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Cinema of France
For several years now the Festival de Cannes has put forward a programme of outdoor screenings as part of the Official Selection called the Cinéma de la Plage.
Every night à 9:30pm at the Macé Beach and for the duration of the Festival screenings will be offered to the residents of Cannes who wish to watch films under the stars. This year several films will be screened as world premieres and will be free and open to the public.
The programme
Thursday May 13th at 9:30pm
FROM HERE TO E...
by Marla Lewin
COLCOA’s City of Lights, City of Angels, a Week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood presented a Happy Hour Talk at the Renoir Theatre at the DGA on Friday.
It followed the international premiere and historic screening of the restored film Pierrot Le Fou, directed by Jean-Luc Godard based on a novel by Lional White, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Godards’ once wife and muse Anna Karina. She was to be part of the panel along with Ser...
Friday night the French New Wave classic, "Breathless" had it's North American premiere at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, CA.
Robert Osborne interviews Jean-Paul Belmondo
The host of the TCM Film Festival, Robert Osborne, interviewed the film's star, Jean...
"It took much longer to get him (Romain Duris) than any woman I've ever known," says HeartBreaker director Pascal Chaumeil, only half-conscious of his double entendre in English, as he speaks of his lead actor's initial reluctance to attempt this romantic comedy with Vanessa Paradis in a post-screening Q & A session. "It was essential to find the right couple. Chemistry is everything."Lucky for Chaumeil, the magic potion is there between Juliette, a former wild child n...
"It took much longer to get him (Romain Duris) than any woman I've ever known," says HeartBreaker director Pascal Chaumeil, only half-conscious of his double entendre in English, as he speaks of his lead actor's initial reluctance to attempt this comedy with Vanessa Paradis in a post-screening Q & A session. "It was essential to find the right couple. Chemistry is everything."
Hello All! ....I won't be officially starting my Tribeca blog until the opening press conference on April 20th. But, so far, the good folks at Rubenstein have given me a chance to see press screenings of SPORK and AMERICAN MYSTIC. And while I can't write about either until I am no longer under embargo, be forewarned that there is one lighthearted romp you definitely won't want to miss at this year's film festival! Most of all, I am looking forward to seeing an incredible Franco-American lin...
By ALI NADERZAD - April 12, 2010 (Paris)
As dean of the Cannes Festival Gilles Jacob would be expected to handle stars like we handle a road well traveled. Sharp turns are cleared without effort and intersections negotiated with eyes closed. Casualness should be a given for the president of the festival since every night for almost two weeks in May he stands at the top of the Lumière theatre steps to greet the casts and directors of the Selection films. “Ah, there’s Brad and Angelina, h...
By ALI NADERZAD - April 12, 2010 (Paris)
As dean of the Cannes Festival Gilles Jacob would be expected to handle stars like we handle a road well traveled. Sharp turns are cleared without effort and intersections negotiated with eyes closed. Casualness should be a given for the president of the festival since every night for almost two weeks in May he stands at the top of the Lumière theatre steps to greet the casts and directors of the Selection films. “Ah, there’s Brad and Angelina, h...
GILLES THE TIRELESSBy ALI NADERZAD - April 12, 2010 (Paris) As dean of the Cannes Festival Gilles Jacob would be expected to handle stars like we handle a road well traveled. Sharp turns are cleared without effort and intersections negotiated with eyes closed. Casualness should be a given for the president of the festival since every night for almost two weeks in May he stands at the top of the Lumière theatre steps to greet the casts and directors of the Selection films. “Ah, there’s Brad ...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) announced today that Sylvain Chomet's magical animated feature film THE ILLUSIONIST will be the Opening Gala at this year's Festival, which runs from 16 - 27 June 2010.
Released in the UK by Warner Bros. Pictures UK on behalf of Pathe, THE ILLUSIONIST is directed, adapted and designed by Academy Award® nominee Sylvain Chomet (THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE / BELLEVILLE RENDEZVOUS), from the original script by comedy genius and French cinema l...
Cinema According to Véra Belmont featuring special screenings with Véra Belmont and Jackie Raynal April 6 - April 27, 2010 FIAF · Florence Gould Hall 55 East 59th Street, NYC
This April, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, will celebrate France's "Grande Dame" of cinema for the last 45 years with a new CinémaTuesdays series entitled, Cinema According to Véra Belmont. The series will examine the prolific artist's...
Agnès Varda filmmaker, photographer, editor, composer, occasional actress and producer, will receive international homage and will be awarded with the Silver Mayahuel on the 25th edition of Guadalajara Film Festival.
With over than 40 titles on her career, the international critic considers Agnès Varda as "the Nouvelle Vague lady".
She studied at the Sorbonne and the Louvre Schoole and since 1949 she ventured as a photographer and started reporting in different countries.
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7th French Film Panorama
One month - 25 new French Films - 15 directors and actors - 5 cities
The French Film Panorama will take place in China, travelling to Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu and Guangzhou, from April 1st to April 30th.
A selection of 25 recently released French films, 13 feature films and 12 short films, established in cooperation with SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film and Television) will be presented to the public in the multiplexes of the 5 cities. The films will screen in French with Chinese subtitles and will be followed by Q&A sessions with the audience.
A delegation of directors and artists will be travelling to China during the festival to introduce their film, conduct master classes and meet the press:
Mona Achache - director of "The Hedgedog"
Josiane Balasko - actress of "The Hedgedog", " Park Benches"
Stéphane Brizé - director "Mademoiselle Chambon"
Ivan Calbérac - director "Alternate week (and half the vacation)"
Julie Lopes Curval - director "Hidden Diary"
Denis Dercourt - director "Tomorrow at Dawn"
Alice de Lencquesaing - actress "The father of my children"
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing - actor "The father of my children"
Emmanuel Mouret - director and actor "Please please me"
Vincent Perez - actor "Tomorrow at dawn"
Bruno Podalydès - director and actor "Park Benches"
Laurent Tirard - director "Little Nicholas"
The Panorama is made possible with the support of CNC, Ubifrance, Paris City Government, Air France, Fondation Gan, Groupama, LVT, Société Générale, Forte, Peugeot, Citroën, Chengdu experimental foreign languages school, Cinando, Studio Ciné Live, Broadway Cinema, Stellar Cinema Chengdu, Shanghai International Film Festival, Jinyizhujiang Movie Circuits, Movie Vane, Sofitel Wanda Chengdu, Sofitel Shanghai Hyland, Hotel G Beijing, the Garden Hotel Guangzhou, French Cultural Centre and Alliance Française, Art Genesis.
Film List
Screenings will be held in French with Chinese subtitles
Feature Films
Alternate weeks (and half the vacation) directed by Ivan Calbérac
Eleonore's dream directed by Dominique Monféry
The father of my children directed by Mia Hansen-Love
The Hedgedog directed by Mona Achache
Hidden Diary directed by Julie Lopes Curval
L'homme de chevet directed by Alain Monne
In the beginning directed by Xavier Giannoli
Little Nicholas directed by Laurent Tirard
Mademoiselle Chambon directed by Stéphane Brizé
Park Benches directed by Bruno Podalydès
Please please me directed by Emmanuel Mouret
Tomorrow at dawn directed by Denis Dercourt
Welcome to the sticks directed by Dany Boon
Short Films
Program 1
7.57 am-pm directed by Simon Lelouch
Allons-y! Alonzo! directed by Camille Moulin-Dupré
The Holy Feast directed by Annelaure Daffis & Léo Marchand
L'homme qui dort directed by Inès Sedan
My name is Dominic directed by Nicolas Sihol
Self defense directed by Thomas Gayrard
Program 2
The Bed By the window directed by Michaël Barocas
French roast directed by Fabrice O.Joubert
The Little Dragon directed by Bruno Collet
Lost days office directed by Jean-François Fontanel
Masques directed by Jérôme Boulbès
The story of my life directed by Pierre Ferriere
Cinema Information:
In Beijing:
Broadway Cinemas, Broadway Cinematheque Moma, Star City cinema
In Shanghai:
To confirm
In Chengdu:
Stellar Xi Nan Yingdu
In Wuhan:
Hongshan Auditorium
In Guangzhou:
Guangzhou Jin Yi International Cinema, China Plaza Theatre
For more information about the films and delegation please go to:
http://www.faguowenhua.com/public/presse
The Tribeca Film Festival - the renowned international film festival co-founded by Robert De Niro - has announced its program, which includes several films with French roots. Since its founding nine years ago, Tribeca has showcased a breadth of work from around the world. This year's films represent contemporary international filmmaking at its finest, bringing together fresh voices with established storytellers.
Some of the films in the selection have French ties. From Kim Chapir...
The Lumiere brothers, Auguste Lumiere, born in 1862, and Louis, born in 1864, were among the earliest filmmakers, contributing to the birth of film in 1895. Born in Besancon, France, they moved to Lyon in 1870, where they both attended technical school. Their father, Claude-Antoine Lumiere, ran a photography business and his sons worked for him. When Claude-Antoine retired in 1892, Auguste and Louis began to create moving pictures. They patented a number of significant processes lead...
The Lumiere brothers, Auguste Lumiere, born in 1862, and Louis, born in 1864, were among the earliest filmmakers, contributing to the birth of film in 1895. Born in Besancon, France, they moved to Lyon in 1870, where they both attended technical school. Their father, Claude-Antoine Lumiere, ran a photography business and his sons worked for him. When Claude-Antoine retired in 1892, Auguste and Louis began to create moving pictures. They patented a number of significant processes leading up ...
Sophie Marceau and her lover Christophe Lambert came to China from March 8 to March 12 to present their film "L'homme de chevet" directed by Alain Monne to the audience of the francophonie film festival.
After a few days spent in Beijing doing interviews and press conferences, the couple was taken by Christine Pernin and Sophie Molinier, the festival organisators to launch the francophonie film festival in Ulan Bator.
The two French stars received a ve...
By Greta Lorez
Did you know…
… Jean-Luc Godard, one of the founding
members of the Nouvelle Vague, was the son of a Swiss couple. Born in
Paris, he spent his childhood in Switzerland and at the age of 18,
moved back to Paris where he studied Ethnology at the Sorbonne. Godard,
however, never severed his Swiss connection: many of his movies were
shot on location in Switzerland. He lives there now.
… the German filmmaker Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of De...
The International Film Festival FEST 2010 talks about the Blair Bush administration. Well, not really, but Roman Polanski does! The Office of film festival has got an official letter from Roman Polanski to congratulate and thank FEST 2010 for screening of his new film “The Ghost Writer” in Belgrade. Polanski nowadays is under house arrest in his Swiss House and could not attend The Berlin Film Festival or any other festival because he’s been accused for allegedly having sex with minor, b...
FRENCH FILM
FESTIVAL 2010 AUSTRALIA
– PREVIEW
Festival dates:
Sydney: March 2 -21
Melbourne: March 4 – 21
Canberra: March 18 – 31
Brisbane: March 17 – 31
Perth: March 17 – 31
Adelaide: March 18 -31
PLENTY
TO CHEW ON, MON VIEUX
The
French have a reputation and a tradition unmatched in globally successful
cinema, except perhaps by Hollywood, and the 21st Alliance Française
French Film Festival giv...
The Francophonie Film Festival will take place in Beijing from March 4 to March 30, 2010.
The festival will present 30 films from various members: France, Senegal, Switzerland, Quebec, Serbia, Vietnam, Tunisia, Belgium etc...
A large selection of feature films and shorts films, recent or older and popular films will be shown to the Chinese audience to let them discover the eclectic worlds of la Francophonie.
Each film will be screened in Beijing, once in the French cultural center and once in the Canadian International School of Beijing (with more than 350 seats), in their original version with Chinese subtitles. Some of them will also have French or English subtitles.
A delegation of directors and artists will be travelling to Beijing to introduce their movies, conduct master classes and meet the press:
From Tunis, Férid Boughedir with ‘’A summer in la Goulette’’
From Belgium, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar with ‘’A town called panic'' (special screening Cannes film festival 2009)
From Senegal, Mansour Sora wade with ''The price of forgiveness''
OIF is an organisation that gathers countries and regions around the French language and/or the same values (cultural diversity, peace, democratic governance, consolidation of the State under the rule of law, environmental protection). It includes more than 56 members and about 14 observer countries, 870 millions people in all 5 continents in total.
The name of the festival, 法话影展, was created to underline that French is the main or second language of the countries showcasing their films.
A competition is organised on http://ent.cri.cn during the whole festival. The audience can vote on line for the best film of the festival. The best film will be shown one more time on March 29, at the French Cultural center.
The film festival is financed by TV5 World Asia, Sinohydro, the French Embassy in China, the Canadian Embassy in China, the Québec Bureau in China, the Wallonia – Brussels Delegation in China, and supported by the International Organisation of la Francophonie, and the Francophone embassies in China.
Feature films :
Austria: Hold up, by Florian Flicker, comedy, crime, 85min
Belgium: A town called panic, by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, animation, 75min
Benin: The valse of the big bottoms, by Jean Odoutan, drama, 88min
Bulgaria: Monkeys in winter, by Milena Andonova, drama, 111min
Canada: Sticky fingers, by Ken Scott, comedy, 180 min
Cyprius: Akamas, by Panikos Chrisanthou, drama, 124 min
Croatia: Slow days, by Matija Klukovic, drama, 102min
France: Cartagena, by Alain Monne, with Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert, drama, 93min
Greece: Dying in Athens, by Nikos Panayotopoulos, drama, musical, 100min
Hungaria: SOS Love, by Tamás Sas, comedy, 96min
Luxembourg: Réfractaire, by Nicolas Steil, drama, 100min
Québec: Necessities of life, by Benoît Pilon, drama, 102min
Czech republic: Mazany Filip, by Václav Marhoul, comedy, crime, 95min
Roumania: Americain fiancees, by Nicolae Margineanu, drama, 80min
Serbia: Technotise-Edit and I, by Aleksa Gajic, animation, 100min
Senegal: The price of forgiveness, by Mansour Sora Wade, drama, 2001, 90min
Switzerland: Home, by Ursula Meier, drama, 98min
Tunisia: A summer in la Goulette, by Férid Boughedir, drama, 100min
Vietnam: Vertige, by Chuyên Bui Thac, drama, 2009, 110min
Short films:
Belgium:Slow Motion, by Pascal Adant, animation, 6 min
KWIZ, by Renaud Callebaut, 5min50
Bulgaria: Cirque Sofia, by Pencho Kunchev, animation, 4 min28s
Canada: The necktie, by Jean-François Lévesque, animation, 12min
Diner for two, animation, 7min
Slepping Betty, de Oliver Jones, animation, 09 min
Black soul, de Oliver Jones, animation, 09 min
France: Oktapodi, de Julien BOCABEILLE, François-Xavier CHANIOUX, Olivier DELABARRE,
Thierry MARCHAND, Quentin MARMIER, Emud MOKHBERI, 2min25s.
Même les pigeons vont au paradis, de Samuel Tourneux, 8min40s.
Niger : La course au cadeau, by Marc AYEE, animation,19min
Informations :
All screenings are free and on a first come first seated basis.
Doors will open 30minutes before each screening.
No advance registration.
Please note the specific security requirements for each location :
• Canadian International School of Beijing (28 Liangmaqiao Lu)
350 places
For more informations : www.cisb.com.cn
A passport or Id will be required to enter.
• French cultural center (18, Gongti xi lu)
81 places
For more informations : http://www.ccfpekin.org/
In what has to be one of the most bizarre red carpet scenarios in many a moon, the Berlinale is bracing for the buzz storm surrounding the world premiere of THE GHOST WRITER, the latest film from director Roman Polanski. And while the stars of the film, Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan will officiously walk the red carpet at the Berlinale Palast this evening, the film's celebrated director remains under house arrest in his ski villa in Switzerland. Of course, this is not the first time that a fi...
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