Tag: Olivier Assayas
Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time Regained: Assayas Agonizes in Pretentious Pandemic Reflection
In what stands as evidence of a surprising lack of self-awareness, director Olivier Assayas reenacts a composite...
2022 Cannes: Quentin Dupieux, Panos H. Koutras, George Miller & Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes in Cannes Non-Comp
The best film from Sundance (Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes), the film that Sundance lost (Michel Hazanvicius' Final Cut), Quentin Dupieux's second film to...
IndieSponge Episode 6 – Wong Kar-Wai Plants “Blossoms”, Guadagnino Snorts “Scarface” & Blanchett registers for “Armageddon Time”
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and I talk about the 2020 Cannes hors les murs and the films that'll float around...
The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – Venice 2019
There’s much to be excited for in the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival, the 76th edition of the world’s oldest major film festival. Of...
The Conversation: Top 10 of 2019 Thus Far …
Half-way through the last year of the decade, the same cinematic trends exist as far as theatrical releases in the US, those being the...
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...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #20. Wasp Network – Olivier Assayas
Wasp Network
French auteur Olivier Assayas (partner to Mia Hansen-Løve who we find on our list as well) shows no signs of slowing down (or for hopping...
Criterion Collection: Cold Water (1994) | Blu-ray Review
Occasionally, a rare cinematic kernel lost to the ages due to whatever obsequious copyright or distributor issues, manages to resurface despite the odds. We...
The Conversation: Vox Lux Leads Best of TIFF 2018
As the Toronto International Film Festival continues to downsize its programming and say adieu to CEO and Director Piers Handling for its 2018 edition,...
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions II: La France
Perhaps more contentious than any other competition titles are the French language items jockeying for coveted slots which are announced last. Both Claire Denis...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #10 to #6
#10. Pablo Aguero’s Witches’ Sabbath
Argentinean director Pablo Aguero broke out with his third feature Eva Doesn’t Sleep in 2015, which featured Gael Garcia Bernal...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #16. Olivier Assayas’ E-Book
E-Book
Juliette Binoche has a stellar slate lined up for 2018. She’s been so booked, she dropped out of Mia Hansen-Love’s Maya, who is married...
Video Countdown: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Films of 2017
Although we have another facetiously titled Michael Haneke film to ring in the New Year with, it is a decidedly unhappy end considering the...
Criterion Collection: Personal Shopper | Blu-ray Review
One of French auteur Olivier Assayas’ most divisive films to date (it drew jeers at its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #18. Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Olivier Assayas, Roman Polanski
After some more court related issues seemingly delayed his long gestating project The Dreyfus...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Olivier Assayas Scares & Boos with “Personal Shopper”
From one star rating to Irma Vep and Summer Hours five star perfection and everything in between, Olivier Assayas' latest will not have gone...
The Conversation: Five Most Anticipated Titles of Cannes 2016
Judging by the lineup of auteurs competing in the main competition at Cannes 2016, thus far it’s already promising to be a stellar festival,...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #4. Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper
Personal Shopper
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas returns with another English language Euro drama starring Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper. Their last collaboration was the...
The Conversation: Best of 2015 – Top 10 Theatrical Releases
Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film...
The Conversation: 2015’s Top 10 Theatrical Releases So Far…
With the first half of 2015 officially coming to a close, it’s time for our mid-year list of best theatrical releases. As seems to...
Video Interview: Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Sils Maria
Though director Olivier Assayas' latest project, Idol's Eye, looks to have been shelved due to funding issues, his film Clouds of Sils Maria is...
2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut
While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...
2014 TIFF: McCarthy, Bettany, Girard, Fontaine, Barthes Among Several World Preem Add-Ons
Just how much sway do TIFF programmers have? Looking at today's Gala and Special Presentation add-ons, measurably, when it comes to films with star-wattage and...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Assayas Doubles Down with “Sils Maria” & Zvyagintsev Drinks to Sweet Tragic Notes with “Leviathan”
Cannes - May 23rd Sunny Day 9
And just like that, the Cannes Film Festival is coming to an end. Tomorrow is when the awards...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #6. Olivier Assayas’ Hubris
Hubris
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Producers: Charles Gillibert, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Stuber
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unkown
Once a project that was set to be...
Room with a View: Wasikowska Joins Binoche in Assayas’ Sils Maria
Olivier Assayas will take to the hills of Germany and Switzerland this summer with Mia Wasikowska packing her suitcases to play alongside Juliette Binoche...
