French producer Sylvie Pialat will replace Spanish director Rogrigo Sorogoyen as Cannes Critics’ Week president.
“Due to personal circumstances, and much to our regret, Rodrigo Sorogoyen has had to step down as president of the jury for the 63rd Semaine de la Critique,” Critics’ Week said on Saturday (May 11).
The 11th-hour changeover will also see French filmmaker Iris Kaltenback join the jury alongside previously announced members Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire, Belgian director of photography Virginie Surdej, and Canadian journalist and film critic Ben Croll.
Pialat was originally on the jury, and will now act as the group’s president.
Pialat...
“Due to personal circumstances, and much to our regret, Rodrigo Sorogoyen has had to step down as president of the jury for the 63rd Semaine de la Critique,” Critics’ Week said on Saturday (May 11).
The 11th-hour changeover will also see French filmmaker Iris Kaltenback join the jury alongside previously announced members Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire, Belgian director of photography Virginie Surdej, and Canadian journalist and film critic Ben Croll.
Pialat was originally on the jury, and will now act as the group’s president.
Pialat...
- 5/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month and amongst the highlights are a Ricky D’Ambrose double bill, including his new film The Cathedral, as well as a trio of films by Maurice Pialat, Gaspar Noé’s Vortex, David Osit’s Mayor, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, an expansion of their Tilda Swinton series, and more.
Also including films by Tsai Ming-liang, Sky Hopinka, Nacho Vigalondo, Anton Corbijn, and more check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
September 1 – Classical Period, directed by Ted Fendt | Ted Fendt Focus
September 2 – 2 Days in New York, directed by Julie Delpy
September 3 – Timecrimes, directed by Nacho Vigalondo
September 4 – Małni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, directed by Sky Hopinka
September 6 – Mayor, directed by David Osit
September 7 – Friendship’s Death, directed by Peter Wollen | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
September 8 – Hideous, directed by Yann Gonzalez | Brief Encounters
September 9 – The Cathedral,...
Also including films by Tsai Ming-liang, Sky Hopinka, Nacho Vigalondo, Anton Corbijn, and more check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
September 1 – Classical Period, directed by Ted Fendt | Ted Fendt Focus
September 2 – 2 Days in New York, directed by Julie Delpy
September 3 – Timecrimes, directed by Nacho Vigalondo
September 4 – Małni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, directed by Sky Hopinka
September 6 – Mayor, directed by David Osit
September 7 – Friendship’s Death, directed by Peter Wollen | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
September 8 – Hideous, directed by Yann Gonzalez | Brief Encounters
September 9 – The Cathedral,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Alice (Josephine Mackerras)
It makes no sense. The night before saw Alice Ferrand’s (Emilie Piponnier) husband François (Martin Swabey) going out of his way to passionately make-out with her in front of their friends at a dinner party and now he won’t answer her calls. Despite his running out of the house earlier than usual without any explanation, however, there’s nothing to make her think something is wrong until a trip to the drugstore exposes a freeze on their finances. One credit card won’t work. Then another. The Atm won’t accept her sign-in and François still isn’t picking up his phone.
Alice (Josephine Mackerras)
It makes no sense. The night before saw Alice Ferrand’s (Emilie Piponnier) husband François (Martin Swabey) going out of his way to passionately make-out with her in front of their friends at a dinner party and now he won’t answer her calls. Despite his running out of the house earlier than usual without any explanation, however, there’s nothing to make her think something is wrong until a trip to the drugstore exposes a freeze on their finances. One credit card won’t work. Then another. The Atm won’t accept her sign-in and François still isn’t picking up his phone.
- 5/15/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
by Cláudio Alves
Films being booed at Cannes has stopped being newsworthy. Over the years, countless pictures were received by a chorus of boos when they bowed at the Croisette, either because of their daring qualities or the transgressive nature of their subject matters. Rare is the true mediocrity that earns boos. For those unhappy films, indifference is a more common laurel than a crown of controversy. One of the most famous examples of a film being publicly reviled at Canne was in the 1987 edition when Maurice Pialat's Under the Sun of Satan was unanimously voted as the Palme d'Or winner only to be lambasted on the spot by a furious audience.
Accepting his award amid the vitriolic chaos, the first French director to win that honor since 1966, spoke with his usual combativeness...
Films being booed at Cannes has stopped being newsworthy. Over the years, countless pictures were received by a chorus of boos when they bowed at the Croisette, either because of their daring qualities or the transgressive nature of their subject matters. Rare is the true mediocrity that earns boos. For those unhappy films, indifference is a more common laurel than a crown of controversy. One of the most famous examples of a film being publicly reviled at Canne was in the 1987 edition when Maurice Pialat's Under the Sun of Satan was unanimously voted as the Palme d'Or winner only to be lambasted on the spot by a furious audience.
Accepting his award amid the vitriolic chaos, the first French director to win that honor since 1966, spoke with his usual combativeness...
- 4/20/2020
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Wim Wenders did not win the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1987 for Wings of Desire. Nor did he have the most famous quote to emerge that year from the festival. Those honors went to Maurice Pialat, who won the top prize for the French film Sous le Soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan). When the director was given the award by Catherine Deneuve, the crowd booed. "If you can say you don’t like me," responded Pialat, "then I can say that I don’t like you either." (Why the film was so unpopular is ...
- 5/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wim Wenders did not win the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1987 for Wings of Desire. Nor did he have the most famous quote to emerge that year from the festival. Those honors went to Maurice Pialat, who won the top prize for the French film Sous le Soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan). When the director was given the award by Catherine Deneuve, the crowd booed. "If you can say you don’t like me," responded Pialat, "then I can say that I don’t like you either." (Why the film was so unpopular is ...
- 5/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Mubi's series I Don't Like You Either: A Pialat Retrospective is showing from September 4 - November 3, 2017 in the United Kingdom and many countries around the world.Maurice Pialat was one of the toughest, most bullish, tenderhearted, pugnacious filmmakers to ever work in Europe. He made 10 feature films, many shorts, and one television series in 35 years. Each is uncommonly spare, love-filled, banal, and brutal, as difficult to experience as their maker reportedly was to contend with on set. Together they form an oeuvre that exemplifies rigor and gracelessness and a total lack of fussiness about good taste, wherever it might land on the high-low spectrum. His movies are routine and explosive; they lurch between emotional polarities in the space of a minute; they are stuffed with odd-ends and anti-climaxes. His actors flip wildly between dramatic registers and the characters they play are thrown together out of flagrantly contradictory material. His work is riven with ellipses,...
- 9/18/2017
- MUBI
Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
- 8/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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- 5/28/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The 70-year-old festival has never been far from controversy.
A row over the inclusion of Netflix titles in official competition has cast a shadow over this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with boos for the Netflix logos, clashes between Jury members and a rule changes for next year.
Perhaps it’s appropriate however that a row has been front of centre on Cannes 70th birthday, as the festival is no stranger to a controversy…
1954
Actress Simone Silva’s decision to go topless at a photocall resulted in a scrum which caused several broken bones.
1959
New Minister of Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux formalised Cannes’ burgeoning film market, which has since become integral to the festival and the largest industry event in the global industry. At the time, however, it was a decision not welcomed by all; as a direct reaction to this commercialisation, the French Syndicate of Film Critics (Afcc) was founded.
1960
La Dolce Vita won the...
A row over the inclusion of Netflix titles in official competition has cast a shadow over this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with boos for the Netflix logos, clashes between Jury members and a rule changes for next year.
Perhaps it’s appropriate however that a row has been front of centre on Cannes 70th birthday, as the festival is no stranger to a controversy…
1954
Actress Simone Silva’s decision to go topless at a photocall resulted in a scrum which caused several broken bones.
1959
New Minister of Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux formalised Cannes’ burgeoning film market, which has since become integral to the festival and the largest industry event in the global industry. At the time, however, it was a decision not welcomed by all; as a direct reaction to this commercialisation, the French Syndicate of Film Critics (Afcc) was founded.
1960
La Dolce Vita won the...
- 5/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
In the fall of 2016, Cohen Media Group staged a phenomenal retrospective of five masterpieces by Maurice Pialat, including his 1987 Palme d’Or winning Under the Sun of Satan.
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- 3/7/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Palme Thursday is A.A. Dowd’s monthly examination of a winner of the Palme D’Or, determining how well the film has held up and whether it deserved the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
Under The Sun Of Satan (1987)
I shall not fail to uphold my reputation. I am particularly pleased by all the protests and whistles directed at me this evening, and if you do not like me, I can say that I do not like you either.
Do the above remarks constitute the saltiest acceptance speech in the history of the Cannes Film Festival? Maurice Pialat delivered them in 1987, when his gloomy religious drama Under The Sun Of Satan was announced as the winner, by unanimous decision, of the Palme D’Or—an unpopular choice that earned some catcalls, just as the film itself had upon premiere a few days earlier. Difficult ...
Under The Sun Of Satan (1987)
I shall not fail to uphold my reputation. I am particularly pleased by all the protests and whistles directed at me this evening, and if you do not like me, I can say that I do not like you either.
Do the above remarks constitute the saltiest acceptance speech in the history of the Cannes Film Festival? Maurice Pialat delivered them in 1987, when his gloomy religious drama Under The Sun Of Satan was announced as the winner, by unanimous decision, of the Palme D’Or—an unpopular choice that earned some catcalls, just as the film itself had upon premiere a few days earlier. Difficult ...
- 11/10/2016
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSAnton Yelchin in Green RoomUnexpected and tragic news at the end of the weekend was that actor Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Only Lovers Left Alive, Joe Dante's Burying the Ex, Green Room) was accidentally killed at his home.French New Wave director Éric Rohmer was intensely private, so details of his long, productive life have generally been slim. But now, as Richard Brody writes at the New Yorker, a 2014 biography by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe has been translated into English, and makes for essential reading about one of cinema's greats.We won't get properly excited until, first, the cameras are rolling, and second, there's a hope of some kind of release date, but The Film Stage has gathered enough evidence to point towards what Terrence Malick's next film will be: Radegund,...
- 6/22/2016
- MUBI
In their continued remastering of Maurice Pialat‘s works, Cohen Media Group unleashes Volume 2 as one solo title, his 1987 Palme d’Or winner Under the Sun of Satan.
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- 6/14/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In this week's Village Voice, Melissa Anderson declares the Museum of the Moving Image's Maurice Pialat retrospective to be "one of the indispensable events of a cine-glutted fall season." We're collecting trailers and reviews: Dan Sallitt on Police and À nos amours, Adrian Martin on La gueule ouverte, Gabe Klinger on Sous le soleil de Satan and Jordan Cronk on Le garçu, plus interviews with Pialat, Sandrine Bonnaire and Jacques Rivette. A special screening's been added, too, the Us premiere of Joachim Lafosse's The White Knights, produced by Sylvie Pialat. » - David Hudson...
- 10/16/2015
- Keyframe
In this week's Village Voice, Melissa Anderson declares the Museum of the Moving Image's Maurice Pialat retrospective to be "one of the indispensable events of a cine-glutted fall season." We're collecting trailers and reviews: Dan Sallitt on Police and À nos amours, Adrian Martin on La gueule ouverte, Gabe Klinger on Sous le soleil de Satan and Jordan Cronk on Le garçu, plus interviews with Pialat, Sandrine Bonnaire and Jacques Rivette. A special screening's been added, too, the Us premiere of Joachim Lafosse's The White Knights, produced by Sylvie Pialat. » - David Hudson...
- 10/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Chantal Akerman's Je tu il elle"She was a gay woman – proudly, unabashedly – who refused to be placed in either category, would not show her work in “gay” or “women’s” festivals, (“I won’t be ghettoized like that”) but never refused the ghetto of Judaism, and would always show in Jewish festivals. She was, it sometimes seemed, a Jew before she was anything, even before she was a person, and she was more of a person than anybody I’ve known."...from "Our Lives With (and Without) Chantal Akerman," by Henry Bean.Another Chantal Akerman tribute done proper: Janus Films is making its Akerman films—News from Home, La chambre, Je tu il elle, Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Hotel Monterey, and Les rendez-vous d'Anna—available to stream for U.
- 10/14/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Soak up the Sun: Pialat’s Palme d’Or Winning Spiritual Anguish
As part of Cohen Media Group’s Maurice Pialat retrospective, perhaps the most significant title showcased in the lineup is his infamous 1987 title, Under the Sun of Satan. Instantly reviled after winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (with a jury made up of such heavy-hitters as Elem Klimov, Jerzy Skolimowski, Theo Angelopoulos, and Norman Mailer), where Pialat was jeered by a disapproving crowd, the title quickly lapsed into obscurity following a continually tepid critical reception.
Perhaps Pialat’s austere and increasingly deliberate examination of mental and spiritual anguish told through the perspective of a bumbling priest whose blasphemous predicament proves only the presence of Satan rather than God was as simultaneously too old fashioned as it was inconveniently provocative. Based on a 1927 novel by French author Georges Bernanos, Pialat’s treatment does seem...
As part of Cohen Media Group’s Maurice Pialat retrospective, perhaps the most significant title showcased in the lineup is his infamous 1987 title, Under the Sun of Satan. Instantly reviled after winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (with a jury made up of such heavy-hitters as Elem Klimov, Jerzy Skolimowski, Theo Angelopoulos, and Norman Mailer), where Pialat was jeered by a disapproving crowd, the title quickly lapsed into obscurity following a continually tepid critical reception.
Perhaps Pialat’s austere and increasingly deliberate examination of mental and spiritual anguish told through the perspective of a bumbling priest whose blasphemous predicament proves only the presence of Satan rather than God was as simultaneously too old fashioned as it was inconveniently provocative. Based on a 1927 novel by French author Georges Bernanos, Pialat’s treatment does seem...
- 9/29/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Maurice Pialat, canny inquisitor of the French bourgeoisie whose startlingly iconoclastic films include "We Won't Grow Old Together" and "A Nos Amours," will tour Us theaters once again this year. The Cohen Film Collection will present five Pialat gems in New York from September 11 to September 17 at the Lincoln Plaza, and in La from September 25 to October 1 at the Laemmle Royal. The collection includes 1987’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Under the Sun of Satan,” with Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire, the erotic “Loulou,” a tale of tortured love with Isabelle Huppert and Depardieu, “Van Gogh,” about the last days of the artist, Cassavetes-esque family drama “The Mouth Agape,” starring Monique Mélinand as a woman dying of torturous cancer, and the slice-of-life “Graduate First,” centered on teenagers in a French suburb. Later, more Pialat retrospectives will screen at The Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria) from October 17 to October 25...
- 8/26/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of June 2nd, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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IFC and Paramount / Shout! Factory: The Duke Of Burgundy, Reality, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Yoshishige Yoshida pre-order up at Arrow UK Wac – 6/23 – Hugo The Hippo! + Wac reveals their Entire June Slate on their Youtube Channel Scream Factory to release Wes Craven’s Shocker Kl Studio Classics to put out The Oblong Box (Poe adaptation with Vincent Price and Christopher Lee) Cohen Media: Under The Sun Of Satan (no date yet) Sony Pictures Classics: The Salt Of The Earth (July 14th) Cinema Guild: Jauja (July 21st)
New Releases
Apollo 13 – 20th Anniversary Edition Beetle Bailey...
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Follow-up
Ikarie Xb–1 is Czech, not Polish! Seiki Player
News
IFC and Paramount / Shout! Factory: The Duke Of Burgundy, Reality, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Yoshishige Yoshida pre-order up at Arrow UK Wac – 6/23 – Hugo The Hippo! + Wac reveals their Entire June Slate on their Youtube Channel Scream Factory to release Wes Craven’s Shocker Kl Studio Classics to put out The Oblong Box (Poe adaptation with Vincent Price and Christopher Lee) Cohen Media: Under The Sun Of Satan (no date yet) Sony Pictures Classics: The Salt Of The Earth (July 14th) Cinema Guild: Jauja (July 21st)
New Releases
Apollo 13 – 20th Anniversary Edition Beetle Bailey...
- 6/3/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake wins Queer Palm at Cannes Film Festival (photo: Pierre de Ladonchamps, Christophe Paou in Stranger by the Lake) Writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake / L’inconnu du lac has won the 2013 Queer Palm handed out to Cannes Film Festival movies featuring gay, lesbian, bi, tri, multi, transgender, etc. characters. Stranger by the Lake was screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Set near an idyllic lake where hot-and-heavy gay cruising takes place during the summer season, Guiraudie’s sexually charged thriller revolves around Franck (Pierre de Ladonchamps), a young man who falls in lust with brawny suspected murderer Michel (Christophe Paou). Strand Releasing will handle the distribution of Stranger by the Lake in North America. Stranger by the Lake: Mixing explicit sex with explicit love As quoted by Agence France Presse, Alain Guiraudie explained the (purportedly) graphic sex scenes in Stranger...
- 5/26/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hollywood's Costner takes home Honorary Award Speaking of Hollywood, the French Academy has frequently given its Honorary César (an equivalent to the Lifetime Achievement Award) to some curious group of Hollywood celebrities. Among those are Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Quentin Tarantino, Hugh Grant, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Spike Lee, Andie McDowell, and Sylvester Stallone. This year, they've made another curious choice: Kevin Costner, whose Honorary Award was a tribute to his "fabulous contribution to cinematic history." Costner, among whose movie credits as actor and/or director are Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham, JFK, The Bodyguard, The Postman, and Waterworld, thanked the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences for embracing him "for who I am." Other César winners Among this year's other César winners were, in the supporting categories, Valérie Benguigui and Guillaume de Tonquédec for What's in a Name? / Le Prénom, directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere.
- 2/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In this episode of They Shot Pictures, I am joined by my friend and Cinema on the Road co-host Jhon (@cruyffbedroom) to discuss the always distinctive and often devastating films of French filmmaker Maurice Pialat. We start with his 1972 film, We Won’t Grow Old Together, move on to his adaptation of the Georges Bernanos novel, Under the Sun of Satan and conclude with his penultimate feature Van Gogh.
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- 8/14/2012
- by Seema
- SoundOnSight
A Burning Hot Summer features another of Philippe Garrel's unforgettable dance sequences. (Who can forget "This Time Tomorrow" in Les amants réguliers?) Here the song is Dirty Pretty Things' "Truth Begins," the actors include Monica Bellucci and Louis Garrel and it is photographed in vibrant color by the great Willy Kurant (Masculin Féminin, Under the Sun of Satan, Pootie Tang).
Garrel's new film is being released in the U.S. from IFC Films this Friday exclusively at the IFC Center in Manhattan, and is available nationwide in the U.S. on demand via Sundance Selects, plus digital outlets iTunes, Amazon Streaming, SundanceNOW, Xbox and PS3....
Garrel's new film is being released in the U.S. from IFC Films this Friday exclusively at the IFC Center in Manhattan, and is available nationwide in the U.S. on demand via Sundance Selects, plus digital outlets iTunes, Amazon Streaming, SundanceNOW, Xbox and PS3....
- 6/28/2012
- MUBI
Jason Solomons picks his all-time favourite high jinks on the Croisette
Madonna presents her bra, 1991Few people have seized the Palais des Festivals red carpet moment more memorably than Madonna, when the documentary In Bed with Madonna premiered in an out-of-competition slot. Wreathed in a cloak, she reached the top of the steps and turned to reveal that underneath she was wearing a Jean-Paul Gaultier conical bra. In 2005, French actress Sophie Marceau topped this with an "unintentional" wardrobe malfunction that briefly revealed her left breast.
Cannes canned, 1968
Surely the most dramatic year for this drama queen of world festivals was 1968, during the student riots, strikes and general unrest that spread around France from Paris. It led to directors Godard, Truffaut, Louis Malle, Polanski, Lelouch and Milos Forman calling press conferences, withdrawing films and demanding a shutdown in sympathy with the students. After two days of sit-ins, the festival called a halt to proceedings.
Madonna presents her bra, 1991Few people have seized the Palais des Festivals red carpet moment more memorably than Madonna, when the documentary In Bed with Madonna premiered in an out-of-competition slot. Wreathed in a cloak, she reached the top of the steps and turned to reveal that underneath she was wearing a Jean-Paul Gaultier conical bra. In 2005, French actress Sophie Marceau topped this with an "unintentional" wardrobe malfunction that briefly revealed her left breast.
Cannes canned, 1968
Surely the most dramatic year for this drama queen of world festivals was 1968, during the student riots, strikes and general unrest that spread around France from Paris. It led to directors Godard, Truffaut, Louis Malle, Polanski, Lelouch and Milos Forman calling press conferences, withdrawing films and demanding a shutdown in sympathy with the students. After two days of sit-ins, the festival called a halt to proceedings.
- 5/1/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
(1983/1987, 15, Eureka!)
These two movies both find the great French maverick writer-director Maurice Pialat in characteristically uningratiating form, and he appears in both, as does his gifted discovery, Sandrine Bonnaire. A nos amours (To our Romance) is a raw slice of Parisian life in which Pialat plays a middle-aged tailor with a shrewish wife, an obese gay son and a teenage daughter (the stunning debut of Bonnaire) drifting into compulsive promiscuity. Sous le soleil de Satan (Under Satan's Sun), a Bressonian treatment of a novel by Georges Bernanos set in the1920s, has a performance of power and integrity from Gérard Depardieu as a self-flagellating country priest, who sees the Devil at work in a murderess played by Bonnaire, and encounters Satan in the guise of a horse dealer. When it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes from a jury that included Norman Mailer, Pialat shook his fist at a disapproving...
These two movies both find the great French maverick writer-director Maurice Pialat in characteristically uningratiating form, and he appears in both, as does his gifted discovery, Sandrine Bonnaire. A nos amours (To our Romance) is a raw slice of Parisian life in which Pialat plays a middle-aged tailor with a shrewish wife, an obese gay son and a teenage daughter (the stunning debut of Bonnaire) drifting into compulsive promiscuity. Sous le soleil de Satan (Under Satan's Sun), a Bressonian treatment of a novel by Georges Bernanos set in the1920s, has a performance of power and integrity from Gérard Depardieu as a self-flagellating country priest, who sees the Devil at work in a murderess played by Bonnaire, and encounters Satan in the guise of a horse dealer. When it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes from a jury that included Norman Mailer, Pialat shook his fist at a disapproving...
- 4/10/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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Notes on Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2010
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Trousering the Ghost
The Forgotten: Vessel of Wrath
The Forgotten: Is My Face Red
The Forgotten: Lock-Up
Zach Campbell
Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Andrew Chan
Sinophilic Cinephilia: Asia Society's "China’s Past Present, Future on Film"
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Cold Weather"
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- 4/1/2010
- MUBI
Splendid title, Sous le soleil de Satan...that is, "under the sun of Satan," or, more colloquially, "under Satan's sun." A pretty plain statement, not unlike Satan Is Real, the unequivocating title of a legendary proselytizing Louvin Brothers album. Less wiggle room here than in "Le diable, probablement," the famous answer to the question "who's in charge here?" and hence the source of the title for a legendary Bresson film. Maurice Pialat's 1987 picture takes its title from its source, a novel by George Bernanos, whose work was twice adapted by Bresson, in Journal d'un curé de campagne, and later Mouchette. If Bresson's cinema can be seen as that of transcendence (and the matter is hardly what you'd call closed), Pialat's perspective is in direct opposition to any such notion. "Satan is the prince of this world. He holds it in his hands," one character notes. He doesn't need to add,...
- 3/30/2010
- MUBI
In addition to its brilliant edition of Sous le soleil de Satan, March also sees Eureka!/Moc relelasing Pialat's À nos amours, which is perhaps his best-known film internationally. The painful and painstaking film, scenes from the life of a sexually vibrant and confused female adolescent and her crumbling family, was released in an excellent domestic standard-definition Region 1 Ntsc DVD by The Criterion Collection in 2006. The new Region 2 Pal edition from Eureka!/Moc reproduces most of the extras from the Criterion edition, but boasts a new transfer. Is the difference between the two sufficient to justify a purchase on the part of the multi-region-player equipped? Ultimately that's up to the consumer, of course, but I made some screen caps off of my computer of two frames from the two different versions to provide illustrations.
Directly above is a screen capture from the Criterion edition.
And here is a capture from the Eureka!
Directly above is a screen capture from the Criterion edition.
And here is a capture from the Eureka!
- 3/30/2010
- MUBI
Week in Review
Renowned director-actor Sydney Pollack died Monday at the age of 73. He'll be remembered as much for his presence on the big screen as for the films he helped put there thanks to consistently solid roles in everything from The Player and Husbands and Wives to Michael Clayton. The roster of films he directed includes some of the most popular Hollywood movies from the latter half of the century, ranging from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and the classic Three Days of the Condor to the Oscar-winning Out of Africa.
'Class' in session: Laurent Cantet's The Class won the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes, marking the first time since 1987's breezy tale Under the Sun of Satan that a French title has taken the honor. The film stars Francois Begaudeau as a literature teacher and is based on his book about, well, being a literature teacher. This year's Grand Prix went to Matteo Garrone's Gomorra.
Their treasure was knowledge: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened to $126 million, or $151 million when you add in the Thursday opening. But even though that means a significant number of Americans paid their money to see an iconic character wander through a flawed story -- aliens? really? -- the opening didn't break any major boxoffice records. Its three-day opening is No. 4 on the all-time list, and its five-day figure comes in at No. 6. Still, the film was director Steven Spielberg's best domestic bow, so that's got to count for something.
'Class' in session: Laurent Cantet's The Class won the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes, marking the first time since 1987's breezy tale Under the Sun of Satan that a French title has taken the honor. The film stars Francois Begaudeau as a literature teacher and is based on his book about, well, being a literature teacher. This year's Grand Prix went to Matteo Garrone's Gomorra.
Their treasure was knowledge: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened to $126 million, or $151 million when you add in the Thursday opening. But even though that means a significant number of Americans paid their money to see an iconic character wander through a flawed story -- aliens? really? -- the opening didn't break any major boxoffice records. Its three-day opening is No. 4 on the all-time list, and its five-day figure comes in at No. 6. Still, the film was director Steven Spielberg's best domestic bow, so that's got to count for something.
- 5/30/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Depardieu's proposed retirement rattles French
PARIS -- French actor Gerard Depardieu's declaration to a French newspaper that he is preparing to end his career after he has finished shooting Michou d'Auber, about the Algerian war of independence, has created a stir in the French film industry. "I have nothing to lose. I've made 170 films. I have nothing left to prove," the 56-year-old star of such films as Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac and Under Satan's Sun told French newspaper Le Parisien in an interview published Sunday. Depardieu added that he didn't want "to hang on like an idiot," but to "retire with a flourish" instead. But Depardieu's agent, Claude Davy, clarified that he has heard the actor make "declarations of this kind for the last 10 years," and that "he didn't believe them at all."...
- 11/1/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Moviemaker Pialat Dies
Award-winning French film-maker Maurice Pialat has died. The director, who won the prestigious Palme D'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 for his film Under Satan's Sun, died at his Paris home at the age of 77. According to French newspaper Le Monde. Pialat suffered high blood pressure and kidney problems. French President Jacques Chirac called the auteur a "master of the cinematographic art" who "leaves a deep imprint on the history of French film. Through his powerful, exacting and unique works, Maurice Pialat explored with intransigence and sensitivity the shadows and lights of the human soul." Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes festival, told France-info Radio, Pialat "was difficult at times but also capable of exquisite politeness when he wanted." He added, "Pialat is dead and we are all orphaned. French cinema is orphaned."...
- 1/14/2003
- WENN
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