Tuesday
Apr162019
Entries in Francophile (154)
Monday
Apr152019
New Podcast: High Life, Sauvage, and Mary Kay Place in Diane
Monday, April 15, 2019 at 10:00PM by Murtada Elfadl and Nathaniel R
Index (50 minutes)
00:01 Claire Denis' High Life starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, and the Fuck Box
16:00 A gay hustler movie from France Sauvage/Wild
24:10 Mary Kay Place is Diane in Kent Jones' intimate narrative debut starring a slew of underutilized older actresses
34:50 What we've been seeing on Broadway as the Tony nominations approach
44:44 Coming Soon & miscellaneous silliness since Murtada wants to know if Cate Blanchett is in Avengers: Endgame)
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you?
Friday
Mar292019
RIP Agnès Varda
Friday, March 29, 2019 at 10:13PM by Anne Marie Kelly
Acclaimed godmother of the French New Wave and belated Honrary Oscar award-winner Agnès Varda passed away this Friday of breast cancer at 90 years old. The film community is in mourning for a singular and pioneering visionary, who treated film as art and famously declared that she refused to watch movies before embarking on her own career. In spite, or perhaps because, of this fact, Varda would go on to create incredible works across multiple genres and decades, creating unforgettable films that were personal, political, comedic, deeply poignant expressions of a spirit that never ceased being fascinated by the world around her.
We at Team Experience have long been fans of Varda, including her early work, famous films, late-career documentaries, and her unbelievable offscreen appearances as well. Her brusque presence and iconic style was a fixture at film festivals, where she had time for fans but never for praise. She will be missed.
What are your favorite Varda moments? What are you watching in her honor?
Tuesday
Mar052019
Belated César Winners List
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 10:15AM Eeek! During Oscar madness we totally forgot about the Gallic Oscars cross the Ocean. How rude of us! For completism's sake here is the list of winners in case you also missed the news.
BEST PICTURE
- Memoir of War, dir: Emmanuel Finkiel
- The Trouble With You, dir: Pierre Salvadori
- The Sisters Brothers, dir: Jacques Audiard
- Sink or Swim, dir: Gilles Lellouche
- Guy, dir: Alex Lutz
- ★ Custody, dir: Xavier Legrand
- In Safe Hands, dir: Jeanne Henry
Custody's four wins reminds us that it's still so weird that France didn't push it as their Oscar prospect last season. The other big winner was Shéhérazade about young lovers on the mean streets of Marseille which was not nominated for best picture but won each of its three nominations. Sink or Swim, the nomination leader and dadbod comedy, which opened too late to be France's Oscar submission last year, only took home one prize. Supporting Actor...
Monday
Jan282019
Michel Legrand (1932-2019)
Monday, January 28, 2019 at 5:00PM by Eric Blume
Michel Legrand in 1981French film composer Michel Legrand passed away this past weekend after six decades of work in the industry. He was truly one of the greats. Chief among his accomplishments was the sung-through score for the masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), delivering music that soared and perfectly caught the melancholy tone of director Jacques Demy’s pastel/sad view of the world. The Legrand-Demy collaboration was deliriously French and remains a pristine achievement over a half century later...