formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Jean Rene, also known as “JR” and the “French Banksy” after the secretive British street artist, has a new plan for Paris’s oldest bridge. His art installation will turn the Pont Neuf over the Seine into an “immersive cave” that … Continued
Arts24 dives into the life of France’s most explosive cinema legend as a new documentary pulls back the curtain on Brigitte Bardot – the star who became a myth and then walked away from it all to fight for animal … Continued
France and Indonesia are strengthening their strategic cultural partnership through an expanded suite of cinema initiatives, as the France-Indonesia Film Lab returns for its second edition at JAFF Market. Source: France Deepens Indonesian Cinema Partnership
With audiences dwindling and streaming on the rise, Paris’s iconic arthouse cinemas are racing to reinvent themselves or risk closing for good. One cinema in the Champs-Elysées area has adopted a “modular” economic model, enabling screening rooms to be rapidly … Continued
The prestigious Cinemathèque Française closed all four of its screening halls for a month on Friday after repeated sightings of bedbugs, including during a master class with Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver. The institution says the shutdown will allow for deep … Continued
Tchéky Karyo, the French actor who co-starred in Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita, toplined the TV series Baptiste and had more than 100 other film and television credits during a 40-year screen career, died Friday of cancer. He was 72. … Continued