The latest Cahiers du Cinéma issue — available for browsing at the magazine's website* — features an extensive article on/interview with Juliette Binoche, who happens to be an artist whose subjects include several filmmakers. The magazine also takes a trip back to Cannes; discusses European Union bureaucrats and their definition of culture; and offers reviews of Johnnie To's Exiled, Brad Bird's Ratatouille, and Kelly Reichardt's Old
Joy, among others. All that and Jane Fonda in a L'Oréal ad, too.
Below is an excerpt from Cyril Neyrat's review of Marco Bellocchio's The Wedding Director:
"Since Fists in the Pocket, Marco Bellocchio has had only one subject which is not original, but which few filmmakers of his generation have developed with such moral and poetic constancy: the battle of the individual against society; the conditions of his freedom of action and creation in a leaden world, bolted up by institutions and the hold of the past. Action and creation — for Bellocchio's question is that of the relationship between the power of the imagination and political practice."
The next Cahiers du Cinéma issue will be available online on Sept. 7.
* Either I somehow missed the browsing feature in the French-language version of the magazine, or that feature is only available in the English-language version of the site.
San Sebastian Film Festival 2007 – Gala Screenings
Jewish Film Festivals in Brazil
Mia Farrow's Offer to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir