France
Léa Seydoux claims the spotlight as the title character in Bruno Dumont’s pithy and entertaining France, giving a performance that’s cunningly calibrated to mesmerize.
Reviews of Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground, Bruno Dumont’s France, a satire-drama about the news industry, and Nature, Artavazd Peleshian’s graceful parade of natural disasters.
For anyone interested in the man or that era, De Gaulle is indispensable.
What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.
Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.
Anne Curry’s purpose is not merely to act as a military analyst, but to explore the long cultural history of the battle’s meanings in subsequent British history.
I had written Martin Scorsese off, and never expected he had a “Hugo” in him. That he did is the among the touching things in this film.
Cultural Commentary: France Marks the 10th Anniversary of the Bataclan Attacks
The aftermath of a terrorist act becomes an opportunistic event for those selling us a certain bill of partisan geo-political goods… while simultaneously diminishing our latitude as citizens.
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