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Bastille Day & New Summer Menu

This from Events@kilmerbrasserie.com: THURSDAY, JULY 9th Join Us in Celebrating BASTILLE DAY with Live Music by FRANCOFEELING Enjoy a little taste of France right here in the Southern Tier FRANCOFEELING brings you French popular music from Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Montand and others Enjoy a musical journey ...

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Related Topix: France, Europe, World News, Jacques Brel, Chanson

Thu Jul 02, 2009

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

L.A. tributes to 'Betty Blue's' Jean-Jacques Beineix

In terms of respect, French director Jean-Jacques Beineix is sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of filmmaking in his country.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Los Angeles, CA, Entertainment

Tue Jun 09, 2009

The Village Voice

Jimmy, in which a Phantom Is Forced to Become Yves Montand

Jimmy, a "homosexual hairdresser," is a dream of a man. Literally. An American general first conjures him during a snooze in 1950 - later, after the general's death, Jimmy spends half a century suspended in limbo, before appearing again in the nighttime fantasies of a French-Canadian actress.

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Related Topix: Chanson

Wed Jun 03, 2009

Bluegrass Film Society

John Esther: Costas Gavras Talks About Z (Algeria/France, 1969), 40 Years Later

A riveting action thriller about political assassination at the highest levels, this year marks the 40th anniversary of Z ... the Academy Award-winning 1969 film co-written and directed by Costas Gavras about a Judge who looks into the death of the Deputy who was about to give a speech on nuclear disarmament.

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Related Topix: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Chanson

Sun May 31, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

TV and Art Films: May 31 to June 6

For the week of Sunday, May 31, through Saturday, June 6. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

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Related Topix: Chanson, The Awful Truth, Comedy Movies, Duck Soup, Musical Movies, Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, The Fountainhead, Drama Movies

Sat May 30, 2009

SI.com

Thieves stage $8 million jewelry heist in Paris

Life imitated art in Paris on Saturday. Thieves in an upscale section of the city staged a brazen, daylight holdup, stealing around $8 million in jewelry from the prestigious Chopard store, police said.

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Related Topix: Chanson

Sun May 24, 2009

London Free Press

Iggy embraces blues, ballads

Iggy Pop doesn't usually do things by the book. But then, the book in question usually isn't Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island.

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Related Topix: Rock-N-Roll, More, Chanson

Sat May 23, 2009

Pop Music Impact Blog - Cleveland.com

Old habits die hard on Eminem's 'Relapse,' plus...

Relapse Eminem Aftermath/Interscope "Let me guess -- another album about poor me," a record-company executive declares sarcastically in a skit on Eminem's first new release since 2004's "Encore." And that's "Relapse" in a nutshell.

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Related Topix: Eminem, Rap, Chanson

Wed May 13, 2009

Entertainment Weekly

20 classics launched at Cannes

France's most stylish festival has given love to some groundbreaking films over the years.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Apr 16, 2009

FilmCritic

Forever

In Heddy Honigmann's meditative and measured Forever, her touching tone poem to Paris's famed Pere-Lachaise cemetery, the camera picks up a bit of graffiti that reads, "The Artists are Sad; Comfort Them." The artists buried in Pere-Lachaise are a veritable who's who of high art and literature -- Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust, Guilliaume ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature, Chanson, Blues, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Apr 14, 2009

City Pages

Jean de Florette

Based on Marcel Pagnol's two-volume novel, this old-fashioned, straightforward French drama evokes a harsh nostalgia.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Apr 11, 2009

Tuscon Citizen

Evo DeConcini left a rich legacy

April 10, 2009, 10:00 p.m. JACK L. AUGUST JR. In the Arizona State University's Special Collections in 1983, I pored over the Carl Hayden Papers, a treasure trove of 19th-and 20th-century Arizona political, economic and cultural history.

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Related Topix: Arizona State University, Arizona, Chanson, Train Disaster, Tucson, AZ, Opinion

Fri Mar 13, 2009

Slate Magazine

Z

Constantin Costa-Gavras' 1969 classic Z , just rereleased in a snappy new 35 mm print for its 40th anniversary, is as bold, jagged, and modern as its one-letter title.

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Related Topix: Mikis Theodorakis, Folk, Activism, Chanson

Wed Mar 11, 2009

New York Press

The Era of Radical Chic

When Costa-Gavras' Z opened 40 years ago it was a sensation.There wasn't another movie with such pop and political excitement until Do the Right Thing in 1989 - and nothing comparable since.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Red

Sat Mar 07, 2009

The Globe and Mail

The worst of times: How a little 'depression' can escalate into an even more terrifying hurricane

History will note that no world leader used the word "depression" to describe the current economic downturn until the week that He's Just Not That Into You became No.

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Related Topix: Chanson

Tue Feb 03, 2009

Filter-Mag

Bottle Up and Explode! The Origins of Wes Anderson and Bottle Rocket

Even as you read this, Wes Anderson is thinking about movies. The thought may be on the forefront of his popping, hissing mind, or buried way in the back on that little iceberg of idiosyncratic id.

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, The Royal Tenenbaums, Chanson, Rushmore, Bill Murray, Arts, Cinema, Texas

Mon Jan 26, 2009

The Globe and Mail

One-woman show reprises a life of no regrets

'The little sparrow," French chanteuse Edith Piaf , dead 45 years, remains in big demand.

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Related Topix: Marion Cotillard, New York, Chanson, Entertainment

Sun Jan 18, 2009

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

dOc Press Release: Criterion Upcoming April Releases

STEPHEN FREARS, OSHIMA, JEAN PAINLEVE W/ SCORE BY YO LA TENGO & THE WAGES OF FEAR BLU-RAY! THE WAGES OF FEAR - Blu-ray In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to ...

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Chanson, Terence Stamp, War Movies, Biography Movies, Action, Adventure, Rob Roy, The Elephant Man

Fri Jan 16, 2009

News.com.au

Passionate love letter to actor for sale

A PASSIONATE love letter written by French singer Edith Piaf to a Greek actor more than half a century ago, telling him "don't let my heart die", goes under the hammer in Greece on Friday.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Edith Piaf

Mon Jan 12, 2009

The Irish Times

'Jean de Florette' director dies aged 74

French director and producer Claude Berri, whose films included the international hit Jean de Florette, has died, the office of president Nicolas Sarkozy said today.

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Related Topix: Claude Berri, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gerard Depardieu, Chanson, Emmanuelle Beart

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