Review: Faces Places
Looking for a quirky fun film? How about a film where an 80-something-year-old New Wave film director takes an art filled road trip around France with a famous young muralist?…
Quickie Reviews: I Do… Until I Don’t; Crown Heights; Polina
Nothing gets you pumped for the start of the Fall movie blitz quite like the final weeks of summer at the box office. Bring it on! I'm ready for Awards…
Review: The Midwife
France's two greatest female stars unite in this bittersweet drama about unfinished relationships. Catherine Deneuve is hard-living Béatrice, who's been living out of a suitcase for decades making a living…
Lost in Paris Review
And the award for this year's best slap-stick movie goes to ... Lost In Paris, hands down! And though I'm not really a fan of most modern slap-stick, I loved…
Cézanne et Moi
Cézanne et Moi offers a view of a friendship that spanned nearly a lifetime. It's the story of the bond formed in an Aix-en-Provence childhood between two great artists of…
Frantz
French writer/director François Ozon has made some of my favorite films these last few years. With The New Girlfriend, In the House, and Potiche he's shown himself to be very…
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Cinema Clash podcast: Kong Skull Island; The Ottoman Lieutenant; The Last Word; Neruda; The Marseilles Trilogy
On this edition of the Cinema Clash with Charlie and Hannah: An epic monster movie that’s thin on story but big on spectacle; a love triangle wrapped in a weak…
The Brand New Testament
Looking for a fun flick that isn’t on everyone's lips yet? Look no further than The Brand New Testament. This absurdist film from Belgium starts with a blasphemous premise. God…
Microbe & Gasoline (Microbe et Gasoil)
Sounds like a science flick, but it's actually a sweet little French coming-of-age film. Theo meets Daniel when he transfers into his school, and as two outcasts often do in…
The Innocents
The Innocents is a brutally beautiful film based on the true story of a young woman doctor sent to Poland with the French Red Cross to aid survivors of the…
Marguerite
Every few years two movies come out about the same subject at the same time, and one is lauded, while the other is overlooked. I hope that doesn't happen with…
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CinemaClash Podcast: Batman v Superman; My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2; Marguerite; Eye in the Sky
I recorded the latest CinemaClash podcast with Charlie Juhl before I had a chance to actually see Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but I knew it would crush the…
The New Girlfriend
Written and directed by one of my favorite French directors, François Ozon (Potiche, In the House), The New Girlfriend is loosely adapted from a story by the wonderful mystery writer…
Steak (R)evolution
Vegetarians need not bother with this one. This gustatory documentary is lovingly prepared for steak lovers around the world. French writer-director Franck Ribière travels the globe in search of the…
Mood Indigo
Writer/director Michel Gondry brought us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , one of the more strangely inventive stories of the 21st century. With Mood Indigo he returns with a…