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Books  on  French  Cinema
"Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema" [3/2011] by Tim Palmer
http://www.amazon.com/Brutal-Intimacy-Analyzing-Contemporary-Wesleyan/dp/0819568260/
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Trafic: Revue du Cinéma Magazine [est. 1991] from Editions P.O.L. |
Cahiers du Cinéma ( Notebooks On Cinema) Magazine [est. 1951] |
"France Magazine: The Next Best Thing To Being There" [est. 1985] |
Cinémathèque Française [est. 1936]
official Cinémathèque Française website
Cinémathèque Française entry at Wikipedia
co-founder Henri Langlois [1914-77]
won Honorary Oscar Award in 1974, won Honorary César Award in 1977
credits at IMDb •
entry at Wikipedia
co-founder Georges Franju [1912-87]
credits at IMDb •
entry at Wikipedia
co-founder Jean Mitry [1907-88]
credits at IMDb •
entry at Wikipedia
archivist [1945-75] (and critic) Lotte H. Eisner [1896-1983]
credits at IMDb •
entry at Wikipedia
  | "Henri Langlois: Phantom of The Cinematheque" docufilm [France May 2004, USA Oct 2005] Produced, written & directed by Jacques Richard Kino Video widescreen color DVD [8/2006] for $21.99 full credits at IMDb |
  | "Henri Langlois: First Citizen of Cinema" [1995] by Glenn Myrent & Georges P. Langlois Twayne Publrs 9¼x6 pb [2/95] for $23.00 Twayne Publrs hardcover [2/95] out of print/used |
  | "A Passion For Films: Henri Langlois & The Cinémathèque Française" [1983] by Richard Roud; Foreword by François Truffaut Johns Hopkins Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [6/99] out of print/used Viking hardcover [7/83] out of print/many used |
"A Short History of Cahiers du Cinema" [10/2011] by Emilie Bickerton
http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Cahiers-Cinema/dp/1844677605/
Movie Studios of France
Euro Media Television Groupe [est. 1983] in France
Riviera Studios [renamed 1999; est. 1919 as Studios de La Victorine] in Nice, France
Studios d'Arpajon [est. 1987], south of Paris, France
Studios de France, in the St. Denis District north of Paris, France
Société Française de Production [est. 1975] of France
Studios de Bry [est. 1987] at Bry-sur-Marne, just east of Paris, France
Studios de Boulogne [est. 1940], on west side of Paris, France
Studios de Saint-Ouen, in the St. Denis District north of Paris, France
Cité du Cinéma  
Opened officiially in September 2012, in the St. Denis District north of Paris, France;
a joint venture of Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, Euro Media Group, Quinta Communications, and Frontline
Studios de Paris company website {in French} • Wikipedia: English version or version Française
free film school at Cité du Cinéma
EuropaCorp [est. 2000]
film director Luc Besson, chairman
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, CEO
company website: English version or version Française • Wikipedia
Roissy Films SAS [est. 1973, purchased 2008] division
       
       
Gaumont Film Company
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont [est. 1895]
company website •
Wikipedia
Léon Gaumont [1864-1946]
credits at IMDb •
Wikipedia
    | "Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913" DVD Box Set [2009]
Kino Video b&w DVD set [9/2009] 85+ films on 3 disks for $42.00 DISK 1 contains 70+ silent short films produced and-or directed from 1897 to 1907 by Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968], including the 33-minute religious epic "La Vie du Christ" aka "The Birth, The Life and The Death of Christ" [1906], and performances by Félix Mayol with 'Phono-Cinema' synchronous sound more details on Magic Lantern's Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968] Page DISK 2 contains 13 silent short films written and-or directed from 1907 to 1913 by Louis Feuillade [1873-1925], plus the documentary "Louis Feuillade: Master of Many Forms" [2009]
DISK 3 contains two color-tinted silent features written & directed in 1912 & 1913 by Léonce Perret [1880-1935], including the 100-minute silent feature "L'Enfant de Paris (The Child of Paris)" [1913] and the 45-minute silent feature "The Mystery of The Rocks of Kador" [1912], plus the documentary "Léonce Perret: The Filmmaker's Filmmaker" [2009]
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  | "Alice Guy, Léon Gaumont et Les Débuts du Film Sonore (..and The Beginnings of The Sound Film)" [2012] by Léon Gaumont, [Compiled] under the direction of Laurent Mannoni {French Cinémathèque in Paris} & Maurice Gianati
John Libbey Publng French-language 9¾x7½ pb [11/2012] for $36.57 |
  | "Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont: Premiers Géants du Cinéma" TV documentary [Arte TV Aug 2016] • Un Film de Emmanuelle Nobécourt et Gaëlle Royer; featuring Ferdinand Zecca, and archive footage of Léon Gaumont, Alice Guy, Joë Hamman, Charles Pathé • The DVD is in French with English subtitles; bonus material includes 8 silent short films, 1901-1927 and 15 minutes of Gaumont newsreels, 1902-1915 Gaumont/Arte DVD [12/2018] import/scarce Gaumont/Arte DVD [12/2018] for €19,99 via Amazon France full credits at IMDb • no entry at Wikipedia |
     
     
     
Pathé Brothers
Société Pathé Frères [est. 28 September 1896] of Paris, France
company website •
Wikipedia
co-founded by Charles Pathé [1863-1957]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
with brothers Émile, Théophile & Jacques Pathé
"The Incendiary Foreman (Le Contremaître Incendiaire)" [Pathé France Feb 1908]
one-reeler silent short with footage of the Pathé Studios backlot on fire •
bare credits at IMDb
watch silent movie with English subtitles [4/2014 upload; 12:26] online at YouTube
also available on DVD on "Behind The Scenes of The Silent Screen" [2012]
with 26-minute "A Tour of The Thomas H. Ince Studio" [Ince/Associated 1922] and 32-minute "M.G.M. Studio Tour" [M.G.M. 1925]
Alpha Home Ent. b&w DVD [11/2012] out of prodn/used
  | "The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910" [1999] by Richard Abel During the era of the nickelodeon theater, the French company Pathé dominated film distribution in America & Europe. But then American filmmakers fought back ... Univ CA Press 8¾x6 pb [3/99] for $32.95 Univ CA Press 9¼x6 hardcover [3/99] for $55.00 |
  | "Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont: Premiers Géants du Cinéma" TV documentary [Arte TV Aug 2016] • Un Film de Emmanuelle Nobécourt et Gaëlle Royer; featuring Ferdinand Zecca, and archive footage of Léon Gaumont, Alice Guy, Joë Hamman, Charles Pathé • The DVD is in French with English subtitles; bonus material includes 8 silent short films, 1901-1927 and 15 minutes of Gaumont newsreels, 1902-1915 Gaumont/Arte DVD [12/2018] import/scarce Gaumont/Arte DVD [12/2018] for €19,99 via Amazon France full credits at IMDb • no entry at Wikipedia |
StudioCanal [est. 1988]
company website •
Wikipedia
Actors  &  Others of France
Les Gens du Cinéma (The People of The Movie World) online encyclopedia [est. 1994]
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Isabelle  Adjani
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Wikipedia
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composer Georges Auric [1899-1983]
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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot Collection Box Set 6305839670
"Dear Brigitte" [1965] /tt0059094/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Brigitte
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Jean-Paul  Belmondo [b. 1933]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
http://snofficiel.free.fr/
"Le Magnifique" aka "The Man From Acapulco" [France Nov 1973]
  | Jean-Paul Belmondo is both a Jean Bruce-type writer and his OSS 117-type secret agent creation, bumbling thru adventures as an international spy . . . • Co-produced by and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo {dual role}; co-written & directed by Philippe de Broca; co-written by Vittorio Caprioli, Jean-Paul Rappeneau & Francis Veber; music by Claude Bolling; also starring Jacqueline Bisset {dual role}, Vittorio Caprioli {dual role}, Hans Meyer, Monique Tarbès, Mario David, Bruno Garcin, Raymond Gérôme, Jean Lefebvre, Fabrizio Moresco, André Weber, Hubert Deschamps, Bernard Musson, Thalie Frugès, René Barrera, Rodrigo Puebla, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Gaëtan Noël, Micha Bayard, Roger Muni, Victor Jarson, Caline Bautte, Claude Salino, Jean-Paul Jarre, Laure Moutoussamy, Max Desrau, Robert Berri, Lucienne Legrand, Guy Simonnet, Sébastien Floche, Michel Thomass, Pierre Assena, Maurice Auzel, Jack Berard, director Philippe de Broca {cameo}, co-producer Alexandre Mnouchkine {cameo}, Louis Navarre, José Paul, Jacques Wajsmark, Henri Czarniak, Raoul Guylad, Charly KoubesserianCine III widescreen color DVD [1/2002] for $39.75 Music Box original soundtrack CD [11/2017] out of prodn/used EMI France/Sugarmusic soundtrack MP-3 album [10/2012] 12 tracks for $9.49 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official mariachi-style trailer [3/2007 upload; 2:18] online at YouTube watch official trailer [2/2019 upload; 1:49] online at YouTube |
"Belmondo Le Magnifique" book and DVD collection [2012]
http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Paul-Belmondo-Coffret-magnifique-Lh%C3%A9ritier/dp/B008HQYM4E/ [10/2012] book & 4 disks
watch teaser trailer [10/2018 upload; 1:10] online at YouTube
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Juliette Binoche
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Capucine
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    | writer  Jean-Claude  Carrière [b. 1931]
worked often with Luis Buñuel, and has worked with Peter Brook, Miloš Forman, Philip Kaufman, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Andrzej Wajda & Wayne Wang IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
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actor Vincent  Cassel
browse videos/DVDs •
IMDb listing •
official website •
Wikipedia
"Mesrine" [France 2008, USA 2010]
        | The legendary French gangster Jacques Mesrine [1936-79] lived an epic life, generating romanticism, cruelty, flamboyance & tragedy • Co-written & directed by Jean-François Richet; co-written by Abdel Raouf Dafri, adapted from Mesrine's memoir; starring Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Michel Duchaussoy & Myriam Boyer; the combined films won three César Awards (Best Actor, Best Director, Best Sound) along with 7 other noms
official movies site • movies entry at Wikipedia • Jacques Mesrine entry at Wikipedia Part 1 "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" [France Oct 2008, USA Aug 2010] also starring Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Roy Dupuis & Elena Anaya http://www.amazon.com/Mesrine-Parte-1/dp/B0078YWWRU/ blu-ray http://www.amazon.com/Mesrine-Killer-Instinct-Part-1/dp/B004ED52XE/ full credits at IMDb Part 2 "Mesrine: Public Enemy #1" [France Nov 2008, USA Sept 2010] also starring Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet & Anne Consigny http://www.amazon.com/Mesrine-Public-Enemy-Part-Blu-ray/dp/B004ITYDSO/ blu-ray http://www.amazon.com/Mesrine-Public-Enemy-Vincent-Cassel/dp/B004ITYDVG/ full credits at IMDb |
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actress-model Laetitia Casta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetitia_Casta
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actor-director Pierre Clémenti [1942-99]
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influential script supervisor Lucile 'Minouche' Costa [1918-2001]
official website •
IMDb listing
French-language 11/2009 short article by Stéphan Guérard
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Marion Cotillard
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Danielle Darrieux [1917-2017]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201638/ + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Darrieux
"Inspector of The Red Cars" [France 1935] /tt0140915/
Directed by Richard Eichberg; based on the 1898 stageplay; starring Albert Préjean & Danielle Darrieux
auto-racing comedy movie set in 1900; an example of Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production, filmed in German and in French, with different casts.
"The Rage of Paris" [July 1938] /tt0030652/
starring Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer, Helen Broderick
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" [1955] /tt0047817/
"The Young Girls of Rochefort" [1967] /tt0062873/
"Persepolis" animated film [2007] voice of Grandma /tt0808417/
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Hélène  de Fougerolles
browse videos/DVDs •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
French-language Hélène de Fougerolles fansite
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Louis de Funes
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Alain  Delon [b. 1935]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Catherine Deneuve
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actress Marianne Denicourt
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actor Charles Denner  [1926-95]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Gerard Depardieu
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comic actor Fernandel  [1903-71]
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Wikipedia
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Pierre Fresnay
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Jean  Gabin  [1904-76]
IMDb listing •
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Musée Jean Gabin in Mériel, France
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composer  Arthur Honegger [1892-1955]
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Valérie Kaprisky
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actress Anna Karina [?-2019]
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Jean-Pierre Léaud
  | "Deux de la Vague (Two In The Wave)" [Lorber Films France 2009, USA May 2010] Godard & Truffaut were friends during the creation of the French New Wave {Nouvelle Vague} cinema of the 1950s and 1960s – after the success of "the 400 Blows", Truffaut gave Godard the script for "Breathless". But they split over France's political changes in 1968; actor Léaud had worked for them both, and was torn between them, much like a child with divorced parents • 91-minute documentary produced & directed by Emmanuel Laurent; written & narrated by Antoine De Baecque; featuring directors Jean-Luc Godard & François Truffaut, and actor Jean-Pierre Léaud Lorber Films widescreen color DVD [2/2011] for $22.99 full credits at IMDb |
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silent-era comedian
Max Linder  [1883-1925; France] Page
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Mélanie Maudran
IMDb listing •
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Yves Montand  [1921-91]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Jeanne Moreau [b. 1928]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
"The Proprietor" [] from Merchant-Ivory - not avail region 1
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Philippe Noiret  [1930-2006]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Micheline Presle
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Sophie Quinton
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Raimu [1883-1946]
(born Jules Auguste Cesar Muraire)
IMDb listing •
starred in the The Fanny or Marseilles Trilogy, 1931-36 by Marcel Pagnol [1895-1974]
"Monsieur La Souris" English title: "Midnight In Paris"
[France Oct 1942, USA Oct 1947]
  | Small-time crook 'Mr. Mouse' is very well known to the police, so when he discovers a fortune in a wallet, he cannot spend it. Produced by Roger Richebé; directed by Georges Lacombe; adapted by Marcel Achard from the 1938 novel by Georges Simenon [1903-89]; original music by Georges Auric; starring Raimu, Aimé Clariond, René Bergeron, Paul Amiot, Pierre Jourdan, Marcel Melrac, Jo Dervo, Micheline Francey, Marie Carlot, Charles Granval, Gilbert Gil & (Raymond) Aimos
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb |
Dominique Sanda
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Wikipedia
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Simone  Signoret  [1921-85]
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actress  Audrey  Tautou
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
video from May 2011 Chanel No. 5 ad campaign on YouTube
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actress  Clémence  Thioly
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Jean-Louis  Trintignant
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Lino  Ventura  [1919-87]
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Wikipedia
And here's an idea: A separate page with entries for the many French literary giants
who have had multiple or major movies made of their works, such as
Honoré de Balzac, Colette ("Gigi"), Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Gaston Leroux,
Molière, Edmond Rostand ("Cyrano de Bergerac"), Jules Verne, and Emile Zola
Such a page was created on the companion Spirit of America Bookstore site in early 2013
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French Cinema Links
French movie poster catalog at AllPosters [dot] com
Foreign Films [dot] com - Best French Films on DVD
Complete Index To World Film
European Film Academy [est. 1988]
European Film Festivals Coordination
Festival du Cinema de Paris [short films; January]
Noir Films of France at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Yahoo! France Cinéma
'Films de France' fansite
http://www.filmvar.com/
http://www.ccinice-cote-azur.com/commissiondufilmcoteazur
http://www.kevinmalinproductions.com/filmfrancais.html
http://www.bdfci.info/
My French Film Festival [Jan 2012 = #2] online {for fee}
'Rendez-Vous With French Cinema' showcase [March 2012 = #17] in New York City
         
         
The American Pavilion [est. 1989] at the Cannes Festival
here on the Cinema of France Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
on page one: French filmmakers • on page two: selected French films
here on page three: top of this page • books • Cinémathèque Française
French movie studios • French actors & others • links
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