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Southern heat Dany LaferriA re Dany Laferrire's Heading South is a series of sex-filled vignettes involving different races and classes in Haiti Jason Anderson Published on Wednesday, Dec.

From Slumdog Millionaire and Snow White to Ice Age, Philip Horne picks the year's best DVDs.

Opening this week on the local film-society circuit: 'Between the Folds' For her first documentary, Vanessa Gould tracks an international string of specialists who fold paper with brilliant precision.

Get ready for the closing curtain of Rice University's production of Threepenny Opera .

Company takes Argentine rights to 'Hermanos' MADRID -- Pascual Condito's Primer Plano is firing up domestic distribution, taking Argentine theatrical and DVD rights to Daniel Burman's "Dos hermanos." The deal, marking Primer Plano's return to handling high-profile local titles, reps "the most important step this company's taken in the last five to ...

Organizers at the Festival du nouveau cinA©ma oversold their press conference yesterday to announce details of the 37th edition, Oct.

OLIVET - Olivet College will host a French Film Festival Oct. 19 to 23 in Mott Auditorium.

Though it offers a few smiles and steers clear of laughs altogether, Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's British import St.

Time: 2009 Oct 26 19:00 - 21:10 Summary: France. 2008. 130 minutes. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The story: A small film from independent director Lance Hammer, who hired non-professional actors to portray a single mother, her troubled son and her lonely brother-in-law, all of them trying to make ends meet in the Mississippi Delta.

French director Laurent Cantet, whose docudrama "The Class" won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will head the jury at Spain's San Sebastian film festival later this month, organisers said Friday .

Comme excitant! Le dixime festival de film franais annuel est finalement ici! Translation: How exciting! The 10th annual French Film Festival is finally here! The College of Charleston French Film Fest kicks off its tenth anniversary on Thurs., Aug.

It's the time of year when kids load up their backpacks and educators make sure all their red pens are in working order.

Laurent Cantet's schoolroom drama, shot in a documentary-like, lustily improvisatory style, pits a determined combative French teacher, M. Marin , against a racially and socially diverse, and highly voluble and extroverted, class of inner-city Parisian kids, few of whom are interested in the subject and some of whom are actively hostile.

Reese Witherspoon stars as the ambitious Tracy Flick in 1999's "Election." It's the time of year when kids load up their backpacks and educators make sure all their red pens are in working order.

In the world of U.S. DVD releases, it's far from the norm to see five foreign films released from five companies in a single week - but here they are, all recent and a couple of them very good.

I LOVE YOU, MAN 2.5 stars. $29.99. 105 mins. Without any male friends to serve as best man in his wedding, an uptight financial planner man-dates to find his new BFF.

Out On Home Video - by Lisa Miller: The Class, 17 Again, I Love You Man, Road Trip: Beer Pong, See No Evil, Chaos, Adventure of English, Dollhouse, The Soloist, Delgo, Obsessed and Race to Witch Mountain.

In Section: Movies Blog >> Posted By: Scott Renshaw If you're looking for light comedic fare, it's not a bad week in the DVD release world.

A French Oscar nominee set in a modern, multi-racial Parisian classroom and a retrospective on James Dean 's early career are among this week's top selections on DVD.