Podcast appearances and mentions of Claire Denis

Comme tu le sais, le nom des réalisateurs peuvent parfois nous jouer des tours : de type Claire Simon et Claire Denis deux documentaristes / réalisatrices habituées des festivals dont on parlait il y a quelques mois. Bon je ne reviens pas là-dessus. Mais le nom des films également peuvent […] The post Here, un film contemplatif et ascétique first appeared on Radio Vostok.

Comme tu le sais, le nom des réalisateurs peuvent parfois nous jouer des tours : de type Claire Simon et Claire Denis deux documentaristes / réalisatrices habituées des festivals dont on parlait il y a quelques mois. Bon je ne reviens pas là-dessus. Mais le nom des films également peuvent […] The post Here, un film contemplatif et ascétique first appeared on Radio Vostok.

fWotD Episode 2958: Robert Pattinson Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 10 June 2025, is Robert Pattinson.Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor. His filmography often sees him portraying eccentric characters across a diverse range of genres. Known for starring in both major studio productions and independent films, Pattinson has been ranked among the world's highest-paid actors, and his works have grossed over $4.7 billion worldwide. In 2010, Time included him in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and he was also featured in the Forbes Celebrity 100.Born and raised in London, Pattinson started acting at age thirteen in a London theatre club. He made early screen appearances in supporting roles, including in Vanity Fair (2004), and played Cedric Diggory in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) before making his debut as a leading actor in The Haunted Airman (2006). Pattinson achieved global recognition as Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga film series. Its five films—released yearly between 2008 and 2012—each were among the highest-grossing films of their respective release years and collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide. Pattinson also led the romantic dramas Remember Me (2010) and Water for Elephants (2011).Pattinson subsequently began working in independent films from auteur directors. He was praised for his performances in David Cronenberg's drama Cosmopolis (2012), James Gray's adventure drama The Lost City of Z (2016), the Safdie brothers' crime drama Good Time (2017), Claire Denis's science fiction drama High Life (2018) and Robert Eggers' psychological horror The Lighthouse (2019). Pattinson then returned to big-budget mainstream cinema, starring as a spy handler in Christopher Nolan's thriller Tenet (2020), portraying the titular superhero in Matt Reeves's superhero film The Batman (2022), and playing an expendable astronaut in Bong Joon-ho's science fiction film Mickey 17 (2025).Pattinson has also contributed vocals to several film soundtracks. He is involved in philanthropy, supporting organisations such as the GO Campaign. Pattinson began modelling as a child and has served as the face of Dior Homme fragrance since 2013. Labelled as a sex symbol by the media, he is frequently called one of the most attractive actors; People included Pattinson on its list of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2008 and 2009. He has been in a relationship with singer and actress Suki Waterhouse since 2018, with whom he has a child.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:08 UTC on Tuesday, 10 June 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Robert Pattinson on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Justin.

HIGH LIFE ist ein Film, der mich beim Schauen (und beim Podcast direkt danach) überfordert und mich oft orientierungslos zurückgelassen hat. Claire Denis erzählt eine Geschichte, die auch in einem abgelegenen Krankenhaus oder auf einer Gefängnisinsel spielen könnte: Neun Strafgefangene werden zusammengesperrt, eine fanatische Ärztin versucht, aus dem Sperma und den Eizellen der anderen Insassen im Brutkasten ein Kind zu "erschaffen". Nur ist das Gefängnis ein schuhschachtelförmiges Raumschiff, das auf ein Schwarzes Loch zutreibt. Ein optisch oft sprödes Kammerspiel um Fruchtbarkeit und Gewalt, Einsamkeit, Schuld und Elternschaft. Eher Theater als Science-Fiction, mehr Szenen als Handlung. Ohne das Etikett "Science-Fiction" und der damit verbundenen Erwartung, hätte es HIGH LIFE bei mir leichter gehabt. Im Podcast direkt nach dem Film sprechen wir über bedrückende Gewaltausbrüche, über Robert Pattinson und Juliette Binoche, Low-Tech-Ausstattung und über fragmentarische Dramaturgie - und streiten etwas darüber wie wichtig die Ambitionen der Künstler:innen sind.

Abby Monteil returns with us for Claire Denis' space odyssey "High Life" together we discuss the view of assault and violence in the movie, Rob Pattinson, queuer making scifi, using Mia Goth and nihilism

On this episode of the podcast, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by MSc Film Studies student Lauren Thompson to discuss one of the most critically acclaimed and influential films of all time. Andrei Tarkovsky's fourth feature Mirror (1975) weaves together moments in the life of dying poet in a bold, non-linear style. It's a deeply personal cinematic poem about memory, history and family, and 2025 marks its 50th anniversary.Lauren and Pasquale begin by offering their thoughts on Tarkovsky's work more broadly and then they turn to an extended discussion of Mirror, covering elements such as the use of editing and voiceover. The discussion rounds off with a consideration of the film's influence on successive generations of filmmakers, from Christopher Nolan to Claire Denis.

We finally bring the brilliant, indelible work of Claire Denis to the pod with a discussion of her 1994 TV movie U.S. Go Home. Produced as part of the anthology series Tous les garcons et les filles de leur age… alongside work from other French visionaries like Chantal Akerman, Olivier Assayas and André Téchiné, Denis' film is an elliptical, compassionate coming-of-age story that regularly subverts expectations and never succumbs to the potentially regressive tendencies of its narrative milieu. We begin with some chatter about recent Hit Factory-featured filmmaker Edward Yang and a recent watch of his final work, Yi Yi. Then, we explore Denis' film - its lyrical formalism, its exquisite soundtrack - and how she crafts a work of simultaneously keen observation and hypnotic ambiguity. Watch U.S. Go Home on YouTubeThe Roxie theater in San Francisco is still seeking funds to help buy their building! Be sure to listen to our recent conversation with producer and Roxie board member Henry S. Rosenthal and visit the Roxie website to donate today!Get access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish

The 80th film in the A24 catalog is the Sci-Fi space drama High Life starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Andre 3000, and Mia Goth. Directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis, High Life explores a group of convicts that were sent into space for mysterious reasons. Pattinson portrays Monte, who has a daughter at the start of the film, but also inhabits a spaceship with no one else on it. What happened to the crew he was with? How did he end up alone wandering through space? Caution: movie spoilers.Intro- 0:00 to 7:08.Film Discussion- 7:08 to 1:02:37.Film Ratings/Outro- 1:02:37 to End.Upcoming Podcast Release Schedule-5/14- Top 16 Midwestern Films, a Blind Ranking.5/21- Native Son.5/28- Hundreds of Beavers.

durée : 00:54:57 - Le grand atelier - par : Vincent Josse - "Le Bon Denis", dernier livre de Marie Ndiaye, est l'histoire d'une fille à la recherche son père, à la fois une quête et une enquête. Avec elle, la cinéaste Claire Denis. Elles ont co-signé le film "White Material", en 2010, avec Isabelle Huppert dans le rôle principal. - invités : Marie Ndiaye, Claire Denis - Marie NDiaye : Romancière et dramaturge, Claire Denis : Réalisatrice - réalisé par : Lucie Lemarchand

durée : 01:48:10 - Comme un samedi - par : Arnaud Laporte - Trois années que Tiago Rodrigues signe la programmation du festival d'Avignon ! Et avant que les trois coups ne retentissent et que le rideau ne se lève, le dramaturge convie la cinéaste Claire Denis, la chorégraphe Mathilde Monnier et la metteuse en scène Lorraine de Sagazan... Prenez place ! - réalisation : Alexandre Fougeron - invités : Tiago Rodrigues Dramaturge et metteur en scène portugais; Lorraine de Sagazan Autrice et metteuse en scène; Claire Denis Réalisatrice; Mathilde Monnier Chorégraphe; Ensemble Chakâm Formation musicale formée par Sogol Mirzaei, Christine Zayed et Marie-Suzanne de Loye

Get atmospheric! Get to the F***k Box! We're talking about Claire Denis' film, High Life!

A delegação em França da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian faz 60 anos e o programa de aniversário apoia vários eventos com artistas lusófonos. Há parcerias com o Festival de Avignon, o Festival de Outono, o Théâtre de la Ville de Paris e a Bienal de Dança de Lyon, mas há, também, dois novos festivais: um de músicas da diáspora ("Lisboa nu bai Paris") e outro de dança, filme e artes visuais ("Les Jardins de l'Avenir"). Na prática, a agenda cultural francesa vai contar, ao longo do ano, com nomes como Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero, Joana Craveiro, Dino D'Santiago, Branko, Maro, Camané, Mário Laginha, B Fachada e muitos mais. O programa foi apresentado esta segunda-feira, no Théâtre de la Ville, em Paris, por Miguel Magalhães, director da delegação em França da Fundação Gulbenkian. Há teatro e dança, com Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero e Joana Craveiro, música com Dino D'Santiago, Branko, Maro, Camané, Mário Laginha e B Fachada. Há, ainda, cinema, conferências, residências e exposições, entre muitos eventos.Um dos momentos centrais é o apoio ao espectáculo de Marlene Monteiro Freitas que vai abrir a edição deste ano do Festival de Avignon, dirigido pelo português Tiago Rodrigues. A peça vai estar, mais tarde, no Festival de Outono, em Paris, com o qual a delegação francesa da Gulbenkian volta a colaborar. Além da programação de Marlene Monteiro Freitas nesse festival, há, ainda, um espectáculo de dança de Tânia Carvalho e Israel Galvan e outra performance encenada por Tânia Carvalho com alunos dos conservatórios de Paris e Lyon em torno do centenário de Pierre Boulez.No Théâtre de la Ville - Sarah Bernhardt, a Gulbenkian vai apoiar o festival de artes do palco Chantiers d'Europe, que nesta edição reúne artistas de sete países, incluindo de Portugal. A 9 de Junho, o Théâtre de la Ville –Sarah Bernhardt, é palco de um encontro entre música clássica e fado tradicional, com a Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Camané e Mário Laginha. O autor e compositor B Fachada sobe a palco a 5 de Junho no Théâtre de la Ville-Les Abbesses. De 10 a 15 de Junho, Joana Craveiro apresenta-se, pela segunda vez, neste festival, agora com a peça de teatro “Intimidades com a Terra”. Na dança, Tânia Carvalho e um bailarino do Ballet National de Marselha / (La) Horde sobem ao palco a 28 e 29 de Junho.Ainda no Théâtre de la Ville - Sarah Bernhardt, em Maio e Setembro, estão previstas leituras, encontros e criações em torno da obra que, em 1972, abalou e foi proibida pela ditadura - “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” - de Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta e Maria Velho da Costa. A delegação em França da Gulbenkian também apoiou uma nova tradução para francês da obra, por Ilda Mendes dos Santos e Agnès Levecot, a qual chega às livrarias a 18 de Abril.A 7 e 8 de Junho, no Parque Enclos Calouste Gulbenkian, em Deauville, acontece a primeira edição de “Les Jardins d'Avenir”, um festival entre dança, filme e artes visuais. Nestes jardins, vão ser apresentadas, por exemplo, a peça “L'oracle végétal” das coreógrafas Ola Maciejewska e Vera Mantero e a performance participativa de Ana Rita Teodoro e Alina Folini. Há, ainda, uma projeção de filmes de Jorge Jácome e Ana Vaz e obras plásticas de Christodoulos Panayotou e Elsa Sahal.A encerrar o programa de aniversário, está o festival de músicas urbanas de inspiração africana “Lisboa nu bai Paris”, comissariado por Dino D'Santiago e que vai decorrer na Gaité Lyrique, em Paris, no final do ano.Nas artes visuais, a delegação promove várias residências artísticas e curatoriais em França para artistas e comissários lusófonos. Este ano, por exemplo, a artista moçambicana Lizette Chirrime vai estar três meses em Paris no âmbito do programa Gulbenkian -Thanks for Nothing.Para reforçar a divulgação da criação portuguesa em França, a delegação continua o programa “Expositions Gulbenkian”, um apoio que se destina às instituições culturais que pretendam mostrar artistas portugueses.A Biblioteca Gulbenkian de Paris vai organizar, ainda, conferências e jornadas de estudo em torno dos 500 anos do nascimento de Luís de Camões. Por outro lado, a realizadora francesa Claire Denis está a preparar um filme sobre a “Ode Marítima” de Fernando Pessoa.A agenda dos 60 anos conta, também, com o lançamento do podcast “Parcours d'artistes”, uma série sobre histórias de artistas portugueses que viveram ou vivem entre Paris e Lisboa.

A delegação em França da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian faz 60 anos e o programa de aniversário apoia vários eventos com artistas lusófonos. Há parcerias com o Festival de Avignon, o Festival de Outono, o Théâtre de la Ville de Paris e a Bienal de Dança de Lyon, mas há, também, dois novos festivais: um de músicas da diáspora ("Lisboa nu bai Paris") e outro de dança, filme e artes visuais ("Les Jardins de l'Avenir"). Na prática, a agenda cultural francesa vai contar, ao longo do ano, com nomes como Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero, Joana Craveiro, Dino D'Santiago, Branko, Maro, Camané, Mário Laginha, B Fachada e muitos mais. O programa foi apresentado esta segunda-feira, no Théâtre de la Ville, em Paris, por Miguel Magalhães, director da delegação em França da Fundação Gulbenkian. Há teatro e dança, com Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero e Joana Craveiro, música com Dino D'Santiago, Branko, Maro, Camané, Mário Laginha e B Fachada. Há, ainda, cinema, conferências, residências e exposições, entre muitos eventos.Um dos momentos centrais é o apoio ao espectáculo de Marlene Monteiro Freitas que vai abrir a edição deste ano do Festival de Avignon, dirigido pelo português Tiago Rodrigues. A peça vai estar, mais tarde, no Festival de Outono, em Paris, com o qual a delegação francesa da Gulbenkian volta a colaborar. Além da programação de Marlene Monteiro Freitas nesse festival, há, ainda, um espectáculo de dança de Tânia Carvalho e Israel Galvan e outra performance encenada por Tânia Carvalho com alunos dos conservatórios de Paris e Lyon em torno do centenário de Pierre Boulez.No Théâtre de la Ville - Sarah Bernhardt, a Gulbenkian vai apoiar o festival de artes do palco Chantiers d'Europe, que nesta edição reúne artistas de sete países, incluindo de Portugal. A 9 de Junho, o Théâtre de la Ville –Sarah Bernhardt, é palco de um encontro entre música clássica e fado tradicional, com a Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Camané e Mário Laginha. O autor e compositor B Fachada sobe a palco a 5 de Junho no Théâtre de la Ville-Les Abbesses. De 10 a 15 de Junho, Joana Craveiro apresenta-se, pela segunda vez, neste festival, agora com a peça de teatro “Intimidades com a Terra”. Na dança, Tânia Carvalho e um bailarino do Ballet National de Marselha / (La) Horde sobem ao palco a 28 e 29 de Junho.Ainda no Théâtre de la Ville - Sarah Bernhardt, em Maio e Setembro, estão previstas leituras, encontros e criações em torno da obra que, em 1972, abalou e foi proibida pela ditadura - “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” - de Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta e Maria Velho da Costa. A delegação em França da Gulbenkian também apoiou uma nova tradução para francês da obra, por Ilda Mendes dos Santos e Agnès Levecot, a qual chega às livrarias a 18 de Abril.A 7 e 8 de Junho, no Parque Enclos Calouste Gulbenkian, em Deauville, acontece a primeira edição de “Les Jardins d'Avenir”, um festival entre dança, filme e artes visuais. Nestes jardins, vão ser apresentadas, por exemplo, a peça “L'oracle végétal” das coreógrafas Ola Maciejewska e Vera Mantero e a performance participativa de Ana Rita Teodoro e Alina Folini. Há, ainda, uma projeção de filmes de Jorge Jácome e Ana Vaz e obras plásticas de Christodoulos Panayotou e Elsa Sahal.A encerrar o programa de aniversário, está o festival de músicas urbanas de inspiração africana “Lisboa nu bai Paris”, comissariado por Dino D'Santiago e que vai decorrer na Gaité Lyrique, em Paris, no final do ano.Nas artes visuais, a delegação promove várias residências artísticas e curatoriais em França para artistas e comissários lusófonos. Este ano, por exemplo, a artista moçambicana Lizette Chirrime vai estar três meses em Paris no âmbito do programa Gulbenkian -Thanks for Nothing.Para reforçar a divulgação da criação portuguesa em França, a delegação continua o programa “Expositions Gulbenkian”, um apoio que se destina às instituições culturais que pretendam mostrar artistas portugueses.A Biblioteca Gulbenkian de Paris vai organizar, ainda, conferências e jornadas de estudo em torno dos 500 anos do nascimento de Luís de Camões. Por outro lado, a realizadora francesa Claire Denis está a preparar um filme sobre a “Ode Marítima” de Fernando Pessoa.A agenda dos 60 anos conta, também, com o lançamento do podcast “Parcours d'artistes”, uma série sobre histórias de artistas portugueses que viveram ou vivem entre Paris e Lisboa.

Rencontre avec Florence Loiret Caille à l'occasion de la présentation de La Tête Froide, premier long-métrage de Stéphane Marchetti, à l'Arras Film Festival 2023. Elle y incarne Marie, une femme en situation de survie dans les Alpes, une trafiquante-revendeuse de cartouches cigarettes, puis une passeuse en faisant traverser la frontière à des migrants contre de l'argent. Un personnage aux multiples facettes, à l'image de la filmographie de celle qui ne se retrouve pas dans les termes d'« actrice » ou de « comédienne ». ➡️ https://revue.negatif.co/entretien/florence-loiret-caille-la-tete-froide/ Avec Florence Loiret Caille, nous avons discuté ensemble de la question centrale du jeu. Pour elle, le fait de jouer permet de donner vie à des mots et à des rôles complexes. Inspirée et formée par le théâtre d'Ariane Mnouchkine, elle a fait du corps un support central du jeu et de son expression. Dans la Tête Froide, l'incarnation du personnage de Marie était avant tout une question d'immersion dans des situations : « Il n'y avait qu'à enregistrer la vie, le quotidien, les petits gestes ». Florence Loiret Caille a été révélée d'abord pour ses nombreux rôles chez Claire Denis, puis plus largement pour le personnage de Marie-Jeanne, l'espionne la plus remarquable des cinq saisons du Bureau des Légendes d'Eric Rochant. Elle nous raconte également la création de son double clownesque, Coralie Corail, mis en scène sur Instagram ; sa passion pour le cinéaste coréen Lee Chang-Dong ; et l'évolution du statut des acteur·ice·s à l'ère du culte de l'image, de l'argent. Elle nous pose la question : a-t-encore le droit, simplement, de jouer ?

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rWotD Episode 2684: High Life (2018 film) Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 8 September 2024 is High Life (2018 film).High Life is a 2018 science fiction horror film directed by Claire Denis, in her English-language debut, and written by Denis and her long-time collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau. Starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, it focuses on a group of criminals sent on a space mission toward a black hole while taking part in scientific experiments.Physicist and black hole expert Aurélien Barrau was hired as a consultant, and Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson designed the film's spacecraft. High Life premiered on 9 September 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:27 UTC on Sunday, 8 September 2024.For the full current version of the article, see High Life (2018 film) on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Emma.

James is still absent while he devotes every waking hour to recovering from the Taylor Swift concert, so Boyd and Kay are joined by all-round legend Sophie Butcher, who recently compared Dating Naked UK and Love Island to Claire Denis' masterpiece Beau Travail. Up for review this week are season 4 of Only Murders In The Building on Disney+ (we will not be doing a spoiler special for this season, though, due to public demand), plus French series Sambre: Anatomy Of A Crime on BBC4, and the new fourth series of ITV1 crime drama Grace, starring John Simm. And yes, Grace episodes are 90 minutes long. Apologies all round. As for the guests we have the lovely comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan discussing their Rob & Romesh Vs series on Sky Max and NOW. Just to underline that James is away this week…

In space, no one can hear you scream "CINEMA TO THE LETTER!" For their Hard Sci-Fi season's I for Indie episode, Thomas & Bryan are looking to the stars as they cover Claire Denis' very strange version of an interstellar thriller High Life! Together, our duo answers the crucial questions. How does High Life capture the experience of living in our modern world? Why does Robert Pattinson pick the weirdest projects to be in? Will Andre 3000 get to know what's going inside that peculiar box? Well, head toward that wormhole in your practical spaceship while you listen to find out! Join our Patreon for $1 for monthly bonus episodes and the chance to vote for new podcasts at patreon.com/cinema2letter! Follow us @cinema2letter on the socials! Artwork by Michelle Kyle! Music by Burial Grid!

In space, no one can hear you scream "CINEMA TO THE LETTER!" For their Hard Sci-Fi season's I for Indie episode, Thomas & Bryan are looking to the stars as they cover Claire Denis' very strange version of an interstellar thriller High Life! Together, our duo answers the crucial questions. How does High Life capture the experience of living in our modern world? Why does Robert Pattinson pick the weirdest projects to be in? Will Andre 3000 get to know what's going inside that peculiar box? Well, head toward that wormhole in your practical spaceship while you listen to find out! Join our Patreon for $1 for monthly bonus episodes and the chance to vote for new podcasts at patreon.com/cinema2letter! Follow us @cinema2letter on the socials! Artwork by Michelle Kyle! Music by Burial Grid! We're a proud member of the TalkFilmSociety podcast network! 

Who thought putting criminals in space would be a great idea? I mean, if everyone was kind and everything was successful, would it make a great story? Who can tell but that's the basis of the Claire Denis film HIGH LIFE. Starring Robert Pattison, Mia Goth, Juliette Binoche, André "3000" Benjamin, and Ewan Mitchell, we follow a doomed space mission to a Black Hole and the obvious antics that ensue from locking a bunch of criminals on a spaceship and expecting them to produce offspring. What could go wrong? There's a bunch of fluids being slung around this vessel in scenes wetter than those in ALIEN where Harry Dean Stanton takes a shower in the cargo hold with his clothes on and every other scene where the Xenomorph shows up and it's drooling everywhere. HIGH LIFE is considered a sci-fi horror as well just so you know. That's why I mention it.

This episode features Paolo Tizón and his documentary “Night Has Come”, which just won the Special Jury Award and the FIPRESCI (Critic) Award at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His main inspiration for the film: ‘Beau Travail' (1999) by Claire Denis.We discuss cinematic techniques used in documentaries, the importance of not knowing and being open to surprises while filming - how to listen to the material, editing and structuring a documentary, and the personal motivations behind making his film. We also touch on the connection between music and cinema, the importance of taking breaks during editing, and the value of test screenings. Paolo discusses the stress and excitement of delivering and premiering ‘Night Has Come', and shares his strong love for the medium of film.Short EndsGetting into film festivals can exceed expectations and open doors to bigger opportunities.Using cinematic techniques in documentaries can create a more engaging and immersive experience for the audience.Not knowing and being open to surprises while filming is an important part of documentary filmmaking.Editing and structuring a documentary can be a challenging task, but it is crucial to listen to the material and let it guide the process.Personal motivations and curiosity can drive the creation of a documentary film.There is a strong connection between music and cinema, and pairing music with images can enhance the storytelling. Taking breaks during the editing process allows for fresh eyes and new perspectives.Test screenings are crucial for understanding audience reactions and making necessary changes.Directing and shooting the film as a cinematographer can create a unique and personal connection to the material.Delivering a film can be a stressful and often overlooked aspect of the filmmaking process.Premiering a film at a festival is a mix of excitement and pressure to make the most of the experience.Drawing inspiration from other films can inform and shape the creative choices in a documentary.The filmmaker's next project involves experimenting with fiction and challenging themselves with different formats and cameras.Filmmaking is a deeply engaging and fulfilling art form that allows for personal growth and connection with others.What Movies Are You Watching?Like, subscribe and follow us on our socials @pastpresentfeature

In the second of three (or maybe even four!) episodes on Queer Cinema this month, Dhruv and Cris rhapsodize about Claire Denis' formally groundbreaking masterwork of queer and post-colonial cinema, "Beau Travail" (1999). Initially, we planned to make this a 25-30 minute "extra" episode because Cris' recent obsession with the film matched Dhruv's unwavering love for it. But the film, loosely based on Herman Melville's unfinished 1888 novella, "Billy Budd, Sailor," about male camaraderie that gives way to envy and jealousy, inspires a much longer discussion. Everything from the film's Godardian influences to Denis Lavant's staggering central performance to Agnès Godard's unforgettably haunting cinematography is discussed in detail here, with Dhruv and Cris recounting numerous instances from the film that continue to prove elusive even after three or four viewings. Listen to the full episode to hear us wax lyrical about Denis' subtle lyricism and her whole-hearted embrace of fragmented, elliptical storytelling. These formal and narrative transgressions, we argue, are what make "Beau Travail" an unforgettable, radical queer text. TIME CODES Introduction - [00:00 - 02:56] Claire Denis - [02:57 - 08:06] Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor" & Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Petit Soldat" - [08:06 - 12:20] "Beau Travail" - [12:20 - 01:34:55] Do hit 'Follow' on Spotify if you haven't already to help the podcast reach more people! Follow our Instagram page: https://instagram.com/queenisdead.filmpodcast YOU CAN (& SHOULD!) FOLLOW CRIS IN ALL THESE PLACES - Twitter - https://twitter.com/limjaeseven Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/crislim/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/prdscris/ Audio Excerpts - 1. "Beau Travail Re-Release" Trailer 2. Tarkan's "Kiss Kiss" (1997) 3. Franky Vincent's "Tourment D'Amour" (1991) 4. Corona's "The Rhythm of the Night" (1993)

This week we join the French Foreign Legion in Claire Denis' 1999 masterpiece, "Beau Travail." We discuss the film's influences including "Le Petit Soldat" and "Billy Budd, Sailor" as well as the film's beginnings as a TV movie. We then dive into the plot, interpreting and providing context to the story and imagery. Finally, we each pair the film with another for a pair of double bills!Thank you so much for listening!Created by Spike Alkire & Jake KelleyTheme Song by Breck McGoughFollow us on Instagram: @DoubleBillChillLetterboxd: FartsDomino44

Climb aboard the dog ship and fly into a black hole for an episode on prisoners, mothers, and spaghetti with Claire Denis' High Life. When we first saw you, you were a filthy little podcast. Now look at you. If you like the podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe! Follow us at @theladykpod on Twitter and @theladykillerspod on Instagram and Bluesky Connect with your co-hosts:  Jenn: @jennferatu on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky  Sammie: @srkdall on Twitter and Instagram, @srkdallreads Bookstagram Mae: @eversonpoe on all social media platforms, music at eversonpoe.bandcamp.com Rocco: @roccotthompson on Twitter, @rosemarys_gayby on Instagram Cover Art: David (@the_haunted_david, @the_haunted_david_art) Logo Art: Meg (@sludgework) Music: Mae (@eversonpoe) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Directed by Claire Denis and released in 1999, Beau Travail follows a Master-at-arms within the French Foreign Legion, named Galloup. He lives for the Legion and strives to be the perfect Legionnaire until one day a new recruit arrives, which raises doubts, questions, and unfamiliar feelings within Galloup. A love story about the Legion itself it is has been heralded as one of the great cinematic works of all time and one that continues to move and inspire audiences to this day.

In his new book The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that, “The American poet Amiri Baraka described James Baldwin, who was born a year before Fanon, as ‘God's Black revolutionary mouth.' What Baldwin was for America, Fanon was for the world, especially the insurgent Third World, those subjects of European empires who had been denied what Edward Said called the ‘permission to narrate.'” Shatz's book explores, in lucid detail, the complex life and thought of the Martinican psychiatrist and anticolonial theorist,  whose life was tragically cut short in 1961. Fanon's epochal books Black Skin, White Mask and The Wretched of the Earth have long been a source of inspiration for politically minded filmmakers, including Med Hondo, Claire Denis, and many others. Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited Adam on the podcast to talk about Fanon's interest in cinema, filmmakers who've engaged the theorist's works, and what exactly makes a movie “Fanonian.” In addition to films by Hondo and Denis, we talked about Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Antonioni's The Passenger, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl, and more.

We're considering the male form this week with two movies about masculinity. Representing the arthouse, it's Claire Denis's BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) and representing the mainstream, it's the breakout movie for Rob Schneider and Happy Madison Productions, DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO (1999). Which movie will enter the canon? And which will enter the trash canon and we can never watch it again for the rest of our lives??? Listen to find out! NEXT WEEK: eXistenZ vs Wild Wild West THE CANON & TRASH CANON (LETTERBOXD): https://letterboxd.com/weekendbergman/lists FOLLOW US ON LETTERBOXD: https://letterboxd.com/breyyyattt https://letterboxd.com/joecilio FOLLOW WEEKEND AT BERGMAN'S https://twitter.com/weekendbergman https://www.instagram.com/weekendbergman https://www.tiktok.com/@weekendbergman BUY MERCH https://www.teepublic.com/user/weekend-at-bergmans WEEKEND AT BERGMAN'S IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/weekend-at-bergmans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation. Directed by Claire Denis Written by Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox, Andrew Litvack & Nick Laird @thedeadlightspod

Original Air Date: Monday 11 March, 9 pm Eastern    Description:   Because Phil is traveling, he and Dean pre-recorded this week's show on Sunday morning BEFORE the Oscars, so there will be scant little Academy Awards conversation on the episode. Instead, Dean and Phil re-visit some of the more troubling aspects of the legacy of "The X-Files" and examine two other television series: The acclaimed "The Bear" and the divisive season 4 of "Star Trek: Discovery" (including friend of show Luke Y. Thompson's hilarious review of season 4). Last week's "Live Event of the Week" gets re-visited thanks to an email from the subject of that segment! We will learn more about the great dancer and teacher Fujima Kansuma and Dean and Phil will ponder the possibility of someday taking a "deep dive" into the art of Kabuki on the show! Two fascinating films get discussed: Wim Wenders' 1993 Wings of Desire sequel, Faraway, So Close! and the 7th greatest film of all time according to the Sight and Sound Poll, Claire Denis' 1999 masterpiece Beau Travail (which is having a 25th anniversary re-release). "Celebrity Deaths" includes a bit of a quiz for Dean about a legendary Japanese artist and Canada's First Lady of Jazz, before a great Italian filmmaker, an influential and controversial British playwright, and a beloved "entertainer" all get their turn in the spotlight.

Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship AND their own film educations through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.On this week's call, Scott and Jack FINALLY experience a long-awaited Blindspot of sheer cinematic genius: Beau Travail by Claire Denis!Follow Blindspotting on Facebook and Buzzsprout and look for our newest endeavor on YouTube: FLICKER with Jack and Scott!

The language is English but the sensibility is French with the Claire Denis sci-fi film High Life starring Robert Pattinson. Brothers J and Eric agreed that it is a well made and beautiful but bleak movie which J enjoyed but Eric did not.   Housekeeping starts at 43:10 during which they discussed Homeland, weather, car dealer service departments, Flatliners, the cult of Mother God, marijuana, and the documentary Full Circle.   File length 1:17:35 File Size 56.4 MB   Theme by Jul Big Green via SongFinch Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at Not In A Creepy Way

durée : 00:55:29 - Certains l'aiment Fip - À l'occasion de la sortie du film "La Tête Froide", nous sommes avec la célèbre Marie-Jeanne du "Bureau des Légendes" pour une plongée dans les B.O de ses rôles initiés par Claire Denis, Solveig Anspach, Aurélia Georges, Jeanne Balibar, Zabou Breitman ou Michael Haneke...

Celebrate our 450th episode with us as we catch up with two cinematic blindspots, Michael Mann's "Heat" and Claire Denis' "Beau Travail" and allow us to discuss toxic masculinity, terrifying heists and who is the real assistant to the regional manager. Thank you to everyone that emailed in their blind spots and to everyone that listens to the show! Email us at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter and InstagramAs always you can catch our episodes early and ad free over on Nebula. And if you sign up with the link below, it really helps out the pod!https://go.nebula.tv/theonlypodcastaboutmoviesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week Heaven discusses yet ANOTHER French film because she is apparently a bigger Francophile than she thought! In this episode, she covers the 1999 Claire Denis film, BEAU TRAVAIL Heaven delves into masculinity through the Female Gaze, as well as French colonialism in Africa, how colonialism is a trait of toxic masculinity, as well as how influential this film has become since it was released over twenty years ago.Support Me:linktr.ee/FromMyLipsPod

In this episode of What a Picture, Bryan and Hannah return from a daring helicopter rescue to pod about Beau Travail, the 1999 movie directed by Claire Denis that ranks #7 on Sight and Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time Critics' Poll. Chairs from 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn_chair Bryan's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bryanwhatapic.bsky.social Bryan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryan_whatapic Music is "Phaser" by Static in Verona.

We continue our miniseries on the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, with a look at the films released in 1988. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we finally continue with the next part of our look back at the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, specifically looking at 1988.   But before we get there, I must issue another mea culpa. In our episode on the 1987 movies from Miramax, I mentioned that a Kiefer Sutherland movie called Crazy Moon never played in another theatre after its disastrous one week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles in December 1987.   I was wrong.   While doing research on this episode, I found one New York City playdate for the film, in early February 1988. It grossed a very dismal $3200 at the 545 seat Festival Theatre during its first weekend, and would be gone after seven days.   Sorry for the misinformation.   1988 would be a watershed year for the company, as one of the movies they acquired for distribution would change the course of documentary filmmaking as we knew it, and another would give a much beloved actor his first Academy Award nomination while giving the company its first Oscar win.   But before we get to those two movies, there's a whole bunch of others to talk about first.   Of the twelve movies Miramax would release in 1988, only four were from America. The rest would be a from a mixture of mostly Anglo-Saxon countries like the UK, Canada, France and Sweden, although there would be one Spanish film in there.   Their first release of the new year, Le Grand Chemin, told the story of a timid nine-year-old boy from Paris who spends one summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother has lodged the boy with her friend and her friend's husband while Mom has another baby. The boy makes friends with a slightly older girl next door, and learns about life from her.   Richard Bohringer, who plays the friend's husband, and Anémone, who plays the pregnant mother, both won Cesars, the French equivalent to the Oscars, in their respective lead categories, and the film would be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of 1987 by the National Board of Review. Miramax, who had picked up the film at Cannes several months earlier, waited until January 22nd, 1988, to release it in America, first at the Paris Theatre in midtown Manhattan, where it would gross a very impressive $41k in its first three days. In its second week, it would drop less than 25% of its opening weekend audience, bringing in another $31k. But shortly after that, the expected Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film did not come, and business on the film slowed to a trickle. But it kept chugging on, and by the time the film finished its run in early June, it had grossed $541k.   A week later, on January 29th, Miramax would open another French film, Light Years. An animated science fiction film written and directed by René Laloux, best known for directing the 1973 animated head trip film Fantastic Planet, Light Years was the story of an evil force from a thousand years in the future who begins to destroy an idyllic paradise where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.   In its first three days at two screens in Los Angeles and five screens in the San Francisco Bay Area, Light Years would gross a decent $48,665. Miramax would print a self-congratulating ad in that week's Variety touting the film's success, and thanking Isaac Asimov, who helped to write the English translation, and many of the actors who lent their vocal talents to the new dub, including Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Grey, Christopher Plummer, and Penn and Teller. Yes, Teller speaks. The ad was a message to both the theatre operators and the major players in the industry. Miramax was here. Get used to it.   But that ad may have been a bit premature.   While the film would do well in major markets during its initial week in theatres, audience interest would drop outside of its opening week in big cities, and be practically non-existent in college towns and other smaller cities. Its final box office total would be just over $370k.   March 18th saw the release of a truly unique film.    Imagine a film directed by Robert Altman and Bruce Beresford and Jean-Luc Godard and Derek Jarman and Franc Roddam and Nicolas Roeg and Ken Russell and Charles Sturridge and Julien Temple. Imagine a film that starred Beverly D'Angelo, Bridget Fonda in her first movie, Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Elizabeth Hurley and John Hurt and Theresa Russell and Tilda Swinton. Imagine a film that brought together ten of the most eclectic filmmakers in the world doing four to fourteen minute short films featuring the arias of some of the most famous and beloved operas ever written, often taken out of their original context and placed into strange new places. Like, for example, the aria for Verdi's Rigoletto set at the kitschy Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, where a movie producer is cheating on his wife while she is in a nearby room with a hunky man who is not her husband. Imagine that there's almost no dialogue in the film. Just the arias to set the moments.   That is Aria.   If you are unfamiliar with opera in general, and these arias specifically, that's not a problem. When I saw the film at the Nickelodeon Theatre in Santa Cruz in June 1988, I knew some Wagner, some Puccini, and some Verdi, through other movies that used the music as punctuation for a scene. I think the first time I had heard Nessun Dorma was in The Killing Fields. Vesti La Giubba in The Untouchables. But this would be the first time I would hear these arias as they were meant to be performed, even if they were out of context within their original stories. Certainly, Wagner didn't intend the aria from Tristan und Isolde to be used to highlight a suicide pact between a young couple killing themselves in a Las Vegas hotel bathroom.   Aria definitely split critics when it premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, when it competed for the festival's main prize, the Palme D'Or. Roger Ebert would call it the first MTV opera and felt the filmmakers were poking fun at their own styles, while Leonard Maltin felt most of the endeavor was a waste of time. In the review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin would also make a reference to MTV but not in a positive way, and would note the two best parts of the film were the photo montage that is seen over the end credits, and the clever licensing of Chuck Jones's classic Bugs Bunny cartoon What's Opera, Doc, to play with the film, at least during its New York run. In the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper chose one of its music critics to review the film. They too would compare the film to MTV, but also to Fantasia, neither reference meant to be positive.   It's easy to see what might have attracted Harvey Weinstein to acquire the film.   Nudity.   And lots of it.   Including from a 21 year old Hurley, and a 22 year old Fonda.   Open at the 420 seat Ridgemont Theatre in Seattle on March 18th, 1988, Aria would gross a respectable $10,600. It would be the second highest grossing theatre in the city, only behind The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which grossed $16,600 in its fifth week at the 850 seat Cinerama Theatre, which was and still is the single best theatre in Seattle. It would continue to do well in Seattle, but it would not open until April 15th in Los Angeles and May 20th in New York City.   But despite some decent notices and the presence of some big name directors, Aria would stiff at the box office, grossing just $1.03m after seven months in theatres.   As we discussed on our previous episode, there was a Dennis Hopper movie called Riders on the Storm that supposedly opened in November 1987, but didn't. It did open in theatres in May of 1988, and now we're here to talk about it.   Riders on the Storm would open in eleven theatres in the New York City area on May 7th, including three theatres in Manhattan. Since Miramax did not screen the film for critics before release, never a good sign, the first reviews wouldn't show up until the following day, since the critics would actually have to go see the film with a regular audience. Vincent Canby's review for the New York Times would arrive first, and surprisingly, he didn't completely hate the film. But audiences didn't care. In its first weekend in New York City, Riders on the Storm would gross an anemic $25k. The following Friday, Miramax would open the film at two theatres in Baltimore, four theatres in Fort Worth TX (but surprisingly none in Dallas), one theatre in Los Angeles and one theatre in Springfield OH, while continuing on only one screen in New York. No reported grosses from Fort Worth, LA or Springfield, but the New York theatre reported ticket sales of $3k for the weekend, a 57% drop from its previous week, while the two in Baltimore combined for $5k.   There would be more single playdates for a few months. Tampa the same week as New York. Atlanta, Charlotte, Des Moines and Memphis in late May. Cincinnati in late June. Boston, Calgary, Ottawa and Philadelphia in early July. Greenville SC in late August. Evansville IL, Ithaca NY and San Francisco in early September. Chicago in late September. It just kept popping up in random places for months, always a one week playdate before heading off to the next location. And in all that time, Miramax never reported grosses. What little numbers we do have is from the theatres that Variety was tracking, and those numbers totaled up to less than $30k.   Another mostly lost and forgotten Miramax release from 1988 is Caribe, a Canadian production that shot in Belize about an amateur illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists who must go on the run after a deal goes down bad, because who wants to see a Canadian movie about an amateur illegal arms trader to Canadian terrorists who must go on the run in the Canadian tundra after a deal goes down bad?   Kara Glover would play Helen, the arms dealer, and John Savage as Jeff, a British intelligence agent who helps Helen.   Caribe would first open in Detroit on May 20th, 1988. Can you guess what I'm going to say next?   Yep.   No reported grosses, no theatres playing the film tracked by Variety.   The following week, Caribe opens in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the 300 seat United Artists Theatre in San Francisco, and three theatres in the South Bay. While Miramax once again did not report grosses, the combined gross for the four theatres, according to Variety, was a weak $3,700. Compare that to Aria, which was playing at the Opera Plaza Cinemas in its third week in San Francisco, in an auditorium 40% smaller than the United Artist, grossing $5,300 on its own.   On June 3rd, Caribe would open at the AMC Fountain Square 14 in Nashville. One show only on Friday and Saturday at 11:45pm. Miramax did not report grosses. Probably because people we going to see Willie Tyler and Lester at Zanie's down the street.   And again, it kept cycling around the country, one or two new playdates in each city it played in. Philadelphia in mid-June. Indianapolis in mid-July. Jersey City in late August. Always for one week, grosses never reported.   Miramax's first Swedish release of the year was called Mio, but this was truly an international production. The $4m film was co-produced by Swedish, Norwegian and Russian production companies, directed by a Russian, adapted from a Swedish book by an American screenwriter, scored by one of the members of ABBA, and starring actors from England, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.   Mio tells the story of a boy from Stockholm who travels to an otherworldly fantasy realm and frees the land from an evil knight's oppression. What makes this movie memorable today is that Mio's best friend is played by none other than Christian Bale, in his very first film.   The movie was shot in Moscow, Stockholm, the Crimea, Scotland, and outside Pripyat in the Northern part of what is now Ukraine, between March and July 1986. In fact, the cast and crew were shooting outside Pripyat on April 26th, when they got the call they needed to evacuate the area. It would be hours later when they would discover there had been a reactor core meltdown at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. They would have to scramble to shoot in other locations away from Ukraine for a month, and when they were finally allowed to return, the area they were shooting in deemed to have not been adversely affected by the worst nuclear power plant accident in human history,, Geiger counters would be placed all over the sets, and every meal served by craft services would need to be read to make sure it wasn't contaminated.   After premiering at the Moscow Film Festival in July 1987 and the Norwegian Film Festival in August, Mio would open in Sweden on October 16th, 1987. The local critics would tear the film apart. They hated that the filmmakers had Anglicized the movie with British actors like Christopher Lee, Susannah York, Christian Bale and Nicholas Pickard, an eleven year old boy also making his film debut. They also hated how the filmmakers adapted the novel by the legendary Astrid Lindgren, whose Pippi Longstocking novels made her and her works world famous. Overall, they hated pretty much everything about it outside of Christopher Lee's performance and the production's design in the fantasy world.   Miramax most likely picked it up trying to emulate the success of The Neverending Story, which had opened to great success in most of the world in 1984. So it might seem kinda odd that when they would open the now titled The Land of Faraway in theatres, they wouldn't go wide but instead open it on one screen in Atlanta GA on June 10th, 1988. And, once again, Miramax did not report grosses, and Variety did not track Atlanta theatres that week. Two weeks later, they would open the film in Miami. How many theatres? Can't tell you. Miramax did not report grosses, and Variety was not tracking any of the theatres in Miami playing the film. But hey, Bull Durham did pretty good in Miami that week.   The film would next open in theatres in Los Angeles. This time, Miramax bought a quarter page ad in the Los Angeles Times on opening day to let people know the film existed. So we know it was playing on 18 screens that weekend. And, once again, Miramax did not report grosses for the film. But on the two screens it played on that Variety was tracking, the combined gross was just $2,500.   There'd be other playdates. Kansas City and Minneapolis in mid-September. Vancouver, BC in early October. Palm Beach FL in mid October. Calgary AB and Fort Lauderdale in late October. Phoenix in mid November. And never once did Miramax report any grosses for it.   One week after Mio, Miramax would release a comedy called Going Undercover.   Now, if you listened to our March 2021 episode on Some Kind of Wonderful, you may remember be mentioning Lea Thompson taking the role of Amanda Jones in that film, a role she had turned down twice before, the week after Howard the Duck opened, because she was afraid she'd never get cast in a movie again. And while Some Kind of Wonderful wasn't as big a film as you'd expect from a John Hughes production, Thompson did indeed continue to work, and is still working to this day.   So if you were looking at a newspaper ad in several cities in June 1988 and saw her latest movie and wonder why she went back to making weird little movies.   She hadn't.   This was a movie she had made just before Back to the Future, in August and September 1984.   Originally titled Yellow Pages, the film starred film legend Jean Simmons as Maxine, a rich woman who has hired Chris Lemmon's private investigator Henry Brilliant to protect her stepdaughter Marigold during her trip to Copenhagen.   The director, James Clarke, had written the script specifically for Lemmon, tailoring his role to mimic various roles played by his famous father, Jack Lemmon, over the decades, and for Simmons. But Thompson was just one of a number of young actresses they looked at before making their casting choice.   Half of the $6m budget would come from a first-time British film producer, while the other half from a group of Danish investors wanting to lure more Hollywood productions to their area.   The shoot would be plagued by a number of problems. The shoot in Los Angeles coincided with the final days of the 1984 Summer Olympics, which would cut out using some of the best and most regularly used locations in the city, and a long-lasting heat wave that would make outdoor shoots unbearable for cast and crew. When they arrived in Copenhagen at the end of August, Denmark was going through an unusually heavy storm front that hung around for weeks.   Clarke would spend several months editing the film, longer than usual for a smaller production like this, but he in part was waiting to see how Back to the Future would do at the box office. If the film was a hit, and his leading actress was a major part of that, it could make it easier to sell his film to a distributor.   Or that was line of thinking.   Of course, Back to the Future was a hit, and Thompson received much praise for her comedic work on the film.   But that didn't make it any easier to sell his film.   The producer would set the first screenings for the film at the February 1986 American Film Market in Santa Monica, which caters not only to foreign distributors looking to acquire American movies for their markets, but helps independent filmmakers get their movies seen by American distributors.   As these screenings were for buyers by invitation only, there would be no reviews from the screenings, but one could guess that no one would hear about the film again until Miramax bought the American distribution rights to it in March 1988 tells us that maybe those screenings didn't go so well.   The film would get retitled Going Undercover, and would open in single screen playdates in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, St. Louis and Tampa on June 17th. And as I've said too many times already, no reported grosses from Miramax, and only one theatre playing the film was being tracked by Variety, with Going Undercover earning $3,000 during its one week at the Century City 14 in Los Angeles.   In the June 22nd, 1988 issue of Variety, there was an article about Miramax securing a $25m line of credit in order to start producing their own films. Going Undercover is mentioned in the article about being one of Miramax's releases, without noting it had just been released that week or how well it did or did not do.   The Thin Blue Line would be Miramax's first non-music based documentary, and one that would truly change how documentaries were made.   Errol Morris had already made two bizarre but entertaining documentaries in the late 70s and early 80s. Gates of Heaven was shot in 1977, about a man who operated a failing pet cemetery in Northern California's Napa Valley. When Morris told his famous German filmmaking supporter Werner Herzog about the film, Herzog vowed to eat one of the shoes he was wearing that day if Morris could actually complete the film and have it shown in a public theatre. In April 1979, just before the documentary had its world premiere at UC Theatre in Berkeley, where Morris had studied philosophy, Herzog would spend the morning at Chez Pannise, the creators of the California Cuisine cooking style, boiling his shoes for five hours in garlic, herbs and stock. This event itself would be commemorated in a documentary short called, naturally, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, by Les Blank, which is a must watch on its own.   Because of the success of Gates of Heaven, Morris was able to quickly find financing for his next film, Nub City, which was originally supposed to be about the number of Vernon, Florida's citizens who have “accidentally” cut off their limbs, in order to collect the insurance money. But after several of those citizens threatened to kill Morris, and one of them tried to run down his cinematographer with their truck, Morris would rework the documentary, dropping the limb angle, no pun intended, and focus on the numerous eccentric people in the town. It would premiere at the 1981 New York Film Festival, and become a hit, for a documentary, when it was released in theatres in 1982.   But it would take Morris another six years after completing Vernon, Florida, to make another film. Part of it was having trouble lining up full funding to work on his next proposed movie, about James Grigson, a Texas forensic psychiatrist whose was nicknamed Doctor Death for being an expert witness for the prosecution in death penalty cases in Texas. Morris had gotten seed money for the documentary from PBS and the Endowment for Public Arts, but there was little else coming in while he worked on the film. In fact, Morris would get a PI license in New York and work cases for two years, using every penny he earned that wasn't going towards living expenses to keep the film afloat.   One of Morris's major problems for the film was that Grigson would not sit on camera for an interview, but would meet with Morris face to face to talk about the cases. During that meeting, the good doctor suggested to the filmmaker that he should research the killers he helped put away. And during that research, Morris would come across the case of one Randall Dale Adams, who was convicted of killing Dallas police officer Robert Wood in 1976, even though another man, David Harris, was the police's initial suspect. For two years, Morris would fly back and forth between New York City and Texas, talking to and filming interviews with Adams and more than two hundred other people connected to the shooting and the trial. Morris had become convinced Adams was indeed innocent, and dropped the idea about Dr. Grigson to solely focus on the Robert Wood murder.   After showing the producers of PBS's American Playhouse some of the footage he had put together of the new direction of the film, they kicked in more funds so that Morris could shoot some re-enactment sequences outside New York City, as well as commission composer Phillip Glass to create a score for the film once it was completed. Documentaries at that time did not regularly use re-enactments, but Morris felt it was important to show how different personal accounts of the same moment can be misinterpreted or misremembered or outright manipulated to suppress the truth.   After the film completed its post-production in March 1988, The Thin Blue Line would have its world premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival on March 18th, and word quickly spread Morris had something truly unique and special on his hands. The critic for Variety would note in the very first paragraph of his write up that the film employed “strikingly original formal devices to pull together diverse interviews, film clips, photo collages, and” and this is where it broke ground, “recreations of the crime from many points of view.”   Miramax would put together a full court press in order to get the rights to the film, which was announced during the opening days of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival in early May. An early hint on how the company was going to sell the film was by calling it a “non-fiction feature” instead of a documentary.   Miramax would send Morris out on a cross-country press tour in the weeks leading up to the film's August 26th opening date, but Morris, like many documentary filmmakers, was not used to being in the spotlight themselves, and was not as articulate about talking up his movies as the more seasoned directors and actors who've been on the promotion circuit for a while. After one interview, Harvey Weinstein would send Errol Morris a note.   “Heard your NPR interview and you were boring.”   Harvey would offer up several suggestions to help the filmmaker, including hyping the movie up as a real life mystery thriller rather than a documentary, and using shorter and clearer sentences when answering a question.   It was a clear gamble to release The Thin Blue Line in the final week of summer, and the film would need a lot of good will to stand out.   And it would get it.   The New York Times was so enthralled with the film, it would not only run a review from Janet Maslin, who would heap great praise on the film, but would also run a lengthy interview with Errol Morris right next to the review. The quarter page ad in the New York Times, several pages back, would tout positive quotes from Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman, who had left The Village Voice for the then-new Premiere Magazine, Peter Travers, writing for People Magazine instead of Rolling Stone, and critics from the San Francisco Chronicle and, interestingly enough, the Dallas Morning News. The top of the ad was tagged with an intriguing tease: solving this mystery is going to be murder, with a second tag line underneath the key art and title, which called the film “a new kind of movie mystery.” Of the 15 New York area-based film critics for local newspapers, television and national magazines, 14 of them gave favorable reviews, while 1, Stephen Schiff of Vanity Fair, was ambivalent about it. Not one critic gave it a bad review.   New York audiences were hooked.   Opening in the 240 seat main house at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the movie grossed $30,945 its first three days. In its second weekend, the gross at the Lincoln Plaza would jump to $31k, and adding another $27,500 from its two theatre opening in Los Angeles and $15,800 from a single DC theatre that week. Third week in New York was a still good $21k, but the second week in Los Angeles fell to $10,500 and DC to $10k. And that's how it rolled out for several months, mostly single screen bookings in major cities not called Los Angeles or New York City, racking up some of the best reviews Miramax would receive to date, but never breaking out much outside the major cities. When it looked like Santa Cruz wasn't going to play the film, I drove to San Francisco to see it, just as my friends and I had for the opening day of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in mid-August. That's 75 miles each way, plus parking in San Francisco, just to see a movie. That's when you know you no longer just like movies but have developed a serious case of cinephilea. So when The Nickelodeon did open the film in late November, I did something I had never done with any documentary before.   I went and saw it again.   Second time around, I was still pissed off at the outrageous injustice heaped upon Randall Dale Adams for nothing more than being with and trusting the wrong person at the wrong time. But, thankfully, things would turn around for Adams in the coming weeks. On December 1st, it was reported that David Harris had recanted his testimony at Adams' trial, admitting he was alone when Officer Wood stopped his car. And on March 1st, 1989, after more than 15,000 people had signed the film's petition to revisit the decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Adams's conviction “based largely” on facts presented in the film.   The film would also find itself in several more controversies.   Despite being named The Best Documentary of the Year by a number of critics groups, the Documentary Branch of the  Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences would not nominate the film, due in large part to the numerous reenactments presented throughout the film. Filmmaker Michael Apted, a member of the Directors Branch of the Academy, noted that the failure to acknowledge The Thin Blue Line was “one of the most outrageous things in the modern history of the Academy,” while Roger Ebert added the slight was “the worst non-nomination of the year.” Despite the lack of a nomination, Errol Morris would attend the Oscars ceremony in March 1989, as a protest for his film being snubbed.   Morris would also, several months after Adams' release, find himself being sued by Adams, but not because of how he was portrayed in the film. During the making of the film, Morris had Adams sign a contract giving Morris the exclusive right to tell Adams's story, and Adams wanted, essentially, the right to tell his own story now that he was a free man. Morris and Adams would settle out of court, and Adams would regain his life rights.   Once the movie was played out in theatres, it had grossed $1.2m, which on the surface sounds like not a whole lot of money. Adjusted for inflation, that would only be $3.08m. But even unadjusted for inflation, it's still one of the 100 highest grossing documentaries of the past forty years. And it is one of just a handful of documentaries to become a part of the National Film Registry, for being a culturally, historically or aesthetically significant film.”   Adams would live a quiet life after his release, working as an anti-death penalty advocate and marrying the sister of one of the death row inmates he was helping to exonerate. He would pass away from a brain tumor in October 2010 at a courthouse in Ohio not half an hour from where he was born and still lived, but he would so disappear from the spotlight after the movie was released that his passing wasn't even reported until June 2011.   Errol Morris would become one of the most celebrated documentarians of his generation, finally getting nominated for, and winning, an Oscar in 2003, for The Fog of War, about the life and times of Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War era. The Fog of War would also be added to the National Film Registry in 2019. Morris would become only the third documentarian, after D.A. Pennebaker and Les Blank, to have two films on the Registry.   In 1973, the senseless killings of five members of the Alday family in Donalsonville GA made international headlines. Four years later, Canadian documentarian Tex Fuller made an award-winning documentary about the case, called Murder One. For years, Fuller shopped around a screenplay telling the same story, but it would take nearly a decade for it to finally be sold, in part because Fuller was insistent that he also be the director. A small Canadian production company would fund the $1m CAD production, which would star Henry Thomas of E.T. fame as the fifteen year old narrator of the story, Billy Isaacs.   The shoot began in early October 1987 outside Toronto, but after a week of shooting, Fuller was fired, and was replaced by Graeme Campbell, a young and energetic filmmaker for whom Murder One would be his fourth movie directing gig of the year. Details are sketchy as to why Fuller was fired, but Thomas and his mother Carolyn would voice concerns with the producers about the new direction the film was taking under its new director.   The film would premiere in Canada in May 1988. When the film did well up North, Miramax took notice and purchased the American distribution rights.   Murder One would first open in America on two screens in Los Angeles on September 9th, 1988. Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times noted that while the film itself wasn't very good, that it still sprung from the disturbing insight about the crazy reasons people cross of what should be impassable moral lines.   “No movie studio could have invented it!,” screamed the tagline on the poster and newspaper key art. “No writer could have imagined it! Because what happened that night became the most controversial in American history.”   That would draw limited interest from filmgoers in Tinseltown. The two theatres would gross a combined $7k in its first three days. Not great but far better than several other recent Miramax releases in the area.   Two weeks later, on September 23rd, Miramax would book Murder One into 20 theatres in the New York City metro region, as well as in Akron, Atlanta, Charlotte, Indianpolis, Nashville, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. In New York, the film would actually get some good reviews from the Times and the Post as well as Peter Travers of People Magazine, but once again, Miramax would not report grosses for the film. Variety would note the combined gross for the film in New York City was only $25k.   In early October, the film would fall out of Variety's internal list of the 50 Top Grossing Films within the twenty markets they regularly tracked, with a final gross of just $87k. One market that Miramax deliberately did not book the film was anywhere near southwest Georgia, where the murders took place. The closest theatre that did play the film was more than 200 miles away.   Miramax would finish 1988 with two releases.   The first was Dakota, which would mark star Lou Diamond Phillips first time as a producer. He would star as a troubled teenager who takes a job on a Texas horse ranch to help pay of his debts, who becomes a sorta big brother to the ranch owner's young son, who has recently lost a leg to cancer, as he also falls for the rancher's daughter.   When the $1.1m budgeted film began production in Texas in June 1987, Phillips had already made La Bamba and Stand and Deliver, but neither had yet to be released into theatres. By the time filming ended five weeks later, La Bamba had just opened, and Phillips was on his way to becoming a star.   The main producers wanted director Fred Holmes to get the film through post-production as quickly as possible, to get it into theatres in the early part of 1988 to capitalize on the newfound success of their young star.    But that wouldn't happen.   Holmes wouldn't have the film ready until the end of February 1988, which was deemed acceptable because of the impending release of Stand and Deliver. In fact, the producers would schedule their first distributor screening of the film on March 14th, the Monday after Stand and Delivered opened, in the hopes that good box office for the film and good notices for Phillips would translate to higher distributor interest in their film, which sorta worked. None of the major studios would show for the screening, but a number of Indies would, including Miramax. Phillips would not attend the screening, as he was on location in New Mexico shooting Young Guns.   I can't find any reason why Miramax waited nearly nine months after they acquired Dakota to get it into theatres. It certainly wasn't Oscar bait, and screen availability would be scarce during the busy holiday movie season, which would see a number of popular, high profile releases like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ernest Saves Christmas, The Naked Gun, Rain Man, Scrooged, Tequila Sunrise, Twins and Working Girl. Which might explain why, when Miramax released the film into 18 theatres in the New York City area on December 2nd, they could only get three screens in all of Manhattan, the best being the nice but hardly first-rate Embassy 4 at Broadway and 47th. Or of the 22 screens in Los Angeles opening the film the same day, the best would be the tiny Westwood 4 next to UCLA or the Paramount in Hollywood, whose best days were back in the Eisenhower administration.   And, yet again, Miramax did not report grosses, and none of the theatres playing the film was tracked by Variety that week. The film would be gone after just one week. The Paramount, which would open Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on the 14th, opted to instead play a double feature of Clara's Heart, with Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris, and the River Phoenix drama Running on Empty, even though neither film had been much of a hit.   Miramax's last film of the year would be the one that changed everything for them.   Pelle the Conquerer.   Adapted from a 1910 Danish book and directed by Billie August, whose previous film Twist and Shout had been released by Miramax in 1986, Pelle the Conquerer would be the first Danish or Swedish movie to star Max von Sydow in almost 15 years, having spent most of the 70s and 80s in Hollywood and London starring in a number of major movies including The Exorcist, Three Days of the Condor, Flash Gordon,Conan the Barbarian, Never Say Never Again, and David Lynch's Dune. But because von Sydow would be making his return to his native cinema, August was able to secure $4.5m to make the film, one of the highest budgeted Scandinavian films to be made to date.   In the late 1850s, an elderly emigrant Lasse and his son Pelle leave their home in Sweden after the death of the boy's mother, wanting to build a new life on the Danish island of Bornholm. Lasse finds it difficult to find work, given his age and his son's youth. The pair are forced to work at a large farm, where they are generally mistreated by the managers for being foreigners. The father falls into depression and alcoholism, the young boy befriends one of the bastard children of the farm owner as well as another Swedish farm worker, who dreams of conquering the world.   For the title character of Pelle, Billie August saw more than 3,000 Swedish boys before deciding to cast 11 year old Pelle Hvenegaard, who, like many boys in Sweden, had been named for the character he was now going to play on screen.   After six months of filming in the summer and fall of 1986, Billie August would finish editing Pelle the Conquerer in time for it to make its intended Christmas Day 1987 release date in Denmark and Sweden, where the film would be one of the biggest releases in either country for the entire decade. It would make its debut outside Scandinavia at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1988, where it had been invited to compete for the Palme D'Or. It would compete against a number of talented filmmakers who had come with some of the best films they would ever make, including Clint Eastwood with Bird, Claire Denis' Chocolat, István Szabó's Hanussen, Vincent Ward's The Navigator, and A Short Film About Killing, an expanded movie version of the fifth episode in Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterful miniseries Dekalog. Pelle would conquer them all, taking home the top prize from one of cinema's most revered film festivals.   Reviews for the film out of Cannes were almost universally excellent. Vincent Canby, the lead film critic for the New York Times for nearly twenty years by this point, wouldn't file his review until the end of the festival, in which he pointed out that a number of people at the festival were scandalized von Sydow had not also won the award for Best Actor.   Having previously worked with the company on his previous film's American release, August felt that Miramax would have what it took to make the film a success in the States.   Their first moves would be to schedule the film for a late December release, while securing a slot at that September's New York Film Festival. And once again, the critical consensus was highly positive, with only a small sampling of distractors.   The film would open first on two screens at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, December 21st, following by exclusive engagements in nine other cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC, on the 23rd. But the opening week numbers weren't very good, just $46k from ten screens. And you can't really blame the film's two hour and forty-five minute running time. Little Dorrit, the two-part, four hour adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, had been out nine weeks at this point and was still making nearly 50% more per screen.   But after the new year, when more and more awards were hurled the film's way, including the National Board of Review naming it one of the best foreign films of the year and the Golden Globes awarding it their Best Foreign Language trophy, ticket sales would pick up.   Well, for a foreign film.   The week after the Motion Picture Academy awarded Pelle their award for Best Foreign Language Film, business for the film would pick up 35%, and a third of its $2m American gross would come after that win.   One of the things that surprised me while doing the research for this episode was learning that Max von Sydow had never been nominated for an Oscar until he was nominated for Best Actor for Pelle the Conquerer. You look at his credits over the years, and it's just mind blowing. The Seventh Seal. Wild Strawberries. The Virgin Spring. The Greatest Story Ever Told. The Emigrants. The Exorcist. The Three Days of the Condor. Surely there was one performance amongst those that deserved recognition.   I hate to keep going back to A24, but there's something about a company's first Oscar win that sends that company into the next level. A24 didn't really become A24 until 2016, when three of their movies won Oscars, including Brie Larson for Best Actress in Room. And Miramax didn't really become the Miramax we knew and once loved until its win for Pelle.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 117, the fifth and final part of our miniseries on Miramax Films, is released.     Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

So, why do they call it "the little death"? Will is joined by film critic Adam Nayman to discuss Claire Denis's transgressive masterpiece TROUBLE EVERY DAY (2001) and how it scandalized film culture circa 2001. PLUS: What is it like to teach the history of satire at a university?Follow Adam Nayman on Twitter and find his books here.Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, why do they call it "the little death"? Will is joined by film critic Adam Nayman to discuss Claire Denis's transgressive masterpiece TROUBLE EVERY DAY (2001) and how it scandalized film culture circa 2001. PLUS: What is it like to teach the history of satire at a university? Adam Nayman on Twitter - https://twitter.com/brofromanother Adam's books - https://www.abramsbooks.com/contributor/adam-nayman_19289396/

durée : 00:54:57 - Le masque et la plume - par : Jérôme Garcin - Les critiques ont vu : "Asteroid City" de Wes Anderson, "Wahou !" de Bruno Podalydès, "Il Boemo" de Petr Vaclav, "Carmen", de Benjamin Millepied, "Stars at Noon" de Claire Denis, "La fille et le garçon" de Jean-Marie Besset. - réalisé par : Xavier PESTUGGIA

CONTENT WARNING: This film explores SA in extreme detail. We discuss some of these themes in the episode.We watched a French film! A Sci Fi one! Andre 3000 starred in Claire Denis' 2018 film HIGH LIFE alongside the gawd Robert Pattinson. There is an audio issue in the second part of the episode - the music part. The timing might be off by MILLISECONDS but it should be OK.Check out and contribute to SFUltra, Sean's Sci Fi podcast.https://www.patreon.com/SFULTRA/posts

The nerds continue with celebrating Pride Month and today they review Claire Denis' Beau Travail! Thank You ALL for Helping Support Us! Visit Our Website

Look, we're all human. Even if we prefer to think of ourselves as dark-dwelling, bloodthirsty creatures, there is always something that will remind us that we're just big sacks of goo that can easily be dismantled – or forget to hit record on our podcast. We dive deeper than we maybe have before this week and face new elements of existential crisis tackling our first foray (at least on the show) into New French Extremity (a term you will hear us say ad nauseam, so apologies in advance). We are also somewhat proud to say that after 60+ episodes of recording we have yet to do something truly silly like forget to press that pesky record button – until today. So, like the French filmmakers of the ‘00s, we're bringin' heat right out of the gate. Please enjoy our discussion on Claire Denis' TROUBLE EVERY DAY and let us know, do we need to make Cody watch MARTYRS again? Follow us all on Letterboxd and the usual spots to tell us these things! 00:00 - 37:00ish - Friendship stuff and what we watched this week: Take 2! Austin: M3GAN   Cody: Cocaine Bear, Toy Story 2, The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D   Lucas: The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D   Curtis: The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D, High Life, Roh, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Creed, and Sheitan 37:00ish - 1:27:45ish - TROUBLE EVERY DAY - SHUDdown and discussion   1:27:45ish - End - Our next movie!

Claire Denis had wowed us back in episode 45 when we reviewed her then-new-release, High Life, but it has taken our Sight & Sound catch-up journey to get us back to the writer/director's unique cinematic perspectives. To pair with her 1999 film Beau Travail (#7 on the 2022 poll), we look at one(!) of her two features from 2022, Both Sides of the Blade, starring BaaM faves Juliette Binoche (High Life) and Vincent Lindon (Titane) as well as Gregoire Colin, who also appears in Beau Travail. Its all about grown-up drama and cinematic style this week on BaaM, but you may want to put on your dancing shoes, just to be safe.

This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2023 Berlinale is currently underway. Throughout the festival, we'll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year's selection.  A couple days ago, before the festival kicked off, FC co-deputy editor Devika Girish attended the opening conference of the Berlin Critics' Week—an autonomous sidebar to the Berlinale, organized independently by a collective of German critics, including Amos Borchert, Elena Friedrich, Petra Palmer, and Dennis Vetter. The topic of the conference was “Cinema of Care - Who Looks After Film Culture?” which included a panel discussion moderated by Devika, and featuring a stellar lineup of guests: curators Abby Sun and Marek Hovorka, and the filmmaker Claire Denis. The four had a provocative, in-depth conversation about what care looks like on the level of aesthetics, in filmmaking, and in film programming, and how we might build a sustainable and collective film culture. We're very grateful to Berlin Critics Week for letting us share the conversation on the podcast.

It's sort of a low-key week around here as we wait for Black Panther to return on Breakfast All Day. Christy and Alonso review “Call Jane,” about the underground group that helped women secure safe abortions in 1968 Chicago, starring a terrific Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver. We also catch up with the toxic romance “Stars at Noon,” the latest from master French filmmaker Claire Denis, which is now streaming on Hulu. In news, we discuss Elon Musk buying Twitter, the “Wakanda Forever” premiere (and keep an eye out for our YouTube livestream discussion on Nov. 12), the weird Matthew Perry-Keanu Reeves beef, James Gunn taking over DC Studios and more. And over at our Patreon, recaps of this week's excellent episodes of “Andor” and “The Handmaid's Tale.” Thanks as always for hanging out, and save some Halloween candy for us.

We're getting down to serious business, people: It's almost Halloween! SPOOKY SEASON. Our first movie is the horror sequel "Halloween Ends," which, they promise, ends the Halloween franchise. Then we look at the Claire Denis romantic thriller "Stars at Noon." Then it's Park Chan-Wook's "Decision to Leave." Timestamps: 16:21 "Halloween Ends" 42:11 "Stars at Noon" 1:04:25 "Decision to Leave" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave and Alonso discuss the movie about terminal cancer and god's silence, which is not the Claire Denis movie. Subscribe (and review us) at Apple Podcasts, follow us @linoleumcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, I wouldn't call that living. Join our club, won't you?

Washington and Rapinoe are among this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Washington's films include "Malcolm X," "Philadelphia," "Glory," and "Training Day." Rapinoe is a soccer champion and LGBTQ activist. She fought for, and helped win, equal pay in women's soccer. Also, Justin Chang reviews the new French film Both Sides of the Blade, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by Claire Denis.

Sean is joined by Joanna Robinson to reflect on the passing of the great James Caan, before breaking down Taika Waititi's latest installment of the Thor story, ‘Love and Thunder' (6:37). Then, Sean is joined by the French filmmaker Claire Denis to talk about her brilliant career and her latest film, ‘Both Sides of the Blade' (67:11). HOST: Sean Fennessey GUESTS: Joanna Robinson and Claire Denis PRODUCER: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With new films from Jordan Peele, Alex Garland, and Claire Denis, not to mention the latest from Marvel, Pixar, and the long-awaited return of Tom Cruise's Maverick, the fifteen or so weekends that make up the summer movie season gives us plenty to look forward to. Adam and Josh's Summer Movie Preview comes in the form of their Top 5 questions about the upcoming movie season. 0:00 - Billboard 1:49 - Summer Movie Preview Igor Dvorkin, "Golden Summer" 24:37 - Next Week / Notes 33:14 - Massacre Theatre 39:41 - Summer Movie Preview, cont 1:00:34 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices