London 2009: Ben Whishaw, Catherine Breillat, Mary McCartney
Catherine Breillat attends the premiere of Bluebeard during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 19. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion at the premiere of potential Oscar 2010 contender Bright Star during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
Mary McCartney arrives for the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon West End on October 19. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
by Joan Lister | October 25, 2009
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Tags: Ben Whishaw, Catherine Breillat, Film Festivals, Jane Campion, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Mary McCartney, Photos
The Best Unreleased Films of 2007
At Filmcritic.com, Chris Cabin offers a highly eclectic list of the top unreleased (in the US, that is) films of 2007, ranging from Catherine Breillat’s The Old Mistress (right) to Mamoru Oshii’s The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters. Some of these titles will get a US release in 2008.
A sample commentary:
"For those with strong stomachs only: György Palfi’s Taxidermia overloads with imagery that suggests an all-night orgy at a timeshare owned by Monty Python, Jim Henson, and Peter Jackson. A spectacle of the grotesque laid over a generational triptych, the set pieces in Palfi’s film range from a pack of wildly-obese eating competitors vomiting into a festering abyss to a Red Army private blowing fire out of [...]
by Andre Soares | December 28, 2007
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Tags: Catherine Breillat, Critics Choices, György Palfi, Mamoru Oshii, Taxidermia, The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters, The Old Mistress, Unreleased Movies
