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Catherine Breillat - Articles and Interviews

Articles:

Dargis, Manohla. "False Security of Wealth: A Tale Turns Cautionary." in: The New York Times. March 26, 2010. (English).

Taubin, A. "Catherine Breillat" in: Film Comment. Film Society of Lincoln Center. 2010. Vol 46, Number 2, pages 40-45. (English)

Downing, Lisa. "French Cinema’s New ‘Sexual Revolution’: Postmodern Porn and Troubled Genre." in: French Cultural Studies. Vol.15, No. 3, October 24, 2010.

Gorton, Kristyn. "The Point of View of Shame”: Re-viewing female desire in Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) and Anatomy of Hell (2004)." in: Studies in European Cinema. August 2007. Vol. 4, Issue 2, (English).

Ince, K. "Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat." in: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Winter 2006, Vol. 64 No. 1, (English)

Bickerton, Emilie. "Anatomy of Hell" in: Sight and Sound. January 2005. Vol. 15, Iss. 1, 2 pages. (English).

Peranson, Mark. "Catherine Breillat Pulls the Strings: The Virgin Queen." in: The Village Voice October 2, 2001.

James, Nick. "Looks that paralyse: interview with Catherine Breillat" in: Sight and Sound. December 2001. 11, No. 12. (English)

Andrew O'Hehir. "8 & 1/2 Women." in Salon.com May 26, 2000.

Murphy, K. "Catherine Breillat." in: Film Comment. 1999. 35, no. 5, pp. 14-23, (English)

Constable, Liz. "Unbecoming Sexual Desires for Women Becoming Sexual Subjects: Simone de Beauvoir (1949) and Catherine Breillat (1999)." in: MLN. 2004. Vol. 119, No. 4, 24 pages. (English).

Constable, Liz. "Editorial: four recent French films that explore sex: Patrice Chereau's Intimacy, Catherine Breillat's Romance and Fat Girl, and Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's Baise-Moi" in: Cineaste. Vol. 27, No. 1, Winter 2001. (English).

Goumarre, Laurent. "Catherine Breillat: Double Remake." in: Art Press. No. 272, October 2001, p. 58-9. (English).

Interviews:

Breillat, Catherine and Melissa Anderson (Interviewer). "Q & A with Bluebeard's Catherine Breillat: on Sisterly Love, Sadomasochism and Serial Killing." in: The Village Voice. March, 2, 2010.

Breillat, Catherine and Glenn Kenny (Interviewer). "Some Words About Bluebeard with Catherine Breillat." in: Mubi.com. October 31, 2009.

Breillat, Catherine and White, Armond (Interviewer). "'Catherine Breillat Proves She's More Than a Porno-Polemicist." in: Altweeklies.com. June, 26, 2008.

Breillat, Catherine and Tsai, Martin (Interviewer). "Catherine Breillat Bares Her Romantic Side." in: The New York Sun. June 20, 2008.

Breillat, Catherine and Secher, Benjamin (Interviewer). "Catherine Breillat: All True Artists Are Hated." in: Telegraph.co.uk. April, 5, 2008.

Breillat, Catherine. "The Last Mistress: An Interview with Catherine Breillat." in: Bright Lights Film Journal. November 2008. (English).

Breillat, Catherine and Danilo Jon Scotta (Interviewer) "Greenaway & Food" in Revue EDIT No. 1, June 25, 2005. (French).

Breillat, Catherine and Kevin Fox. "Hell's Angels: An Interview with Catherine Breillat on Anatomy of Hell." in: Senses of Cinema. November 2004. (English).

Breillat, Catherine and Macnab, Geoffrey (Interviewer). "Sadean Woman: Includes an interview with Catherine Breillat" in: Sight & Sound December 2004. Vol. 14, No. 12. (English)

Breillat, Catherine and John Whitely (Interviewer). "'Film-makers on film: Catherine Breillat. John Whitely interviews Catherine Breillat on Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses." in: Telegraph.co.uk. July 19, 2003.

Breillat, Catherine and Libby Brooks (Interviewer). "The Friday Interview: The Joy of Sex." in: The Guardian. Novembe 23, 2001. (English).

Breiillat, Catherine and Rhiannon Brown (Interviewer). "Interview on Romance." in: ABC Radio National, Arts Today section January 31, 2000.

Breillat, Catherine and Cynthia Joyce (Interviewer). "Tainted Love" in Salon.com September 17, 1999.

Breillat, Catherine and Sklar, Robert (Interviewer). "A Woman's Vision of Shame and Desire: An Interview with Catherine Breillat" in: Cineaste. December 1999. Vol. 25, Issue 1, p. 24, 3p, (English).