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On location: French culture minister courts Hollywood studios
Company TownFrench Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand is asking Hollywood for its budget-weary producers, pressured directors and harried filmmakers yearning for a tax break. France has had a long and rich history of filmmaking, from the pioneering motion pict... -
Honorary Oscar recipients named
![The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would present "The Godfather" director-producer Francis Ford Coppola with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and give honorary Oscars to British film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, French "New Wave" director Jean-Luc Godard, who made his feature directorial debut 50 years ago with the seminal "Breathless," and veteran actor Eli Wallach, who has appeared in such films as "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/55761404-21113208.jpg "The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would present "The Godfather\" director-producer Francis Ford Coppola with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and give honorary Oscars to British film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, French \"New Wave\" director Jean-Luc Godard, who made his feature directorial debut 50 years ago with the seminal \"Breathless,\" and veteran actor Eli Wallach, who has appeared in such films as \"The Magnificent Seven\" and \"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.\"")
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would present "The Godfather" director-producer Francis Ford Coppola with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and give honorary Oscars to British film...Tags: Elia Kazan, Awards and Prizes, Martin Scorsese, Mass Media, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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The Actor's Craft: The Eli Wallach method
The moment one enters the gracious Upper West Side apartment of Eli Wallach, the home he has shared for decades with his wife and fellow actress, Anne Jackson, there is an unmistakable sense of life being well lived. Smiling and curious about his guest,...Tags: Carroll Baker, Armed Forces, Sergio Leone, Red Hook, Elia Kazan
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Claude Chabrol dies at 80; French film director was a founder of New Wave movement
Director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement that revolutionized French cinema, died Sunday. He was 80.
Christophe Girard, who is responsible for cultural matters at Paris City Hall, announced Chabrol's death. No cause was given....Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Eric Rohmer, The New York Times, French Movies, Gerard Depardieu
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New on DVD: 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Defiance,' and more
Sentinel Staff WriterRevolutionary Road Paramount, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99 Despite the Oscar success of "American Beauty," Sam Mendes might be the best working director who has yet to make a truly outstanding film. Mendes' adaptation of Richard Yates' "soul-sick suburbia"...Tags: Comedy (genre), Sam Mendes, Jennifer Aniston, Parker Posey, Sundance Film Festival
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Jim Bellows' mistake
The Times’ March 7 obituary on Jim Bellows skips what Bellows himself called the biggest mistake of his career, made when he was a features editor at the Los Angeles Times. It leaves out a dark moment in the history of The Times at a juncture...Tags: Newspapers, Journalism, Infants, Arts and Culture, Washington (U.S. state)
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Hollywood rarely did Donald Westlake justice
One of the enigmas in the long and rich career of Donald E. Westlake was that this author of more than 100 novels, many of them popular, accessible and plot-driven works of crime fiction, both grim and comic, received such a spotty handling by Hollywood....Tags: New Year's Day, Jim Brown, Book, James Robert Thompson, Fiction
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Screenwriter David Hare on 'The Reader'
![Way back in the 1950s, when the world knew of the concentration camps mainly from documentaries, film director Jean-Luc Godard made a famously provocative remark: "If ever a film is to be made about Auschwitz, it will have to be from the point of view of the guards." Clearly, what Godard meant by this was that it would be impossible, on film, to do justice to the suffering of those who died in the camps. No drama, however well intentioned, could possibly be adequate to the events themselves. Spreading the usual hokey conventions of melodrama over this particular subject would be both gratuitous and offensive. So the only way of paying proper respect to the victims would be by trying to explain something of the motives of their tormentors.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43749948-09152117.jpg "Way back in the 1950s, when the world knew of the concentration camps mainly from documentaries, film director Jean-Luc Godard made a famously provocative remark: "If ever a film is to be made about Auschwitz, it will have to be from the point of view of the guards.\" Clearly, what Godard meant by this was that it would be impossible, on film, to do justice to the suffering of those who died in the camps. No drama, however well intentioned, could possibly be adequate to the events themselves. Spreading the usual hokey conventions of melodrama over this particular subject would be both gratuitous and offensive. So the only way of paying proper respect to the victims would be by trying to explain something of the motives of their tormentors.")
Way back in the 1950s, when the world knew of the concentration camps mainly from documentaries, film director Jean-Luc Godard made a famously provocative remark: "If ever a film is to be made about Auschwitz, it will have to be from the point of view...Tags: War Crimes, David Hare, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Massacres, Documentary (genre)
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Keira Knightley, fashion chameleon
!["WHAT does it feel like to wear a corset?" asks Keira Knightley, looking amused. The actress rolls her molasses-brown eyes and starts to gasp as though she's choking on a fish bone. "Your ribs are crushed in and you can't get your breath. Oh, and if you get emotional, you just can't calm down at all," she says as her chest heaves. She takes a deep breath and adds: "You can certainly understand why women were known as the weaker sex."](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-09/42416864-22140648.jpg ""WHAT does it feel like to wear a corset?\" asks Keira Knightley, looking amused. The actress rolls her molasses-brown eyes and starts to gasp as though she's choking on a fish bone. \"Your ribs are crushed in and you can't get your breath. Oh, and if you get emotional, you just can't calm down at all,\" she says as her chest heaves. She takes a deep breath and adds: \"You can certainly understand why women were known as the weaker sex.\"")
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"WHAT does it feel like to wear a corset?" asks Keira Knightley, looking amused. The actress rolls her molasses-brown eyes and starts to gasp as though she's choking on a fish bone. "Your ribs are crushed in and you can't get your breath. Oh, and if you...Tags: Coco Chanel, Entertainment, Academy Awards, England, Crimes
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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: Career and Workplace, Edgar Allan Poe, Italy, Anna Karina, Samuel Fuller
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'Exterminating Angels'
![Rather than "fade in," the screenplay for French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau's symbol-laden erotic drama, "Exterminating Angels," could very well have begun with, "Dear Penthouse ... "](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-04/29009008.jpg "Rather than "fade in,\" the screenplay for French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau's symbol-laden erotic drama, \"Exterminating Angels,\" could very well have begun with, \"Dear Penthouse ... \"")
Times Staff WriterRather than "fade in," the screenplay for French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau's symbol-laden erotic drama, "Exterminating Angels," could very well have begun with, "Dear Penthouse ... " Though the film expresses a kinship to Luis Buñuel, Federico...Tags: Drama (genre), Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Cinema Industry, Robert Palmer
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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: Comedy (genre), Documentary (genre), University of California, Los Angeles, Armand Hammer, Anna Karina
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