Georges Franju

Retire? Not 'Amour's' two eightysomething stars

2012-12-09 08:00:00

PARIS — Up four old, crooked flights of stairs in her apartment building with no elevator, Emmanuelle Riva sits wrapped in a thick, woven, poncho-like sweater. Warm light streams through colorful windowpanes into her narrow living room, where Riva...

MPI takes 'Therese Desqueyroux': Pic was closing night film at Cannes

2012-09-07 21:55:07

MPI Pictures has acquired all U.S. rights to "Therese Desqueyroux," the final film of French director Claude Miller and the closing night film at Cannes this year. Starring Audrey Tautou as an unhappily married woman struggling with social pressures,...

El Almodóvar más arriesgado y cruel desconcierta en Cannes

2011-05-19 00:00:00

Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies

2010-10-14 09:34:33

From the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...

Muere el francés Maurice Jarre compositor de la música de "Doctor Zhivago"

2009-03-30 00:00:00

'Classe Tous Risques'

2006-01-06 00:00:00

To come across "Classe Tous Risques" is like discovering a bottle of marvelous French wine you didn't remember you had, opening it and finding it every bit as delicious as its reputation promised. That's how good this classic fatalistic French gangster...

'Trouble Every Day'

2001-11-30 00:00:00

With such films as "I Can't Sleep," "Nenette and Boni" and "Beau Travail," Claire Denis over the last decade has risen to the first rank of French directors with her incisive, sharply perceptive films. Her latest, "Trouble Every Day," however, is highly...

Face/Off

1997-06-27 00:00:00

Friday June 27, 1997 ��John Woo is known for a cinema of violent delirium so breathtaking it plays like visual poetry, and "Face/Off," though his third film in Hollywood, is the first to expose mainstream audiences to the master at his most...

'La Mentale'

2004-02-13 00:00:00

In "La Mentale" (The Code), an absorbing French gangster picture, the plot remains eternal but ethnic groups change. Set in Chicago or New York in the bad old days, the gangs likely would have been Italian or Irish. In this film's present-day Paris the...

'Eyes Without a Face' (1959)

2003-10-31 00:00:00

Once seen, never forgotten, "Eyes Without a Face" is a film to haunt your dreams. Disturbing, disorienting, quietly terrifying, it's one of the least known of the world's great horror movies and, in its own dark way, a startlingly beautiful and artful...

Irma Vep

1997-05-16 00:00:00

Friday May 16, 1997 ��Olivier Assayas' amusing "Irma Vep" is an homage to radiant and versatile Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung--and a blast at contemporary French filmmaking. Assayas displays an intimate, informal style and a sharp sense of proportion...

When the daughter isn't being summoned for the next attempt at her repair, she wanders through the corridors of their house like a sadly graceful, wounded alien.

2010-10-14 06:24:41