Tag: Jeanne Moreau

Criterion Collection: Mr. Klein (1976) | Blu-ray Review

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette (1976), a venomous marital melodrama, a character played by Margit Carstensen provocatively inquires, “Who would this person have...

Gabin Goes Gold in Becker’s Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) | Blu-ray Review

As part of Kino Lorber’s resurrection of Jean Gabin classics once owned by Criterion, on top of bringing Port of Shadows to Blu-ray, the...

Criterion Collection: The Immortal Story | Blu-ray Review

In retrospect, The Immortal Story (1968) is a fitting capstone to Orson Welles’ illustrious yet highly compromised directorial career, a filmography lodged beneath the...

Wenders Retrospective: Until the End of the World | Review

Pray for the Wounded Planet: Wenders’ Belabored Road Trip to the Apocalypse The troubled production and following critical ambivalence towards Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until...

Monte Walsh | Blu-ray Review

Despite it being the directorial debut of five times Oscar nominated cinematographer William A. Fraker, 1970’s revisionist Western Monte Walsh isn’t as well remembered...

The Bride Wore Black | Blu-Ray Review

Nearly two decades into a career that has since spanned nearly seven, Jeanne Moreau had already worked under the direction of Godard, Malle, Welles,...

Gebo and the Shadow | Review

The Shadow Knows: Oliveira’s latest a Stringent Meditation on Sacrifice Inevitably, any discussion pertaining to recent work from Portuguese director Manoel de Oliviera will make...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.