Oct 11, 2009 | Ottawa Citizen
"Queen" & "King" reign over Europe film awards
The European Film Academy has handed out six nominations to "The Queen" and five to "The Last King of Scotland" for its 20th annual awards ceremony on December 1 in Berlin.
The movie is a French neo-noir that comes from 1962. The setting is the Parisian underworld.
The bricks & mortar business of cinema
In Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 movie about adultery on a film location, Contempt, the audience has trouble following the argument between the unhappy wife, played by Brigitte Bardot, and her scriptwriter husband, Michel Piccoli.
The bricks & mortar business of cinema
In Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 movie about adultery on a film location, Contempt, the audience has trouble following the argument between the unhappy wife, played by Brigitte Bardot, and her scriptwriter husband, Michel Piccoli.
Champagne is for white men. A year after his much celebrated La grand bouffe , director Marco Ferreri reassembled the brilliant cast of Marcello Mastroianni , Michel Piccoli , Philippe Noiret , and Ugo Tognazzi .
Michel Piccoli plays a noted Parisian musicologist obsessed with finding a mysterious woman he only saw once.
La faute ? Fidel, I Know Who Killed Me, T4xi. still in town Belle Toujours Rating 2 1/2 Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira pays homage to the Luis Bu?uel classic Belle de jour with this thoughtful meditation on sex, fidelity and faith, with a little help from strong performances by Michel Piccoli and Bulle Ogier.
Michel Piccoli gives a beautifully understated performance as an average dude, torn between his mistress and his ex-wife with whom he's still involved.
Equal parts Antonio Gramsci and Monsieur Verdoux , Dillinger is Dead is cultural critique masquerading as a one-man show.
La Belle Noiseuse: Watching the Hand of the Artist
One of the great cultural archetypes is the obsessive painter. He strives to express something ineffable on canvas.
One of those infamous art house movies, La Grande Bouffe stirred controversy when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973.
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