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French comedies stay home

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2008-06-15 11:53:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...French box office is perhaps on the verge of crowning a new all-time champion in terms of seats sold (at least since the beginning of collection of reliable statistical data in the mid-1950s), with the comedy Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis inching closer to the number one spot, held by Titanic since 1998. James Cameron's film replaced another...
 
 
 
 
 
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Scriptwriting and the French New Wave

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2007-10-28 16:45:00 by girish in girish
...French New Wave: An Artistic School (1997; translated by Richard Neupert). Marie is professor and department chair of film studies at the Sorbonne and, according to Dudley Andrew, a legendary cinephile and scholar of French cinema Even though its a slim 140-page text, this book is packed with bloggable ideas. Let me focus on one: the role...
 
 
 
 
 
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 08.

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2008-02-28 14:43:09 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...French Cinema . All in all, 15 films will be screening at the Walter Reade Theater and the IFC Center in New York through March 9, and James Van Maanen previews every one of them here and now. A few notes follow Serial killers and grocery delivery men, missing fathers and autistic children, the Holocaust and speed dating, the new Lelouch ,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Kevin Kline Turns French... For Real This Time

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2008-03-30 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...French Kiss, where he got to play a theiving French man who could teach someone to pull out the complex flavors in wine in seconds. It's not Shakespeare, or storms of ice, but it has its moments. And now, he gets to play a French man for real -- in French! The Hollywood Reporter posts that Kline has signed on for his first French speaking...
 
 
 
 
 
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FORGOTTEN TV: FRENCH IN ACTION (1987)

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2008-05-28 11:00:00 by Moviezzz in The Moviezzz Blog
...FRENCH IN ACTION a TV series. It was more of a teaching series shown in classrooms. Since it aired on many PBS and public access channels, I guess it qualifies FRENCH IN ACTION was a French language video series used to teach the language. It ran 52 episodes. Each episode was broken into two parts It opened with a little continuing soap...
 
 
 
 
 
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French Stereotypes

2008-06-22 18:32:00 by Sachin in Scribbles and Ramblings
 
...Frenchmen El Presidente: In the last few months, there have been more articles written about French president Nicolas Sarkozy's wife than about his policies. A month ago, Doug Saunders of The Globe and Mail reviewed a year in Sarkozy's life with respect to 5 women. Ofcourse, it is the 5th women in that list, his wife Carla, that has been...
 
 
 
 
 
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Today in History... Eiffel Tower Opens, So Let's Talk FRENCH SEX MURDERS

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2008-03-31 06:15:00 by Dan in Exploitation Retrospect
...FRENCH SEX MURDERS starring a who's who of Eurotrash from Jess Franco stalwart Howard Vernon and SLAUGHTER HOTEL 's Rosalba Neri to sultry Barbara Bouchet and the voluptuous Anita Ekberg (looking a bit tranny-ish as the saucy Madame Collette Petty criminal Antoine (Pietro Martellanza) steals some (cheap looking) jewelry to fund his night at...
 
 
 
 
 
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Will Smith Will Produce Remake of Blockbuster French Comedy

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2008-05-20 00:00:00 by Eric D. Snider in Cinematical
...French cinephiles is that it's actually a French film. It's called Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis , and its phenomenal success in its homeland -- 20 million tickets represents nearly one-third of the country's population -- has brought Hollywood a-knockin' for remake rights Warner Bros. and Will Smith's Overbook Entertainment have bought the...
 
 
 
 
 
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'French Women Don't Get Fat' and 'Freaky Friday 2': Two Movies I'll Never See

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2008-08-13 20:51:16 by HASH0x8c56e48 in I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
...French Women Don't Get Fat" into a feature film, which should be good news for anyone who would ever be retarded enough to complain that French women don't get fat. From Variety: Hilary Swank and producing partner Molly Smith have acquired the rights to adapt the bestselling book "French Women Dont Get Fat" for the duo to produce through...
 
 
 
 
 
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How's Your French?

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