What Jean Dujardin was up to before starring in ‘The Artist’
The French actor Jean Dujardin is about to become a household name in this country — even if it is mispronounced! — thanks to “The Artist” the new “silent movie” comedy that is expected to be Oscar...
View ArticleBest actor: Jean Dujardin for “The Artist”
As the terrific Oscar handicapper and historian Mark Harris has pointed out on his “Oscarmetrics” blog (the best and most informed writing to be found on the subject) George Clooney was the frontrunner...
View ArticleOscar madness: try to remember Cary Grant &‘Rocky’
It’s the movie buff’s equivalent of the Super Bowl. A huge TV event that is anticipated for weeks — months? — and then forgotten almost immediately. At two recent Oscar library discussions that I led,...
View Article‘The Connection’: crime drama with a personal touch
“The Connection” is a terrific French thriller about what happened in the Marseilles drug world after the period covered in William Friedkin’s “The French Connection.” Things got worse there in the...
View ArticleThe return of ‘A Man and a Woman’
It would be hard to over-estimate the impact of the Claude Lelouch film “A Man and A Woman” when it came out in 1966. The movie won the Grand Prize at Cannes, the Academy Award for best foreign...
View ArticleFocus on French Cinema off to a great start
A sold-out house enjoyed the first screening of the annual Focus on French Cinema festival Monday night. The crowd at the Avon Cinema in Stamford welcomed the legendary director Claude Lelouch before a...
View ArticleFocus on French Cinema winds down
After observing the annual Focus on French Cinema festival for many years as a reporter, it has been a thrill to observe the workings of the event from the inside as director of programming this year....
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