New York Film Critics Awards boosted Kristen Stewart and lesbian romance Oscar Chances plus acclaimed Holocaust drama.
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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: La Bête Humaine (1938) Deadly Sex Kitten in 1 of Jean Renoir’s most known films. Off screen, she romanced real-life James Bond.
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Sean Penn will receive the Honorary César. The two-time Best Actor Oscar winner is the latest Hollywood celebrity to take home the award.
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Leslie Caron in Gigi. Leslie Caron will be on hand for the premiere of a new digital restoration of Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner Gigi on Oct. 10 …
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“I’m the last survivor of one section of the history of French cinema,” director-screenwriter Jean Delannoy declared in 2004. The “last survivor” died yesterday, June 18, at his home in …
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Palme d’Or winners: Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in Carol Reed’s Vienna-set thriller The Third Man. Palme d’Or winners: Cannes Film Festival 1939*: Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille) 1946**: Brief …
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Maria Schell. Maria Schell remembered: Gervaise + The Hanging Tree + Superman actress Maria Schell, who starred in Gervaise, The Last Bridge, and other film classics of the 1950s, had …
Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria …
Alida Valli – Part I Valli looked considerably older, her features hardened, when she resumed her career in 1957. That year, she appeared in three productions: Glauco Pellegrini’s Spanish-Italian L’Amore …