Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin was convicted of driving under the influence after being caught last year while on vacation on the island of Corsica, in the Mediterranean between France and Italy. The Clink of the Ice star had perhaps clinked a few too many, and was stopped leaving the nightclub Via Notte in the island’s Porto Vecchio. During the routine stop, a breathalyzer showed a blood alcohol level of 0.52 mg, slightly more than double the country’s allowed limit of 0.25 mg (or 0.5 g Bac per liter). Dujardin was ordered to pay a fine of several hundred euros and for his license to
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- 6/17/2013
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Odd List Aliya Whiteley Feb 19, 2013
Covering 85 years of cinema, Aliya provides her pick of 25 stylish, must-see French movies...
I’m going to kick this off in best New-Wave style by pointing out that we should be praising each great director’s body of work rather than showcasing favourite movies in a list format; after all, France came up with the concept of the auteur filmmaker, stamping their personality on a film, using the camera to portray their version of the world.
Yeah, well, personality is everything. So here’s a highly personal choice, arranged in chronological order, of 25 of the most individualistic French films. They may be long or short, old or new, but they all have one thing in common – they’ve got directorial style. And by that I don’t mean their shoes match their handbags.
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
There are no stirring battle scenes,...
Covering 85 years of cinema, Aliya provides her pick of 25 stylish, must-see French movies...
I’m going to kick this off in best New-Wave style by pointing out that we should be praising each great director’s body of work rather than showcasing favourite movies in a list format; after all, France came up with the concept of the auteur filmmaker, stamping their personality on a film, using the camera to portray their version of the world.
Yeah, well, personality is everything. So here’s a highly personal choice, arranged in chronological order, of 25 of the most individualistic French films. They may be long or short, old or new, but they all have one thing in common – they’ve got directorial style. And by that I don’t mean their shoes match their handbags.
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
There are no stirring battle scenes,...
- 2/18/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Having starred in one of the year’s biggest and best films, The Dark Knight Rises, Michael Caine has two very promising films in which he’ll be returning to the big screen next year: the comedy/drama, Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, and the heist/thriller, Now You See Me.
Written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck (Helen, Mostly Martha), the first images of Caine and his co-stars in Mr. Morgan’s Last Love have made their way online.
“Mr. Morgan’S Last Love is the bittersweet tale of a lonely American widower in Paris who learns to love life again after a chance encounter with a beautiful and impulsive young woman. They both spend a short but precious time together – a time that touches their hearts and changes their lives.
From the day Pauline (Clémence Poesy) lends him a helping hand on the bus, the suicidal, stubborn Matthew Morgan...
Written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck (Helen, Mostly Martha), the first images of Caine and his co-stars in Mr. Morgan’s Last Love have made their way online.
“Mr. Morgan’S Last Love is the bittersweet tale of a lonely American widower in Paris who learns to love life again after a chance encounter with a beautiful and impulsive young woman. They both spend a short but precious time together – a time that touches their hearts and changes their lives.
From the day Pauline (Clémence Poesy) lends him a helping hand on the bus, the suicidal, stubborn Matthew Morgan...
- 10/19/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jean Dujardin, Natalie Portman This year's Best Actor Oscar winner, Jean Dujardin, poses with 2010 Best Actress Oscar winner Natalie Portman backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards Awards, held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26. Dujardin won his Oscar for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. Portman won hers for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Jean Dujardin was a first-time nominee. His Best Actor competition consisted of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and Brad Pitt for Moneyball. In the past year, in addition to the Oscar Dujardin took home three major Best Actor awards: the BAFTA, the SAG Award, and the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy/Musical. Thus, Dujardin became the first actor ever to win all four trophies.
- 3/9/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Best Actor Oscar winner Jean Dujardin Best Actor Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin did his Oss 117 act backstage at the 84th Academy Awards last Sunday, February 26, 2012. Dujardin won the Oscar for his portrayal of a fast-fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' Best Picture winner The Artist. Dujardin's two Oss films, Oss 117: Cairo Nest of Spies and Oss 117: Lost in Rio, were both directed by Hazanavicius, who also helmed one segment of Dujardin's latest movie, Les Infidèles / The Players. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Dujardin's Best Actor competition consisted of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A first-time Oscar nominee, Dujardin became the first Frenchman to take home an Oscar in the acting categories. (French-born actresses...
- 3/7/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday, February 6, 2012. Dujardin is a Best Actor nominee for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. (Photo: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S.) Dujardin's Best Actor competition consists of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Dujardin is a first-time Oscar nominee. Just recently, he won three major Best Actor awards: the BAFTA, the SAG Award, and the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy/Musical. Among Dujardin's other movie credits are two James Bond-ish spoofs directed by Michel Hazanavicius: Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and Oss 117: Lost in Rio. In addition, Dujardin starred or was featured in numerous French productions,...
- 2/18/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin, winner of the SAG Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role for Michel Hazanavicius' silent comedy-drama The Artist, poses in the press room during the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage.) Jean Dujardin was the somewhat surprise winner, as most had been expecting George Clooney to take home SAG's The Actor statuette for his performance in Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants. Dujardin and Clooney's SAG Award competitors were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Leonardo DiCaprio for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. Last Sunday, Dujardin also won the British Academy of Film's Best Actor Award. He's now the odds-on favorite in the Oscar race. Among Dujardin's other movie credits...
- 2/16/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin, Best Actor SAG Award winner for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, speaks onstage during the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Jean Dujardin beat George Clooney for Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants. Clooney was considered the favorite for both the SAG Awards and the Best Actor Oscar. The picture has since gotten fuzzier as far as the Academy Awards are concerned. Dujardin's fellow SAG Award competitors were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Leonardo DiCaprio for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. Among Dujardin's other movie credits are two with Michel Hazanavicius: Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and Oss 117: Lost in Rio. Additionally, Dujardin starred or was featured in Ca$h,...
- 2/11/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
WME has signed actor Jean Dujardin, who has been nominated for an Oscar for his starring role in The Artist. Photos: The Making of 'The Artist' Dujardin won the Golden Globe for best performance by an actor in a motion picture comedy or musical as well as best actor at the 2011 Festival de Cannes. The 39-year-old actor next has a short film that he wrote, directed and produced in the anthology release The Players. Dujardin recently starred in The Clink of Ice, Little White Lies and Lucky Luke.
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- 1/31/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez , Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jean Dujardin Actor Jean Dujardin won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for his performance as a fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. In the above photo, Dujardin — who also won the Best Actor Award for The Artist in Cannes last year — poses backstage in the press room with his Golden Globe at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, on Sunday, January 15. In many ways, The Artist borrows elements from George Cukor's What Price Glory?, in which Constance Bennett plays a rising star and Lowell Sherman a troubled producer, and the first two A Star Is Born movies, the first directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March; the second directed by Cukor, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. All three movies, in turn, were inspired by real-life...
- 1/19/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
The Fighter (15)
(David O Russell, 2010, Us) Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O'Keefe. 116 mins
Just when America needed a tale of blue-collar dreams, hard-up families coming together and a Hero with Heart, along comes this bracing boxing drama. What distinguishes it from Rocky and co is that it's based on a real boxer ("Irish" Micky Ward), and there's not much boxing in it. The emphasis is on Wahlberg's colourfully unhelpful family, particularly his formidable mother (Leo) and crack-addicted brother (Bale). There's so much big acting going on, our quiet contender can't compete, but hey, he's got Heart.
Rabbit Hole (12A)
(John Cameron Mitchell, 2010, Us) Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest. 91 mins
A couple's marriage reaches breaking point after their son's death in an everyday trauma-drama that's carefully handled. Nothing too depressing, hysterical, boring or serious, but it's still emotional, and Kidman has never been better.
Brighton Rock (15)
(Rowan Joffe,...
(David O Russell, 2010, Us) Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O'Keefe. 116 mins
Just when America needed a tale of blue-collar dreams, hard-up families coming together and a Hero with Heart, along comes this bracing boxing drama. What distinguishes it from Rocky and co is that it's based on a real boxer ("Irish" Micky Ward), and there's not much boxing in it. The emphasis is on Wahlberg's colourfully unhelpful family, particularly his formidable mother (Leo) and crack-addicted brother (Bale). There's so much big acting going on, our quiet contender can't compete, but hey, he's got Heart.
Rabbit Hole (12A)
(John Cameron Mitchell, 2010, Us) Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest. 91 mins
A couple's marriage reaches breaking point after their son's death in an everyday trauma-drama that's carefully handled. Nothing too depressing, hysterical, boring or serious, but it's still emotional, and Kidman has never been better.
Brighton Rock (15)
(Rowan Joffe,...
- 2/5/2011
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Tangled (PG)
(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, 2010, Us) Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman. 100 mins
Disney's animation formula might be 50 movies old, but after a thorough 21st-century overhaul it sparkles anew here. The classical elements are present and correct: rejigged fairytale (Rapunzel), musical numbers, expressive animals, problematic mother-daughter dynamic. But the animation is bright, the comedy tight, and the dialogue high-school-friendly. It's like Shrek without the irony, which is kind of refreshing. Little to challenge the status quo (or Pixar), maybe, but it does feature a great comedy horse.
Barney's Version (15)
(Richard J Lewis, 2010, Us) Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman. 134 mins
Giamatti was made to play this comically disgraceful antihero – a boozy, philandering New York Jewish sleazeball/charmer – whose belief in romance shapes his unreliably narrated life, even as it ruins those of others.
Biutiful (15)
(Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, 2010, Spa/Mex) Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib. 147 mins
The...
(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, 2010, Us) Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman. 100 mins
Disney's animation formula might be 50 movies old, but after a thorough 21st-century overhaul it sparkles anew here. The classical elements are present and correct: rejigged fairytale (Rapunzel), musical numbers, expressive animals, problematic mother-daughter dynamic. But the animation is bright, the comedy tight, and the dialogue high-school-friendly. It's like Shrek without the irony, which is kind of refreshing. Little to challenge the status quo (or Pixar), maybe, but it does feature a great comedy horse.
Barney's Version (15)
(Richard J Lewis, 2010, Us) Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman. 134 mins
Giamatti was made to play this comically disgraceful antihero – a boozy, philandering New York Jewish sleazeball/charmer – whose belief in romance shapes his unreliably narrated life, even as it ruins those of others.
Biutiful (15)
(Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, 2010, Spa/Mex) Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib. 147 mins
The...
- 1/29/2011
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Rome -- Bertand Blier's comedy "Le bruit des glacons" (The Clink of the Ice) will open the seventh edition of the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday, unveiling what may be the event's most international lineup ever.
The non-competitive sidebar will screen 12 films that are produced or co-produced in a total of 14 countries. Among the highlights: "La Vida de los peces" (The Life of Fish), a drama from Chilean director Matias Bize; "L'Amore Buio" (Dark Love), from Italy's Antonio Capuano; Paul Gordon's "The Happy Poet," about the protagonists' efforts to open a health food restaurant dring an economic crisis; and "Cirkus Columbia," a comedy from Danis Tanovic set in the period before the first war in the Balkans.
Though the event is not competitive, its selections are eligible for the Venice Film Festival's collateral prizes, and organizers earlier announced plans for a new Venice Days Award,...
The non-competitive sidebar will screen 12 films that are produced or co-produced in a total of 14 countries. Among the highlights: "La Vida de los peces" (The Life of Fish), a drama from Chilean director Matias Bize; "L'Amore Buio" (Dark Love), from Italy's Antonio Capuano; Paul Gordon's "The Happy Poet," about the protagonists' efforts to open a health food restaurant dring an economic crisis; and "Cirkus Columbia," a comedy from Danis Tanovic set in the period before the first war in the Balkans.
Though the event is not competitive, its selections are eligible for the Venice Film Festival's collateral prizes, and organizers earlier announced plans for a new Venice Days Award,...
- 7/27/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here's the press release for the Venice Days selections folks: lots of names we know! Official Selection World Premiere La Vida De Los Peces/The Life Of Fish by Matias Bize with Santiago Cabrera, Blanca Lewin Chile - Production co.: Cenecca Producciones A young Chilean returns to Santiago after 10 years in Europe and ponders his past and future over a long night of encounters with old friends and his great love. This sentimental, urban comedy depicts a South America far from the stereotypes and folklore. International Premiere - Opening film Le Bruit Des Glacons/The Clink Of Ice by Bertrand Blier with Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Anne Alvaro, Myriam Boyer France, Sales co.: Wild Bunch An alcoholic writer is confronted by an incarnation of his own cancer in this no-holds-barred, black comedy on illness and death. Nothing is spared politically incorrect derision - except for the desire to live and love.
- 7/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are: Jorge Michel Grau's contempo cannibal film to break out We Are What We Are (see pic), and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise – a high risk film because it mixes genres together like someone grabbing whole bunch of leftovers from the fridge. - The kings of the Croisette – Wild Bunch have got titles coming out of all orifices that they just supplied the fest with the last minute addition of Ken Loach's Route Irish. Earlier in the year they had one of the best comedies of the year in Four Lions play in Sundance (which has yet to be picked up for the North American market) and the steamy Rome in Room should fog up the Market Screenings. Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are:...
- 5/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The kings of the Croisette – Wild Bunch have got titles coming out of all orifices that they just supplied the fest with the last minute addition of Ken Loach's Route Irish. Earlier in the year they had one of the best comedies of the year in Four Lions play in Sundance (which has yet to be picked up for the North American market) and the steamy Rome in Room should fog up the Market Screenings. Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are: Jorge Michel Grau's contempo cannibal film to break out We Are What We Are (see pic), and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise – a high risk film because it mixes genres together like someone grabbing whole bunch of leftovers from the fridge. Already causing a stir is the social commentary docu film by agitator Sabina Guzzanti – Italian politicians beware.
- 5/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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