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selected French films

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Books  on  French  Cinema

Panorama du Film Noir Américain book by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton  "Panorama du Film Noir Américain, 1941-1953" [1955]
by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton

This is the book that coined the term 'film noir'.
Flammarion French-language mass pb [1/93] imported/scarce
Flammarion French-language mass pb [1/93] for €10,93 from Amazon France
French Cinema Since 1946  "French Cinema Since 1946, Volume 1" [1970] by Roy Armes
A.S. Barnes pb [1/76] out of print/used
"French Cinema Since 1946, Volume 2: The Personal Style" [1970]
A. Zwemmer pb [1/1966] out of print/used
Oak Tree Publns pb [6/70] out of print/used
Great French Films book by James Reid Paris  
"The Great French Films" [1983]
by James Reid Paris, Introduction by François Truffaut

Citadel Press 11¼x8¼ pb [9/86] out of print/used
Citadel Press 11¼x9 hardcover [8/83] out of print/used
Golden Age of French Cinema book by John W. Martin  "The Golden Age of French Cinema, 1929-1939" [1983]
by John W. Martin

Virgin Books pb [10/87] out of print/used
Twayne Publrs hardcover [10/83] out of print/used
Republic of Images  "Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking" [1992]
by Alan Williams

Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/92] for $24.00
Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/92] for $79.00
Screening the Text / New Wave French Cinema book by T. Jefferson Kline  "Screening The Text: Intertextuality In New Wave French Cinema" [1992]
by T. Jefferson Kline

Johns Hopkins Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [12/2002] for $27.00
Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9½c6½ hardcover [4/92] out of print/used
Classic French Cinema  "The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960" [1993]
by Colin Crisp

Indiana Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [4/97] for $18.95
Indiana Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/93] for $59.95
French National Cinema  "French National Cinema" [1993]
by Susan Hayward

Routledge 9x6 pb [7/2005] for $31.95
Routledge 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2005] for $125.00
French Cinema, 1896-1914  "The Ciné Goes To Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914" [1994]
by Richard Abel

Univ CA Press 10x6¾ pb [6/98] for $37.15
Univ CA Press 10½x7½ hardcover [3/94] out of print/used
French Film Noir  "French Film Noir" [1994]
by Robin Buss

Marion Boyars 8½x5¼ pb [4/2001] for $16.95
Marion Boyars 8¾x5½ hardcover [7/94] for $35.00
French New Wave  "French New Wave" [France 1998]
by Jean Douchet, translation by Robert Bonnono

DAP 11½x9½ {4¼ lbs} hardcover [9/99] for $47.25
Red Rooster Scare Making Cinema American book by Richard Abel  "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
Stars and Stardom in French Cinema book by Ginette Vincendeau  "Stars and Stardom In French Cinema" [2000] by Ginette Vincendeau
chapters/subjects include: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Juliette Binoche, Louis de Funes, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Gabin, Max Linder {"the world's first film star"}, and Jeanne Moreau {and the New Wave)
Continuum Intl. Publng 8¾x6 pb [11/2000] for $44.95
Continuum Intl. Publng hardcover [3/2001] for $74.95
Encore Hollywood  "Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema" [2000]
by Lucy Mazdon

British Film Institute 9¼x6 pb [12/2000] for $27.95
British Film Institute 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2000] out of print/rare
France On Film  "France On Film: Reflections On Popular French Cinema" [2001]
by Lucy Mazdon

Wallflower Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2001] for $24.00
Wallflower Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $65.00
French New Wave  "French New Wave: An Artistic School" [2002]
by Michel Marie, Translated by Richard Neupert

Wiley-Blackwell 8¼x6 pb [7/2002] for $32.15
Wiley-Blackwell 9x5½ hardcover [8/2002] for $115.95
French Cinema / Beginnings To Present  "French Cinema: From Its Beginnings To The Present" [2002]
by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni

Continuum Intl. Publng 9x6 pb [3/2004] for $24.95
Continuum Intl. Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $35.00
History of French New Wave Cinema  "A History of The French New Wave Cinema" [2002]
by Richard Neupert

Univ WI Press 8¾x6 pb [rev 2/2007] for $26.95
Univ WI Press 9x6 hardcover [12/2002] out of print/used
The French Cinema Book  "The French Cinema Book" [2004]
Edited by Michael Temple & Michael Witt

British Film Institute 9x6¾ pb [7/2004] for $21.24
British Film Institute 9½x6¾ hardcover [7/2004] for $80.00
Cinema of France / 24 Frames  "The Cinema of France (24 Frames Series)" [2006]
Edited by Phil Powrie

Wallflower Press 9¼x7¼ pb [4/2006] for $25.00
Wallflower Press 9¼x7½ hardcover [4/2006] for $75.00
It's So French! Hollywood, Paris & Cosmopolitan Film Culture book by Vanessa R. Schwartz  "It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and The Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture" [2007]
by Vanessa R. Schwartz

Univ Chicago Press 9x7 pb [12/2007] for $19.00
Univ Chicago Press 9¼x7¼ hardcover [12/2007] for $65.00
French Road Movie book by Neil Archer   "The French Road Movie: Space, Mobility, Identity" [2012]  
by Neil Archer

Berghahn Books hardcover [11/2012] for $65.90

"Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema" [3/2011] by Tim Palmer
http://www.amazon.com/Brutal-Intimacy-Analyzing-Contemporary-Wesleyan/dp/0819568260/

Books on Foreign Cinema   •   Books on Asian Cinema   •   Books on Canadian Cinema
Books on Chinese Cinema   •   Books on German Cinema
Books on Cinema of India   •   Books on Italian Cinema   •   Books on Japanese Cinema
Books on Mexican Cinema   •   Books on Russian Cinema   •   Books on Cinema of Spain

Trafic Revue du Cinéma Magazine [est. 1991] subscription
Trafic: Revue du Cinéma
Magazine [est. 1991]
from Editions P.O.L.

subscribe at Amazon
4 issues/year for $72.18 ($18.05/issue)

magazine website
entry at Wikipedia France

Cahiers du Cinéma Magazine [est. 1951]
Cahiers du Cinéma
( Notebooks On Cinema)
Magazine [est. 1951]

abonnement direct
12 issues/year (in Europe)
for €49,00

magazine website
entry at Wikipedia

France Magazine [est. 1985] subscription
"France Magazine:
The Next Best Thing
To Being There"
[est. 1985]

subscribe at Amazon
4 issues/year for $32.75

magazine website
entry at Wikipedia



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 IMDbentry at Wikipedia

co-founder Georges Franju [1912-87]
credits at IMDbentry at Wikipedia

co-founder Jean Mitry [1907-88]
credits at IMDbentry at Wikipedia

archivist [1945-75] (and critic) Lotte H. Eisner [1896-1983]
credits at IMDbentry at Wikipedia

Henri Langlois / Phantom of the Cinematheque  "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  "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
Henri Langlois / Cinémathèque Française  "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 FrançaiseWikipedia

Roissy Films SAS [est. 1973, purchased 2008] division


Gaumont flower logo in red         Gaumont Films name logo         Gaumont Films red name logo
Gaumont Film Company

Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont [est. 1895]
company websiteWikipedia

Léon Gaumont [1864-1946]
credits at IMDbWikipedia

Gaumont Treasures Alice Guy-Blaché on DVD  
Gaumont Treasures Louis Feuillade on DVD  
"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]
Louis Feuillade IMDb listing [1905-24]

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]
Léonce Perret IMDb listing [1909-35]

Alice Guy, Léon Gaumont .. Sound Film book by Laurent Mannoni & Maurice Gianati  "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 - géants du cinéma  "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


very early Pathé Freres logo        Pathé Records logo in gold        British Pathé News logo        modern Pathé balloons logo
Pathé Brothers

Société Pathé Frères [est. 28 September 1896] of Paris, France
company websiteWikipedia

co-founded by Charles Pathé [1863-1957]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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

Red Rooster Scare Making Cinema American book by Richard Abel  "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 - géants du cinéma  "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 websiteWikipedia



Actors  &  Others  of  France
Les Gens du Cinéma (The People of The Movie World) online encyclopedia [est. 1994]

Foreign Actors   •   Actors of Asia   •   Actors of Canada   •   Actors of China
Actors of Germany   •   Actors of India   •   Actors of Italy
Actors of Japan   •   Actors of Mexico   •   Actors of Russia   •   Actors of Spain

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Isabelle  Adjani
IMDb listingWikipedia

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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 listingWikipedia

http://snofficiel.free.fr/

"Le Magnifique" aka "The Man From Acapulco" [France Nov 1973]
Le Magnifique / The Man From Acapulco 1973 spy-spoof movie  

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 Koubesserian
Cine 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 IMDbmovie 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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won shared Best Live Action Short Subject Oscar for "Heureux Anniversaire" [1962]    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 listingWikipedia

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actor Vincent  Cassel
browse videos/DVDsIMDb listingofficial websiteWikipedia

"Mesrine" [France 2008, USA 2010]
won France's César Award for Best Actor  won France's César Award for Best Director  won France's César Award for Best Sound  
Mesrine two-part film poster  
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 sitemovies entry at WikipediaJacques 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 websiteIMDb 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/DVDsIMDb listingWikipedia

French-language Hélène de Fougerolles fansite

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Louis de Funes

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Alain  Delon [b. 1935]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Catherine Deneuve

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actress Marianne Denicourt

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actor Charles Denner  [1926-95]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Gerard Depardieu

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comic actor Fernandel  [1903-71]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Pierre Fresnay

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Jean  Gabin  [1904-76]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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 documentary film  "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 listingWikipedia {empty}

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Yves Montand  [1921-91]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Jeanne Moreau [b. 1928]
IMDb listingWikipedia

"The Proprietor" [] from Merchant-Ivory - not avail region 1

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Philippe Noiret  [1930-2006]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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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]
Monsieur La Souris feature film starring Raimu  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
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Dominique Sanda
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Simone  Signoret  [1921-85]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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actress  Audrey  Tautou
IMDb listingWikipedia

video from May 2011 Chanel No. 5 ad campaign on YouTube

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actress  Clémence  Thioly
IMDb listing

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Jean-Louis  Trintignant
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Lino  Ventura  [1919-87]
IMDb listingWikipedia

Lino Ventura Foundation

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
clickez ici


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

ZZ Productions of Paris, France            Champs Elysees Film Festival [June 2012 = #1] in Paris, France

FilmFestivals.com of France            Cannes Festival in France

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 pagebooksCinémathèque Française
French movie studiosFrench actors & otherslinks

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