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Deauville Festival of American Cinema · 2015

Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2015

Documentaries

Programme

6 films · 4 reviews

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Altman

A look at the life and work of the US filmmaker.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Ron Mann; Writer: Len Blum; Stars: Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Julianne Moore, James Caan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Keith Carradine, Elliott Gould, Lily Tomlin, Robert Altman, Philip Baker Hall, Sally Kellerman, Lyle Lovett, Michael Murphy)

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Review preview for Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut has the intriguing aura of a first episode with all the questions answered easily producing 500 more to be asked.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
Filmmakers talk about the influence of Truffaut's book Cinema According To Hitchcock.

(Country: France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Kent Jones, Serge Toubiana; Stars: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut)

Full review See: Kent Jones in conversation on Hitchcock/Truffaut

Steve McQueen: The Man And Le Mans

Review preview for Steve McQueen: The Man And Le Mans

The sadness and the courage and the ambition is here

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
The true story of how a cinema legend would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2015; Director: Gabriel Clarke, John McKenna; Stars: Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen, Neile Adams, John Sturges, Lee Katzin, Alan Trustman, Jonathan Williams)

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This Is Orson Welles

A documentary about Orson Welles.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg; Writer: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg; Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Jaglom, Joseph McBride)

The Wolfpack

Review preview for The Wolfpack

There is a sense of the freshness of freedom but this a film that mainly deals in big emotions as though worried about getting down to specifics.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Story of a band of brothers who grew up in social isolation.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Crystal Moselle; Stars: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo)

Full review See: Keeping score: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians talk about Last Days In The Desert, Enemy and Wolfpack , Article about films and copycat violence.