'Amelie' Director Defends French Credentials
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The new film "A Very Long Engagement"  was filmed and set in France and uses French actors, extras and  technicians. And now its French director is fighting in French  courts to prove his film is French.
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Critics on Saturday blasted a proposal by conservative French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy to create an immigration ministry, comparing it an institution set up during the Nazi puppet regime of World War II.
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Some critics dismissed the Academy Awards'carbon-neutral claim as a publicity stunt. But organizers say thereâs substance behind the label.
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Edith Piaf's life is chronicled in a film released last month - France's answer to the Hollywood biopic.
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Winsome French actress Audrey Tautou of "Amelie" fame has been chosen to play Tom Hanks' partner in cracking "The Da Vinci Code" in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel, the newspaper Le Parisien reported Saturday.
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How a 27-year-old film critic named FranÃ§ois Truffaut redefined French cinema.
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Film maker Oliver Stone, whose latest movie Alexander has been panned by US critics, thinks the three hour epic will get a better welcome in Europe.
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Actress Rachel Weisz defends new film The Fountain after it was booed at Venice Film Festival.
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French director Catherine  Breillat typified a trend at the Cannes film festival by  casting unknowns who had never acted before in &quot;Une vieille  maitresse.&quot;
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Author Bernard-Henri LÃ©vy rejects French President Nicolas Sarkozyâs contention that his countrymen think too much.
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PARIS  - In the wake of bad reviews for  his latest film, "Les Parisiens," director Claude Lelouch will  offer free screenings Friday "to allow the public to judge for  themselves."
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Each year the film festival at Cannes grows more daringâand commercial. Thierry Fremaux, the festivalâs director, talks about technology and contemporary cinema.
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Three-and-a-half years after their box-office triumph of &quot;Amelie&quot;, French actress Audrey Tautou and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet have again teamed up for a new film -- this time though it's about war not whimsy.
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CANNES, France  - A documentary on Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, whose murder last year caused a growing rift between Moscow and the West, is to be shown as a late entry at the Cannes film festival, organizers said.
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French director Claude Lelouch decided to  show his new film "Les Parisiens" free across France on Friday  to try to prove wrong the critics who have panned it.
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A startlingly convincing portrayal of Adolf Hitler in a new German movie about his last 12 days is causing controversy with critics challenging its treatment of the "monster" as a human being.
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Rattled by reviews savaging his latest film, &quot;Les Parisiens&quot;, Oscar-winning French director Claude Lelouch has said he will give nationwide free screenings Friday so the public could make up its own mind.