Jean-Pierre Dardenne on Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed): “We're always very concerned with avoiding imagery …” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed), starring Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed, featuring Myriem Akheddiou, Victoria Bluck, Claire Bodson, Othmane Moumen, Olivier Bonnaud, and Cyra Lassman, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne enter a new realm of their oeuvre.
And yet their latest film, for which they won the top director prize at Cannes, is very much in line with what they do best. They illuminate seemingly impossible situations that are deeply grounded in social realities. Body language, quotidian objects, and a hesitant glance speak volumes.
Luc Dardenne on Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed: “We define the character not by his psychology, but by his accessories.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second half of my conversation at Ian Schrager's Hudson Hotel with the master filmmakers, I started out...
With Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed), starring Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed, featuring Myriem Akheddiou, Victoria Bluck, Claire Bodson, Othmane Moumen, Olivier Bonnaud, and Cyra Lassman, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne enter a new realm of their oeuvre.
And yet their latest film, for which they won the top director prize at Cannes, is very much in line with what they do best. They illuminate seemingly impossible situations that are deeply grounded in social realities. Body language, quotidian objects, and a hesitant glance speak volumes.
Luc Dardenne on Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed: “We define the character not by his psychology, but by his accessories.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second half of my conversation at Ian Schrager's Hudson Hotel with the master filmmakers, I started out...
- 2/20/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bernard Herrmann music + weird landscapes = Nirvana. This big-star western tale has an unbreakable story but terrible dialogue and weak characters... yet for fans of adventure filmmaking it's a legend, thanks to a thunderous Bernard Herrmann music score that transforms dozens of uncanny, real Mexican locations into something other-worldly. Garden of Evil Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1954 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 100 min. / Ship Date May 10, 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Víctor Manuel Mendoza. Cinematography Milton R. Krasner, Jorge Stahl Jr. Art Direction Edward Fitzgerald, Lyle Wheeler Film Editor James B. Clark Original Music Bernard Herrmann Special Effects Ray Kellogg Written by Frank Fenton, Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg Produced by Charles Brackett Directed by Henry Hathaway
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"The Garden of Evil. If the world was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"The Garden of Evil. If the world was made of gold, I guess men would die for a handful of dirt.
- 5/14/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Luis Bunuel
The 4th Jaipur International Film Festival will focus on Spanish cinema and showcase the works of Spain-born filmmaker Luis Bunuel. Four of his films: The Brute (1953), Susana (1951), Ilusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) and Woman without Love (1952) will be screened at the festival.
Luis Bunuel is considered the father of cinematic surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium.
Alferdo De Braganza, a filmmaker from Spain will be present at all the screenings to interact with the audience. All the films have been provided for screening purposes to Jaipur International Film Festival by Imagine India International Film Festival from Spain.
The festival will be held from January 27-31,2012.
The 4th Jaipur International Film Festival will focus on Spanish cinema and showcase the works of Spain-born filmmaker Luis Bunuel. Four of his films: The Brute (1953), Susana (1951), Ilusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) and Woman without Love (1952) will be screened at the festival.
Luis Bunuel is considered the father of cinematic surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium.
Alferdo De Braganza, a filmmaker from Spain will be present at all the screenings to interact with the audience. All the films have been provided for screening purposes to Jaipur International Film Festival by Imagine India International Film Festival from Spain.
The festival will be held from January 27-31,2012.
- 12/15/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
One of the things I like best about Luis Buñuel's films is their clinical subversiveness. From Susana to Viridiana, from Nazarin to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Buñuel relentlessly attacks social conventions and mores without ever resorting to cheesy sentimentality, feel-good phoniness, or crappy life-affirming situations. Perhaps that's why Buñuel isn't nearly as revered today as many of his lesser contemporaries. Buñuel's 1974 effort The Phantom of Liberty consists of a series of vignettes showing life in a parallel universe in which human social conventions are opposite to the ones we, in our boundless stupidity, assume are the way things always have been and always will be. In fact, we assume that's how things must be, period. I'm posting this vignette, in which a couple of families get together for a little social defecation/urination, because it features Marie-France Pisier, who died this past weekend. Pisier plays Madame Calmette,...
- 4/26/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
(Luis Buñuel, 1951; 1952, 12, Mr Bongo)
After his two avant- garde collaborations with fellow surrealist Salvador Dali – Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) – Luis Buñuel disappeared below the radar in Mexico until reappearing at Cannes with Los Olvidados in 1951. He continued working there until re-establishing himself in Europe in the 1960s as one of the great directors. His mostly little-known Mexican films – rough-hewn, low-budget melodramas for the most part – are always interesting, and these two early ones complement each other as they explore characteristic themes of lust, cruelty, class, hypocrisy and corruption. In Susana, a satanic femme fatale offers up successful prayers for escape from her hellhole of a reform school and proceeds to ingratiate herself into a wealthy bourgeois family where she proceeds to destroy everyone around her. In El Bruto, a violent, ox-like abattoir worker (the great Pedro Armendáriz) is hired to do a slum landlord's dirty work and is...
After his two avant- garde collaborations with fellow surrealist Salvador Dali – Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) – Luis Buñuel disappeared below the radar in Mexico until reappearing at Cannes with Los Olvidados in 1951. He continued working there until re-establishing himself in Europe in the 1960s as one of the great directors. His mostly little-known Mexican films – rough-hewn, low-budget melodramas for the most part – are always interesting, and these two early ones complement each other as they explore characteristic themes of lust, cruelty, class, hypocrisy and corruption. In Susana, a satanic femme fatale offers up successful prayers for escape from her hellhole of a reform school and proceeds to ingratiate herself into a wealthy bourgeois family where she proceeds to destroy everyone around her. In El Bruto, a violent, ox-like abattoir worker (the great Pedro Armendáriz) is hired to do a slum landlord's dirty work and is...
- 3/20/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Jose here with a dose of religious controversy, Mexican divas and whippin' fun...
Even if it's dated, slightly campy and a very minor entry in Luis Buñuel's filmography, 1951's Susana contains some wonderful elements that would resonate throughout the Spanish auteur's entire career.
The plot centers around Susana (Rosita Quintana pictured above) a mysterious woman who escapes jail with help from-gasp- God! She is locked up in a cell with rats, bats and scorpions and prays for the Lord to help her out of there. Before you can be shocked Buñuel is already giving us a cross symbol after which Susana acquires superhuman force, breaks the bars and escapes.
She finds shelter in an hacienda where she lowers her cleavage, bounces her blonde hair, pouts her lips and seduces all the men-including the owner and his son- and causes the otherwise God fearing wife (Matilde Palou pictured below) to go all devil like.
Even if it's dated, slightly campy and a very minor entry in Luis Buñuel's filmography, 1951's Susana contains some wonderful elements that would resonate throughout the Spanish auteur's entire career.
The plot centers around Susana (Rosita Quintana pictured above) a mysterious woman who escapes jail with help from-gasp- God! She is locked up in a cell with rats, bats and scorpions and prays for the Lord to help her out of there. Before you can be shocked Buñuel is already giving us a cross symbol after which Susana acquires superhuman force, breaks the bars and escapes.
She finds shelter in an hacienda where she lowers her cleavage, bounces her blonde hair, pouts her lips and seduces all the men-including the owner and his son- and causes the otherwise God fearing wife (Matilde Palou pictured below) to go all devil like.
- 9/9/2009
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
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