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The French Syndicate of Cinema Critics (French: Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma et des films de télévision) has, each year since 1946, awarded a prize ("Prix de la critique", English: "Critics Prize"), the Prix Méliès, to the best French film of the preceding year.
Le Film français [1] (The French Film) is a weekly French film magazine that was founded in 1944 [2] by Jean-Bernard and Jean-Placide Derosne Mauclaire. The magazine is headquartered in Paris. [ 3 ] In the 1980s it was described as similar to American magazine Variety . [ 3 ]
Les Visiteurs (French pronunciation: [le vizitœʁ]; English: The Visitors) is a French fantasy comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and released in 1993. In the film, a 12th-century knight and his squire travel in time to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society.
Le Corbeau (lit. ' The Raven ') is a 1943 French horror film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Micheline Francey and Pierre Larquey.The film is about a French town where a number of citizens receive anonymous letters containing libelous information, particularly targeting a doctor accused of providing abortion services.
Pépé le Moko ([pe.pe lə mo.ko]) is a 1937 French film directed by Julien Duvivier starring Jean Gabin, based on a novel of the same name by Henri La Barthe and with sets by Jacques Krauss. An example of the 1930s French movement known as poetic realism , it recounts the trapping of a gangster on the run in Algiers , who believes that he is ...
The President (French: Le Président) is a 1961 French political thriller film directed by Henri Verneuil and based on, though altering, the ending of, the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon. It tells the story of a French prime minister ( Jean Gabin ), a lifelong proponent of the national good, who is twice betrayed by an opportunistic ...
For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English-speaking films, and has been given annually since. [ 5 ] The French submission is decided annually by the Centre national de la cinématographie , affiliated with the French Ministry of Culture .
Tous les matins du monde (English: "All The Mornings of The World") [1] is a 1991 French film based on the book of the same name by Pascal Quignard. [2] Set during the reign of Louis XIV, the film shows the musician Marin Marais looking back on his young life when he was briefly a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, [2] and features much music of the period, especially that for the viola da ...