Topic: Claire Denis

Counting the days until Harry says goodbye to Hogwarts forever? Ease the pain a little by reliving "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"...

'White Material' review: Huppert shows soft side

0 . White Material: Drama. Starring Isabelle Huppert and Christopher Lambert. Directed by Claire Denis. In French with English subtitles. (Not...

Change of Plans

Depending on whom you ask, French cinema either remains the art house's cr?me de la cr?me or is currently coasting on past glories. Advocates will point to several filmmakers consistently churning out vital, vibrant work (je t'aime, Claire ...
White Material **** A Frenchwoman is witness to civil unrest in Africa. At Lincoln Plaza, IFC Center (1:42). Not rated: Violence. In French with...

White Material

Claire Denis loves to haunt our dreams. Her latest feature opens with a near-subliminal image of gazelles leaping through a field?it feels ripped right from the subconscious. And before the film's midpoint, when the shallowness starts becoming apparent, her cryptic ...

Top 50 movies of the decade

David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf, Keith Uhlich, Stephen Garrett, Andrew Grant, Aaron Hillis, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Maitland McDonagh, Troy Patterson, Nicolas Rapold, Lisa Rosman, Nick Schager, S. James Snyder.. DONNIE DARKO (2001) Disaffected suburban teen Donnie gets dire warnings about the ...

The best (and worst) of 2009

1 35 Shots of Rum Claire Denis delivers a touching, tender story of paternal affection, as a single father bids adieu to his nest-leaving daughter. And who knew that Gallic provocateur Olivier Assayas might really be his generation's Renoir?. Kathryn Bigelow ...
French director Claire Denis doesn't force anything or deal in formula narratives. 35 Shots, which Denis co-wrote with her usual screenwriting partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, stars Alex Descas as Lionel, a middle-aged (but still devastatingly handsome) Metro rail conductor who lives in ...

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by Rae Armantrout, is presented. It is a French national story, played out everywhere from Fran ois Mitterrand's fu- neral (famously and calmly attended by wife and mistress) to the Claire Denis vampire film Trouble Every Day. In this regard, the ...

NYFF top picks

Most New Yorkers know that autumn is fast approaching when the leaves change color, the kids go back to school and the humidity drops to a life-sustainable level. The location is the City of Brotherly Love, or to be specific, a suburb ...