Highest honors go to this stylish, cinematically refined adaptation of a George Simenon thriller. Michel Blanc becomes a person of interest for a murder investigation mainly because he’s disliked and anti-social; Sandrine Bonnaire is the neighbor that he peeps at nightly, to stir his secret passion. Director Patrice Leconte directs with almost perfect control, turning the show into an emotional workout.
Monsieur Hire
Blu-ray
Cohen Film Collection
1989 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from / 29.95
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Bérenger, Marielle Berthon, Philippe Dormoy, Marie Gaydu, Michel Morano, Nora Noël.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Production Designer: Ivan Maussion
Costume designer: Elisabeth Tavernier
Film Editor: Joëlle Hache
Original Music: Michael Nyman
Scenario, adaptation and dialogue by Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf from the book Les fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon
Produced by Philippe Carcassonne, René Cleitman
Directed by Patrice Leconte
We’re fond...
Monsieur Hire
Blu-ray
Cohen Film Collection
1989 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / Available from / 29.95
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Bérenger, Marielle Berthon, Philippe Dormoy, Marie Gaydu, Michel Morano, Nora Noël.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Production Designer: Ivan Maussion
Costume designer: Elisabeth Tavernier
Film Editor: Joëlle Hache
Original Music: Michael Nyman
Scenario, adaptation and dialogue by Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf from the book Les fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon
Produced by Philippe Carcassonne, René Cleitman
Directed by Patrice Leconte
We’re fond...
- 1/28/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Gilliam’s epic travails filming Don Quixote are well worth seeing again – and should be on the syllabus at every film school
The creative heroism of Terry Gilliam is saluted once again in this 20-year-anniversary rerelease of Lost in La Mancha, the documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe about Gilliam’s incredible ordeal in the late 90s in trying to make a movie version of Don Quixote: a salutary warning about the physical and mental nightmare of independent film-making. Gilliam’s leading man, veteran French star Jean Rochefort, suffered a herniated disc midway through shooting and was unable to carry on, dealing a death blow to an under-funded, over-ambitious production already traumatised by biblical floods that swept away their equipment in the Spanish desert, Nato jets overhead which ruined the soundtrack, and insurers who wouldn’t pay out on Rochefort’s illness and became the obstructive legal owners...
The creative heroism of Terry Gilliam is saluted once again in this 20-year-anniversary rerelease of Lost in La Mancha, the documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe about Gilliam’s incredible ordeal in the late 90s in trying to make a movie version of Don Quixote: a salutary warning about the physical and mental nightmare of independent film-making. Gilliam’s leading man, veteran French star Jean Rochefort, suffered a herniated disc midway through shooting and was unable to carry on, dealing a death blow to an under-funded, over-ambitious production already traumatised by biblical floods that swept away their equipment in the Spanish desert, Nato jets overhead which ruined the soundtrack, and insurers who wouldn’t pay out on Rochefort’s illness and became the obstructive legal owners...
- 4/13/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Producer body set to relocate to Amsterdam from Paris in early 2017.
Former CineMart and Rotterdam Lab manager Jacobine van der Vloed has been hired as director of the producers body Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (Ace).
Her appointment is a consequence of the body’s imminent move from its current home of Paris to Amsterdam in the spring and will take effect from Jan 1, 2017.
Board memberMarleenSlot of Amsterdam-based Viking Film said the move had been prompted partly by rising costs in Paris and the offer of additional funding from the Netherlands Film Fund (Nff).
Ace president Simon Perry has been busy over the last 12 months looking for new sources of income and a new location.
The move comes at a time when the Netherlands is becoming an increasingly important player on the international co-production scene following the introduction of a 30% tax rebate scheme in May 2014.
Slot noted Nff director Doreen Boonekamp had played a key role in the...
Former CineMart and Rotterdam Lab manager Jacobine van der Vloed has been hired as director of the producers body Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (Ace).
Her appointment is a consequence of the body’s imminent move from its current home of Paris to Amsterdam in the spring and will take effect from Jan 1, 2017.
Board memberMarleenSlot of Amsterdam-based Viking Film said the move had been prompted partly by rising costs in Paris and the offer of additional funding from the Netherlands Film Fund (Nff).
Ace president Simon Perry has been busy over the last 12 months looking for new sources of income and a new location.
The move comes at a time when the Netherlands is becoming an increasingly important player on the international co-production scene following the introduction of a 30% tax rebate scheme in May 2014.
Slot noted Nff director Doreen Boonekamp had played a key role in the...
- 12/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Ace was formed in 1993 by a seasoned group of independent European producers, led by René Cleitman and David Puttnam. They decided to pool together their experience and know how with the purpose of sharing it with up and coming film producers and advancing the cause of independent cinema.
With the support of a large network of industry professionals, they founded Ace, a center for training and development geared towards helping independent European producers.
Ace aims
To help its producers position themselves producer as the helmsman of the production process in all its phases, from the writing of the screenplay to the commercialization of the finished film To advise the producers during the period of creative development and strengthen their key roles together with those of the authorsTo provide independent producers with a unique venue where they can debate and exchange information and experiences with their European peersTo offer opportunities to...
With the support of a large network of industry professionals, they founded Ace, a center for training and development geared towards helping independent European producers.
Ace aims
To help its producers position themselves producer as the helmsman of the production process in all its phases, from the writing of the screenplay to the commercialization of the finished film To advise the producers during the period of creative development and strengthen their key roles together with those of the authorsTo provide independent producers with a unique venue where they can debate and exchange information and experiences with their European peersTo offer opportunities to...
- 5/3/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
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