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Read, watched and listened to today

In French, this very interesting interview from Mud director Jeff Nichols, as well as short and witty reviews for i.e. Ulrich Seidl's Paradies: Hoffung or Gondry's L'Écume des Jours. Thanks to our friends from Cinéma du Palais for publishing the link.

(click on the picture below to listen to France inter podcast, "On aura tout vu")…

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Added by Léa Germain on April 29, 2013 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Support your local Festival!

You can't get much more local than this!  Up an running in its 9th year, the ACHTUNG BERLIN - New Berlin Film Award movie festival is descending upon Berlin cinemas to portray proudly, locally-made cinema.
ACHTUNG BERLIN is a…
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Added by Léa Germain on April 22, 2013 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Cannes: La sélection officielle...

...is out ! We've been following live Thierry Frémaux and Gilles Jacob revealing the names of the movies and directors which will be shown in the official selection of the 66th Cannes Festival, from the 15. to 26. May.

In his introduction, Thierry Frémaux…

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Added by Léa Germain on April 18, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The fESTIVAL season starts now !

Picture courtesy Time magazine

One month to go before the 66th edition of ze Festival de Cannes opens on the…

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Added by Léa Germain on April 15, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Film review: To The Wonder

I am not a film critic therefore I tend to completely let go during a screening and it is mostly moments after the closing credits, when I am back to reality, that I can say why I liked a film or not. However, while watching To The Wonder, I could tell right after the first scenes of Malick’s latest opus that this film was annoying me.…

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Added by Léa Germain on April 11, 2013 at 6:03pm — No Comments

Big Little Fish

© Swim Little Fish SwimLes Films de la Fusée

It's always exciting to throw a look at the films screening at SXSW which brings, each year, a good deal of young filmmakers under the spotlight.
This…
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Added by Léa Germain on March 11, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Film Review: Take This Waltz

© kool film

Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams | Take This Waltz (2011) | Canada | 116 mins | Sarah Polley

Two equations in a single unknown

Oh dear. Take This Waltz is god damn sweet. The storyline is a…

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Added by Léa Germain on March 5, 2013 at 5:00pm — No Comments

what's app ?

Picture courtesy of the Stuttgarter Zeitung

According to this article…

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Added by Léa Germain on March 4, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Kinostalgia's Heading North by Northwest

Image from Hitchcock's North by Northwest, in German Der unsichtbare Dritte, 1959…

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Added by Léa Germain on February 22, 2013 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Habemus Winner

With his Romanian social drama Child's Pose Calin Peter Netzer wins the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin Festival.

Almost Documentary-styled, the film,…

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Added by Léa Germain on February 18, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Meanwhile, in Berlin...

The Nun aka La Religieuse from Guillaume Nicloux starring young talent Pauline Étienne, Louise Bourgoin and Martina Gedeck premiered in…

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Added by Léa Germain on February 11, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Waiting for Gondry

Mood Indigo. L'Ecume des jours.
Gondry+Vian+Tautou+Duris+Sy= Epic win. If you don't know what we are talking about, have a look at the trailer published in thisIndiewire article.
However, if you too got excited…
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Added by Léa Germain on February 5, 2013 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Made in Berlin

Berlin International Film Festival starts on Thursday: posters for the event have started taking the remaining bits of wallspace and we, at SylC, are starting to get excited. Each year you are ever more numerous in attending THE Festival. Maybe because we are Berliners…

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Added by Léa Germain on February 5, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Everyone hates the French...

... but not these three things the rest of the world will agree they do well at: love, food, and films. 

This is what My French Film Festival seems to have understood, while starting January 17 the third edition of its online French Film…
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Added by Léa Germain on January 30, 2013 at 7:36pm — No Comments

The Beauty and the Beasts

Remember how, in this post, we were looking forward to watching Beasts of the Southern Wild ? Well, that mission is now accomplished. Beasts is a wonderful film, full…
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Added by Léa Germain on January 15, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Take the Money and Run

2013 starts with a crucial polemic for French cinema. Are French actors paid too much for a barely beneficial and highly state-funded industry? This is what Wild Bunch producer Vincent Maraval suggests in …
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Added by Léa Germain on January 7, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Yes! Yes I do! I like Christmas! I LOVE Christmas!

Because we think that even Christmas, this weird New Year and the End of the World together are not enough reasons to fully celebrate, here are a few figures about things we achieved this past year and we are pretty proud of:

84

is the number of wonderful, audacious…

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Added by Léa Germain on December 24, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Film Review: De Rouille et d'Os

Rust and Bone is one of these movies you know you will love even before watching it and love it all the more afterwards because it has not disappointed your expectations.

De Rouille et d'Os (2012) | France | 120 mins | Jacques Audiard

About délicatesse

“Tu sais…

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Added by Léa Germain on December 11, 2012 at 7:16pm — No Comments

'Rust and Bones' at the Französische Filmwoche Berlin

Fou Dou Fa Fa Berlin! The French Film Week, die Französische Filmwoche made its annual return for the twelfth year in Berlin with a very promising film selection. Populaire with…

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Added by Léa Germain on December 3, 2012 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Europa Cinemas annual Conference in Paris

We were at the 17th annual conference of Europa Cinemas! The arthouse cinemas network was celebrating 20 years of supporting independent theatres Europe-wide offering audacious, different, experimental, risk-taking films to…

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Added by Léa Germain on November 26, 2012 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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