Catherine Deneuve

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Review: Potiche

Screwball comedy meets political boilerplate
The eclectic François Ozon often combines the offbeat and the generic to the benefit of both.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 07, 2011

Review: The Girl on the Train

The truth gets sidetracked in Téchiné’s Train
Here in this country, we’re familiar with the practice of pinning a crime on a member or members of another race.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 29, 2010

Blu Christmas . . . without DVD

Kick your films into hi-def this season with those other shiny silver discs
Ah, yes: the most wonderful time of the year, tinged with muddy snow and the creeping darkness of our most recent Depression.
By BRETT MICHEL | December 18, 2009

A Christmas Tale

A twisted Christmas stocking
Maybe Charles, who died of leukemia three decades ago, at the age of six, knew what he was doing.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 09, 2008

Paradis found

The chanteuse is loose
Must we still make the case for French pop?
By CHARLES TAYLOR | April 15, 2008

Portuguese man of war

Manoel de Oliveira at the HFA
Manoel de Oliveira occupies a unique seat on the global film culture’s board of directors.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | March 12, 2008

Lifting the veil

Girls just want to have fun in Persepolis
If we’ve learned anything in the past five or so years of our foreign policy, it’s that we should know a few things about a country before bombing the crap out of it.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 16, 2008

Primary concerns

2008 releases offer campaign reform
The last thing people are looking for when they go to the movies is a reminder of the political crapola they are trying to escape.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2007

Star power

Deneuve demystifies — and enchants
Deneuve has been in the public eye long enough to know that only damn fools reveal themselves to the public.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | August 07, 2007

Belle Toujours

Quel dommage!
Manoel de Oliveira made this long-range sequel to Buñuel’s 1967 fetish classic Belle de jour .
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | May 17, 2007

Waved off

‘New Films from Europe’ at the HFA
Ah, Eurocinema, the blood and backbone of film culture as it grew from out of the Hollywood shadow in the post-war decades — the Godards, the Bergmans, the Antonionis, the bristling Hungarians, the mordant Poles, the café-dawdling French!
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | January 28, 2010

Flashbacks, May 12, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Ian Sands.
By EDITORIAL | May 11, 2006