With his latest cinematic outing, the five hour long epic Carlos, making the festival rounds, director Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours) will be the subject of a new restrospective thanks to BAMcinematek in Brooklyn in October.
Entitled Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas, the complete retrospective will run from October 9, until October 29, and will star on Saturday, October 9, with his latest film, and Criterion release, Summer Hours.
Among films showing, Carlos will show on October 23 and 24, with a special screening of his film Demonlover, which will include a Q&A with the auteur following the screening.
As with most retrospectives, this will offer a fantastic, all encompassing view of one of today’s most gifted filmmakers, and one who doesn’t seem like he’ll be slowing down anytime soon. While I’m not massively familiar with his filmography, I have seen a few of his films, such as the aforementioned Summer Hours,...
Entitled Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas, the complete retrospective will run from October 9, until October 29, and will star on Saturday, October 9, with his latest film, and Criterion release, Summer Hours.
Among films showing, Carlos will show on October 23 and 24, with a special screening of his film Demonlover, which will include a Q&A with the auteur following the screening.
As with most retrospectives, this will offer a fantastic, all encompassing view of one of today’s most gifted filmmakers, and one who doesn’t seem like he’ll be slowing down anytime soon. While I’m not massively familiar with his filmography, I have seen a few of his films, such as the aforementioned Summer Hours,...
- 9/15/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Speaking of the Cannes Film Festival, an awesome new poster for French director Olivier Assayas' new film Carlos has debuted on D*Hollywood. The film is a five hour feature (cut into a three-part mini-series for French television) about Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the Opec headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police. This poster reminds me a lot of the Lord of War poster with Nic Cage's face on it, but with this face created out of the destruction that Carlos is responsible for. Pretty impressive. Check it out! Carlos is directed by renowned French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, of numerous French features including Copyright, Winter's Child, A New Life, Late August, Early September, Sentimental Destinies, Boarding Gate, and Summer Hours most recently. Carlos will premiere at Cannes in its full five-and-a-half-hour cut. The full version,...
- 5/10/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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