Alain Delon

Bulgari store opening in Paris

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008

Luxury jewel house Bulgari has launched a new flagship store on Avenue Georges 5 in Paris.

Fashion Diary: Fashion Has a Marie Antoinette Moment

New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008

Suddenly stripped of their bonuses and access to enhanced-yield funds, even the famous untouchables that in the luxury trade are euphemized as High Net Worth Individuals, no longer may be in a position to plunk down a half million dollars for one of Bulgari’s emerald doodads.

Zidane caught up in call girl trial

The First Post (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008

The names of a number of France's biggest stars, among them Alain Delon, Gerard Depardieu and Zinedine Zidane (pictured), are likely to crop up in the trial of a Swiss-based…

Asterix Madame on trial for supplying prostitutes to film crew

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008

Madame who supplied escort girls to film set is on trial for blackmail.

Learning to speak French is a good idea in anybody's language. And here's why

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008

THIS skill should be applied not just in English but in other languages, in order that Scots can forge international links, for economic and social reasons.

• Learning to speak French is a good idea in anybody's language. And here's why - Scotsman.com

Romy Schneider @ 70.

GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008

The Sissi trilogy, a holiday season perennial on European television, is a happy if somewhat troubled marriage of the Heimat and history-as-pageant films of the postwar era in Mitteleuropan cinema. Romy Schneider would break with Vienna, then Hollywood, to...

Romy Schneider: Movie Princess, Screen Legend, Tragic Star

Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008

German screen legend Romy Schneider would have been 70 years old on Tuesday, Sept. 23 had she not died tragically of heart failure in her Paris apartment in 1982.

Bob le flambeur

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008

DVD Video Review: Released by Optimum in 2006, Anthony Nield takes a look back at their Region 2 handling of Jean-Pierre Melville's first gangster movie, Bob le flambeur.

My Secret Life: Mark Strong, Actor, age 45

The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008

The home I grew up in... was a flat in Middleton Square in London's Islington, a beautiful Georgian square with a huge church in the middle. We moved around a lot when I was a kid. I remember flats in Walthamstow, Clapton, Stoke Newington and Edmonton, as well.

Poll: What turns you on at the movies?

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

Here is a list of my top 20 "movie turn-ons" over the years, from delayed childhood to advancing senility. Which of them floats your boat?

French Crime at the Egyptian

Film Forno (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Saturday September 6 the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood U.S.A. will screen two classics starring Jean Gabin. The Sicilian Clan at 7:30 pm and the ultra-rare Moontide at 9:30. The Sicilian Clan also features two other Titans of Cinema acting, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura. What a great opportunity to see [...]

DVDs: 'Joy House'

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Upscale Eurotrash from 1964, this overheated erotic thriller by Rene Clement was produced in French and English versions.

Team Picture

Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008

Kentucker Audley - 2007 Benten Films All Regions DVD There is something that Team Picture gets right that hardly seems to happen in movies. In a couple of scenes we hear the sound of summer in the country. Even...

Joy House

GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008

Reviewer: James van Maanen Rating (out of 5): ***½ History has a lot to do with the special appeal of Joy House (titled "Les Felins" in France): the history of its director Réne Clément, of filmmaking at this particular...

French Connection

The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008

Bruce Goldstein has programmed a fantastic five wee ks of French film noir and thrillers, spanning 1937 to 2000, and playing from now through Sept. 11 at Film Forum. The series has already begun, but it’s not too late to catch Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge (1970), with Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonte, on Friday, Aug. 15, and Saturday the 16th at 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30. Jacques...