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Widow Clicquot (2023)

Directed by Thomas Napper

Cinematography by Caroline Champetier

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#136: Land (2021, dir. by Robin Wright)

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Submergence (Wim Wenders, 2017).

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Land (2021)

Directed by Robin Wright

Cinematography by Bobby Bukowski

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"Widow Cliquot"

As a wine lover and champagne connoisseur, I adored director Thomas Napper’s “Widow Cliquot,” a staunchly feminist story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire. Inspiring, rousing, and romantic, this biopic is a true tale not only of the strong woman who held her own despite a chorus of male naysayers, but a fascinating look at the wine making processes of the 1800s. After her…

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Submergence

German filmmaker Wim Wenders became the object of considerable respect amongst international cinema audiences when he wowed the Cannes Film Festival with his sweetly desolate Americana road movie Paris, Texas in 1984, picking up the Palme d’or and earning almost universal acclaim. Whilst Paris, Texas remains his crowning achievement, Wenders has delivered several other highly accomplished films,…

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Erin Dignam: Everybody was asking Sean why he was making statements again that he was going to quite acting. 'What was that all about? He wanted to quit before, then he started acting again and gave these great performaces.' I knew how excited and touched he gets by watching other performers, and I'd heard him say, 'I just die to direct, to see those kinds of performances in front of me as a director.' But we were sitting in his house one day, in their breakfast alcove, and I said to him, 'I'd like the answer. Really. Why you're quitting acting. Because I don't think it's good for those of us who need to see stories.' I was giving him the whole guilt thing. And he said, 'You know what it is? When you give yourself to a performance, when you have to get into the mind of somebody else, if you do it right, you do have to leave yourself behind for that time period--whatever it is, March-to-May 1996. You don't live your own life. You are gonna lose chunks of it.' And I got that. It's like that poem Bukowski wrote about poetry: basically, 'If you don't have to do it, don't do it, man.' Because it should cost you to do it. And you have to give on that level if you're Sean. And at that particular moment, I think he honestly was spent.