Updated through 5/17.
Let's note right off the top, first, that the title's derived from the director's misspelling of "Police" and that the final "e" has been dropped for the English-language version. And second, that critics are split. We'll start with pan but work our way up.
"Polisse, a self-important French police procedural that feigns complexity while relishing in cliché, could very well be the worst film I see at Cannes this year," predicts Glenn Heath Jr at the House Next Door. "Supposedly based on the true stories of the Parisian Child Protective Unit, director Maïwenn Le Besco's film abrasively documents the professional and personal lives of the special police force tasked with arresting those who prey on the young…. As a social mosaic, Polisse is an insulting simplification of truly horrific issues like child rape and sex trade."
More predictions, these from Jonathan Romney in Screen: "It should flourish in France,...
Let's note right off the top, first, that the title's derived from the director's misspelling of "Police" and that the final "e" has been dropped for the English-language version. And second, that critics are split. We'll start with pan but work our way up.
"Polisse, a self-important French police procedural that feigns complexity while relishing in cliché, could very well be the worst film I see at Cannes this year," predicts Glenn Heath Jr at the House Next Door. "Supposedly based on the true stories of the Parisian Child Protective Unit, director Maïwenn Le Besco's film abrasively documents the professional and personal lives of the special police force tasked with arresting those who prey on the young…. As a social mosaic, Polisse is an insulting simplification of truly horrific issues like child rape and sex trade."
More predictions, these from Jonathan Romney in Screen: "It should flourish in France,...
- 5/17/2011
- MUBI
Frederick Wiseman brings his new film
Boxing Gym
to South Lamar starting November 12
Advance tickets available here
Acclaimed documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who brought us the Verité masterpieces High School, Law And Order, Titicut Follies, and, recently, La Danse, is coming to open his new film, Boxing Gym, in Austin. Boxing Gym presents a fly-on-the-wall perspective of Lord’s Gym, the legendary Austin training room owned by Richard Lord. The film is beautiful and will set you in a trance.
We’re opening the film on Friday, and to celebrate we’ll be having special guests all weekend long!
On Friday at the 4:05 and 7:00 showings, Richard Lord will be live!
On Saturday at the 4:25 and 7:00 times, Lord will be joined by Frederick Wiseman as well!
And, perhaps most excitingly, on Sunday at 4:00, Wiseman will be presenting one of his most challenging and enduring works, Titicut Follies.
Boxing Gym
to South Lamar starting November 12
Advance tickets available here
Acclaimed documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who brought us the Verité masterpieces High School, Law And Order, Titicut Follies, and, recently, La Danse, is coming to open his new film, Boxing Gym, in Austin. Boxing Gym presents a fly-on-the-wall perspective of Lord’s Gym, the legendary Austin training room owned by Richard Lord. The film is beautiful and will set you in a trance.
We’re opening the film on Friday, and to celebrate we’ll be having special guests all weekend long!
On Friday at the 4:05 and 7:00 showings, Richard Lord will be live!
On Saturday at the 4:25 and 7:00 times, Lord will be joined by Frederick Wiseman as well!
And, perhaps most excitingly, on Sunday at 4:00, Wiseman will be presenting one of his most challenging and enduring works, Titicut Follies.
- 11/11/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" —Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
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"Dead or alive, you're coming with me." —Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
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"Ah, well, we got a little problem here. Uh, apparently this lady got a cab here to 8011 East 24th, and, uh, she didn’t, the cab driver didn’t have any change. So when the, when the cab arrived here it was a dollar ten cent. So then he goes 27th and two, I mean 27th here and Charlotte somewhere to get some change and drives back around here, and he wants her to pay that extra forty cent or something for him going to having to get the change, and she doesn’t want to pay that. Which I could understand." —Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman, 1969)
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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was recently the subject of a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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"Dead or alive, you're coming with me." —Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
***
"Ah, well, we got a little problem here. Uh, apparently this lady got a cab here to 8011 East 24th, and, uh, she didn’t, the cab driver didn’t have any change. So when the, when the cab arrived here it was a dollar ten cent. So then he goes 27th and two, I mean 27th here and Charlotte somewhere to get some change and drives back around here, and he wants her to pay that extra forty cent or something for him going to having to get the change, and she doesn’t want to pay that. Which I could understand." —Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman, 1969)
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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was recently the subject of a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
- 11/8/2010
- MUBI
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