Denis

My first glimpse of Claire Denis is of a slight, elegant figure dressed in white slipping out of a black limousine that fills the narrow street outside the hotel where our rendezvous is scheduled. For an instant, I feel as if I have been sucked into the menacing world of her latest film. I have just travelled to Paris to interview her, and have arrived early because I am anxious not to waste a minute of the 45 I have been granted to investigate the extraordinary career of a French director idolised by peers such as Barry…

Skiifall season is in full swing.The Montreal-via-Saint-Vincent artist released his new single “Yuteman Denis” today with an accompanying video.The single also features Quebec superstar Charlotte Cardin and Zibz. The track was produced by frequent collaborator Yama//sato, along with Montrealers Da-P, DoomX (of Planet Giza), and Dayhills.Skiifall divides the track into two distinct halves. The first, backed by Cardin’s angelic voice, sets the melancholic tone for the rest of the track while the video sees a group of…

The spelling on the shirt didn’t matter, only that it looked cool. So Denis Lynch bought it.The red-headed redshirt freshman’s thinking behind a soon-to-be viral outfit is as simple as the slogan printed on the black T-shirt he wore into a game against Fresno State. The straight-forward phrase easily captures the USC kicker’s unique influence on campus. “I’m Dennis doing Dennis things.”With his meme-able fashion statements and consistent kicking, Lynch has grown into an unexpected favorite on a championship-contending…

I’ve been surrounded by bands all my life. I went to school in Ealing, which is where Freddie Mercury went to art college. Likewise Ronnie Wood and Pete Townshend. Olympic Studios, where Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Rolling Stones recorded, was in nearby Barnes, where I lived. It’s a cinema now – the Stones recorded Sympathy for the Devil in the room where you watch films.I was on the periphery of it all but my parents wouldn’t let me go to art college and I ended up working for an insurance broker in the City. It wasn’t…

Image: Marvel StudiosWe’ve got some Thunderbolts casting gossip, a Black Adam poster, and a clip from one of my most-anticipated new spooky season films, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, based on the book by Grady Hendrix. Also! Don’t miss the newest images from Werewolf by Night, the MCU creature feature we’ve been waiting for. Spoilers, sound off!Now You See Me 3Deadline reports Ruben Fleischer (Venom, Uncharted) is attached to direct the third film in the Now You See Me franchise of magician/heist movies. The outlet notes…

Born in Paris in 1946 but raised in west Africa, the film director Claire Denis worked as an assistant to film-makers such as Jacques Rivette and Wim Wenders before making her unforgettable debut with Chocolat (1988), a semi-autobiographical film set in Cameroon. Her work is broad-ranging, including fiction and documentary. Highlights include Beau Travail (1999), loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, and more recently High Life (2018), her first film in English, which starred Robert Pattinson. She has two new…

Claire Denis’s new film is a seductively indirect love triangle, a drama of the mind as much as the heart. It’s intriguing if contrived and anticlimactic, though acted at the highest pitch of sensual conviction. Denis has co-written the screenplay with the author Christine Angot, with whom she wrote her previous movie Let the Sunshine In, and this has the same novelistic feel. The original French title is Feu, ou Avec Amour et Acharnement (which translates as Fire, or With Love And Fury); the English subtitle comes from a…

Photo by Ethan M. on UnsplashThe problem of models' explanations in machine learning is always present. We want glass-box models for various reasons. First, data scientists wish to understand models' predictions to avoid data leaks and to be able to debug. Project managers want to understand the reasoning behind the models' choices to avoid blind decision-making, especially in "touchy" fields such as banking or healthcare. Finally, users want to know why a model made a prediction to trust it.In the Natural Language…