Tag: olivierassayas
Friday One Sheet: PERSONAL SHOPPER
Hybrid drama, mystery, thriller, ghost story, Personal Shopper made a pleasant splash on the art-house circuit in 2016. It was one of several major steps towards the notion that lead actress Kristen Stewart stop being considered as a cog in...
Blu-ray Review: Assayas's IRMA VEP Prowls the Criterion Collection
Maggie Chung portrays herself in Olivier Assayas's exploration of filmmaking in the 1990s.
Coming Soon on Criterion: MEMORIES OF MURDER, IRMA VEP and Other Good Things
Plus: Godard, Borzage, Mann. No fools in April 2021!
Review: Olivier Assayas' NON-FICTION, Very French Human Nature
"More people read my blog than my books," decries one of the characters in Olivier Assayas's latest film, Non-Fiction. The response from another is, that those blog readers are more likely than anyone else to buy those books. And a...
Review: SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN, a True Documentary Find
Margarette von Trotta found Ingmar Bergman a long time ago. She recollects as much in her new documentary about the iconoclast Swedish filmmaker, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, an excellent, excellent effort which she goes ahead and stars in. She was...
Toronto 2018 Review: NON-FICTION, A Comedy That Is Both Social And Media
"More people read my blog than my books," decries one of the characters in Olivier Assayas's latest film, Non-Fiction. The response from another is, that those blog readers are more likely than anyone else to buy those books. And a...
Blu-ray Review: An All-Time Great Party Scene Graces Criterion's COLD WATER Blu-ray
Olivier Assayas' intimate epic of rock n' roll and teen ennui features beguiling leads and a great soundtrack.
ScreenAnarchy's Favourite Films of 2017
Another year over, and what an annus horribilis it proved to be in so many ways. But away from the political atrocities that took place in pretty much every country you care to mention, and the sexual harassment scandals that...
Blu-ray Review: PERSONAL SHOPPER Haunts Criterion
American actress Kristen Stewart and filmmaker Olivier Assayas are back, and this time, it’s PERSONAL. But more than that, it’s mysterious, unknowable. Here, we find that the mysteries one assumes to be central to any given story labeled as such...
Criterion in October 2017: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, THE LURE, PERSONAL SHOPPER and More
Scare season arrives in October and this year fans of the Criterion Collection have ample reason to celebrate in style. A prequel that is anything but pro forma, David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is essential as a...
Interview: Olivier Assayas Talks Kristen Stewart and Breaking the Boundaries of Filmmaking in PERSONAL SHOPPER
French writer/director Olivier Assayas, turned 62 this year. He doesn't look it though. He is an ultimate cinema geek - when he talks about filmmaking, you can easily be overpowered by his enthusiasm and fast talking. He hasn't lost the...
Review: PERSONAL SHOPPER, Kristen Stewart, Restless Spirits and Luxury Goods
French critic-turned-filmmaker Olivier Assayas has always had a knack for combining verité, day-to-day life with stylish genre elements. His previous film, The Clouds of Sils Maria, coaxed a assured performance out of Kristen Stewart as a confident personal assistant to a...
Toronto 2016 Review: PERSONAL SHOPPER, Kristen Stewart in an Alluring Abstraction
French critic-turned-filmmaker Olivier Assayas has always had a knack for combining verité, day-to-day life with stylish genre elements. His previous film, The Clouds of Sils Maria, coaxed a assured performance out of Kristen Stewart as a confident personal assistant to a...
Blu-ray Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is a Misty New Classic
Though known principally for restoring and presenting classics of cinema for home video, The Criterion Collection's mission doesn't preclude occasionally pumping out a contemporary release with just as much thought and consideration. Such a release is Olivier Assayas' 2014 film...
Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, On Acting, Aging And Choices
The eponymous image of Clouds of Sils Maria features a heavenly mist snaking its way through mountain peaks like a river, the rocks frozen in time, immutable, the clouds in perpetual motion. It is shown as shot for Olivier Assayas...
Interview: Olivier Assayas On CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA And A Hall of Mirrors
Even though French director Olivier Assayas has been a trailblazer for international productions for a long time, he surprised everyone by casting teenybopper favorite Kristen Stewart opposite the great Juliette Binoche in his new film Clouds of Sils Maria. The...
Toronto 2014 Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA Will Age Gracefully
The eponymous image of Clouds of Sils Maria features a heavenly mist snaking its way through mountain peaks like a river, the rocks frozen in time, immutable, the clouds in perpetual motion.It is shown as shot for Olivier Assayas in 2014,...
Review: SOMETHING IN THE AIR Inspires Youthful Passion And Energy
At the outset, Olivier Assayas's Something in the Air is a biographical nostalgia piece about growing up in the aftermath of the May '68 events in France. But what it really is, is a social experiment in which 18-19 year...
