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FRENCH CINEMA NOW 2008Michael Hawley's Preview

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2008-09-15 08:52:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...French Cinema Now film series on behalf of The Evening Class and reports on his findings The San Francisco Film Society launches its inaugural French Cinema Now series with a great big BOUM !bookending the five-day mini-fest with the two highest-profile French films of 2008. Arnaud Desplechin's Catherine Deneuve-starring A Christmas Tale...
 
 
 
 
 
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THE OVERLOOKED JOHN FRANKENHEIMER: "FRENCH CONNECTION II"

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2008-10-13 00:05:18 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...French Connection , a hard-boiled thriller about the largest heroin bust in New York City s history. Directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman as Det. Eddie Popeye Doyle, the picture presented a gritty, but idealized portrait of the police at work. In 1972, wanting to capitalize on the pictures success, Fox decided to produce a...
 
 
 
 
 
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French comedies stay home

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2008-06-15 11:53:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...French box office is perhaps on the verge of crowning a new all-time champion in terms of seats sold (at least since the beginning of collection of reliable statistical data in the mid-1950s), with the comedy Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis inching closer to the number one spot, held by Titanic since 1998. James Cameron's film replaced another...
 
 
 
 
 
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Scriptwriting and the French New Wave

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2007-10-28 16:45:00 by girish in girish
...French New Wave: An Artistic School (1997; translated by Richard Neupert). Marie is professor and department chair of film studies at the Sorbonne and, according to Dudley Andrew, a legendary cinephile and scholar of French cinema Even though its a slim 140-page text, this book is packed with bloggable ideas. Let me focus on one: the role...
 
 
 
 
 
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 08.

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2008-02-28 14:43:09 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...French Cinema . All in all, 15 films will be screening at the Walter Reade Theater and the IFC Center in New York through March 9, and James Van Maanen previews every one of them here and now. A few notes follow Serial killers and grocery delivery men, missing fathers and autistic children, the Holocaust and speed dating, the new Lelouch ,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Kevin Kline Turns French... For Real This Time

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2008-03-30 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...French Kiss, where he got to play a theiving French man who could teach someone to pull out the complex flavors in wine in seconds. It's not Shakespeare, or storms of ice, but it has its moments. And now, he gets to play a French man for real -- in French! The Hollywood Reporter posts that Kline has signed on for his first French speaking...
 
 
 
 
 
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FORGOTTEN TV: FRENCH IN ACTION (1987)

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2008-05-28 11:00:00 by Moviezzz in The Moviezzz Blog
...FRENCH IN ACTION a TV series. It was more of a teaching series shown in classrooms. Since it aired on many PBS and public access channels, I guess it qualifies FRENCH IN ACTION was a French language video series used to teach the language. It ran 52 episodes. Each episode was broken into two parts It opened with a little continuing soap...
 
 
 
 
 
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French Stereotypes

2008-06-22 18:32:00 by Sachin in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Frenchmen El Presidente: In the last few months, there have been more articles written about French president Nicolas Sarkozy's wife than about his policies. A month ago, Doug Saunders of The Globe and Mail reviewed a year in Sarkozy's life with respect to 5 women. Ofcourse, it is the 5th women in that list, his wife Carla, that has been...
 
 
 
 
 
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Today in History... Eiffel Tower Opens, So Let's Talk FRENCH SEX MURDERS

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2008-03-31 06:15:00 by Dan in Exploitation Retrospect
...FRENCH SEX MURDERS starring a who's who of Eurotrash from Jess Franco stalwart Howard Vernon and SLAUGHTER HOTEL 's Rosalba Neri to sultry Barbara Bouchet and the voluptuous Anita Ekberg (looking a bit tranny-ish as the saucy Madame Collette Petty criminal Antoine (Pietro Martellanza) steals some (cheap looking) jewelry to fund his night at...
 
 
 
 
 
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Will Smith Will Produce Remake of Blockbuster French Comedy