Michel Galabru dead: La Cage aux Folles right-wing politician and César Winner was embodiment of ‘family values’ in international blockbuster.
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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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The Conspirator box office: Director Robert Redford’s tepidly received historical drama is a commercial flop in the U.S. and elsewhere. James McAvoy and Robin Wright star.
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Catherine Deneuve & Roman Polanski: César Awards’ Nominations Best Film HEARTBREAKER produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, directed by Pascal Chaumeil OF GODS AND MEN produced by…
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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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Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie: European Film Awards honor. Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European…
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List of individuals who have signed (as of Oct. 7) the “Free Roman Polanski” petition organized by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD): Michael A. Russ Erika Abrams,…
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“Yellow face” in Hollywood movies: Paul Muni is a Jewish-Austrian-Hungarian Chinese in The Good Earth. Today it’d have been simpler. Muni would have been merely a Jewish-Ukrainian Chinese. Hollywood Chinese,…
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Philippe Noiret. Philippe Noiret: ‘Cinema Paradiso’ & ‘The Postman’ actor dead at 76 Veteran actor Philippe Noiret, whose movie credits include Cinema Paradiso, The Postman, and the controversial Blow-Out, died…
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Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s…
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that…
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman in Billy Wilder’s 1945 drama The Lost Weekend (bottom). The first and last best picture Oscar winners by way of the preferential voting system. The winner…
French film producer René Cleitman’s prestigious credits include Cyrano de Bergerac and several Prix César and Oscar-nominated titles.