Brigitte Bardot Articles

France is on financial brink. In fact, so is much of Europe. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Iceland have all gone Third World. Racism and xenophobia are not only a fact of life throughout the continent, but they're frequently official government policy as well. How to deal with those humongous problems? Well, just go after a notorious filmmaker who made a stupid joke while [...]

FilmBookdotcom has a Blu-ray contest out there: Alexander Mackendrick's black comedy The Ladykillers, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris / Contempt, and Akira Kurosawa's Ran have been released by StudioCanal on Blu-ray and are up for grabs. The Ladykillers, remade a few years ago with Tom Hanks, stars Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and the outstanding Katie Johnson. Godard's Contempt is a visually sumptuous drama starring Brigitte Bardot [...]

Next round of Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims. No, Bardot's animosity has nothing to do with, say, a planned Algerian-made sex melodrama called And Allah Created Woman. Bardot, like millions of others in France and elsewhere, apparently just doesn't like Muslims, period. She's now on trial for the fifth time since the mid-1990s for "inciting racial hatred" due to recent controversial remarks she made about Islam [...]

Brigitte Bardot (top); Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (bottom) The photo exhibition "Freeze Frame: 5 Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland," opens today in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free. "Freeze Frame" features more than 125 color and black-and-white images of old and new motion picture celebrities, including Anne Bancroft, Antonio Banderas, Brigitte Bardot, [...]