Tag Archives: Juliette Binoche

The Return review — Fiennes and Binoche elevate Homeric adaptation

December 5, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Uberto Pasolini | Written by Pasolini, Edward Bond, and John Collee, based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey | 116 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is a loose adaptation of the final segment of The Odyssey. The film tells the part of the story where Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) finally arrives in Ithaca, Greece after… Read More

The Taste of Things review — Delicious to see

February 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Anh Hung Tran | Written by Anh Hung Tran and Marcel Rouff | 135 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is a film about food. If it pleases you watching people prepare delicious-looking breakfasts and dinners in a beautiful, sun-touched kitchen, this is a movie for you. Though in perhaps a less important way, it's… Read More

20 Best Movies on Canadian Netflix (from the 20th Century)

February 8, 2021 flawintheiris

I don't think this is a secret: Netflix doesn't carry a deep library of quality older cinema. Most folks looking to a streaming service for a classic movie are probably better off subscribing to Amazon Prime — a lot to enjoy there — or the Criterion Channel. (I'd also recommend a look at the library… Read More

The Truth review — Charming French dramedy from renowned filmmaker

July 9, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda | Written by Hirokazu Koreeda and Ken Liu | 106 min | On Demand A frequently amusing, frequently melancholy family drama with a few undeniable meta overlaps to real life that help keep things interesting from the director of Shoplifters, a film I was in the minority for not loving. Catherine Deneuve… Read More

High Life review — Arty sci-fi lost in space

May 4, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Clare Denis | Written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox, and Nick Laird | 113 min | Netflix Clare Denis leaves behind her colonial concerns and her French language films—her most recent being the diverting Let The Sunshine In—for an English debut set in deep space. To call it retro-futurist would be a… Read More

Carbon Arc Reviews — Winter 2019 Season

April 30, 2019 flawintheiris

Carbon Arc Independent Cinema's most recent season has concluded. As a programmer I am grateful to have been able contribute to the screening selection, though as a volunteer I wasn't able to see every film that showed. The ones I missed, disappointingly, include Rafiki, Capernaum, Styx, Birds Of Passage, and Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind The Film Shoah.… Read More

Ghost In The Shell (2017) review — The visuals are out of this world, the story less so

March 31, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Rupert Sanders | Written by Jimmy Moss and William Wheeler from the manga by Masamune Shirow | 107 min | Netflix A late-arriving Hollywoodized adaptation of the popular manga, anime movies, and TV series is in some ways an improvement over the original material. The 1995 film was a gorgeous vision of the… Read More

Clouds of Sils Maria review — A strange and beautiful journey in the Alps

June 17, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Oliver Assayas | 124 min | The Criterion Channel Remember the gifted storytellers in the wordy, if somewhat static, My Dinner With Andre? Or story-within-story pictures like The French Lieutenant's Woman or Vanya on 42nd Street, where the overlay of a fiction in the central narrative both enlivens and informs what's going on? If you do,… Read More