French director shows film for free to defy critics
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French director Claude Lelouch has decided to show his new film "Les Parisiens" free across France to try to prove wrong the critics who have panned it.
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The French culture minister sat through a screening of the horror movie ''Saw III'' _ and decided it wasn't for minors.
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For French director Claude Lelouch, his art comes at a price. To counter critics who panned his latest movie "Les Parisiens," Lelouch paid for free screenings nationwide last Friday so the moviegoing public could make up its own mind. Thousands took him up on his offer of free tickets &#151; leaving him with a big bill.
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One is tone-deaf, another a sneering troublemaker, part of a motley crew of young boys that hardly seems made for stardom. But their bell-like voices are the soul of a Cinderella story that has swept French cinemas, surprising critics and the director himself.
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French director Claude Lelouch said he was about &#36;182,700 out of pocket on Monday after footing the bill for an evening of free screenings of his latest film.
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Quentin Tarantino is cheered by journalists at the Cannes Film Festival for his new movie Death Proof.
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The director of hit movie Amelie loses his court battle  to prove his latest film is French enough to vie for awards.
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Is the small subtle and strong cinema over? Not quite! If youÂve seen some of the non-mainstream nuggets lined up for the next couple of months, youÂd  have to agree, avant- garde cinema is alive and kicking.
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This week at Cannes has been one in which it has been blissfully easy to confirm your love for cinema, not your pessimism about the state of a beloved art.
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The abstruse French writer is popping up everywhere these days- in movies, TV, even newspapers. Is he trying to tell us something?
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The director of hit movie Amelie hits back after a court ruled his new film is not French enough to vie for awards.
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CANNES, France  - It is the world's greatest film festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that doesn't mean they all have fun at Cannes.
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How hard is it to remake the French New Wave? (See the American 'âBreathless.â')
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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Local filmmakers have to tread around a scissor-wielding government censor whose logic is sometimes hard to follow
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Wired's list of must-see movies you don't have to pay a cent for.
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How a 27-year-old film critic named FranÃ§ois Truffaut redefined French cinema.