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As a freelance film critic looking to get involved with film festivals, I feared that talks at the International Film Festival Summit might be too specialised for me. True, I was one of only two film...
May 8, 2012 / Alison Frank
Going to the cinema is one of many everyday pleasures to be had in Paris: the typical variety of films on offer, particularly in the Latin Quarter, seems like a 365-day film festival. On any given...
Nov 21, 2011 / Alison Frank
I won’t give too much away about The Skin I Live In ( La piel que habito ): unlike Woody Allen’s films, an Almodóvar doesn’t come along every year, so it’s important to savour them. Psychologists at...
Nov 4, 2011 / Alison FrankVietnam’s first international film festival opened last night in Hanoi, the capital. The unprecedented event launched with a live red carpet broadcast by statecaster Vietnam TV throughout the...
Oct 18, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongA Paris appeals court fined French filmmaker Luc Besson’s movie company, Europacorp, 100,000 euros ($140,580) on Monday for the death of Alain Dutartre, a 41-year-old cameraman, who was hit by a car...
Jun 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe amazingly prolific Woody Allen will follow up his Untitled London Project with a romantic drama set in Paris, reports Screen Daily . The pub has confirmed the news with the film’s Spanish...
Jun 26, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong


