Cinema of France - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of France: Encyclopedia - Cinema Of France
France has been influential in the development of film as a mass medium and as an art form. Cinema of France - History. Cinema of Franc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of France: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of France - Notable Contemporary French Cinema Personalities
Cinema of France - Actors. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Mathieu Amalric Fanny Ardant Jean-Pierre Aumont Daniel Auteuil ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catherine Deneuve: Encyclopedia - Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (born October 22, 1943) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. Born Catherine Dorléac to the actor Maurice Teynac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daniel Auteuil: Encyclopedia - Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (born January 24, 1950) is a French actor. He was born in Algiers, Algeria, to French parents who were both opera singers....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grand Illusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Grand Illusion - Political And Historical Analysis
In Grand Illusion, director Jean Renoir paints a sharply critical view of the fate of Europe as it faces the rising spectre of fascism (e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Children Of Paradise: Encyclopedia Ii - Children Of Paradise - Historical Conditions
The three hour film was extremely difficult to make due to theatrical constraints during the occupation. Noted critic Pauline Kael wrote ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Le Voyage Dans La Lune: Encyclopedia Ii - Le Voyage Dans La Lune - Plot
A group of astronomers decide to go to the Moon, so they build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet, and a huge cannon to shoot it in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fahrenheit 451: Encyclopedia Ii - Fahrenheit 451 - Plot
The story takes place sometime in the not-too-distant future, in an America whose society's goal in life is hedonistic pleasure and aband...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Big Blue: Encyclopedia Ii - The Big Blue - Production
With its extensive underwater scenes and languid score (as with all of Luc Besson's films to date, the soundtrack was written by Eric Ser...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The 400 Blows: Encyclopedia Ii - The 400 Blows - The Film
Antoine was born while his mother was unmarried (as is revealed later in the film). Afterwards she married an older man to "give him a na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alphaville Une étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution: Encyclopedia Ii - Alphaville Une étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution - Characters
Alphaville une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution - Lemmy Caution. As a journalist he calls himself Ivan Johnson, claiming to work for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - La Haine: Encyclopedia Ii - La Haine - Impact Of The Film
Director Mathieu Kassovitz delivers a powerfully emotional comment on the state of French society and the problems caused by urban depriv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breathless: Encyclopedia Ii - Breathless - Synopsis
Michel is a young thug who romantically models himself after Humphrey Bogart. While driving a stolen car, Michel shoots a policeman who f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-luc Godard: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-luc Godard - Cinematic Period
The Godard canon has never been able to escape the critical desire to distinguish between, and in turn label, its visible periods. The fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. Despite a history of succes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amélie: Encyclopedia - Amélie
Released in 2001, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain), or Amélie, as it is known in the Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia - France
1 See Languages section for regional languages 2 Whole territory of the French Republic, including all the overseas departments and terri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - César Award: Encyclopedia - César Award
The César Award is the national film award of France first given out in 1975. The nominations are made by the members of the Académie d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Le Voyage Dans La Lune: Encyclopedia Ii - Le Voyage Dans La Lune - In Popular Media
The Smashing Pumpkins appropriated footage from the film for use in their music video "Tonight, Tonight." In tribute to Georges Méliès,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fahrenheit 451: Encyclopedia Ii - Fahrenheit 451 - Accuracy As A Vision Of The Future
Several aspects of the fictional future depicted in the novel have become reality in the late 20th and early 21st century: Live televisi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain: Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain
Spanish cinema is not held in as high esteem worldwide as French or American cinema. In the long history of Spanish cinema, only the grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fahrenheit 451: Encyclopedia Ii - Fahrenheit 451 - Influence On Popular Culture
The title of Bradbury's book has become a well-known byword amongst those who oppose censorship, in much the way George Orwell's 1984 has...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fahrenheit 451: Encyclopedia Ii - Fahrenheit 451 - Film And Radio Versions
The book was made into a film in 1966 by François Truffaut, with Oskar Werner as Montag and Julie Christie in the dual roles of Linda (M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-luc Godard: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-luc Godard - Cahiers And Early Films
After attending school in Nyon, Switzerland, Godard returned to Paris in 1948 and began to attend the Lycée Rohmer, a year before enroll...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The 400 Blows: Encyclopedia Ii - The 400 Blows - Overview
The story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an adolescent in Paris, who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker. The t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grand Illusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Grand Illusion - The Story
During the First World War, two French aviators Captain de Boeldieu (played by Pierre Fresnay) and Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), emb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grand Illusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Grand Illusion - Brief History Of The Film
Grand Illusion was released in 1937 to much critical acclaim. Even as late as 1970, almost every credible list of the top ten best films ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breathless: Encyclopedia Ii - Breathless - Other Versions
A rarely seen 1976 film by Amos Poe, featuring a cameo by Blondie singer Deborah Harry (playing a woman named Blondie) called Unmade Beds...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breathless: Encyclopedia Ii - Breathless - Film Connections
The film includes references to many other films. In one scene, "Bob the Gambler" is mentioned, which is an apparent reference to Bob le ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grand Illusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Grand Illusion - Credits
Grand Illusion - Cast. Jean Gabin as Lieutenant Maréchal, a French officer Erich von Stroheim as Captain von Rauffenstein, a German o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alphaville Une étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution: Encyclopedia Ii - Alphaville Une étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution - Plot Details
The plot is simple - Lemmy Caution (played by Constantine), an 'outland' agent, arrives in the futuristic city of Alphaville to search fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alphaville Une étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution: Encyclopedia Ii - Alphaville Une étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution - Influence
The most notable legacy of Alphaville has been on computers in film. Once described as a 'chain smoking Hal', Alpha 60 may well be an 'an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-luc Godard: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-luc Godard - Revolutionary Period
The period that spans from May 1968 indistinctly into the 1970s has been subject to an even larger volume of inaccurate labeling. They in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-luc Godard: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-luc Godard - Later Work
His return to somewhat more traditional fiction was marked with Sauve qui peut (1980), the first of a series of more mainstream films mar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serial: Encyclopedia Ii - Serial - Early Serial Films
The classic sound serial has a first episode of about 30 minutes (approximately three reels in length, and begins with reports of a mask...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - Renowned Figures
Cinema of Italy - Directors. List of film directors from Italy Cinema of Italy - Actors and Actresses. List of actors from Italy f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - César Award: Encyclopedia Ii - César Award - Winners
César Award - Best Picture Awards. See César Award for Best Film César Award - Best Director Awards. See César Award for Best ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ofelia Medina: Encyclopedia Ii - Ofelia Medina - Films
Ofelia Medina - Cinema of France. Couleur Havane (1999) as Mayra Ofelia Medina - Cinema of the Philippines. Valentina (2004) Ofe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Demographics
Since prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of trade, migrations, and invasions. Four basic European ethnic stocks - Celtic (Ga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Sweden: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Sweden - Postwar
The most famous and influential Swedish filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman, rose to prominence in the fifties. He began making films in the mid-fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Denmark: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Denmark - The Golden Age
In 1906, cinema owner Ole Olsen founded the first Danish film-making company, Nordisk Films Kompagni. It gained most of its income from t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - History
Cinema of the United Kingdom - Early UK cinema. Cinema of Albania Cinema of Croatia Cinema of the Czech Republic Cinema of Denmark Cin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Film-related Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Film-related Topics - Motion Picture-related Topics Alphabetical List
This page aims to list all topics related to the field of motion pictures. For articles about individuals or specific films, see the appr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pathé: Encyclopedia Ii - Pathé - Sectors
The sectors in which Pathé operates today are: Cinema: production distribution to theatres and homes the international management of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amélie: Encyclopedia Ii - Amélie - Synopsis
Amélie is the story of a girl who grows up isolated from other children. Her mother dies when she is young. Her father, a doctor, never ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Green Room: Encyclopedia Ii - The Green Room - Recording Studio
The Green Room is a popular recording studio located in Huntington Beach, California. The Green Room was owned and operated by Gene Eugen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Greece - Beginning
In the spring of 1897, the Greeks of Athens had the opportunity and privilege to watch the first cinematic attempts (short movies in 'jou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Spain - Origins
The first Spanish film exhibition took place on May 5, 1895 in Barcelona. Exhibitions of Lumière films were screened in Madrid and Barce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - César Award: Encyclopedia Ii - César Award - Winners
César Award - Best Picture Awards. See César Award for Best Film César Award - Best Director Awards. See César Award for Best...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Albania: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Albania - The Communist Period
After World War II, the communist government of the state founded the Albanian Film Institute in 1945, which became Kinostudia Shqipëria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - Neorealism
Italian cinema had only a small price to pay for dictatorship. With the approaching war, many works were produced for propaganda purposes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Greece - Renowned Figures
Cinema of Greece - Directors. Theo Angelopoulos Michael Cacoyannis Yannis Dalianidis Dinos Dimopoulos Costa-Gavras Kostas Karagiannis ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - Introduction Of Sound
Despite the introduction of sound, economic problems stemming from World War I caused the quality of Italian films to decline. It was onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Greece - Reprise
In 1999, TV series writers Michael Reppas and Thanassis Papathanasiou, cooperating with famous actors, made the sex taboo comedy Safe Sex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - Early Years
The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major companies - the Roman Cines, the Ambrosio of Turin and Ita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Economy
France's economy combines extensive private enterprise (nearly 2.5 million companies registered) with substantial (though declining) gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Culture
France - Marianne. Main articles: Marianne, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]] M ... See also:France, France - Geography, France ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Economy
France's economy combines extensive private enterprise (nearly 2.5 million companies registered) with substantial (though declining) gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Geography
While the main territory of France (metropolitan France; French: la Métropole, or France métropolitaine) is located in Western Europe, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Government And Politics
Main articles: Government of France and Politics of France The constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved by referendum on September...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Film-related Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Film-related Topics - Lists
List of film-related topics - Film genres and plots. List of alien movies List of character-based movie franchises List of cinematic g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Culture
France - Marianne. Main article: Marianne Marianne is a symbol of the French Republic. She is an allegorical figure of liberty and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Military
The French armed forces are divided into four branches: Army (Armée de Terre) Navy (Marine Nationale) Air Force (Armée de l'Air) Genda...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Government And Politics
Image:A17.jpg Main articles: Government of France, and Politics of France, and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - The Crisis Of The 80's
Between the late 70's and mid-80's, Italian cinema endured a long period of crisis. During this time, "art films" became increasingly iso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - The Spaghetti Western
At the same time, another genre, the Spaghetti Western began to achieve great success, not only in Italy, but throughout the world. These...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - 1990 To Today
A new generation of directors has helped return Italian cinema to a healthy level since the end of the 80's. The sign-bearer for this ren...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Sweden: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Sweden - Early Swedish Cinema
Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence with the founding of Svenska Biografteatern in 1912, which had two star directors: Vi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Geography
While the main territory of France (metropolitan France; French: la Métropole, or France métropolitaine) is located in Western Europe, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Sweden: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Sweden - Contemporary Swedish Cinema
My Life as a Dog (1985) and Lasse Hallström. Lukas Moodysson's first feature-length film, the Fucking Åmål (aka Show Me Love) was a hu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Italy - Pink Neorealism And Comedy
It has been said that after "Umberto D." nothing more could be added to neorealism. Whether because of this, or for other reasons, neorea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Military
The French armed forces are divided into four branches: Army (Armée de Terre) Navy (Marine Nationale) Air Force (Armée de l'Air) Genda...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Spain - The Height Of Silent Cinema
In 1914, Barcelona was the center of the nation's film industry. The españoladas (historical epics of Spain) predominated until the 1960...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Bibliography
Cinema of the United Kingdom - Pre-WWII. Low, Rachel. 1985. Film Making in 1930s Britain. London: George, Allen and Unwin Rotha, Paul....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Spain - The Crisis Of Sound
By 1931, the introduction of audiophonic foreign productions had hurt the Spanish film industry to the point where only a single title wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Spain - The Civil War And Its Aftermath
Around 1936, both parties of the Civil War began to use cinema as a means of propaganda and censorship. The pro-Franco side founded the N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Spain - The New Spanish Cinema
In 1962, José María García Escudero became the Director General of Cinema, propelling forward state efforts and the Escuela Oficial de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Black And Asian Film
Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Film Technology
In the 1970s and 1980s British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman, Alien, Star Wars and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amélie: Encyclopedia Ii - Amélie - Criticism
The film was a critical and commercial success, but it was attacked by critics such as Serge Kaganski of les Inrockuptibles for its depic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amélie: Encyclopedia Ii - Amélie - Awards
The film was a critical and box office success, gaining wide play internationally as well. It was nominated for five Academy Awards: Bes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Overview
Film production in the UK has experienced a number of booms and recessions. Although many factors can be used to measure the success of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of The United Kingdom - Art Cinema
The release of Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) marked the beginning of a successful period of UK art cinema, continuing in the 1980s with f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Geography
While the main territory of France (metropolitan France; French: la Métropole, or France métropolitaine) is located in Western Europe, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - History
The borders of modern France are roughly the same as those of ancient Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic Gauls. Gaul was conquered by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ofelia Medina: Encyclopedia Ii - Ofelia Medina - Award Nominations
Ofelia Medina - 12th Genie Awards. Best supporting actress for Diplomatic Immunity ... See also:Ofelia Medina, Ofelia Medina - Biog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ofelia Medina: Encyclopedia Ii - Ofelia Medina - Awards
Ofelia Medina - Ariel Award in 2005. Best supporting actress for Voces inocentes ... See also:Ofelia Medina, Ofelia Medina - Biogra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serial: Encyclopedia Ii - Serial - Film
A serial, or cliffhanger, was a popular form of movie entertainment that dated back to Edison's What Happened to Mary? of 1912. Usually f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serial: Encyclopedia Ii - Serial - Radio And Television
With the advent of television and the decline of the moviegoing audience, production of serials ceased due to the decreasing audience (an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Albania: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Albania - Postcommunist Films
During the 1990s, the change of the communist form of government to a more democratic one led to a big change in the Albanian cinema. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ofelia Medina: Encyclopedia Ii - Ofelia Medina - Biography
Ofelia Medina made her film debut in Mexico in 1968 with the film La paz and in Hollywood with The Big Fix ten years later. In 1977 she p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Terminology
France - Origin of the country's name. The name France comes from Medieval Latin Francia, which literally means "land of the Franks, Fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Administrative Divisions
France has 26 administrative régions: 21 metropolitan régions, the territorial collectivity of Corse (Corsica) (commonly referred to as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Government And Politics
The constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958. It greatly strengthened the authority of the exe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Economy
France's economy combines extensive private enterprise (nearly 2.5 million companies registered) with substantial (though declining) gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - France: Encyclopedia Ii - France - Culture
France - Marianne. Marianne is a symbol of the French Republic. She is an allegorical figure of liberty and the Republic and first appe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of Denmark: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of Denmark - 1920s To 1940s
During World War I, the USA became the leading nation in film production and Danish exports decreased. In the years following the war, Dr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinema Of France: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinema Of France - History
Cinema of France - Late 19th century to early 20th century. In the late 19th century, during the early years of cinema, France produced...   » Read the article