Jeanne Moreau was to French cinema as Manet’s “Olympia” was to French painting — the personification of the gait, glance, and gesture of modern life. Her darting brown eyes and enigmatic moue were the face of the French New Wave. Her candid sensuality and self-assurance, not to mention the suggestion that she was always in control, made her the epitome of the New Woman. From Orson Welles and Luis Bunuel to Joseph Losey and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Moreau was the muse to the greatest directors of world cinema.
“She has all the qualities one expects in a woman,” quipped Francois Truffaut, director of her most beloved film, “Jules and Jim” (1962), “plus all those one expects in a man — without the inconveniences of either.”
Surprisingly, this quintessence of French femininity had an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergere. Her French father, a hotelier and restaurateur, upon learning that his daughter likewise had theatrical ambitions,...
“She has all the qualities one expects in a woman,” quipped Francois Truffaut, director of her most beloved film, “Jules and Jim” (1962), “plus all those one expects in a man — without the inconveniences of either.”
Surprisingly, this quintessence of French femininity had an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergere. Her French father, a hotelier and restaurateur, upon learning that his daughter likewise had theatrical ambitions,...
- 7/31/2017
- by Carrie Rickey
- Indiewire
Biggest slate to date also includes Planetarium, Money’s Money and Overdrive.
Kinology will launch sales on French director Marc Fitoussi’s coming-of-age tale Trainee Day at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11), in what could be one of the busiest markets yet for Gregory Melin’s Paris-based sales company.
Rising actress Jeanne Jestin, who first hit the big screen in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, plays a teenager who discovers another side to her mother when she takes work experience at her backstabbing office.
Belgian actress Emilie Desquenne, who appeared in Fitoussi’s first feature La Vie d’Artiste, is the mother. Other cast members include director Xavier Beauvois and Sabrina Ouazani.
Fitoussi’s past credits include Copacabana and the Madame Bovary-inspired Folies Bergere, both starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paris-based Kinology will be at the Afm with one its biggest slates to date.
It will also reveal first footage on a number of upcoming films including...
Kinology will launch sales on French director Marc Fitoussi’s coming-of-age tale Trainee Day at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11), in what could be one of the busiest markets yet for Gregory Melin’s Paris-based sales company.
Rising actress Jeanne Jestin, who first hit the big screen in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, plays a teenager who discovers another side to her mother when she takes work experience at her backstabbing office.
Belgian actress Emilie Desquenne, who appeared in Fitoussi’s first feature La Vie d’Artiste, is the mother. Other cast members include director Xavier Beauvois and Sabrina Ouazani.
Fitoussi’s past credits include Copacabana and the Madame Bovary-inspired Folies Bergere, both starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paris-based Kinology will be at the Afm with one its biggest slates to date.
It will also reveal first footage on a number of upcoming films including...
- 10/30/2015
- ScreenDaily
Producer Ross Hunter’s 1962 film If A Man Answers (directed by Henry Levin) is a sweet, silly and lighthearted romantic comedy featuring Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. Sandra is Chantal Stacy, daughter of Boston businessman John Stacy (John Lund) and former Folies Bergere burlesque dancer and professional Frenchwoman Germaine Stacy (Micheline Presle). The film focuses on Chantal’s negotiation between the Boston practicality and the French passionate nature that runs through her genetic line. Bobby Darin, as fashion photographer Eugene Wright (“Mr. Wright”), finds himself in the middle of this mess as Chantal’s willing romantic victim.
Chantal’s first scene in the Stacy master bedroom after returning from a date features Dee in an ice-blue coat and white cowl-neck sweater (gowns are credited to Jean Louis), perfectly matching the walls of John and Germaine’s bedroom, illustrating via costume that she considers her place to be in her parents’ home,...
Chantal’s first scene in the Stacy master bedroom after returning from a date features Dee in an ice-blue coat and white cowl-neck sweater (gowns are credited to Jean Louis), perfectly matching the walls of John and Germaine’s bedroom, illustrating via costume that she considers her place to be in her parents’ home,...
- 11/9/2012
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
Prashant Sareen Rocky Singh, left and Mayur Sharma, right.
Probably, almost certainly, no two people in India have sampled the range of cuisine that Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma have devoured in the past five years as hosts of Highway on My Plate, the Ndtv Good Times show that is part travelogue, part bromance, part-standup routine — and all about the galaxy of food available on the roads of India, from Meghalaya to Kerala.
By their estimation: 80,000 kilometers over five years,...
Probably, almost certainly, no two people in India have sampled the range of cuisine that Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma have devoured in the past five years as hosts of Highway on My Plate, the Ndtv Good Times show that is part travelogue, part bromance, part-standup routine — and all about the galaxy of food available on the roads of India, from Meghalaya to Kerala.
By their estimation: 80,000 kilometers over five years,...
- 4/16/2012
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
London, May 4- The life of Latin pop star Gloria Estefan will be celebrated in a new autobiographical Las Vegas musical.
The show will be performed at the Tropicana Hotel-Casino in the Nevada gaming mecca. However, it will not feature performances of her biggest hits like Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Turn The Beat Around and Anything For You by the singer herself, reports Sky News.
It will replace the famed showgirl revue Folies Bergere, a variety show that ended a 49-year run in 2008.
The 52-year-old Cuban-born singer hinted that she was planning “something big in Vegas” while accepting.
The show will be performed at the Tropicana Hotel-Casino in the Nevada gaming mecca. However, it will not feature performances of her biggest hits like Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Turn The Beat Around and Anything For You by the singer herself, reports Sky News.
It will replace the famed showgirl revue Folies Bergere, a variety show that ended a 49-year run in 2008.
The 52-year-old Cuban-born singer hinted that she was planning “something big in Vegas” while accepting.
- 5/4/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
You can count on Marcel Wanders to unveil something eye-popping at the Milan Furniture Fair each year. Last year saw his Can-Can lamp for Flos--a dome filled with a ruffled underskirt like a chorine in the Folies Bergere; in 2008, he fielded a shower stall paved with Bisazza tiles in which bikini-clad models cavorted under a shower head embedded in a Swarovski crystal chandelier.
This year, the Dutch design superstar seems to be obsessed with his own mortality. In advance of the show, which opens on April 14, Wanders sent us an image of his "Monster Chair," a grimacing, anthropomorphic leather-upholstered number that looks like it escaped from the set of a Maurice Sendak movie.
More puzzling was the story Wanders appended to the image. It's a mediation on what he expects to find when he crosses over that dark river. Evidently, in Wanders's afterlife, paradise will be a long banquet table,...
This year, the Dutch design superstar seems to be obsessed with his own mortality. In advance of the show, which opens on April 14, Wanders sent us an image of his "Monster Chair," a grimacing, anthropomorphic leather-upholstered number that looks like it escaped from the set of a Maurice Sendak movie.
More puzzling was the story Wanders appended to the image. It's a mediation on what he expects to find when he crosses over that dark river. Evidently, in Wanders's afterlife, paradise will be a long banquet table,...
- 4/5/2010
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
(The Weinstein Company)
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: A-
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Written By: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson, Sophia Loren
Screened at: Lighthouse International, NYC, 12/4/09
Opens: December 18, 2009
Calderon de la barca, the 17th Century Spanish playwright wrote .La Vida es Sueno. (.Life is a Dream.), describing a man, Segismundo, the putative heir to the king of Poland, who commits two violent acts. When he is drugged and returned to prison, he is told that the vicious events are nothing but his dream. The key person in, Federico Fellini.s classic film .8-1/2,. made in 1982 into the Broadway musical .Nine. and now adapted by Rob Marshall for the big screen, evokes an alternate vision. Dreams, at nighttime but especially during the day (like when you sit through a two-hour lecture on medieval...
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: A-
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Written By: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson, Sophia Loren
Screened at: Lighthouse International, NYC, 12/4/09
Opens: December 18, 2009
Calderon de la barca, the 17th Century Spanish playwright wrote .La Vida es Sueno. (.Life is a Dream.), describing a man, Segismundo, the putative heir to the king of Poland, who commits two violent acts. When he is drugged and returned to prison, he is told that the vicious events are nothing but his dream. The key person in, Federico Fellini.s classic film .8-1/2,. made in 1982 into the Broadway musical .Nine. and now adapted by Rob Marshall for the big screen, evokes an alternate vision. Dreams, at nighttime but especially during the day (like when you sit through a two-hour lecture on medieval...
- 12/7/2009
- Arizona Reporter
Celebrating the birthdays of the filmic and famous. Because, why not? If it's your big day, holla at us in the comments.
Gig and Matthew
Today's Birthdays 11/04
1868 La Belle Otero Spanish actress, courtesan to royalty, La Folies Bergere dancer and star of a scandalous silent short performing the "Valse Brilliante". Where's her biopic? In order to inject life into that zombie-like genre (no brains, only forward motion) I really think filmmakers need to look at more obscure but still fascinating figures, further back in time. If they stop trying to win Oscars and just try to tell interesting stories, I bet they'll still win the Oscars. Try harder, Hollywood.
1913 Gig Young won the supporting actor Oscar for They Shoot Horses Don't They?, a totally brilliant and Oscar historical film. Emcee roles are sometimes gold for awards contention, right?
1918 Art Carney of Harry and Tonto Oscar-winning fame
1946 Frederick Elmes, wonderfully expressive...
Gig and Matthew
Today's Birthdays 11/04
1868 La Belle Otero Spanish actress, courtesan to royalty, La Folies Bergere dancer and star of a scandalous silent short performing the "Valse Brilliante". Where's her biopic? In order to inject life into that zombie-like genre (no brains, only forward motion) I really think filmmakers need to look at more obscure but still fascinating figures, further back in time. If they stop trying to win Oscars and just try to tell interesting stories, I bet they'll still win the Oscars. Try harder, Hollywood.
1913 Gig Young won the supporting actor Oscar for They Shoot Horses Don't They?, a totally brilliant and Oscar historical film. Emcee roles are sometimes gold for awards contention, right?
1918 Art Carney of Harry and Tonto Oscar-winning fame
1946 Frederick Elmes, wonderfully expressive...
- 11/4/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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