By Elise Knutsen 12:52pm

Shindigger

39th Annual Chaplin Award Gala honoring CATHERINE DENEUVE

The Film Society of Lincoln Center Honors Catherine Deneuve

“But I am French!” a tourist announced at the door of Alice Tully Hall Monday evening. His name was not on that most sacred Excel spreadsheet, the guest list, for the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s gala tribute to Catherine Deneuve. “This actress is French! I am French!” he told the doorman. His face showed that singular Gallic disdain, exasperated that Americans should be privy to an icon as beatific as Madame Deneuve. A security guard intervened, sending the fuming Frenchman on his way.

Inside the atrium, however, a reverent group was congregating, awaiting the entrance of the filmic doyenne. In true French fashion, she kept them waiting. Read More

By The Editors 10:31am

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Lin. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Hoops, Sirens and Screens

The Mega Millions jackpot might be over, but we’re still waiting to hear who will take ownership of the golden tickets. There seems to be some dispute over who the winners actually are. The winning numbers were sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas, but so far no one has stepped forward to stake claim to their third of the $640 M. jackpot. Someone needs to step up, and soon, as we learned from this weekend’s premiere of HBO’s bloody Game of Thrones. Without a clear winner, all you have is confusion and not nearly enough screen time for Peter Dinklage.

We know who we would give the money to: Jeremy Lin, the poor guy. Linsanity lasted approximately a month, in which the Knicks point-guard was the hottest thing since the Rolling Stones showed up in America and pissed off Don Draper. But after a recent knee injury, his career is being put down faster than one of the horses in Luck. Refusing to give up, the basketball sensation is still tweeting about his recovery from the hospital. He’s not out yet! Read More

By Simon Doonan 4/28/10 1:16am

Study (Mine) Reveals Key to Celebrity: Icy Unavailability

I finally figured out what my problem is. After all these years, I now see what I have been doing wrong. Caution: It’s pretty tragic. Simply put, I am just too folksy and available. Yes: folksy and available!

My epiphany came last week while reading A Time to Be Born, the late Dawn Powell’s searing Read More

By Rex Reed 1/19/10 11:49pm

The Lies That Bind

The Girl on the Train
Running time 105 minutes
Written by Odile Barski, Jean-Marie Besset and André Téchiné
Directed by André Téchiné
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Émilie Dequenne, Michel Blanc, Nicholas Duvauchelle

The Girl on the Train, not to be confused with Girl on Train, Party Girl on Train or Lady on a Train, is the Read More

By Andrew Sarris 11/11/08 7:44pm

Dazzling Dame Deneuve Can Stuff My Goose Anytime

A Christmas Tale
Running Time 150 minutes
Written by Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Cosigny, Mathieu Amalric

Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale, from a screenplay (in French with English subtitles) by Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu, can best be Read More

By Rebecca Dana, Michael Calderone and George Gurley 3/21/05 12:00am

Bottle Racket

All those so-called hipsters fervently awaiting Wes Anderson’s follow-up to The Life Aquatic don’t need to obsessively check IMDb; starting next week, they just have to turn on the TV. Mr. Anderson’s latest oeuvre won’t be yet another campy comedy starring a morose Bill Murray-rather, he’s been enlisted by Coca-Cola to direct four 30-second television Read More

By Andrew Sarris 10/02/00 12:00am

This Is Not a Think Piece About Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. So somebody must like it. I found the film more strange than anything else. For one thing, it is all spoken and sung in English! One critic described it as phonetic English, but that applies mostly to Björk, Read More

By Andrew Sarris 4/03/00 12:00am

Families Endure Stalinism While the West Keeps Quiet

The Academy Award-nominated East-West , directed by Régis Wargnier from a screenplay by Mr. Wargnier, Serguei Bodrov, Roustam Ibraguimbekov and Louis Gardel, reminds me of the rueful aphorism about the difference between Hitler and Stalin being that Hitler told the truth about what he was doing, and no one believed him, whereas Stalin lied about Read More