More of a Catherine Deneuve, Marie-France Pisier and/or Emmanuelle Béart type filmmaker, oddly these two have only worked together on one occasion. Showing absolutely no signs of slowing down, after putting the final touches on Les pieds sur terre (which we anticipate will a major film festival premiere in the fall or might opt for the Berlinale in 2023) André Téchiné will have a long awaited reunion with his The Brontë Sisters actress Isabelle Huppert. Production on La révocation is expected to begin in October-November of 2022 in Perpignan – a coastal town just north of the border with Spain and south of Montpellier.…...
- 4/11/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
A woman sits on a park bench, reading from an enormous orange book. On its cover we can just make out the word “Magic.” The woman draws vaguely-occultish diagrams in the sand with her shoe—or perhaps she is just doodling. After a few moments, a loudly-dressed woman stumbles past her, dropping things—various small accessories, a doll—as she goes. The first woman tries to bring her attention to these missing items and then, failing to get her attention, sets off in pursuit. From the first woman’s strange hesitations and sudden decelerations, and the second woman’s occasional backward glances, we soon realize that there is a playful or ritual quality to their pursuit. Are we watching a kind of roleplay between friends or lovers? An extended and rather eccentric meet-cute? Two characters behaving, or two actors acting? The chase takes both women out of the park, up a long set of stairs,...
- 7/26/2021
- MUBI
Coco Chanel was a style icon, one of the most world-known designers. Her style embodies an entire era, recognized by elegance, minimalism in the use of accessories, and convenience. This article discusses the top five films that describe this woman’s life.
Chanel Solitaire, 1981
Directed by George Kaczender and starring Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer,
The film tells about the life and love of the amazing and unique Coco Chanel. It is a romantic story full of sadness, longing, and beautiful music. Interestingly, one-seventh of the total budget (one in seven million dollars) was spent on costumes for this film.
The film is built as a memory of the life of a young, successful, but unhappy Gabrielle Chanel, in which every person, be it Etienne Balsan, Arthur Capel, or Adrienne – all influenced Coco and her life.
Gabrielle Chanel. La Permanence d’un style. 2001
The film mainly describes the period of Coco Chanel’s activity,...
Chanel Solitaire, 1981
Directed by George Kaczender and starring Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer,
The film tells about the life and love of the amazing and unique Coco Chanel. It is a romantic story full of sadness, longing, and beautiful music. Interestingly, one-seventh of the total budget (one in seven million dollars) was spent on costumes for this film.
The film is built as a memory of the life of a young, successful, but unhappy Gabrielle Chanel, in which every person, be it Etienne Balsan, Arthur Capel, or Adrienne – all influenced Coco and her life.
Gabrielle Chanel. La Permanence d’un style. 2001
The film mainly describes the period of Coco Chanel’s activity,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Michael Walsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director Michel Hazanavicius and actress Bérénice Bejo, Oscar winner and Oscar nominee respectively for “The Artist,” will present individual Masterclasses at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival this year. Also delivering Masterclasses are directors Michel Franco and Rithy Panh.
The Masterclasses, which like the rest of the festival are running online via ondemand.sff.ban, are organized in cooperation with Variety, and will be available worldwide via the Variety Streaming Room.
Hazanavicius shot his first feature-length film, “Mes Amis,” in 1999. In 2006, he directed his second feature, “Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies,” and then, three years later, “Oss 17: Lost in Rio.”
In 2011, he made “The Artist,” the silent, black-and-white film starring Bejo and Jean Dujardin, which won five Academy Awards in 2012, including best film, director and actor for Dujardin, while Bejo was an Oscar nominee for supporting actress.
The film premiered at Cannes, as did Hazanavicius’ “The Players” and “Redoubtable.
The Masterclasses, which like the rest of the festival are running online via ondemand.sff.ban, are organized in cooperation with Variety, and will be available worldwide via the Variety Streaming Room.
Hazanavicius shot his first feature-length film, “Mes Amis,” in 1999. In 2006, he directed his second feature, “Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies,” and then, three years later, “Oss 17: Lost in Rio.”
In 2011, he made “The Artist,” the silent, black-and-white film starring Bejo and Jean Dujardin, which won five Academy Awards in 2012, including best film, director and actor for Dujardin, while Bejo was an Oscar nominee for supporting actress.
The film premiered at Cannes, as did Hazanavicius’ “The Players” and “Redoubtable.
- 8/6/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
NEWSGene Wilder, we'll miss you. We have always had—and will always have—tremendous affection for the presence of this wonderfully funny, sweetly sorrowful actor.The San Francisco Cinematheque is holding a fundraising auction, "an annual convergence of visual and media arts to support their 56th year of exhibiting innovative experimental moving-image art." You can bid online.Recommended VIEWINGWhat is Japan 1984 – 7 Betacam Tapes? Celluloid Liberation Front writes at Sight & Sound about "never-before-seen video material shot by Michelangelo Antonioni in Japan." Watch it online at Belligerent Eyes through September 2.With Bertrand Bonello's highly anticipated Nocturama set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Le CiNéMa Club is now streaming Madeleine Among the Dead, a 2014 "sketch" from the director: "Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Madeleine."The excellent documentary A Fuller Life, about legendary director Samuel Fuller, is purchasable through this website.Frankly not our...
- 8/31/2016
- MUBI
By Fred Blosser
I approached the 2013 Blu-Ray edition of André Téchiné’s “The Bronte Sisters” (1979) with mild interest, which was mostly piqued by the powerhouse casting of the three leading young actresses of 1970s French cinema -- Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, and Marie-France Pisier -- as Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte. Imagine a 2014 U.S. film teaming Scarlett Johanssen, Jennifer Lawrence and Shailene Woodley. With vague memories of “Devotion,” Hollywood’s melodramatic 1946 Bronte biopic, I was doubtful that the film itself would be particularly compelling. But I was pleasantly surprised. Relating the formative events in the lives of the three sisters and their brother Branwell (Pascal Greggory) in straightforward, episodic form, Téchiné’s interpretation is first-rate: excellently acted, emotionally moving, and visually striking with starkly beautiful cinematography by Bruno Nuytten on the Yorkshire moors where the Bronte siblings lived their sadly short lives.
In a new documentary about the making of the film,...
I approached the 2013 Blu-Ray edition of André Téchiné’s “The Bronte Sisters” (1979) with mild interest, which was mostly piqued by the powerhouse casting of the three leading young actresses of 1970s French cinema -- Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, and Marie-France Pisier -- as Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte. Imagine a 2014 U.S. film teaming Scarlett Johanssen, Jennifer Lawrence and Shailene Woodley. With vague memories of “Devotion,” Hollywood’s melodramatic 1946 Bronte biopic, I was doubtful that the film itself would be particularly compelling. But I was pleasantly surprised. Relating the formative events in the lives of the three sisters and their brother Branwell (Pascal Greggory) in straightforward, episodic form, Téchiné’s interpretation is first-rate: excellently acted, emotionally moving, and visually striking with starkly beautiful cinematography by Bruno Nuytten on the Yorkshire moors where the Bronte siblings lived their sadly short lives.
In a new documentary about the making of the film,...
- 8/20/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Trans-Europ-Express (1967)
Redemption films resurrects two long unavailable titles from director Alain Robbe-Grillet, a member of the Nouvelle Vague best known as the screenwriter for Last Year at Marienbad, the surrealist classic from Alain Resnais. As a director, Robbe-Grillet has a lesser known yet equally lucrative body of work, consisting of ten titles that seem to exist somewhere out in the frayed hinterlands of any sort of definable movement. Many of his titles will put you in mind of works by other filmmakers, but each title seems to walk the line between sweet dream and beautiful nightmare, defying notions of narrative and, often, logic. That said, his films don’t cater to popular tastes, and many of his titles as director seem to have floated into an oblivion, the exception being his 1983 fantasy/nightmare La Belle Captive, one of his few offerings available on DVD. Until now, that is. While the...
Redemption films resurrects two long unavailable titles from director Alain Robbe-Grillet, a member of the Nouvelle Vague best known as the screenwriter for Last Year at Marienbad, the surrealist classic from Alain Resnais. As a director, Robbe-Grillet has a lesser known yet equally lucrative body of work, consisting of ten titles that seem to exist somewhere out in the frayed hinterlands of any sort of definable movement. Many of his titles will put you in mind of works by other filmmakers, but each title seems to walk the line between sweet dream and beautiful nightmare, defying notions of narrative and, often, logic. That said, his films don’t cater to popular tastes, and many of his titles as director seem to have floated into an oblivion, the exception being his 1983 fantasy/nightmare La Belle Captive, one of his few offerings available on DVD. Until now, that is. While the...
- 2/11/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – Hats off to Cohen Media Group for unearthing yet another indispensable piece of cinema. Andre Téchiné, the brilliant French director perhaps best known for 1994’s “Wild Reeds,” united three great actresses to star in his ambitious, painstakingly researched 1979 portrait of the Brontë sisters who authored literary classics under male pseudonyms.
It’s ironic to see Isabelle Huppert cast in the role of the least well-known Brontë girl, Anne, considering that her screen career ended up being far more prosperous than those of her co-stars. Even at 26, Huppert has the piercing stare of a weary, time-worn soul, and her presence here is as hypnotic as ever. A mournful close-up in which her eyes close deeply upon reflection of an immediate tragedy is more achingly forlorn than the saddest of string orchestras.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Indeed, Téchiné’s film is a majestic ode to the sweet sorrow of melancholia. It’s startlingly...
It’s ironic to see Isabelle Huppert cast in the role of the least well-known Brontë girl, Anne, considering that her screen career ended up being far more prosperous than those of her co-stars. Even at 26, Huppert has the piercing stare of a weary, time-worn soul, and her presence here is as hypnotic as ever. A mournful close-up in which her eyes close deeply upon reflection of an immediate tragedy is more achingly forlorn than the saddest of string orchestras.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Indeed, Téchiné’s film is a majestic ode to the sweet sorrow of melancholia. It’s startlingly...
- 8/22/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
You must publish that poem. You must!
Representing the writing process is notoriously difficult. Writing is an internal event that takes time and, to an outside observer, is quite boring. That is the kind of thing you’d find in a "how-to" book on screenwriting. After seeing Les soeurs Brontë (1979) (The Brontë Sisters), one might have a small pause before agreeing. Director André Téchiné (with Pascal Bonitzer and Jean Gruault) approached the task by performing scenes from the authors’ lives that find their way into the famous novels (much like Shakespeare In Love (1998)). Emily (Isabelle Adjani), Charlotte (Marie-France Pisier), and Anne (Isabelle Huppert) all wrote about brooding, quiet lives in the cold, hard north of England.
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Representing the writing process is notoriously difficult. Writing is an internal event that takes time and, to an outside observer, is quite boring. That is the kind of thing you’d find in a "how-to" book on screenwriting. After seeing Les soeurs Brontë (1979) (The Brontë Sisters), one might have a small pause before agreeing. Director André Téchiné (with Pascal Bonitzer and Jean Gruault) approached the task by performing scenes from the authors’ lives that find their way into the famous novels (much like Shakespeare In Love (1998)). Emily (Isabelle Adjani), Charlotte (Marie-France Pisier), and Anne (Isabelle Huppert) all wrote about brooding, quiet lives in the cold, hard north of England.
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- 8/6/2013
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
This is one of my favorite L.A. Events!! The 17th annual City of Lights, City of Angels (4/15-22) will feature a bevy of homages, classics, restorations and retrospectives of renowned French filmmakers. The festival is also inaugurating its first producer focus, highlighting two films of the honoree during festival week.
Carte Blanche To An American Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Col•Coa has given director Wes Anderson carte blanche to program one of his favorite French films in the 2013 Classics series. He chose The Fire Within (1963), directed by Louis Malle and starring Maurice Ronet & Jeanne Moreau (Col•Coa Classics presented in Association with Janus Films and L’Institut Francais). Anderson is the writer-director of Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Rushmore.
- Focus On A Producer: Anne-dominique Toussaint (New)
The Producer Anne-Dominique Toussaint will inaugurate a new rendez vous at Col•Coa entitled Focus On A Producer. On April 20, following the presentation of two recent films produced by Les Films des Tournelles , a discussion with the audience will shed light on the producer’s role in French cinema and France’s financing system.
- Focus On A Filmmaker : Alain Resnais
Col•Coa will honor director Alain Resnais with a special presentation of Stavisky (1974) starring Jean-Paul Belondo, in association with L’Institut FRANÇAIS, as well as a premiere of his new film You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet which will be released in May in the Us.
A panel will revisit the work of the French master, widely regarded as one of the greats of world cinema. (Col•Coa Classics + West Coast Premiere of You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet).
- Homage To Maurice Pialat
Col•Coa will honor writer-director Maurice Pialat on the 10th anniversary of his death, with the screening of To Our Loves (1983) starring Sandrine Bonnaire, in association with L’Institut Francais (Colcoa Classics)
- North American Premiere Of The Restored Version Of Bay Of Angels (50thAnniversary)
Col•Coa will present the digitally restored Bay Of Angels (1963) in partnership of the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf). Written and directed by Jacques Demy and starring Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann, this seldom-seen classic will be presented in association with Ciné-Tamaris and Janus Films to celebrate its 50th anniversary (Col•Coa Classics).
- 35th Anniversary Of The Bronte Sisters
Special 35th anniversary presentation of The Bronte Sisters written and directed by Andre Techiné and starring Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani & Marie-France Pisier, in association with the Cohen Media Group before its numeric release in the Us (Col•Coa Classics).
The 17th line-up of films in competition for the Col·Coa Awards, will be announced on March 26, 2013.
Col•Coa was created by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guils of America West, and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (Sacem). Col•Coa is also supported by France’s Society of Authors, Directors and Producers (L’Arp), the Film and TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles, the Cnc and Unifrance.
For more information, please contact:
In Paris, Vanessa Jerrom (vanessajerrom@wanadoo.fr)
In Los Angeles, Cathy Mouton (camouton@pacbell.net)...
Carte Blanche To An American Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Col•Coa has given director Wes Anderson carte blanche to program one of his favorite French films in the 2013 Classics series. He chose The Fire Within (1963), directed by Louis Malle and starring Maurice Ronet & Jeanne Moreau (Col•Coa Classics presented in Association with Janus Films and L’Institut Francais). Anderson is the writer-director of Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Rushmore.
- Focus On A Producer: Anne-dominique Toussaint (New)
The Producer Anne-Dominique Toussaint will inaugurate a new rendez vous at Col•Coa entitled Focus On A Producer. On April 20, following the presentation of two recent films produced by Les Films des Tournelles , a discussion with the audience will shed light on the producer’s role in French cinema and France’s financing system.
- Focus On A Filmmaker : Alain Resnais
Col•Coa will honor director Alain Resnais with a special presentation of Stavisky (1974) starring Jean-Paul Belondo, in association with L’Institut FRANÇAIS, as well as a premiere of his new film You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet which will be released in May in the Us.
A panel will revisit the work of the French master, widely regarded as one of the greats of world cinema. (Col•Coa Classics + West Coast Premiere of You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet).
- Homage To Maurice Pialat
Col•Coa will honor writer-director Maurice Pialat on the 10th anniversary of his death, with the screening of To Our Loves (1983) starring Sandrine Bonnaire, in association with L’Institut Francais (Colcoa Classics)
- North American Premiere Of The Restored Version Of Bay Of Angels (50thAnniversary)
Col•Coa will present the digitally restored Bay Of Angels (1963) in partnership of the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Facf). Written and directed by Jacques Demy and starring Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann, this seldom-seen classic will be presented in association with Ciné-Tamaris and Janus Films to celebrate its 50th anniversary (Col•Coa Classics).
- 35th Anniversary Of The Bronte Sisters
Special 35th anniversary presentation of The Bronte Sisters written and directed by Andre Techiné and starring Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani & Marie-France Pisier, in association with the Cohen Media Group before its numeric release in the Us (Col•Coa Classics).
The 17th line-up of films in competition for the Col·Coa Awards, will be announced on March 26, 2013.
Col•Coa was created by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, the Writers Guils of America West, and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (Sacem). Col•Coa is also supported by France’s Society of Authors, Directors and Producers (L’Arp), the Film and TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles, the Cnc and Unifrance.
For more information, please contact:
In Paris, Vanessa Jerrom (vanessajerrom@wanadoo.fr)
In Los Angeles, Cathy Mouton (camouton@pacbell.net)...
- 3/18/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Hollywood's Costner takes home Honorary Award Speaking of Hollywood, the French Academy has frequently given its Honorary César (an equivalent to the Lifetime Achievement Award) to some curious group of Hollywood celebrities. Among those are Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Quentin Tarantino, Hugh Grant, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Spike Lee, Andie McDowell, and Sylvester Stallone. This year, they've made another curious choice: Kevin Costner, whose Honorary Award was a tribute to his "fabulous contribution to cinematic history." Costner, among whose movie credits as actor and/or director are Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham, JFK, The Bodyguard, The Postman, and Waterworld, thanked the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences for embracing him "for who I am." Other César winners Among this year's other César winners were, in the supporting categories, Valérie Benguigui and Guillaume de Tonquédec for What's in a Name? / Le Prénom, directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere.
- 2/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Argentinian director whose films drew heavily on the stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Although the Argentinian director and screenwriter Eduardo de Gregorio, who has died aged 70, had lived in Paris since 1970, his work was always identifiably South American. This can be attributed to the overpowering influence of the labyrinthine stories of Jorge Luis Borges on a generation of South American artists.
De Gregorio brought this Borgesian aura to bear on the five features he directed, and on the screenplays he wrote with Jacques Rivette and Bernardo Bertolucci. In fact, for the latter's The Spider's Stratagem (1970), De Gregorio adapted the Borges story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, smoothly transposing it from Ireland to Italy. It was an elaborate piece of Oedipal plotting in which, revisiting the village in the Po valley where his father was murdered in 1936, a young man discovers that his father was not a hero, but a traitor.
Although the Argentinian director and screenwriter Eduardo de Gregorio, who has died aged 70, had lived in Paris since 1970, his work was always identifiably South American. This can be attributed to the overpowering influence of the labyrinthine stories of Jorge Luis Borges on a generation of South American artists.
De Gregorio brought this Borgesian aura to bear on the five features he directed, and on the screenplays he wrote with Jacques Rivette and Bernardo Bertolucci. In fact, for the latter's The Spider's Stratagem (1970), De Gregorio adapted the Borges story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, smoothly transposing it from Ireland to Italy. It was an elaborate piece of Oedipal plotting in which, revisiting the village in the Po valley where his father was murdered in 1936, a young man discovers that his father was not a hero, but a traitor.
- 10/19/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
News.
Above: Harris Savides. Photo by Brigette Lancombe for Interview magazine.
We were saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of one of film's great cinematographers, Harris Savides. Our brief note includes an indelible clip from Gerry, one of his collaborations with Gus Van Sant. David Hudson has rounded up commentary at Fandor.
One of Savides' chief collaborators, director David Fincher, is also in the news with an animated film project that's appealing to Kickstarter to get funded.
Two big trailer debuts have sprung on us over the last week. One's the second trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained:
...and the other is the first full trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty:
Filmmaker Jon Jost has started a petition calling for Ray Carney to return underground director Mark Rappaport's film materials. As the petition explains:
"In 2005, when Mark Rappaport moved to France, Ray Carney,...
Above: Harris Savides. Photo by Brigette Lancombe for Interview magazine.
We were saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of one of film's great cinematographers, Harris Savides. Our brief note includes an indelible clip from Gerry, one of his collaborations with Gus Van Sant. David Hudson has rounded up commentary at Fandor.
One of Savides' chief collaborators, director David Fincher, is also in the news with an animated film project that's appealing to Kickstarter to get funded.
Two big trailer debuts have sprung on us over the last week. One's the second trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained:
...and the other is the first full trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty:
Filmmaker Jon Jost has started a petition calling for Ray Carney to return underground director Mark Rappaport's film materials. As the petition explains:
"In 2005, when Mark Rappaport moved to France, Ray Carney,...
- 10/17/2012
- by Notebook
- MUBI
"TCM Remembers 2011" is out. Remembered by Turner Classic Movies are many of those in the film world who left us this past year. As always, this latest "TCM Remembers" entry is a classy, immensely moving compilation. The haunting background song is "Before You Go," by Ok Sweetheart.
Among those featured in "TCM Remembers 2011" are Farley Granger, the star of Luchino Visconti's Senso and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Strangers on a Train; Oscar-nominated Australian actress Diane Cilento (Tom Jones, Hombre), formerly married to Sean Connery; and two-time Oscar nominee Peter Falk (Murder, Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, The Great Race), best remembered as television's Columbo. Or, for those into arthouse fare, for playing an angel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.
Also, Jane Russell, whose cleavage and sensuous lips in Howard Hughes' The Outlaw left the puritans of the Production Code Association apoplectic; another Australian performer, Googie Withers, among...
Among those featured in "TCM Remembers 2011" are Farley Granger, the star of Luchino Visconti's Senso and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Strangers on a Train; Oscar-nominated Australian actress Diane Cilento (Tom Jones, Hombre), formerly married to Sean Connery; and two-time Oscar nominee Peter Falk (Murder, Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, The Great Race), best remembered as television's Columbo. Or, for those into arthouse fare, for playing an angel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.
Also, Jane Russell, whose cleavage and sensuous lips in Howard Hughes' The Outlaw left the puritans of the Production Code Association apoplectic; another Australian performer, Googie Withers, among...
- 12/14/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
At her best, Adjani was always a victim going over the edge of sanity, and that seems to match Truffaut's account of her at work
It has never been safe to predict what Isabelle Adjani was going to do, or why. In 1974, François Truffaut was planning to make The Story of Adele H, about a daughter of Victor Hugo who falls in love with a young army officer and goes mad in her efforts to get him to return the love. He wanted someone new for the lead role, and was intrigued by Adjani in a recent hit comedy called La Gifle. Adjani was 19 and ravishing; but she was under contract as a stage actress to La Comédie-Française.
Truffaut pursued her. The theatre company declined to release her. The matter went to law. Adjani stayed quiet – but in the end she had her way. She would do Adele H. Truffaut...
It has never been safe to predict what Isabelle Adjani was going to do, or why. In 1974, François Truffaut was planning to make The Story of Adele H, about a daughter of Victor Hugo who falls in love with a young army officer and goes mad in her efforts to get him to return the love. He wanted someone new for the lead role, and was intrigued by Adjani in a recent hit comedy called La Gifle. Adjani was 19 and ravishing; but she was under contract as a stage actress to La Comédie-Française.
Truffaut pursued her. The theatre company declined to release her. The matter went to law. Adjani stayed quiet – but in the end she had her way. She would do Adele H. Truffaut...
- 5/19/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Welcome to the 287th Edition of my long-running series. This week I pay tribute to actresses Yvette Vickers and Marie-France Pisier who recently left us. Let's get to my next ten selections.Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): This is the 27th link of The Chain which continues with Donald Sutherland and is the oldest link on the chain so far being made in 1978. This is a remake of the 1956...
- 5/14/2011
- by Shaun Berk
In tragic news, on the heels of María Isbert, Marie-France Pisier, Phoebe Snow, and Diana Wynne-Jones, punk-rock icon Poly Styrene has passed away.
Poly Styrene was born Marianne Elliot Smith in 1957, and she passed away yesterday evening after a long battle with cancer. She was a punk rocker and a feminist, as the lead singer of X-Ray Spex.
She will be missed.
Poly Styrene was born Marianne Elliot Smith in 1957, and she passed away yesterday evening after a long battle with cancer. She was a punk rocker and a feminist, as the lead singer of X-Ray Spex.
She will be missed.
- 4/28/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Marie-France Pisier, the stunning actress who launched her career as go-to gal for the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var, France on Sunday, April 24. She was 66 years old.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Mme Pisier appeared in seminal films of the Nouvelle Vague by Francois Truffaut (Love on the Run, Stolen Kisses), Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Andrew Techine (1969’s Pauline is Leaving, Techine’s first film). She became a staple in French cinema and television over the years, appearing in dozens of TV and film productions, including the international cross-over comedy Cousin Cousine. She even did a little slumming in Hollywood, popping up in such silly fare as French Postcards and the high-trashy TV miniseries Scruples.
A hardworking career actor, Mme. Pisier was seen most recently in the 2009 French TV legal drama Les Chasseur.
Much of Marie-France Pisier’s movie canon...
Beginning in the early 1960s, Mme Pisier appeared in seminal films of the Nouvelle Vague by Francois Truffaut (Love on the Run, Stolen Kisses), Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Andrew Techine (1969’s Pauline is Leaving, Techine’s first film). She became a staple in French cinema and television over the years, appearing in dozens of TV and film productions, including the international cross-over comedy Cousin Cousine. She even did a little slumming in Hollywood, popping up in such silly fare as French Postcards and the high-trashy TV miniseries Scruples.
A hardworking career actor, Mme. Pisier was seen most recently in the 2009 French TV legal drama Les Chasseur.
Much of Marie-France Pisier’s movie canon...
- 4/28/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
One of the things I like best about Luis Buñuel's films is their clinical subversiveness. From Susana to Viridiana, from Nazarin to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Buñuel relentlessly attacks social conventions and mores without ever resorting to cheesy sentimentality, feel-good phoniness, or crappy life-affirming situations. Perhaps that's why Buñuel isn't nearly as revered today as many of his lesser contemporaries. Buñuel's 1974 effort The Phantom of Liberty consists of a series of vignettes showing life in a parallel universe in which human social conventions are opposite to the ones we, in our boundless stupidity, assume are the way things always have been and always will be. In fact, we assume that's how things must be, period. I'm posting this vignette, in which a couple of families get together for a little social defecation/urination, because it features Marie-France Pisier, who died this past weekend. Pisier plays Madame Calmette,...
- 4/26/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Marie-France Pisier, the acclaimed French film star, has died at age 66. Her husband found her dead in their swimming pool. Cause of death is unknown but foul play is not suspected. Pisier began working in films at as a teenager with the legendary Francois Truffaut, with whom she had a brief affair. She and Truffaut would work together again, with Pisier playing the same character- Colette. She rode to stardom as part of the French "New Wave" cinema in the 1960s and appeared in acclaimed films like Cousin Cousin, Cousine and Phantom of Liberty. Pisier won two Cesar awards (the French Oscar) for supporting actress, but attempts to emerge a star in the American cinema were not successful. Her most prominent role was in the 1977 film The Other Side of Midnight, a big budget, sex-packed soap opera that was a hit with audiences but was disdained by critics. For more...
- 4/26/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Le Point and L'Express are among the French news outlets reporting that Marie-France Pisier has died at her home in Saint Cyr sur Mer at the age of 66. First mention is generally going to her work with François Truffaut; her debut, after all, was in his Antoine and Colette, a short film that was part of the 1962 anthology Love at Twenty and she would reprise the role in Stolen Kisses (1968) and Love on the Run (1979). The film many will be thinking of today, though, is Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974). In 1981, Julia Lesage described her role in the film's development: "Script credit is given to Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, and Jacques Rivette…. According to Berto, she and Labourier imagined creating a combination of Persona and What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? in a film with two female protagonists. Berto said, 'Each...
- 4/26/2011
- MUBI
Marie-France Pisier in Charles Jarrott's The Other Side of Midnight (top); Pisier with Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut's Love at Twenty segment "Antoine and Colette" (bottom) Marie-France Pisier, best-known internationally as one of François Truffaut's New Wave muses and as the star of the trashy Hollywood melodrama The Other Side of Midnight, was found dead early morning on Easter Sunday, April 24, in the swimming pool of her home in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in the South of France. Her death apparently occurred late Saturday night or very early Sunday. Pisier was 66. Her body was discovered by her husband, businessman Thierry Funck-Brentano. The cause of death is unknown, but foul play isn't suspected. Pisier was expected to take part at an homage to Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom she had co-starred in Gérard Oury's L'as des as / The Ace of Aces (1982), at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Pisier (born on...
- 4/26/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
French actor, novelist and director who starred in films by Truffaut and Buñuel
Those who followed the adventures of Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) in a series of lyrical and semi-autobiographical films directed by François Truffaut – incorporating adolescence, marriage, fatherhood and divorce – will know that Doinel's first and (perhaps) last love, Colette Tazzi, was played by the stunningly beautiful Marie-France Pisier, who has been found dead aged 66 in the swimming pool of her house near Toulon, in southern France.
Doinel and audiences first caught sight of Pisier in Antoine et Colette, Truffaut's enchanting 32-minute contribution to the omnibus film L'Amour à Vingt Ans (Love at Twenty, 1962), during a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. She is conscious of Antoine's stares, and pulls down her skirt. We soon realise that Colette is going to break Antoine's heart.
Léaud and Pisier were born in...
Those who followed the adventures of Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) in a series of lyrical and semi-autobiographical films directed by François Truffaut – incorporating adolescence, marriage, fatherhood and divorce – will know that Doinel's first and (perhaps) last love, Colette Tazzi, was played by the stunningly beautiful Marie-France Pisier, who has been found dead aged 66 in the swimming pool of her house near Toulon, in southern France.
Doinel and audiences first caught sight of Pisier in Antoine et Colette, Truffaut's enchanting 32-minute contribution to the omnibus film L'Amour à Vingt Ans (Love at Twenty, 1962), during a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. She is conscious of Antoine's stares, and pulls down her skirt. We soon realise that Colette is going to break Antoine's heart.
Léaud and Pisier were born in...
- 4/25/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
French actress Marie-france Pisier has been found dead in the swimming pool at her home in the south of France.
The 66-year-old's lifeless body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday by her husband, Thierry Funk Brentano.
Officials in Toulon, near the couple's villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, have launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected.
Pisier began a career as an actress in 1961 when she was cast by director Francois Truffaut in short film Antoine and Colette.
She shot to fame and became recognised as a star of the New Wave era, going on to work with filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel and Andre Techine.
The star scooped two best supporting actress honours at the prestigious Cesar awards - the French equivalent of the Oscars - for her work with Techine in Cousin, Cousine (1976) and Barocco (1977).
Her other notable films included 1982 comedy L'as des as and 1978 romantic thriller, The Other Side of Midnight.
Pisier was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in May to honour top French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, her co-star in L'as des as.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to Pisier, hailing her as "a supreme elegance born from the most perfect simplicity".
The 66-year-old's lifeless body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday by her husband, Thierry Funk Brentano.
Officials in Toulon, near the couple's villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, have launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected.
Pisier began a career as an actress in 1961 when she was cast by director Francois Truffaut in short film Antoine and Colette.
She shot to fame and became recognised as a star of the New Wave era, going on to work with filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel and Andre Techine.
The star scooped two best supporting actress honours at the prestigious Cesar awards - the French equivalent of the Oscars - for her work with Techine in Cousin, Cousine (1976) and Barocco (1977).
Her other notable films included 1982 comedy L'as des as and 1978 romantic thriller, The Other Side of Midnight.
Pisier was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in May to honour top French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, her co-star in L'as des as.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to Pisier, hailing her as "a supreme elegance born from the most perfect simplicity".
- 4/24/2011
- WENN
The new wave 40 years early. The soft side of Jean-Pierre Melville. Nicole Kidman makes the unmakeable. Somewhere out there is an alternative history of film – David Thomson unearths 10 lost works of genius
Erotikon (1920)
Forget 1920, this is an absolutely modern comedy about romance and sex, directed in Sweden by Mauritz Stiller. We should remember that when MGM brought Greta Garbo from Sweden in the mid-20s, she was almost baggage in the deal that hired Stiller, one of the sharpest and most sophisticated of silent directors, but a man who would be crushed by Hollywood. Stiller needs to be recovered (like his contemporary, Victor Sjöström), and Erotikon has an instinct for attraction and infidelity that simply couldn't be permitted in American films of the same period. It's also marvellous to see that, nearly 100 years ago, Swedish cinema was in love with its country's cool light and with actresses as warm but ambiguous as Tora Teje,...
Erotikon (1920)
Forget 1920, this is an absolutely modern comedy about romance and sex, directed in Sweden by Mauritz Stiller. We should remember that when MGM brought Greta Garbo from Sweden in the mid-20s, she was almost baggage in the deal that hired Stiller, one of the sharpest and most sophisticated of silent directors, but a man who would be crushed by Hollywood. Stiller needs to be recovered (like his contemporary, Victor Sjöström), and Erotikon has an instinct for attraction and infidelity that simply couldn't be permitted in American films of the same period. It's also marvellous to see that, nearly 100 years ago, Swedish cinema was in love with its country's cool light and with actresses as warm but ambiguous as Tora Teje,...
- 8/19/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
"No more Lubitsch," said Billy Wilder, at the Great Man's funeral.
"Worse than that," said William Wyler. "No more Lubitsch movies."
The suspicion, amounting almost to a certainty, that Jacques Rivette will make no more feature films to follow the very lovely Around a Small Mountain, can inspire the fan with an irrational, vertiginous fear: no more Rivette movies? But in fact, there are numerous existing Rivette movies still not seen, or not seen in anything like ideal circumstances. The iceberg-tip of his oeuvre that's commercially available is supported by a vast submerged continent of unreleased work. And the films themselves are so rich, so palatial, exploring them would take lifetimes.
Still, if one was looking either for Rivette-related work to supplement his great mad corpus, or something that sheds an interesting sidelight on a major Rivette work, Sérail (a.k.a. Surreal Estate, 1976), by the Argentinian writer-director and...
"Worse than that," said William Wyler. "No more Lubitsch movies."
The suspicion, amounting almost to a certainty, that Jacques Rivette will make no more feature films to follow the very lovely Around a Small Mountain, can inspire the fan with an irrational, vertiginous fear: no more Rivette movies? But in fact, there are numerous existing Rivette movies still not seen, or not seen in anything like ideal circumstances. The iceberg-tip of his oeuvre that's commercially available is supported by a vast submerged continent of unreleased work. And the films themselves are so rich, so palatial, exploring them would take lifetimes.
Still, if one was looking either for Rivette-related work to supplement his great mad corpus, or something that sheds an interesting sidelight on a major Rivette work, Sérail (a.k.a. Surreal Estate, 1976), by the Argentinian writer-director and...
- 8/19/2010
- MUBI
From Abba to Hitchcock, Philip French picks his favourite fleeting 'blink and you'll miss them' moments
Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, 1940)
Hitchcock, the brilliant self-publicist who probably devised his own sobriquet "Master of Suspense", virtually invented the movie cameo en route to becoming the world's most recognisable director. His first screen appearance was in a newsroom sequence in The Lodger (1926). Initially, the signature walk-ons were spasmodic, before becoming a feature of each picture after his move to the Us, beginning with Rebecca (1940), where he is seen outside a telephone kiosk being used by George Sanders. Each reflects wittily on the movie.
Walter Huston (The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
The great character actor Walter Huston appeared in son John's directorial debut as Captain Jacoby, the merchant mariner in league with Kasper Gutman and co. He staggers into Sam Spade's office clutching a parcel containing a replica of the eponymous statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of" [sic]. He says,...
Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, 1940)
Hitchcock, the brilliant self-publicist who probably devised his own sobriquet "Master of Suspense", virtually invented the movie cameo en route to becoming the world's most recognisable director. His first screen appearance was in a newsroom sequence in The Lodger (1926). Initially, the signature walk-ons were spasmodic, before becoming a feature of each picture after his move to the Us, beginning with Rebecca (1940), where he is seen outside a telephone kiosk being used by George Sanders. Each reflects wittily on the movie.
Walter Huston (The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
The great character actor Walter Huston appeared in son John's directorial debut as Captain Jacoby, the merchant mariner in league with Kasper Gutman and co. He staggers into Sam Spade's office clutching a parcel containing a replica of the eponymous statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of" [sic]. He says,...
- 7/24/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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