A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens International Herald Tribune | : When the 61st Cannes Film Festival opens here on Wednesday, all the customary glamour, spectacle and high Gallic seriousness will be in place: the red carpet, the hatchet-faced guards, the shouting paparazzi, the promenading stars and bleary-eyed journalists. If the Americans look a little more ...
A magical little film from Singapore The Star | A simple and honest tale about a magician and his son is the subject of a modest Singaporean movie that is up for the biggest prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. | IT is a tiny film from a tiny island. But it has made the big time. Singapore film My Magic is competing with the world's bigge...
Sanjay's French connection The Times Of India | Maverick filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is perhaps the only director from Bollywood to be invited to Paris’ prestigious Theatre du Chatelet to direct an opera. | He is overwhelmed by the experience, but admits facing a language pro...
From arthouse to Indiana Jones The Guardian A vision of apocalypse by the director of City of God and The Constant Gardener attracted some of the early buzz on the Croisette yesterday as it opened this year's Cannes festival and the contest for the Palme d'Or. | Blindness, directed by Fernando...
Vincent Cassel as France's 'Public Enemy Number One' International Herald Tribune | : The Cannes opening weekend is crucial to a festival designed to woo the world. The focus is not so much on what's showing in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, but on the parade of stars ascending the red carpet. On Sunday, the cast of a movie-in-the-mak...
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Martinique poet Aime Cesaire dies at age 94 The News Tribune FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique -- Aime Cesaire, a poet honored throughout the French-speaking world and a crusader for West Indian rights, has died at 94. | Cesaire died Thursday after...
French president Sarkozy sends fan mail to Lenny Kravitz Sydney Morning Herald | Lenny Kravitz has a powerful new fan. | French President Nicolas Sarkozy was so impressed by the new Kravitz album, It is Time for a Love Revolution, that he sent the American ro...
French architect Jean Nouvel wins Pritzker prize NZ Herald | LOS ANGELES - French architect Jean Nouvel has been awarded the 2008 Pritzker Prize, the highest honour for architecture, for his creative experimentation and buildings that spea...
Philip French's screen legends The Observer No 16, Dean Martin, 1917-95 | Born Dino Crocetti, son of an Italian immigrant barber in small-town Ohio, he left school at 15 in the early years of the Depression and the last days of Prohibition to work first as a labourer in a steel mill, then as a...
France gives top cultural honour to Kylie Minogue Sydney Morning Herald | France has awarded Kylie Minogue its highest cultural honour in a Paris ceremony at which the country's culture minister praised the Australian singer over her fight against breast cancer. | Christine Albanel today gave Minogue, who kicks off a Eur...
France's Orange signs new iPhone deal with Apple The News & Observer PARIS - French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries. | France Telecom's Orange said in a one-sentence statement that it will sell the handset in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovaki...
Wine selling and sour grapes Newsday | REFLECTIONS OF A WINE MERCHANT: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy, by Neal I. Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 257 pp., $24. | THE BATTLE FOR WINE AND LOVE: Or How I Saved the World From Parkerization, by Alice Feiring. Harcourt, 271 pp., $23. | INVESTING IN LIQUID ASSETS: Uncorking Profits in Today's Global Wine...
