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on this page: books on French cinema Cinémathèque Française French movie studios French actors & others Links back on page one: French filmmakers selected French films

French Films on DVD at Amazon.com
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French New Wave Films on DVD at Amazon.com
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French Movies poster catalog at AllPosters.com
French-Language Movie Posters catalog at AllPosters.com

Books  on  French  Cinema

	"It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and The Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture" [2007] by Vanessa R. Schwartz Univ Chicago Press 9x7 pb [12/2007] for $19.00 Univ Chicago Press 9¼x7¼ hardcover [12/2007] for $65.00
	"The Cinema of France (24 Frames Series)" [2006] Edited by Phil Powrie Wallflower Press 9¼x7¼ pb [4/2006] for $25.00 Wallflower Press 9¼x7½ hardcover [4/2006] for $75.00
	"The French Cinema Book" [2004] Edited by Michael Temple & Michael Witt British Film Institute 9x6¾ pb [7/2004] for $21.24 British Film Institute 9½x6¾ hardcover [7/2004] for $80.00
	"A History of The French New Wave Cinema" [2002] by Richard Neupert Univ WI Press 8¾x6 pb [rev 2/2007] for $26.95 Univ WI Press 9x6 hardcover [12/2002] out of print/used
	"French Cinema: From Its Beginnings To The Present" [2002] by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni Continuum Intl. Publng 9x6 pb [3/2004] for $24.95 Continuum Intl. Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $35.00
	"French New Wave: An Artistic School" [2002] by Michel Marie, Translated by Richard Neupert Wiley-Blackwell 8¼x6 pb [7/2002] for $30.95 Wiley-Blackwell 9x5½ hardcover [8/2002] for $63.92
	"France On Film: Reflections On Popular French Cinema" [2001] by Lucy Mazdon Wallflower Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2001] for $24.00 Wallflower Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $65.00
	"Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema" [2000] by Lucy Mazdon British Film Institute 9¼x6 pb [12/2000] for $27.95 British Film Institute 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2000] out of print/rare
	"Stars and Stardom In French Cinema" [2000] by Ginette Vincendeau chapters/subjects include: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Juliette Binoche, Louis de Funes, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Gabin, Max Linder {"the world's first film star"}, and Jeanne Moreau {and the New Wave) Continuum Intl. Publng 8¾x6 pb [11/2000] for $44.95 Continuum Intl. Publng hardcover [3/2001] for $74.95
	"The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910" [1999] by Richard Abel During the era of the nickelodeon theater, the French company Pathé dominated film distribution in America & Europe. But then American filmmakers fought back ... Univ CA Press 8¾x6 pb [3/99] for $32.95 Univ CA Press 9¼x6 hardcover [3/99] for $55.00
	"French New Wave" [France 1998] by Jean Douchet, translation by Robert Bonnono DAP 11½x9½ {4¼ lbs} hardcover [9/99] for $52.50
	"French Film Noir" [1994] by Robin Buss Marion Boyars 8½x5¼ pb [4/2001] for $16.95 Marion Boyars 8¾x5½ hardcover [7/94] for $35.00
	"The Ciné Goes To Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914" [1994] by Richard Abel Univ CA Press 10x6¾ pb [6/98] for $37.15 Univ CA Press 10½x7½ hardcover [3/94] out of print/used
	"French National Cinema" [1993] by Susan Hayward Routledge 9x6 pb [7/2005] for $31.95 Routledge 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2005] for $125.00
	"The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960" [1993] by Colin Crisp Indiana Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [4/97] for $18.95 Indiana Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/93] for $59.95
	"Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking" [1992] by Alan Williams Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/92] for $24.00 Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/92] for $79.00

"The Golden Age of French Cinema, 1929-1939" [1983]
by John W. Martin
Virgin Books pb [10/87] out of print/used
Twayne Publrs hardcover [10/83] out of print/used

"The Great French Films" [1983] by James Reid Paris
Citadel Press 11¼x8¼ pb [9/86] out of print/used
Citadel Press 11¼x9 hardcover [8/83] out of print/used

	"French Cinema Since 1946, Volume 1" [1970] by Roy Armes A.S. Barnes pb [1/76] out of print/used "French Cinema Since 1946, Volume 2: The Personal Style" [1970] A. Zwemmer pb [1/1966] out of print/used Oak Tree Publns pb [6/70] out of print/used
	"Panorama du Film Noir Américain, 1941-1953" [1955] by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton This is the book that coined the term 'film noir'. Flammarion French-language mass pb [1/93] imported/scarce Flammarion French-language mass pb [1/93] for €10,93 from Amazon France

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Cinémathèque  Française  [est. 1936]

official Cinémathèque Française website
Cinémathèque Française entry at Wikipedia

co-founder Henri Langlois [1914-77]
won Honorary Oscar Award in 1974, won Honorary César Award in 1977
credits at IMDb • entry at Wikipedia

co-founder Georges Franju [1912-87]
credits at IMDb • entry at Wikipedia

co-founder Jean Mitry [1907-88]
credits at IMDb • entry at Wikipedia

archivist [1945-75] (and critic) Lotte H. Eisner [1896-1983]
credits at IMDb • entry at Wikipedia

	"Henri Langlois: Phantom of The Cinematheque" docufilm [France May 2004, USA Oct 2005] Produced, written & directed by Jacques Richard Kino Video widescreen color DVD [8/2006] for $21.99 full credits at IMDb
	"Henri Langlois: First Citizen of Cinema" [1995] by Glenn Myrent & Georges P. Langlois Twayne Publrs 9¼x6 pb [2/95] for $23.00 Twayne Publrs hardcover [2/95] out of print/used
	"A Passion For Films: Henri Langlois & The Cinémathèque Française" [1983] by Richard Roud; Foreword by François Truffaut Johns Hopkins Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [6/99] out of print/used Viking hardcover [7/83] out of print/many used

Movie  Studios  of  France

Gaumont
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont

"Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913" DVD Box Set [2009]
Kino Video b&w DVD set [9/2009] 85+ films on 3 disks for $79.95

DISK 1 contains 70+ silent short films produced and-or directed from 1897 to 1907 by Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968], including the 33-minute religious epic "La Vie du Christ" aka "The Birth, The Life and The Death of Christ" [1906], and performances by Félix Mayol with 'Phono-Cinema' synchronous sound Magic Lantern's Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968] Page DISK 2 contains 13 silent short films written and-or directed from 1907 to 1913 by Louis Feuillade [1873-1925], plus the documentary "Louis Feuillade: Master of Many Forms" [2009] Louis Feuillade IMDb listing [1905-24] DISK 3 contains two color-tinted silent features written & directed in 1912 & 1913 by Léonce Perret [1880-1935], including the 100-minute silent feature "L'Enfant de Paris (The Child of Paris)" [1913] and the 45-minute silent feature "The Mystery of The Rocks of Kador" [1912], plus the documentary "Léonce Perret: The Filmmaker's Filmmaker" [2009] Léonce Perret IMDb listing [1909-35]

Pathé Brothers

Charles Pathé [1863-1957]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

with Émile, Théophile & Jacques Pathé founded

Société Pathé Frères [est. 28 September 1896] of Paris, France
company website • Wikipedia

"The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910" [1999] by Richard Abel During the era of the nickelodeon theater, the French company Pathé dominated film distribution in America & Europe. But then American filmmakers fought back ... Univ CA Press 8¾x6 pb [3/99] for $32.95 Univ CA Press 9¼x6 hardcover [3/99] for $55.00

Actors  &  Others  of  France

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Isabelle  Adjani
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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composer  Georges Auric  [1899-1983]

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Brigitte Bardot
Collection Box Set 6305839670

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Jean-Paul  Belmondo
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

http://snofficiel.free.fr/

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Juliette Binoche

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Capucine

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writer  Jean-Claude  Carrière worked often with Luis Buñuel, and has worked with Peter Brook, Miloš Forman, Philip Kaufman, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Andrzej Wajda & Wayne Wang IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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actor-director Pierre Clémenti [1942-99]

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Marion Cotillard

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Hélène  de Fougerolles
browse videos/DVDs • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

French-language Hélène de Fougerolles fansite

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Louis de Funes

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Alain  Delon
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Catherine Deneuve

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Charles Denner  [1926-95]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Gerard Depardieu

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Fernandel  [1903-71]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Pierre Fresnay

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Jean  Gabin  [1904-76]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Musée Jean Gabin in Mériel, France

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composer  Arthur Honegger  [1892-1955]

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Valérie Kaprisky

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

"Deux de la Vague (Two In The Wave)" [Lorber Films France 2009, USA May 2010] Godard & Truffaut were friends during the creation of the French New Wave {Nouvelle Vague} cinema of the 1950s and 1960s – after the success of "the 400 Blows", Truffaut gave Godard the script for "Breathless". But they split over France's political changes in 1968; actor Léaud had worked for them both, and was torn between them, much like a child with divorced parents. 91-minute documentary produced & directed by Emmanuel Laurent; written & narrated by Antoine De Baecque; featuring directors Jean-Luc Godard & François Truffaut, and actor Jean-Pierre Léaud DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb

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silent-era comedian
Max Linder  [1883-1925]  of  France Page

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Yves  Montand  [1921-91]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Jeanne  Moreau
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Philippe  Noiret  [1930-2006]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Micheline Presle

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Raimu

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Dominique Sanda
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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Simone  Signoret  [1921-85]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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actress  Audrey  Tautou
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actress  Clémence  Thioly
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Jean-Louis  Trintignant
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Lino  Ventura  [1919-87]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Lino Ventura Foundation

French Cinema Links

French movie poster catalog at AllPosters [dot] com
Foreign Films [dot] com - Best French Films on DVD
Complete Index To World Film
European Film Academy [est. 1988]
European Film Festivals Coordination
Festival du Cinema de Paris [short films; January]
Noir Films of France at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Yahoo! France Cinéma
'Films de France' fansite
http://www.filmvar.com/
http://www.ccinice-cote-azur.com/commissiondufilmcoteazur
http://www.kevinmalinproductions.com/filmfrancais.html
http://www.bdfci.info/

Euro Media Television Groupe [est. 1983] in France
Riviera Studios [renamed 1999; est. 1919 as Studios de La Victorine] in Nice, France
Studios d'Arpajon [est. 1987], south of Paris, France
Studios de France, in the St. Denis District north of Paris, France
Société Française de Production [est. 1975] of France
Studios de Bry [est. 1987] at Bry-sur-Marne, just east of Paris, France
Studios de Boulogne [est. 1940], on west side of Paris, France
Studios de Saint-Ouen, in the St. Denis District north of Paris, France

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