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GODARD MON AMOUR — Michel Hazanavicius Interview

May 5, 2018 By 1 Comment

GODARD MON AMOUR — Michel Hazanavicius Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Michel Hazanavicius won an Oscar™ for his anachronistic hit, the silent, and eminently charming homage to silent film, THE ARTIST.  Well, not entirely silent. As in Mel Brooks’ foray into making a modern silent with the aptly named, SILENT MOVIE, there is one word spoken. Hazanavivius’ latest film. GODARD… Read More »

Tagged With: 1968, Anna Wiezemsky, Billy Wilder, French Cinema, French intellectuals, Jean-Luc Godard, Maoism, Maria Falconetti, radical politics, THE APARTMENT, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

MICROBE AND GASOLINE — Michel Gondry Interview

July 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MICROBE AND GASOLINE — Michel Gondry Interview

Michel Gondry is a man unafraid to let flights of fancy inform, and sometimes drive, his whimsically serious films, which include MOOD INDIGO and THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP. Yet in MICROBE AND GASOLINE, his semi-autobiographical film, he has kept his gift for magical realism in check, focusing instead on the magic of friendship at a… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, childhood home, French Cinema, friendship, GREEN HORNET, hand-drawn animation, IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, memories, Noam Chomsky, Runaways, sexual harassment

STRANGER BY THE LAKE

January 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

STRANGER BY THE LAKE

There is no getting around the prurient interest that STRANGER BY THE LAKE evokes. Set entirely on the rocky shore of the titular lake, it teems with beautiful young men madly in lust both with each other and with being in a state of nature. It is the stuff of porn flicks and of classical… Read More »

Tagged With: crotch-level, cruising, drowning, French Cinema, LGBT, murder, mystery, police, seduction

Bertrand Bonello and Gaspard Ulliel Resurrect SAINT LAURENT

June 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Bertrand Bonello and Gaspard Ulliel Resurrect SAINT LAURENT

Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent rocked the fashion world of the 1960s and 70s, and he designed his image as carefully as he did any of his haute couture. When making a bio-pic about a legend like this, the trick is to say something that hasn’t been said before. That was the first thing I… Read More »

Tagged With: Amira Casar, Bertrand Bonello, bio-pic, fashion designer, French Cinema, Gaspard Ulliel, haute couture, Helmut Berger, high fashion, Lea Seydoux, Louis Garrel, narrative, Paris, Pierre Bergé, Rue Babylon, stars Jeremie Renier, Thomas Bidegain, Yves Saint Laurent

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Tinkers at MICMACS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Tinkers at MICMACS

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s puckish yet profound approach to filmmaking, evident in such films as AMELIE and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, has been delighting audiences for years. His latest, MICMACS, is no exception, dealing as it does with arms dealers who show a complete indifference to the results of their actions, and the inventive denizens of the lowest… Read More »

Tagged With: arms dealers, cgi, class struggle, comedy, French Cinema, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, MICMACS, narrative

Michel Hazanavicius is THE ARTIST

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Michel Hazanavicius is THE ARTIST

Michel Hazanavicius enjoys evoking bygone cinematic eras, as in his spy spoof set in the 1950s, OSS 117 – NEST OF SPIES. When he decided the time was right to make THE ARTIST, a silent film, the first person he had to convince about the viability of his idea was himself. When I spoke to him on… Read More »

Tagged With: Berenice Bejo, cinema, French Cinema, James Cromwell, Jean DuJardin, John Goodman, Michel Hazanavicius, Missy Pyle, movie, narrative, Oscar-winner, Penelope Ann Miller, silent film, Uggo

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