Eric Rohmer

                   

Heated debates demystify myths surrounding Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

todayszaman.com
Nov 15, 2008 3 related
        

It is a humble looking Atatürk on one of the film posters of "Mustafa." The background is a vast expanse of empty land, and the country's founder is looking down. On the poster next to him, two words: "Beni hatırlayınız" or...

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LE RAYON VERT (Eric Rohmer, 1986)

grunes.wordpress.com
Nov 10, 2008
        

When the sun sets, just at the point it sinks below the horizon, according to Jules Verne, sometimes there’s a pale flash of green light by which the observer is suddenly acutely self-aware and self-understanding. Innocuously...

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Let's Talk About the Rain

guardian.co.uk
Nov 9, 2008 8 related
        

Taking its title from a song by George Brassens, Let's Talk About the Rain is the third film to be directed by Agnès Jaoui from an original screenplay by her husband, Jean-Pierre Bacri, and starring them both. They'd previously...

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Magnifique! The greatest French films of all time

independent.ie
Nov 8, 2008
        

When Louis and Auguste Lumiere charged a select audience of Parisian punters a nominal fee into a screening of their short film L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, on January 6, 1896, something special happened. It was...

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"The Romance of Astrea and Celadon": Shepherd meets shepherdess in an old tale that proves...

nwsource.com
Nov 6, 2008 1 related
        

"The Romance of Astrea and Celadon": Fresh and buoyant, Eric Rohmer's latest droll tale of a courtship gone wrong is based on a 17th-century French novel. Written and directed by Eric Rohmer, based on a novel by Honoré d'Urfé....

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A Frances Farmer retrospective in her home burg, West Seattle

nwsource.com
Nov 6, 2008 1 related
        

A Frances Farmer retrospective at the Admiral Theatre pays tribute to the actress and West Seattle native who died in 1970. "Come & Get It," the 1936 comedy which established Farmer as a star, screens Nov. 7.

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Wave of Mutilation

nashvillescene.com
Nov 6, 2008 2 related
        

From the standpoint of 2008, the French new wave that broke half a century ago is a towering monument to a particular moment—a solitary whitecap in a Courbet seascape. What was that surge? As a film critic or a filmmaker (or,...

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Six In Paris

dvdverdict.com
Nov 6, 2008
        

The Charge "This neighborhood! To think that some people live in Auteuil." Opening Statement Even if you don't know Auteuil and Gare du Nord, it's not hard to figure out that Auteuil is wealthier and more prestigious. Both are...

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Latin American films to dominate Kolkata film fest

newstrackindia.com
Nov 1, 2008 6 related
        

Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Latin American cinema will dominate the 14th Kolkata Film Festival that will present a collage of 276 celluloid creations from across the world beginning Nov 10. Feature films of great Hollywood directors...

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Shahrukh to inaugurate 14th Kolkata International Film Fest

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Oct 29, 2008
        

Bollywood heart throb will inaugurate the 14th Kolkata film festival beginning from November 10. Official sources are quoted to have said that the megastar has accepted an invitation of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb...

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