Dead Poets Society News

08/20/09 The death and posthumous sanctification of Michael Jackson lends an air of timeliness to World's Greatest Dad , Bobcat Goldthwait's savagely funny, unexpectedly touching exploration of the human need to idealize and romanticize the dead.  |  The A.V. Club

12/16/08 It was the kind of coincidence that doesn't happen in a Laurent Cantet film: on the press tour for his last feature, "Heading South," the filmmaker appeared on the same radio talk show as François Bégaudeau, a former teacher and film critic who recently published a novel about his time working at a junior high school entitled "Entre les Murs (Between the Walls)."  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)

10/02/08 When he set out to direct "The Class," a dramatic look at modern French society through the prism of an urban middle school, Laurent Cantet knew at least one thing: He didn't want to make another "Dead Poets Society."  |  Variety