DVD: Michel Piccoli     DVD:     Michel Piccoli      Belle Toujours Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier New Yorker Video, 2008 I have yet to see a bad Manoel de Oliveira film.... This is yet one more excellent film in the oeuvre of Manoel de Oliveira. It's another endlessly fascinating, intellectual, thoughtful, and dark film. It's not technically a sequel to Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour, more like a tribute and a coda to the original story. ...             Danger: Diabolik John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell Paramount, 2005 James Bond, eat your heart out! Costumes by Paco Rabanne, music by Ennio Morriconne, Marisa Mel and John Phillip Law in their sexy prime and even an appearance by Terry Thomas, all based on one of the most successful Italian comics of all time? What's not to like about this movie? My favorite ...             The Young Girls of Rochefort René Bazart, Dorothée Blank Miramax, 2002 an overlooked masterpiece I just had to pitch in on this one. I'm a bit of a film geek, and have watched plenty of them. I'd say this movie is one of my personal favorites - definitely in the top five. No kidding. It serves the vital function of reminding me, when I need to be, that life can be ...             Atlantic City Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon Paramount, 2002 Atlantic City Hypnotic film by French director Louis Malle deals with themes of decay and regeneration in both character and setting. Lou represents the past, Sally the future, with Atlantic City itself the transitional present which makes it possible for this unlikely duo to ...             Contempt - Criterion Collection Brigitte Bardot, Raoul Coutard Criterion, 2002 Contempt In the hands of New Wave master Godard, this brilliant, piercing film about alienation and the end of a marriage is also quite overtly about the cinema itself--especially the role of art in relation to commercial interests. Casting sex kitten Bardot as Camille is ...             The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur Criterion, 2002 The Stuff of Dreams "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" unfolds with the absurd logic of a recurrent dream, and since the DVD has been beautifully restored, one is able to dream the dream in vivid color: Elegantly dressed guests arrive for a dinner party only to have the hostess ...             La Chamade (Heartbeat) Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli MGM (Video & DVD), 2004 A visual discussion of man's incomprehension of woman Catherine Deneuve is one of film's all time great beauties who has also become a very fine actress. At this point in her career, she was still blank but beautiful. Her Director put this to good use, casting her as a woman who is pampered, spoiled, a woman for whom ...             Belle de Jour Francis Blanche, Claude Cerval Miramax, 2002 When shall I receive it???? I ordered the item, paid by credit card and still haven't received it. What's going on? Have I done something wrong?             La Belle Noiseuse Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin New Yorker Video, 2004 Despite its length and lingering pace, an astonishing film about the artistic process.. French New Wave director Jacques Rivette is considered to be even more experimental than Jean-Luc Godard. His films are characterized by long running times (Out 1, for instance, has a 750-minute running time) and plots that unfold in unconventional ways. Based on ...             Is Paris Burning? Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer Paramount, 2003 A city on the edge of destruction If the tagline for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was `Everyone whose ever been funny is in it,' then Rene Clement's epic could almost lay claim that `Anyone who's ever been French is in it,' assembling Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, ...             La Grande Bouffe [Region 2] Monique Chaumette, Andréa Ferréol Umbrella Records, 2008             Phantom of Liberty - Criterion Collection Adriana Asti, Jenny Astruc Criterion, 2005 Genius, surreal absurdity that somehow makes perfect sense Ok, how can you adequately review this film? Here's one scene-- A mysterious stranger is eyeballing a couple of little kids at the park. As a present for being such lovely little girls, he secretly gives them some "beautiful photographs" and instructs them not to ...             Genealogies of a Crime Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli Strand Releasing, 2005 Dark, enigmatic, somber, captivating and fascinating. I had the opportunity to see the film and meet the director (Raul Ruiz a Chilean living in Paris since 1973) on a film festival in Miami. I liked the film first because it is based on a true story, and second because it has the courage to contend with one of the dark ...             Diary of a Chambermaid - Criterion Collection Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret Criterion, 2001 Stunning character study! The personal dilemma of maid trapped in the nasty grips of the fascism in 1939 France. But meanwhile Bunuel takes the opportunity to make a demolishing existential exploration of the bourgeoisie at those times. Maybe I am speculating but to my view this film was the ...             Passion in the Desert Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli Image Entertainment, 2005 Brings Bazac to Life Beautifully directed, photographed, and acted film that treats with a delicate hand the rather unusual subject. Best if one has read Balzac's story first.          products you might be interested in   search for DVDs bourgeoisie, chambermaid, collection, criterion, genealogies, rochefort      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Znamenitye rossijskie familii