These three Jean Renoir films were not conceived as a trilogy, but they fit beautifully together in this Criterion package: all luscious with theatrical color, wry in tone, and awestruck by beautiful women. When Renoir returned to Europe after his wartime exile in Hollywood, he first turned to The Golden Coach (1953), an international co-production shot in Rome. It contains all of Renoir’s love of the theatrical life, as a traveling troupe of actors arrives in a colonial town i… Buy Stage and Spectacle – Three Films by Jean Renoir at Amazon
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Newly restored and available for the first time on DVD, Albert Lamorisse s exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children s films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world s harsh realities finally interfere. With its glorious pa… Buy The Red Balloon at Amazon
French film star, Gerard Depardieus son Guillaume was laid to rest Friday in Bougival church in Yvelines, a suburb of Paris. Guillaume died Monday in a Paris area hospital from a bout of acute pne…
Interesting premise and mostly well done. However, it seems that modern Hollywood films assume audiences cannot sit through five minutes of screen time without automatic weapons being fired. It makes so many movies feel like I'm watching a video game. […]
Better than many Hollywood romantic comedies, with surprisingly nuanced performances by the stars Zahn and Aniston. The plot starts to spin a bit out of control in the second half, but it's still mostly enjoyable with some laughs. Woody Harrelson is good as a bizarre ex-punk yogurt magnate. […]
Steven Soderbergh returns to his indie roots with this interesting and thought-provoking study of an escort. The film, like its subject (Sasha Grey), is not quite accessible, as it jumps around in time and it takes a while to figure out what's going on. The Girlfriend Experience, however, looks at the whole issue of prostitution in a way that I can […]
This movie takes a one-dimensional look at the decadent Los Angeles hipster scene of the 1980s, ground that has been covered bettered by other films. The odd and unfortunate thing is that The Informers has some good qualities. The solid performances by a surprisingly good cast (Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger for starters) are mostly waste […]
Very thought provoking interviews about the significance of December 21,2012. It's worth noting than many of the bad reviews of this documentary are obviously from dogmatic skeptics -I wonder if some of them even watched the movie at all, and if so, why. I mean, if you are completely convinced a certain point of view is worthless, why waste your time wa […]
