Land of Talk today shared “Sitcom,” the silken third single off their forthcoming new album Performances, due out this Friday via Saddle Creek, alongside a video directed by Ana-Maria Espino Trudel. “A lot of my love of music is just from long car rides with my dad listening to Christopher Cross, Fine Young Cannibals, and Whitney Houston. He’s not a musician but I feel like I’m almost having a conversation with my dad through a lot of my records,” explains Lizzie Powell, the creative force behind Land of Talk. “Recently, I got into a really big Christopher Cross phase. On this song, I thought I could try to write like that. I was also watching a lot of Family Ties and older sitcoms. The keys part kind of evoked that classic TV intro from the ‘70s and ‘80s.”
Of the video, Espino Trudel explains, “I wanted ‘Sitcom’ to...
Of the video, Espino Trudel explains, “I wanted ‘Sitcom’ to...
- 10/10/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Goodbye, Chicago courtrooms. Hello, crime-filled streets of New York City!
Former defense lawyer Elsbeth is using her quirky observational skills to take down criminals — like True Blood vet Stephen Moyer — in the first trailer for CBS’ upcoming The Good Wife spinoff. (View CBS’ new fall schedule here.)
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Premiering this fall,...
Former defense lawyer Elsbeth is using her quirky observational skills to take down criminals — like True Blood vet Stephen Moyer — in the first trailer for CBS’ upcoming The Good Wife spinoff. (View CBS’ new fall schedule here.)
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Premiering this fall,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Hang on just a minute, S.W.A.T. fans: Your prayers may be answered.
CBS is reportedly considering bringing back the long-running procedural for a seventh season after all, per our sister site Deadline, just three days after the network announced its cancellation after six seasons. Update: It’s official — S.W.A.T. has been saved!
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According to the Deadline report, “renewal conversations...
CBS is reportedly considering bringing back the long-running procedural for a seventh season after all, per our sister site Deadline, just three days after the network announced its cancellation after six seasons. Update: It’s official — S.W.A.T. has been saved!
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According to the Deadline report, “renewal conversations...
- 5/8/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
(Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we look at an Oscars category from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy's winner stands the test of time.)
As someone who frequently peruses the past years of the Academy Awards, more often than not the results just wash over me. Rarely are the winners the most exciting options, but I generally understand how and why a given person or film walked away with a trophy, even if they wouldn't have gotten my vote. People like to grouse about the results of the Oscars, but their whiffing on a massive scale actually doesn't happen as often as people claim it does.
Of course, there are those "What were they thinking?" moments, like "Crash" winning Best Picture and "That Thing You Do!" losing Best Song. Few make me scratch my head harder than Best Actor at the 1975 Oscars. It's a slate...
As someone who frequently peruses the past years of the Academy Awards, more often than not the results just wash over me. Rarely are the winners the most exciting options, but I generally understand how and why a given person or film walked away with a trophy, even if they wouldn't have gotten my vote. People like to grouse about the results of the Oscars, but their whiffing on a massive scale actually doesn't happen as often as people claim it does.
Of course, there are those "What were they thinking?" moments, like "Crash" winning Best Picture and "That Thing You Do!" losing Best Song. Few make me scratch my head harder than Best Actor at the 1975 Oscars. It's a slate...
- 4/30/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Trevor Noah finally thinks he may have heard “the most American story of all time” — at least until next week.
During Thursday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Noah was baffled by a news story out of Florida that a study from Florida International University found that fish off the coast were loaded with prescription medication.
According to the report, bonefish that were studied contained anywhere from seven to 17 different pharmaceuticals, including blood pressure medication, antibiotics and antidepressants.
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“You know, every time I think I’ve seen the most American story of all time, this kind of stuff comes up,” the late night host said. “Cause which other country can say, ‘There’s so much medication leaving our bodies we’re basically providing Obamacare to the fish?'”
The issue, he contended, might have something to...
During Thursday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Noah was baffled by a news story out of Florida that a study from Florida International University found that fish off the coast were loaded with prescription medication.
According to the report, bonefish that were studied contained anywhere from seven to 17 different pharmaceuticals, including blood pressure medication, antibiotics and antidepressants.
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Jimmy Kimmel Rips Prominent GOP Members: ‘Shameless, Worthless Grifters and Leeches’ (Video)
“You know, every time I think I’ve seen the most American story of all time, this kind of stuff comes up,” the late night host said. “Cause which other country can say, ‘There’s so much medication leaving our bodies we’re basically providing Obamacare to the fish?'”
The issue, he contended, might have something to...
- 6/3/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
In the latest TV show ratings, The CW’s All American this Monday drew 450,000 total viewers and a 0.1 demo rating, holding steady week-to-week.
Its yet-to-be-renewed spinoff, All American: Homecoming, however slipped to its second smallest audience to date (310K) while steady with a 0.1. rating.
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Fox’s 9-1-1 (5.1 mil/0.7, read recap) was steady and topped Monday in the demo; Lone Star (4.7 mil/0.6) ticked up.
CBS’ The Neighborhood (5.3 mil/0.5) dipped yet delivered Monday’s largest audience,...
Its yet-to-be-renewed spinoff, All American: Homecoming, however slipped to its second smallest audience to date (310K) while steady with a 0.1. rating.
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Fox’s 9-1-1 (5.1 mil/0.7, read recap) was steady and topped Monday in the demo; Lone Star (4.7 mil/0.6) ticked up.
CBS’ The Neighborhood (5.3 mil/0.5) dipped yet delivered Monday’s largest audience,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
[Editor’s note: This article was first published on September 18, 2019.]
In 2014, I published a book called “Sitcom” that served as a history of the American situation comedy, covering the gamut from “I Love Lucy” to the present day. For that work, I wrote a chapter on “Friends,” rewatching the entirety of the series and appreciating its warmth and its acidic vigor. I felt like I’d said my piece.
Then I came across this story in the New York Times about high-school kids watching “Friends” on Netflix and shipping Ross and Rachel, as if this were a hot new series and not a two-decade-old show. Some combination of the series’ streaming debut and the internet’s unstinting love for “Friends” helped it find an entirely new audience, and I wanted to tell the full story of the show for everyone who was only just discovering it now, as well as the fans who had tuned in for the first episode...
In 2014, I published a book called “Sitcom” that served as a history of the American situation comedy, covering the gamut from “I Love Lucy” to the present day. For that work, I wrote a chapter on “Friends,” rewatching the entirety of the series and appreciating its warmth and its acidic vigor. I felt like I’d said my piece.
Then I came across this story in the New York Times about high-school kids watching “Friends” on Netflix and shipping Ross and Rachel, as if this were a hot new series and not a two-decade-old show. Some combination of the series’ streaming debut and the internet’s unstinting love for “Friends” helped it find an entirely new audience, and I wanted to tell the full story of the show for everyone who was only just discovering it now, as well as the fans who had tuned in for the first episode...
- 5/24/2021
- by Saul Austerlitz
- Indiewire
Two boys in a French seaside resort fall fatally in love in a nostalgic coming-of-age tale
This latest from François Ozon, director of such wildly diverse offerings as Sitcom, Under the Sand, 8 Women and The New Girlfriend is a bittersweet saga of love and death, a coming-of-age tale based on Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. Shifting the setting from Southend-on-Sea to Le Tréport in 1985, it centres on Alex (Félix Lefebvre), a death-obsessed teen in the throes of doomed first love, whose morbidly romantic story plays out with the sensual artfulness of classic Ozon, combined with the accessible vigour of an 80s American teen pic.
We first meet David (Benjamin Voisin) at sea, a beautiful vision riding the waves to rescue the hapless Alex after his little boat capsizes. David takes Alex home to his widowed mum, played with nervy energy by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, who undresses...
This latest from François Ozon, director of such wildly diverse offerings as Sitcom, Under the Sand, 8 Women and The New Girlfriend is a bittersweet saga of love and death, a coming-of-age tale based on Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. Shifting the setting from Southend-on-Sea to Le Tréport in 1985, it centres on Alex (Félix Lefebvre), a death-obsessed teen in the throes of doomed first love, whose morbidly romantic story plays out with the sensual artfulness of classic Ozon, combined with the accessible vigour of an 80s American teen pic.
We first meet David (Benjamin Voisin) at sea, a beautiful vision riding the waves to rescue the hapless Alex after his little boat capsizes. David takes Alex home to his widowed mum, played with nervy energy by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, who undresses...
- 10/25/2020
- by Mark Kermode Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
The “Will & Grace” revival won’t be back with its third and final season until 2020, but TheWrap has already exclusively learned that some of the show’s fan-favorite alums who will make it into the NBC sitcom’s remaining batch of episodes when they do air: Matt Bomer, Vanessa Bayer and Blythe Danner.
All three will have recurring roles, with Bomer coming back as Will’s (Eric McCormack) boyfriend, McCoy Whitman, Bayer returning as Amy, a bakery owner from Karen’s (Megan Mullally) past, and Danner reprising her role as Will’s mother, Marilyn Truman.
Last month, NBC revealed the “Will & Grace” revival would end with its upcoming third season, which is the 11th season overall for the beloved sitcom starring McCormack, Mullally, Sean Hayes and Debra Messing.
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The final...
All three will have recurring roles, with Bomer coming back as Will’s (Eric McCormack) boyfriend, McCoy Whitman, Bayer returning as Amy, a bakery owner from Karen’s (Megan Mullally) past, and Danner reprising her role as Will’s mother, Marilyn Truman.
Last month, NBC revealed the “Will & Grace” revival would end with its upcoming third season, which is the 11th season overall for the beloved sitcom starring McCormack, Mullally, Sean Hayes and Debra Messing.
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The final...
- 8/22/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
It’s the end of an era in entertainment newsmagazines: Nancy O’Dell is leaving Entertainment Tonight after eight years as co-host.
O’Dell announced the news herself on Friday’s broadcast, according to our sister site Variety, sharing with viewers: “I’m excited to tell you about the start of a new chapter in my life.” She remembered how honored she was to take over Et hosting duties from the legendary Mary Hart, and thanked her co-workers, along with her longtime manager and agent John Ferriter, who passed away just last week. She’s taking a break to spend more time with her daughter,...
O’Dell announced the news herself on Friday’s broadcast, according to our sister site Variety, sharing with viewers: “I’m excited to tell you about the start of a new chapter in my life.” She remembered how honored she was to take over Et hosting duties from the legendary Mary Hart, and thanked her co-workers, along with her longtime manager and agent John Ferriter, who passed away just last week. She’s taking a break to spend more time with her daughter,...
- 8/3/2019
- TVLine.com
The “Will & Grace” revival is set to end with its upcoming third season on NBC, which is the 11th season overall for the beloved sitcom starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes.
The final season will be 18-episodes long and debut in 2020, with a premiere date to be announced at a later date.
“When NBC had the opportunity to reconnect this amazing cast and creative team, we jumped at the chance,” NBC Entertainment co-chairmen George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy said. “The impact and legacy of ‘Will & Grace’ simply can’t be overstated, both as a true game-changer in the portrayal of the Lgbtq community and as one of the finest comedies in television history. A huge thank you to Max, David, Jimmy and a cast that is second to none for their brilliance over an incredible run.”
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The final season will be 18-episodes long and debut in 2020, with a premiere date to be announced at a later date.
“When NBC had the opportunity to reconnect this amazing cast and creative team, we jumped at the chance,” NBC Entertainment co-chairmen George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy said. “The impact and legacy of ‘Will & Grace’ simply can’t be overstated, both as a true game-changer in the portrayal of the Lgbtq community and as one of the finest comedies in television history. A huge thank you to Max, David, Jimmy and a cast that is second to none for their brilliance over an incredible run.”
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- 7/25/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Bless This Mess is a new sitcom has started up on ABC. It isn’t particularly innovative, seeing as how it is centered on a very simple and straightforward premise. However, Bless This Mess might nonetheless prove amusing for people who don’t mind a bit of simple and straightforward entertainment from time to time. Here are 10 things that you may or may not have known about Bless This Mess: 1. “Fish Out of Water” Sitcom As pointed out by Variety and other sources, Bless This Mess can be summed up as a “fish out of water” sitcom. For those who
10 Things You Didn’t Know about “Bless this Mess”...
10 Things You Didn’t Know about “Bless this Mess”...
- 4/23/2019
- by Allen Lee
- TVovermind.com
by Daniel Walber
Few things were more inevitable than a Francois Ozon film in which Jérémie Renier makes out with himself, however briefly. It’s the erotic cherry on top of a career of rule-breaking sexual escapades and pastel pastiche. Double Lover often feels like a return to some the director’s early ideas, including the effervescent camp of Sitcom and the throbbing sexual ambition of Criminal Lovers.
Yet this newest feature does at least begin with a grounded plot than these earlier films. Chloé (Marine Vacth) is a young woman with a recurring, potentially psychosomatic stomach problem. Naturally, she goes to therapist, the affable and reassuringly-sweatered Dr. Paul Meyer (Renier). Chloe sinks into one of his welcoming leather chairs, settles her feet on the fuzzy carpet, and tells him her story. The sessions go so well that, before you know it, they’ve moved in together...
Few things were more inevitable than a Francois Ozon film in which Jérémie Renier makes out with himself, however briefly. It’s the erotic cherry on top of a career of rule-breaking sexual escapades and pastel pastiche. Double Lover often feels like a return to some the director’s early ideas, including the effervescent camp of Sitcom and the throbbing sexual ambition of Criminal Lovers.
Yet this newest feature does at least begin with a grounded plot than these earlier films. Chloé (Marine Vacth) is a young woman with a recurring, potentially psychosomatic stomach problem. Naturally, she goes to therapist, the affable and reassuringly-sweatered Dr. Paul Meyer (Renier). Chloe sinks into one of his welcoming leather chairs, settles her feet on the fuzzy carpet, and tells him her story. The sessions go so well that, before you know it, they’ve moved in together...
- 7/25/2018
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Star” Rachel Brosnahan shared her grief over the loss of her aunt Kate Spade — or “Katy,” to her — the day after her death with a video of the famous handbag designer dancing by a Christmas tree.
“Knowing Katy, this is how she would want to be remembered,” Brosnahan wrote in a post to Instagram early Wednesday morning. “She had a light that words can’t capture but touched everyone she came into contact with. She was exceedingly kind, beautifully sensitive, insanely talented, funny as heck and one of the most generous people I have ever known. She was effervescent. Hug your loved ones extra tight today.”
Kate Spade was found dead of an apparent suicide in her Manhattan apartment Tuesday morning at the age of 55.
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Brosnahan is not the...
“Knowing Katy, this is how she would want to be remembered,” Brosnahan wrote in a post to Instagram early Wednesday morning. “She had a light that words can’t capture but touched everyone she came into contact with. She was exceedingly kind, beautifully sensitive, insanely talented, funny as heck and one of the most generous people I have ever known. She was effervescent. Hug your loved ones extra tight today.”
Kate Spade was found dead of an apparent suicide in her Manhattan apartment Tuesday morning at the age of 55.
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Brosnahan is not the...
- 6/6/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
The late Kate Spade was best known for her designer handbags and couture. But she also had comedic chops she showed off while guesting on brother-in-law David Spade‘s sitcom, “Just Shoot Me.”
Kate Spade (who was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday morning) married David Spade’s brother, Andy Spade, in 1994, a year after the two founded Kate Spade New York. Her fame as a designer made her an obvious choice to guest on the show, about the inner-workings of a high-fashion magazine called Blush. The fact that David Spade was family made her guest spot an even better fit.
Kate Spade appears in Episode 619, “Blush Gets Some Therapy,” which originally aired on NBC on April 11, 2002.
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In the episode, Kate Spade — playing herself — comes to Blush to promote her new fragrance and doesn’t miss a beat...
Kate Spade (who was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday morning) married David Spade’s brother, Andy Spade, in 1994, a year after the two founded Kate Spade New York. Her fame as a designer made her an obvious choice to guest on the show, about the inner-workings of a high-fashion magazine called Blush. The fact that David Spade was family made her guest spot an even better fit.
Kate Spade appears in Episode 619, “Blush Gets Some Therapy,” which originally aired on NBC on April 11, 2002.
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In the episode, Kate Spade — playing herself — comes to Blush to promote her new fragrance and doesn’t miss a beat...
- 6/5/2018
- by Tony Maglio and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Those mourning the loss of Kate Spade include Hollywood luminaries many may not know were related to the revered fashion designer: She was the sister-in-law to “Saturday Night Live” alum David Spade, and the aunt of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan.
Kate Spade married David Spade’s brother, Andy Spade, in 1994. She guest-starred as herself on David Spade’s sitcom “Just Shoot Me” in 2002. He tweeted an image of her late Tuesday at a signing for his 2015 memoir, “Almost Interesting.”
“Katy at my book signing. I love this pic of her. So pretty,” David Spade wrote. “I don’t think everyone knew how f—ing funny she was… It’s a rough world out there people. Try to hang on.”
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Kate Spade shares her maiden name with Rachel Brosnahan, who starred on “House of Cards” before moving...
Kate Spade married David Spade’s brother, Andy Spade, in 1994. She guest-starred as herself on David Spade’s sitcom “Just Shoot Me” in 2002. He tweeted an image of her late Tuesday at a signing for his 2015 memoir, “Almost Interesting.”
“Katy at my book signing. I love this pic of her. So pretty,” David Spade wrote. “I don’t think everyone knew how f—ing funny she was… It’s a rough world out there people. Try to hang on.”
Also Read: Kate Spade, Fashion Designer, Dies at 55 in Apparent Suicide
Kate Spade shares her maiden name with Rachel Brosnahan, who starred on “House of Cards” before moving...
- 6/5/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Ever since making his feature debut with the darkly comical Sitcom, French writer/director François Ozon has been making the world feeling horny and shocked with his films, often at the same time. With a body of work that also includes Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Under the Sand, In the House and the glorious one-two punch of 8 Women and Swimming Pool, you’d think the prolific provocateur might soon be running out of tricks.
Think again. His latest erotic thriller, L’amant double, which premiered in competition at Cannes this year, proved to be the film scandaleux of the festival. Starring Marine Vacth as Chloé, a young woman who one day discovers her psychiatrist partner Paul (Jérémie Renier) might have an evil twin brother and gradually loses herself in a web of deceit and kinks, it’s the kind of dangerously sexy farce at which Ozon excels.
We had...
Think again. His latest erotic thriller, L’amant double, which premiered in competition at Cannes this year, proved to be the film scandaleux of the festival. Starring Marine Vacth as Chloé, a young woman who one day discovers her psychiatrist partner Paul (Jérémie Renier) might have an evil twin brother and gradually loses herself in a web of deceit and kinks, it’s the kind of dangerously sexy farce at which Ozon excels.
We had...
- 10/18/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Los perros, premiering in Critics' Week this year, is the second feature film by Marcela Said.When this year’s Cannes slate was announced, an absence that many immediately noted in the competition slate was that of Claire Denis’ latest project: Un beau soleil intérieur, an adaptation of Roland Barthes's 1977 text A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Leaving aside why her last feature, Bastards, was shunted to the Un Certain Regard section in 2013, the fact that one of the world’s greatest living filmmakers was again denied a competition slot was baffling, to say the least. Except that the film will be at Cannes, premiering alongside new films by Philippe Garrel, Bruno Dumont, and Abel Ferrara no less; it just won’t be in what’s known as the Official Selection. Specifically, Denis will be opening the Director’s Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), a separate, parallel festival completely independent from what...
- 5/17/2017
- MUBI
The French film director on being haunted by Under the Skin, the music of La Femme, and the place where he had his first kiss
Born in 1967 in Paris, film-maker and screenwriter François Ozon studied at the film school La Fémis, and has cited directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir as early influences. After the release of his debut feature Sitcom in France in 1998, he achieved international success with murder mystery 8 Women (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003), an erotic thriller starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. Since then, he has released a number of films including Potiche, In the House, Jeune & Jolie, and The New Girlfriend. His film Frantz, a drama set in a small German town after the first world war, is in cinemas now and L’amant double is in competition for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes festival.
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Born in 1967 in Paris, film-maker and screenwriter François Ozon studied at the film school La Fémis, and has cited directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir as early influences. After the release of his debut feature Sitcom in France in 1998, he achieved international success with murder mystery 8 Women (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003), an erotic thriller starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. Since then, he has released a number of films including Potiche, In the House, Jeune & Jolie, and The New Girlfriend. His film Frantz, a drama set in a small German town after the first world war, is in cinemas now and L’amant double is in competition for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes festival.
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- 5/14/2017
- by François Ozon
- The Guardian - Film News
“Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one,” François Ozon, one of France's most prolific director/screenwriters, has noted.
With Frantz, his pacifistic, feminist, and slightly homoerotic chronicling of a post-World War I love affair of sorts opening Stateside this week, he can say that with a smile. After all, this feature has already garnered eleven Cécar nominations, including one for best film, and a dozen more from various international film festivals.
For many folks, that’s no surprise. All they have to hear is that a new Ozon is unspooling at their local art house, and they’re hotfooting it to the ticket booth. Why? Few other directors have the ability to depict the psychosexual permutations of our fellow man better, at times accompanied with an unexpected Hitchcockian twist or a good dose of Almodóvarian tongue-in-cheek perversity.
In his 1996 short, "A Summer Dress," a young gay man,...
With Frantz, his pacifistic, feminist, and slightly homoerotic chronicling of a post-World War I love affair of sorts opening Stateside this week, he can say that with a smile. After all, this feature has already garnered eleven Cécar nominations, including one for best film, and a dozen more from various international film festivals.
For many folks, that’s no surprise. All they have to hear is that a new Ozon is unspooling at their local art house, and they’re hotfooting it to the ticket booth. Why? Few other directors have the ability to depict the psychosexual permutations of our fellow man better, at times accompanied with an unexpected Hitchcockian twist or a good dose of Almodóvarian tongue-in-cheek perversity.
In his 1996 short, "A Summer Dress," a young gay man,...
- 3/20/2017
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
One of the France's most prolific writer-filmmakers, François Ozon (Sitcom, Swimming Pool, 8 Women) has been delighting moviegoers while exploring and subverting many genres for almost three decades with 30 features and shorts. His new film Frantz, a sumptuously shot period piece, just might turn out to be his best film. I had a chance to sit down with him during the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Series here in New York. Screen Anarchy: There is a lot of talks on Frantz being the remake of Broken Lullaby, an old film by Ernst Lubitch. Was that the starting point when you first conceived the idea for the film? François Ozon: No, the starting point was the play. Broken Lullaby was a play that was written just...
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- 3/13/2017
- Screen Anarchy
While someone like Woody Allen tends to get name-checked immediately when it comes to directors who work at a prolific clip, it can be easy to forget that François Ozon is no slouch either. The French filmmaker has been working steadily, releasing nearly a film each year, since his debut “Sitcom” eighteen years ago. And with his latest “Frantz” barely off the festival circuit, Ozon is gearing up to go behind the camera again.
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- 10/17/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The brilliant, bizarre You and the Night has found itself in a unique position. It played Cannes back in May, where it was the third most popular French film with Lgbt content at the film festival. Such a strange circumstance has probably never before been possible, and yet it happened. Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d’Or, Stranger by the Lake won the Queer Palm, and You and the Night ended up the bridesmaid at an entirely unprecedented celebration of French queer cinema on the Croisette. This is a shame. You and the Night, the debut film by Yann Gonzalez, is nothing short of extraordinary. Its small-scale orgiastic plot is akin to the controlled sexual experiments of other, prior queer filmmakers like François Ozon (Sitcom) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (Teorema). Its style is of another ilk entirely. Gonzalez has tapped into a new twist on the chaotic abandon of his forebears, a...
- 9/12/2013
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Review by Barbara Snitzer
In the House (Dans La Maison) is a crafty, suspenseful yarn that successfully maintains the audience’s engagement throughout its entire 102 minute running time.
Director François Ozon has improved his craft by being prolific; he has made just about a film a year since his debut feature Sitcom in 1998. Fabrice Luchini plays Germain Germain, a failed author turned jaded literature teacher at the Lycée Gustave Flaubert. The film begins with a new school year. Germain’s first assignment is for the students to write about their summer’s activities. Germain is astounded by the mediocrity of his students’ work; he reads aloud the shoddy essays to his wife,Jeanne (Kristin Scott-Thomas) who sympathizes with his frustration. He picks the papers at random, expecting each to be worse than the next, when suddenly, one essay captivates both of them. Student Claude Garcia (excellent performance by Ersnst Umhauer...
In the House (Dans La Maison) is a crafty, suspenseful yarn that successfully maintains the audience’s engagement throughout its entire 102 minute running time.
Director François Ozon has improved his craft by being prolific; he has made just about a film a year since his debut feature Sitcom in 1998. Fabrice Luchini plays Germain Germain, a failed author turned jaded literature teacher at the Lycée Gustave Flaubert. The film begins with a new school year. Germain’s first assignment is for the students to write about their summer’s activities. Germain is astounded by the mediocrity of his students’ work; he reads aloud the shoddy essays to his wife,Jeanne (Kristin Scott-Thomas) who sympathizes with his frustration. He picks the papers at random, expecting each to be worse than the next, when suddenly, one essay captivates both of them. Student Claude Garcia (excellent performance by Ersnst Umhauer...
- 5/17/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Glenn here. Given my penchant for poster goodness I figured I'd pick up Nathaniel's regular "posterized" feature. A fun series that can time to time shine a curious light on the way films are marketed and how certain actors or directors can find themselves in a so-called "marketing rut" where it's the same thing over and over. Think of a Will Smith movie and don't you just picture his smug mug staring out at you in mid-range closeup? Even that one about selling his organs to Rosario Dawson (or whatever Seven Pounds was about - I've sure as hell forgotten!)
This week I've chosen François Ozon - and he's having a helluva week. Not only is his latest (un/lucky number thirteen) film, In the House [Dans le maison], getting a release in America, but his next picture, Jeune et Jolie, was just chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or in Cannes. Well done,...
This week I've chosen François Ozon - and he's having a helluva week. Not only is his latest (un/lucky number thirteen) film, In the House [Dans le maison], getting a release in America, but his next picture, Jeune et Jolie, was just chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or in Cannes. Well done,...
- 4/19/2013
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
When François Ozon first started making features some 15 years ago, with films like Sitcom, Criminal Lovers and the Fassbinder adaptation Water Drops on Burning Rocks, he showed himself to be a raw, edgy and insistent talent. His ambition and style were at the fore in those early efforts, but over the years as he has continued to make movies — at the breakneck pace of almost one per year — he has visibly matured as a filmmaker. During his career he has done everything from colorful, large-scale retro musicals (8 Women) to bleak, formally rigorous relationship dramas (5×2) to lavish …...
- 4/18/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
To say that François Ozon has worked in many genres would be a misstatement, but only because his films tend to ignore the boundaries of genre in the first place. 8 Women is a musical, melodrama and murder mystery. Swimming Pool is a thriller inflected by romance novels. Sitcom is a fusion of sitcom tropes and rambunctious sexuality. And now, Ozon has made a film that functions almost as a retrospective blend of his own prior work. In the House builds from the insightful narrative trickery of Swimming Pool, blends in the promiscuous anarchy and wry humor of Sitcom, and drops the whole thing into the otherwise boring “inspirational schoolteacher” movie. The result is Ozon’s best work in a decade. The student in question is Claude Garcia (Ernst Umhauer), a sly young man with a lot of ambition and little humility. He’s the star of his literature class, taught by once-aspiring novelist Germain (Fabrice Luchini). It...
- 4/18/2013
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
François Ozon's new film, In the House, looks set to be his international breakthrough. But has the erstwhile enfant terrible fallen for the bourgeois values he once satirised?
François Ozon has been knocking out roughly a film a year since the late 1990s: some camp and frivolous (Sitcom, Potiche), others intense (5x2, Time to Leave), each one zesty and provocative. Occasionally he will make something truly exceptional: Under the Sand, starring Charlotte Rampling as a woman falling apart after the disappearance of her husband, was rightly considered a masterpiece by the late Ingmar Bergman.
But though Ozon has had commercial success in France, he is still chasing the sort of career-changing international breakthrough on a par with, say, Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Michael Haneke's Hidden. If there is any justice, his new film In the House will change that. It's a witty,...
François Ozon has been knocking out roughly a film a year since the late 1990s: some camp and frivolous (Sitcom, Potiche), others intense (5x2, Time to Leave), each one zesty and provocative. Occasionally he will make something truly exceptional: Under the Sand, starring Charlotte Rampling as a woman falling apart after the disappearance of her husband, was rightly considered a masterpiece by the late Ingmar Bergman.
But though Ozon has had commercial success in France, he is still chasing the sort of career-changing international breakthrough on a par with, say, Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Michael Haneke's Hidden. If there is any justice, his new film In the House will change that. It's a witty,...
- 3/29/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Still from The Artist
The 2011 edition of Mumbai Film Festival can boast of a strong French connection. Not only does it include a strong line-up of French films in a special section, but it will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cannes Critics Week by presenting a retrospective of 25 films.
The special section called ‘Rendez-vous with French Cinema’ will be co-organized with the French Embassy in India and Unifrance. For those who remember, this is the fourth edition of the event in Mumbai which has been merged with the Mumbai Film Festival this year. The past three editions were held separately as film festivals. This section will bring to Mumbai some of the critically acclaimed contemporary French films which include The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian and Declaration of War by ValérieDonzelli.
The Artist which will open the section competed at the Cannes Film...
The 2011 edition of Mumbai Film Festival can boast of a strong French connection. Not only does it include a strong line-up of French films in a special section, but it will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cannes Critics Week by presenting a retrospective of 25 films.
The special section called ‘Rendez-vous with French Cinema’ will be co-organized with the French Embassy in India and Unifrance. For those who remember, this is the fourth edition of the event in Mumbai which has been merged with the Mumbai Film Festival this year. The past three editions were held separately as film festivals. This section will bring to Mumbai some of the critically acclaimed contemporary French films which include The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian and Declaration of War by ValérieDonzelli.
The Artist which will open the section competed at the Cannes Film...
- 10/10/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
François Ozon, one of France's most popular living filmmakers, is nothing if not prolific. Since breaking out in a big way with his first feature "Sitcom" in 1998, Ozon has released a film a year, displaying his versatility in style and his passion for strong leading ladies. Among the highlights: he worked with Charlotte Rampling in the ghost story "Under the Sand," paired her up with Ludivine Sagnier in the ...
- 3/24/2011
- Indiewire
François Ozon, one of France's most popular living filmmakers, is nothing if not prolific. Since breaking out in a big way with his first feature "Sitcom" in 1998, Ozon has released a film a year, displaying his versatility in style and his passion for strong leading ladies. Among the highlights: he worked with Charlotte Rampling in the ghost story "Under the Sand," paired her up with Ludivine Sagnier in the ...
- 3/24/2011
- indieWIRE - People
Though he’s lately been given to more muted (though structurally adventurous) relationship studies, prolific French director François Ozon was once celebrated for irreverent, feature-length homages to other movies: See The Sea and Swimming Pool to Alfred Hitchcock, Sitcom to John Waters, Water Drops On Burning Rocks to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and 8 Women to Technicolor musicals. Inexplicably shuffled to OnDemand and now to DVD without getting its due in theaters first, Ozon’s 2007 lark Angel returns to that tradition with a cheeky nod in David O. Selznick’s direction. Like a Selznick film from the ’30s or ...
- 1/12/2011
- avclub.com
Watching his new film Hideaway, it’s hard to believe that director François Ozon was once considered an enfant terrible, a prolific young purveyor of sexually charged thrillers and dramas like Sea The Sea, Criminal Lovers, and Water Drops On Burning Rocks, or garish experiments like Sitcom. Ozon’s insinuating 2000 character piece Under The Sand signaled a new maturity, affirmed by intelligent but forgettable films like 5 x 2 and Time To Leave, but who’s looking for an enfant terrible to mature? (It should be noted that 2007’s Angel, his inspired goof on David O. Selznick ...
- 9/9/2010
- avclub.com
Ten years ago, François Ozon’s dark, Hitchcock-tinged melodrama See the Sea caught the attention of American film critics. The New York Times’ Janet Maslin marked him as “an impressive new filmmaker with a flair for implicit mayhem.” In the 12 features since then, Ozon has expressed his mayhem in various genres (musicals, fairy tales, magical realism, period romances, etc.), with different cinematic influences (Chabrol, Fassbinder, Renoir, Pasolini, etc.) and in a range of production scales. But central to all his films is a deep sense of the essentially conflicted nature of emotional relations, be it the comic sadomasochism of Water Drops On Burning Rocks, the perverse family values of Sitcom, or the life-affirming death wish of Time to...
- 9/8/2010
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
- Alice's House tells the story of a midde class family living in Sao Paulo. Alice (Carla Ribas), the matriarch of the family, is an unhappy wife and mother who works as a manicurist. She is married to Lindomar (Zé Carlos Machado), with whom has a decaying relationship and they have three children, all of them male and teenagers and if that wasn't difficult enough there is a sixth member: Alice’s mother Dona Jacira (Berta Zemel). While the apartment is filled with physical beings it is also filled with secrets.In the first scene, a rat is found living in the family’s apartment. Jacinda immediately tries to combat its presence with poison. Unlike the French comedy “Sitcom” (François Ozon – 1998) and perhaps the pesky fellow in Dominick Moll's Lemming (2004), the presence of the rat isn’t going to become the main source for the family’s problems. Actually, it
- 1/30/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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