Raoul Coutard
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Watch: A Tribute to Raoul Coutard
The Criterion Collection pays tribute to the late DP Raoul Coutard (who died last week, on election day) with a video collecting remarks he made during interviews for their editions of films he shot. It includes specific comments on Breathless, Jules and Jim and Z, as well as the gorgeous theme for Contempt, which is always welcome.
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 16, 2016 -
A Conversation with Philippe Garrel (Part 1)
Explaining why Philippe Garrel is one of my favorite working directors can be difficult. Talking with a co-worker, I tried to sketch out his recurring interests: “he makes movies about men, often directors, who cheat on women and have trouble with themselves.” She rolled her eyes, and I’m not blaming her: what, again? Garrel began making movies as a teenager, and his early work that I’ve seen is both gorgeous and the epitome of stereotypical arthouse pretension of the period. There is 1968’s Le lit de la vierge, a very of-its-time film about a particularly mopey Jesus, and 1975’s Le berceau […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jan 13, 2016 -
Lady Vengeance: The Bride Wore Black Review
Loaded with recognizable tropes just begging to be tampered with, genre film is fertile spoof material, as can be evidence by obvious examples like the pointless Scary Movie franchise, or even within the same film as in those slasher film that knowingly straddle the line between terror and comedy, or B-Movies so tongue-in-cheek campy they function both as a good-humored critique of the genres the are playing against as well as a standalone narratives in their own right. Francois Truffaut’s sometimes goofy, sometimes chilling 1969 film The Bride Wore Black is genre lampoonery in the hands of a French auteur, […]
by Farihah Zaman on Nov 14, 2011
