Articles tagged "charlotte gainsbourg"

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Charlotte Gainsbourg - “Heaven Can Wait” (feat. Beck) (stream)

by Tyler Gould

[3.Nov.09] :. Don’t get too excited, “Heaven Can Wait” is not a cover of the Meat Loaf ballad from Bat Out of Hell, but the wispy voices of Charlotte and Beck over the otherwise chunky,...

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Agonies of an ‘Antichrist’: Lars von Trier in the Forest of Unreason

by Stephen Rylance

[30.Oct.09] :. Despite the efforts of some to dismiss it as a prank, Antichrist is a serious film and its disturbing extremes speak of broad and deeply felt moral, social, and ultimately, political anxieties.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

Column: Pop Goes Philosophy

I’m Not There, and Neither Are You

by George Reisch, Peter Vernezze and Paul Lulewicz

[9.Sep.08] :. The Bob Dylan film, I’m Not There, shows that the main puzzle behind pop music’s most enigmatic personality resides right here, within us all.

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A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

Director Todd Haynes rediscovers Bob Dylan

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—It was in the year 2000 that filmmaker Todd Haynes rediscovered Bob Dylan all over again. “I had always admired Dylan—I was a fan in high school—but then I kind of...

French director Gondry would rather play with paint than pixels

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[21.Jun.07] :. The visionary French film director Michel Gondry learned early that making art was a good way to impress people. “I would draw naked women and show them to my friends,” he recalled in a...

Irakere, Nick Drake, Charlotte Gainsbourg…

by PopMatters Staff

[17.May.07] :. Irakere Bacalao Con Pan [MP3]       “An unprecedented combination of socialism and artistic freedom flourished during the mid-years of Castro’s Cuba,...

Charlotte Gainsbourg: 5: 55

by Adrien Begrand

[11.May.07] :. She might have enlisted the services of Air and Jarvis Cocker, but Charlotte Gainsbourg's first album in 21 years is even more indebted to the music of her parents.

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[20.Mar.07] :. This film revels in blurriness; not just in the line between director and fictional character, but between people, languages, and of course, between sleeping and waking, between living and dreaming.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.06] :. Written and directed by the ever inventive Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep is a gorgeous, weird, mesmeric movie, with adorable animated reveries to represent Stéphane's subjective state.

21 Grams (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.03] :. In 21 Grams, the fragmentation is pronounced, chaotic to the point of mathematical precision.