Mathieu Amalric
Admiral (St. Petersburg Times) - 6 hours ago
(2008, Russia) Andrei Kravchuk’s period drama about Rusian admiral Alexander Kolchak. Konstantin Khabensky, Sergei Bezrukov and Yegor Beroyev star. Avrora. [continue reading]
Brad Balfour: Actor Daniel Craig Continues Talking About James Bond, Quantum of Solace and Saving the World (HuffingtonPost) - 6 hours ago
Agent 007 may not be available to save us in all his athletic and dashing glory, but in Quantum of Solace James Bond exhaustingly gives it a damn good try. [continue reading]
Jewish family caught in tides of war (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune) - 21 hours ago
Claude Miller’s haunting new movie, based on a novel by Philippe Grimbert, is called “A Secret” (”Un Secret”). But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular. What is hidden from sight and excluded from discussion has a tendency to multiply and expand. [continue reading]
Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale is the Gift This Season Needs (Houston Press) - 1 day ago
Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum pudding of a movie — studded with outsized performances and drenched in cinematic brio. The concoction is ove … [continue reading]
‘Quantum of Solace’ | 2 stars (The Kansas City Star) - 2 days ago
Could we have our old Bond back? “Quantum of Solace” and its immediate predecessor, “Casino Royale,” jettisoned Q and his gimmicky toys. No travelogue-pretty footage of foreign locales. No mindless king-and-country patriotism. Miss Moneypenny is once again AWOL. [continue reading]
