Tag: Movie theater
Georgian Vakhtang Kikabidze, legend of Soviet cinema and variety, is dead
Nicknamed “Bouba” in the four corners of what was the USSR, Vakhtang Kikabidze was one of the sacred monsters of Soviet Georgian cinema and the author of hits that have…
Alain Gomis gives back his voice to Thelonious Monk
Rewind and play, literally “Rewind and play”, is the new film by Alain Gomis. It is a documentary that reassembles the rushes, the unused images, of a program shot in…
Global launch of MyFrenchFilmFestival 2023, the flagship of French cinema online
The largest French-speaking online film festival opens this Friday, January 13 on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com and 70 partner platforms around the world. This original event including 29 films subtitled in 12 languages…
The Golden Globes reward “Banshees of Inisherin” in a ceremony that was intended to be inclusive
The 80th Golden Globes ceremony ended on Wednesday January 11, opening the season of the awards, presented by the association of the foreign press of Hollywood. Beyond the awards, the…
Cinema: “Grand marin”, ode to freedom and self-transcendence
/ Podcasts / Cultural meeting The film great sailor out today on French screens. A first film signed by director Dinara Drukarova. The story of a woman who embarks on…
Cinema: Thelonious Monk, “eccentric genius” in spite of himself
After Félicité, her beautiful portrait of a courageous mother in Kinshasa, the Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis returns with a documentary which will be released in theaters this Wednesday in France.…
With “Tirailleurs”, Mathieu Vadepied and Omar Sy pay tribute to the African soldiers who died for France
They were called the Senegalese Tirailleurs, but these soldiers who came to fight in Europe during the two world wars came from all over the French colonial empire in Africa.…
Comment by Omar Sy: “A controversy launched by people who know nothing about skirmishers”
Anthony Guyon, professor at Sciences Po, is the author of the book Senegalese skirmishers – From native to soldier, from 1857 to the present day (Perrin, 2022). On the occasion…
Senegalese skirmishers and minimum old age: “I have always been told about my grandfather, this hero”
On the eve of the release of the film “Tirailleurs” with Omar Sy, which recounts the crushed fates of Senegalese riflemen, the government announced a measure in favor of some…
Omar Sy on the poster of “Tirailleurs”: the importance of “remembering their role during the First World War”
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest It is this Wednesday, January 4, (following Friday in Senegal) that the theatrical release in France of the film Skirmishers by Mathieu Vadepied. Screened at…