Jean-Luc Godard Solution for Greek Debt Crisis is a simple one that quite literally involves the use of the Aristotelian concept of Logic.
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Laura Antonelli: Malizia Sex Symbol whose looks faded following a couple of decades enmeshed in scandal and legal problems was found dead.
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Father’s Day Top 5 Movies: From Compassionate Gregory Peck to Sociopath John Gielgud in addition to other kind and demented film daddies.
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Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster The Cave of the Silken Web
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Featuring its title character as a mere sidekick, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road places women on top. Cast: Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Simone Simon: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale was seen in nearly 40 films, seducing men old and young sometimes with deadly results.
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Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier after her latest nomination. Article includes list of rare Anglophone César nominees.
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Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve have achieved remarkable César Award feats. One is a First; the other one is a Record-Tier.
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Luis Buñuel Movies: Subversive, Challenging Viridiana (‘blasphemous’ according to the Vatican) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
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Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
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Henry V Movie (1944) Actress Renée Asherson: Laurence Olivier’s Leading Lady was London stage star married to Oscar winner Robert Donat.
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Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time as per the Chicago Film Critics. Eclectic list ranges from Psycho to a number of surprises and curiosities.
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Ivor Novello and Fay Compton star in Basil Dean’s romantic drama Autumn Crocus, featuring a wistful glimpse into middle-aged longing.
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Marie Dubois: Actress in the mammoth blockbuster La Grande Vadrouille. Marie Dubois, actress in French New Wave films, dead at 77 Actress Marie Dubois, a popular French New Wave personality…
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Emmanuelle Movies Producer Alain Siritzky dead. His credits include more than 40 Emmanuelle films featuring Sylvia Kristel, Allie Haze etc.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s ‘A Night at the Cinema in 1914’ was the second best thing to a time machine. World War I and Charles Chaplin featured.
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015 contender ‘Three Windows and a Hanging’: First Kosovo entry. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015: Record number of entries The Academy of Motion Picture…
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The Way He Looks movie: Gay teen love story about blind boy who falls in love with a school friend is Brazil entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman’s The Girl in Tails shows that women must fight and scandalize in order to remove the weight of social oppression.
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In the social/family drama Song of the Fishermen, filmmaker Cai Chusheng portrays the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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Topics at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s Amazing Tales from the Archives included Fred Ott’s seminal ‘sneeze face’ and the technological Charles Chaplin.
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Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) is more daring and philosophical than Vol. I. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgård star.
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The starkly funny Nymphomaniac: Vol. I provides further evidence that Lars von Trier is a cinematic genius. Cast: Shia LaBeouf and Stacy Martin.
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Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City, known in the U.S. as Open City. ‘Rome, Open City’ returns: 4K digital restoration of Roberto Rossellini masterpiece at London’s BFI Southbank A restored…
SFSFF’s ‘Avant-Garde Paris’ movies Ménilmontant and the wholly abstract Emak-Bakia were offered to those willing to take a chance.
Simone Simon: La Bête Humaine (1938) Deadly Sex Kitten in 1 of Jean Renoir’s most known films. Off screen, she romanced real-life James Bond.
Golden Globes Winners: Early Technical Glitch Led to Much Ado About Nothing while Julianne Moore took home 1 statuette as expected.
Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
Best British Movies of All Time: Get Carter or Lawrence of Arabia or The Third Man? That depends on who gets polled. And when, by whom.
Bill Kerr in Doctor Who with Patrick Troughton. Doctor Who actor & Peter Weir collaborator Bill Kerr dead at 92 Australian actor Bill Kerr, best known internationally for a guest…
Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying: The Russian Audrey Hepburn. Tatiana Samoilova dead at 80: ‘The Russian Audrey Hepburn’ best remembered for Cannes winner ‘The Cranes Are Flying’ Russian film…