VENICE, Italy – French director Francois Ozon’s says he was inspired to go ahead with his latest film, a battle-of-the-sexes comedy, after the presidential election pitting Nicolas Sarkozy against Segolene Royale.

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Venice Film Fest: Ozon says Sarkozy-Royale race inspired adaptation of French play Potiche

Film Movement Lands Cannes Winner ‘Illegal’ – The French and Russian language film , ‘Illegal,’ from director Olivier Masset-Depasse, which won the SACD Prize at this year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight, has been picked up by Film …

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Film Movement Lands Cannes Winner 'Illegal' – indieWIRE

Master Card has signed with SBS Sales as the exclusive sponsor of its French Film Season. The announcement: SBS Sales has negotiated an advertising.

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Master Card to sponsor SBS French Film Season – mUmBRELLA

François Ozon’s latest film is an an incomplete pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless, says Cath Clarke Like Michael Winterbottom, the French director François Ozon doesn’t half rattle through them. His two most recent films were adventurous oddities: the campily kitsch Angel, and Ricky, a drama about a baby who grows wings (though it didn’t see the light of day in UK cinemas)

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Film review: Le Refuge

MONTREAL – French film legend Gerard Depardieu will reflect on his career and the film industry during an appearance next month at the Montreal World Film Festival.

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French film legend Depardieu to take part in public forum at Montreal film fest

July 30, 2010: The Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio has backed out from the untitled film to be produced by actor …

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Leonardo Dicaprio Walks Out Of Mel Gibson's Film

In this Americanized version of a French farce, friends compete to see how can bring the dumbest dinner guest.

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Dinner For Schmucks | Film | Review | The A.V. Club

Louis Malle’s 1958 film Ascenseur pour l’A(C)chafraud (Elevator to the Gallows) is legendary for a number of reasons. It helped usher in the French New Wave film movement, it made Jeanne Moreau a star, and it has a haunting score by Miles Davis. The film is a crime drama about two lovers, Florence (Moreau) and Julien (Maurice Ronet), who plot to murder her husband and run off together

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TV/FILM: A Haunting Miles Davis Film Score

Roman Polanski will shoot a new film based on an award-winning French play in early 2011, now that Switzerland has rejected a US bid to extradite him on child sex charges, the playwright said Wednesday.

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Polanski to film ‘God of Carnage’ in 2011: co-writer

LONDON – THE story behind Irish rock star Bob Geldof’s global Live Aid concert to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia is being made into a TV film, the BBC said on Wednesday. The 1985 concert, organised by Geldof and music promoter Harvey Goldsmith, reached an estimated 1.5 billion people and did much to raise the public and political profile of those suffering from poverty, starvation and …

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Film on Geldof’s Live Aid story