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When The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol (the second season of The Walking Dead spinoff) previewed at Sdcc last July, it was announced that a third season had been commissioned and would be set in Spain, all before season 2 had even aired. AMC clearly had such faith in the show that it was willing to commit to the third season without gauging the reaction to the second. Unfortunately, while some aspects of The Book of Carol received universal praise — largely the return of Melissa McBride as one-woman-cyclone Carol — the overall reviews for the show were mixed, and ratings were far from stellar.

It follows, then, that AMC will be looking closely at the show and potentially reconfiguring and reacting to the criticism. Star and executive producer Norman Reedus has repeatedly spoken about how the original idea for the show was a roadshow with Carol and Daryl...

The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 6, "Au Revoir Les Enfants," which premiered Sunday, Nov. 3 on AMC.

Like it or not, The Walking Dead is around for the long run. Even before the flagship series ended after 11 seasons in 2022, it already had plenty of spinoffs on the conveyor belt ready to be pumped out like artificial candy. The so-called metaphorical candy here is fine; it satisfies a sweet tooth, but it also has a weird aftertaste. Nonetheless, it's not expired and doesn't harm anybody. But after watching all six episodes of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, I've reached my limit with this weird candy. The series was once fun and fresh in the stale franchise, but it's fallen into the very trap that it once tried to avoid: Daryl Dixon has become too American.

For context, I love The Walking Dead, as the title suggests.

The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 6, "Au Revoir Les Enfants," which premiered Sunday, Nov. 3 on AMC. This article contains mention of suicide.

It's been a long road for Daryl and Carol on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. There have been cramped plane rides, outrageous environmentalists, exploding walkers and French cults. The absurd road leads to a resolution for some characters, and right back to square one for others. But there are still a few obstacles to jump over first. Ash's plane can't magically become big enough to pick up four people off the ground, so someone has to make a sacrifice. Daryl is willing to be the unlucky guy, and guarantees a sulking Laurent that he'll make it back to America soon to join the rest of them. He's been all alone before, he can survive a few more weeks or so all by himself in France.

The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 6, "Au Revoir Les Enfants," which premiered Sunday, Nov. 3 on AMC. This article also contains mention of suicide.

All six episodes of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon have been leading up to the final moment where Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier say farewell to France. But getting to that moment requires some sacrifices, deaths and goodbyes to new friends. In the Daryl Dixon Season 2 finale, Daryl and Carol are the only ones who reach the end of the road. Others have to stay behind or find new homes.

Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 5 ended on a cliffhanger: Daryl, Carol and Laurent are taken aback by Ash's revelation that his plane can't hold four people. Somebody has to stay behind, and it's either Daryl or Carol. Obviously, anyone keeping up with behind-the-scenes news about Season 3 can easily tell where this is going.

The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 6, "Au Revoir Les Enfants," which premiered Sunday, Nov. 3 on AMC.

The Season 2 finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon brings the franchise's time in France to a close, or at least, so it seems. Both symbolically and literally, the series is moving forward. As Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier move forward to another country, they also resolve personal grievances that have been keeping them in the past. Every sign points to a fresh start, one that may or may not have other established characters joining Daryl and Carol in a new fight.

When asked by Cbr whether Daryl and Carol leaving France alone means the end of other supporting characters, director and executive producer Daniel Percival stayed cryptic. While Season 3 is actively in production, very little can be said about what the future holds for anyone who...

The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, Episode 6, "Au Revoir Les Enfants," which premiered Sunday, Nov. 3 on AMC.

For all The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has stumbled over in Season 2, the show knows how to do exciting action. Granted, Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier have morphed into clich comic book heroes that are protected by calcified plot armor. But the series never fails to surprise fans with creative ways of providing the illusion of death, even if it doesn't exist for the titular characters. If only some of that innovation was used to keep the rest of the cast -- rather than picking them off one by one.

The Daryl Dixon Season 2 finale picks up right where Season 2, Episode 5 left off -- only there's a big disagreement between Carol and Daryl about the plane situation. Since the plane can only carry three people, either Daryl...

Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2 finale.The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol has been a mostly solid follow-up to the first season, albeit with a story thats more contrived and at times messy. Season 2 does a lot in six episodes, leading to the overall flow feeling a bit rushed. The big moments, like the reunion of Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus), do land with the emotional weight that such scenes deserve. This is thanks in large part to the performances of McBride and Reedus, who, along with a strong supporting cast, elevate their scenes even when the story stumbles.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Cast Hugo Dillon, Catherine Arditi, Lukerya Ilyashenko, Maxime Lefranois, Franois Delaive, Tristan Zanchi, Joel de la Fuente, Romain Levi, Laka Blanc-Francard, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Anne Charrier, Melissa McBride, Eriq Ebouaney, Adam Nagaitis, Clemence Poesy,...

In the pre-season promotion for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol, Norman Reedus repeatedly said he believed the finale was the best hour of The Walking Dead that had ever been made. Inevitably, it isn’t, but it’s a shame because while it cannot compete with the likes of "The Grove "or "Terminus," it’s not a bad episode. “Au Revoir Les Enfant” (Goodbye Children) gives us some vastly needed closure and the promise of a better future.

Much of the first half of the episode takes place at the racetrack where Daryl and Carol (Melissa McBride) are deciding who will go on Ash’s (Manish Dayal) plane back to the US with Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi). As with so much of this season, Daryl’s motivations for offering to stay behind remain muddy. Is he offering to stay behind out of nobility, or does...

Daryl’s European vacation, if you can call it that, seems to be nearing its end. “Au Revoir Les Enfants” suggests an exit strategy is on the horizon, though with this franchise, a clean getaway is about as likely as finding fresh baguettes in the apocalypse. The extremely brief summary hints at an attempt to leave […]

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: “Au Revoir Les Enfants” – Escape from France or Another French Twist?...

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2, episode 6 will conclude the show until season 3, begging the question of what time it will be released. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3 was confirmed before season 2 even began airing, meaning fans of the show will likely not have to wait long for a third installment. Amid an ever-increasing slate of Walking Dead shows, Daryl Dixon focuses on two of the original show's main characters as they explore a zombie-infested France.

Daryl and Carol's reunion in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon was something audiences have been waiting to see for a long time, with the show's second season living up to its name. Subtitled The Book of Carol, episode 4 highlighted the two titular characters coming together after years apart, resolidifying them as two of The Walking Dead's best characters. However, their troubles only continue despite their reunion as they seek a way to return to the United States,...

The second season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, titled The Book of Carol, is set to air its final episode this coming Sunday. While the first season was an engrossing watch, the presence of Carol (Melissa McBride) was something the show missed. Having flown across the Atlantic, with a stopover in Greenland, Carol has been reunited with Daryl (Norman Reedus) and after confronting all the lies she told to get this far, the pair, alongside their companions, must plan to return to the Commonwealth. The season finale episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, titled "Au Revoir les Enfants," airs Sunday, November 3 on AMC and AMC+.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 2, episode 4's release time is highly coveted information for those excited about Carol's potential reunion with the titular character. Subtitled The Book of Carol, the latest The Walking Dead spin-off features the continued adventures of Daryl Dixon in a walker-ridden France. Meanwhile, his old friend Carol is searching for him, finding her way across the Atlantic to seek out one of The Walking Dead's best characters.

Regardless of its ranking as a Walking Dead spin-off, Daryl Dixon is providing a lot of interesting changes to the franchise. From The Walking Dead's new zombie variants to the overall refreshing change of scenery, Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol is somewhat reinventing the franchise while still keeping the formerly inseparable titular duo together. As Carol gets closer to finding Daryl, many are finding themselves waiting for each episode, begging the question of when The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon...

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced that Sidonie Dumas, CEO of Gaumont, will be honored with this year’s International Emmy Directorate Award.

Dumas will receive the honor at the 52nd International Emmy Awards gala in New York on Nov. 25.

Paris-based television and film production Gaumont is the world’s oldest continuously operating film studio — it celebrates its 130th anniversary next year — with a library that includes such iconic titles as Jean-Luc Godard’s Bande à Part and Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants, as well as more recent blockbusters, from Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element to Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s Untouchable.

Dumas, who has been head of Gaumont since 2010, was a major force in shifting the company’s focus to the small screen, helping deliver global hits including Netflix’s Lupin — featuring Untouchable star Omar Sy — and Narcos.

Other series greenlit under...

The Walking Dead is over. Long live The Walking Dead. The zombie franchise has continued in the form of spinoffs and expansions, one of which takes fan favorite character Daryl Dixon to the shores of sunny, rotting, fetid France. The first season debuted last year to pretty good reviews. Now the second season is on its way. Will lightning strike twice in the French countryside? Will it hit a zombie? Because that would be helpful.

Early buzz is good, and the show is upping the ante by bringing Daryl's longtime bestie Carol (Melissa McBride) into the mix. Carol showed up at the end of the first season but will play a much bigger role this time around.

The fun kicks off a couple Sundays from now. Here's the complete release schedule for all six episodes:

Episode 201: "La gentillesse des étrangers" — Sunday, September 29, 2024Episode 202: "Moulin Rouge" — Sunday, October 6, 2024Episode 203: "L'Invisible" — Sunday,...

Before we dive into Winona Ryder’s picks from the Criterion Closet, we have some breaking news that takes precedent. In a stunning reveal this week, a poster on Reddit shared a photo with the Criterion community showing that their famous closet wasn’t an actual closet, but rather a set placed within a van.

The closet, is actually a van.

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A spokesperson for Criterion responded to IndieWire’s request for comment by confirming that its videos are actually filmed in a closet in Criterion’s office in New York City. Nevertheless, this photo may imply Criterion has plans of taking their closet on the road and social media is abuzz with intrigue.

Iconic actress Ryder stopped by the closet ahead of her film “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” premiering at Venice Film Festival and spoke of the space as if it were a holy sanctuary.

“I am so lucky...

French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob, best-known for her star-making turns in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and Three Colors: Red (1994), will be honored at this year’s Locarno Film Festival with the Leopard Club Award for her contribution to contemporary cinema.

The award ceremony will take place at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on the evening of Friday, Aug. 9 and be followed the next morning by a public conversation with Jacob at Forum @Spazio Cinema. The festival will screen Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Red in tribute.

“Irène Jacob is one of cinema’s most mysterious and sublime presences,” said Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro. “Her every performance manifests the elusive precision of a presence so completely identified with the film’s images as to become virtually part of the cinematography. Her skill in surrendering herself to the directors’ gaze and then, on the contrary, to vigorously embodying the character,...

In “The Successor” — a provocative psychological thriller with a lot more actual psychology than the genre typically offers — Paris-based fashion designer Ellias Barnès (Marc-André Grondin) stands on the precipice of a breakthrough in his career. He’s poised to take his place as creative director of the fashion house Orsino, following the death of its eponymous founder. If this were a tale of corporate ambition (à la “Succession”), or perhaps a Roman palace intrigue, here is the moment that Ellias would assume the throne. But instead of feeling victorious, he clutches his chest. The anxiety is almost too much. And then the police arrive.

It’s taken more than a decade, but Ellias has done everything he can to distance himself from his biological father. As such, there’s an ironic perversity to the news he gets right after his stunning solo show for Orsino: His dad, Jean-Jacques, is dead,...

Held annually since 1932, the Venice Film Festival is the world's oldest film festival. Along with the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival is one of the "Big Three" European Film Festivals. Recently, many potential Academy Award front-runners have used the Venice Film Festival as a launching pad for their Oscar campaigns.

First introduced in 1949, the Golden Lion is the highest prize awarded at the Venice Film Festival. The Golden Lion remains one of the film industry's most prestigious and coveted awards. Countless winners of the Golden Lion now rank among the best films ever made.

Related: 10 Best Low-Budget Movies That Won An Oscar

Belle de Jour (1967)

Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour stars Catherine Deneuve as a young housewife who constantly daydreams about erotic fantasies. Eventually, unbeknownst to her husband, she becomes a prostitute, working during the daytime while her husband is at work.

Although the conflict ceased nearly 80 years ago, society's fascination with World War II remains as steadfast as ever. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is the latest World War II-era film, causing significant intrigue across the cinematic landscape.

Hollywood has been churning out classic World War II movies ever since the war began in 1939. However, since World War II was a global affair, many countries other than the United States have produced seminal works about the conflict. Italy, France, Japan, Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union are all responsible for some of cinema's best international World War II films.

Related: 10 Great War Movies That Focus On The Losers

The Ascent (1977)

As was the case with many of the Soviet Union's greatest filmmakers, Larisa Shepitko found it extraordinarily difficult to gain permission to direct films under the strict censorship of the Soviet Union's State Committee for Cinematography. Several of her early films were either censored or banned,...

There is what you might call a “spoiler” in the title of Céline Sciamma’s new movie, a key to unlocking her look at childhood that’s hiding in plain sight. The French filmmaker’s follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire begins not with love, but with death: An eight-year-old named Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) has just lost her elderly grandmother. Her mom (Nina Meurisse) is packing up everything in the house she grew up in, located on the edge of a forest. Dad (Stéphane Varupenne) is helping out the best he can.

New York-based distribution company Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films have jointly acquired U.S. distribution rights to Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize winner “Il Buco,” about a group of speleologists who in 1961 discover Europe’s deepest cave.

The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film with Nadine Rothschild of Paris and Berlin-based Coproduction Office on the eve of the U.S. premiere of “Il Buco” at the New York Film Festival.

Gratitude, which is based in Los Angeles and Mumbai, is headed by Anu Rangachar, a producer and the former programmer for the Mumbai Film Festival.

With “Il Buco” Frammartino, whose dialogue-free “Le Quattro Volte” made a global splash in 2010, has segued with another similarly eclectic pic that has no dialogue or music.

His latest work reconstructs the young cave scientists’ journey to explore the depth of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth in the pristine Calabrian hinterland.

Irene Jacob (“Three Colours: Red”), a critically acclaimed film and theater actor, is set to preside over the Lumière Institute in Lyon, succeeding to Bertrand Tavernier, the revered French filmmaker who died in March.

Tavernier led the institution for nearly four decades and worked closely with Thierry Fremaux, the Lumière Institute’s managing director, and Cannes Film Festival’s general delegate, to host the annual Lumière festival, a star-studded celebration of heritage films and cinema masters. Lyon is actually the birthplace of the Cinematograph and its creators, the Lumiere brothers.

Kicking off on Oct. 9, the event’s 13th edition will pay homage to Tavernier with a special tribute on Oct. 10.

Jacob, who is originally from Switzerland, is the granddaughter of Maurice Jacob, a scientist and humanist who lived in Lyon all his life and has a street named after him in the city. A passionate film buff, Jacob has been...

Film directors have been exploring their own childhood memories on screen for decades, and the honor roll of notable films that have come from that exploration ranges from Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” to George Lucas’ “American Graffiti,” from Louis Malle’s “Au Revoir les Enfants” to Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” Mike Mills’ “20th Century Women” to Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” from John Boorman’s “Hope and Glory” to Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.” Writer-director-actor Kenneth Branagh has now tried his hand at the genre, and to say that “Belfast” brings out the best in him would be an understatement.

Visually stunning, emotionally wrenching and gloriously human, “Belfast” takes one short period from Branagh’s life and finds in it a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a city fracturing in an instant and a profoundly moving lament for what’s been lost during decades of strife in his homeland of Northern Ireland.

To shoot Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s eclectic dialogue-free drama “Il Buco,” about a group of speleologists who in 1961 discover Europe’s deepest cave, veteran Swiss director of photography Renato Berta and Frammartino first had to do some soul searching.

“To prepare, with Michelangelo, we watched lots of movies together that we agreed and disagreed about,” he says. Then, after those discussions, “the photography came as a consequence.”

The ace cinematographer and bold experimenter, who has worked with European greats such as Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Éric Rohmer, Manoel de Oliveira, and who lensed Louis Malle’s 1987 Venice Golden Lion winner “Au revoir les enfants,” had never grappled before with what Frammartino describes as “the challenge of this cave’s utter darkness.”

“But after shooting 120 movies I am not interested in doing the type of things I’ve done before,” Berta points out.

Set in the 1960s, “Il Buco” — which...

After becoming the 13th person to win two Directors Guild of America Awards, Alfonso Cuaron is poised to join an even more exclusive group: two-time Best Director BAFTA winners.

The “Roma” director is our odds-on favorite to take home the prize at Sunday’s ceremony, with 31/10 odds over Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite”), Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”), Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) and Pawel Pawlikowski (“Cold War”). He previously won for his direction of “Gravity” (2013), for which he also won the Oscar.

Only eight people have double Best Director BAFTA Awards, the most wins in the category. The most recent to join this club was Joel Coen, who took home his second statuette for “No Country for Old Men” (2007) to go with his win for “Fargo” (1996).

See DGA Awards: Complete winners list in all 11 categories

None of the eight two-time champs have gone on to win the Oscar for both films.

Xavier Legrand first began his career as an actor, as a supporting character in the classic 1987 French film Au Revoir les Enfants. But Legrand has slowly made a name for himself behind the camera, receiving an Oscar nomination for his 2013 short film Avant que de tout perdre. Now the filmmaker is making waves with his […]

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By Emily Kubincanek

The authenticity in Louis Malle's autobiographical Au Revoir Les Enfants is incredible. We celebrate its 30th anniversary.

The article The Intimacy of Memory in ‘Au Revoir Les Enfants’ Still Resonates Today appeared first on Film School Rejects.

Actress Sara Forestier and director Hélène Angel on the set of Elementary Photo: Unifrance The French, without wishing to sound chauvinistic, hold their education system in high regard. Cinema has reflected that interest in films from Jean Vigo’s Zero de Conduite in 1933, through the gentle documentary about life in a country infant school Etre et Avoir (2002) by Nicolas Phlibert to Laurent Cantet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Class (2008), set in a raw inner city school. And let’s not forget Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive (2003), Louis Malle’s 1987 Au Revoir Les Enfants, Julie Bertuccelli’s School of Babel (2013), and Christophe Barratier’s 2004 The Chorus.

Joining the throng is director Hélène Angel with Elementary (Primaire) in which Sara Forestier plays a primary school teacher who has no time for a personal life and lives in an apartment in the grounds with her ten-year-old son.

Angel says: “Education is...

It’s beginning to look a lot like fall festival season. On the heels of announcements from Tiff and Venice, the 55th edition of the New York Film Festival has unveiled its Main Slate, including a number of returning faces, emerging talents, and some of the most anticipated films from the festival circuit this year.

This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.

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Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.

The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series started last Friday and continues the next two weekends — The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the mid-1990s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.

All films are screened at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood).

The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations, which this year includes films by two New Wave masters: Jacques Rivette’s first feature, “Paris Belongs to Us,” and François Truffaut’s cinephilic love letter, “Day for Night.” The fest also provides one of the few opportunities available in St. Louis to see films projected the old-school, time-honored way, with both Alain Resnais’ “Last Year at Marienbad” and Robert Bresson’s “Au hasard Balthazar” screening from 35mm prints.

The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series started last Friday and continues the next two weekends — The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the mid-1990s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.

All films are screened at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood).

The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations, which this year includes films by two New Wave masters: Jacques Rivette’s first feature, “Paris Belongs to Us,” and François Truffaut’s cinephilic love letter, “Day for Night.” The fest also provides one of the few opportunities available in St. Louis to see films projected the old-school, time-honored way, with both Alain Resnais’ “Last Year at Marienbad” and Robert Bresson’s “Au hasard Balthazar” screening from 35mm prints.

The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series starts this Friday, March 10th. — The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the mid-1990s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.

All films are screened at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood).

The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations, which this year includes films by two New Wave masters: Jacques Rivette’s first feature, “Paris Belongs to Us,” and François Truffaut’s cinephilic love letter, “Day for Night.” The fest also provides one of the few opportunities available in St. Louis to see films projected the old-school, time-honored way, with both Alain Resnais’ “Last Year at Marienbad” and Robert Bresson’s “Au hasard Balthazar” screening from 35mm prints. Even more traditional,...

The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series — celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the mid-1990s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.

The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations, which this year includes films by two New Wave masters: Jacques Rivette’s first feature, “Paris Belongs to Us,” and François Truffaut’s cinephilic love letter, “Day for Night.” The fest also provides one of the few opportunities available in St. Louis to see films projected the old-school, time-honored way, with both Alain Resnais’ “Last Year at Marienbad” and Robert Bresson’s “Au hasard Balthazar” screening from 35mm prints. Even more traditional, we also offer a silent film with live music, and audiences are sure to delight in the Poor People of Paris...

‘Toni Erdmann’ (Courtesy: Tiff)

By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

It’s not too often that foreign-language films get recognized for anything at the Oscars beyond the best foreign-language film category — but it does happen. And, believe it or not, it happens more for best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay than many other categories. A prime example of that is Toni Erdmann, Germany’s submission this year that is proving to be a cross-category threat, which could score a nomination — or a win — for its writing.

The story of Toni Erdmann — which has a solid Rotten Tomatoes score of 91% — follows a father who is trying to reconnect with his adult daughter after the death of his dog. It sounds simple enough but, of course, the two couldn’t be more unalike. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and where it won the Fipresci Prize. Since then, it...

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Keith Enright to discuss Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle.

About the films:

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to...

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Keith Enright to discuss Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle.

About the films:

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to...

Irène Jacob Cuts Deep

By Alex Simon

French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob cemented her status as one of her generation’s greatest talents through her work with legendary Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski: The Double Life of Veronique (1991, for which she was awarded Best Actress at Cannes) and the final chapter of his Three Colors Trilogy, Red (1994).

Jacob comes from an accomplished family: her father Maurice was a renowned French physicist, her mother a successful psychotherapist, and her three brothers are composed of two scientists and a musician. After making her film debut in Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants in 1987, Jacob has literally not stopped working. Her latest film, written and directed by her co-star Arnaud Viard, is Paris Love Cut, Viard’s semi-autobiographical tale of a filmmaker trying to balance his personal life, career and sanity in an increasingly shifting landscape. Jacob is delightful as Viard’s very patient (and very pregnant) fiancée.

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Keith Enright to discuss Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle.

About the films:

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to...

Pablo Larraín (Courtesy: Andrew Cowie/Afp)

By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

There’s one director this year that has a chance at being a major crossover success by having two separate films nominated in both the best picture and best foreign language film categories: Pablo Larraín. This filmmaker has Jackie as well as Neruda and could join an elite group of directors who been able to have films — or even one film — in both of these major categories.

Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is considered a frontrunner in the Oscars race this year by this site’s namesake, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg. Neruda, which follows an inspector who hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, is Chile’s submission for best foreign language film this year and is considered a major threat in that contest. This would be a great feat — especially for someone who,...

"The Furniture" our weekly series on Production Design. Here's Daniel Walber

This week marks 50 years since the release of Is Paris Burning? (not to be confused with documentary classic Paris is Burning) an epic that hasn’t quite stood the test of time. In the tradition of The Longest Day, it harnesses a cast of thousands to tell the story of a single, crucial moment of World War Two: The liberation of Paris. French stars like Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon take roles in the Resistance, while the likes of Kirk Douglas and Glenn Ford play American generals. There are cameos from Simone Signoret, George Chakiris and Anthony Perkins, to name only a few.

Directed by René Clément with a script by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola, you’d think it would be more popular. Still, it’s worth revisiting, and not only for its two Oscar nominations (art...

Showtime’s “The Affair” has cast French actress Irène Jacob in a major role for Season 3, TheWrap has learned. Jacob will play Juliette Le Gall, who is running from her own secrets. She’ll be a new love interest of Noah’s (Dominic West) and will help him process a trauma from his past and understand himself a little better. Jacob is a BAFTA and César Award nominee. She was first introduced to audiences with “Au Revoir les Enfants,” a film directed by Louis Malle in which she played a piano teacher. Also Read: Emmy Contender Maura Tierney on Telling Her Mom 'I Hate You'.

The Eighth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-produced by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series — celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the early 1990s, offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema.

The fest is annually highlighted by significant restorations, and we’re especially pleased to present Jacques Rivette’s long-unavailable epic Out 1: Spectre Additional restoration highlights include Jean-Luc Godard’s A Married Woman and Max Ophüls’ too-little-seen From Mayerling To Sarajevo. Both Ophüls’ film and Louis Malle’s Elevator To The Gallows – with a jazz score by St. Louis-area native Miles Davis — screen from 35mm prints. All films will screen at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (47- E. Lockwood)

Music fans will further delight in the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra’s accompaniment and original score for Carl Th. Dreyer’s...

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Peter Bradshaw recommends Louis Malle's 1987 autobiographical film, which takes place in a boys' boarding school towards the end of the second world war, explores French guilt surrounding antisemitism and the events that took place during the Holocaust. Au Revoir les Enfants returns to the cinema on 30 January with a re-release by the BFI in conjunction with Holocaust Memorial Day Continue reading...

Re-released in cinemas to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Louis Malle’s 1987 film offers an unrivalled depiction of childhood, memory and war

• Why Au Revoir les Enfants is the one film you should watch this week – video review

Louis Malle’s quasi-autobiographical masterpiece Au Revoir Les Enfants from 1987 is now re-released in cinemas in the same week as Holocaust Memorial Day. It remains breathtakingly good. There is a miraculous, unforced ease and naturalness in the acting and direction; it is classic movie storytelling in the service of important themes, including the farewell that we must bid to our childhood, and to our innocence – a farewell repeated all our lives in the act of memory. The scene is Nazi-occupied France in 1944 and the wealthy, urbane parents of 12-year-old Julien (Gaspard Manesse) have sent him away to a Catholic boarding school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a shy, clever...

★★★★★ William Faulkner once made the sage point that "the past is never dead. It's not even past." Louis Malle's Golden Lion winner Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) is a Second World War-set film very much guided in spirit by the Us novelist's musing on the febrile relationship between memory, time and individual and collective histories. For years the director only ever discussed a childhood experience with an older brother, who was also there to bear witness. As with Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002) or even Spielberg's Schindler’s List (1994), filmmakers tackling the Holocaust have acknowledged that these delicate projects needed to be made at what felt like the appropriate moment.

Well, almost as successful as the last one, this eighth addition finished with two films completely unguessed and one film that was eventually figured out, but only after I gave a hint on Twitter. To be honest, I'm a little surprised no one figured out numbers 12 and 14, though I wasn't the least bit surprised it took a hint for anyone to guess number four, that was a tough one even I debated including, but thought it would be fun to see if anyone could figure it out. Number one clearly kept some people guessing as it appears if you put a spider in any screen capture Enemy will be everyone's first guess... says something about the effective nature of that film ehc That said, here are the answers to this latest graphic. If you want to browse the graphic before seeing the answers don't scroll below the image below or...

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Set in 1960s Poland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s black-and-white drama Ida focuses on faith and identity after family secrets are revealed. Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is a young orphan brought up in a convent preparing to take her vows to become a nun. When told she must visit her aunt, her only living relative, Anna discovers she’s Jewish, her name is actually Ida and her parents were killed in WWII. Anna/Ida and her aunt embark on a journey to learn more about the family’s history and discover the truth about what happened.

The film landed on the Oscar shortlist for best foreign-language film and was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same category.

A number of foreign films focused on WWII have done well at the Oscars throughout the years. Ones based on real events include The Counterfeiters (2007), about the Nazis’ attempt to...

It's that time of year again and it's time to update the list for the second half of 2014 as Barnes & Noble has just kicked off their 50% off Criterion sale and as impossible a task as it is to cut things down to just a few titles, I have done my best to break Criterion's titles down into a few categories. Hopefully those looking for box sets, specific directors or what I think are absolute musts will find this makes things a little bit easier. Let's get to it... First Picks I was given the Zatoichi collection for Christmas last year and being a collection that holds 25 films and another disc full of supplementary material it is the absolute definition of a must buy when it comes to the Criterion Collection. It is, once again, on sale for $112.49, half off the Msrp of $224.99, and worth every penny. I spent the entire year going through it.

Barnes & Noble has just kicked off their 50% off Criterion sale and while it's impossible to suggest titles that will suit everyone looking to beef up their collection at this perfect time of year, I will do my best to offer some suggestions. Let's get to it... My Absolute First Pick I am almost done going through this collection and it was a collection I got for Christmas under these exact circumstances. Typically priced at $224.99, you can now get this amazing set of 25 Zatoichi films for only $112. Box sets, in my opinion, are what sales like this were made for. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Next Ten Recommendations It isn't easy so this is a collection of just some of my favorite films (of all-time and within the collection) and a little variety, though pretty much my standard, go to Criterion first picks, especially if you are just starting out. Persona Breathless...