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Seberg, Belmondo and Godard’s Film de Cinéphile: À bout de souffle
A Paris where two lovers are overwhelmed by fate and where the image of Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini strolling down the Champs-Elysées in The New York Herald Tribune t-shirt became an everlasting style headline and the star of the French New Wave. À bout de souffle was Godard’s film de cinéphile and Read More
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August Newsletter: Summer Rain, The Lagoon and Bottle Rocket
In this month’s newsletter: Summer rain, The Lagoon, and Bottle Rocket Read More
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Read Instead…in Print
Sarah Baxter’s Cinematic Places takes us to destinations that have set the scene for some great worldwide films. Each film story woven around a place yet revealing Read More
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Midsummer Book Dispatch
Midsummer book dispatch: from Tove Jansson to Georges Simenon and Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Dalí. Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly in “Mogambo”
Ava Gardner in “Mogambo”, 1953. MGM It was in film noir that Ava Gardner had her breakthrough performance, as beautiful, sultry, double-crossing Kitty Collins in The Killers (1946). The ultimate femme fatale role was made for Ava Gardner and … Read More
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