Claude Chabrol

Alright Jacques! The IFI's French Film Festival

It's that time of the year again, and this year's French Film Festival at the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, boasts a strong range of contemporary movies as well as a retrospective on the life and works of the great comic...

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2009-11-13 - Internationales Filmfestival Torino, 27.

Termin: 13.11.09 - The Torino Film Festival has proven itself to be one of Italy’s most important cinematographic events, after the Mostra di Venezia. Besides for its international competition which awarded first ...

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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno | Film review

There's a peculiar fascination about ambitious unfinished works that listeners, viewers and readers are left to complete in their minds. In cinema there are a string of pictures left in tantalisingly fragmentary form due to...

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Bruni-Sarkozy tells of 8 years in psychoanalysis

PARIS (AP) -- During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought. But after her father died, the then-28-year-old model dove into therapy "body and soul," and has since...

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David Thomson on Isabelle Huppert

David Thomson: I doubt that in the history of the movies we've ever before had women in their 50s standing above all others. But Isabelle Huppert is one 'Who the hell is Isabelle Huppert?" The question rang through the offices...

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On Wikipedia: part 3

Ran across this article from Boston Review by Evgeny Morozov on Wikipedi a. Excerpt: This creates enormous knowledge gaps in Wikipedia and further alienates well-informed subject experts, particularly those who may know much...

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Cinema Style: Les Biches

Les Biches (The Does) is a 1968 French film directed by Claude Chabrol and stars Stephane Audran and Jacqueline Sassard. Audran plays a wealthy lesbian who befriends Sassard’s character, a young artist, on the street in Paris...

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On the Escarpment, Off the Escarpment: It Helps When the Love Is Strong

Me, CheetaMe Cheeta, James Lever's spoof autobiography of Hollywood's most famous chimpanzee, takes aim at a wide range of creaturely weaknesses all of them, as it turns out, distinctly human. Not so crudely as to spoil what's...

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Movie review: 'The Maid'

There is a funny gag in the Neil Simon spoof "Murder by Death" in which Elsa Lanchester's character is introduced trundling an ancient woman in a wheelchair. We are meant to infer that the coddled dowager is a genteel...

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Clouzot's towering inferno

The film was called Hell, and it duly became hell. But this 1964 flop by Henri-Georges Clouzot shouldn't blind us to his genius Brigitte Bardot called him "a negative being, for ever at odds with himself and the world around...

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