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Around Town: Holiday films, classic toons and Truffaut thrillers
24 FramesCartoon classics and a double dose of “Die Hard” are among this week’s film highlights at Los Angeles area movie revival houses. The American Cinematheque’s holiday screening series at the Egyptian Theatre continues with a Thursday... -
Cannes: Festival favorite enjoys L.A. ties
![— Writer-director Terrence Malick wasn't there to accept it, but "The Tree of Life," his ambitious and long-anticipated examination of what it all means, won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or on Sunday night.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61803165-22221145.jpg "— Writer-director Terrence Malick wasn't there to accept it, but "The Tree of Life,\" his ambitious and long-anticipated examination of what it all means, won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or on Sunday night.")
— Writer-director Terrence Malick wasn't there to accept it, but "The Tree of Life," his ambitious and long-anticipated examination of what it all means, won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or on Sunday night.
"He remains infamously and...Tags: Ryan Gosling, Migration, Movies, Le Havre (movie), Polisse (movie)
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Rodarte creates T-shirts for the 50th anniversary of the Godard classic 'Breathless'
All The RageThe film fanatic Mulleavy sisters -- the designers du jour also known as Rodarte -- have collaborated with distributor Rialto Pictures to create two T-shirts commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film “Breathless.” Besides... -
Happy anniversaries: 'Breathless' and 'Jaws'
Talking PicturesThe fundamental things apply: Belmondo and Seberg in "Breathless." What a pair of anniversaries we're celebrating today! Fifty years ago, Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" opened in Paris, where Godard shot it, pell-mell, the year before. In a single,... -
Sam Fuller at LACMA: Have a wild weekend with Hollywood's orginal bad-boy filmmaker
The Big PictureIf you want to see a film that might be a tad more demanding than Will Ferrell's "The Other Guys" this weekend, head over to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is showing a host of great films...... -
10 best films to see Paris on the silver screen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf springtime in Paris isn't going to work for you this year, rent a movie and pretend -- until you can book a flight and go. Here are my Top 10 picks for films that best show off the French capital. For scenes from these memorable films, go to latimes....Tags: Los Angeles Times, Paris (France), Movies, Simone Signoret, Comedy (genre)
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France has banned its Frenchness
The reams of news stories on the new French ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and night spots have invariably focused on the aura of glamour those little death sticks once conveyed. In newspapers around the globe, nostalgic descriptions of the likes of...Tags: Ethics, Human Rights, Recreational Substance Use, Religion and Belief, Civil Laws
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Keeping a French tradition
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSomeone once noted that a sure sign of the passing of a cultural phenomenon is not its disappearance but its preservation, or sanctification, in a museum. And so it is now with smoking in France. After I moved to Paris three years ago from Manhattan,...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Paris (France), France, French Movies, Culture
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'Pierrot le Fou'
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...Tags: Jean Renoir, Samuel Fuller, Italy, Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard
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'Le Doulos'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrench director Jean-Pierre Melville is the great poet of crime cinema, and 1963's "Le Doulos" -- starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and set in Paris, the most criminally romantic city in the world -- is a tour de force. Playing for a week at the Nuart in...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Paris (France), French Movies, Movies, Dining and Drinking
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'For Ever Godard' celebrates a New Wave master
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard is not merely the iconoclastic, indefatigable enfant terrible of France's New Wave but one of the most idiosyncratic and important filmmakers of the 20th century, whose innovative spirit continues to flourish into the 21st. His...Tags: Claude Chabrol, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Armand Hammer, The Rolling Stones (music group), Billy Wilder
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'Elevator to the Gallows'
![As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major talents — director Louis Malle, star Jeanne Moreau, cinematographer Henri Decaë, musician Miles Davis — and achieved near-legendary results with all of them.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-07/18698331.jpg "As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows\" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major talents — director Louis Malle, star Jeanne Moreau, cinematographer Henri Decaë, musician Miles Davis — and achieved near-legendary results with all of them.")
Times Staff WriterAs beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major...Tags: Colorado, Movies, French Movies, Robert Bresson, Cinema Industry
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