Tag Archives: French

Sarah’s Key (2010) Rated PG-13

Posted on May 19, 2015 by laurarachel4

A journalist goes in search for a girl and her family whose lives were ripped apart during the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942. Based on an adaptation of the novel with the same title by Tatiana de Rosnay. Starring Kristin … Continue reading →

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Louis Jourdan (1921-2015)

Posted on February 15, 2015 by laurarachel4

(1921-2015)  The Best of Everything (1959) Rated NR Rona Jaffe’s best-selling novel gets the high-gloss Hollywood treatment in this romantic drama about the travails of three single roommates employed at a Manhattan publishing company. Their troubles run the gamut — … Continue reading →

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Howard Hawks

Posted on June 9, 2013 by laurarachel4

 Bringing Up Baby (1938) Rated NR Love runs wild for a hapless scientist and an unstoppable heiress in Howard Hawks’s classic screwball comedy that ranks high on the American Film Institute’s list of the funniest Hollywood films ever made. With … Continue reading →

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Daniel Bruhl

Posted on June 7, 2013 by laurarachel4

 Goodbye Lenin (2003) Rated R Alex’s mother falls into a coma just as the Berlin Wall is about to come down. But when she wakes up months later, she’s too weak to withstand shock — so Alex goes to great … Continue reading →

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The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)

Posted on March 27, 2012 by laurarachel4

Rated NR A french foundry worker wins a chance to see the maiden voyage of the Titanic. On the night before the send off he meets a chambermaid who intrigues him. When he returns home, his wife was believed to have had … Continue reading →

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Grand Illusion (1937)

Posted on September 15, 2011 by laurarachel4

Rated NR Two French Soldiers captured by the Germans during World War I. They overcome their differences to try to escape the Prison Camp. Starring Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette A little known fact: … Continue reading →

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Oscar Films Worth a Watch 2011

Posted on February 20, 2011 by laurarachel4

 Cimarron (1931) Rated NR Director Wesley Ruggles’ sweeping adaptation of Edna Ferber’s classic American novel was the first Western to win the Best Picture Oscar. Richard Dix stars as Yancey Cravat, a larger-than-life pioneer and newspaperman who moves his family … Continue reading →

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