Topic: Mathieu Amalric

Lots to see at First Thursday at 49 Geary, S.F.

San Francisco Chronicle - 276 days ago
0 . All aboard the hot date express at First Thursdays at 49 Geary, as couples swung between David Maisel's "History's Shadow" exhibition at Haines...

Film Casting Roundup

Deadline Hollywood - 312 days ago
Jay Baruchel has joined Robert Pattinson in the David Cronenberg-directed Cosmopolis. Pattinson plays a financial wiz kid who puts his life in...

SF Film Fest lineup

San Francisco Chronicle - 319 days ago
0 . "On Tour," a film by Mathieu Amalric about American burlesque dancers performing in provincial France, will close the 54th San Francisco...

Movie reviews: Un lever de rideau

Helium - 468 days ago
I think this French short (? A Curtain Raiser? in English) is just the right length (about a half hour). It opens with the protagonist (Louis Garrel) waiting for his girlfriend (Vahina Giocante). He is lamenting to his friend (Mathieu Amalric) that she ...

Thai film 'Boonmee' wins top honor at Cannes fest

AP News - 629 days ago
Thai film 'Uncle Boonmee' wins top Cannes honor; Binoche, Bardem earn acting awardsThe hypnotic Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival, while Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem ...

Asia scoops first honours in Cannes sidebars

AFP Global Edition - 630 days ago
Asia picked up its first Cannes honours on Saturday when South Korean director Hong Sang-soo scooped a coveted sidebar prize, as the world's biggest film fest revs up for its 2010 finale."Ha Ha Ha," which ends with a peal of ...

French films on Algeria monks, striptease win Cannes side-prizes

AFP Global Edition - 631 days ago
Two French films, one about Catholic monks threatened by Islamist militants in Algeria, the other featuring US stripteasers, on Saturday picked up side-prizes at the Cannes film festival.Both Algeria-themed "Of Gods And Men" by Xavier Beauvois and burlesque movie "On Tour ...

Early Cannes films are the polar opposite

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 640 days ago
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Cannes Film Festival launched its competition Thursday with two diametrically opposed films, one as authentic as the other was inauthentic.The authentic one belongs to Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai. Besides being a finely wrought drama about a ...

Cannes tackles absent fathers, wayward sons

AFP Global Edition - 640 days ago
Absent fathers and wayward sons give emotional guts to this year's Cannes festival, led by acclaimed Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai whose film kicked off the competition.As well as Wang's "Chongqing Blues", films by Britain's Ridley Scott and Mexico ...

Burlesque dancers take central stage at Cannes

AP News - 640 days ago
Cannes gets risque as a troop of US burlesque dancers takes central stage at film festThe actresses showed up at their news conference Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival in elbow-high gloves, oversized cubic zirconia hoops, lots of leopard print and even ...