Solid-State Hard Drives Not A Flash In The Pan • For Netflix Subscribers, Set-Top Box An Easy Sell Jun 25, 2008
They include television shows ("Dexter," "Heroes" and "The Rockford Files"), documentaries ("The King of Kong," "Crazy Love" and "Little Dieter Needs to Fly"), classics ("Leave Her to Heaven" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"), and foreign films ("Them," "The Orphanage" and "A Very Long Engagement"). Plus I've added a bunch of independent films, horror movies and comedies. (Investors Business Daily)
The new face of Chanel May 9, 2008
He also directed her in the films Amelie and A Very Long Engagement. The short film is scheduled for release in 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
That 'Amelie' woman has a nasty side Apr 3, 2008
She dispensed random acts of kindness as "Amelie," set off in search of her fiance in "A Very Long Engagement" and played a street-smart but sensitive police cryptologist in "The Da Vinci Code.". Audrey Tautou became famous for her performance as the good-natured heart of "Amelie.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
'Old Men,' Europeans seize Academy Awards Feb 25, 2008
The actress has appeared in dozens of films in her native France, but she may be most recognizable to American audiences for her performances in "A Very Long Engagement" (2004) and "Big Fish" (2003). In a highly competitive race, Swinton nabbed the best supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal as lawyer Karen Crowder in the legal drama "Michael Clayton.". (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)
Oscar leavesCotillard speechless Feb 25, 2008
Her credits include producer Luc Bessons action comedy Taxi and its sequels and Jean-Pierre Jeunets acclaimed drama A Very Long Engagement, the latter earning her the supporting-actress prize at the Cesars, Frances equivalent of the Oscars. Two days before her Oscar triumph, Cotillard won the best-actress Cesar for La Vie En Rose. (MSNBC -- News)
Everything's Rosy Feb 17, 2008
She starred in the popular action-comedy franchise "Taxi," but audiences in the States probably remember her best as the vengeful, cunning killer Tina Lombardi in "A Very Long Engagement," from 2004. When director Olivier Dahan approached Cotillard to play Piaf, revered as something of a demigoddess in France, she reacted as any sane actress would: "I was freaking out," she recalls with a laugh, widening her big blue eyes. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
You may not recognize Marion Cotillard from these films Feb 15, 2008
A Very Long Engagement (2004, Warner, R, $20). Appallingly, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's visually resplendent Amelie didn't get 2001's foreign-language Oscar despite five nominations overall. (USA Today -- Life)
Best Actress, Marion Cotillard Jan 24, 2008
In 2004, she picked up a C;sar (French Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress for her role in A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fian;ailles), and she charmed audiences with her mischievous challenge to co-star Guillaume Canet, cap ou pas cap ... J;r;mie Renier, who stars in (nominated for Best Film, although neither the film's director nor any of its actors has been given the Oscar nod), has worked with Cotillard twice: in Fair Play and Dikkenek; Dominique Pinon, who also had a role in... (Suite101.com)
I don't want to lick your shoes Dec 9, 2007
Having bottled lightning once, Jeunet cast Tautou again in A Very Long Engagement, as a childhood sweetheart who searches for her fianc. at the end of World War I, prompting the influential Hollywood Reporter to pointedly remark that "Tautou is not cut out for tragedy". (Sydney Morning Herald)
Almost famous Dec 9, 2007
Having bottled lightning once, Jeunet cast Tautou again in A Very Long Engagement, as a childhood sweetheart who searches for her fiancee at the end of World War I, prompting the influential Hollywood Reporter to pointedly remark that "Tautou is not cut out for tragedy". All her other films, including The Spanish Apartment, Dirty Pretty Things, Russian Dolls and Priceless, were dwarfed by The Da Vinci Code, director Ron Howard's massively 00004000 hyped adaptation of Dan Brown's mega-selling... (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Lead actress cheat sheet Nov 17, 2007
( "La Vie en rose ) Her performance as Edith Piaf has earned four best actress awards from various film festivals. In her native France, she has received three Cesar Awards and won one for supporting actress for A Very Long Engagement. One of her next roles is in Rob Marshalls film adaptation of the musical Nine, co-starring Sophia Loren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Jodie Foster ( "The Brave One ) Received her first Oscar nom at age 14 (Taxi Driver) and later... (Variety)
The Brave One Sep 29, 2007
Since she turned 40, she's made her French-language debut (A Very Long Engagement), depicted the ultimate power woman (Inside Man) and given a heart-wrenching portrayal of maternal distress (Flightplan). Her latest trend-bucking role. (Digital Spy)
Slice of Wimsey Sep 15, 2007
This conflict is held together with a series of re-imagined Beatles songs that are yanked out of context to mixed effect: cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel has a history of visual mischief (Amelie, A Very Long Engagement) and some of the dancing puppet faces and animated characters soar off into playful worlds of their own. Sometimes, it plays like the world's longest music video, but at its best, Across the Universe expresses both the innocent joy and the violent corruptions of the time. (Vancouver Sun)
Vengeance is Jodie's Sep 13, 2007
" Fluent in French since childhood, Foster also took on a supporting role in the French-language romance "A Very Long Engagement. " Foster is just finishing the family flick "Nim's Island" and has been toiling for years to star in a film about Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker vilified after World War II for her propaganda pieces about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. "I wish I was better at making these things happen fast. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Foster gets brave, gets gun in Brave One Sep 12, 2007
Fluent in French since childhood, Foster also took on a supporting role in the French-language romance A Very Long Engagement. . (MSNBC -- News)
Unseasonal films open Jun 22, 2007
This one too has a mesmerizing central performance, by Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement), whose resemblance to Piaf as various times throughout her life is uncanny. The direction is a little excessive, consciously so and the movie could use some trimming, but you should buckle your seat belt if you go on this ride with The Little Sparrow. (The Palm Beach Post)
Cotillard embodies passion of Piaf in 'La Vie en Rose' Jun 22, 2007
If you've seen the too-little-known 2004 French masterpiece A Very Long Engagement, you know Cotillard can be a strapping femme fatale. But, as Piaf, she ages into a leaning, and then hunched, tower of passion. (SunSpot.net)
Rise and fall of Edith Piaf (Kelly Jane Torrance) Jun 15, 2007
Doe-eyed actress Marion Cotillard ("A Very Long Engagement" and "A Good Year") completely embodies the legendary singer in "La Vie en Rose," playing her from the age of 16 to her death in 1963 at 47 (but looking decades older after struggles with cancer and morphine addiction). Miss Cotillard plays her as a shy street urchin onstage but a grand diva off. (Washington Times)
Foreign Oscar nominees show the dark side Apr 29, 2007
Among the acclaimed foreign language movies which either didnt make the short list or were declared ineligible are The Motorcycle Diaries, Maria Full of Grace, A Very Long Engagement and House of Flying Daggers ... A Very Long Engagement was nominated in the art direction and cinematography categories while House of Flying Daggers also received a nomination in the latter category. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
Your thoughts on the Oscar nominations Apr 29, 2007
Was quite disappointed not to see A Very Long Engagement get a nomination for best foreign film. Katrina, Seattle, Wash. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
EMI Classics to Release La Vie en Rose: Official Motion Picture Soundtrack on May 22 Mar 29, 2007
The film stars Marion Cotillard (Ridley Scott's A Good Year, A Very Long Engagement) as Piaf and Gerard Depardieu as Louis Leplee. "Marion Cotillard's feral portrait of the French singer Edith Piaf as a captive wild animal hurling herself at the bars of her cage is the most astonishing immersion of one performer into the body and soul of another I've ever encountered in a film," raves Stephen Holden in his New York Times film review. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Vive la femme Mar 2, 2007
Following her roles in Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, Audrey Tautou was keen to show a sexy, womanly and comedic side to her talents in Priceless. Sporting high heels and a range of designer dresses with revealing cleavage, Tautou plays a leech who preys on rich old men on the French Riviera. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Review: 'Hannibal Rising' Falls Flat Feb 12, 2007
Not surprisingly, this turn of events leaves a deep scar on Hannibal, who when the story fast-forwards eight years, transforms into a young man played by French actor Gaspard Ulliel ("A Very Long Engagement"). Lecter escapes his Russian orphanage and heads to France to find an uncle and his Japanese wife (played by Chinese actress Gong Li. (NBC 11, CA)
A Ho-hum Hannibal Feb 11, 2007
" Keith Hamshere / The Weinstein Company Article Tools No...energy...Won't...be able...to write...my usual...3,000 words...Can't...crack...jokes...Must...blame...Hannibal Rising. This movie drained me. But not in the way a vampire drains blood from its victim. That act has a predatory intimacy. The contact of fangs on neck is erotic - a deep, dirty first kiss, and the prelude to fatal sexual enslavement. Hannibal Rising isn't nearly that much fun. It doesn't, in the manner of its hero, take a... (TIME)
How Hannibal Got His Appetite For Humans Feb 11, 2007
"Although he seems to have been cast on the strength of high, arched cheekbones that give his grin an insolent malevolence, French actor Gaspard Ulliel ('A Very Long Engagement') makes a fine young cannibal," Tom Charity wrote in his. All in all, the movie is better that some would expect but I doubt many people who remember The Silence of the Lambs will embrace Hannibal Rising. (Playfuls.com)
Review: 'Hannibal' bites the big one Feb 10, 2007
Although he seems to have been cast on the strength of high, arched cheekbones that give his grin an insolent malevolence, French actor Gaspard Ulliel ("A Very Long Engagement") makes a fine young cannibal. But the idea that this sad, sadistic adolescent aesthete might grow into the man played by Hopkins never takes root for an instant. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Hannibal Lecter saved my life Feb 9, 2007
The casting of a French actor, 22-year-old Gaspard Ulliel (A Very Long Engagement), to play the young Lector will raise some eyebrows. Webber was going to cast an American until a song on the radio provided fresh inspiration. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Hannibal Rising': Broken 'Silence' Feb 9, 2007
It doesn't help that the young French actor Gaspard Ulliel ("A Very Long Engagement") -- as he has no deftness or technique by which to suggest complexity -- has clearly been cast for his face. It's a face made for eating, long of jaw, sharp of feature (cheekbones like daggers), glittery and cunning of eye, smileless except for a post-kill smirk. (Washington Post)
Hannibal Rising Feb 9, 2007
Eight years later, now-teenaged Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel, "A Very Long Engagement") is back at the castle -- albeit as a ward of the state, his ancestral home now a Soviet orphanage. He refuses to speak, but makes his violent temper felt in other ways. (Variety)
Four movies that should be in your netflix queue Feb 9, 2007
"A Very Long Engagement" (2004) ... "A Very Long Engagement" is Jeunet's brilliant screen adaptation of the acclaimed novel written by Sebastien Japrisot ... Starring none other than Jeunet's favorite muse, Audrey Tautou, "A Very Long Engagement" is the story of Matilde, a young crippled woman whose fianc Manech (Gaspard Ulliel "Hannibal Rising" 2007), is reported as missing or dead in the trenches of WWI. Matilde refuses to believe that her soul mate has perished and she embarks on a... (The New Hampshire, NH)
That's a Wrap Feb 7, 2007
You may remember him from the freedom films A Very Long Engagement and Brotherhood of the Wolf. Rising also stars Rhys Ifans (who, according to the Internet Movie Database, was apparently attached to one of this week s DVD releases,The Science of Sleep, at one point). (San Antonio Current, TX)
'Hannibal Rising' Explores How Lecter Got So Deliciously Evil Feb 3, 2007
Interestingly, Ulliel, who is perhaps best known stateside as Audrey Tautou's love interest in 2004's "A Very Long Engagement," insisted that he didn't take much from Hopkins' award-winning portrayal when he crafted his own Lecter performance. "Obviously the elegant would look for similarities to Hopkins, but the idea was more to pick a few subtle details from his performance and mix it to my own recipe," the 22-year-old actor said. (VHI.com -- Music News)
