Jean-Paul Belmondo in Los Angeles
Jean-Paul Belmondo, the iconic star of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (above, with Jean Seberg) and of numerous other French New Wave films, is in Los Angeles to accept the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s career achievement award.
Belmondo was also supposed to introduce a Los Angeles County Museum of Art screening of François Truffaut’s 1969 drama Mississippi Mermaid, in which he co-starred with Catherine Deneuve. Unfortunately, the actor had to bow out because he’s never fully recovered his health following a severe stroke a few years back.
Mark Olsen reports in his Los Angeles Times blog that Mathieu Fournet, executive director of the film and TV office of the consulate general of France in Los Angeles, spoke to [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2010
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Tags: Breathless, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, LACMA Screenings, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Screenings, Michael Cera, The Mississippi Mermaid, Youth in Revolt
TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)
Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...]
by Andre Soares | November 18, 2009
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Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Star Is Born, Alloy Orchestra, Breathless, Fritz Lang, Jean-Luc Godard, Los Angeles Screenings, Metropolis, Robert Osborne, TCM Classic Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies
Berlin 2010: Play it Again …! Series
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals.
Among them are Curzio Malaparte’s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg’s Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa’s To Live, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Niels Arden Oplev’s We Shall Overcome, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia.
Also, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses, which caused a furor in 1976. German authorities — who probably had better things to do (weren’t the Baader Meinhof running [...]
by Andre Soares | November 11, 2009
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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Berlin 2010, Berlin Film Festival, Breathless, Classic Movies, Jean-Luc Godard, Play It Again, The Deer Hunter, Zhang Yimou
Rotterdam Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Rotterdam Film Festival Awards
2009 Rotterdam Film Festival: Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009
Be Calm and Count to Seven (top photo), Ramtin Lavafipour’s feature-film début, chronicles the day-to-day struggles of a family in Iran’s southern islands whose chief source of income is smuggling. In Yang Ik-June’s Breathless (middle photo), a nasty extortionist (Yang himself) has his life drastically altered after meeting a determined schoolgirl. In Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s Istanbul-set Wrong Rosary (lower photo), a muezzin (the person who leads the call to the mosque’s Friday service) falls in love with his neighbor, who happens to be a Catholic nurse.
VPRO Tiger Awards: Be Calm and Count to Seven (Aram bash va [...]
by Massimo David | January 31, 2009
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Tags: Be Calm and Count to Seven, Breathless, Film Awards, Mahmut Fazil Coskun, Ramtin Lavafipour, Rotterdam Film Festival, Wrong Rosary, Yang Ik-June