Movies
Patrice Leconte’s “Intimate Strangers” opens with the brisk economy of a film made by a master screen storyteller.
July 30, 2004
Entertainment & Arts
Movie review: ‘Queen to Play’
April 1, 2011
Monsieur Hire (Bravo Monday at 6 p.m.) is the underrated 1989 film that stars Michel Blanc as a mysterious bachelor-voyeur and Sandrine Bonnaire as the sensual young woman upon whom he preys.
July 17, 1994
Talky, atmospheric, sensuous and somewhat willfully perverse -- if “Intimate Strangers” were not actually a French film it would undoubtedly be compared to one.
July 26, 2004
With his round black hat, pale face and black coat, Monsieur Hire, from the splendid movie of the same name, might have stepped straight out of a painting by Magritte; you half expect to be able to see blue sky and clouds straight through him.
May 4, 1990
Ellen Barkin (actress, “Diner,” “Desert Bloom”) Sandrine Bonnaire (actress, “A Nos Amour,” “Vagabonde”) Alex Cox (director, “Repo Man”) Paul Cox (director, “Man of Flowers,” “My First Wife”) Beverly D’Angelo (actress, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Big Trouble”) Laura Dern (actress, “Mask,” “Smooth Talk”) Neil Jordan (director, “A Company of Wolves,” “Mona Lisa”) Daniel Day Lewis (actor, “My Beautiful Laundrette,” John Malkovich (actor, “Places in the Heart,” “The Killing Fields”) Michelle Pfeiffer (actress, “Into the Night,” “Ladyhawke”) Julien Temple (director, “Absolute Beginners”) Wayne Wang (director, “Chan is Missing,” “Dim Sum”)
July 27, 1986
Psychological drama, romance, octogenarian jazz musicians: It’s an eclectic assortment of screenings.
June 21, 2004
Mad passion--the grand amour that unhinges you, makes you throw away your life--is a frequent movie subject.
June 28, 1989
Monsieur Hire (Cinemax Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., again Friday at 2:30 p.m.).
Oct. 13, 1991
Patrice Leconte loves the unexpected, such as making a film in English.
July 18, 2004