Tag: Denis Podalydes

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...

Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...

Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “La Tour de glace”

ARTE France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for...

Catherine Corsini’s Le retour (Homecoming) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1

The second film in the comp and first French film item and one of seven feature debuts from female filmmakers comes with an interesting...

Le retour | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

Put a Label on It: Corsini’s Corsica is a Lieu for Inter & Intra-personal Growth Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthplace is certainly a site rich in history...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #64. Catherine Corsini’s Le retour

Le retour Formerly titled "La Loi du plus fort", Catherine Corsini began filming on Le retour back in September of last year. Set in Corsica,...

Corsica Consciousness: Esther Gohourou & Suzy Bemba Join Corsini’s “Le retour”

Casting is complete and cameras are currently rolling on Catherine Corsini's Le retour. We recently reported that Aïssatou Diallo Sagna was the first to...

Anaïs in Love | Review

She’s Pure as New York Snow: Bourgeois-Tacquet Charms in Effortless, Effective Comedy With her unexpectedly charming debut, Anaïs in Love, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet presents the...

Bloody Oranges | Review

Strange Fruit: Meurisse Gets Gonzo with Slice of Cinema Bizarre Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse follows up his 2016 comedy Apnee with something a bit more uncomfortable...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Week Announce 1st Selection: Bourgeois-Tacquet’s “Les Amours d’Anaïs”

While we await next week's line-up unveilings to complete the full Croisette picture and ponder if the likes of helmers Clara Roquet (Libertad), Mari...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #35. Arnaud Desplechin’s Tromperie

Deception Produced by Pascal Caucheteux Directed by Arnaud Desplechin Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr Starring: Léa Seydoux, Emmanuelle Devos, Gennadi Famin, Denis Podalydès Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux Release Date/Prediction:...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #94. Effacer l’historique – Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine

Effacer l'historique Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l'historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #36. Christophe Honoré’s Plaire

Plaire In the 2000s, French auteur Christophe Honoré was a prominent international figure on the festival circuit. A blazing star by mid-decade with his 2007...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

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Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...