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This much is clear: It's 1891, a year after their first adventure, and the great English detective and Dr. Watson are facing off with Professor Moriarty, a mysterious, peripheral character from their initial blockbuster. Ask the creative forces behind "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" for more details on the new Robert Downey Jr.
THE director Renny Harlin is better known for his contributions to the "Die Hard" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchises than he is for anything to do with the real world. So the emotionally charged environment on the set of his reality-inspired action thriller, "5 Days of War," in the conflict-scarred nation of Georgia, grabbed his attention.
Large photos of the youthful Brigitte Bardot compete with each other on the façade of a prominent store on the Champs-Élysées. They convey just how ahead of her time the film star was. Bardot's young face, body, fashion, and many styles look utterly contemporary.
The filmmakers avoid the French criminal's popular mythology to get at the darker truth. 'You can't pretend he is Robin Hood when he isn't,' says star Vincent Cassel. Paris - As the players came together to make an era-spanning two-film biopic on larger-than-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine, there was plenty of pressure to play to his outlaw legend.
PARIS IT isn't often that the director of an international film festival faces a possible prison sentence simply for showing a movie. Yet Ángel Sala, of the Sitges film festival in Spain, has been charged with exhibiting child pornography at an adults-only screening of "A Serbian Film" during that festival's prestigious annual showcase for fantasy and horror movies last October.
Square-jawed superhero Steve Rogers lays strangely immobile in the bowels of an enormous "suborbital bomber" - a contraption that looks like Howard Hughes' legendary Spruce Goose if it were pimped out for Darth Vader.
There is rarely anything resembling a "full recovery" for genocide survivors. Visions of people slaughtered by machete, their bodies left strewn over church pews, don't just disappear. Such bloodshed stains people-and nations-for lifetimes.So it goes in Rwanda, a country where 12 years ago remarkably well-organized Hutu extremist militias systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
The French film icon is as passionate as ever, but it's for the care of creatures rather than people. Her outspokenness on this and more has ruffled feathers. Reporting from Paris - As Brigitte Bardot approaches her 76th birthday, her starlet aura has been enjoying a broad resurgence - and the woman herself, plenty of attention.
Former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt discusses faith, trauma and survival.
As Hany Abu-Assad knows, it takes a certain kind of fortitude--some might say recklessness--to make a film in a place under military occupation. While he was shooting his new movie, "Paradise Now," on location in the West Bank city of Nablus, a real-life explosion nearby killed three people.
To many outside France, Bernard-Henri Levy is the elegant caricature of a libertine Left Bank intellectual. But he also harbors a deep-rooted concern about the dangers of extremism--in all its shapes and forms--which has led him to a project stirring controversy on both sides of the Atlantic.
Fernando Meirelles turns José Saramago's dark novel about lost vision into a provocative film.
Some of the foreign filmmakers are imitating Hollywood in the first place. Reporting from Paris - - Given all of the Hollywood remakes of recent European films, it is worth asking: Who in Hollywood best channels French movie star Sophie Marceau?
SPIN magazine - A polished yellow Hummer with tinted windows coasts over potholes and debris toward an intersection lined with metal-roofed shacks and street-side vendors hawking watches, sunglasses, and sodas. Young men loiter and bicker near ragged beggars and open sewer trenches. Then someone reads the Hummer's license plate and yells out "MM!"
In an exclusive email to The Daily Beast, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who was exiled to France in 1986, offered quake victims comfort and an $8 million pledge of support. Duvalier's dramatic departure to France was celebrated all around Haiti, and was seen as the closure of a dark period of terror that began under "Baby Doc's" father, Francois Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc."
Free annual trips to different regions of the country aim to inspire the writers in their work as France tries to lure more movie production away from other European countries. Reporting from Paris Some things are just done differently in France.