Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2012
David HudsonThis year’s edition includes Rendez-Vous +, “a potpourri of recent French documentaries and rarely screened classics.”
Andre Téchiné
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Cannes 2011. Rushes: "Le Havre", "Impardonnables"
Daniel KasmanI think my favorite thing in Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki's blend of fable-style plotting, classical studio storytelling, and a real world context and social message, has little to do with this unusual
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Cannes 2011. André Téchiné's "Unforgivable"
David Hudson"With the possible exception of 'pretentious,' no adjective is of less critical use than 'boring,' but holy crap was I bored out of my skull by André Téchiné's Unforgivable, screening
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Marie-France Pisier, 1944 - 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 4/26. Le Point and L'Express are among the French news outlets reporting that Marie-France Pisier has died at her home in Saint Cyr sur Mer at the age of 66. First mention is generally
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Deneuve. "Rendez-Vous," BAM + LACMA
David Hudson"It was Truffaut," noted Laura Barton in a profile for the Guardian last year, "who said she had to be unlocked; that there was in her 'something that was ready to give but also refused to unbutton
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"A Prophet," "The Girl on the Train," "Gainsbourg, une vie héroique" and More
David HudsonWhat a week for the French. Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, has made the Academy's Foreign Language Film shortlist and opens to raves today in the UK. André Téchiné
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CIFF 2009: "The Girl on the Train" (André Téchiné, France)
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe Girl on the Train: a title like a "missed connections" posting. And the girl (Émilie Dequenne) really is lovely. She's got hair like Solveig Dommartin and a tiny tattoo on her left shoulder blade
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What is the 21st Century?: The Modern Director, Pt. 1
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Michael Bay on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. "Who is