Tag: Climax
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Daniel Craig’s Casino Royale Scrapped A Major Part Of Its Source Material
Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, “Casino Royale” was published on August 13, 1953. He arrived just in time. In Tony Bennett’s and Janet Woollacott’s 1987 book “Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero,” the authors point out that Bond’s literary function was to lend England — smarting after the damage of…
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Gaspar Noe’s 2019 Movie Lux Aeterna Will Finally Hit U.S. Theaters In Summer 2022
It’s been a long road to U.S. screens for Gaspar Noé’s “Lux Æterna.” The movie made its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was later set to play at the Tribeca Film Festival, until the event was canceled due to the pandemic. The last Noé effort to receive a release stateside was actually “Climax” back in 2018. His…
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Gaspar Noé Almost Died, Got Sober, and Made His Most Personal Film
On the same day that Gaspar Noé premiered his new movie “Vortex” at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, he posted an alarming image on Instagram. Captioned “Brain hemorrhage – Day 11,” the photo showed the 57-year-old Argentine director in a hospital gown and attached to a ventilator. Fans and friends flooded the comments section to…
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‘Vortex’ Review: Gaspar Noé’s Split-Screen Drama Is a Surprisingly Grounded Variation on ‘Amour’
Gaspar Noé is the kind of mad scientist filmmaker whose very name invites expectations of provocative experimentation. “Vortex,” which closes in at 142 minutes and spends almost all of them in split screen, would appear to be consistent with that trend. Yet this quiet, slow-burn look at an elderly couple suffering from dementia and other…
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Asia Argento, Golshifteh Farahani, Gaspar Noe Head Voice Cast of Animation ‘Schirkoa’ (Exclusive)
Asia Argento (“Agony”), Golshifteh Farahani (“Extraction”) and Jim Sarbh (“Made in Heaven”) star in the voice cast of Ishan Shukla’s animated feature “Schirkoa,” production on which begins in the spring.The voice cast also includes Soko (“Little Fish”) and Arish Ahmad Khan aka King Khan, front man of Berlin-based garage rock and psychedelic soul band King…
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Gaspar Noé Directs Charlotte Rampling in a Darkly Chic Short for Saint Laurent — Watch
Gaspar Noé hasn’t made an appearance behind the camera since 2019, when he released his Saint Laurent-produced mockumentary-style film “Lux Æterna” at Cannes, the French provocateur’s usual stomping grounds for unsettling fare like “Climax” and “Irreversible.” “Lux Æterna,” starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle as themselves making a film about witches, hasn’t reached U.S. shores…
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How TikTok Users Boosted the Nsfw Film ‘Love’ From 2015 Into Netflix’s Top 10
In February, Netflix began to feature daily Top 10 lists on its user interface to showcase what films and television shows had the highest streaming numbers. Although the feature doesn’t include exact numbers, it offers a glimpse into what is being watched on Netflix, which has historically held its data close to the chest.While the…
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‘Apollo 11’ Soars in IMAX, ‘Climax’ and ‘Transit’ Sustain Foreign-Language Trend
As a handful of Oscar-winners rode a post-Oscar burst, a surge of new movies added vitality to the specialty market, filling the box-office void as award players ebb away.Best among these was “Apollo 11” (Neon), CNN’s Sundance documentary premiere that brings back the 1969 moon landing with innovative reformatting of 50-year-old Nasa archive footage and…
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Sofia Boutella: Make Sure You See ‘Climax’ Sober [Interview]
It’s been 10 months since Gaspar Noé’s “Climax” became the most talked about movie at the 2018 Cannes Festival and it’s finally arriving in theaters on this side of the Atlantic. I’ve been an unabashed fan of the film since catching in on la Croisette (it was my no. 2 film of 2018) because it’s…
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Gaspar Noé Talks Violence, Porn, & Why He “Likes Laughing About Cruel Things”
Once you begin watching a Gaspar Noé film, it’s completely obvious that the filmmaker is not interested in making four-quadrant, appeal-to-the-masses fare. His work is often challenging, and pulls no punches when it comes to depictions of violence and sexuality. And he keeps that streak going with his latest work, “Climax,” which earned great reviews…