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PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT Trailer: Jacques Audiard’s Steamy Tale of Modern-Day Relationships

M.J. O'Toole — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:32:15 +0000

Jacques Audiard (A Prophet; Rust and Bone) made his return to the Cannes Film Festival last year with Paris, 13th District, a black-and-white shot tale of modern-day love and sex set in the City of Lights. His first film since […]

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PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT

M.J. O'Toole — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:45:15 +0000

(Rendez-Vous with French Cinema takes place at Film at Lincoln Center from March 3 – 13. M.J. O’Toole has this movie review of Paris, 13th District which plays on March 4 and 7. It will be released in theaters on […]

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STARRED UP

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:11:03 +0000

What sets David MacKenzie’s film apart is his willingness to trade some of the shock and awe of prison narratives for character development.

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #2: Main Competition Hits The Rocks

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:08:55 +0000

After shooting for the moon on its opening night—and by no means missing, courtesy of Wes Anderson’s superb Moonrise Kingdom—this year’s main competition at Cannes hits a palpable slump with two movies committing very different sins. Yousry Nasrallah’s After the […]

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DVD RELEASES 2010/8/3

Michael Tully — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:05:36 +0000

If the first three movies on this list don’t crack my Top 10 of 2010, they will certainly be hovering around there somewhere. This is one of those weeks we should all be very, very thankful for. Most Highestly Recommended! […]

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VIDEO ON DEMAND – June 2010

Michael Tully — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:11:07 +0000

From the positive feedback based our first ever Hammer to Nail monthly VOD report in May, it sounds like this was something that was indeed long overdue. Many thanks to those filmmakers and distributors who rose to the challenge and […]

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Rotterdam@BAM 2010 – RotterBAM!

Michael Tully — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:02:27 +0000

Based on past, admittedly limited, experience, the idea of the International Film Festival Rotterdam taking its complete Tiger Awards competition on the road is maybe not the best one. That’s because the Tigers only consist of the earliest features (first […]

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PROPHET, A (UN PROPHETE)

Nelson Kim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:39:50 +0000

(A Prophet (Un prophète) is being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. It opens on Friday, February 26, 2010, in New York and Los Angeles. Visit the film’s official website here.) How good is Jacques Audiard’s new prison thriller A Prophet […]

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ROTTERDAM 2010 – A Wrap-Up

Michael Tully — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:04:35 +0000

In January of 2006, I attended the International Film Festival Rotterdam for the first time with my narrative feature debut, Cocaine Angel. Four years later, a last minute invite brought me back once again. Even in 2006, when I was […]

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SUNDANCE 2010: Tully’s Wrap-Up

Michael Tully — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:58:57 +0000

From the moment one set foot in Park City for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, it became quite clear that the powers-that-be were using the departure of longtime festival director Geoffrey Gilmore as a subconscious marketing tool. Though the ad […]

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