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Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Jean de Florette (France/Switzerland/Italy: Claude Berri, 1986: 120 mins) 4 stars The intertwined pathos of the morally/intellectually stunted Ugolin (Daniel Auteil) and the over-reaching, creative humpback Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu) powers this film to escape its "quality" picture limitations. Both actors are believable in their roles, even if at times they become caricatures... still one...
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Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Last week's quiz was Claude Berri's none-too-successful The Housekeeper (Une Femme de Ménage), which feaured Jean-Pierre Bacri playing a (surprise surprise) sad-sack whose life is turned around by the arrival of a new housekeeper, the lovely Émilie Dequenne, quite grown...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
LATEST: GERARD DEPARDIEU's son GUILLAUME was laid to rest in Paris, France on Friday (17Oct08) in a ceremony that attracted some of the country's biggest stars.
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
DVD Video Review: In the first of a series of Maurice Pialat DVD releases, Masters of Cinema give their 5-star treatment to the director's remarkable, hard-hitting debut feature from 1968. Noel Megahey reviews.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Film News: EFA picks People's Choice nominees -- German box office hits “The Wave,” by Dennis Gansel, and Til Schweiger’s “Rabbit Without Ears” are taking on David Yates’ “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and Joe Wright’s “Atonement” for the European Film Academy’s People’s Choice Award.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Film News: Action pic, animated feature tops box office -- Box office in Hong Kong demonstrated the endearing charm of pandas, but "Wanted" was what auds really wanted.
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PARIS /moleskinecity.com (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
French actor, film maker and producer Claude Berri has another passion that he is sharing with the public: his extensive art collection. Espace Claude Berri is a glass-fronted gallery designed by the Pritzker prizewinning architect Jean Nouvel. The gallery is located in the Marais district, which has the largest concentration of contemporary art galleries in [...]
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
New films by French directors Claude Berri, Claude Miller and Nicolas Klotz, plus the return of historic works such as Francois Truffaut's "400 Blows," will highlight the 7th Sacramento French Film Festival, to be held in July at the Crest Theatre.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Film News: A look at some of France's best -- From hair stylists to d.p.s, France's best craft technicians stand out from the pack.
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Explore : Alain Resnais, Alan Parker, Cinema, David Lean, Directors, directors, Edward Zwick, Louis Malle, Olivier Assayas, Olivier Assayas, Patrice Chéreau, Roman Polanski, Stephen Frears, Walter Salles
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The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
On March 21st a new contemporary art space opened in Paris. The Espace Claude Berri is a newly renovated gallery space dedicated to the collection of the legendary director and producer. Since the early 1970s Berri has been amassing an enormous and important collection of modern and contemporary art. Artists range from the early 20th [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
RICHMOND, Va., March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 16th annual Virginia Commonwealth University French Film Festival will present an unparalleled selection of feature films and short films, i...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Loris Gréaud's "Cellar Door" project is being shown at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. As with all of the artist's work, it isn't limited to one place or time, but boomerangs across disciplines, locations and time periods.
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Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Oscar's 2007 Live Action Short Films By Marilyn Ferdinand If ever there was a category that seems almost entirely irrelevant to the Oscars, it is Live Action Short Film. These nominees have been the province primarily of first-time directors,...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
by Marguerite DurasMaclehose Press, 400pp, £19.99TO SAY THAT MARGUERITE DURAS HAD a difficult life is an understatement. She was raised in South-east Asia, in what is now Vietnam, where her parents took part in a colonisation scheme run by the French government. Not long after her family arrived, however, her father, Monsieur Donnadieu fell ill and returned to France, where he died, leaving his daughter...
