Response to Netflix, which is losing subscribers, the association The Film Foundation of the filmmaker intends to highlight restored works. I know where I’m going by Michael Powell opens the march on May 9. To promote, save and save classic cinema from oblivion, Martin Scorsese spares no effort and has worked for more than three […]
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Our review of Murina: Mother’s Evil
REVIEW – A wild and luminous teenager frees herself from her father’s yoke in this first Croatian film. A success. She swims. The sea is his refuge, his playground, his secret garden. On dry land, Julija is chomping at the bit. On this Adriatic island, the teenager lives between an irascible father and a resigned […]
Murina, The World After Us, A Talent in Solid Gold… Films to see or avoid this week
A wild teenager frees herself from her father’s yoke, a broke Parisian author rethinks his lifestyle after meeting a woman, an indebted actor infiltrates the mafia… What should we see this week? Discover the cinema selection of Figaro. Murina – To have Drama by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, 1h36 She swims. The sea is his refuge, […]
Matt Reeves: ‘If all goes well, Robert Pattinson and I should shoot a second Batman’
MEET – With The Batmanthe American director signs a new version of the bat man, inspired by his masters of cinema. Brush mustache, hair back, the quick word, we quickly perceive that the American director Matt Reeves is very eager to defend “his” Batman. At 55, this close friend of James Gray rose to prominence […]
Ben Affleck no longer believes in the future of cinema: “There will soon be only 40 films a year”
The releases of blockbusters at a frantic pace, the difficult recovery following the pandemic and competition from series could, according to the 49-year-old actor, dig the grave in the seventh art. Scream , Matrix , Where Spiderman: No Way Home . This winter is loaded with remakes or sequels to decades-old saga. A trend that […]
Alice Guy Madame Cinema on Arte
CRITIQUE – review of the life and work of this French artist, the first director and producer in the history of the seventh art, whom this documentary rehabilitates. Alice Guy: the unknown of the 7th art, a new film not to be missed this Wednesday January 5, on Arte at 10:30 p.m. First peplum in […]
Ida Lupino, a director ahead of her time on giant OCS
CRITICAL – The Kuperberg sisters dedicate a magnificent portrait to this pioneer of the golden age of Hollywood cinema. Not to be missed this Saturday, October 23 on giant OCS at 10:15 p.m. After The spies that came from Hollywood Where Los Angeles, city of film noir, Clara and Julia Kuperberg, two sisters passionate about […]
Scorsese’s Crusade Against Marvel? An exit “frightfully cynical” according to Gunn
The director of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy is exasperated by the incomprehension that continues to strike a decried cinematographic genre despite its great popular success. Do superhero movies deserve the consideration of moviegoers? Condescended, if not with contempt, the avalanche of Marvel or DC productions that sweeps in every year still […]
For Martin Scorsese, a film on Netflix or Amazon is not cinema
Disappointed with the path taken by the film industry, the director of Taxi Driver and The Freedmen regrets that the public is reduced to consumers and that we lose sight of art. After Marvel, Martin Scorcese tackles Netflix, Amazon and others. In a tribune tribute to Fellini, published in the Harper’s Magazine , the director […]
Death of Alberto Grimaldi, producer of the cult “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
The Italian filmmaker died on January 23 at the age of 95. He produced the films of undisputed masters of the seventh art such as Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone and Martin Scorsese. Ginger and Fred, The good, the bad and the ugly, Gangs of New York… the big financier of these legendary films was him. […]