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NYC PICKS: MOVIES
FRENCH CRIME WAVE WHAT In the 1950s and '60s, French directors added a dash of existentialism to the American gangster flick and created a moody genre filled with tough guys spouting bleak philosophies. "The French Crime Wave," features the noir icon...Tags: Mississippi
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10 best films to see Paris on the silver screen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf springtime in Paris isn't going to work for you this year, rent a movie and pretend -- until you can book a flight and go. Here are my Top 10 picks for films that best show off the French capital. For scenes from these memorable films, go to latimes....Tags: Simone Signoret, George Gershwin, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly
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'The 400 Blows' -- 4 stars / 'Antoine and Colette' -- 3 1/2 stars (both directed by Francois Truffaut)
Tribune movie criticShot in supple black and white in widescreen Dyalscope, Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork "The 400 Blows" seems forever young. Why? Partly because of its casting; partly because Truffaut knew how to communicate to an audience eager for unsentimental...Tags: New York, Music Theater, Music Box Theatre, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard
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Keeping a French tradition
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSomeone once noted that a sure sign of the passing of a cultural phenomenon is not its disappearance but its preservation, or sanctification, in a museum. And so it is now with smoking in France. After I moved to Paris three years ago from Manhattan,...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Family, Civil Laws, Smoking, Laws
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France has banned its Frenchness
The reams of news stories on the new French ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and night spots have invariably focused on the aura of glamour those little death sticks once conveyed. In newspapers around the globe, nostalgic descriptions of the likes of...Tags: California, Civil Laws, Ethics, Human Rights, Smoking
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'Le Doulos' (crime drama in 1963 Paris) -- 4 stars
Tribune newspapersFrench director Jean-Pierre Melville is the great poet of crime cinema, and 1963's "Le Doulos"--starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and set in Paris, the most criminally romantic city in the world--is a tour de force. Freshly subtitled by the always-expert...Tags: Simone Signoret, Music Box Theatre, Ethics, Melville, Bars
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'My Best Friend'
jan.stuart@newsday.comThe inexhaustible Daniel Auteuil is Francois Coste, a finicky antiques dealer more intimate with prized objets than people. After he rebuffs his business partner's observation that he hasn't a single close friend, he accepts a challenge from her:...Tags: Daniel Auteuil, Movies, Manhattan (New York City)
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'For Ever Godard' celebrates a New Wave master
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard is not merely the iconoclastic, indefatigable enfant terrible of France's New Wave but one of the most idiosyncratic and important filmmakers of the 20th century, whose innovative spirit continues to flourish into the 21st. His...Tags: Francois Truffaut, Billy Wilder, Television, International Military Interventions, Anna Karina
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'Pierrot le Fou'
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...Tags: West L.A., Jean Renoir, Popular Music, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean-Luc Godard
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'Le Doulos'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrench director Jean-Pierre Melville is the great poet of crime cinema, and 1963's "Le Doulos" -- starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and set in Paris, the most criminally romantic city in the world -- is a tour de force. Playing for a week at the Nuart in...Tags: Simone Signoret, Ethics, Melville, Bars, Organized Crime
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'Elevator to the Gallows'
Times Staff WriterAs beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major...Tags: Celebrity, Miles Davis, Photography, Cinema Industry, Robert Bresson
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Paris, with popcorn
Times Staff WriterNobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, Ray Charles, Russ Meyer
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