Summer is coming, and what better way to languish away in the hot heat than poolside with Alain Delon and Romy Schneider? They star together with Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin in Jacques Deray’s 1969 thriller “La Piscine,” a volley of sexual jealousies and resentments between four people vacationing in the Côte d’Azur, which provides the perfect backdrop to simmering psychosexual tensions. One of the biggest box office successes in France of all time, “La Piscine” is getting a re-release from Rialto Pictures this summer, kicking off with a two-week exclusive run at Film Forum in New York beginning May 14. Then, the restoration will begin a national rollout.
In “La Piscine,” Jean-Paul and Marianne (Delon and Schneider) are spending an idyllic holiday together at a luxurious villa near St. Tropez, loaned to them by a friend. Their sensual solitude is interrupted by the impromptu arrival of their mutual friend Harry,...
In “La Piscine,” Jean-Paul and Marianne (Delon and Schneider) are spending an idyllic holiday together at a luxurious villa near St. Tropez, loaned to them by a friend. Their sensual solitude is interrupted by the impromptu arrival of their mutual friend Harry,...
- 4/30/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Above: detail from 2018 UK quad for Khrustalyov, My Car!.One of the most beautiful and confounding of modern masterpieces, Aleksei German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! is getting a 20th anniversary restoration release in both the U.K. and the U.S. on December 14 courtesy of Arrow Films. A potent source for Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin, German’s fever dream of a satire has some the most gorgeous high-contrast black and white cinematography I’ve ever seen (watch the trailer here). It is fitting then that the new poster for the film, by the great Andrzej Klimowski, is in such stark black and white.A new film poster by Klimowski is an event. Born in London to Polish parents in 1949, the designer emigrated to Poland in 1973 to study under the legendary Henryk Tomaszewski at the Academy of Fine Arts. By 1976 he was designing posters for the state-run Film...
- 11/27/2018
- MUBI
[Spoilers for "Aquarius" Season 1 below.] This summer, NBC's "Aquarius" blended police procedural, family melodrama and the story of real-life cult leader Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony) and his "Family" into an engrossing thirteen hours of television. Series director and executive producer Jonas Pate has said that "Aquarius" is not historically accurate, but "inspired by the truth" of the Manson Family, who committed one of the strangest and most infamous murder sprees in Los Angeles history. But when looking forward to the second season ordered by the network, Charlie Manson's life is a great blueprint for the series. Read More: Review: 'Aquarius' Gets Enough Wrong Things Right to Create an Oddly Compelling Cop Story Let's take a brief look at Charles Manson and his "family." Manson was born in 1934 to an unwed teenage mother. By 1967, he was a career criminal who had spent more than half his life in jail and.
- 9/14/2015
- by Alyse Wax
- Indiewire
Lucky Louie, Season 1, Episode 4: “Long Weekend”
Written by Louis C.K.
Directed by Andrew D. Weyman
Aired on July 3rd, 2006 on HBO
Throughout Louis C.K.’s career, although he often bears a strong resemblance to the characters he plays (including in his stand-up persona), he almost never seems to intend for the audience to wholly identify with them. Outside of his self-righteous late-night rants, as heavily as C.K. plays his regular guy shtick (particularly when he positions himself as the relatable foil to an off-the-rails sad sack, such as in “Cop Story” from the most recent season of Louie), there’s almost always something to keep the viewer from unambiguously rooting for him.
Sometimes that “something” is quite a bit more pronounced, like in “Long Weekend.” Although there are often conceivable loopholes for those who wish to defend C.K.’s characters, there’s not much of a possible...
Written by Louis C.K.
Directed by Andrew D. Weyman
Aired on July 3rd, 2006 on HBO
Throughout Louis C.K.’s career, although he often bears a strong resemblance to the characters he plays (including in his stand-up persona), he almost never seems to intend for the audience to wholly identify with them. Outside of his self-righteous late-night rants, as heavily as C.K. plays his regular guy shtick (particularly when he positions himself as the relatable foil to an off-the-rails sad sack, such as in “Cop Story” from the most recent season of Louie), there’s almost always something to keep the viewer from unambiguously rooting for him.
Sometimes that “something” is quite a bit more pronounced, like in “Long Weekend.” Although there are often conceivable loopholes for those who wish to defend C.K.’s characters, there’s not much of a possible...
- 7/1/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
"Louie" wrapped up its abbreviated fifth season(*) last night, and I have a review of the finale coming up just as soon as I ask you not to light your fart... (*) In case you missed it, here's Louis C.K.'s explanation for why the season was shorter, thoughts on how he looks at Louie and Pamela's relationship, and a lot more from the panel I moderated with him and Pamela Adlon earlier this week. Last week, I wondered if the two parts of "The Road" would tell a larger story, or simply be a collection of vignettes about what it's like for someone of Louie's age and temperament to go out on tour. Ultimately, "The Road" was both, as they dealt not only with the frustration Louie feels at the inconvenience of travel and dealing with people like the club owner and his daughter April(**), but also with the...
- 5/29/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The network TV season ended last week, which means we're diving deep into Emmy campaigning season. The official Emmy ballot gets sent to TV Academy members in early June, and in the meantime, networks and studios are doing their best to put on good faces for potential voters, sometimes with elaborate screener packages, sometimes with For Your Consideration panels featuring the creators and stars of their shows. Last week, I moderated one of those for "Transparent," and last night, I got to do the same for "Louie," sitting down for a conversation with Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon after the audience got to watch this season's "Bobby's House" and the nightmare-fueled "Untitled." While some of these panels are recorded and later made available to the public (I believe that's the plan with the "Transparent" one), FX didn't film this. But it was memorable enough — particularly since C.K. doesn't do...
- 5/28/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
It’s Louie versus the Youth this season, and the kids are winning. But he’s sort of letting them win. Just like the kitchen-supply-store owner in the beginning of “Cop Story,” Louie only has a half-ass fight against a generation he doesn’t want to understand. Lilly properly schooled him after he tried to take her phone away for texting during a star-studded play; when he found out she was using it to learn more about the playwright, he looked proud enough to cry, and confused enough to give up. The store owner called it — he’d rather be the sort of guy who wants his daughters to be smarter than him, so in moments like this, he has to give over to just being wrong and let Lilly feel the thrill of being right.Jane is a different story, bouncing around from one piece of furniture to another while he vacuums,...
- 5/15/2015
- by Danielle Henderson
- Vulture
Louis C.K.'s talents as a stand-up have been recognized for years, decades even. It wasn't until his FX series "Louie", however, when his skills as a writer and director were equally applauded. His filmmaking career, however, goes almost as far as his comedy, yet his 2001 misfire Pootie Tang restricted him from much activity in the director's chair, beyond stand-up specials and eventually his acclaimed series. Now that his show is a massive critical darling, however, it looks as though C.K. will get another chance to make a feature. He teams up with producer Scott Rudin, and also returns to work with "Louie" producers Dave Becky and Blair Breard, to write, direct and star in the indie film I'm a Cop. The feature centers on a middle-aged, depressed man (C.K.) who volunteers as a police officer and lives in his mother's shadow in the midst of her retired but celebrated officer career.
- 5/5/2015
- by Will Ashton
- Rope of Silicon
This week on “The Vulture TV Podcast,” TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz and TV editor Gazelle Emami are joined by two special guests: Vulture senior editor and resident comedy expert Jesse David Fox, and computer programmer and Vulture’s Silicon Valley recapper Odie Henderson. We analyze how closely Silicon Valley hews to tech culture, discuss the excellent new season of Louie, and wonder if people are still excited about the show. This episode contains spoilers in the following discussions: 1:45–2:20: Grey’s Anatomy, "How to Save a Life" 2:20–6:57: Mad Men, "Time & Life" 6:57–9:16: Silicon Valley, "Bad Money" 9:46–30:10: Silicon Valley, "Bad Money" 30:10–43:04: Louie, "Cop Story"Further reading: Odie Henderson's recap of Silicon Valley; Matt Zoller Seitz's Mad Men recap; Danielle Henderson's Louie recap. Tune in to "The Vulture TV Podcast," produced by the Slate Group’s Panoply,...
- 4/28/2015
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
Louie, Season 5, Episode 3: “Cop Story”
Written by Louis C.K. (story by C.K. and Robert Smigel)
Directed by Louis C.K.
Airs Thursdays at 10:30pm Et on FX
Anyone who, in the wake of last season’s multipart epics, was hoping that Louie would revert to its early-season modes of storytelling might be taking some comfort in season five’s first few episodes. “Cop Story” opens with a pre-credits sequence that has no obvious narrative ties to the rest of the episode. Louie goes to a high-end kitchenware store in Manhattan and is denied service by its conspicuously attractive 24-year-old owner/operator Andrea (Clara Wong) after betraying the fact that he probably won’t use the pots that often, he just likes to collect nice stuff. When Louie expresses his confusion and dismay, she calmly informs him that he doesn’t fit with their clientele, and she and her...
Written by Louis C.K. (story by C.K. and Robert Smigel)
Directed by Louis C.K.
Airs Thursdays at 10:30pm Et on FX
Anyone who, in the wake of last season’s multipart epics, was hoping that Louie would revert to its early-season modes of storytelling might be taking some comfort in season five’s first few episodes. “Cop Story” opens with a pre-credits sequence that has no obvious narrative ties to the rest of the episode. Louie goes to a high-end kitchenware store in Manhattan and is denied service by its conspicuously attractive 24-year-old owner/operator Andrea (Clara Wong) after betraying the fact that he probably won’t use the pots that often, he just likes to collect nice stuff. When Louie expresses his confusion and dismay, she calmly informs him that he doesn’t fit with their clientele, and she and her...
- 4/24/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
A review of tonight's "Louie" coming up just as soon as I assume that you're Welsh... The segment of "Cop Story" that gives the episode its title is terrific in its own right, and we'll get to that in a minute, but I wouldn't want the pre-credits sequence to get overlooked. That's a perfect little "Louie" short story, and one that illustrates why this show continues to stand apart from the many other cable series about grumpy middle-aged men. (Take Showtime's "Happyish," for instance. Or better off, don't.) Louis C.K. is a man with strong opinions, as is his alter ego. But he's also curious about the world, and open to the possibility that he isn't right. In many situations where Louie winds up dealing with someone who should be his ideological enemy, he instead realizes that he has more to learn from them than the other way around. Dumping...
- 4/24/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Neil Patrick Harris' recent Broadway performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is causing a bit of a stir. According to Page Six, after a female admirer yelled out "I love you Neil!," during the show Saturday, Harris shot back, "I'm doing something up here, motherf—cker!" The former How I Met Your Mother star isn't denying that this happened, but he is saying the supposed curse out was taken out of context, tweeting "It seems my Hedwig improvs are making news, but one should have the full story/context." He pointed fans to a Gossip Cop story which said he didn't curse out a fan during his performance, his character did, adding that the...
- 4/20/2014
- E! Online
The novelty of the fabulous webcomic Axe Cop [now published by Dark Horse] has always been that it’s ‘written by a five year old’ [Malachai Nicolle was five when the story began; he’s now eight years old]. And that tidbit has truly amazing results: in Malachai’s world, gorillas shoot volcanoes out of their tails, all girls are on the ‘dumb list’, and dinosaurs are the answer to everything. Of course, the fact of the matter is that without his brother Ethan Nicolle’s creative and hysterical illustrations, the jumpy, spontaneous narrative would likely fall flat. Axe Cop takes the best of what it means to have the imagination of a child and marries it to the comedic timing of a talented artist. Ethan Nicolle was a very chill, unassuming guy—the kind of person you want to sit down and smoke a cigar with.
Famous Monsters. First of all, love the series. Hilarious. Best thing ever. What can you tell me about the upcoming Axe Cop TV show?...
Famous Monsters. First of all, love the series. Hilarious. Best thing ever. What can you tell me about the upcoming Axe Cop TV show?...
- 7/26/2012
- by Holly I.
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples
U.S.A, 1982
Every Friday during the month of June, the Friday Film Noir column will be taking a slightly offbeat look at noir in film. More specifically, films that embrace noir elements in their own fashion yet are not from the traditionally recognized era will be under the radar. Enjoy!
Few science fiction films resonate as strongly among admirers of the genre as does Ridley Scott’s visually arresting, thematically dense 1982 effort, Blade Runner. Even among the director’s several detractors, it is commonly agreed upon that this represents some of the best work he has ever done, possibly his single best film even. It is also used, countless number of times at this point, as evidence that the Englishman is and always has been an especially gifted storyteller in science-fiction, more so than in any other genre.
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples
U.S.A, 1982
Every Friday during the month of June, the Friday Film Noir column will be taking a slightly offbeat look at noir in film. More specifically, films that embrace noir elements in their own fashion yet are not from the traditionally recognized era will be under the radar. Enjoy!
Few science fiction films resonate as strongly among admirers of the genre as does Ridley Scott’s visually arresting, thematically dense 1982 effort, Blade Runner. Even among the director’s several detractors, it is commonly agreed upon that this represents some of the best work he has ever done, possibly his single best film even. It is also used, countless number of times at this point, as evidence that the Englishman is and always has been an especially gifted storyteller in science-fiction, more so than in any other genre.
- 6/8/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – 2008’s “Street Kings” may not have been a critical darling or commercial smash but it’s the kind of action film that surely did real well on Blu-ray and DVD. And it’s a movie I happen to think was underrated in its balls-to-the-wall chronicle of police corruption and take-no-prisoners style. So, I was curious when a straight-to-dvd sequel starring Ray Liotta and Shawn Hatosy popped up. I’m here to warn you against the same curiosity. This is a total waste of time.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.5/5.0
“Street Kings 2” is a sequel completely in name only. Clifton Powell appears in both films and both deal with corrupt cops, but this is nearly as ludicrous a follow-up as the awful “S. Darko,” a semi-sequel to “Donnie Darko.” Wait, you say that was directed by the same guy? Yes, Chris Fisher is apparently carving his own unique niche — direct-to-dvd sequels that...
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.5/5.0
“Street Kings 2” is a sequel completely in name only. Clifton Powell appears in both films and both deal with corrupt cops, but this is nearly as ludicrous a follow-up as the awful “S. Darko,” a semi-sequel to “Donnie Darko.” Wait, you say that was directed by the same guy? Yes, Chris Fisher is apparently carving his own unique niche — direct-to-dvd sequels that...
- 5/5/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
0:00 - Intro 2:50 - Singe's Cop Story / Steven Seagal: Lawman 22:40 - Top 20 Films of the Decade: District 9, The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight, The Departed, Grizzly Man 39:40 - Review: Avatar 1:16:30 - Trailer Trash: Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, Hot Tub Time Machine 1:31:15 - Other Stuff We Watched: Superbad, Man v. Food, A Threevening with Kevin Smith, Sons of Anarchy, Up, Inglourious Basterds, In The Loop, The Limits of Control, The Messenger, The Lives of Others, Beautiful Losers, Santa with Muscles 2:07:40 - Junk Mail: Kill Bill Vol. 3 and James Cameron's hometown, Commentaries Ruining the Magic, Worst Movies of the Year, Donnie Darko and Zombieland, The Girlfriend Experience, Bob Clark and Halloween, Martial Arts Eras 2:47:35 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:49:14 - Outro Note: Our additional spoiler discussion of Avatar is now available here...
- 12/21/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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