Topic: Bertrand Tavernier

'Princess of Montpensier' review: Royal passions

0 View Larger Image The Princess of Montpensier . Drama. Starring Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet and Gaspard Ulliel...

French director brings swashbuckler to US

Award-winning French director Bertrand Tavernier says he became a filmmaker because of his love of American Westerns -- as he visited the home of the classic genre to launch his latest movie.The 69-year-old, whose romantic swashbuckler "The Princess of Montpensier" is released ...

'The Prowler' review: Joseph Losey's sultry noir

0 View Larger Image . . . Film fans who know of Joseph Losey almost certainly associate him with his great art-house career with Harold Pinter in...

Spanish film "Biutiful" stands out in Cannes crowd

CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Thank goodness for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.Were it not for the Mexican filmmaker's "Biutiful," a lyrical gem that made a most welcome appearance early Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, this critical assessment of the competition lineup would ...
Etherial French beauty Melanie Thierry stars in Bertrand Tavernier's new Renaissance dramaMelanie Thierry may look like she just stepped out of a Renaissance painting, but 16th century parlance didn't come naturally to the French actress.Thierry, a blonde with wide-set ...

Tavernier brings "16th century thriller" to Cannes

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier constructs a "16th century thriller" in "La Princesse de Montpensier," a tale of passion, betrayal and vengeance showing at the Cannes film festival.The picture, based on an austere novella by the 17th century ...
Cannes directors sign petition in support of Roman PolanskiTop directors with films at the Cannes Film Festival have signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland.Signatories of the petition include French New Wave ...

Mist Opportunity

It had the makings of a tense, knotty neo-noir, a kind of gumbo-flavored No Country for Old Men: Set in Iberia Parish in post-Katrina Louisiana, In the Electric Mist (based on the sixth novel in the Robicheaux series, 1993's In the ...
French director Tavernier brings adaptation of James Lee Burke crime novel to Berlin FestivalFrench director Bertrand Tavernier debuted his film " In the Electric Mist" at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, showing audiences his version of a 1993 crime novel by James ...

Crime Scene showcases thrilling genre

It sometimes feels if you can't move for film - and other - festivals these days but here's one with genuine mass appeal. TCM Crime Scene 2008, sponsored by Turner Classic Movies and supported by the Evening Standard, is the seventh annual ...