The Life and Times of a Problem Child (Free subscription) | yesterday
I think it's rather problematic for someone not to feel like he belongs to his soi-disant generation. I realised that it happens to be really burdensome to pick up the pieces and re-appropriate it as something reworked and not inherently...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Found on the blog with the longest name: Un undated (probably fifties) photo of Edith Piaf who first discovered Yves Montand, then became his mentor and finally his lover.
Popdose (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Quick—what won Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards? If you recalled Departures, from Japan, take a bow. Like most foreign film winners, the movie was pretty much forgotten two minutes after host Hugh Jackman signed off. Where quality is concerned, Foreign Film ties with Best Song in the race to the bottom of [...]
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
A peppy song to get the morning going because my coffee isn't doing it and I'm meeting up for my long ride out of Paris this morning. Today it's the southern route out of town. The Plasticines are a Paris band that really doesn't sound like a French band in any way. At the moment they're getting a fair amount of attention in the UK media. If you are familiar with the old Yves Montand "Bicyclette"...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
strong>DEPRESSION-ERA NEWSREELS </strong>11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. weekdays, Film Vault, KC Central Library.
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Btms^ for Tuesday October 13. Drink Forecast for Today (df 4 2day): Cabo Wabo Tequila 2 toast 2 rocker Sammy Hagar, born 2 day in 1947. Complimentary Sip & Sample Wines this week at all The Barns, weekdays from 5 to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. - Ketu Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2008 Marlborough - Cookoothama [...]
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun: Fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. Triskaidekaphobia is from Greek treiskaideka, triskaideka , thirteen (treis, three + kai, and + deka, ten) + phobos, fear. Some famous triskaidekaphobes: Napoleon Herbert Hoover Mark Twain Richard Wagner Franklin Roosevelt Facebook crush A crush on a FB friend is characterized by the unexplainable urge...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Nero became emperor of Rome in 54. French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy in 1773. Ankara replaced Istanbul as the capital of Turkey in 1923. And in 1962, the Pacific Northwest was slammed with a cyclone with wind speeds as high as 288 km/hr. Forty-six people were killed and damage came to about $230 million (1962 value). Born today: Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), Yves Montand...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
French cinema seems to be highly associated with independent cinema and foreign films, at least in the minds of most American citizens. Some of it certainly comes from a place of Francophobia, but much of it is because a lot of French filmmakers have been before their time and they tell stories of such light [...]
filmscreed (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Y’know how when you’re a kid, you pretend you are a character in one of your favorite movies? For someone in my age bracket, it might have been John Wayne, or Clint Eastwood or someone of that stripe. I always think back to the movies that I loved as a kid when I watch Henri-George Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear . I missed out on some good play-days because I didn’t manage to see...
Favorite Music Online (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
“Autumn Leaves” is one of the most re recorded songs. Originally this charming French melody sounded in 1945, then it was introduced by Yves Montand for the film Les Portes de la Nuit, in 1946. The music of “Les feuilles mortes” (literally “The Dead Leaves”) was written by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by the [...]
The Non-Blonde (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
I was well into adulthood the first time I visited Paris, so growing up, my idea of what is "French" was more than a little simplistic * . My parents favorite music: Yves Montand, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, subtitled movies with neverending dialogs (I didn't get it until being introduced to Eric Rohmer's films), fabulous desserts and Nina Ricci perfumes. Why Nina Ricci? I'm not entirely...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
France/Sweden Feature Film Director: Alain Resnais Writer: Jorge Semprún Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny Composer: Giovanni Fusco Cast: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté, Dominique Rozan, Jean-François Rémi Alain Resnais’s psychological portrait of an ageing revolutionary, suffering from ethical, existential, and ideological crises, depicting...
The English Can Eat (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
.. Souviens-toi Ça parlait De la Picardie Invited by Eurostar, food bloggers were invited to take a 'little break' to encourage us to visit nearby European cities such as Paris, Brussels and Lille for the reasonable price of £59 return . Lille is probably the least known of this trio. Lille is situated in the North-West corner of France. The coal and mining industry there, like in the...
The Computers Blog (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
By Jenifer Butler With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site. The Baron of Arizona: Cost has territory rights as land grabbing miscreant who virtually...
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