This month TIFF celebrates the work of the ever rigorous and challenging French director, whose Beau Travail was a fixture on just about every "Best of" list of the 2000s. Here follows a cheat sheet to the one director everybody ought to know.
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Filmmakers often romanticize their hometowns on screen, but, as Jacques Demy’s vision of Los Angeles in Model Shop shows, sometimes it takes a tourist’s fresh eyes to reveal the beauty that locals miss.
Starting in 2008, a gang of California teens burglarized the rich and famous, making off with their red-carpet gowns and Louis Vuitton luggage. In The Bling Ring, her film about the robberies, Sofia Coppola exhibits a surprising—and disappointing—lack of sympathy for the underdogs.
It's been nearly two decades since we met Celine and Jesse in Before Sunrise. Now, in Before Midnight, their relationship has fully transformed—a brief fling to a real life together, with all the safety and strain that accompanies such change.
From his early crime pictures such as Little Odessa to the more understated romance of Two Lovers, the literary genius of Gray’s films isn’t found in the building of sweeping, epic stories, but rather in how perfectly he captures the mundanities of real life.
Most of Paul Verhoeven’s films have developed cult followings over time, even if only for their laughable dialogue and campy plotlines. Why has Hollow Man escaped this nostalgic treatment and remained a deeply disliked film?
The late filmmaker Chris Marker’s fascination with the recurring graffiti of a grinning yellow cat on the streets of Paris sheds surprising light on the human condition.
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