Today, Natalie Portman (a New Yorker) talked at the Apple Store in Soho, about MakingOf, a website, she co-founded with another woman to give access to the making of a movie. The content is exclusively behind-the-scenes with some serious insight into what all the different people who work on a movie do. It’s pretty interesting [...]

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If you send a picture of you to Michel Gondry, who lives in Brooklyn, he will draw your portrait and sign it for $ 19.95. He is a great filmmaker and I wonder why he launched this project along with others in the same spirit…Does he have something in mind ?

Michel Gondry

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The next few days will focuse mainly on movies as the Tribeca Film festival screenings are getting more intense. Tonight I saw An English man in New York that tells the story of Quentin Crisp, an English writer and a gay icon of the 70s. Awesome little movie and so New York.
As soon as he [...]

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Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman tell the impact of the music during the civil rights movement. Nothing new. But five months after Obama’s election, it’s still moving, inspiring and heartwarming to realize how fast the country went. Fifty years ago segregation was still the rule. Despite a lot of wrong things, America keeps on being [...]

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or when All the President’s Men meets The Insider. The film is almost as fascinating as this. Kevin Mc Donald’s filmmaking has a fervent documentary esthetic inspired by the greatest directors from the 70’s and he got a golden topic based on the TV show which components are attractive :
- A Press Room. I always [...]

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The Tribeca Film Festival is another expression of a certain American culture. The one who tells stories about beings and is also entertnaining. Thus learning – culture, best place to grasp- turns out to be amusing and lighthearted. That’s what I love about American culture. In Europe, often good culture, good art has to be [...]

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André Leon Talley, the editor at large of American Vogue, showed up at the Film Forum’s Q&A following the documentary “Valentino, The Last Emperor“ which is a very good one because of its focus on the designer self being. Even though his presence was scheduled, nobody knew until the last minute if he would come [...]

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New Yorkers love French culture. They see it exotic and elegant. Thus, they are greeting “God of Carnage“, the play of Yasmina Reza, which is becoming a hit. I saw the play tonight and I have to say the actors’ performance is first-class. The book didn’t hit me. Actually it irritated me because it pretends [...]

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Costa Gavras is in town to promote “ Eden à l’Ouest“ his new film. He was at IFC center this afternoon. This movie theater has always pretty interesting shows. It schedules only independent films. This expression is not associate with tedious. It means interesting and entertaining. Costa Gavras will be at the Lincoln Center [...]

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