Tag: jacquesaudiard
EMILIA PÉREZ Review: A Pop Crime Musical Fantasia, Dominated by Women
French veteran helmer Jacques Audiard blends crime, telenovela, and musical into a genre-twisting fable about transformation led by Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez.
European Film Awards 2024: THE SUBSTANCE Leads with the Most Nominations
The European Film Awards 2024 spotlight The Substance as the frontrunner in nominations, while Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez and The Girl with the Needle shine with critical wins and nods.
Review: PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT, Vibrant Take on the City of Lights
Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant and Jehnny Beth star in director Jacques Audiard's latest, delicately sampling American cartoonist Adrian Tomine's work.
PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT Interview: Jacques Audiard, Lucie Zhang Talk Chinese Food, Covid Lockdown, The Internet
Jacques Audiard, known for his superb thrillers (Read My Lips, The Beat that My Heart Skipped), became the supreme purveyor of French outlier cinema, chronicling gritty immigrant experiences in an increasingly diverse nation with such films as The Prophet, Dheepan...
Los Cabos 2018 Dispatch: BORDER and THE SISTERS BROTHERS, Two Of The Festival's World Highlights
At the core of Let the Right One In, one of the most memorable vampire films of the past decade, was Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a lonely, misfit, and bullied young boy with little attention from his divorced parents. He found...
Leiden 2018 Dispatch: International Favorites THUNDER ROAD, PROFILE and More Are Sure-Fire Crowd-Pleasers
The Leiden International Film Festival came to a close on Sunday November 11 but we were lucky enough to attend its final weekend, which was jam-packed with quality films. The festival, taking place in a college town in South Holland...
Los Cabos 2018 Preview: 10 Films Not To Miss At The Mexican Film Festival
The seventh edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival has one of the most impressive lineups of a Mexican film festival in recent memory. Kicking off next Wednesday, November 7, with the gala of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, Los...
Los Cabos 2018: Terry Gilliam, Spike Lee, Adam Driver Visits Indicate This Might Just Be Mexico's New Top Festival
Let’s face it, and maybe some day it will happen, but right now Mexican film festivals won’t have the year's biggest world premieres. Hence, they rely -- in terms of film programming -- on national, maybe Latin American premieres. That’s...
Vancouver 2018 Review: THE SISTERS BROTHERS
The Sisters Brothers is an excellent movie, but it is being marketed in all the wrong ways. I suppose if it results in a financial success, then all's well that ends well. I worry, though, that once general audiences see...
Filmmakers Panos Cosmatos, Abner Pastoll, Joachim Lafosse and Jacques Audiard Win Investment
Belgium's Wallimage has awarded four filmmakers significant project investment in the company's highly competitive 85th year of helping to bolster its local film industry. Two genre films in particular have caught our attention with Wallimage's support becoming a crucial vote...
Blu-ray Review: DHEEPAN is Given the Royal Treatment by Criterion
This week The Criterion Collection released Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or winning drama, Dheepan, and it's a film everyone needs to see. Dheepan, a Sri Lankan refugee and former Tamil Tiger, is on the run for his lafe after the Sinhalese...
Criterion in May 2017: GHOST WORLD, Scorsese's World Cinema Project and More
It's all about the world in May for the Criterion Collection. The company announced their lineup for the month and two titles jumped out at me. Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World is a movie I watched on multiple occasions years ago,...
Traverse City Film Fest 2016: 5 Can't Miss Picks
Northern Michigan's Traverse City Film Festival was founded in 2005 by documentarian Michael Moore with the mission to bring "just great movies" to his hometown. With a board of directors that includes Larry Charles, Jeff Daniels, Tom Morello, and numerous...
Review: DHEEPAN, Behind The Immigrant Experience, A Rich And Provocative Story
It begins with chaos: shouting voices calling out in alarm, a cacophony of sound, and a flourish of a camera moving through a thick crowd. It ends with similar sounds and a similar shot, one far less sinister and disconcerting....
Cannes 2015 Review: DHEEPAN, Powerful With Moments Of Sheer Bravado
It begins with chaos: shouting voices calling out in alarm, a cacophony of sound, and a flourish of a camera moving through a thick crowd. It ends with similar sounds and a similar shot, one far less sinister and...
New To Netflix: Isopods, Orcas, and A FISH CALLED WANDA
Welcome to this week's entry for New To Netflix! Not that we are actually new to Netflix, we're just happy, able, and willing to help you find out what kind of 'Twitch-y' material is coming to the big red virtual envelope...
Review: RUST AND BONE Stays Too Grounded for its Own Good
The narrative of Rust and Bone reminded me of an old-school pulpy melodrama from the 50s or 60s, the type of film where most of the narrative momentum comes not so much from cause and effect, but from traumatic stuff...
TIFF 2012 Review: RUST AND BONE Stays Too Grounded For Its Own Good
(Rust and Bone screens tonight and tomorrow at TIFF. Here's our review from this year's Cannes Film Festival.) Rust and Bone's narrative reminded me of an old-school pulpy melodrama from the 50's or 60's, the type of film where most...
Cannes 2012 Review: RUST AND BONE Stays too Grounded for its Own Good
Rust and Bone's narrative reminded me of an old-school pulpy melodrama from the 50's or 60's, the type of film where most of the narrative momentum comes not so much from cause and effect, but from traumatic stuff happening every...
Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts In The Trailer For Audiard's RUST AND BONE
After scoring a very deserved Oscar nomination for his prison drama A Prophet, anticipation would have been high for whatever came next from director Jacques Audiard no matter what. But then when Audiard cast Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts -...
