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Film Criticism

posted 17 years ago by pas_si_simple
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anyone know of any critical reviews or papers on this movie available on the internet?
Articles/essays in French or German languages are especially welcome.

I've found the following citations and would like to read the full articles or essays--would anyone on the boards have access or know of online resources for the following:

Cahiers du cinéma, ‘La Vie rêvée des anges’, Emmanuel Burdeau, no. 527, Sept, 1998. p.71+.
Sight and Sound, ‘La vie rêvée des anges’, Gavin Smith, ns.8, no.11, Nov, 1998, p.64.
The Hudson review, ‘The Dreamlife of Angels’, Bert Cardullo, v.53, no.1, Spring 2000. p.107-14.
New York Times, Janet Maslin (if anyone has access to the pay side of the site, I'd appreciate if the article could be posted... :])

For a good rundown and links of American and online reviews RottenTomato does a great job (but some of the links are broken):

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dreamlife_of_angels/

And here's a short list of online reviews that had broken links or weren't listed @ RottenTomatoes:

Charles Taylor @ Salon - http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/04/05/dreamlife/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 (best review i've read so far--the only one that didn't hate on Marie and call her relationship with Chris simply about his money)
Roger Ebert @ Chicago Sun-Times - http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990430/REVIEWS/904300301/1023
James Berardinellu @ Reelviews - http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/dream_life.html
Kenneth Turan @ "Never Coming to a Theater Near You" (book) - go to books.google.com and search 'Kenneth Turan & Dreamlife of Angels'
James Bowman - http://www.jamesbowman.net/reviewDetail.asp?pubID=514

thanks

[–] sidmsdw 16 years ago

I relate to your sense of enthusiasm for this film and feeling a need to read widely in the critical literature. I had the same reaction. For my money, the two best reviews are Anthony Lane's in The New Yorker and Stanley Kauffman in The New Republic. Also, Roger Ebert's review reminded me of why he won Pulitzer Prize years ago for his prose.

[–] pas_si_simple 14 years ago

thanks sid! :]

I found a few more citations:

Hardwick, Joe. "Fallen angels and flawed saviours: marginality and exclusion in La Vie de Jésus and La Vie rêvée des anges." Studies in French Cinema; 2007, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p219-230, 12p

Harris, Sue. "Dispossession and Exclusion in La Vie rêvée des anges." In: Possessions : essays in French literature, cinema, and theory / Julia Horn & Lynsey Russell-Watts (eds.). Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, 2003. (Main Stack PQ31.C36 2001)

Orr, Christopher. ""A Working Class Hero(ine) Is Something to Be": Affliction, The Dreamlife of Angels, and the Naturalist Tradition." Film Criticism. Fall 2002. Vol. 27, Iss. 1; p. 36 (15 pages)

Smith, Gavin. "The Dreamlife of Angels." Sight and Sound. Nov 1998. Vol. 8, Iss. 11; p. 64 (2 pages)

(via UC Berkley-Media Resource Center's list on the Homeless, Hobos, Tramps, and Bums in Movies [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/homelessnessmovies.html ])

[–] beauedson 13 years ago

i recall reading an article or review on it in the film comment issue with beau travail on the cover