Tag: Juliette Binoche
Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things
In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners....
The Taste of Things | Review
Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands
Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea
He landed at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition with Ballast in 2008 and would end up winning the Directing Award and Cinematography Award...
2023 Gotham Awards: All of Us Strangers Leads Noms, but it’s a “Past Lives” vs. “A Thousand and One” Event
In what is an increasingly convoluted ceremony (remember that each category is determined by a mere five individuals), All of Us Strangers takes the...
Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Winner of the Camera d'Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent of Green Papaya back in 1993, while he...
Winter Boy (Le Lycéen) | Review
Hazy Shade of Winter: Honore Deals with a Death in the Family in Sincere Coming-of-Age
Christophe Honoré has built an intricate filmography on the backs...
Elder Care: Hammer Begins Production on “Queen at Sea” with Juliette Binoche
We were in almost in disbelief when Juliette Binoche casually mentioned back in January of last year that she was in a new work...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #150. Tran Anh Hung’s Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant
Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant
Entering his fourth decade of filmmaking which began all the way back with the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or winning...
Both Sides of the Blade | Review
Lover Come Back: Denis Lets the Dark Side in Relationship Melodrama
Three’s definitely a crowd in Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement),...
Cooking Up a Storm: Tran Anh Hung Puts Juliette Binoche & Benoit Magimel on “Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant” Menu
We're learning that Vietnamese-born French filmmaker Tran Anh Hung is well into production on what is his seventh feature film. Entering his fourth decade,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #13. Claire Denis’ Avec amour et acharnement (aka Feu)
Avec amour et acharnement (Both Sides of the Blade)
Produced by Curiosa Films' Olivier Delbosc
Directed by Claire Denis
Written by Claire Denis, Christine Angot
Starring: Juliette Binoche,...
Juliette Binoche Arms Herself with Lance: Ballast’s Hammer Sophomore Project in the Works
Soon to be premiering Berlin comp entry Both Sides of the Blade by Claire Denis, Juliette Binoche has been spending more time working in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #44. Christophe Honoré’s Le Lycéen (Winter Boy)
Le Lycéen
Announced really late in 2021, Christophe Honoré went into production on his fourteenth with the formidable pair of Vincent Lacoste and Juliette Binoche...
Vincent Lacoste & Juliette Binoche to Get Schooled in Christophe Honoré’s “Le Lycéen” (Winter Boy)
'Tis the season to be jolly for Christophe Honoré as he is set to begin lensing Le Lycéen next week with a trio comprised...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #4. Claire Denis’ Fire
Fire (fka Radioscopie)
Produced by Olivier Delbosc
Directed by Claire Denis
Written by Claire Denis
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Gregoire Colin.
Release Date/Prediction: Most likely Venice.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #53. Emmanuel Carrère’s Le quai de Ouistreham
Le quai de Ouistreham
Emmanuel Carrère’s first feature, La Moustache (starring Vincent Lindon and Emmanuelle Devos) was adapted from his own novel and premiered at Cannes...
The Truth | Review
I Remember Mama: Kore-eda Anoints Deneuve as a Diva in Pleasurable Drama
A subtle exercise in the limited reality of both perspective and memory, auteur...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #36. Le quai de Ouistreham – Emmanuel Carrère
Le quai de Ouistreham
It’s been fifteen years since writer Emmanuel Carrère’s 2005 narrative debut La Moustache. Just as his own novel Limonov has been...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #44. La bonne épouse – Martin Provost
La bonne épouse
Initially an actor whose career began in the mid-1970s, France’s Martin Provost has become a notable director over the past decade, which...
Criterion Collection: Let the Sunshine In | Blu-ray Review
Claire Denis had one of her most prominent showings in over a decade with her 2017 title Let the Sunshine In, a melancholy rom...
Non-Fiction | Review
The French Publisher’s Wife: Assayas Straddles Digital Criminals and Corporate Cannibals in Playful Bon Mot
Hardly a stranger to the back room wheeling and dealing...
High Life | Review
An Outpost of Progress: Denis Gets Daring with Esoteric Sci-Fi
Of Claire Denis’ impressive English language debut High Life, perhaps a famous line from Alien...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #2. The Truth – Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Truth
Fresh off his 2018 Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters (review), prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his perennial output with his latest project, The Truth,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #142. Celle que vous croyez – Safy Nebbou
Celle que vous croyez
For his sixth film, Celle que vous croyez, France’s Safy Nebbou assembles an all-star cast led by Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #1. Claire Denis’ High Life
High Life
French auteur Claire Denis has become one of the most prolific and revered international auteurs over the past thirty years, beginning with her...