Articles tagged "juliette binoche"

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Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.

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

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Juliette Binoche had to provide her own dialogue in ‘Flight of the Red Balloon’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[15.May.08] :. TORONTO - Juliette Binoche, introducing “Flight of the Red Balloon” to audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, described the project as a “life-changing...

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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

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Dan in Real Life

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Oct.07] :. Dan's behavior is increasingly creepy -- possessive, obsessive, and utterly self-centered.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

Hail Mary (1985)

by Jake Meaney

[8.Feb.07] :. A totally confounding and disappointing film, coupled with another that finds depth in its relative economy.

Breaking and Entering (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jan.07] :. While Breaking and Entering leans heavily on its metaphors (see especially, the titular allusions), it doesn't make any of its roiling notions compelling.

Bee Season (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Apr.06] :. Suffused with loss and longing, Bee Season is often graceful and moving.

Caché (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.06] :. Caché is Michael Haneke's latest unsettling look at the shaky foundations of bourgeois security.

Bee Season (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Nov.05] :. Words are mystical, magical, and wholly material in Bee Season.

In My Country (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.05] :. In the midst of this outrage, the film negotiates the intricacies of ubuntu by offering instances where a desire for revenge seems impossible to resist.

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.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre (La Veuve de Saint-Pierre) (2001)

by Susan Brown

Newly married and deeply in love, the couple is known for their 'modern ideas', which means -- in the film's rather simplistic terms -- that they are willing to look beyond a man's deed and into his character. It also means that they make love often, curtains billowing in the background.

Chocolat (2000)

by Dale Leech

If Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat were a Disney film, it would be Beauty and the Beast. Both are set in quaint mountainside hamlets filled with close-minded people who are led by...

Alice and Martin (1998)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Whatever's on Juliette Binoche's mind, gazing at that face can definitely get you thinking.