A Black Dog Named Fred Cries for Doomed Bull in Carnage

Delphine Gleize, the writer-director of Carnage , is 30 years old and in full command of her medium. She has already made five short films to growing acclaim at international film festivals and in her native France; this is her first full-length feature film. And I must admit, I’ve never seen a film quite like Read More

The Guys Will Melt Your Cynical Heart

In the aftermath of 9/11, when New York was on its knees, Anne Nelson, a journalist from the Upper West Side, wrote eulogies for a Brooklyn fire captain who lost the men in his station, later turning this profoundly moving experience into a play, The Guys , with the help of director Jim Simpson, husband Read More

She Died on Sunday, She Was Alive By Monday

Didier Le Pêcheur’s Don’t Let Me Die on a Sunday derives its morbid title from an exasperated plea delivered by an overworked morgue attendant, after a unusually copious consignment of casualties from a Saturday night rave concert is wheeled in for confinement prior to being chopped up for autopsies. Among the new arrivals is a Read More

Jeanne Moreau: La Bitch Is Back

Jeanne Moreau: La Bitch Is Back

At the reception in the French Embassy on April 23 for the release of “Tout Truffaut”–a 14-film retrospective of the late François Truffaut’s oeuvre that opened earlier that day at the Film Forum–French actress Jeanne Moreau sat at a small round table with Truffaut’s on-screen alter ego, actor Jean-Pierre Read More