Articles tagged "julie delpy"

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Oct.08] :. Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.

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Film DVD Review

2 Days in Paris

by Marc Calderaro

[27.Feb.08] :. Well at least these two characters have one thing in common: they’re both grateful the other’s an elitist, New York hipster.

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

All Around the World: The Best International/Indie Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.08] :. Beginning and ending with the superlative filmmaking of Jia Zhang-ke, traversing the nooks and crannies of the globe, PopMatters presents the 20 best international and indie films of 2007.

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

 

Film DVD Review

The Hoax

by Matt Mazur

[15.Nov.07] :. The film does not shy away from the innate unlikability of its leading man and it also explores, cannily, the damage one person’s dishonesty can inflict upon everyone around them.

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The making of actress-writer-director-producer Julie Delpy

by Carla Meyer [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Aug.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—Julie Delpy directed, wrote, produced, edited and scored the comedy “2 Days in Paris.” It beats sitting by the phone. “Basically, when you’re an actor,...

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Film Feature

A Tough Road for Hollywood’s Female Film Directors

by Mary F. Pols [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[30.Aug.07] :. Like most big-time movie directors, Kasi Lemmons had a studio driver to take her to and from the set of her new film, Talk to Me. "He said he'd driven 130 directors," Lemmons recalled. "And I was the first woman director he'd driven."

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2 Days in Paris

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Aug.07] :. This mostly comic study of two people coming apart is by turns lumpy and lovely, perverse and prosaic.

 

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.

 

Richard Gere scams in ‘The Hoax’

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[6.Apr.07] :. In his new film “The Hoax,” Richard Gere does a lot of fast-talking. As Clifford Irving, one of the most notorious scam artists the last century ever produced, Gere—wearing a bit of...

 

The Hoax (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Apr.07] :. Even as The Hoax works to wring emotional consequence from its many layers of lies, you're hard-pressed to believe it.

 

Broken Flowers (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.05] :. A sort of minimalist male melodrama, Broken Flowers tracks a journey through regret and hope.

 

Before Sunset (2004)

by Michael Healey

[2.Jul.04] :. Before Sunset illustrates the beautiful and frustrating complexity of human hearts seeking love and meaning in a life we know to be transient.

 

Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge)

by Michael S. Smith

[23.Jun.03] :. Taken together, Blue, White, and Red are a visionary swan song for one of European cinema's most poetic moralists.

 

Waking Life (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Throughout Waking Life, the pictures rarely, if ever, stop moving, flowing, breathing -- attention has been paid to the animated environments, not just the characters in the foreground.

 

Waking Life (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Interpolations Waking Life begins with two kids (Trevor Jack Brooks and Lorelei Linklater, daughter of the film’s director Richard Linklater) playing a paper hand-puzzle game....