Every year one of the signposts that the Cannes Film Festival is nigh is the release of that edition’s official poster. The Cannes posters of the past have run the gamut, from the glorified tourism posters of the early years to some of the more witty, playful ones of recent vintage — such as Agnès Varda getting some height help by standing atop an assistant to look into her camera on her debut “La Pointe Courte” for the 2019 festival, or Spike Lee and his giant glasses peeping over the lower edge of the frame in 2021.
In their release of the 2024 festival poster, the organizers commented that each year’s poster “sets the tone” for the festival to come. Many of these in the past have been exuberant and full of the colorful possibilities of cinema. This one in 2024 sets a more muted tone, perhaps fitting for this festival set against a backdrop of horrific war.
In their release of the 2024 festival poster, the organizers commented that each year’s poster “sets the tone” for the festival to come. Many of these in the past have been exuberant and full of the colorful possibilities of cinema. This one in 2024 sets a more muted tone, perhaps fitting for this festival set against a backdrop of horrific war.
- 4/22/2024
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.“Je résiste. I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film, you know?” —Agnès Varda, “An Interview with Agnès Varda,” The Believer, October 1, 2009Summing up Agnès Varda is nigh impossible; reducing her down to a single quote futile. There are words I might use to describe her—creative, ambitious, whimsical, pragmatic—but these feel remissive in their temperance. Simply put, Varda’s work is what epitomizes her, each feature, short film, photograph, and installation a breath of life. In elaborating on her concept of cinécriture, or “cinematic writing,” she affirms that it’s not “illustrating a screenplay, not adapting a novel, not getting the gags of a good play, not any of this.
- 12/9/2020
- MUBI
While Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte (made in 1955 and shown a few years later) may have been the film to launch the French New Wave, it exploded with Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 Breathless, written by fellow New Wave auteur François Truffaut, stunningly shot by Raoul Coutard, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. StudioCanal has now beautifully restored the original print in 4K resolution just in time for the 60th anniversary. In the U.K., the film will be released on a 4K Uhd Collector’s Edition with 12’’ Vinyl as well as DVD, Blu-ray, and digital on November 9th––and now we have a new trailer and poster.
In his riff on American film noir, Breathless film conveys the trajectory of small-time crook Michel Poiccard (Belmondo) who finds himself on the run after stealing a car and murdering a police officer in cold blood. Reuniting with his former girlfriend, American...
In his riff on American film noir, Breathless film conveys the trajectory of small-time crook Michel Poiccard (Belmondo) who finds himself on the run after stealing a car and murdering a police officer in cold blood. Reuniting with his former girlfriend, American...
- 8/13/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
An artist’s life is always more than their ‘published’ works, but that this massive ‘Agnés in a box’ comes close to being the last word on an impressive filmmaker sometimes dubbed The Mother of the French New Wave. It certainly is as comprehensive and complete as possible when it comes to her films. So far they’ve all been pleasant discoveries. This review describes the collection and separately reviews two previously unfamiliar titles, the quirky sci-fi fantasy Les créatures and the worthy pro-feminist drama One Sings, the Other Doesn’t.
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection (no spine numbers)
1955-2019
fifteen Blu-ray Discs
available through The Criterion Collection
Street Date August 11, 2020 / 249.95
Directed by Agnès Varda
The great Agnès Varda passed away just over a year ago. She appears to have been creatively active almost to the very end, an insatiable, unstoppable filmmaker of taste & discretion and natural ability.
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection (no spine numbers)
1955-2019
fifteen Blu-ray Discs
available through The Criterion Collection
Street Date August 11, 2020 / 249.95
Directed by Agnès Varda
The great Agnès Varda passed away just over a year ago. She appears to have been creatively active almost to the very end, an insatiable, unstoppable filmmaker of taste & discretion and natural ability.
- 8/8/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Above: The Green YearsPaulo Rocha, the key figure of Portuguese modern cinema, was 28 when he filmed his virtuoso black-and-white debut, The Green Years (1963). It’s a film so mature, with such musical verve and pictorial elegance, we can only marvel at the energy that was in the air in Europe in the 1960s, when the continent’s new waves were taking shape. Rocha’s is a case of maturity arrived at quickly, namely after his cinema studies in Paris, and then his apprenticeships under the masters Manoel de Oliveira and Jean Renoir, as assistant director on Oliveira’s features, The Bread (1959) and Act of Spring and Renoir’s The Elusive Corporal (1962).In The Green Years, two young lovers, a shoemaker, Júlio (Rui Gomes), and a maid, Ilda (Isabel Ruth), are transplants to Lisbon. Though at times nostalgic for their villages, they’re mostly dazzled by the brisk pace, suaveness and...
- 8/5/2020
- MUBI
The Criterion Collection has announced a new treat for cinephiles coming this summer. The Complete Films of Agnès Varda, a 15-disc collector’s set, will feature all 39 of the late French icon’s features, shorts, and documentaries. The set hits shelves on August 11 this year.
Each of the 15 discs presents a curation of films organized by themes that marked Varda’s work, including explorations of Paris in “Cléo From 5 to 7,” studies of married life with “Le Bonheur,” her collaborations with Jane Birkin in “Jane B. par Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master!,” and Jacques Demy with “Jacquot d Nantes,” “The Young Girls Turn 25,” and “The World of Jacques Demy,” and much more. She was married to Demy up until his death in 1990.
The full list of included titles is below. The set also features a 200-page book surveying Varda’s career, which launched in 1955 with “La Pointe Courte,” followed...
Each of the 15 discs presents a curation of films organized by themes that marked Varda’s work, including explorations of Paris in “Cléo From 5 to 7,” studies of married life with “Le Bonheur,” her collaborations with Jane Birkin in “Jane B. par Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master!,” and Jacques Demy with “Jacquot d Nantes,” “The Young Girls Turn 25,” and “The World of Jacques Demy,” and much more. She was married to Demy up until his death in 1990.
The full list of included titles is below. The set also features a 200-page book surveying Varda’s career, which launched in 1955 with “La Pointe Courte,” followed...
- 5/11/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
After getting a tease and the announcement of a theatrical touring retrospective, The Criterion Collection have now announced their Agnès Varda boxset, aptly titled The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. A gorgeous, epic undertaking, this treasure trove of cinematic beauty is split into different aspects of the Belgian-born French director’s life and career.
Arriving on a fifteen-disc Blu-ray release on August 11, the set features digital restorations of thirty-nine films, including the first home-video presentations of Les créatures, Jacquot de Nantes, and the television series Agnès de ci de là Varda. There’s also over seven hours of archival programs from Varda, a 200-page book, video introductions by the late filmmaker herself, and much, much more. Check out the details below.
The Films
Agnès Forever – Varda by Agnès (2019), Les 3 boutons (2015)
Early Varda – La Pointe Courte (1955), Ô saisons, ô châteaux (1958), Du côté de la côte (1958)
Around Paris – Cléo from 5 to 7...
Arriving on a fifteen-disc Blu-ray release on August 11, the set features digital restorations of thirty-nine films, including the first home-video presentations of Les créatures, Jacquot de Nantes, and the television series Agnès de ci de là Varda. There’s also over seven hours of archival programs from Varda, a 200-page book, video introductions by the late filmmaker herself, and much, much more. Check out the details below.
The Films
Agnès Forever – Varda by Agnès (2019), Les 3 boutons (2015)
Early Varda – La Pointe Courte (1955), Ô saisons, ô châteaux (1958), Du côté de la côte (1958)
Around Paris – Cléo from 5 to 7...
- 5/11/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Appointment comes hot on heels of mk2’s Netflix deal in France.
Paris-based film company mk2 Films has hired Rosalie Varda to oversee the exploitation and promotion of its vast 800-title catalogue of classic films.
Varda is the daughter of late filmmaker Agnès Varda and actor and theatre director Antoine Bourseiller and the step-daughter of late film director Jacques Demy.
She forged a career in the cinema, theatre and opera worlds as a costume designer, working on films of Jean-Luc Godard and Demy.
From 2006 onwards, she collaborated closely with her mother on her projects, taking a producer credit on Faces,...
Paris-based film company mk2 Films has hired Rosalie Varda to oversee the exploitation and promotion of its vast 800-title catalogue of classic films.
Varda is the daughter of late filmmaker Agnès Varda and actor and theatre director Antoine Bourseiller and the step-daughter of late film director Jacques Demy.
She forged a career in the cinema, theatre and opera worlds as a costume designer, working on films of Jean-Luc Godard and Demy.
From 2006 onwards, she collaborated closely with her mother on her projects, taking a producer credit on Faces,...
- 4/21/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Appointment comes hot on heels of mk2’s Netflix deal in France.
Paris-based film company mk2 Films has hired Rosalie Varda to oversee the exploitation and promotion of its vast 800-title catalogue of classic films.
Varda is the daughter of late filmmaker Agnès Varda and actor and theatre director Antoine Bourseiller and the step-daughter of late film director Jacques Demy.
She forged a career in the cinema, theatre and opera worlds as a costume designer, working on films of Jean-Luc Godard and Demy.
From 2006 onwards, she collaborated closely with her mother on her projects, taking a producer credit on Faces,...
Paris-based film company mk2 Films has hired Rosalie Varda to oversee the exploitation and promotion of its vast 800-title catalogue of classic films.
Varda is the daughter of late filmmaker Agnès Varda and actor and theatre director Antoine Bourseiller and the step-daughter of late film director Jacques Demy.
She forged a career in the cinema, theatre and opera worlds as a costume designer, working on films of Jean-Luc Godard and Demy.
From 2006 onwards, she collaborated closely with her mother on her projects, taking a producer credit on Faces,...
- 4/21/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
For roughly 65 of the 90 years she walked among us mere mortals, Agnès Varda made movies. The petite photographer-turned-filmmaker was considered a card-carrying member of the nouvelle vague, even though her first feature, 1955’s La Pointe Courte, predated the French New Wave’s big bang. It was not uncommon to see Varda strolling around festivals well into her late eighties, a world-cinema éminence grise with a two-toned ‘do and a mile-wide smile. She made dramas, comedies, semi-musicals, documentaries and essayistic looks at everything from contemporary gleaners to her own creative process.
- 11/26/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When director Agnès Varda came out with her 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places, co-directed with the artist Jr, many people assumed it would be her final film. In her late 80s at that point, her eyesight was failing—if not her unquenchable curiosity.
But in fact she would complete one more film before her death in March at age 90. Varda by Agnès, the capstone to a remarkable career in cinema, plays at AFI Fest in Los Angeles November 21. The next day it opens in theaters in New York before expanding nationwide.
“It’s a way of saying goodbye,” Varda explained at the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February, a month before her passing. “I have to prepare myself to say goodbye and to go away. It’s fine.”
The film is built around talks Varda gave late in her career about her work. Rosalie Varda, the...
But in fact she would complete one more film before her death in March at age 90. Varda by Agnès, the capstone to a remarkable career in cinema, plays at AFI Fest in Los Angeles November 21. The next day it opens in theaters in New York before expanding nationwide.
“It’s a way of saying goodbye,” Varda explained at the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February, a month before her passing. “I have to prepare myself to say goodbye and to go away. It’s fine.”
The film is built around talks Varda gave late in her career about her work. Rosalie Varda, the...
- 11/8/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Nearly a decade since Ava DuVernay launched Array, what was initially a small distribution company has grown to become a multimedia empire that now sits on a sprawling Los Angeles campus. The gated property in Historic Filipinotown contains, among several things, post-production facilities and a recently completed state-of-the-art, 50-seat theater that will screen Array titles, work by local artists, and an annual film series, which was announced today, curated and funded by DuVernay’s non-profit Array Alliance. Titled Array 360, the program will bring together award-winning filmmakers and emerging artists for six weekends of cinema, community, and conversation.
Array 360 will run from September 27 – November 2 at the all-new Amanda Theater, as the new screening space will be called. The inaugural slate features a celebration of women filmmakers including Agnès Varda, Euzhan Palcy, Barbara Loden, Suzana Amaral, Kathleen Collins, Shirin Neshat, Garrett Bradley, and Mati Diop, among others; a John Singleton retrospective; a...
Array 360 will run from September 27 – November 2 at the all-new Amanda Theater, as the new screening space will be called. The inaugural slate features a celebration of women filmmakers including Agnès Varda, Euzhan Palcy, Barbara Loden, Suzana Amaral, Kathleen Collins, Shirin Neshat, Garrett Bradley, and Mati Diop, among others; a John Singleton retrospective; a...
- 9/13/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Ava DuVernay continues to champion inclusivity and global film perspectives with Array 360 film series to mark the completion of the Array Creative Campus and the brand-spankin’ new, state-of-the-art Amanda Theater. The series will kick off September 27 and continue through November 2.
Located in the Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles, the Amanda Theater will host the inaugural film series created and funded by DuVernay’s non-profit Array Alliance. For six weekends, Array 360 will feature award-winning filmmakers and emerging artists.
“As a model, Array does steep itself in inclusion models to correct long-held absences. We believe in balance from the beginning,” said DuVernay. “Our Array Creative Campus was built with this belonging in mind from the first day and Array 360 is a reflection of our mantra that everyone has a place in true cinema.”
“In addition to paying tribute to exquisite filmmakers, some of whose work has gone underappreciated, our Array 360 series strives...
Located in the Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles, the Amanda Theater will host the inaugural film series created and funded by DuVernay’s non-profit Array Alliance. For six weekends, Array 360 will feature award-winning filmmakers and emerging artists.
“As a model, Array does steep itself in inclusion models to correct long-held absences. We believe in balance from the beginning,” said DuVernay. “Our Array Creative Campus was built with this belonging in mind from the first day and Array 360 is a reflection of our mantra that everyone has a place in true cinema.”
“In addition to paying tribute to exquisite filmmakers, some of whose work has gone underappreciated, our Array 360 series strives...
- 9/13/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Ava DuVernay is starting an Array 360 Film Series, aimed at bringing together filmmakers and emerging artists for six weekends from Sept. 27 to Nov. 2 in Los Angeles.
The events will take place at the new Amanda Theater on the Array Creative Campus in Filipinotown. The series will include the work of filmmakers Agnès Varda, Euzhan Palcy, Barbara Loden, Suzana Amaral, Kathleen Collins, Shirin Neshat, Garrett Bradley and Mati Diop. Highlights include a weekend of screenings devoted to the work of John Singleton, a showcase of Filipinx cinema and a conversation between Michael Mann and DuVernay.
“As a model, Array does steep itself in inclusion models to correct long-held absences,” she said. “We believe in balance from the beginning. Our Array Creative Campus was built with this belonging in mind from the first day and Array 360 is a reflection of our mantra that everyone has a place in true cinema,” said DuVernay.
The events will take place at the new Amanda Theater on the Array Creative Campus in Filipinotown. The series will include the work of filmmakers Agnès Varda, Euzhan Palcy, Barbara Loden, Suzana Amaral, Kathleen Collins, Shirin Neshat, Garrett Bradley and Mati Diop. Highlights include a weekend of screenings devoted to the work of John Singleton, a showcase of Filipinx cinema and a conversation between Michael Mann and DuVernay.
“As a model, Array does steep itself in inclusion models to correct long-held absences,” she said. “We believe in balance from the beginning. Our Array Creative Campus was built with this belonging in mind from the first day and Array 360 is a reflection of our mantra that everyone has a place in true cinema,” said DuVernay.
- 9/13/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
On March 29, 2019, the world lost one of its greatest filmmakers as Agnès Varda passed away at the age of 90. Just a short time before her death, the Belgium-born director premiered her final film, Varda by Agnès, at Berlinale, which follows her reflecting on her career and singular approach to filmmaking. Now, Janus Films has announced they’ll release the swan song this November, followed by a nationwide retrospective, featuring the most comprehensive survey to date of her filmography.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Life can seldom offer us neat endings. Cinema sometimes can, and there is something nicely fitting to the notion that Agnès Varda, the seventh art’s great celebrator of all things gleaned, would leave audiences–newcomers and devotees alike–with so much to take from her final film, as Varda by Agnès has ultimately proved to be. It is a swan song but not a melancholy tune,...
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Life can seldom offer us neat endings. Cinema sometimes can, and there is something nicely fitting to the notion that Agnès Varda, the seventh art’s great celebrator of all things gleaned, would leave audiences–newcomers and devotees alike–with so much to take from her final film, as Varda by Agnès has ultimately proved to be. It is a swan song but not a melancholy tune,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Chicago – If the French New Wave cinema movement (1958 to late 1960s) had a mother, it was undoubtably Agnés Varda. The versatile filmmaker began her film journey shortly before the movement began, and her influence resonated throughout that era and within her career. Varda died at the age of 90 on March 29th, 2019.
French Filmmaker Agnés Varda in Chicago, October of 2015
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Arlette “Agnés” Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, and through her French mother applied to the Sorbonne (University of Paris) shortly after World War II, gaining a degree in literature and psychology. Continuing her education in art history, she turned to photography before becoming a voice in Left Bank Cinema and the French New Wave. Her debut film was 1954’s “La Pointe Courte,” which she built from still images of her photographs.
Her career built from there, as her follow feature...
French Filmmaker Agnés Varda in Chicago, October of 2015
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Arlette “Agnés” Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, and through her French mother applied to the Sorbonne (University of Paris) shortly after World War II, gaining a degree in literature and psychology. Continuing her education in art history, she turned to photography before becoming a voice in Left Bank Cinema and the French New Wave. Her debut film was 1954’s “La Pointe Courte,” which she built from still images of her photographs.
Her career built from there, as her follow feature...
- 5/1/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay is joining Ben Mankiewicz for the latest round of The Essentials on Saturday nights on Turner Classic Movies.
The director behind such films as Selma (2014), 13th (2016) and A Wrinkle in Time (2018) will sit down with the TCM primetime host to introduce a hand-picked movie and offer commentary on its cultural significance, its influence on other films, behind-the-scenes stories and personal reflections.
The new season premieres May 4 at 5 p.m. Pt with a screening of best picture winner Marty (1955), starring Ernest Borgnine. Cabin in the Sky (1943), West Side Story (1961), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), La Pointe Courte (1955),...
The director behind such films as Selma (2014), 13th (2016) and A Wrinkle in Time (2018) will sit down with the TCM primetime host to introduce a hand-picked movie and offer commentary on its cultural significance, its influence on other films, behind-the-scenes stories and personal reflections.
The new season premieres May 4 at 5 p.m. Pt with a screening of best picture winner Marty (1955), starring Ernest Borgnine. Cabin in the Sky (1943), West Side Story (1961), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), La Pointe Courte (1955),...
- 4/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay is joining Ben Mankiewicz for the latest round of The Essentials on Saturday nights on Turner Classic Movies.
The director behind such films as Selma (2014), 13th (2016) and A Wrinkle in Time (2018) will sit down with the TCM primetime host to introduce a hand-picked movie and offer commentary on its cultural significance, its influence on other films, behind-the-scenes stories and personal reflections.
The new season premieres May 4 at 5 p.m. Pt with a screening of best picture winner Marty (1955), starring Ernest Borgnine. Cabin in the Sky (1943), West Side Story (1961), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), La Pointe Courte (1955),...
The director behind such films as Selma (2014), 13th (2016) and A Wrinkle in Time (2018) will sit down with the TCM primetime host to introduce a hand-picked movie and offer commentary on its cultural significance, its influence on other films, behind-the-scenes stories and personal reflections.
The new season premieres May 4 at 5 p.m. Pt with a screening of best picture winner Marty (1955), starring Ernest Borgnine. Cabin in the Sky (1943), West Side Story (1961), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), La Pointe Courte (1955),...
- 4/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Asian auteurs show exciting new work, Céline Sciamma and Mati Diop bringing verve to the festival, seasoned directors from Almodóvar to Elia Suleiman add class, and it could all kick off with Maradona
•Full list of films
This year’s Cannes selection was unveiled under a revered image, almost a tutelary deity. The poster shows the 26-year-old Agnès Varda standing on the shoulders of a male technician, shooting her first feature La Pointe Courte. Some may feel that this is where the gender revolution begins and ends in Cannes: there are still just four women directors in competition and 13 in the selection overall. The festival argues that it is working in good faith on this issue, that it has a gender balance on its selection panel, and that meaningful progress can’t happen immediately.
Elsewhere, Cannes is sticking to its guns on the Netflix issue, despite everyone’s suspicions that...
•Full list of films
This year’s Cannes selection was unveiled under a revered image, almost a tutelary deity. The poster shows the 26-year-old Agnès Varda standing on the shoulders of a male technician, shooting her first feature La Pointe Courte. Some may feel that this is where the gender revolution begins and ends in Cannes: there are still just four women directors in competition and 13 in the selection overall. The festival argues that it is working in good faith on this issue, that it has a gender balance on its selection panel, and that meaningful progress can’t happen immediately.
Elsewhere, Cannes is sticking to its guns on the Netflix issue, despite everyone’s suspicions that...
- 4/18/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1946, the inaugural year of the Cannes Film Festival, Barbara Virginia’s surrealist film, “Tres dias sem Deus” debuted in competition. Over the subsequent seven decades, as it has grown in stature to become one of the world’s premier film gatherings, Cannes hasn’t matched that early promise in highlighting female artists.
Finally, the powers that be at the Cannes Film Festival appear to be getting the message. After being criticized for failing to spotlight female directors, four will have their work in the main competition in 2019 – “Atlantique” by Mati Diop, “Little Joe” by Jessica Hausner, “Sibyl” by Justine Triet, and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” by Céline Sciamma. That may seem like a paltry number, but it’s the best showing since 2011 and represents more than 21% of the 19 competition entries that have been announced so far. That’s up from 14% in 2018 and 16% in 2017. It could also improve...
Finally, the powers that be at the Cannes Film Festival appear to be getting the message. After being criticized for failing to spotlight female directors, four will have their work in the main competition in 2019 – “Atlantique” by Mati Diop, “Little Joe” by Jessica Hausner, “Sibyl” by Justine Triet, and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” by Céline Sciamma. That may seem like a paltry number, but it’s the best showing since 2011 and represents more than 21% of the 19 competition entries that have been announced so far. That’s up from 14% in 2018 and 16% in 2017. It could also improve...
- 4/18/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Cannes Film Festival has announced its official poster, a tribute to the late Agnès Varda. The poster depicts Varda on the set of her very first feature, La pointe courte (1955). We are saddened by the news that the brilliant Swedish actress Bibi Andersson died at the age of 83. Best known for her remarkable turns in The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and Persona, Ronald Bergan provides a thorough obituary of the timeless artist for The Guardian.Recommended VIEWINGThe first teaser for J.J. Abrams conclusion to the new Star Wars trilogy, Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker. We published an extensive 5-part dialogue conducted last year that wrestles with George Lucas's much contested prequels.Kino Lorber's trailer for the re-release of Frank Simon's The Queen (1968), a documentary about the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest,...
- 4/17/2019
- MUBI
"All the way up. As high as she could go. Perched on the shoulders of an impassive technician. Clinging to a camera, which seems to absorb her entirely. A young woman, aged 26, making her first film." The official poster for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival has been revealed, just a few days before the official line-up is revealed as well. The artwork features a young Agnès Varda, only aged 26, making her first feature film. The iconic photo was taken in 1955 while she was filming her film La Pointe Courte, and it has been edited and colorized to make it look gorgeous as the official artwork for the 2019 festival. Cannes kicks off on May 14th next month, running until May 25th. The opening film will be Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die, and Tarantino's latest is expected to premiere there as well. Take a closer look at the 72nd poster art below.
- 4/15/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Always a fun update, the Cannes Film Festival has revealed its latest poster. This year’s is a poignant one, but as ever, it’s sprinkled with cinema magic.
The festival’s newest poster pays tribute to the late French filmmaker Agnès Varda who passed away just last month. It captures the director precariously perched up high while filming her 1955 debut La Pointe Courte, which played at Cannes. It is unclear whether the festival was planning on spotlighting the iconic filmmaker in this way before her death, but either way, it’s a fitting and timely tribute. The artwork behind the poster is impressive as ever: it oozes Riviera.
An accompanying message from the festival press release reads:
“Agnès, in the bright sunlight
All the way up.
As high as she could go.
Perched on the shoulders of an impassive technician.
Clinging to a camera, which seems to absorb her entirely.
The festival’s newest poster pays tribute to the late French filmmaker Agnès Varda who passed away just last month. It captures the director precariously perched up high while filming her 1955 debut La Pointe Courte, which played at Cannes. It is unclear whether the festival was planning on spotlighting the iconic filmmaker in this way before her death, but either way, it’s a fitting and timely tribute. The artwork behind the poster is impressive as ever: it oozes Riviera.
An accompanying message from the festival press release reads:
“Agnès, in the bright sunlight
All the way up.
As high as she could go.
Perched on the shoulders of an impassive technician.
Clinging to a camera, which seems to absorb her entirely.
- 4/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Poster shows Varda shooting her first film La Pointe Courte.
The poster for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) pays tribute to director Agnes Varda, who died aged 90 last month.
The poster shows Varda standing on the shoulders of a technician, shooting her first film La Pointe Courte in 1954 when she was 26 years old. The film would screen at the Cannes Film Festival the following year.
Thirteen of Varda’s films were showcased in Official Selection at Cannes over the years. She was a jury member in 2005, president of the Caméra d’Or jury in 2013 and received an honorary Palme...
The poster for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) pays tribute to director Agnes Varda, who died aged 90 last month.
The poster shows Varda standing on the shoulders of a technician, shooting her first film La Pointe Courte in 1954 when she was 26 years old. The film would screen at the Cannes Film Festival the following year.
Thirteen of Varda’s films were showcased in Official Selection at Cannes over the years. She was a jury member in 2005, president of the Caméra d’Or jury in 2013 and received an honorary Palme...
- 4/15/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival is saluting director Agnès Varda with its official poster, which depicts the filmmaker, then in her mid-20s, shooting her first feature, 1955’s “La Pointe Courte.”
The announcement reflects the enormous respect the director-cum-visual-artist had earned from Cannes and the film community worldwide as a pioneering director — the woman whose independent debut paved the way for the French New Wave. Later, Varda went on to make “Cléo from 5 to 7,” which premiered in competition at Cannes in 1962 and featured a cameo from “Breathless” director Jean-Luc Godard, whose own film career was catalyzed in part by her example. Varda died at 90 last month.
Varda was a regular at Cannes, whether or not she had a film to screen there — and she presented many, including “Jacquot de Nantes,” “The Gleaners and I,” and, most recently, “Faces Places” — and served on the jury in 2005, the year Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne...
The announcement reflects the enormous respect the director-cum-visual-artist had earned from Cannes and the film community worldwide as a pioneering director — the woman whose independent debut paved the way for the French New Wave. Later, Varda went on to make “Cléo from 5 to 7,” which premiered in competition at Cannes in 1962 and featured a cameo from “Breathless” director Jean-Luc Godard, whose own film career was catalyzed in part by her example. Varda died at 90 last month.
Varda was a regular at Cannes, whether or not she had a film to screen there — and she presented many, including “Jacquot de Nantes,” “The Gleaners and I,” and, most recently, “Faces Places” — and served on the jury in 2005, the year Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne...
- 4/15/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Agnes Varda will make her final appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, with the late filmmaker front and center as the subject of the poster for its 72nd edition.
The shot is of Varda, then 26, making her first film La Pointe Courte in 1954. In the iconic photo, she is standing on the shoulders of a technician while looking into the camera on the beach in Sete, in the Southeast of France. The film screened in an out-of-competition Cannes slot the following year.
“This photo from the set sums up everything about Agnes Varda: her passion, aplomb, and ...
The shot is of Varda, then 26, making her first film La Pointe Courte in 1954. In the iconic photo, she is standing on the shoulders of a technician while looking into the camera on the beach in Sete, in the Southeast of France. The film screened in an out-of-competition Cannes slot the following year.
“This photo from the set sums up everything about Agnes Varda: her passion, aplomb, and ...
- 4/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Agnes Varda will make her final appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, with the late filmmaker front and center as the subject of the poster for its 72nd edition.
The shot is of Varda, then 26, making her first film La Pointe Courte in 1954. In the iconic photo, she is standing on the shoulders of a technician while looking into the camera on the beach in Sete, in the Southeast of France. The film screened in an out-of-competition Cannes slot the following year.
“This photo from the set sums up everything about Agnes Varda: her passion, aplomb, and ...
The shot is of Varda, then 26, making her first film La Pointe Courte in 1954. In the iconic photo, she is standing on the shoulders of a technician while looking into the camera on the beach in Sete, in the Southeast of France. The film screened in an out-of-competition Cannes slot the following year.
“This photo from the set sums up everything about Agnes Varda: her passion, aplomb, and ...
- 4/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Beaches of Agnès (2008), the first feature I saw by Agnès Varda, is arguably both the best and worst place to begin watching her body of work. To put it another way, it’s a great farewell, but also a perfect primer for this titan of world cinema who died on March 29th at the age of 90. Varda directed the movie many consider to be the first French New Wave film, La pointe courte (1955), which also began a six-decade-plus career for her in filmmaking. She made documentaries, scripted fiction, gallery installations, and numerous experiments somewhere in between the two. She was married to another major French New Wave director, Jacques Demy. Her family was a key component of her cinema, giving roles to her children Mathieu and Rosalie, as well as collaborating with Demy on Jacquot de Nantes (1991) as he was dying of AIDS. To return to The Beaches of Agnès,...
- 4/10/2019
- MUBI
This interview was originally published in Fireflies #5. Many thanks to the author and the publication for allowing us to run it online.By going to Paris to interview Agnès Varda I lived two dreams shared by many a cinephile: I met and spent a couple of hours with the filmmaking legend, and I visited a place that ranks high amongst cinema’s most fabled locations: the house at 86-88 rue Daguerre. Walking over from the métro, it was difficult to get my bearings based on Varda’s 1976 documentary Daguerréotypes. In lieu of the film’s charmingly scruffy artisanal shops and family-owned businesses I found snazzy boutiques, restaurants and cafés. Where the butcher used to be, there is now a yoga studio. Though hardly surprising, it was still heart-breaking to ascertain that gentrification had done away with the village-like microcosm immortalised by Varda. My disenchantment evaporated once I spotted a familiar...
- 4/8/2019
- MUBI
The film world lost a legend last week when Agnès Varda passed away at 90. The heartfelt outpouring of tributes from filmmakers, actors, and critics around the world says a lot about the legacy of the French New Wave icon who inspired so many. But she was most influential to a new generation of women filmmakers, a role she relished.
Varda’s influence is all over the work of Greta Gerwig, Miranda July, Lena Dunham, Kelly Reichardt and Crystal Moselle. Varda herself often expressed admiration for many of these directors when asked about new talent.
Here are just a few of the lessons the godmother of the French New Wave imparted to the next generation of women filmmakers, in their words.
The inspiration to make their first film.
Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”): “‘Kung Fu Master’ (‘Le Petit Amour’) was the movie that propelled me to...
Varda’s influence is all over the work of Greta Gerwig, Miranda July, Lena Dunham, Kelly Reichardt and Crystal Moselle. Varda herself often expressed admiration for many of these directors when asked about new talent.
Here are just a few of the lessons the godmother of the French New Wave imparted to the next generation of women filmmakers, in their words.
The inspiration to make their first film.
Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”): “‘Kung Fu Master’ (‘Le Petit Amour’) was the movie that propelled me to...
- 4/2/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Agnes Varda is deservedly eulogized in newspapers and on social media all over America today, but critics, programmers and audiences in the U.S. took time in recognizing her accomplishments. It took several decades for her work gain appreciation in the U.S., and during that time, I witnessed Varda’s ability to continue evolving as an artist every step of the way.
While Varda’s debut feature, “La Pointe Courte” (1955) has yet to have a theatrical release in America, her early short, “L’Opera Mouffe” (1958), was distributed by Cinema 16, an important film club run by Amos and Marcia Vogel in the 50’s and early 60’s dedicated to the showing and release of experimental and avant-garde cinema. The film won some notoriety because of its casual nudity — then still rare on American screens — and it was booked in film societies around the country seeding the bed for later Varda appreciation.
While Varda’s debut feature, “La Pointe Courte” (1955) has yet to have a theatrical release in America, her early short, “L’Opera Mouffe” (1958), was distributed by Cinema 16, an important film club run by Amos and Marcia Vogel in the 50’s and early 60’s dedicated to the showing and release of experimental and avant-garde cinema. The film won some notoriety because of its casual nudity — then still rare on American screens — and it was booked in film societies around the country seeding the bed for later Varda appreciation.
- 3/31/2019
- by Laurence Kardish
- Indiewire
Until today, if you had asked me to name the greatest living filmmaker, I would have answered Agnès Varda. What a loss that the 90-year-old director — who died Friday, leaving behind such intimate masterpieces as “Cléo from 5 to 7,” “Vagabond,” and “The Gleaners and I” — will create no more.
Her passing is a chance for the world of cinema to come together and recognize the achievements of an outsider artist who lived long enough to appreciate the impact her work has had on both audiences and multiple generations of younger directors. Before the French New Wave took form in the late 1950s, it was Varda who paddled out from shore and shouted, “Hey boys, come on in! The water’s fine!” And in recent years, with a series of increasingly personal documentaries — including two, “The Beaches of Agnès” and “Faces Places,” that the Los Angeles Film Critics awarded along the way...
Her passing is a chance for the world of cinema to come together and recognize the achievements of an outsider artist who lived long enough to appreciate the impact her work has had on both audiences and multiple generations of younger directors. Before the French New Wave took form in the late 1950s, it was Varda who paddled out from shore and shouted, “Hey boys, come on in! The water’s fine!” And in recent years, with a series of increasingly personal documentaries — including two, “The Beaches of Agnès” and “Faces Places,” that the Los Angeles Film Critics awarded along the way...
- 3/29/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Update (11:40am Et): Martin Scorsese has issued the following statement on Varda:
“I seriously doubt that Agnès Varda ever followed in anyone else’s footsteps, in any corner of her life or her art…which were one in the same. She charted and walked her own path each step of the way, she and her camera. Every single one of her remarkable handmade pictures, so beautifully balanced between documentary and fiction, is like no one else’s—every image, every cut… What a body of work she left behind: movies big and small, playful and tough, generous and solitary, lyrical and unflinching…and alive. I saw her for the last time a couple of months ago. She knew that she didn’t have much longer, and she made every second count: she didn’t want to miss a thing. I feel so lucky to have known her. And...
“I seriously doubt that Agnès Varda ever followed in anyone else’s footsteps, in any corner of her life or her art…which were one in the same. She charted and walked her own path each step of the way, she and her camera. Every single one of her remarkable handmade pictures, so beautifully balanced between documentary and fiction, is like no one else’s—every image, every cut… What a body of work she left behind: movies big and small, playful and tough, generous and solitary, lyrical and unflinching…and alive. I saw her for the last time a couple of months ago. She knew that she didn’t have much longer, and she made every second count: she didn’t want to miss a thing. I feel so lucky to have known her. And...
- 3/29/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Agnès Varda, the French New Wave director and filmmaking icon behind such films as “Cleo From 5 to 7” and “Vagabond,” has died at age 90. Varda passed away from breast cancer at her home in Paris early March 29. The death was confirmed by Varda’s family, who issued a statement saying Varda was “surrounded by her family and friends” at the time of her passing. The family described the filmmaker as a “joyful feminist” and “passionate artist.” Varda’s funeral is expected to take place in Paris on Tuesday.
Varda got her start as a still photographer before making the jump to feature filmmaking with the 1955 drama “La Pointe Courte.” The film, starring Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret, is widely considered to be one of the forerunners of the French New Wave.
Varda’s second feature, “Cleo From 5 to 7,” was entered into the Cannes Film Festival and earned her international acclaim.
Varda got her start as a still photographer before making the jump to feature filmmaking with the 1955 drama “La Pointe Courte.” The film, starring Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret, is widely considered to be one of the forerunners of the French New Wave.
Varda’s second feature, “Cleo From 5 to 7,” was entered into the Cannes Film Festival and earned her international acclaim.
- 3/29/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Agnès Varda will receive l'Etoille d'Or Photo: Rosalie Varda Pioneering French New Wave director Agnès Varda has died on the day before her 91st birthday.
She died at her home in France after a short battle with cancer.
The Belgian-born writer/director had been making films since 1954, when she established Tamaris, a film-production company for her first feature film La Pointe Courte. Her final, 37th film Varda by Agnès had its premiere in Berlin early this year.
Her groundbreaking films included Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners And I and The Beaches Of Agnes.
She became the first female director to receive an honorary Oscar in 2018 and was nominated for the Documentary Academy Award that same year for her collaboration with Jr, Faces Places. It was just one of a string of honours she received in recent years, which also included a Palme d’Or d’Honneur at Cannes, the Etoile...
She died at her home in France after a short battle with cancer.
The Belgian-born writer/director had been making films since 1954, when she established Tamaris, a film-production company for her first feature film La Pointe Courte. Her final, 37th film Varda by Agnès had its premiere in Berlin early this year.
Her groundbreaking films included Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners And I and The Beaches Of Agnes.
She became the first female director to receive an honorary Oscar in 2018 and was nominated for the Documentary Academy Award that same year for her collaboration with Jr, Faces Places. It was just one of a string of honours she received in recent years, which also included a Palme d’Or d’Honneur at Cannes, the Etoile...
- 3/29/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The legendary, lovely Agnès Varda has passed away at the age of 90. The French New Wave pioneer died from cancer “at her home in the night of March 29, 2019, surrounded by her family and friends,” her family confirmed. She recently premiered her final film Varda by Agnès at Berlinale, on the heels of both an honorary Academy Award and her Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places.
Born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928, she began her creative career in 1948 as a photographer before moving into filmmaking in 1954 prior to the beginning of the French New Wave. From her first feature La Pointe Courte all the way through Varda by Agnès, the director has had a uniquely playful eye when it comes to the cinematic form, from her landmark films Cléo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur, and Vagabond to her immensely inventive and heartfelt documentaries like The Gleaners and I and The Beaches of Agnès.
This century,...
Born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928, she began her creative career in 1948 as a photographer before moving into filmmaking in 1954 prior to the beginning of the French New Wave. From her first feature La Pointe Courte all the way through Varda by Agnès, the director has had a uniquely playful eye when it comes to the cinematic form, from her landmark films Cléo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur, and Vagabond to her immensely inventive and heartfelt documentaries like The Gleaners and I and The Beaches of Agnès.
This century,...
- 3/29/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Arguably the greatest film-maker of the French New Wave, Varda – who has died – continued making her distinctive brand of wise, personal, accessible cinema into her late 80s
For me, Agnès Varda was the greatest of that great and long-lived generation of the French New Wave. She was a master of personal cinema and essay cinema, drama, satire, documentary and romance, and her work had a distinctive richness and wisdom. Her debut feature, La Pointe Courte (1954), is a study in contemporary relationships with a poetic poise that surpasses Hiroshima Mon Amour. Her early masterpiece Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961) is news that stays news: a thrillingly urgent, intensely sexy and melancholy despatch from the epicentre of the 60s Parisian zeitgeist, which is far more interesting and conceptually supple than Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Related: Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’
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For me, Agnès Varda was the greatest of that great and long-lived generation of the French New Wave. She was a master of personal cinema and essay cinema, drama, satire, documentary and romance, and her work had a distinctive richness and wisdom. Her debut feature, La Pointe Courte (1954), is a study in contemporary relationships with a poetic poise that surpasses Hiroshima Mon Amour. Her early masterpiece Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961) is news that stays news: a thrillingly urgent, intensely sexy and melancholy despatch from the epicentre of the 60s Parisian zeitgeist, which is far more interesting and conceptually supple than Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Related: Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’
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- 3/29/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Agnès Varda, the French director who helmed films including La Pointe Courte and Cleo from 5 to 7 and won an Honorary Oscar and multiple Cannes Film Festival awards, died Thursday evening due to complications from cancer. She was 90.
“She was surrounded by her family and friends,” the family said in a statement.
Despite ill health, she was at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where she presented Varda by Agnès and received an award.
From her first film, La Pointe Courte in 1954, Varda’s style reflected elements of what would become the French New Wave although because she preceded that movement her work is more Left Bank in style. Her next feature, Cleo From 5 to 7, was a documentary style look at a singer awaiting results of a biopsy, which foreshadowed Varda’s fascination with human mortality. Her films also tended to focus on women and her subsequent Vagabond examined the investigation...
“She was surrounded by her family and friends,” the family said in a statement.
Despite ill health, she was at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where she presented Varda by Agnès and received an award.
From her first film, La Pointe Courte in 1954, Varda’s style reflected elements of what would become the French New Wave although because she preceded that movement her work is more Left Bank in style. Her next feature, Cleo From 5 to 7, was a documentary style look at a singer awaiting results of a biopsy, which foreshadowed Varda’s fascination with human mortality. Her films also tended to focus on women and her subsequent Vagabond examined the investigation...
- 3/29/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Varda passed away following a short battle with cancer.
Agnes Varda, the Belgian-born director whose work played a pivotal part in the French New Wave, has died aged 90.
According to a statement from her family given to Afp, she passed away following a short battle with cancer. It said: ”The director and artist Agnès Varda died at home on Thursday night due to cancer, with her family and loved ones surrounding her.”
He final film, Varda By Agnès, premiered at the Berlin Film earlier this year, where it was awarded the Berlinale Camera award.
In 2017 she became the first female...
Agnes Varda, the Belgian-born director whose work played a pivotal part in the French New Wave, has died aged 90.
According to a statement from her family given to Afp, she passed away following a short battle with cancer. It said: ”The director and artist Agnès Varda died at home on Thursday night due to cancer, with her family and loved ones surrounding her.”
He final film, Varda By Agnès, premiered at the Berlin Film earlier this year, where it was awarded the Berlinale Camera award.
In 2017 she became the first female...
- 3/29/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Agnes Varda, a leading light of the French New Wave who directed such films as “Cléo From 5 to 7,” “Vagabond” and “Faces Places,” has died. She was 90.
Varda’s death from breast cancer at her Paris home was confirmed Friday by her family. “The filmmaker and artist Agnes Varda died from a cancer at her home in the night of March 29, 2019, surrounded by her family and friends,” the family’s statement said, describing her as a “joyful feminist” and “passionate artist.”
The funeral is expected to take place in Paris on Tuesday.
Just last month, the diminutive director presented her latest film, “Varda by Agnes,” at the Berlin Film Festival and received the honorary Berlinale Camera award. She had films in competition at the festival four times, winning the Grand Jury Prize in 1965 with “Le Bonheur.” But as ill health overtook her in recent weeks, Varda canceled the masterclass she was...
Varda’s death from breast cancer at her Paris home was confirmed Friday by her family. “The filmmaker and artist Agnes Varda died from a cancer at her home in the night of March 29, 2019, surrounded by her family and friends,” the family’s statement said, describing her as a “joyful feminist” and “passionate artist.”
The funeral is expected to take place in Paris on Tuesday.
Just last month, the diminutive director presented her latest film, “Varda by Agnes,” at the Berlin Film Festival and received the honorary Berlinale Camera award. She had films in competition at the festival four times, winning the Grand Jury Prize in 1965 with “Le Bonheur.” But as ill health overtook her in recent weeks, Varda canceled the masterclass she was...
- 3/29/2019
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale Camera was presented to Agnès Varda on February 13 at the Berlinale Palast. This was followed by the world premiere of Varda’s documentary ‘Varda par Agnès’ (‘Varda by Agnès’), screened out of competition in the section Competition. The laudatory speech was given by Christoph Terhechte, who headed the Berlinale’s Forum section for many years.
After the surprising and wonderful Faces, Places I expect to see Varda in a new incarnation and I was not at all disappointed. This documentary about her and by her is an catalogue raisonné of her work since her first feature La Pointe Courte, in 1954 and 1962’s Cleo from 5 to 7, which I remember so well first seeing it while I was discovering my first foreign films, to her work today which goes beyond cinema’s Faces, Places and ventures into the visual high arts with installations and exhibits as shown in the Museum of Modern Art,...
After the surprising and wonderful Faces, Places I expect to see Varda in a new incarnation and I was not at all disappointed. This documentary about her and by her is an catalogue raisonné of her work since her first feature La Pointe Courte, in 1954 and 1962’s Cleo from 5 to 7, which I remember so well first seeing it while I was discovering my first foreign films, to her work today which goes beyond cinema’s Faces, Places and ventures into the visual high arts with installations and exhibits as shown in the Museum of Modern Art,...
- 2/15/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
French filmmaker Agnes Varda has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2019 Jean Renoir Award for International Screenwriting Achievement.
Varda’s films “La Pointe Courte,” “Cleo From 5 to 7,” and “Le Bonheur” helped define France’s New Wave cinema. Varda co-directed the documentary “Faces Places” with artist Jr and earned the pair a 2018 Oscar nomination for documentary feature. The nomination made Varda, at the age of 89, the oldest person ever to be nominated for a competitive Oscar. The film also won France’s Lumiere Award.
Varda will be honored at the Wgaw’s 2019 Writers Guild Awards L.A. show on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
“The Jean Renoir Award was made for Agnès Varda,” said Wgaw president David A. Goodman. “She is one of our industry’s pioneers, a revolutionary artist who paved the roads of filmmaking. Her films are relentlessly curious, complex and challenging,...
Varda’s films “La Pointe Courte,” “Cleo From 5 to 7,” and “Le Bonheur” helped define France’s New Wave cinema. Varda co-directed the documentary “Faces Places” with artist Jr and earned the pair a 2018 Oscar nomination for documentary feature. The nomination made Varda, at the age of 89, the oldest person ever to be nominated for a competitive Oscar. The film also won France’s Lumiere Award.
Varda will be honored at the Wgaw’s 2019 Writers Guild Awards L.A. show on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
“The Jean Renoir Award was made for Agnès Varda,” said Wgaw president David A. Goodman. “She is one of our industry’s pioneers, a revolutionary artist who paved the roads of filmmaking. Her films are relentlessly curious, complex and challenging,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Agnès Varda will receive l'Etoille d'Or Photo: Rosalie Varda Marrakech Film Festival has announced that it will present Etoile d'Or awards to Agnès Varda and Robin Wright at its 17th edition this December.
French director Varda has been making films since 1954, when she established Tamaris, a film-production company for her first feature film La Pointe Courte. She has gone on to make 36 films including her most recent, Faces Places, co-directed by French artist Jr.
Robin Wright Photo: Patrick Fraser The Etoile d'Or marks the most recent in a string of awards for the "grandmother of the French New Wave", including an honorary Oscar, Palme d’Or d’Honneur at Cannes and the Leopard Of Honour award in Locarno.
The 90-year-old said: "I loved Marrakech before the festival existed, but the addition of cinema makes me even more happy to come back and meet the community of Moroccan and worldwide filmmakers and film buffs.
French director Varda has been making films since 1954, when she established Tamaris, a film-production company for her first feature film La Pointe Courte. She has gone on to make 36 films including her most recent, Faces Places, co-directed by French artist Jr.
Robin Wright Photo: Patrick Fraser The Etoile d'Or marks the most recent in a string of awards for the "grandmother of the French New Wave", including an honorary Oscar, Palme d’Or d’Honneur at Cannes and the Leopard Of Honour award in Locarno.
The 90-year-old said: "I loved Marrakech before the festival existed, but the addition of cinema makes me even more happy to come back and meet the community of Moroccan and worldwide filmmakers and film buffs.
- 10/15/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Agnes Varda, irrepressible octogenarian -- “say I’ll be 85 in May” -- and filmmaker whose 1954 feature debut, "La Pointe-Courte," precipitated New Wave cinema, is artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania this week, dispensing wisdom, teaching master classes and sharing some of her 33 films, including her 2009 cine-memoir, "The Beaches of Agnes." Here’s what she had to say about her career when I had a sit-down with her earlier in the week. It occurred to me that she is among the oldest filmmakers currently active (Alain Resnais, who was the editor of "La Pointe-Court" is a few years older, and the indefatigable Manoel de Oliveira is 100-plus years) although her vitality and vivacity is that of someone a fraction of her years.I just listened to her teach a master class at Scribe Video Center where my favorite question came from an aspiring documentarian who asked, “It always seems that you’re teaching your subject.
- 3/15/2013
- by Carrie Rickey
- Thompson on Hollywood
Director AGNÈS Varda In Her Documentary The Beaches Of Agnes. Courtesy Cinema Guild. A member of the Nouvelle Vague as well as the Rive Gauche, iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda has built a 50-year career on her refusal to repeat herself or to be pigeon-holed. Born in 1928 of Greek and French parents in Brussels, Belgium, Varda was an Art History student at the Ecole de Louvre before becoming the official photographer for the prestigious Parisian theatre company Théâtre National Populaire. In 1954, she transitioned from photography into cinema with her first feature, La Pointe-courte, which placed Faulkner’s The Wild Palms in the context of a French fishing village, and consciously blurred the line between documentary and fiction. Varda...
- 7/15/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
French actor Philippe Noiret died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. The Cinema Paradiso star appeared in more than 125 films and also took to the stage in a string of plays. Noiret started his career in 1956 in Agnes Varda's film La Pointe Courte. He won two Cesar Awards (the French Oscars) for Best Actor for his roles in Robert Enrico's 1976 film Le Vieux Fusil and Bertrand Tavernier's 1990 production La Vie Et Rien D'Autre. French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin paid tribute to Noiret, saying, "Through his voice, his allure, his panache, Philippe Noiret knew how to seize and express something within the French soul. The silhouette and the voice, so tender and familiar, will be missed by all."...
- 11/24/2006
- WENN
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