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French Actor and Director Mathieu Kassovitz
A look at the career of the director of La Haine, Gothika and Babylon AD, and star of Amelie, Munich and Birthday Girl, plus his forthcoming projects more...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Film Review
French film Le Scaphandre et le Papillon stars Mathieu Amalric as quadriplegic Jean-Do who dictates a book by blinking out the individual words with his left eye more...
Persepolis Review – Animated Film About Iran
A look at the Oscar nominated film Persepolis directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi now available on dvd and as a book. more...
The infamous production problems, funding problems & delays that besieged the French director Leos Carax's film The Lovers on the Bridge caused unfair critical reception more...
9 Great French Films From the Cinema du Look
French film movement synonymous with slick stylised imagery and associated with names such as director Luc Besson & actors Beatrice Dalle, Juliette Binoche & Denis Lavant more...
Tuvalu - A Film by Veit Helmer
An unusual foreign film, shot in black and white but colour tinted and near-silent, Tuvalu has already earned cult status and been compared to Eraserhead and Delicatessen more...
Let The Right One In - Preview
Tomas Alfredson directs a dark, brooding horror film which maintains all the conventions of a vampire love story but with an added twist of freshness and originality. more...
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Banlieue 13, a.k.a District 13, Movie Review
By:
Jason Parent
Banlieue 13, or District 13 in English, is a French action film featuring David Belle's parkour, a free-running stunt-sport involving lots of running and jumping. more...
The Bicycle Thief and Italian Neorealism
The Bicycle Thief is a neo-realist movie focusing on the life of people in Rome after World War II. The relationship between a father and son is beautifully depicted. more...
By: Gil Mansergh
Parisian lovers (Nathalie Baye & Sergi Lopez) share an emotionally revealing sexual rendezvous in Fredaric Fonteyne's Une Liaison d'Amour (The End of the Affair). more...
By: Pema Levy
French biopic Coco Avant Chanel, now in many cities in the United States, brings to life Chanel and the crushing mores and gaudy fashion that defined her early life. more...
The Making of the "Red Hollywood" Film Series
By: Susan Z. Swan
Behind the "Red Hollywood" series of Soviet musicals of the 1930s sits a tale that links 3 film festivals, a Romanian graduate student, and a New York film programmer. more...
Russian Film The Circus Showcases Red Hollywood
By: Susan Z. Swan
A lavish Busby Berkeley-style musical, a critique of race intolerance, and Stalin's favorite actress add up to a movie that was wildly popular in the 1930s USSR. more...
Aguirre: The Wrath of God Review
By: Russell Coy
Few films will haunt you longer, capture your imagination more viciously, or leave you with a better idea of what the cinema can achieve. more...
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