Mathieu Amalric

Who Needs Christmas?

Deck the halls with a neurotic French family and a dozen of director Robert Aldrich's dirtiest. BAMPFA.berkeley.edu A Christmas Tale Directed by Arnaud Desplechin. A Dirty Dozen: The Films of Robert Aldrich November 21-December...

Latest Bond baddie is reluctant star

'Quantum of Solace' villain Mathieu Amalric has no interest in winning movie awards as an actor - because he sees himself primarily as a director. The enigmatic French star admits he stumbled into acting a decade ago and still...

Amalric wanted to be director, not actor

London, Nov 18 (IANS) French actor Mathieu Amalric doesn't care about winning awards because he cares more about being a director. According to contactmusic. com, Amalric explains that he got into acting by chance and still...

A Christmas Tale - movie review

French director Arnaud Desplechin returns to the U.S. three years after his last domestically distributed picture, Kings & Queen, bearing a gift of another sort in A Christmas Tale. Seeing release approximately a month before...

Bond film is tops at U.S. box office

James Bond brushed off some lackluster reviews to sell an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for this 46-year-old film franchise. "Quantum of Solace," starring...

Worth Your Time: 'A Christmas Tale'

The holiday family reunion movie is often as excruciating and treacly as the fraught, multigenerational gatherings it depicts. (Recent example: "The Family Stone.") Rare is the masterwork, like Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander,"...

Jason Solomons takes a look at the films that are rejuvenating French cinema

When director Laurent Cantet accepted the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, he took to the stage surrounded by a large cast of children. African, Caribbean, white, Arab, Chinese - these French faces were the young stars of his...

Interview: Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko, the latest and perhaps most bad-ass Bond girl, walks into the room wearing a stunning, skin-tight dress that you, as a mere mortal, know you can never own. Like a Bond girl should be, Kurylenko is ridiculously,...

You can't afford to shop. Go to the movies

LIAM LACEY From Saturday's Globe and Mail Yes, we can, said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, as he check-listed the challenges facing his country. Twilight (Nov. 21) Like Christmas, vampires are big on red and white, and...

Weekend Movie Guide: Bond...Jimmy Bond

Keep your head down while I pull off this latest impossible shot! | Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures Its story may not be as strong as that of Casino Royale, but Quantum of Solace delivers some true spectacle in its...