May 2014

Visit France with French cinema - Episode 2 : The Aquitaine Region

With the most famous vineyards in the world, a long sandbar and famous surf spots, Perigord and its castles, the ‘bastides’ (medieval walled villages built on a grid pattern) and the Pyrenees's moutain, the region of Aquitaine offers a wide variety of landscapes and heritage that could not fail to be attractive for filmmakers.

Yves Saint Laurent is resurrected in two separate films, both coming to the U.S.

Yves Saint Laurent intrigues America. Two biopics dedicated to the great fashion designer who died in 2008 will be distributed in the United States.

Survey on the image of French cinema around the world

UniFrance just released a study about the perception of French cinema around the globe. Who are the best-known French actors? Which French films do Europeans and Americans like the most?

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

On Saturday, May 31^st, in New York, the Lincoln Center screens for free, chronicles conducted between 2009 and 2010 for French television by Agnès Varda. One 4 hour trip around the world with five 45 minute documentaries!

"Last Year at Marienbad", in Seattle May 20th

One of the movies which drastically changed cinema. If you are told it is a movie for intellectuals, do not believe it, for it's to your imagination that it is addressing.

"Queen Margot" Returns to America

Cohen Media Group is releasing in several cities a full version of Queen Margot, the 1993 feature film by Patrice Chéreau. The movie distributed throughout the United States in 1994 was cut by 20 minutes.