Jeremy Irvine Jeremy Irvine, the star (along with the titular character) of Steven Spielberg’s World War I drama War Horse, arrives at the 2012 London Film Critics Awards. Irvine was…
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Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: Making Golden Globes history. Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: ‘The Artist’ achieves unique Golden Globes feat Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo accept…
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Actress Paulette Dubost, known as the “Dean of French Cinema,” and a performer in films directed by Jean Renoir, Marcel L’Herbier, Jacques Tourneur, Julien Duvivier, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, François…
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Jean Gabin was France’s answer to Humphrey Bogart, many (English-language) historians have claimed. Either that, or Gabin was France’s answer to Spencer Tracy. Never mind the fact that Gabin was…
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Marie-France Pisier in The Other Side of Midnight (top); Pisier with Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut’s Love at Twenty segment “Antoine and Colette” (bottom) Marie-France Pisier, best-known internationally as one…
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Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
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Bruno Cremer, best known for his portrayal of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Jules Maigret in the long-running (1991–2005) French television series Maigret, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday, Aug. 7.…
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Outside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law…
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Silvio Berlusconi corruption. “Spring had just begun along the beautiful peninsula and they were after Berlusconi. It was a shitty day like so many others …” the narrator explains in…
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Death in the Garden with Simone Signoret and Georges Marchal. I hadn’t even heard of Death in the Garden before its recent DVD release on the Microcinema label. It ranks…
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Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas (top); the real “black” Alexandre Dumas (bottom). Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast…
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BAFTA nominations: Hollywood productions rule. Above: Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then…
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My Night at Maud’s with Françoise Fabian and Antoine Vitez: Eric Rohmer classic. To watch an Eric Rohmer film is to watch life unfold on the screen. I’m not sure…
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Louis Delluc Prize for Violent Prison Drama + Sugar Surprise at AFI Awards while James Cameron futuristic adventure is surprising Best Picture in New York.
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Avatar war: Titanic or Cleopatra? Not taking inflation into account, James Cameron’s futuristic 3D action fantasy is the most expensive 20th Century Fox production ever. Once inflation is factored in,…
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Jocelyn Quivrin, Bénabar in Incognito Jocelyn Quivrin, the French Academy’s César winner for most promising newcomer in 2008, died after losing control of his sports car while driving in a…
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Spirited Away directed by Hayao Miyazaki. As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ three-month celebration of anime, a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2002 Oscar-winning animated feature…
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Yolande Moreau in Séraphine. The winner of 7 2009 French Academy Awards, including best film, best original screenplay, and best actress, Martin Provost’s Séraphine stars Yolande Moreau as painter Séraphine…
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In Emmanuel Mouret’s quietly observant Un baiser s’il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, “A Kiss, If You Please”), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple,…
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Camino with Carmen Elias: Controversial Opus Dei drama. Goya Award winners Written and directed by Javier Fesser, the controversial drama Camino – described by Screen Daily‘s Lee Marshall as a…
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https://youtu.be/0auwpvAU2YAVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Christian Bale Freaks Out on Set w/ SUBTITLES OF CREW in background (https://youtu.be/0auwpvAU2YA) I’ve had friends in the mountains of Papua New…
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Marie Glory in L’Enfant de l’amour with Jaque Catelain. Actress Marie Glory (a.k.a. Arlette Genny in the mid-1920s) died at age 103 her house in Cannes on Jan. 24. Though…
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Guillaume Depardieu, best known, perhaps, as the eldest son of superstar Gérard Depardieu, has died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital in the Greater Paris area. He was 37.…
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François Cluzet in Tell No One. Several weeks ago, I chatted with actor-director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, 35, at a West Hollywood hotel where Canet was promoting his romantic thriller Tell No…
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Writer-director Francis Veber’s The Valet movie is his latest hilarious French farce. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gad Elmaleh and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Possibly Louis Malle’s best film, the Oscar-nominated semi-autobiographical drama Au Revoir les Enfants focuses on the tragic friendship between two boys.
Cécile Aubry, the leading lady in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1949 drama Manon and Tyrone Power’s romantic interest in the 1950 period adventure The Black Rose, died of lung cancer on July…
César: ‘Prix’ for Best Film goes to A Prophet, starring Best Male Newcomer Tahar Rahim. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard’s internationally acclaimed prison drama, was the big winner at the 2010…
The Hurt Locker with Jeremy Renner. The Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles film critics’ Best Picture choice is a low-budget Summit Entertainment release that turned out to be a…
Made in USA: Jean-Luc Godard effort stars Anna Karina. When the young cinephiles who would later spawn the French New Wave attended screenings of Hollywood films at the Cinémathèque Française…
Séraphine de Senlis Biopic Séraphine with Yolande Moreau. The 2009 César ceremony, held this evening at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, offered a few surprises. (In the U.S. and…
Gérard Depardieu Yves Montand Claude Berri-directed drama Jean de Florette. Filmmaker Claude Berri, best known internationally for Jean de Florette (1988) and its sequel, Manon of the Spring (1989), died…