Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Enjoying deserved success at the box office at the moment with LE WEEKEND , the screenwriter Hanif Kureishi also has a splendid new novel out called THE LAST WORD published by Faber & Faber.
Mamoon Azam is an amazing writer …
The marvelous Mia Wasikowska is carving out quite a remarkable career overseas but back on home turf that career seems to magnify. Distinguishing herself as a director for her segment in TIM WINTON’S THE TURNING, just released on DVD through …
Fresh from her Oscar tipped turn in the current box office smash, BLUE JASMINE, Cate Blanchett also shines in THE TURNING, the audacious and ambitious rendering to the screen of Tim Winton’s story cycle of the same name.
The seventeen …
Frothy, silly, and sentimental, WRESTLING QUEENS pits a bunch of checkout chicks against a mob of murderous Mexicans in the World Wide Wrestling arena.
Grappling to win back the affection of her son whom she has had to foster out …
Emmanuelle Devos draws on her own vocation in JUST A SIGH (LE TEMPS DE L’AVENTURE) in which she plays a jobbing actress, Alix.
At the beginning of JUST A SIGH Alix is waiting in the wings preparing to come on …
In VIOLETTE, brilliant French actress Emmanuelle Devos portrays writer Violette Leduc. If Simone de Beauvoir was the Queen of French letters then Violete was the princess, heir apparent to post war Paris literati.
Pic opens with Violette being pursued through …
As most weekends to Paris now begin, we find Meg and Nick, at the beginning of LE WEEKEND (M) hurtling through the Chunnel on the Eurostar train from London. Meg is reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, perhaps to get …
Shot in brilliant black and white by Phedon Papamichael, for which it has been Oscar nominated, NEBRASKA may well be the first black and white film to win Best Picture Oscar since The Artist.
Certainly, like The Artist, NEBRASKA’s lead …
If there is one singular reason to attend the Alliance Francais Film Festival it’s Fanny Ardant. Those who are not already ardent fans of Fanny Ardant should be after seeing BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD, with Fanny at her funniest as a …
JAPPELOUP tells the story of an Olympic champion show jumper who scored spectacular success in Seoul.
Written and starring Guillaume Canet as Pierre Durand the equestrian who ditched a career at the bar to raise the bar of elite steed …