LargeHeartedBoy — The Criterion Collection releases expanded editions of Jean Luc Godard's Weekend and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life. Documentaries include the controversial Queen of Versailles, The Island President (a profile of the progressive president of t... more info

Guardian Music — Cadogan Hall, LondonLes 24 Violons du Roy take their name from – and explore the work of – the ensemble founded by Louis XIII in 1626, and which subsequently provided the music at the palace of Versailles until the early 1760s. The players are dr... more info

Starpulse — Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is one lucky woman. The family she profiles in her latest documentary, "The Queen of Versailles" ... not so much. more info

Time — Access to the unguarded is a documentarian’s delight. Access to unguarded people behaving atrociously is truly the Holy Grail. That’s what filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield got when she convinced David and Jackie Siegel, whom she met i... more info

Guardian Music — Lina Lalandi, who has died aged 91, founded the English Bach festival in 1962, and was its director from the first festival, in 1963, until her death. Its early performances of both modern and baroque music took place in Oxford before, in the 1970s, ... more info

Guardian Music — Rounding up the latest beauty news so you don't have toSpotted, literallySpotted at Chanel's Palace of Versailles cruise show this week - models sporting a rather distinctive facial decoration. From a distance it looked like a standard black dot, but... more info

Reuters — BERLIN (Reuters) - "Farewell My Queen", recalling the early days of the French Revolution through the eyes of servants at Versailles, has its world premiere on Thursday at the start of the 2012 Berlin film festival. more info

Guardian Music — The Opéra Comique in Paris has resurrected Johann Christian Bach's opera after 230 years of slumberJohann Christian was the last of J S Bach's 11 sons and the only one to have tried his hand at opera. He was known as the Great Bach, having started h... more info

Perez Hilton — That's not a great foot to start out on, but maybe the controversy will help make this year better than ever — you know, capture the attention of those listening? Sundance is being slapped with a defamation lawsuit because of one of the documentari... more info

Guardian Music — D'Oustrac/Agnew/Naouri/Les Arts Florissants/Christie (FRA, 2DVDs)Those turned off French baroque opera by English National Opera's dreary recent attempt at Rameau's Castor et Pollux may change their minds after seeing Robert Carsen's production of Lu... more info