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In Jane par Charlotte, Charlotte Gainsbourg, whose first film as a director, paints a sensitive and touching portrait of her mother, Jane Birkin.
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It is a symbol that has just died out. An iconic actor whose long career was dominated by his portrayal in Guess who’s coming to dinner? In 1967, Stanley Kramer’s advocacy for tolerance rocked American society, which was divided on the issue of racial segregation. Half a century later, can we say that post-Trump America is cured of this demon, inherited from its history? No doubt this is the reason for the persistence of the aura of this black actor whose skin color was the central subject of this event film, the thwarted love story of a mixed couple (a White and a Black …), An “illegal” union at the time in some southern states.
An elegant actor, with a nuanced game, Sydney Poitier embodied American success: a cultivated black man, professor of medicine, deputy director of the World Health Organization. Despite his prestigious record of service, a living testimony to a possible integration, his entry into a liberal white family was problematic. And vice versa.
For an actor, to shine with a character to the point of being mistaken for him all his life is both recognition and a curse, at the risk of eclipsing the rest of his career, which was prestigious (with great films to his name. active) and even his public life. A crowned actor of great popularity, Sydney Poitier has played in regarding fifty films, made ten.
A figure in the struggle for civil rights
Three years before the Stanley Kramer film, he was the first black actor to receive the Oscar for best actor, for his role in Lily of the fields, by Ralph Nelson. In 2002, he received an honorary Oscar for “His extraordinary performances, his dignity, his style and his intelligence”. In 2009, to show him his consideration and his esteem, Barack Obama awarded the highest American civilian honor to this figure in the struggle for civil rights.
→ ARCHIVE. Sidney Poitier, the black star of America
Born in Miami (Florida) on February 20, 1927, son of a tomato farmer, citizen of the Bahamas, Sydney Poitier had dual nationality. In 1997, his native country, where he was admired as “National treasure”, appointed him ambassador to Japan, then to Unesco.
Sydney Poitier will have marked his century as a craftsman of peace and reconciliation. Like his character in Guess who’s coming to dinner?. We do not get out …
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American “The Last Screening” director Peter Bogdanovich is dead
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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A figure of American cinema, Oscar-winning film critic and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich died Thursday at the age of 82. He was celebrated in the United States for his masterpiece “The Last Session”. His face was also known for his role in the series “The Sopranos”.
American filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, figure of the “New Hollywood” movement and director of “The Last Show”, has died at the age of 82, his agent announced Thursday (January 6th).
Entering the world of cinema as a critic, Peter Bogdanovich made his directorial debut with “La Cible”, before devoting himself to writing his ode to America in the 1950s, “The Last Session” (1971) (The last picture show).
The film, set in a small town in Texas going through hard times, garnered eight Oscar nominations, winning two statuettes. Some observers have compared it to Orson Welles’ masterpiece “Citizen Kane”.
“I am devastated. He was a great and wonderful artist. I will never forget the premiere of ‘The Last Screening’,” responded star director Francis Ford Coppola. “I remember the end (of the screening), the audience stood up all around me to applaud for at least 15 minutes … May they rest in joy for all eternity, savoring the uplifting moment. our applause forever, “the filmmaker added in a statement.
After other hits in the early 1970s, such as “Shall we pack up, doctor?” with Barbra Streisand and “Cotton Candy”, Peter Bogdanovich’s career began to decline, with a series of flops.
The director was also linked with model Dorothy Stratten, killed by her husband shortly before the release of “And Everyone Laughs”, where she appeared on screen alongside Audrey Hepburn.
Return to film criticism and role in “The Sopranos”
After marrying Dorothy Stratten’s half-sister and then ruining himself, Peter Bogdanovich left Los Angeles for New York, where he became a film critic once more.
Towards the end of his career, he had played in cinema and television, notably playing the shrink of Tony Soprano’s shrink in the series “The Sopranos”, or a DJ in “Kill Bill” by Quentin Tarantino.
He was born in 1939 in Kingston, New York. The causes of his death have not been specified.
Peter Bogdanovich passed away. He was a dear friend and a champion of Cinema. He birthed masterpieces as a director and was a most genial human. He single-handedly interviewed and enshrined the lives and work of more classic filmmakers than almost anyone else in his generation. pic.twitter.com/hL08ORCilN
– Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) January 6, 2022
“He was a dear friend and a herald of cinema,” tweeted Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, greeting someone who “made masterpieces” and was “very outgoing” moreover.
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“Licorice Pizza”, the romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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It’s a love story in 1970s California. “Licorice Pizza”, the highly anticipated new film by American director Paul Thomas Anderson, will be released this Wednesday, January 5 in theaters in France.
From the new Paul Thomas Anderson, you might say it’s the story of a boy and a girl who meet, miss, meet and miss once more in the America of Nixon and The Doors.
In 1973, in Los Angeles, Gary was still a high school student when he fell in love with Alana, a 25-year-old trainee photographer. She pushes him away, but despite the age difference, a kind of amorous friendship is born between them, which pushes her – she who suffocates in her traditional Jewish family – to follow this supercharged teenager.
Romantic comedy, Licorice Pizza is crossed by multiple adventures, those which constantly happen to its two heroes: stories of water mattresses, pinball machines, trucks rolling down the Hollywood hills in reverse. Gary is Cooper Hoffman and he has the red mane of his father Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opposite him, singer Alana Haim also made her film debut.
Paul Thomas Anderson seems to take great pleasure in filming them, in taking a thousand side roads to tell the birth of their love, to the spectator’s greatest happiness.
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