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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 ...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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.