Brigitte Bardot to Be Focus of Documentary From ‘Ma Vie en Rose’ Director Alain Berliner (Exclusive)
Alain Berliner, who directed the BAFTA-nominated and Golden Globe-winning “Ma vie en rose,” is in pre-production on feature documentary “Bardot,” about French actor, singer and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot. Bardot is giving the project her full support, and will narrate the film herself.
“Bardot” is produced by Julien Loeffler, James Kermack and James Barton-Steel at Featuristic Films, teaming with Nicolas Bary at TimpelPictures. They have released an exclusive first look image from the film.
The film will offer Bardot an opportunity “to speak openly about her life and revisit some of the issues she feels passionately about,” such as women’s place in society, animal welfare, deforestation and global warming, according to a statement from the producers. It will contain never seen before archive film and photos, as well as music from the 1950s and 1960s.
Berliner said: “The icon that is Brigitte Bardot remains a mystery. Today, she should be considered a feminist,...
“Bardot” is produced by Julien Loeffler, James Kermack and James Barton-Steel at Featuristic Films, teaming with Nicolas Bary at TimpelPictures. They have released an exclusive first look image from the film.
The film will offer Bardot an opportunity “to speak openly about her life and revisit some of the issues she feels passionately about,” such as women’s place in society, animal welfare, deforestation and global warming, according to a statement from the producers. It will contain never seen before archive film and photos, as well as music from the 1950s and 1960s.
Berliner said: “The icon that is Brigitte Bardot remains a mystery. Today, she should be considered a feminist,...
- 5/18/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Even those who consider themselves experts in the subject will find a provocative treasure trove of images and anecdotes in “Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies.” Danny Wolf’s documentary is a breezy, open-eyed, and often encyclopedic compendium of all the ways the cinema has celebrated, exploited, and negotiated the power of the naked body. The film opens with a montage of actors and directors recalling the first movie they ever saw that had nudity in it, and that allows the film, in its early moments, to leap through some of Nudity’s Greatest Hits.
As it moves back in time, one of the documentary’s fascinations is the way it’s constantly juxtaposing big Hollywood movies and European art movies and softcore exploitation films and everything in between. That, of course, is just as it should be. Aesthetically, there’s a world of difference between “Vixen” and “The Virgin Spring,...
As it moves back in time, one of the documentary’s fascinations is the way it’s constantly juxtaposing big Hollywood movies and European art movies and softcore exploitation films and everything in between. That, of course, is just as it should be. Aesthetically, there’s a world of difference between “Vixen” and “The Virgin Spring,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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Throughout its 70 year history, the Cannes Film Festival has been at the forefront of game-changing cinema. New directorial voices and international film movements have all used the festival as a launch pad to global recognition. If a film or artist has shaped cinema over the last seven decades, chances are they’ve been the toast of Cannes at least once. Many of these historic Cannes titles are streaming exclusively on FilmStruck, and we gathered up 10 of our favorites you need to watch below.
“Rome, Open City”
The first Cannes Film Festival was originally set for September 1939, but World War II caused a seven-year delay.
Throughout its 70 year history, the Cannes Film Festival has been at the forefront of game-changing cinema. New directorial voices and international film movements have all used the festival as a launch pad to global recognition. If a film or artist has shaped cinema over the last seven decades, chances are they’ve been the toast of Cannes at least once. Many of these historic Cannes titles are streaming exclusively on FilmStruck, and we gathered up 10 of our favorites you need to watch below.
“Rome, Open City”
The first Cannes Film Festival was originally set for September 1939, but World War II caused a seven-year delay.
- 5/16/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old.
This is a cheat, but not too long ago, I had to review the newish French version of Beauty And The Beast, which made me think of a very weird adaptation of the story that Roger Vadim directed for Faerie Tale Theatre, the offbeat children’s series that actress Shelley Duvall created and hosted for Showtime in the 1980s. Vadim was a playboy and failed novelist of White Russian parentage (born Vadim Plemiannikov) who prided himself on having lost his virginity on D-Day, seemed to have known just about everyone, and is now best remembered for directing …And God Created Woman and Barbarella and for marrying or impregnating a succession of beautiful movie stars. His “Beauty And The Beast” is...
This is a cheat, but not too long ago, I had to review the newish French version of Beauty And The Beast, which made me think of a very weird adaptation of the story that Roger Vadim directed for Faerie Tale Theatre, the offbeat children’s series that actress Shelley Duvall created and hosted for Showtime in the 1980s. Vadim was a playboy and failed novelist of White Russian parentage (born Vadim Plemiannikov) who prided himself on having lost his virginity on D-Day, seemed to have known just about everyone, and is now best remembered for directing …And God Created Woman and Barbarella and for marrying or impregnating a succession of beautiful movie stars. His “Beauty And The Beast” is...
- 10/7/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Whereas ComicMix comments on all popular media – geek culture, as Ed Catto says – this particular commentary is about comic books. However, let me warn you: it is phrased in the terms of motion pictures. It could be applied to all mass communications.
There exists, and have always existed, groups of people with their noses so high in the air you’d think they’d drown in a drizzle. These self-appointed moral police seek to prevent everybody from experience media that they find objectionable. Of course, having an opinion and sharing that opinion is our constitutional right and I have no quarrel about this. Sadly, these people often attempt to have those books, movies, magazines and similar folderol removed from stores, libraries and theaters. They have held and continue to hold record burnings – for the past sixty-five years they have focused on rock’n’roll and particularly rock performed by black artists…...
There exists, and have always existed, groups of people with their noses so high in the air you’d think they’d drown in a drizzle. These self-appointed moral police seek to prevent everybody from experience media that they find objectionable. Of course, having an opinion and sharing that opinion is our constitutional right and I have no quarrel about this. Sadly, these people often attempt to have those books, movies, magazines and similar folderol removed from stores, libraries and theaters. They have held and continue to hold record burnings – for the past sixty-five years they have focused on rock’n’roll and particularly rock performed by black artists…...
- 3/16/2016
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
“The Movie For Movie Lovers”
By Raymond Benson
François Truffaut had an all too short but certainly brilliant career as a filmmaker. He began in the world of film criticism in France, but in the late 1950s he decided to make movies himself. Truffaut quickly shot to the forefront of the French New Wave in the late 1950s and early 60s, alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, and others. By the time the 70s rolled around, Truffaut was a national treasure in France and a mainstay in art house cinemas in the U.S. and Britain.
His 1973 masterpiece, Day for Night (in France La Nuit Américaine, or “American Night”), won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of that year, the only time Truffaut picked up an Academy Award. Due to odd eligibility rules, the picture could be nominated for other categories the following year. For...
By Raymond Benson
François Truffaut had an all too short but certainly brilliant career as a filmmaker. He began in the world of film criticism in France, but in the late 1950s he decided to make movies himself. Truffaut quickly shot to the forefront of the French New Wave in the late 1950s and early 60s, alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, and others. By the time the 70s rolled around, Truffaut was a national treasure in France and a mainstay in art house cinemas in the U.S. and Britain.
His 1973 masterpiece, Day for Night (in France La Nuit Américaine, or “American Night”), won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of that year, the only time Truffaut picked up an Academy Award. Due to odd eligibility rules, the picture could be nominated for other categories the following year. For...
- 8/14/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
French screen icon claims her image is being used on unauthorised merchandise in town synonymous with 1956’s And God Created Woman
Brigitte Bardot has threatened legal action against a St Tropez boutique which sells watches, towels and champagne bottles featuring images of the iconic 50s star, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Bernard d’Ormale, husband of the French actor turned animal rights activist, accused the store in question of selling “Bb”-branded products without proper authorisation. “Exploitation has its limits! We’re used to seeing depictions of Bb everywhere but this is too much,” in comments reported by Nice Matin. “In the shop, there are candles, watches, espadrilles, plates, loads of things. Soon they’ll be making cars with the name Bb.”
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Brigitte Bardot has threatened legal action against a St Tropez boutique which sells watches, towels and champagne bottles featuring images of the iconic 50s star, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Bernard d’Ormale, husband of the French actor turned animal rights activist, accused the store in question of selling “Bb”-branded products without proper authorisation. “Exploitation has its limits! We’re used to seeing depictions of Bb everywhere but this is too much,” in comments reported by Nice Matin. “In the shop, there are candles, watches, espadrilles, plates, loads of things. Soon they’ll be making cars with the name Bb.”
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- 6/10/2015
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Between his high profile marriages to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, director Roger Vadim engaged in a notable liaison with Catherine Deneuve, just prior to her ascension to international stardom in 1964’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Having brought Bardot to fame with his most notable title, his 1956 debut And God Created Woman, their working relationship would continue across several more titles, even as he married another actress, Annette Stroyberg, who starred in his 1959 version of Dangerous Liaisons and the erotic vampire flick Blood & Roses. Between these flurry of romances, Vadim would return to black and white cinematography (which he seemed to prefer for evoking period) with 1963’s Vice and Virtue a loose adaptation of the Marquis De Sade’s controversial erotic novel Justine for WWII era occupied France, resulting in his only collaboration with Deneuve as the virtuous member of a pair of beautiful sisters surviving on opposite ends of the oppressive Nazi spectrum.
- 3/18/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Simone Simon in 'La Bête Humaine' 1938: Jean Renoir's film noir (photo: Jean Gabin and Simone Simon in 'La Bête Humaine') (See previous post: "'Cat People' 1942 Actress Simone Simon Remembered.") In the late 1930s, with her Hollywood career stalled while facing competition at 20th Century-Fox from another French import, Annabella (later Tyrone Power's wife), Simone Simon returned to France. Once there, she reestablished herself as an actress to be reckoned with in Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine. An updated version of Émile Zola's 1890 novel, La Bête Humaine is enveloped in a dark, brooding atmosphere not uncommon in pre-World War II French films. Known for their "poetic realism," examples from that era include Renoir's own The Lower Depths (1936), Julien Duvivier's La Belle Équipe (1936) and Pépé le Moko (1937), and particularly Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows (1938) and Daybreak (1939).[11] This thematic and...
- 2/6/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Brigitte Bardot turns 80 today and, as Agnès Poirier noted recently in the Observer, she's "never ceased to be a controversial figure…. In 1957, age 23, she made cinematic history in And God Created Woman [Et Dieu... créa la femme], her husband Roger Vadim's seminal film" and "when the film was released in America, it provoked outrage on a continental scale…. 'Ban Bardot!' advocated the morality leagues as if she were some kind of illegal drug." We revisit Vanity Fair's 2012 profile and Kim Morgan's appreciation of Vadim's Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... (1973). » - David Hudson...
- 9/28/2014
- Keyframe
Brigitte Bardot turns 80 today and, as Agnès Poirier noted recently in the Observer, she's "never ceased to be a controversial figure…. In 1957, age 23, she made cinematic history in And God Created Woman [Et Dieu... créa la femme], her husband Roger Vadim's seminal film" and "when the film was released in America, it provoked outrage on a continental scale…. 'Ban Bardot!' advocated the morality leagues as if she were some kind of illegal drug." We revisit Vanity Fair's 2012 profile and Kim Morgan's appreciation of Vadim's Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... (1973). » - David Hudson...
- 9/28/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Finally seeing Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses (a.k.a. Et mourir de plaisir, 1960) in a watchable, if imperfect form, was a minor revelation. (If all you're interested in is major revelations, move along.) By plundering freely from Cocteau, and doing so with some panache, Vadim surpasses his usual standard of titillation and serves up some haunting images, with much help from regular cinematographer Claude Renoir (yes, of that family), and anticipates a whole lot of developments in the European horror field.
By borrowing both from La belle et la bête (a masked ball allows the cast to get into period costume) and Orphée (mythology goes mod) Vadim is paving the way for all those films that combine Gothic with pop, particularly those of Jean Rollin, who simply upped the kink factor while retaining the crumbling castles, vampires and costumed role-play pioneered by Vadim.
The movie would doubtless be...
By borrowing both from La belle et la bête (a masked ball allows the cast to get into period costume) and Orphée (mythology goes mod) Vadim is paving the way for all those films that combine Gothic with pop, particularly those of Jean Rollin, who simply upped the kink factor while retaining the crumbling castles, vampires and costumed role-play pioneered by Vadim.
The movie would doubtless be...
- 6/11/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
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Tattoos have rapidly grown into a huge part of mainstream culture in the past decade: what once sunk the skin of a minority of people can now be seen on the bodies of many a celebrity. But what about the ones we wouldn’t expect to see them on?
Seattle-based visual artist Cheyenne Randall creates a parallel universe in which our most recognisable and admired icons don full sleeves, face tattoos and amusingly imaginative knuckle markings.
What’s interesting is the backlash the PhotoShop wizard has received from such work. Internet commentators have described it as ‘disgusting’, ‘disrespectful’, and ‘sacrilegious’. Why? It’s just the same as creating a painting of someone like Frida Kahlo or Audrey Hepburn: it’s all art. What’s more, they look awesome.
Here’s visual confirmation that most people look better with tattoos.
20. Brigitte Bardot
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And God Created Woman…...
Tattoos have rapidly grown into a huge part of mainstream culture in the past decade: what once sunk the skin of a minority of people can now be seen on the bodies of many a celebrity. But what about the ones we wouldn’t expect to see them on?
Seattle-based visual artist Cheyenne Randall creates a parallel universe in which our most recognisable and admired icons don full sleeves, face tattoos and amusingly imaginative knuckle markings.
What’s interesting is the backlash the PhotoShop wizard has received from such work. Internet commentators have described it as ‘disgusting’, ‘disrespectful’, and ‘sacrilegious’. Why? It’s just the same as creating a painting of someone like Frida Kahlo or Audrey Hepburn: it’s all art. What’s more, they look awesome.
Here’s visual confirmation that most people look better with tattoos.
20. Brigitte Bardot
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And God Created Woman…...
- 3/21/2014
- by Nina Cresswell
- Obsessed with Film
London, Feb 1: A Rolls-Royce owned by Brigitte Bardot, who was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, at the height of her career will soon be auctioned off for 320,000 pounds in Paris.
The 'And God Created Woman' star had purchased the car from singer Charles Aznavour in Oct er 1970 and then sold it two years later to designer Charles Jourdan, the Daily Express reported.
Referring to the 79-year-old French actress, Matthieu Lamoure, of auctioneers Artcurial Motorcars, said that the story behind its previous owners is truly unique.
The original registration document will also be auctioned.
The 'And God Created Woman' star had purchased the car from singer Charles Aznavour in Oct er 1970 and then sold it two years later to designer Charles Jourdan, the Daily Express reported.
Referring to the 79-year-old French actress, Matthieu Lamoure, of auctioneers Artcurial Motorcars, said that the story behind its previous owners is truly unique.
The original registration document will also be auctioned.
- 2/1/2014
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
So yes, Kanye West has made a music video with a topless Kim Kardashian, fiancée and mother-of-his-child and free-floating symbol for the dystopia our lives have become. And yes, the music video — set to “Bound 2,” the extremely heartfelt and totally weird love song that ends Yeezus — is about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian riding a motorcycle in front of green-screen images of Monument Valley and space, which makes it look a little bit like a ’70s biker-gang Roger Corman movie shot inside of an iMac screensaver. And yes, you could argue that this music video is basically a softcore porno...
- 11/19/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Saint-Tropez, a once-sleepy fishing town on the French Riviera, owes a lot to the stars. It was the 1956 French movie And God Created Woman, starring blond bombshell Brigitte Bardot, that put the place on the map, instantly transforming it into a playground for the rich and famous. So, no, it wasn’t Diddy who made this place hot. But we did wonder why the likes of Jay Z and Beyonce, Neil Patrick Harris, Kate Moss, Rihanna and more choose to park their yachts there, of all places.
It’s a good thing they sent us all these postcards to tell us why they love Saint-Tropez. Wish we were there!
Here, for extra viewing pleasure, is a clip from And God Created Woman.
[Photos: Splash News Online, Turner Classic Movies]...
It’s a good thing they sent us all these postcards to tell us why they love Saint-Tropez. Wish we were there!
Here, for extra viewing pleasure, is a clip from And God Created Woman.
[Photos: Splash News Online, Turner Classic Movies]...
- 8/3/2013
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
Former screen siren threatens to quit France for Russia, in protest not at tax hikes but at treatment of two circus elephants
Brigitte Bardot has threatened to follow Gérard Depardieu in asking for a Russian passport, in protest not at tax hikes but at the treatment of two circus elephants.
The animals, named Baby and Nepal, are owned by a touring circus and thought to be carrying tuberculosis. They were ordered to be put down by a court in Lyon, southern France, on Friday as a precautionary measure.
Bardot's threat on Friday comes a day after her fellow actor Depardieu caused a storm in France by becoming a Russian citizen in protest at high tax rates proposed by François Hollande's Socialist government, which he accuses of penalising success.
"If those in power are cowardly and impudent enough to kill the elephants … then I have decided I will ask for...
Brigitte Bardot has threatened to follow Gérard Depardieu in asking for a Russian passport, in protest not at tax hikes but at the treatment of two circus elephants.
The animals, named Baby and Nepal, are owned by a touring circus and thought to be carrying tuberculosis. They were ordered to be put down by a court in Lyon, southern France, on Friday as a precautionary measure.
Bardot's threat on Friday comes a day after her fellow actor Depardieu caused a storm in France by becoming a Russian citizen in protest at high tax rates proposed by François Hollande's Socialist government, which he accuses of penalising success.
"If those in power are cowardly and impudent enough to kill the elephants … then I have decided I will ask for...
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Mk Raghavendra argues why Amour might not be the best film of the year:
Michel Haneke’s Amour was the most eagerly awaited film at the just concluded Iffi 2012. Audiences waited as the lights went down and responded spontaneously when the tiles appeared – not at the name of the film or the director or for the legendary actors starring in it but at the ‘Palme d’Or, Cannes 2012’ which appeared alongside the titles. What the national audience was clapping and whistling for was Cannes as a brand. Since such conduct implies unthinking faith in the judgments of film festival juries, I wondered if the members of the audience would be bold enough to evaluate Amour on their own after they had seen all of it.
Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music...
Michel Haneke’s Amour was the most eagerly awaited film at the just concluded Iffi 2012. Audiences waited as the lights went down and responded spontaneously when the tiles appeared – not at the name of the film or the director or for the legendary actors starring in it but at the ‘Palme d’Or, Cannes 2012’ which appeared alongside the titles. What the national audience was clapping and whistling for was Cannes as a brand. Since such conduct implies unthinking faith in the judgments of film festival juries, I wondered if the members of the audience would be bold enough to evaluate Amour on their own after they had seen all of it.
Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music...
- 12/4/2012
- by MK Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
The octogenarian French actors Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant discuss their roles in Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning film – and reveal their problem with Cannes
The last time we see Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, she's lying pale and lifeless on a double bed, petals strewn about her head, the lights turned down low and the shutters closed. The last time we see Jean-Louis Trintignant, he's the walking wounded, racked by grief and barely there. Michael Haneke's acclaimed new picture offers such an unflinching portrait of the grubby business of dying – focusing on the final days of an elderly French couple – that it precludes all talk of second acts or miracle cures. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, there's no such thing as a happy ending.
All of which makes it curious to find the film's stars abruptly reunited in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just south of the Arc de Triomphe.
The last time we see Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, she's lying pale and lifeless on a double bed, petals strewn about her head, the lights turned down low and the shutters closed. The last time we see Jean-Louis Trintignant, he's the walking wounded, racked by grief and barely there. Michael Haneke's acclaimed new picture offers such an unflinching portrait of the grubby business of dying – focusing on the final days of an elderly French couple – that it precludes all talk of second acts or miracle cures. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, there's no such thing as a happy ending.
All of which makes it curious to find the film's stars abruptly reunited in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just south of the Arc de Triomphe.
- 11/9/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning film Amour will strike some as brutal, as its elderly characters grapple with the indignities of ageing. The director proves a challenging subject to interview as he evades and obstructs – much like his films
Michael Haneke likes to say that his films are easier to make than to watch. Cast and crew have fun, but he expects his audience to be disturbed, affronted, even sickened. "On the set I make jokes," he said when we met in Paris to discuss Amour, which deservedly won him the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year. "I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light."
What he tried to alleviate while making Amour was a grim anatomy of elderly debility and dementia, complete with incontinence, forced feeding and the eventual stench of putrefaction. The film follows the decline of an octogenarian musician,...
Michael Haneke likes to say that his films are easier to make than to watch. Cast and crew have fun, but he expects his audience to be disturbed, affronted, even sickened. "On the set I make jokes," he said when we met in Paris to discuss Amour, which deservedly won him the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year. "I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light."
What he tried to alleviate while making Amour was a grim anatomy of elderly debility and dementia, complete with incontinence, forced feeding and the eventual stench of putrefaction. The film follows the decline of an octogenarian musician,...
- 11/5/2012
- by Peter Conrad
- The Guardian - Film News
Former bombshell tells men's magazine before 78th birthday of 'nightmare' of stardom and that she now considers herself ugly
Brigitte Bardot, who shot to world fame in 1956 after writhing on a beach in a gingham bikini in the cult film And God Created Woman, has described how stardom crushed her.
The French former actor, who retired in 1973 saying she was "fed up" with fame and wanted to devote her life to the plight of animals, told a men's magazine she was "literally crushed by celebrity … nobody can imagine at what point it was appalling. A nightmare. I couldn't live like that," she said.
"Bb", who will celebrate her 78th birthday at the end of September, added that she now considered herself "ugly".
"I try to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I think I'm ugly. I find it madly difficult to go out, to show myself," Bardot told Vogue Hommes International.
Brigitte Bardot, who shot to world fame in 1956 after writhing on a beach in a gingham bikini in the cult film And God Created Woman, has described how stardom crushed her.
The French former actor, who retired in 1973 saying she was "fed up" with fame and wanted to devote her life to the plight of animals, told a men's magazine she was "literally crushed by celebrity … nobody can imagine at what point it was appalling. A nightmare. I couldn't live like that," she said.
"Bb", who will celebrate her 78th birthday at the end of September, added that she now considered herself "ugly".
"I try to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I think I'm ugly. I find it madly difficult to go out, to show myself," Bardot told Vogue Hommes International.
- 9/13/2012
- by Kim Willsher
- The Guardian - Film News
Amour: Michael Haneke’s drama is Austria’s Oscar 2013 submission Amour, Michael Haneke’s widely acclaimed Palme d’Or winner about love, old age, and death, is Austria’s (expected) submission for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The Cannes Film Festival hit stars veterans Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, and Isabelle Huppert. (Photo: Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour.) Shot in early 2011, Amour stars the 80-year-old Trintignant (who has appeared in nearly 130 movies in the last 56 years, including Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman, Costa-Gavras’ Z, and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red) and the 84-year-old Riva (more than 50 movies in the last 52 years, [...]...
- 9/5/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 84-year-old The Passion of Joan of Arc was recently voted the ninth greatest film of all time in the decennial Sight & Sound poll, receiving votes from 65 critics and 13 directors including no less than Manoel de Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Michael Mann, Tsai Ming-liang and Béla Tarr (though the film is notable by its absence from filmmaker Pierre Leon’s all-Dreyer top ten). As beloved and familiar as The Passion of Joan of Arc is, however, these two stunning, and remarkably modern looking posters for the film were new to me when I came upon them recently on the Movie Poster Database. Both are the work of the great affichiste René Péron and seem to be original to the film’s release, but what I didn't realize about them until I did some detective work is their remarkable size. The poster directly above is what is known as a double grande,...
- 8/31/2012
- MUBI
News.
Above: Cinetract 2: Revolution Is in the Eye of the Beholder, a video essay by David Phelps. The video is part of a new issue of one of our very favorite—and one of the best—film magazines in the world, La Furia Umana, which is now out. Each issue is focused on dossiers on particular directors, and this issue includes essential articles on Leo McCarey, Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Claude Rousseau and José Luis Guerín. In the McCarey dossier are pieces by our very own Daniel Kasman—on the Cary Grant & Ginger Rogers vs. the Nazis film, Once Upon a Honeymoon—and Ted Fendt on McCarey's Charley Chase comedy shorts. But don't ignore the depth and variety of articles outside this center, which include searing video pieces by Notebook regulars David Phelps—on Lang, Vertov and protest—and Gina Telaroli on Joan Bennett, Max Ophüls, The Reckless Moment and the reflections of American presidents.
Above: Cinetract 2: Revolution Is in the Eye of the Beholder, a video essay by David Phelps. The video is part of a new issue of one of our very favorite—and one of the best—film magazines in the world, La Furia Umana, which is now out. Each issue is focused on dossiers on particular directors, and this issue includes essential articles on Leo McCarey, Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Claude Rousseau and José Luis Guerín. In the McCarey dossier are pieces by our very own Daniel Kasman—on the Cary Grant & Ginger Rogers vs. the Nazis film, Once Upon a Honeymoon—and Ted Fendt on McCarey's Charley Chase comedy shorts. But don't ignore the depth and variety of articles outside this center, which include searing video pieces by Notebook regulars David Phelps—on Lang, Vertov and protest—and Gina Telaroli on Joan Bennett, Max Ophüls, The Reckless Moment and the reflections of American presidents.
- 7/4/2012
- MUBI
Adam Yauch, better known as McA of the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47. Yauch was diagnosed with cancer in July 2009.
In addition to being one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys -- the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted hip-hop trio that has sold over 40 million albums -- Yauch also co-founded the maverick independent film company, Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Named for Yauch's New York-based studios, Oscilloscope began in 2002 as a recording label. In 2008, Oscilloscope branched out to films and has produced 50 features since then, including Oscar nominees like the Banksy documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" and the Woody Harrelson war drama "The Messenger." Additionally, Oscilloscope has released "Wendy and Lucy" (with Michelle Williams), "Howl" (with James Franco) and "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (with Tilda Swinton). It's a roster of diverse releases, which is just what Yauch wanted Oscilloscope to be.
"I'd say the common...
In addition to being one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys -- the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted hip-hop trio that has sold over 40 million albums -- Yauch also co-founded the maverick independent film company, Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Named for Yauch's New York-based studios, Oscilloscope began in 2002 as a recording label. In 2008, Oscilloscope branched out to films and has produced 50 features since then, including Oscar nominees like the Banksy documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" and the Woody Harrelson war drama "The Messenger." Additionally, Oscilloscope has released "Wendy and Lucy" (with Michelle Williams), "Howl" (with James Franco) and "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (with Tilda Swinton). It's a roster of diverse releases, which is just what Yauch wanted Oscilloscope to be.
"I'd say the common...
- 5/4/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
A young woman falls for a suicidal man.
One can only imagine that the experience of watching Love On A Pillow (1962) is very different now to the initial experience in the year of its original release. Based on the best-selling work of feminist novelist, Christiane Rochefort, the film captures the iconic Bridget Bardot shortly after her turn in 1956's Et Dieu créa la femme launched her into the stratosphere of international stardom. The latter film, also known as And God Created Woman, was also directed by her then husband Roger Vadim and proved one of the pivotal steps in her rise...
One can only imagine that the experience of watching Love On A Pillow (1962) is very different now to the initial experience in the year of its original release. Based on the best-selling work of feminist novelist, Christiane Rochefort, the film captures the iconic Bridget Bardot shortly after her turn in 1956's Et Dieu créa la femme launched her into the stratosphere of international stardom. The latter film, also known as And God Created Woman, was also directed by her then husband Roger Vadim and proved one of the pivotal steps in her rise...
- 3/20/2012
- by Merlin Harries
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After the first screening of the restored Napoleon, Abel Gance’s beleaguered 1927 masterwork, at the Empire Leicester Square, London, on November 30th, 1980, the director of the British Film Institute Anthony Smith was quoted as saying “After Sunday the world will be divided into those who have seen Napoleon and those who haven’t.” The world of the haves over the have-nots expanded to the Us the following year when Francis Ford Coppola famously brought Napoleon to Radio City Music Hall to be performed with his father’s score, but in the intervening three decades the film has not been seen again in the Us. Come March 24th, however, thanks to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the world will once again be divided between those who have and those who haven’t when the film returns to the Us for four screenings of Kevin Brownlow’s complete restoration—accompanied by...
- 3/10/2012
- MUBI
Legendary British filmmaker Ken Russell, the notorious director famous for boundary-pushing films such as Women in Love, Altered States and The Devils, has died at 84 following a series of strokes.
For an artist who's been called an iconoclast, a maverick and a genius — one with a professed love for consciousness-altering drugs — Russell (born July 3, 1927) got his start in a fairly conventional manner. Following a stint in the service, Russell worked as a photojournalist to minor acclaim before going to work at the BBC as a director in 1959.
While at the BBC, Russell made a series of historical documentaries, still regarded as impressive for their impressionistic visual technique. This is the beginning of the flamboyant style that became synonymous with the name Ken Russell. Many of these television films focused on renowned composers, including Edward Elgar, Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy. Interestingly, this is subject matter Russell would return to often...
For an artist who's been called an iconoclast, a maverick and a genius — one with a professed love for consciousness-altering drugs — Russell (born July 3, 1927) got his start in a fairly conventional manner. Following a stint in the service, Russell worked as a photojournalist to minor acclaim before going to work at the BBC as a director in 1959.
While at the BBC, Russell made a series of historical documentaries, still regarded as impressive for their impressionistic visual technique. This is the beginning of the flamboyant style that became synonymous with the name Ken Russell. Many of these television films focused on renowned composers, including Edward Elgar, Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy. Interestingly, this is subject matter Russell would return to often...
- 11/28/2011
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
Directed by Roger Vadim (…And God Created Woman {1956}, Barbarella {1968}) Blood and Roses (1960) is a psychological thriller that may….or may not be about vampires. Based on the novella “Carmilla” written in 1872 by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, The movie tells the story of Carmilla (Annette Vadim) who has just found out the man she loves, Leopoldo (Mel Ferrer) is marrying Georgia (Elsa Martinelli). In her grief Carmilla is driven to the tomb of her long-dead ancestor, a vampire named Millarca. Millarca has possessed Carmilla, who is now killing and terrorizing the people in and around the family’s castle.
Early in the movie Leopoldo and Carmilla, who are cousins, are explaining to friends their family’s history of vampires. They explain the superstitions of the villagers and how supposedly only one body in the family cemetery escaped staking and burning—Millarca. Her portrait hangs in the...
Directed by Roger Vadim (…And God Created Woman {1956}, Barbarella {1968}) Blood and Roses (1960) is a psychological thriller that may….or may not be about vampires. Based on the novella “Carmilla” written in 1872 by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, The movie tells the story of Carmilla (Annette Vadim) who has just found out the man she loves, Leopoldo (Mel Ferrer) is marrying Georgia (Elsa Martinelli). In her grief Carmilla is driven to the tomb of her long-dead ancestor, a vampire named Millarca. Millarca has possessed Carmilla, who is now killing and terrorizing the people in and around the family’s castle.
Early in the movie Leopoldo and Carmilla, who are cousins, are explaining to friends their family’s history of vampires. They explain the superstitions of the villagers and how supposedly only one body in the family cemetery escaped staking and burning—Millarca. Her portrait hangs in the...
- 11/28/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
This one is coming up late, due to Criterion jam packing a ton of releases on Friday, right while I was finishing up the original post. I think they wanted to mess with me, which is very funny. But being the premier (and only) site that gives you the best coverage of Hulu Plus movies, I don’t mind taking the time at all. I’m hoping it has nothing to do with the recent shake-up going on that Josh just reported on the other day (here), and with Hulu wanting to be bought because of financial problems stemming from multiple sources, this makes one wonder what’s going to happen to the Criterion Collection and their deal with Hulu. I’m crossing my fingers that whoever buys the service, be it Amazon, Google or Yahoo (who is the frontrunner), it doesn’t ruin the deal in place for Criterion and its films.
- 6/26/2011
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
Everett Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Goddard’s film “Breathless” (1960)
Since the competing claims of Edison and the Lumières to have invented the cinema, France and America have amassed two immensely rich but so often opposed film heritages. The attitude that has driven the American cinema was expressed by Sam Goldwyn when he observed, “Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.” The well-crafted narrative rules in Hollywood, which has had little time for Jean-Luc Godard’s comment...
Since the competing claims of Edison and the Lumières to have invented the cinema, France and America have amassed two immensely rich but so often opposed film heritages. The attitude that has driven the American cinema was expressed by Sam Goldwyn when he observed, “Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.” The well-crafted narrative rules in Hollywood, which has had little time for Jean-Luc Godard’s comment...
- 6/13/2011
- by Charles Drazin
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Since the 1960's, horror anthology films have flourished as a popular form of popular entertainment. In many cases the anthology featured a single auteur approaching several different stories, as was the case in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath, or Masaki Kobayashi's masterpiece, Kwaidan. In recent years, anthology films have been a popular way for different director's to either get their work known, or to branch out from their expected forms. This tradition goes back a long way, but one of the most high-profile efforts at an auteur driven portmanteau film was 1968's Spirits of the Dead, also known as Histoires extraordinaires. In this film, three giants of international cinema came together to approach the takes of Edgar Allan Poe in a less literal way than the wildly popular American International Pictures collaborations between Roger Corman and Vincent Price. I should let it be known that I am a huge...
- 10/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Former screen siren Brigitte Bardot is contemplating running for president in her native France after accusing the country's politicians of ignoring her pleas for stricter animal rights laws. The "And God Created Woman" star has been asked by the Ecology Alliance party to run for France's top job in the 2012 elections.
The party champions animal rights and campaigns against the ritual slaughter of livestock by Muslims for halal meat, and both policies agree with Bardot's political standing. And the former actress admits she is considering hitting the campaign trail after she was treated like an "imbecile" by current leader Nicolas Sarkozy.
She says, "Someone's voice is needed to defend animals as neither the Right nor the Left give a damn!. Sarkozy took me for an imbecile by making promises he didn't keep." The Ecology Alliance party's chairman Antoine Waechter adds, "We think she is the best person to represent us for the presidency.
The party champions animal rights and campaigns against the ritual slaughter of livestock by Muslims for halal meat, and both policies agree with Bardot's political standing. And the former actress admits she is considering hitting the campaign trail after she was treated like an "imbecile" by current leader Nicolas Sarkozy.
She says, "Someone's voice is needed to defend animals as neither the Right nor the Left give a damn!. Sarkozy took me for an imbecile by making promises he didn't keep." The Ecology Alliance party's chairman Antoine Waechter adds, "We think she is the best person to represent us for the presidency.
- 10/18/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Former screen siren Brigitte Bardot is contemplating running for president in her native France after accusing the country's politicians of ignoring her pleas for stricter animal rights laws.
The And God Created Woman star has been asked by the Ecology Alliance party to run for France's top job in the 2012 elections.
The party champions animal rights and campaigns against the ritual slaughter of livestock by Muslims for halal meat, and both policies agree with Bardot's political standing.
And the former actress admits she is considering hitting the campaign trail after she was treated like an "imbecile" by current leader Nicolas Sarkozy.
She says, "Someone's voice is needed to defend animals as neither the Right nor the Left give a damn!. Sarkozy took me for an imbecile by making promises he didn't keep."
The Ecology Alliance party's chairman Antoine Waechter adds, "We think she is the best person to represent us for the presidency. If she accepts, a final decision will be taken next year."
Bardot has long been outspoken about her controversial views on animal rights, Muslims and immigrants in France, receiving several fines for racist remarks.
The And God Created Woman star has been asked by the Ecology Alliance party to run for France's top job in the 2012 elections.
The party champions animal rights and campaigns against the ritual slaughter of livestock by Muslims for halal meat, and both policies agree with Bardot's political standing.
And the former actress admits she is considering hitting the campaign trail after she was treated like an "imbecile" by current leader Nicolas Sarkozy.
She says, "Someone's voice is needed to defend animals as neither the Right nor the Left give a damn!. Sarkozy took me for an imbecile by making promises he didn't keep."
The Ecology Alliance party's chairman Antoine Waechter adds, "We think she is the best person to represent us for the presidency. If she accepts, a final decision will be taken next year."
Bardot has long been outspoken about her controversial views on animal rights, Muslims and immigrants in France, receiving several fines for racist remarks.
- 10/18/2010
- WENN
[Just updating to throw in the fact that movie enthusiasts worldwide can now pre-order this with confidence as Arrow Films have confirmed that the Blu-ray will be region free and able to be played in machines anywhere. Go to it, guys!]
Today in their newsletter Arrow Films announced the upcoming release of the 1968 Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead. The film features vignettes from Roger Vadim (...And God Created Woman), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), and Louis Malle (Au revoir les enfants), and has never been seen on Blu-ray. Here is the official word from Arrow:
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim adapt works by macabre author Edgar Allan Poe in the anthology film Spirits of the Dead [Histoires extraordinaires]. Dealing with tormented characters experiencing a personal hell, filled with angst and delirium, Spirits of the Dead was a ground-breaking departure for the adaption of Poe in cinema.
Vadim directs Jane Fonda as Countess Metzengerstein, a debauched heiress leading a life Caligula would commend. The Countess becomes tormented by the denial of her incestuous desire for her cousin Baron Berlifitzing (fittingly played by her brother Peter Fonda). Malle directs Alain Delon as William Wilson,...
Today in their newsletter Arrow Films announced the upcoming release of the 1968 Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead. The film features vignettes from Roger Vadim (...And God Created Woman), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), and Louis Malle (Au revoir les enfants), and has never been seen on Blu-ray. Here is the official word from Arrow:
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim adapt works by macabre author Edgar Allan Poe in the anthology film Spirits of the Dead [Histoires extraordinaires]. Dealing with tormented characters experiencing a personal hell, filled with angst and delirium, Spirits of the Dead was a ground-breaking departure for the adaption of Poe in cinema.
Vadim directs Jane Fonda as Countess Metzengerstein, a debauched heiress leading a life Caligula would commend. The Countess becomes tormented by the denial of her incestuous desire for her cousin Baron Berlifitzing (fittingly played by her brother Peter Fonda). Malle directs Alain Delon as William Wilson,...
- 10/6/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Today in their newsletter Arrow Films announced the upcoming release of the 1968 Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead. The film features vignettes from Roger Vadim (...And God Created Woman), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), and Louis Malle (Au revoir les enfants), and has never been seen on Blu-ray. Here is the official word from Arrow:
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim adapt works by macabre author Edgar Allan Poe in the anthology film Spirits of the Dead [Histoires extraordinaires]. Dealing with tormented characters experiencing a personal hell, filled with angst and delirium, Spirits of the Dead was a ground-breaking departure for the adaption of Poe in cinema.
Vadim directs Jane Fonda as Countess Metzengerstein, a debauched heiress leading a life Caligula would commend. The Countess becomes tormented by the denial of her incestuous desire for her cousin Baron Berlifitzing (fittingly played by her brother Peter Fonda). Malle directs Alain Delon as William Wilson,...
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim adapt works by macabre author Edgar Allan Poe in the anthology film Spirits of the Dead [Histoires extraordinaires]. Dealing with tormented characters experiencing a personal hell, filled with angst and delirium, Spirits of the Dead was a ground-breaking departure for the adaption of Poe in cinema.
Vadim directs Jane Fonda as Countess Metzengerstein, a debauched heiress leading a life Caligula would commend. The Countess becomes tormented by the denial of her incestuous desire for her cousin Baron Berlifitzing (fittingly played by her brother Peter Fonda). Malle directs Alain Delon as William Wilson,...
- 9/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
After last week's screening of The Red Shoes, I found myself at an impasse as far as this column was concerned. While there was no shortage of movies seen between then and now - I watched The Expendables, Going the Distance, Escape from New York, And God Created Woman, Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Tales From Earthsea, Gamera, Machete, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Not Quite Hollywood - I felt hard-pressed to choose any of them, because I either loved them regardless of their shortcomings, knew they weren't eligible (all films must be at least five years old), or felt like it would be redundant to point out how well they hold up. But then I saw Piranha 3D.
Although I did not review it for Cinematical this time around, it's truthfully one of the few I've seen I consider to be "critic-proof," meaning that it does precisely what it intends to do,...
Although I did not review it for Cinematical this time around, it's truthfully one of the few I've seen I consider to be "critic-proof," meaning that it does precisely what it intends to do,...
- 8/20/2010
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Cinematical
Brigitte Bardot and her friend Laurent Verges lounge at Club 55 in St. Tropez, June 7, 1973. Photo credit: Afp/Afp/Getty Images.There’s a great piece of café-society gossip from across the pond that seems to have escaped much of the English-speaking media this summer. It involves a bitter controversy that’s brewing on the French Riviera along a tiny sliver of prime Mediterranean coastline known as Pampelonne Beach, just south of St. Tropez. Municipal officials there recently adopted a policy that calls for the demolition of nearly all the area’s most fashionable oceanfront clubs and restaurants, a move that has outraged local restaurateurs, as well as many of their celebrity and billionaire customers. Pampelonne Beach first became famous in the mid-1950s, when Brigitte Bardot, the commanding sexual icon of the day, effectively set St. Tropez and the neighboring shores ablaze by shooting the film And God Created Woman there.
- 8/10/2010
- Vanity Fair
Denim in cinema has been popularised by some of the great screen icons of the twentieth century. From Marlon Brando (The Wild One) to Steve McQueen (Junior Bonner), Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke) to John Travolta (Urban Cowboy), Grace Kelly (Rear Window) to Brigitte Bardot (And God Created Woman).
Similar to the business suit, denim is a sartorial way of life that confers immediate personality on a person without them having to do or say anything; this personality has evolved through time and trends, though one facet remains intact: rebelliousness.
Denim’s symbolism has been created on film from real life frontier mythology. Art imitates life; imitates art. At one time Brando wore jeans like the cowboys, now the cowboys wear jeans like Brando. It is not difficult to understand how James Dean in a pair of Lee 101 Riders jeans was the birth of the American teenager. As Jim Stark...
Similar to the business suit, denim is a sartorial way of life that confers immediate personality on a person without them having to do or say anything; this personality has evolved through time and trends, though one facet remains intact: rebelliousness.
Denim’s symbolism has been created on film from real life frontier mythology. Art imitates life; imitates art. At one time Brando wore jeans like the cowboys, now the cowboys wear jeans like Brando. It is not difficult to understand how James Dean in a pair of Lee 101 Riders jeans was the birth of the American teenager. As Jim Stark...
- 7/1/2010
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Brigitte Bardot has sparked rumors she has separated from her fourth husband after moving back to St. Tropez, France following years in the country's capital Paris. The former screen siren has returned to the wealthy resort - the place she helped popularize in the 1950s with her performance in "And God Created Woman" - after reportedly splitting from her fourth husband, French politician Bernard d'Ormale.
The pair has been married since 1992, and for the last 15 years they lived just outside Paris - but insiders tell New York Post gossip column Page Six that Bardot's return to St. Tropez is due to the breakdown of her marriage.
A source tells the publication, "Word is they have separated and that's why she moved back to St. Tropez."...
The pair has been married since 1992, and for the last 15 years they lived just outside Paris - but insiders tell New York Post gossip column Page Six that Bardot's return to St. Tropez is due to the breakdown of her marriage.
A source tells the publication, "Word is they have separated and that's why she moved back to St. Tropez."...
- 5/6/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Brigitte Bardot has sparked rumours she has separated from her fourth husband after moving back to St. Tropez, France following years in the country's capital Paris.
The former screen siren has returned to the wealthy resort - the place she helped popularise in the 1950s with her performance in And God Created Woman - after reportedly splitting from her fourth husband, French politician Bernard d'Ormale.
The pair has been married since 1992, and for the last 15 years they lived just outside Paris - but insiders tell New York Post gossip column Page Six that Bardot's return to St. Tropez is due to the breakdown of her marriage.
A source tells the publication, "Word is they have separated and that's why she moved back to St. Tropez."...
The former screen siren has returned to the wealthy resort - the place she helped popularise in the 1950s with her performance in And God Created Woman - after reportedly splitting from her fourth husband, French politician Bernard d'Ormale.
The pair has been married since 1992, and for the last 15 years they lived just outside Paris - but insiders tell New York Post gossip column Page Six that Bardot's return to St. Tropez is due to the breakdown of her marriage.
A source tells the publication, "Word is they have separated and that's why she moved back to St. Tropez."...
- 5/5/2010
- WENN
Actor kicks off further debate on the size issue by endorsing larger models in magazine's French version
In the heady world of high fashion, few issues have ruffled feathers as much in recent months as that of size. And now further fuel has been added to the debate about the use of larger models thanks to an edition of Vogue edited by the actor Penelope Cruz.
Cruz was chosen to edit the French edition of the title and has promptly waded in with a provocative shoot that stars the size 12 model Crystal Renn in photographs styled by the magazine's influential editor, Carine Roitfeld.
Cruz's intervention comes at a key moment within the industry for models with body shapes more akin to those of the majority of women. Last month, a special "curvy" edition of French Elle lavished praise on cover girl Tara Lynn's "adorable belly fat".
And two months ago a Louis Vuitton show,...
In the heady world of high fashion, few issues have ruffled feathers as much in recent months as that of size. And now further fuel has been added to the debate about the use of larger models thanks to an edition of Vogue edited by the actor Penelope Cruz.
Cruz was chosen to edit the French edition of the title and has promptly waded in with a provocative shoot that stars the size 12 model Crystal Renn in photographs styled by the magazine's influential editor, Carine Roitfeld.
Cruz's intervention comes at a key moment within the industry for models with body shapes more akin to those of the majority of women. Last month, a special "curvy" edition of French Elle lavished praise on cover girl Tara Lynn's "adorable belly fat".
And two months ago a Louis Vuitton show,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Jess Cartner-Morley
- The Guardian - Film News
French sixties siren Brigitte Bardot is celebrating after a Paris court threw out a defamation lawsuit against her. Radio Courtesy host Marc-Olivier Fogiel infuriated the ...And God Created Woman actress during a May 12, 2003 broadcast, when he insisted she talk about her controversial best-selling book Un Cri Dans Le Silence (A Cry In The Silence). Bardot, 70, was convicted in June of inciting racial hatred in her 2003 book with her comments comparing Muslims to "invaders, cruel and barbaric". On Monday the Parisian court ruled Bardot had been provoked into calling Fogiel "a little jerk". Judge Nicolas Bonnal agreed that "the expression little jerk seemed injurious" toward the presenter. Bonnal added, "There is a direct relationship between provocation and injury, appearing proportional to it. The injury can be excused."...
- 10/20/2004
- WENN
Fans of screen legend Brigitte Bardot descended on a French auction house for a sale of memorabilia to celebrate her 70th birthday. Dutch collector Cees Storm held the sale of his collection of Bardot film posters and photos at the Drouot bidding house in Paris, France - and raised an estimated 80,000 euros ($30,200). Leading items in the sale included original posters from her 1956 film ...And God Created Woman, which turned Bardot into a international sex icon. Storm began his extensive collection when he became a fan of Bardot at the age of 15. He has spent the subsequent 45 years trawling through markets in France hunting for items.
- 9/30/2004
- WENN
French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has landed herself in trouble with anti-racism campaigners after criticizing Muslims in a new book. Anti-racist group MRAP and the Human Rights League both said they were filing a complaint in court against Bardot, 68, for remarks made in her book A Scream In The Silence. In the book, she wrote, "I am against the Islamization of France. For centuries our forefathers ... our fathers gave their lives to chase all successive invaders from France." France, home to about five million Muslims, is in the midst of a fierce debate over the wearing of the traditional Muslim head scarf in the country's secular schools. In 1997 and 1998, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial hatred and fined a total of $5,400 in published criticism of Arab customs and the role of Islam in France. In her first television interview in seven years on Monday, Bardot defended her comments, saying she was not ashamed of her opinions. The And God Created Woman sex kitten put her film career behind her 30 years ago to concentrate on her role as an animal rights activist. She started the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986.
- 5/15/2003
- WENN
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