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Tobias Grey
More French films fight for Cesar
The competition just got fiercer at this year's Cesar Awards. For the first time in its history, Gaul's Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema has nominated seven pics, as opposed to five, to…
Cesar Awards to honor late founder
This year's Cesar Awards will pay bittersweet homage to their originator, Georges Cravenne, who died Jan. 9 at 94.
Caine an unlikely pop culture hero
It was seeing the French actor Jean Gabin up on the bigscreen in "Le Jour se leve" that convinced a young Maurice Micklewhite, Jr. that he might possibly have a future in film acting. "(Gabin)…
Fest a metro feast for cinephiles
The name still has an ungainly ring to it, but the Festival Paris Cinema recently underwent a successful makeover. Now in its sixth year, the annual Parisian film fest (July 1-12), was conceived by…
France honors Filipino cinema
The 40-film Philippine retrospective at this year's Festival Paris Cinema reflects France's long-held esteem for Filipino cinema, which was initiated by the French publicist Pierre Rissient when he…
France takes art toons seriously
If you want to gauge how seriously the French take their animated films, consider that they submitted "Persepolis" over live-action "La Vie en rose" in Oscar's foreign-language category. While it did…
'Fly Me to the Moon' bets on 3-D
After years of tinkering on its first full-length animated feature, Belgian stereoscopic specialist nWave has finally pegged a U.S. release plan for "Fly Me to the Moon." Tale of three houseflies who…
Belgian directors go genre route
A few years ago, the idea of catching a Belgian film for sheer entertainment value would have seemed ridiculous to most foreigners. The Belgian film industry was renowned for its serious-minded…
Flashback: Cannes 1968
One French newspaper summed up the first few days of the 1968 Cannes Film Festival as "dozing in the sunshine, far from the barricades." It was a massive contrast to events in Paris, where students…
