MyFrenchFilmFestival… easy to watch, but not so easy to say! Audrey Tautou, Pierre Niney, Mélanie Laurent, and many others have given it their best try. How about you? Can you manage to say it quickly?
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Chanson Du Jour 12/12/16 – “All of Me”
Birelli Legrene, at age 14, already a master of the jazz manouche style originated by Django Reinhardt
The celebrated French-Lebanese film composer was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on December 7.
Gabriel Yared begins every day the same way. He gets up, and reaches for a Bach score, burying his head in the baroque master’s music.
“Why do I do this? I put a ceiling of perfection and beauty over my day, and every day is the same to me – trying to reach beauty,” says the celebrated French-Lebanese film composer, who was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on December 7.
The idea that Yared – a 67-year-old Academy Award-winner with more than 100 movie credits, who has scored films for directors as diverse as Jean-Luc Godard and Continue reading “The Gabriel Yared story from humble beginnings to a Hollywood ending”
Paris has been besieged by a massive army of hungry rodents, according to recent published reports. Roughly 6 million pesky rats are scurrying around the city, forcing the shutdown of several tourist
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Chanson Du Jour 12/11/2016 Yael Naim – “Lonely”
This morning, as I did a bit of grocery shopping at my favorite food market here in Providence, Rhode Island USA, we shoppers were treated to a surprise visit from Santa Claus, much to the delight of the many children on hand. This particular Santa certainly looked the part, with a broad face and a little round belly, that shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
Oddly, this Supermarket Santa spoke with a proper British accent, sounding very much like “King George IV” from The Crown (as played by British actor Jared Harris.) I suggest, if one decides to play Santa as a Brit, please give Father Christmas a working-class London cockney accent or ship-building Liverpool accent. Today (more than ever) we don’t want American children confusing the magnanimous magic of Santa Claus with the execrable machinations of autocracy. Give me a Santa who celebrates charity as well as democracy, and talks like a regular limey – or even better, like one of the Bowery Boys.
