All the Oscar talk about this year's Best Foreign Film, Amour, has me thinking about the many French films I watched during my yearlong experiment of importing certain French parenting lessons to use on my two daughters.
Anna Karina was the epitome of '60s Parisian cool: The gorgeous brunette not only starred in a handful of Nouvelle Vague films, but she also managed t...
I urge women who have been downloading the E.L. James novel 50 Shades of Gray to their Kindles to instead take a look at the real thing, the very essence of no, no, no, yes, yes, yes.
The old saying tells us that "Behind every great man there is a great woman," but oftentimes artists keep their beauties right where they can see them...
In film there are two very different types of auteur. Both types produce distinctive bodies of work, and both can reach the highest levels of creativity.
From the point of view of an experimental artist, like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan is a plagiarist; but from the vantage point of a conceptual artist, like Bruce Springsteen, Dylan is just making art.
In "The Murder of Jean Seberg," Daphne Guinness and Joseph Lally pay homage to film icon Jean Seberg whose is best known for her role as the charming ...
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Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept...
In the newly minted MTV series 'Supervideos,' directors and actors team up to create music videos. The first video in the series was set to the almost...
Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.
The career of Nouveau Realiste Arman is much less familiar than that of of Yves Klein. But his exhibition presents a fascinating portrait of an important conceptual artist.
The initiative for the "Pas un dîner de gala" (Not a gala dinner) project was Jean-Luc Godard's; as is often the case with him, everything evolved from a commission.
Sometimes accompanied by Sarde, sometimes without him, generally after a simple, spontaneous phone call to make sure I was there, available "for a coffee," Jean-Luc Godard stopped by my place on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
1984. Probably during the first months of the year. Jean-Luc Godard was preparing to shoot Je vous Salue Marie (Hail Mary), in which he had offered me the role of Joseph.
The question of Godard's anti-semitism has come up again, on the occasion of an "Honorary Award," this Saturday, November 13th in Los Angeles, for the entirety of his work.
The Motion Picture Academy does an injustice, not only to the recipients but to their fans, by continuing its new policy of presenting honorary Oscars at a special function in November instead of the ceremony next February.
Ever wonder what the Super Bowl would be like if Quentin Tarantino directed it? Slate's video site did -- and they didn't stop there. SlateV put toget...
Whether or not you personally love their work, it is difficult to dismiss the impact of the French New Wave. To reinforce this strongly held position, here is a pungent mix of Truffaut, Godard and Rohmer.
This film sticks to its guns, audience expectations be damned, and delivers to the audience the most devastating depiction of the housewife's confined life in cinema.