Topic: Olivier Assayas

San Sebastian Creates New Directors Section

The San Sebastian International Film Festival will spin off as the independent New Directors Section, organizers announced Wednesday.. . The...
For three days only, starting tonight, Nashville is one of the only cities in the country to play the complete version of one of 2010's best movies: The French critic turned director Olivier Assayas has made genre films before, but their ...
The French critic turned director Olivier Assayas has made genre films before, but their thrills and challenges have played out in references to other films. Carlos, his gripping depiction of the Venezuelan-born terrorist who dubbed himself "the Jackal," plays it straighter than ...

Life and crimes of Carlos the jackal

There are ups and downs to international terrorism as a career and Carlos lays them out very fairly. This fact-based fiction by the French director Olivier Assayas - whose last movie, Summer Hours, was an observant, affectionate study of a bourgeois clan quitting ...

Movie reviews: Summer Hours

Summer Hours is a new French artsy film directed by Olivier Assayas, a Parisian director and son of the famous Jacques Remy. The leading actress is Juliet Binoche - my favourite actress of all time. He is a director who has been influenced ...
'Carlos,' starring Venezuelan actor Ramirez, screens at Cannes Film FestivalEdgar Ramirez was born to play Carlos the Jackal.The multilingual Venezuelan actor plays the infamous terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez — also a Venezuelan polyglot — in "Carlos," a marathon biopic by French director Olivier ...

Epic French film treats "Carlos the Jackal" at Cannes

CANNES, France (Reuters) - French director Olivier Assayas takes on one of the most notorious figures of the 1970s in "Carlos," a five-and-a-half hour epic on the Venezuelan-born revolutionary, shown at the Cannes film festival.Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who operated under the name ...

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 ...

New York, I Love You at The Belcourt

The surprise 2006 arthouse hit Paris, Je T'Aime was less a movie than a celluloid airport terminal where the Coen brothers, Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven and other unlikely fellow travelers came within a cut of crossing paths, devoting a short apiece ...
Throughout his career, festival favorite Olivier Assayas has alternated between meta-pop, sometimes lurid, neo-new wave genre flicks and their antithesis-genteel, talk-driven ensemble dramas. Assayas, who has always excelled at choreographing a fete, uses the first half-hour to introduce Helene's three grown ...