Illustration by Leah BravoFive years ago, a film came and went with little fanfare, except a spattering of positive reviews, making around $4 million worldwide on a budget of about $10 million: Take This Waltz. More people know it as a Leonard Cohen song, from which its title comes. More people know Leonard Cohen than the director Sarah Polley, but as of this cultural moment, more people might know the star, Michelle Williams, than Leonard Cohen, due to her other movies and a popular TV show. These jejune concerns amplify less than we know and more than we'll admit. Name recognition: these go into the common denominators decision people look for when they decide to fund a film, a book, a play. How will it sell? How will it fit? What can it capitalize on? How can we make something that will not make people think too much or depress them? We...
- 8/16/2016
- MUBI
Read More: 5 Maurice Pialat Classics Returning to Theaters The Museum of Moving Image has announced a major retrospective for the lifework of French film director Maurice Pialat, which will run from October 16 - November 1. The career of late filmmaker Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) has been justly celebrated in his native France, but his legacy is unfairly underappreciated in the United States. The Pialat Retrospective will include all ten of his features in 35mm, in addition to his 1971 TV miniseries "La maison des bois," and several of his short films. Pialat emerged shortly after the French New Wave with his emotional, raw and sometimes autobiographical films. Pialat ended up directing some of the most significant French films of the 20th century, including "À nos amours," "We Won't Grow Old Together" and "Van Gogh." Other films on the slate include four collaborations with Gérard Depardieu -- "Loulou,"...
- 9/30/2015
- by Tarek Shoukri
- Indiewire
Maurice Pialat, canny inquisitor of the French bourgeoisie whose startlingly iconoclastic films include "We Won't Grow Old Together" and "A Nos Amours," will tour Us theaters once again this year. The Cohen Film Collection will present five Pialat gems in New York from September 11 to September 17 at the Lincoln Plaza, and in La from September 25 to October 1 at the Laemmle Royal. The collection includes 1987’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Under the Sun of Satan,” with Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire, the erotic “Loulou,” a tale of tortured love with Isabelle Huppert and Depardieu, “Van Gogh,” about the last days of the artist, Cassavetes-esque family drama “The Mouth Agape,” starring Monique Mélinand as a woman dying of torturous cancer, and the slice-of-life “Graduate First,” centered on teenagers in a French suburb. Later, more Pialat retrospectives will screen at The Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria) from October 17 to October 25...
- 8/26/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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