Film Fresh - French

Lagerfeld Confidential

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:40 +0000

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For the first time Karl Lagerfeld, the innovative designer who has ruled the House of Chanel for more than two decades, agreed to trust a director to create an artwork based on his life. After three years of crisscrossing the globe filming the outspoken icon, Rodolphe Marconi unveils the inner workings of the influential and enigmatic star.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Review:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-10-16/film/the-house-of-lagerfeld/

Review quote:

"[LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL] presents the icon in his natural, glitz-encrusted, jet-setting habitat." -- Nathan Lee, THE VILLAGE VOICE

Year:

2007

Length:

91min

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Le Belle Captive

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Well-known French author Alain Robbe-Grillet directed this 1983 adaptation of his own novel, infused with Magritte-like mystery and conundrums. The story begins when a man discovers a beautiful woman bound and lying in a road.

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

Awards – Won:

Golden Bear, 1983 Berlin International Film Festival

Review:

http://www.timeout.com/film/67579.html

Review quote:

"The narrative, littered with false starts and dead ends, dreams within dreams, is pure Robbe-Grillet, recalling some of his startling early novels." -- TIME OUT LONDON

Year:

1983

Length:

85min

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La Grande Bouffe

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:39 +0000

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Four friends hole up in a villa with a few call girls and a local schoolteacher, planning to feast themselves to death.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Palm, 1973 Cannes Film Festival

Awards – Won:

FIPRESCI Prize, 1973 Cannes Film Festival

Review:

http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=241

Review quote:

"A grand buffet of a story, with everything from sentimentality to scatological suicide with cooling intermezzos of laughter along the way." -- Debi Lee Mandel, DIGITALLY OBSESSED

Year:

1973

Length:

130min

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La Chinoise

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:38 +0000

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Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Leaud) and Veronique (Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Special Jury Prize, 1967 Venice Film Festival

Review:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-10-02/film/blow-it-up/

Review quote:

"A spectacular accomplishment& unique in movie history." -- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

Year:

1967

Length:

93min

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Joy House

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:33 +0000

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The French James Dean, Alain Delon (Montale, Rocco and his Brothers) stars as Marc, a small-time con man on the run from a mobster. After seeking refuge in the mansion of the widowed Barbara (Albright) and her curvaceous cousin, Melinda (Fonda), Marc becomes trapped in the passionate snares of both women, who are full of deadly suprises.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Review:

http://www.ifc.com/film/film-news/2008/08/joy-house-the-witman-boys.php

Review quote:

"A movie in a way movies haven't been in a long time: graceful, relaxed, fun-loving, unpretentious." -- Michael Atkinson, IFP.COM

Year:

1964

Length:

94min

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$19.99

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Jesus of Montreal

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:32 +0000

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A group of young actors is hired by a churct to stage a new, more modern version of Christ's Passion, to the delight of the church's audience, and the dismay of authorities. Soon, the actors are feeling persecuted, creating a strange parallel between themselves and the characters they are playing.

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Foreign Language Film, 1990 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Jury Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, 1989 Cannes Film Festival

Review:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900718/REVIEWS/71803...

Review quote:

"An original and uncompromising attempt to explore what really might happen, if the spirit of Jesus were to walk among us in these timid and materialistic times." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Year:

1989

Length:

83min

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$19.99

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Gilles' Wife

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:23 +0000

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A devoted wife suspects that her husband is having an affair with her sister.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

CICAE Award, 2004 Venice Film Festivalo

Golden Tulip, 2005 Istanbul International Film Festival

Review:

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-0501223-movies-review-gilles,0,444...

Review quote:

"A simplicity and elegance that harkens back to the classic French films of the 1930s." -- Frank Schenk, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Year:

2003

Length:

103min

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$19.99

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Flanders

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:19 +0000

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Under the gray skies of winter, an aloof farmer and a young girl struggle to communicate. Soon the farmer and two other local men must report for military service and war. The young girl has trouble putting up with their departure.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Grand Prize of the Jury, 2006 Cannes Film Festival

Best Film, 2007 Yerevan International Film Festival

Review:

http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-flanders8jun08,0,2633142.story

Review quote:

"[A] deeply felt vision of the human condition." -- Kevin Crust, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Year:

2006

Length:

91min

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$19.99

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Don't Touch the White Woman!

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:18 +0000

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Starring Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni, this film restages Custer's last stand -- in the midst of modern Paris.

Film details

Format:

Fullscreen

Review:

http://movies.tvguide.com/dont-touch-white-women/review/113275

Review quote:

"This remarkable melange interweaves Nixon politics with the genocidal, land-grabbing expansionism of the Old West." -- TV GUIDE

Year:

1974

Length:

107min

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Comedy of Power

maint — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:12 +0000

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Inspired by a recent French corruption inquiry into oil executives at Elf Aquitaine, COMEDY OF POWER is yet another in a long string of collaborations between director Claude Chabrol and actress Isabelle Huppert. Jeanne Charmant Killman (Huppert) is a rather tenacious judge bent on the pursuit of white-collar criminals. Her arrest of a prominent CEO for embezzling places her in the center of the public eye, and puts her into danger.

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Bear, 2006 Berlin International Film Festival

Review:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/20/DDGOKPB4CP1.DTL#f...

Review quote:

"A crisp, ingenious thriller about corporate chicanery and judicial sleuthing." -- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Year:

2006

Length:

110min

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$19.99

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