The Intruder

Denis' last feature, The Intruder, pushed that elliptical style into out-and-out incoherence, but she finds her footing beautifully with 35 Shots Of Rum, a film grounded a bit more in nuts-and-bolts character work than usual. It's a...

In this article: Rum, Claire Denis, Apple pie, Friday Night, Yasujiro Ozu, Tindersticks, and Gregoire Colin

...on the work of On Kawara, Charles Baudelaire, and Friedrich Holderlin. Nancy's text L'intrus formed the basis for French director Claire Denis's film of the same name. He has written extensively on film, including The Evidence of Film, a...

In this article: Jean-Luc Nancy, Philosophy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, The Ister, Georges Bataille, and Friedrich Holderlin

...usual - you get the picture. Tonight's feature/short pairings at "Claire Denis, a Stranger Cinema" are "The Intruder" (above) and "Vers Nancy" at 7 and "No Fear, No Die" and "For Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud" at 9:30. In 2004's "The Intruder," a man...

In this article: E-mail, Claire Denis, Harvard, Boston.com, and Cambridge

...Francois Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's ''Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie is Claire Denis' L'Intrus in 2004.

In this article: Michel Subor, Claire Denis, Alfred Hitchcock, Topaz, What's New, Pussycat?, La Bride sur le Cou, Clive Donner, and Jean-Luc Godard

Denis's elliptical narrative style has seldom been this graceful; while certain plot points (like the source of Nenette's wad of cash) are left somewhat open, the film is a model of clarity next to her forbidding The Intruder. The...

In this article: Claire Denis, Nenette and Boni, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Agnes Godard, Tindersticks, Vincent Gallo, and DVD

...policies, but otherwise the film is delicately calibrated. Auds unwilling or unable to follow the narrative intricacies of Denis' "The Intruder" will have no problems here, although the helmer doesn't detail every action or background - her...

In this article: Claire Denis, Rum, Agnes Godard, and Djibril Diop Mambety