08.27.2009 8:44 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Vive la france!
Cinema St. Louis hosts its first annual French Film Festival, tonight (Friday) through Sunday in Brown Hall at Washington University. The weekend event comprises rarely seen works by legendary directors Jean-Luc Godard and Marcel Ophuls, as well as three…
08.31.2008 6:53 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I’m in Italy right now, after stops in England and France, so granted I’m getting a filtered and foreign perspective, but the recurring theme of my trip to the Venice Film Festival is that America has lost its dominant role in world culture, and movies are becoming…
03.20.2008 9:42 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Some Americans just won’t go see a movie with subtitles. And many of them are grown-ups who still watch cartoons. So for that particular demographic, an English-language version of the Oscar-nominated “Persepolis” is coming to theaters on April 11.
The animated…
