On the 30th anniversary of Pulp Fiction, let’s look at the movies that have shaped Quentin Tarantino’s career.
ARTE France Cinéma is backing a quartet of projects and among them, we find the new Claire Denis project that she was possibly scouting two years back. Set to star Matt Dillon, Riley Keough and her muse Isaach de Bankolé, Le Cri des Gardes is a play to film adaptation of Combat de nègre et de chiens (Black Battles with Dogs) by playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès (an artist who was among the generation of artists lost to AIDS) who passed away in 1989. The play dealt with issues of fear, dissimulation, lies, the commerce we have with guilt and bad conscience. Denis wrote the screenplay alongside Suzanne Lindon (filmmaker behind Spring Blossom) and Andrew Litvack (High Life and Stars at Noon).… Read the rest
The film is a strange case of the homage that outstrips what it’s meant to be imitating.
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We can start our week extending thanks to Arte France Cinéma, who’ve given two of France’s greatest directors the cash flow to support immediate endeavors: per Cineuropa, Claire Denis and Arnaud Desplechin can soon begin production on new features. The former’s is Le Cri des Gardes (The Cry of the Guards), which sounds an awful […]
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Here is something against the norm for all you cinephiles in Vancouver. After the Vancouver International Film Festival closes its doors for another year locals can head over to the Rio Theatre for a healthy dose of counter-programming. The night is called OFF-VIFF and will feature the Vancouver premiere of Kit & Arran’s King Baby. A warped modern fairytale plays out in a crumbling ‘kingdom’ populated only by a King and a Servant. The arrival of a mannequin Queen throws their carefully constructed world into isolation, madness, and murderous megalomania. More information about the event, the filmmakers and the film follow. The link to buy tickets is also in the announcement that follows. ‘OFF-VIFF’ LAUNCHES WITH NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF EUROPEAN FESTIVAL…
Daisuke Miyazaki’s tale of young love is a little too country to be rock ‘n’ roll.
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A review of the new Hulu original series about the ’70s space race in Australia.
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film seeks to embody a dizzying span of human experience.
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It quickly becomes clear that Greg Jardin’s isn’t just here to dazzle us with visual trickery.
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The particulars of time travel in the film give the whole thing a tactile quality.
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