When Robert Bresson, in his early 80s at the time, chose to adapt Leo Tolstoy’s short story “The Forged Coupon,” he crafted an efficient, taut film by using only the first part of Tolstoy’s tale, ending when Yvon, our central character, commits an act of horrific violence. Bresson doesn’t venture into Tolstoy’s second part, where, in prison, Yvon seeks redemption through religion. What we get, then, is L’argent, which translates directly to “money,” Bresson’s nihilistic, final film. Redemption doesn’t feel like a remote possibility. Bresson’s films are often bleak, but what’s surprising is that Bresson subverts all moments leaning toward grace in this brisk 84-minute film. Yet, for all its relentless darkness, L’argent is a wonder to behold, invigorating and challenging.
L’argent begins with Norbert, a Parisian teen, asking his father for his monthly allowance. Father looks up, pulls out the money,...
L’argent begins with Norbert, a Parisian teen, asking his father for his monthly allowance. Father looks up, pulls out the money,...
- 7/30/2017
- by Trevor Berrett
- CriterionCast
Since 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has been accomplishing the important task of preserving films that “represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking.” From films way back in 1897 all the way up to 2004, they’ve now reached 675 films that celebrate our heritage and encapsulate our film history.
Today they’ve unveiled their 2015 list, which includes classics such as Douglas Sirk‘s melodrama Imitation of Life, Hal Ashby‘s Being There, and John Frankenheimer‘s Seconds. Perhaps the most popular picks, The Shawshank Redemption, Ghostbusters, Top Gun, and L.A. Confidential were also added. Check out the full list below.
Being There (1979)
Chance, a simple-minded gardener (Peter Sellers) whose only contact with the outside world is through television, becomes the toast of the town following a series of misunderstandings. Forced outside his protected environment by the death of his wealthy boss, Chance subsumes his late employer’s persona,...
Today they’ve unveiled their 2015 list, which includes classics such as Douglas Sirk‘s melodrama Imitation of Life, Hal Ashby‘s Being There, and John Frankenheimer‘s Seconds. Perhaps the most popular picks, The Shawshank Redemption, Ghostbusters, Top Gun, and L.A. Confidential were also added. Check out the full list below.
Being There (1979)
Chance, a simple-minded gardener (Peter Sellers) whose only contact with the outside world is through television, becomes the toast of the town following a series of misunderstandings. Forced outside his protected environment by the death of his wealthy boss, Chance subsumes his late employer’s persona,...
- 12/16/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ivor Novello last film: 'Autumn Crocus' (photo: Ivor Novello and Fay Compton in 'Autumn Crocus') Can a plain looking, naive spinster school teacher ever find real love in faraway places? This was a question asked by Shirley Booth in Arthur Laurents' 1952 stage play The Time of the Cuckoo; Katharine Hepburn in the 1955 David Lean-directed film version, Summertime (1955); and Elizabeth Allen in the 1965 Richard Rodgers-Steven Sondheim musical adaptation, Do I Hear a Waltz? Can such a woman's yearning for romance ever be satisfied? "Yes" and "No," according to Basil Dean's fine 1934 British film Autumn Crocus, which marked the last film appearance of British stage and screen superstar Ivor Novello (Alfred Hitchcok's The Lodger). Autumn Crocus starts out during the holiday season, when two British schoolteachers decide to spend their vacation together on the Continent. Soft-hearted Jenny Grey (Fay Compton) longs to see the Austrian Alps,...
- 10/29/2014
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2013—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2013 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
They started the season of Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs. Favorites in very different places. On the Fans tribe, Reynold Toepfer found himself on the outs pretty much immediately after trying to form a young hotties alliance that simply didn’t have the numbers. Over on the Favorites beach, however, Andrea Boehlke, made an immediate power play against her former fellow Redemption Island cast member and New York City pal Francesca Hogi, sending her former friend home and putting herself in the middle of the dominant alliance.
But both Reynold and Andrea ended up in the same place and on the same episode — the jury.
But both Reynold and Andrea ended up in the same place and on the same episode — the jury.
- 5/2/2013
- by Dalton Ross
- EW - Inside TV
Lionel Barrymore movies on TCM. (Photo: Lionel Barrymore [right] You Can’t Take It with You, with Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, and James Stewart.) Lionel Barrymore isn’t just Drew Barrymore’s long-dead great-uncle. Barrymore, a favorite buddy of MGM honcho Louis B. Mayer, was a stage star, Academy Award-winning film actor, infrequent film director (Madame X, Redemption), brother of John Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, son of Maurice Barrymore, grandson of stage actor John Drew, and Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars star on Friday, August 10. [Lionel Barrymore movie schedule.] But however well-regarded and despite his Best Actor Academy Award, Lionel Barrymore was also an [...]...
- 8/10/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Mass Effect 2 releases on January 26, 2010 and like its previous incarnation, BioWare will be supporting Dlc for it. However, will ME2’s Dlc be on a bigger scale than Pinnacle Station or Bring Down The Sky from the first game, and instead be more on the level of GTA: The Lost and The Damned?
Mass Effect 2 producer Adrian Cho had this to say on the matter:
” I think so. It depends on the scale. The price range I think is really important so that we can give players good value for their money, I think that’s really important. I think we see publishers and developers on one side unfairly price things.
It’s about keeping players engaged in that world and not necessarily to always make a good profit. You’ve got to make some profit off that, but you don’t have to do it off the backs of...
Mass Effect 2 producer Adrian Cho had this to say on the matter:
” I think so. It depends on the scale. The price range I think is really important so that we can give players good value for their money, I think that’s really important. I think we see publishers and developers on one side unfairly price things.
It’s about keeping players engaged in that world and not necessarily to always make a good profit. You’ve got to make some profit off that, but you don’t have to do it off the backs of...
- 12/24/2009
- by Trung Bui
- GameRant
2009 has been quite a year for Clifton Collins Jr.. Landing role in more than five feature films this year alone, the 39-year-old has grabbed Best Actor nomination from 2009 Alma Awards for his portrayal of Nero's first officer, Ayel, in "Star Trek" and baddie El Huron in "Crank: High Voltage".
AceShowbiz.com has got the chance to throw a few questions to the Amy Adams' co-star in "Sunshine Cleaning" and discuss his upcoming project, "The Experiment". In the exclusive interview, he talks about, among others, working with Forest Whitaker and Adrien Brody, what his character will be, and his other projects, including "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day".
Asb: What made you interested in joining "The Experiment"?
Clifton Collins Jr.: It is a well-written project based off of a sick German film titled "Das Experiment" if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go out and rent or buy it,...
AceShowbiz.com has got the chance to throw a few questions to the Amy Adams' co-star in "Sunshine Cleaning" and discuss his upcoming project, "The Experiment". In the exclusive interview, he talks about, among others, working with Forest Whitaker and Adrien Brody, what his character will be, and his other projects, including "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day".
Asb: What made you interested in joining "The Experiment"?
Clifton Collins Jr.: It is a well-written project based off of a sick German film titled "Das Experiment" if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go out and rent or buy it,...
- 9/22/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Photo: Screen Actors Guild Awards® The winners at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced tonight and it is a mixed bag as not one single movie won more than one award and Kate Winslet continued on her path to her first Oscar win. Winslet took home the Actor for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Reader, but didn't go home double-fisting as Meryl Streep took home her second SAG award with a win for her great performance in Doubt. Heath Ledger once again won for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight and his award was accepted by his co-star Gary Oldman who gave a short but sweet speech. The other motion picture acting award went to Sean Penn for Milk as he topped Mickey Rourke who won at the Golden Globes as the plot thickens on the way to the Oscars. Like Rourke at the Globes,...
- 1/26/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"The Insider" has your list of winners (underlined below) as they are announced! Theatrical Motion Pictures Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Richard Jenkins / Walter Vale - "The Visitor" (Overture Films) Frank Langella / Richard Nixon - "Frost/Nixon" (Universal Pictures) Sean Penn / Harvey Milk - "Milk" (Focus Features) Brad Pitt / Benjamin Button - "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" (Paramount Pictures) Mickey Rourke / Randy - "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Anne Hathaway / Kym - "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics) Angelina Jolie / Christine Collins - "Changeling" (Universal Pictures) Melissa Leo / Ray Eddy - "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics) Meryl Streep / Sister Aloysius Beauvier - "Doubt" (Miramax Films) Kate Winslet / April Wheeler - "Revolutionary Road" (Paramount Vantage) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Josh Brolin / Dan White - "Milk" (Focus Features) Robert Downey,...
- 1/26/2009
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
The list of TV series and made for TV movies that fill in the nominations of Screen Actors Guild Awards next year is unraveled. This time around, NBC's comedy series "30 Rock" has shown another domination by taking three nominations, including a nod each for its two lead actors, Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey.
Also triumphing on the primetime television is the Paul Giamatti-starring miniseries "John Adams". Like "30 Rock", the show accumulates 3 nominations, the same amount that other series like "Mad Men", "The Closer" and "Boston Legal" gather. This time the network that earns most of the nomination is HBO with 9 while ABC and NBC follow behind with 8.
The nominees are selected by actors' peers through a voting that was completed by noon Tuesday, December 16. The second round of voting that determines the winners will be conducted in January and announced on the ceremony on date 25. An award-presenting gala is...
Also triumphing on the primetime television is the Paul Giamatti-starring miniseries "John Adams". Like "30 Rock", the show accumulates 3 nominations, the same amount that other series like "Mad Men", "The Closer" and "Boston Legal" gather. This time the network that earns most of the nomination is HBO with 9 while ABC and NBC follow behind with 8.
The nominees are selected by actors' peers through a voting that was completed by noon Tuesday, December 16. The second round of voting that determines the winners will be conducted in January and announced on the ceremony on date 25. An award-presenting gala is...
- 12/19/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The nominations for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® are in. Of those nominated, the male actors in a leading role icluded Richard Jenkins for his performance in "The Visitor," Brad Pitt for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Mickey Rourke for "The Wrestler," Sean Penn for his role in "Milk" and Frank Langella in Universal Pictures' "Frost/Nixon." Female leads considered were Anne Hathaway for "Rachel Getting Married," Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road," Melissa Leo in "Frozen River," "Meryl Streep for her work in "Doubt" and Angelina Jolie for Clint Eastwood's "Changeling." The list, as sent out by the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) is as follows: Theatrical Motion Pictures Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleRICHARD Jenkins / Walter Vale - "The Visitor" (Overture Films)Frank Langella / Richard Nixon - "Frost/Nixon" (Universal Pictures)Sean Penn / Harvey Milk - "Milk" (Focus Features)Brad Pitt...
- 12/18/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.