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  • Cannes, Featured Review, Festivals, News

    CANNES FESTIVAL, “To the ends of the world”

    In the Directors Fortnight section ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs"), a thriving alternative to the official selection that is celebrating fifty this year, a war/revenge movie by French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux, who previously brought “Valley of Love” to the Cannes Festival in 2015. The First Indochina War took place in the fifties. Indochina was a French colony, then, that comprised parts of Vietnam

    May 11, 2018
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    The (sort of) truth behind the two versions of Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York”

    Today, after a six month-press war launched by filmmaker Abel Ferrara against his chief financier, Vincent Maraval (French distributor Wild Bunch's head honcho) and IFC Films, the R-rated cut of Ferrara’s originally unrated “Welcome to New York” is opening theatrically—to Ferrara’s chagrin—in the US.

    It is, however, only showing at one theater: The Roxie, in San Francisco.

    March 27, 2015
  • News

    What’s the deal with Depardieu?

    How do you say "can't we all just get along?" in French? The infamous expression would fit perfectly. A week ago we ran the letter that French actor Gérard Depardieu had published in a French daily in response to that country’s prime minister calling him “pathetic” for emigrating to Belgium over the excessively high tax rate which was imposed on his revenues. Depardieu, who’s been a well-loved

    December 21, 2012
  • News

    SMACKDOWN IN FRANCE!

    Since Screen Comment (an American publication) is headquartered in Paris we would be remiss not to cover the latest blowup concerning cinema, politics and civil society here. Actor Gérard Depardieu ("Green Card") recently took up residence just across the Belgian border so as to avoid France's excessively costly ISF ("impôt sur la fortune") tax, imposed on the rich. Depardieu is not the first to expatriate himself,

    December 16, 2012
  • News

    FRENCH ACTOR prefers Belgium’s climate

    In a kind of libertarian frenzy French actors are fleeing […]

    November 9, 2012
  • News

    Oh what now, Gérard?

    Paris-A motorist pressed charges last week against France’s best-known actor […]

    August 20, 2012
  • In Theaters Now, Movies

    Potiche

    French actress Catherine Deneuve has never been terribly hip, thank […]

    March 1, 2011
  • News

    French actor Gérard Depardieu throws weight around

    While giving an interview to Austrian magazine Profil during the […]

    August 29, 2010
  • In Theaters Now, Movies

    FRENCH CINEMA – Mammuth

    What’s a road movie, that well-travelled (oops, sorry) sub-genre? The […]

    May 27, 2010

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