Krzysztof Kieslowski

Emmanuelle Riva on states of being and 'Amour'

2012-12-20 06:00:00

With her searing portrayal of Anne, a former music teacher who must confront her mortality in painful increments in director Michael Haneke's bracingly unsentimental "Amour," 84-year-old Emmanuelle Riva has wowed critics. The idea of tackling such...

Director's colors come out mixed

2011-11-18 13:37:00

”Three Colors: Blue, White, Red” (Criterion Collection, Blu-ray, 3 discs, $79.95; DVD, 4 discs, $59.95) Following the international success of his extraordinary “Double Life of Veronique” (also available on Blu-ray and DVD from...

Movie review: 'The Ten'

2007-08-02 00:00:00

1� stars (out of four) Comedians David Wain and Ken Marino loosely based their sketch-comedy film "The Ten" on Krzysztof Kieslowski's "The Decalogue," which explains why the two projects are so much alike: a series of brief stories illustrating the place...

Movie review: Autumn'

2006-06-16 08:55:02

2 stars (out of four) Made by the fledgling American director Ra'up McGee, "Autumn" exists in a high-toned, noir-besotted realm of French hit men who speak softly and cook the perfect omelet before ordering up heinous acts of violence. The killer in...

75 achievements Oscar forgot

2003-02-09 00:00:00

When the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...

Made by which nation?

2002-02-08 00:00:00

The starring actress is Australian. The script was written by a Pole. Hollywood money financed the production, and Italy provides the backdrop for a German director's newest film. "Heaven," starring Cate Blanchett and produced by Miramax, opened this...

'A Matter of Taste'

2001-11-09 00:00:00

Difficult to describe, not easily forgotten, "A Matter of Taste" lingers long after higher-profile films have come and gone. An elegant study of devious mind games and emotional perversion, it makes the strangest of psychological dynamics plausible and...

'Black Hawk Down'

2001-12-28 00:00:00

"Black Hawk Down" is more than simply, as the opening title says, "Based on an Actual Event." As much as a movie ever has, it puts you completely inside that event, brilliantly taking you where most people, even those who were actually there, wouldn't...

Fall Films: The Devil And Mr. Godard

2002-09-18 00:00:00

Film fans, prepare for a busy, gratifying fall. In addition to the spate of remakes, sequels and prequels at the cineplex, the art-house calendar might as well be wrapped in a celluloid ribbon. Dates have yet to be finalized in most cases, but there are...

Next Stop Wonderland

1998-08-20 00:00:00

Friday August 21, 1998 ��"Next Stop Wonderland" is a romance, but not just any romance. Smart and beguiling, it manages the impressive feat of believing wholeheartedly in the power of love without checking its mind at the door. Discriminating...

Eureka

2001-05-03 00:00:00

Friday May 4, 2001 ��Time is the ultimate critic, but there's every reason to predict that Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka" will become one of the landmarks of the world cinema of the first decade of the 21st century. It has a daunting three-hour, 40-minute...

5 films with one-syllable titles

2001-04-19 00:00:00

1. "Babe" (Chris Noonan; 1995) 4 stars In 1995, this talking-pig tale was the dark-horse Best Picture nominee in a field that included "Braveheart," "Apollo 13," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Il Postino (The Postman)." Now it stands as the one true...

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski assembled three of France's greatest actresses, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacob, for his trilogy of films emulating the colors and the motto of France: "Bleu" (liberty), "Blanc" (equality) and "Rouge" (fraternity).

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