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Critic’s Choice: Books on French actor Jean Gabin and movie posters ring in the New Year

2150 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Now that the holiday season is over, itâ€™s time to think of buying something for yourself, and two recent film books will be hard for cinephiles to resist. â€œJean Gabin: The Actor Who Was Franceâ€ by Joseph Harriss (McFarland, $45) is... more info

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UCLA series offers a rare chance to see Jean Grémillon's films

3326 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — To come across the films of classic French filmmaker Jean Grémillon is like discovering another country, at once familiar and unaccountably new. Familiar because the greatest of the director's films, the ones made in the 1930s and 1940s, made expert... more info

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Review: 75 years on, sophistication of 'Jour Se Leve' still surprises

3661 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Of all the memorable films starring French icon Jean Gabin, including "Grand Illusion," "Pepe le Moko" and "La Bete Humaine," none has been harder to see in its original version, or more richly rewards a viewing today, than Marcel Carne's melancholy ... more info

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White Hinterland :: Requiem pour un Con (Serge Gainsbourg)

4686 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Serge Gainsbourg cut “Requiem pour un Con” in 1968 for Jean Gabin’s film Le Pacha (see clip below). Forty years later Casey Dienel, under the nom de tune, White Hinterland, released the Francophone, six song, Luniculaire ep. I’ve been revisit... more info

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