Quentin Dupieux, the filmmaker behind the deranged "killer tire" movie Rubber, is back with a new film about obsession. Check out our Deerskin review.
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Watch The Connection red-band trailer starring Jean Dujardin. The thriller is billed as the European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection.
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La French, aka The Connection for international festival audiences, jumps off from the same '60s and '70s drug-trafficking patterns that inspired The French Connection. Jean Dujardin stars as a young magistrate thrust into an attempt to corral international heroin smuggling, and follows his "violent six-year campaign to bring down the kingpin of a major narcotics…
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Jean Dujardin had a solid career in France before his work in the 2011 film The Artist earned him a Best Oscar statue in 2012. And that win probably helped him land supporting gigs in films such as The Wolf of Wall Street and Monuments Men. But he's got a couple other films in the…
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Here's a cheeky sales pitch for George Clooney's new film The Monuments Men, which features Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and John Goodman as a crew of art guys and their associates who seek to rescue priceless cultural artifacts from Hitler's war machine. The ads we've seen so…
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Here's the first trailer from The Monuments Men, the new film from director George Clooney. It's based on a true story, and features Clooney and Matt Damon as two members of a team that ran through the battlefields of World War II trying to save art from destruction by various war machines. As Clooney's character…
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The subtitles here are in French, so this trailer won't give you many of the core plot details of the French thriller Mobius, but you'll definitely be able to latch on to the film's tone and catch a glimpse of the cast at work. The big draw here for some will be Jean Dujardin, last seen…
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At the end of 2011 Jean Dujardin became a bigger global star than he may have ever expected to be, thanks to the success of the film The Artist. The actor took home one of the film's five Oscars, and also found awards success and popular acclaim in many other countries. Soon he'll be back…
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Dreck like He's Just Not That Into You and New Year's Eve are proof that a star-studded ensemble isn't everything -- sometimes, it just means the studio was willing to cut sizable checks to A-listers for not very much work. But when a more promising picture books a bevy of top-shelf talent, it can't help…
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Hugo director Martin Scorsese and The Artist star Jean Dujardin were probably rooting against each other at this year's Oscars, when both of their films were up for Best Picture. But they could find themselves on the same side for the 2014 ceremonies. The French actor has just entered talks for The Wolf of Wall…
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Meryl Streep prevented the cast and crew of The Artist from a total sweep of the major categories at this year's British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and commonly called the BAFTAs. Streep won Best Actress for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The…
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One more win for The Artist. Last week the film took the PGA award, director Michel Hazanavicius was honored by the DGA for directing the film over the weekend, and last night Jean Dujardin was awarded Best Actor in a motion picture by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The guild also gave several awards to…
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There is a very good chance that The Artist will soon be crowned Best Picture. If nothing else, you're going to hear more and more about the silent Cannes fave in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. We've seen a featurette that talked about the creation of the film, which is set in 1927…
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Many film goers are going to be forced to tackle their cinema phobias this award season as Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist is beginning to pick up steam. The black and white, silent film about a silent movie star (Jean Dujardin) whose livelihood is threatened by an up and coming sound star (Bérénice Bejo) is absolutely…
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As we head toward the end of the year, it's clear that 2011 has yielded some damn great performances from both established stars (Gary Oldman, Glenn Close) and rising talents (Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska). So naturally, the best way to celebrate their accomplishments is by inviting each of them to play characters wholly unlike the…
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The first film to generate real 'best picture' buzz at this year's Cannes Film Festival was The Artist, a lively silent film depicting late '20s Hollywood. It is directed by Michel Hazanavicius, aka the guy that made the comic OSS 117 films. The film seems like an unlikely pairing of man and material, but a…
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The Cannes jury, headed by Robert De Niro, has selected the winners of this year's competition slate, and the results are slightly surprising. In the early days of the fest two films quickly emerged as seeming front-runners for the top prize, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin and Michel Hazanavicius' silent black and…
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The Academy Awards for 2008 have been handed out, and the “popular kids” have Oscars on their mantles, but the dirty little secret about winning awards is that you’ve gotta campaign for them. Thousands of dollars were spent by the distributors and filmmakers behind Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Milk (Focus Features), The Reader (Weinstein) and…
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