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Yesterday’s announcement at Cannes that the actor-director Mathieu Amalric will adapt Stendhal’s 1830 “Le Rouge et le Noir” (“The Red and the Black”) means that three of France’s greatest 19th-century novels are being made into new movies. The others are Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” (1856), and Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin” (1867...
It’s been a good week for the Western. A few moments from Quentin Tarantino’s "Django Unchained" were screened in Cannes. It was also reported in Variety that Tom Cruise is up for a “Magnificent Seven” remake and in The Hollywood Reporter that Lynne Ramsey will direct Natalie Portman in another oater, “Jane Got a Gun,” which the...
As a screenwriter, Paul Schrader may have created two of the greatest working-class heroes of post-war America cinema in “Taxi Driver”’s Travis Bickle and “Raging Bull”’s Jake LaMotta, but as he showed with his 1985 Yukio Mishima biopic, he has a taste for exotica, too. Anne Thompson reports on ToH! that, among other projects Schrader...
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, 23 works screen in competition for the 65th Palme d’Or. And while this collection of flicks is sure to include some new classics, there’s just one problem with watching them all: In the dark of the theater, no one can see what you’re wearing. Over the decades, the world’s most famous celebration of...
Duncan Jones, the director of the science-fiction movies “Moon” and “Source Code,” said at Cannes that he will be making an action-driven biopic of Ian Fleming, the creator of 007. Variety reports that the movie is being adapted by Matt Brown from Andrew Lycett’s 1996 biography “Ian Fleming, the Man Behind James Bond.”The timing of the...
Three days into the Cannes film festival, Marion Cotillard is already being tipped for the Best Actress award for her performance in Jacques Audiard’s acclaimed “Rust & Bone,” which is based on characters in Craig Davidson’s eponymous short story collection. Cotillard plays a trainer of Orca whales at the Marineland Park who has both...
At the end of this trailer for Jonathan Demme’s latest Neil Young concert film, Young explains why “you don’t have to worry if you lose friends”: “‘Cause they’re still in your head. They’re still in your heart.” Young is still very much with us, praise be to whatever god they worship in Canada, and before he can live on in his biggest...
Last February, a group of fashion and art insiders met at the Core Club, in midtown Manhattan, stocked up on champagne and truffle oil popcorn, and packed into a theater for the premiere of a short film called “Here.” It was a perfectly pretty flick, even if it was largely an ad for the Luxury Collection brand of hotels, but the big draw...
Named for her young son’s misspelling of “police,” French writer-director-actress Maïwenn’s “Polisse,” which opens tomorrow, is a vividly naturalistic fly-on-the wall drama about the frantic, grueling work lives and damaged domestic relationships of cops in a Parisian Child Protection Unit and the victims – whether mutilated babies or...
Andrey Zvyagintsev is the most internationally-acclaimed Russian filmmaker to emerge during the Putin era, and his expertly directed third feature “Elena” is, albeit oblique, the most vivid evocation I’ve seen of Moscow’s contemporary society.As with the 48-year-old director’s previous movies, “Elena” — which is currently at Film...
