Posts Tagged ‘France’

The Pink Panther (2006)

Monday, August 17th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Martin | Kevin Kline | Jean Reno | Emily Mortimer | Henry Czerny | Kristin Chenoweth | Roger Rees | Beyoncé Knowles | Phillip Goodwin | Henri Garcin | William Abadie | Daniel Sauli | Jean Dell | Anna Katarina | Nick Toren
Directors: Shawn Levy
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When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura | Akihiro Miwa | Tatsuya Gashuin | Ryûnosuke Kamiki | Mitsunori Isaki | Yo Oizumi | Akio Ôtsuka | Daijiro Harada | Haruko Kato | Jean Simmons | Christian Bale | Lauren Bacall | Blythe Danner | Emily Mortimer
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Peter O'Toole | Eli Wallach | Hugh Griffith | Charles Boyer | Fernand Gravey | Marcel Dalio | Jacques Marin | Moustache | Roger Tréville | Edward Malin | Bert Bertram | Georg Stanford Brown | Rémy Longa | Jacques Ramade
Directors: William Wyler
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Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole’s objections. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father’s workshop. She can’t call the police because her father’s hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man—Simon Dermott—back to his hotel. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal.

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: France | Italy | USA
Actors: Joe Dallesandro | Monique van Vooren | Udo Kier | Arno Juerging | Dalila Di Lazzaro | Srdjan Zelenovic | Nicoletta Elmi | Marco Liofredi | Liu Bosisio | Fiorella Masselli | Cristina Gaioni | Rosita Torosh | Carla Mancini | Imelde Marani
Directors: Antonio Margheriti
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In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be superbody and superlover. He thinks he has found just the right brain to go with a body he’s built, but he’s made an error, taking the head of a gay aesthete. Meanwhile, the Baroness has her lusts, and she fastens on Nicholas, a friend of the dead lad. Can the Baron pull off his grand plan? He brings the two zombies together to mate. Meanwhile, Nicholas tries to free his dead friend. What about the Baron’s children?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Alexander | Jennifer Love Hewitt | Tom Hulce | Paul Kandel | Charles Kimbrough | Kevin Kline | Michael McKean | Demi Moore | Haley Joel Osment | Jane Withers | Jim Cummings | Joe Lala | Frank Welker | April Winchell
Directors: Bradley Raymond
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Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda’s and Phoebus’ little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch’s assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral’s most famous bell.

Paths of Glory (1957)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Kirk Douglas | Ralph Meeker | Adolphe Menjou | George Macready | Wayne Morris | Richard Anderson | Joe Turkel | Christiane Kubrick | Jerry Hausner | Peter Capell | Emile Meyer | Bert Freed | Kem Dibbs
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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In Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” war is viewed in terms of power. This mesmerizing, urgent film about a true episode in World War I combines the idea that class differences are more important than national differences with the cannon-fodder theory of war, the theory that soldiers are merely pawns in the hands of generals who play at war is if it were a game of chess. The result of this amazing film has been the emergence of one of the great talents in contemporary cinema, the master whose greatest work was yet to come.

The Reign of Terror aka Black Book (1949)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Cummings | Richard Basehart | Richard Hart | Arlene Dahl | Arnold Moss | Norman Lloyd | Charles McGraw | Beulah Bondi | Jess Barker | Ray Bennett | Ralph Brooks | William Challee | Frank Conlan | Clancy Cooper | Wade Crosby
Directors: Anthony Mann
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The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Alexander | Mary Kay Bergman | Corey Burton | Jim Cummings | Bill Fagerbakke | Tom Hulce | Tony Jay | Paul Kandel | Charles Kimbrough | Kevin Kline | Heidi Mollenhauer | Demi Moore | Patrick Pinney | David Ogden Stiers
Directors: Gary Trousdale
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In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo’s cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies, the Court of Miracles. And Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Mathieu Amalric | Emmanuelle Seigner | Marie-Josée Croze | Anne Consigny | Patrick Chesnais | Niels Arestrup | Olatz L?pez Garmendia | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Marina Hands | Max von Sydow | Isaach De Bankolé | Emma de Caunes | Jean-Philippe ?coffey | G?rard Watkins | Nicolas Le Riche
Directors: Julian Schnabel
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Aaran Thomas | Gaspard Ulliel | Li Gong | Helena-Lia Tachovsk? | Richard Leaf | Dominic West | Rhys Ifans | Michele Wade | Richard Brake | Martin Hub | Kevin McKidd | Ingeborga Dapkunaite | Joerg Stadler | Stephen Walters | Ivan Marevich
Directors: Peter Webber
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.