A jumpy, erudite cinephile, Olivier Assayas uses Maggie Cheung’s three days in Paris to take stock of cinema as the century comes to an end.
Alternately dreamy and scratchy, Assayas’s meta-satire still beguiles.
Ostensibly an adaptation of the oft-filmed Wuthering Heights, Hurlevent feels more like a schematic indication of Emily Brontë’s famed novel, though that should not be taken as a criticism.
Boy, that preview for Beefcake sure shows up on a lot of these Strand discs.
Jacques Nolot’s film is an almost nonchalant ethnography of the inner workings of a gay cruising haunt.