First Name: Carmen (1983) & Détective (1985)
The trouble with Godard films is that, while every one of them is trying and elusive in the moment, not...
The Uncatchable Legendary French Criminal Comically Eludes the Law Throughout Trilogy of Films
STREET DATE: APRIL 30, 2019/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS ...
To The Disapproval Of The French New Wave, Melville Goes Electric
In the '50s, Jean-Pierre Melville had been a vanguard of the
style praised by then-critics...
Juliette Binoche Plays an Actress for Olivier Assayas for the Third Time in a row. True Story.
DIRECTED BY OLIVIER ASSAYAS/FRENCH/2019 (U.S. Theatrical Rel...
French Heist of Italian Stylized Genres is Anything but Golden.
DIRECTED BY HÉLÈNE CATTET, BRUNO FORZANI/FRENCH/2017
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JANUARY 8, 2019...
Two Obscure Jean Rollin Films Return to the Land of the Living
DIRECTED BY JEAN ROLLIN/2002, 1989
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 2019/REDEMPTION FILMS...
Dancers Trip in the Most Extraordinarily Horrific Way
DIRECTED BY GASPAR NOÉ/2019 (U.S. Theatrical Release)
Dire and euphoric, Gaspar Noé’s Climax gy...
As the enigmatic cinema purist Mathias (Corentin Fila) is fixated upon, A Paris Education itself aims to be an ideal film about life and beauty and what is true. “Manufactured scenarios” and identifiable artifice is supposedly off the table, yet this viewer found one major character development after another to be literally predictable.
