France Tag Archive

Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2010: Copacabana – Marc Fitoussi

Copacabana is the story of Babou (Isabelle Huppert), an individual, a mother who can shrug off jobs, friends, responsibilities, almost anything in the quest

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Film Festival, Live Action

LFF2010: Hands Up

I’m not at all familiar with Romain Goupil’s work but Hands Up is a film that you’ll watch and admire so much, you’ll be drawn to explore his back

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Live Action

Denis Double

Claire Denis is fast becoming one of the most respected and critically acclaimed directors in world cinema. With this in mind, I’m almost embarrassed to

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Animation, Music Video

Alex Gopher: The Child

I love motion graphics. If you can throw shapes, words, colours and textures around the screen in an interesting way, I’ll gladly give you my undivided

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Music Video, Podcasts

DN164: Sonar – Renaud Hallee

Director Renaud Hallee’s first venture into animation, Sonar, has been described as a perfect example of ‘how to listen to music with your

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Live Action

Micmacs – Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Hitchcockian, Capraesque and Kubrickian are all terms used to describe the relative filmmakers’ distinctive styles, well maybe it’s about time we add

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Live Action

Cold Souls

Having missed Cold Souls at this year’s London Film Festival due to the major inconvenience that is work and then missing it a couple of weeks later at

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: A Prophet – Jacques Audiard

The reputation of Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète (A Prophet) has, as expected, gone from strength to strength. DN takes a look at this much lauded debut.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Enter The Void – Gaspar Noe

There is a particular kind of critic that points at the work they’re reviewing and says ‘Yeah, well, if I had done it, I would have done it like

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN125: Globe Street Video Challenge – Sébastien Abes

This week director Sébastien Abes joins me to discuss his creative and sometimes experimental approach to shooting and editing skate videos. Globe: Street

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Animation, Music Video, Podcasts

DN106: ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip – Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann

If you’re of the view that that fan films are exclusively the domain of soulless, sub-standard knock-offs, the work of this week’s guests Simon

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