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8 articles from 2009
Raymond Benson Reviews The New Criterion DVD Of Costa-gavras' "Z"
1 November 2009 5:46 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
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Directed by Costa-Gavras, Z was a landmark thriller from 1969, a political film that pointed to the kinds of pictures Oliver Stone would make two decades later. It was the first film to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Film the same year (it won the Oscar for the latter, as well as for its innovative, dynamic editing). The mostly French production was filmed in Algeria, doubling as Greece—which at the time would never have allowed the crew to film there.
Based on true events that occurred in Greece in the early 60s, the story concerns the government-backed assassination of a pacifist political candidate (played by Yves Montand) and the subsequent investigation (led by charismatic Jean-Louis Trintignant) that eventually brought down the chief of police, head of security, and other government officials. The location is never »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Z Criterion DVD Review
1 November 2009 7:34 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Costa-Gavras’s Z is the ultimate political thriller. Much like the earlier Battle of Algiers (1968) it takes a real event, and uses it as fodder for cinema. And as a paranoia piece, 1969’s Z is a masterpiece. It’s an angry film, spurned by the events of 1963, where a Greek politician was assassinated, and was murdered partly by the police, and the regime at the time. It’s a film that can make you angry about events of nearly a half century ago, and yet the echoes of the actions are still resonant. My review after the jump.
The leftist politician at the center of the film is called The Doctor (Yves Montand), and he’s brought in to have a political rally, but the organizers are denied their first location, and locals in with a half gang/half political organization - that hates the leftists and typifies them as »
- Andre Dellamorte
Michael Haneke Confirms Next Film
21 October 2009 8:51 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
At a press conference earlier today ahead of a London Film Festival screening of his Palme d'Or winning masterpiece The White Ribbon, director Michael Haneke confirmed the two-week old rumours that his next film will be shot in Paris in summer 2010 with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert.
Despite claiming earlier in the talk that the themes of his films evolve from characters and drama not from theory, the director said that he was yet to write the script for the film that will star Huppert as Trintignant's daughter and will be about the 'humiliation of the human body in old age'.
Huppert - who as president of the jury at this year's Cannes Festival was instrumental in Haneke finally receiving one of the top awards in cinema - starred in the director's acclaimed 2001 film The Piano Teacher as well as The Time of the Wolf in 2003.
The White Ribbon - »
3rd Time a Charm for Haneke and Huppert
13 October 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Michael Haneke is returning to the "aging" project he had begun scripting before The White Ribbon. French sources say that he'll be re-teaming with Isabelle Huppert and has set Jean-Louis Trintignant in the lead role of a man dealing with the notion of a deteriorating, aging body but a youthful mind. The untitled project is said to contain a strong musical element and will be produced by Haneke's long-time producer Veit Heiduschka. Filming is set for next year. Trintignant is best known for Z (1969), My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970) and one of his last great bits in what would appear to be a defunct career in film with Three Colors: Red (1994). (Thanks to Fin De Cinema for the major casting update). ... »
Jean-Jacques Beineix: The Hollywood Interview
14 July 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Divas and Lions and Moons, Oh My!
By Alex Simon
The Noveulle Vague, or “French New Wave” was launched by a group of film critics and cinefiles who began France’s legendary Cahiers du Cinéma magazine in the 1950s. With Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in 1959, the movement was launched, emphasizing behavior over aesthetics, content over form, and pastiche of other film genres (particularly those born in the U.S., with a healthy dollop of Italian neorealism) over the more traditional narratives of French films from years past. Francois Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda (see our interview with her below) Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette all fell under the spell of magazine co-founder and theorist Andre Bazin, laying the groundwork for a series of articles, monographs and critiques that formed the so-called “auteur theory,” (or more specifically “"La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Five: Spaghetti Westerns not directed by Sergio Leone
10 June 2009 2:01 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »
Jeffman from Head Full Of Snow recommends five Spaghetti Westerns not directed by Sergio Leone.
A bruised and battered stalwart of the late night cinema circuit, the Spaghetti Western held a bastardised, custom-job revolver to the head of its inferior American cousin and relieved it of both its basic premise and last shred of decency; joyously blurring the line between right and wrong and leaving morality swinging from a ragged noose in the hot, desert sun.
The Spaghetti Western was an Italian phenomenon, mostly financed by Rome's famous Cinecitta Studios, although there were plenty of co-productions with other Euro countries like Spain and Germany, even stretching as far afield as Israel if you count the soul-sapping awfulness that is God's Gun. One man is responsible for popularising the Spaghetti Western, Sergio Leone. If you're a follower of LateMag's frequent forays into the weird and wonderful worlds of cult cinema you'll probably know his films already. »
- Nick
What's Old is New Again
8 June 2009 7:31 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week sees a couple of golden oldies trotted out alongside the customary summertime family fun, docs on science both good and bad, and another lesson from the Tony Scott school of flash-bang filmmaking.
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"Betty Blue: The Director's Cut"
Having inspired everything from ardent film student party chatter to the pure cinematic showmanship of Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 Oscar-nominated romantic drama has a legacy that reaches far and wide. This new print of Beineix's definitive 1991 cut of his oh so artsy tale of an aspiring writer Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), his wild, volatile muse Betty (Béatrice Dalle) and her gradual descent into self-destruction contains more than an hour of additional footage that stretches out Betty's madness and embellishes it with such antics as Zorg's cross-dressing crime spree. In French with subtitles.
Opens in New York. »
- Neil Pedley
Roger Spottiswoode: The Hollywood Interview
12 April 2009 12:32 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Roger Spottiswoode.
Neglected Gems of the 1980’s: Roger Spottiswoode Remembers Under Fire
by Jon Zelazny
Editor's Note: The following article appeared on EightMillionStories.com in 2008.
The name may not ring a bell, but Roger Spottiswoode has been directing feature films for nearly thirty years, including popular hits like Turner and Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), and the James Bond adventure Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as well as outstanding made-for-cable dramas like And the Band Played On (1993), Hiroshima (1995), and Noriega (2000).
2008 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his remarkable third feature Under Fire, which starred Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman as journalists covering the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua.
It’s generally a given that every Hollywood movie endures a long, tortuous road to find financing, but not Under Fire. It had a long, hard road as well… but only after the film had been completed. Roger Spottiswoode and I spoke by phone:
You began your career as an editor, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
2009 | 2003
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