock (well, space-drydock), getting repairs following the Borg attack, when the crew decides to take some well-earned shore leave.
As Picard prepares to visit home, Troi stands around doing what is basically a parody of Freudian psychoanalysis ("Going home? Interesting choice. How does that make you feel?") to the point where it's almost a miracle he doesn’t fire her there and then. And as if that level of badgering wasn't improper enough, she kisses him on the cheek before wishing him a good trip. Counsellor, your position has been upgraded to inappropriate.
On Earth, Picard has arrived in France, or as it is known in the future, RoboFrance 29. As he walks up to the Picard residence, Picard bumps into his nephew, Rene, and then his sister-in-law Marie.
- 1/15/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Time magazine tends be a bit all over the place when it comes to listing their best and worst movies of the year. For example, In 2013 they determined that "Furious 6" and "Frozen" were better than "12 Years A Slave," so who would have known what the ballot box would bring in 2014. Well, it's a bit more evenhanded this year. Among the mag's Best of the Year list, you'll find acclaimed pictures like "Birdman," "Boyhood," and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," with oddball choice "Lucy" and Jean Luc-Godard's "Goodbye To Language" sliding in. Oh Time! Meanwhile, its worst list is appropriately filled with dross, and you'll find no argument from us with any of the choices as such. There's a double dose of Adam Sandler, with both "Blended" and "Men, Women & Children" covered. Check it all out below. Time Magazine’s Best Films Of 2014 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel ...
- 12/5/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jean Luc-Godard's late period films are many things—intellectual, philosophical, impenetrable, experimental—but they are certainly never uninteresting, and the director is once grabbing the attention of cinephiles with "Goodbye To Language 3D." The winner of this year's Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, it's another ambitious effort from the filmmaker, who even uses 3D technology this time, in another movie brimming with provocative ideas and imagery. Today, we have the exclusive U.S. trailer and poster for the film. Once again forgoing traditional narrative, the latest from Godard centers on a dog and a young couple. Frankly, that's all you need to know, as this is a film you experience, rather than watch. Our critic on the ground at Cannes said in his review that "even for the skeptics there's clearly such a density of ideas and images, even over the brief 70 minutes it runs, that there's...
- 10/13/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Canada's enfant terrible Xavier Dolan is set to visit a Mexican film festival for the first time! Los Cabos is the festival that took the cake as it will host the Latin American premiere of Dolan's latest picture, Mommy, with the 25-year-old director in person. This gala is happening during the second day of Los Cabos 2014 (Thursday, November 13). Dolan's previous effort, Tom at the Farm, was warmly received in Mexico earlier this year when it was part of Cineteca Nacional's Muestra 56. Mommy itself had a very successful appearance at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, where it ended sharing the Jury Prize with Jean Luc-Godard's Goodbye to Language (our own Jason Gorber considers it as one of the best films of the year). Eventually,...
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- 10/8/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The film starring Michael Keaton to receive a simultaneous UK premiere with the Brighton Film Festival.
The 28th Leeds International Film Festival (Nov 5-20) is to close with Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as a unique joint UK premiere with Brighton’s CineCity film festival, which will open with the film on the same date, Nov 20.
The black comedy, which debuted at Venice in August, stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero and must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory. Co-stars include Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis and Andrea Riseborough
Speaking of the joint premiere, Liff director Chris Fell said: “Regional film festivals like Liff and Cinecity are working together increasingly to grow the UK audience for films, both with and without distribution, and the joint...
The 28th Leeds International Film Festival (Nov 5-20) is to close with Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as a unique joint UK premiere with Brighton’s CineCity film festival, which will open with the film on the same date, Nov 20.
The black comedy, which debuted at Venice in August, stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero and must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory. Co-stars include Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis and Andrea Riseborough
Speaking of the joint premiere, Liff director Chris Fell said: “Regional film festivals like Liff and Cinecity are working together increasingly to grow the UK audience for films, both with and without distribution, and the joint...
- 10/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
After unveiling an initial line-up of a few dozen films, there’s still many premieres left to announce for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Today they’ve released tiles from their sidebars, the Documentary, Masters, Midnight Madness and Vanguard line-ups. Featuring some of our favorite Cannes premieres, including the latest works by Jean Luc-Godard, Frederick Wiseman, Abderrahmane […]...
- 7/29/2014
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Running July 24-Aug 3, the festival will open with Wild Tales, Winter Sleep and Clouds of Sils Maria
The T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 14th edition, which runs July 24-Aug 3 in Wroclaw, Poland.
This year’s edition will screen almost 200 full-length features and will open with Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria.
Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders, winner of this year’s Grand Prix at Cannes, will be screened during the awards gala.
13 features will compete for the New Horizons International Competition, which includes the world premieres of Przemyslaw Wojcieszek’s How to Disappear Completely and Marcin Dudziak’s Calling.
This year’s festival will also screen the latest films from international auteurs such as Naomi Kawase (Still the Water), Tsai Ming-liang (Stray Dogs and Journey to the West), Jean Luc-Godard (Goodbye to Language 3D), Lukas Moodysson (We Are...
The T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 14th edition, which runs July 24-Aug 3 in Wroclaw, Poland.
This year’s edition will screen almost 200 full-length features and will open with Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria.
Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders, winner of this year’s Grand Prix at Cannes, will be screened during the awards gala.
13 features will compete for the New Horizons International Competition, which includes the world premieres of Przemyslaw Wojcieszek’s How to Disappear Completely and Marcin Dudziak’s Calling.
This year’s festival will also screen the latest films from international auteurs such as Naomi Kawase (Still the Water), Tsai Ming-liang (Stray Dogs and Journey to the West), Jean Luc-Godard (Goodbye to Language 3D), Lukas Moodysson (We Are...
- 7/9/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Damián Szifrón’s Cannes Competition film Wild Tales and Palm d’Or winner Winter Sleep to open the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw.
A total of 20 films from Cannes Film Festival have been secured for the 14th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 24-Aug 3), Poland’s largest film event.
The festival, held in Wroclaw, will comprise screenings of around 365 films, including 199 features.
The opening film will be Damián Szifrón’s Cannes Competition film Wild Tales, an Argentinian satire co-produced by Pedro Almodovar.
A second opening film will be this year’s Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Third, after the opening gala, will be Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.
The festival will close with Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher.
Main programme
The main programme will include Aleksey German’s Hard to be God, Naomi Kawase’s Still...
A total of 20 films from Cannes Film Festival have been secured for the 14th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 24-Aug 3), Poland’s largest film event.
The festival, held in Wroclaw, will comprise screenings of around 365 films, including 199 features.
The opening film will be Damián Szifrón’s Cannes Competition film Wild Tales, an Argentinian satire co-produced by Pedro Almodovar.
A second opening film will be this year’s Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Third, after the opening gala, will be Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.
The festival will close with Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher.
Main programme
The main programme will include Aleksey German’s Hard to be God, Naomi Kawase’s Still...
- 7/2/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Things That Are Not Cannes-Related
Vanity Fair Leonardo DiCaprio in space: the auction! I love it whenever Katey Rich's inner Titanic fangirl comes out.
Coming Soon Wet Hot American Summer to be a series on Netflix now. And, much better news: its now middle aged original cast members will all be playing high school versions of themselves. Love it. Can't wait to see Paul Rudd's sloppy french-kissing again. That movie is such a scream
Playbill oooh, here's a fun unexpected list. Ten artists that are a Tony Award short of the Egot from Kate Winslet through Julie Andrews and on to um... Martin Scorsese?
Comics Alliance on how Quicksilver, not a major fan favorite superhero, was suddenly a hot property with two major motion pictures in the space of a year
Star-Ledger interviews Dan Callahan on that Vanessa Redgrave book we told you about a couple of weeks ago...
Vanity Fair Leonardo DiCaprio in space: the auction! I love it whenever Katey Rich's inner Titanic fangirl comes out.
Coming Soon Wet Hot American Summer to be a series on Netflix now. And, much better news: its now middle aged original cast members will all be playing high school versions of themselves. Love it. Can't wait to see Paul Rudd's sloppy french-kissing again. That movie is such a scream
Playbill oooh, here's a fun unexpected list. Ten artists that are a Tony Award short of the Egot from Kate Winslet through Julie Andrews and on to um... Martin Scorsese?
Comics Alliance on how Quicksilver, not a major fan favorite superhero, was suddenly a hot property with two major motion pictures in the space of a year
Star-Ledger interviews Dan Callahan on that Vanessa Redgrave book we told you about a couple of weeks ago...
- 5/26/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Body Double
Written by Robert J. Avrech and Brian De Palma
Directed by Brian De Palma
USA, 1984
It is obvious that Body Double (1984) is a combination of the plots of Vertigo (1958), Rear Window(1954) and Dial M for Murder (1955) by Alfred Hitchcock, and nearly as obvious to say that the film also takes cues from Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) and elements from various slasher films like Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer (1979). Unfortunately, a good number of critical pieces on Brian De Palma are obsessed with listing off his influences and coming to the inept conclusion that he is merely a Hitchcock imitator with a couple of clever cinematic tricks up his sleeve. Few writers take De Palma on his own terms, though select critics are finally coming around, and most ignore the way he constructs his complex thriller narratives, creates exquisite images that take advantage of cinema’s unique artistic properties,...
Written by Robert J. Avrech and Brian De Palma
Directed by Brian De Palma
USA, 1984
It is obvious that Body Double (1984) is a combination of the plots of Vertigo (1958), Rear Window(1954) and Dial M for Murder (1955) by Alfred Hitchcock, and nearly as obvious to say that the film also takes cues from Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) and elements from various slasher films like Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer (1979). Unfortunately, a good number of critical pieces on Brian De Palma are obsessed with listing off his influences and coming to the inept conclusion that he is merely a Hitchcock imitator with a couple of clever cinematic tricks up his sleeve. Few writers take De Palma on his own terms, though select critics are finally coming around, and most ignore the way he constructs his complex thriller narratives, creates exquisite images that take advantage of cinema’s unique artistic properties,...
- 5/8/2014
- by Cody Lang
- SoundOnSight
Will 2014 finally be the year we see Jean Luc-Godard's "Goodbye To Language 3D"? It has been four years since his garishly digital headscratcher "Film socialisme," and while he did contribute to the omnibus "3X3D," it's "Goodbye To Language 3D"—his first feature entirely in the format—that everyone has been waiting for. A teaser (soon yanked) dropped online as long ago as last summer, but with the Cannes Film Festival around the corner, could the movie finally be seeing release? (The status of his one is so ephemeral, we had left it as an honorable mention in our predictions for this year's fest.) Well, with a batch of stills arriving, it perhaps suggests the movie is closing in on the finish line. And while previous descriptions of the plot suggested a story about a talking dog who intervenes between a man and a woman who no longer speak the same language,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Ant & Dec go undercover to prank Holly Willoughby in their latest Saturday Night Takeaway stunt.
Willoughby is shooting an episode of her show Surprise, Surprise when the Geordie duo trick her into believing she is reuniting charity worker Annabel with her boyfriend Richard (played by Ant).
Annabel is joined on stage by her fellow colleagues (played by actresses) and her boss Jean Luc (played by Dec).
Willoughby announces the surprise to Annabel - a performance live in the studio by her favourite band Blue. The boyband are joined by Richard, who intends to serenade Annabel and propose.
However, there is a sudden turn of events in the studio when Annabel rejects Richard. When the stunt is revealed, Willoughby is shocked and says: "Oh my God. It's you. I nearly threw up."
She said after the prank: "I had no idea, I never thought I would be fooled but I honestly didn't twig.
Willoughby is shooting an episode of her show Surprise, Surprise when the Geordie duo trick her into believing she is reuniting charity worker Annabel with her boyfriend Richard (played by Ant).
Annabel is joined on stage by her fellow colleagues (played by actresses) and her boss Jean Luc (played by Dec).
Willoughby announces the surprise to Annabel - a performance live in the studio by her favourite band Blue. The boyband are joined by Richard, who intends to serenade Annabel and propose.
However, there is a sudden turn of events in the studio when Annabel rejects Richard. When the stunt is revealed, Willoughby is shocked and says: "Oh my God. It's you. I nearly threw up."
She said after the prank: "I had no idea, I never thought I would be fooled but I honestly didn't twig.
- 3/11/2014
- Digital Spy
This week sees Francois Truffaut's seminal love-triangle "Jules Et Jim," one of the French filmmaker's best-loved and most seminal works, get an upgrade to Blu-Ray on the The Criterion Collection. And with New York City's Film Forum staging a significant retrospective of his work beginning in March, and "The 400 Blows" also being reissued on Criterion in April, it feels like the perfect opportunity to do something we've been dying to do for ages: put the spotlight on the filmmaker's work. Truffaut went from runaway schoolboy to bad-boy Cahiers du cinema critic to wildly acclaimed filmmaker before the age of 27, and sadly, passed away of a brain tumor aged only 52, and the result is that his career can sometimes seem like a brief, if brilliant one, especially in contrast to that of friend and colleague Jean Luc-Godard, who's still working today. But Truffaut packed a lot into his quarter-century of work,...
- 2/5/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2013—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2013 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
★★★★☆ The latest work from German auteur Douglas Sirk to get the Masters of Cinema treatment (following the rerelease of The Tarnished Angels earlier this month), 1958's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is remarkable not only for its sympathetic portrayal of disheartened and disenfranchised German soldiers towards the end of the Second World War, but also for its fine blend of sharp humour and sweeping CinemaScope melodrama. Starring John Gavin and Liselotte Pulver as the lovestruck Ernst Gräber and beautiful Hamburg resident Elisabeth, this is Sirk at the height of his Hollywood power.
Returning home to the burnt-out remnants of Hamburg after several long, cold years on the Russian-German Front, Gavin's square-jawed Gräber comes back to a city in ruins. With his parents' apartment block completely destroyed by enemy bombing raids, Gräber frantically searches the note-littered wall of the district to find some trace of his beloved family.
Returning home to the burnt-out remnants of Hamburg after several long, cold years on the Russian-German Front, Gavin's square-jawed Gräber comes back to a city in ruins. With his parents' apartment block completely destroyed by enemy bombing raids, Gräber frantically searches the note-littered wall of the district to find some trace of his beloved family.
- 9/24/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It's that time of year again -- or what used to be that time of year. NewFest is here (September 6-11). Yes, the celebration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and what-have-you cinema is back for its 25th anniversary. The main venue will be the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, considered by some to be the best cinema in Manhattan, one that boasts a truly superior sound system.
(Anyone who ever attended NewFest when it was held at the New School with its second-rate visuals and third-rate resonance will rejoice.)
In the past, this deliciously raucous event has screened a mixed bag of semi-brilliant to much-less-so offerings, many you'll never ever get to see anywhere else on a "big" screen whether you reside in the Big Apple or in Idaho. On the plus side, watching a woefully dreadful movie with a roomful of knowing Glbtq cinephiles is often a hoot.
(Anyone who ever attended NewFest when it was held at the New School with its second-rate visuals and third-rate resonance will rejoice.)
In the past, this deliciously raucous event has screened a mixed bag of semi-brilliant to much-less-so offerings, many you'll never ever get to see anywhere else on a "big" screen whether you reside in the Big Apple or in Idaho. On the plus side, watching a woefully dreadful movie with a roomful of knowing Glbtq cinephiles is often a hoot.
- 8/26/2013
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
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