A guy walks into un bar a pute and tells a beautiful prostitute that he just won the lottery. Would she live with him for a hundred thousand a month? Of course she would. Problem is, the guy (Bernard Campan) has a weak heart, and Daniela, the hooker, is played by Monica Belluci. His doctor [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged paris
How Much Do You Love Me?
Posted by Jürgen on January 26, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/26/how-much-do-you-love-me/
Cleo from 5 to 7
A woman director working in black and white on a limited budget, a capricious main character with a looming fate, a city that is playground and character at once, a summer’s day full of promise, distraction, and chance encounters, a cast of strangers whose snippets of overheard conversation work themselves seamlessly into the texture of [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 21, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/21/cleo-from-5-to-7/
Flight of the Red Balloon
Marcy’s got this one covered: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon is a charming homage to the 1956 French classic by Albert Lamorisse and an intimate portrait of a unique Paris family. A blond Juliette Binoche stars as Suzanne, an accomplished puppeteer who a hires a Taiwanese nanny (Song Fang) for her gentle seven-year-old [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 1, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/01/flight-of-the-red-balloon/
Night on Earth
How do we relax from the New York Film Festival‘s two-movies-a-day schedule? With an old classic, of course, courtesy of the Criterion Collection. Jim Jarmusch’s episodic 1991 taxi cab confidential moves around the globe while Tom Waits growls and hasn’t lost a bit of its spirit and charm. Especially after seeing a film as cynical [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 22, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/22/night-on-earth/
Avenue Montaigne
Cute comedy about a plucky country ingénue (Cécile De France) who arrives in Paris and finds work at a cafe that serves an area of theaters, galleries, and concert halls. Three storylines develop: an actress (Valerie Lemercier) who wants to play Simone de Beauvoir, a concert pianist who’s had enough (Albert Dupontel), and an aging [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 21, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/21/avenue-montaigne/
Dans Paris
Christophe Honoré’s follow-up to Ma Mere is a loving homage to the French New Wave that stays true to its own emotional core. Heartthrobs Louis Garrell (The Dreamers) and Romain Duris (Moliere, The Beat My Heart Skipped) play brothers who find themselves once again in their father’s small Paris apartment, Jonathan (Garrell) as a student, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 20, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/20/dans-paris/
Ratatouille
It’s a funny thing about reviewing film: ever since we started, Marcy and I barely go to the movies any more. We see screenings, watch screeners, attend festivals. We might go to a premiere, but hardly ever do we stand in line at the box office, ride the endless escalators up multiplex floors, buy soda [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 2, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/02/ratatouille/
The Left Bank Gang
You never know what you’re going to find at Jim Hanley’s Universe, the comic book store on 33th street with one of the best selections of European graphic novels in the city. Yesterday, I picked up a book by a Belgian artist who simply goes by Jason. The Left Bank Gang reimagines Paris in the [...]
Posted by Jürgen on May 3, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/03/the-left-bank-gang/
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