Sentences with phrase «french cinema»

For five days, the programme at Cinema La Clef is devoted not to the latest Hollywood blockbusters, nor to the finest French cinema, but to the best examples of Australian Indigenous film - making.

He transposes images onto cassette tape cases to create a mosaic revealing scenes of arguably two of the greatest actresses in French cinema in two films — Brigitte Bardot in «L'Ours et la Poupée» and Catherine Deneuve in «La Chamade.»

Already with her first film, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) established herself as an important figure in French cinema.

A PhD student in French cinema at Melbourne Uni and the Sorbonne, she's also an eternal nomad, a film buff, a French lecturer, a coffee reviewer, an English teacher and a travel writer.

Designed by American architect Bill Bensley, the boutique hotel — which opens in January — will be filled with antiques (opium beds; Siamese maps) and flea - market finds (velvet French cinema seating).

Yet even though Merchant - Ivory - Jhabvala cinema is still consumerist, Le Divorce gives a few glimpses into contemporary French cinema through the casting alone: Melvil Poupaud, who plays Charles - Henri, is a Raul Ruiz discovery and regular, and Nathalie Richard, who plays one of Charles - Henri's relatives and was also in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, has worked with Jacques Rivette and Olivier Assayas.

This revered tenet of modern French cinema has been cited as a key influence on Luca Guadagnino's forthcoming feature Call Me by Your Name, and is a rare treat on the big screen.

Two of his earlier films, Games of Love and Chance (2003) and The Secret of the Grain (2007), had won French cinema's highest award, the César, for best film, best director, and best screenplay.

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Children of Paradise is the high - water mark of the Golden Age of French cinema.

In Argentina, Spaniards mixed with Italians, their descendants read, studied and often watched French cinema.

Art - lovers (and lovers of French cinema, from the reveries of Georges Méliès and Louis Feuillade on) may be entranced.

The American cinema owes the French cinema — which is to say French critics and audiences as well as French filmmakers — an enormous debt.

In fact, these are two of the best actors in contemporary French cinema.

By the early»70s, François Truffaut was no longer one of the great pioneers of French cinema.

Garrel has become something of an irritant in French cinema with his air of stormy - browed narcissism, yet here he shows a deliciously well - turned comic grace.

French cinema legend Agnes Varda — who's been active since the days of the French New Wave and who, believe it or not, has never been nominated for an Oscar before — also made history as the oldest person ever nominated at 89 years old.

Homegrown fare features strongly, with French cinema accounting for seven titles in the mix.

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The last decade has presented many magnificent rediscoveries when it comes to French cinema of the sixties, but none of them have taken me as off - guard as the 1962 feature debut of Alain Cavalier, all but unknown in the U.S. until its 2009 revival.

They became increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of French cinema at the time with its emphasis on grand and polished craftsmanship.

The glittering quartet will be joined by Britain's Lynne Ramsay, perhaps with time on her hands after exiting the Natalie Portman indie western Jane's Got a Gun, French cinema icon Daniel Auteuil, Romanian film - maker Cristian Mungiu, Japanese director Naomi Kawase and Bollywood star Vidya Balan.

The Professional), the abovementioned movies are bathed in frosty blues and greens, filmed and edited with a smooth professionalism — the latest wave to wash through the French cinema is all about a carefully calibrated cool.

Serra sat down with FILM COMMENT at Cannes shortly after The Death of Louis XIV premiered as an Out of Competition selection to talk about his unique on - set process, his film's more restrained tone, and working with one of French cinema's most beloved actors.

What seemed like a novel idea, pairing two of French cinema's contemporary icons from opposing schools...

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After Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux announced the lineup in April, French cinema owners protested his plan to premiere the two Netflix films without their having a theatrical release in France before hitting the streaming service.

Melville's operatic camera movements and Cocteau's perverse, poetic approach to character merge in Les enfants terribles to create one of French cinema's greatest, and most surprising, meetings of the minds.

Melville plays on the power of Belmondo, a handsome, young, newly - minted movie star of French cinema in 1961, as a strong, striking, confident priest in a town of women without men.

Kar - wai, 56, known for his films like «In the Mood for Love `, «Ashes of Time «and «Chungking Express `, said he got his first knowledge of cinema from his mother, who introduced him to the new wave French cinema.

Contrary to the nearly ironclad custom that sees competition entries filtering through to French cinema screens in the months following the festival (with each one, no matter how lukewarm its critical reception may have been, invariably touted by its promotional campaign as «la sensation de Cannes»), Netflix supremo Ted Sarandos brazenly declared his company's impatience with the requisite three years for his productions to make their plodding way from theatrical distribution, to DVD, premium cable and even free - to - air television before being allowed to air on the platform that had funded them in the first place.

The legendary Jean - Pierre Melville is one of French cinema's most revered filmmakers, and with good reason.

If you've so much as begun to delve into this legendary director's work, you know that he was one of French cinema's most versatile artists.

In collaboration with My French Film Festival, throwing a spotlight on new French cinema, MUBI presents this inspired Gallic version of an indie movie.

Were it not for the performances of the three lead actors, The Clink of Ice might well have been unwatchable: Dujardin and Dupontel are both highly regarded stars of French cinema, and they develop an uneasy rapport that perfectly suits the nature of their relationship.

This competition has closed.The Alliance Française French Film Festival is back for its 29th year, travelling around Australia from 27 February showcasing the best in French cinema.

More than half a century ago, the French New Wavers tried and condemned the Tradition of Quality in French cinema for crimes of airless, risk - averse, studio - bound craftsmanship.

Dujardin and Dupontel are both highly regarded stars of French cinema, and they develop an uneasy rapport that perfectly suits the nature of their relationship.

Genre isn't really part of French cinema culture, so it's way more difficult to make your way with genre films.

For those into French cinema, there is gold at the end of the rainbow.

But at least in Williams's case, a lot of his idiosyncratic, exciting early scores were at least nominated; the films almost everyone agrees represented Desplat's finest work to date (e.g. Birth; The Painted Veil; Lust, Caution; to say nothing of his compositions for French cinema) were all ignored by Oscar.

Voyage à travers le cinéma français (My Journey Through French Cinema, Bertrand Tavenier, 2016) Tavernier covers 30 years of French cinema (from the 40's to the 70's) particularly emphasising films by Melville Godard, Renoir, Duvivier and Sautet as well as actors like Jean Gabin and jazz composers like Miles Davies.

Grounded by heartbreakingly poignant performances from two of French cinema's most iconic actors, Amour contains none of the moralistic finger - wagging and gratuitous sadism that so many critics have found off - putting in the director's work.

Recommendation: A film defined by its central performance, Amélie is one for romantics at heart and French cinema enthusiasts.

5 x 2 (François Ozon, France) French cinema's most industrious but uneven prodigy pulls off his most mature film yet.

THE LATE FILMS OF RENÉ CLAIR By Philip Kemp Out of fashion in the postwar era, this elder statesman of French cinema pressed on undaunted to do some of his greatest work, now ripe for consideration

«Children of Paradise» (Criterion), Marcel Carné's legendary epic of love, theater, and crime in 19th Century Paris, is a masterpiece of French cinema and one of the best loved films of all time.

The annual L.A. festival of new French cinema, City of Lights, City of Angels, going on now through April 25, is showing a new digital restoration of Godard's Pi...

The point of the film isn't always clear, but it's still a very interesting and thought - provoking endeavor that is recommended for those who have a knowledge and love of French cinema.

A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema's towering virtuosos.