JULIAN SCHNABEL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Switzerland/United Kingdom/France/USA, 2018. Iconoclast, Riverstone Pictures, SPK Pictures. Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière, Louise Kugelberg, Julian Schnabel. Cinematography by Benoit Delhomme. Produced by Jon Kilik. Music by Tatiana Lisovkaia. Production Design by Stéphane Cressend. Costume Design by Cecile Vatelot. Film Editing by Louise Kugelberg, Julian Schnabel. Golden Globe Awards 2018. It seems incredible after almost forty films have…
Tag: France
Hadewijch (2009)
BRUNO DUMONT Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. France, 2009. 3B Productions, Arte France Cinéma, C.R.R.A.V. Nord Pas de Calais, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, X-Filme Creative Pool, Cofinova 5, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Contact Film, Cofinova 4, Soficapital, Région Ile-de-France, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Screenplay by Bruno Dumont. Cinematography by Yves Cape. …
Radiance (Hikari) (2017)
NAOMI KAWASE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. Japan/France, 2017. Comme des Cinémas, Kino Films, Kumie, MK2 Productions. Screenplay by Naomi Kawase. Produced by Naoya Kinoshita, Masa Sawada, Yumiko Takebe. Music by Ibrahim Maalouf. Film Editing by Tina Baz. Cannes Film Festival 2017. Toronto International Film Festival 2017. Ayame Misaki is excellent as a woman who has been assigned the task of writing…
Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997)
WERNER HERZOG Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Germany/United Kingdom/France, 1997. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, ZDF Enterprises, British Broadcasting Corporation, Arte, Media Ventures, Outpost Studios. Screenplay by Werner Herzog. Cinematography by Peter Zeitlinger. Produced by Lucki Stipetic. Film Editing by Joe Bini, Glen Scantlebury, Rainer Standke. Werner Herzog investigates the life of Dieter Dengler, shot down over Laos…
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
ORSON WELLES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. France/Iran/USA, 2018. Royal Road Entertainment, Les Films de l’Astrophore, SACI, Americas Film Conservancy. Screenplay by Oja Kodar, Orson Welles. Cinematography by Gary Graver. Produced by Frank Marshall, Filip Jan Rymsza. Music by Michel Legrand. Production Design by Polly Platt. Film Editing by Bob Murawski, Orson Welles. Orson Welles filmed roughly one hundred hours of footage…
Transit (2018)
CHRISTIAN PETZOLD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. Germany/France, 2018. Schramm Film, Neon Productions, Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien, Filmförderungsanstalt, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Screenplay by Christian Petzold, based on the novel by Anna Seghers. Cinematography by Hans Fromm. Produced by Antonin Dedet, Florian Koerner…
Bully (2001)
LARRY CLARK Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA/France/United Kingdom, 2001. StudioCanal, Lions Gate Films, Muse Productions, Blacklist Films, Gravity Entertainment. Screenplay by David McKenna, Roger Pullis, based on the book by Jim Schutze. Cinematography by Steve Gainer. Produced by Chris Hanley, Don Murphy, Fernando Sulichin. Production Design by Linda Burton. Costume Design by Carleen Ileana Rosado. Film Editing by Andrew Hafitz. Larry…
Dalida Pour Toujours (1977)
MICHEL DUMOULIN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. France, 1977. Productions Orlando. Produced by Orlando. Among the most popular singers of her day, and reportedly the most celebrated in France’s music history, Dalida (born Iolanda Gigliotti in Cairo to Italian parents) is still beloved by many a music fan (you can still hear remixes of her songs on a…
Mandabi (1968)
OUSMANE SEMBENE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. France/Senegal, 1968. Comptoir Français du Film Production, Filmi Domirev. Screenplay by Ousmane Sembene. Cinematography by Paul Soulignac. Produced by Robert de Nesle. Film Editing by Gilbert Kikoine, Max Saldinger. Ousmane Sembene applies his brittle comedic skill to a tale of tragedy in a small village. A man who has been suffering a lengthy…
Hercules Unchained (Ercole e la regina di Lidia) (1959)
PIETRO FRANCISCI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. Italy/France/Spain, 1959. Galatea Film, Lux Film, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France, Urania Film. Story by Pietro Francisci, Screenplay by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Francisci, based on the play Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles and The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus. Cinematography by Mario Bava. Produced by Bruno Vailati. Music by Enzo Masetti. Production Design by…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
MIKE NEWELL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. United Kingdom/France/USA, 2018. Amazon Prime Video, Blueprint Pictures, Canal+, Cine@, Mazur/Kaplan Company, StudioCanal. Screenplay by Don Roos, Kevin Hood, Thomas Bezucha, based on the novel by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows. Cinematography by Zac Nicholson. Produced by Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Mitchell Kaplan, Paula Mazur. Music by Alexandra Harwood. Production Design by James Merifield. Costume…
Bread And Roses (2000)
KEN LOACH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. United Kingdom/France/Germany/Spain/Italy/Switzerland, 2000. Parallax Pictures, Alta Films, Alta Produccion, ARTE, BIM Distribuzione, Bac Films, British Screen Productions, British Sky Broadcasting, Cinart, Degeto Film, FilmFour, Filmcoopi Zürich, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, La Sept-Arte, , Road Movies Filmproduktion, Tornasol Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Screenplay by Paul Laverty. Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd. Produced by Rebecca O’Brien. Music by George Fenton. Production Design by Martin Johnson. Costume Design…
