LOST IN FRENCHLATION
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WRP and Lost in Frenchlation collaborate on a show to bring you a thoughtful look into contemporary French films, as well as an occasional look back to the films the shaped French cinema as a whole.
In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlatin we talk with Global Cinema expert Dina Iordanova about her 2016 book Cinemas of Paris.
We talk about how Paris is a “never ending film festival,” and why movie going in the city of light is unlike anywhere else.
We talk about the wealth of movie theaters and why they are all different. How some have gone to extreme lengths to keep these cinemas open and some have been saved by the city itself.
Dina Iordanova is Emeritus Professor in Global Cinema at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. A native of Bulgaria, she has worked around the world for more than three decades. She is a film historian of transnational cinema and has particular interest in the study of film festivals and global film circulation.
In this Episode We Discuss:
Cinemas:
Le Brady, Cinema La Clef, La Pagode, Espace Saint-Michel and many others.
You can read more of Dina’s Work here:
The Complicated History of Women at Cannes Film Festival (2021)
Cannes Is Not A Film Festival: It Is a Club for Insiders (2018)
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In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlatin we talk with lauded French filmmaker and screenwriter Arnaud Desplechin about his new film ‘Spectateurs!’ (Filmlovers!)
His film screened at the beautiful Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries Gardens, during the Lost in Frenchlation event. Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray were able to chat with Arnaud about his films, his inspiration, and what it was like to put together his own personal ode to cinema. Arnaud tells us why he used the mixed forms of narrative and documentary, what his earliest interactions with art were and why Pretty Woman occupies his thoughts from time to time.
In this Episode We Discuss:
Philosopher:
Stanley Cavell
Films:
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
The Exiled by Johnnie To
Pretty Woman by Garry Marshall
Arnaud’s must see recommendation for recent films:
Souleymane’s Story by Boris Lojkine
Listen to Arnaud give a talk about why he loves the film Pretty Woman (In French)
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In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlatin we continue our series on the Cinemas of Paris. Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray chat with Camille Labé, the new Owner of L’épée de Bois. L’épée de Bois is a small cinema on Rue Mouffetard, one of the most iconic streets of Paris. The cinema opened in 1971 and has changed hands several times. Camille is the most recent owner having taken ownership in February of 2024. Camille tells us what it’s like to run a cinema with a focus on community and classic cinema.
Camille is a big fan of classic comedy and she recommends checking out:
The films of Louis de Funès
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On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray talk to the crew at the Luminor Cinema, one of the oldest movie houses in Paris, about what it’s like to run an art-house theater. From the Paris projectionist shortage to the regulations for film distribution, the story of the Luminor touches all facets of film culture in Paris and, more broadly, France.
Andy Sellitto is the cinema manager, and Anna Dichio coordinates events as well as heads the awareness campaign to Save The Luminor. They reveal for us what it’s like to run this place, in one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world (The Marais), while fighting for the attention of cinema-goers and dodging building owners who want to shut it all down.
For see what is playing at the Luminor go to:
https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.com
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For this holiday episode we are delving into cinema history with renowned cinephile, David Honnorat, and talking all bout French comedy film. Our focus is Santa Claus is a Stinker (Le père Noël est une ordure) 1982, and French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzes go Skiing (Les Bronzés font du ski) 1979.
Both Films are Screening at 8pm on December 10th 2024 at L’Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris. GET TICKETS HERE
David is a renowned cinephile and video essayist. He runs a successful youtube channel called Calmos named after another film of the time by Bertrand Blier. He also wrote a movie guide and a Movieland map.
David unpacks the cultural influences that made this era of comedy so unique and gives us some background on the Parisian theater company (Le Splendid) that created the movement.
There are two of David’s videos with English subtitles on his channel Calmos
The essay on Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5aedz2iso
And OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fURk7ykLI
Show Hosts are ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean
Show Notes:
We love giving our audience a little homework. Here are David’s recommendations for getting started with French Comedy:
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Spy comedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117:_Cairo,_Nest_of_Spies
La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
French civilians help a stranded British Royal Air Force crew navigate Nazi Occupied France to safety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Vadrouille
Other French Comedy and Film Comedians mentioned in this episode:
Le splendid – Theater Troupe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Splendid
Coluche – A French stage comedian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluche
Ettore Scola’s Ugly, dirty and nasty (Affreux, sales et méchants)
A dark Italian comedy about life in the outskirts of Rome.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affreux,_sales_et_méchants
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This episode was recorded at The Luminor Cinema
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On this episode Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray sit down with director Nicolas Peduzzi to talk about his latest documentary film Etat Limité or “On the Edge.”
The Film follows a young psychiatrist Jamal during his daily rounds at the well-known Hospital Beaujon on the edge of Paris. Jamal has to navigate time constraints and budgetary restrictions whilst trying to care for his patients as best he can. Shot over the corse of 3 years, Etat Limité is an incredible portrait of the compassion of a young doctor and limitations of the healthcare system.
Nicolas Peduzzi is a French actor and director. He studied theater and cinema in Italy and New York. His first feature documentary, Southern Belle, a portrait of real-life 26 year-old Texan Taelor Ranzau, was released in 2018, and won the Grand Prix of the FID Marseille in 2019. In 2021. His next film Ghost Song portrayed young people in Houston living on the “fringes” and fighting for survival. Etat Limité is his latest documentary.
You can find him on instagram @nicolaspeduzzi
Film Recommendations from this episode:
On the Adamant: (Sur L’Adamant) 2023 by Nicolas Philibert – Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
Ětra Là: 2012 by Régis Sauder. A story about the psychiatrists, nurses or occupational therapists at the Baumettes detention center in Marseille who receive inmates and help them with their mental illness. The work is hard and thankless but for these workers it is a necessity to participate in the helping of those who suffer.
Opening Song in the Film:
This episode was recorded at L’Epée de Bois
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Recorded by David Blanc for World Radio Paris at independent cinema Club de L’Étoile in Paris.
Paris is the birthplace of Cinema culture and one of the most filmed cities in the world. On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation we talk about the history of films shot in Paris and the directors who love to shoot the city of light.
Juliette Dubois is a cinema historian who gives intricate guided tours of Paris based on the films that have been set there. Her company is Ciné-Balade, and has been operating since 2011. She recently came out with her first cinema guide book
Juliette talks with ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean about the history of French cinema, the history of film shot in Paris, and the different cinematic movements in Paris throughout the last century-and-a-half. Juliette also gives us a comprehensive “must-see” list of Parisian cinema in the episode.
To Book a Tour with Juliette Dubois for to Ciné-Balade.com
Notes from this Episode:
Must Know Directors
Alice Guy, the prolific and under known first female director. (Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache/ A documentary by Jodie Foster)
Agnes Varda made films in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s she was part of but still distinct from the New Wave movement.
Must-See Agnes Varda Films: Faces Places, Cleo from 5-7
François Truffaut
Part of the French New Wave. Made his most well-known film about his boyhood in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Must-See Films: 400 Blows with actor Antoine Doinel.
Cédric Klapisch
Contemporary. A man who loves to film Paris.
Must-See Films: Encore
Paris Films Featuring the METRO
Le Samouraï: 1967 Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with actor Alain Delon
Fear Over the City (French: Peur sur la ville) 1975 Directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
DIVA: 1981 Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Subway: 1985 Directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert.
Pickpocket: 1959 Directed by Robert Bresson. It stars Martin LaSalle,
Les Passagers de la nuit: 2021 Directed by Mikhaël Hers.
Paris is the birthplace of Cinema culture and one of the most filmed cities in the world. On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation we talk about the history of films shot in Paris and the directors who love to shoot the city of light.
Juliette Dubois is a cinema historian who gives intricate guided tours of Paris based on the films that have been set there. Her company is Ciné-Balade, and has been operating since 2011. She recently came out with her first cinema guide book
Juliette talks with ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean about the history of French cinema, the history of film shot in Paris, and the different cinematic movements in Paris throughout the last century-and-a-half. Juliette also gives us a comprehensive “must-see” list of Parisian cinema in the episode.
To Book a Tour with Juliette Dubois for to Ciné-Balade.com
Notes from this Episode:
Must Know Directors
Alice Guy, the prolific and under known first female director. (Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache/ A documentary by Jodie Foster)
Agnes Varda made films in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s she was part of but still distinct from the New Wave movement.
Must-See Agnes Varda Films: Faces Places, Cleo from 5-7
François Truffaut
Part of the French New Wave. Made his most well-known film about his boyhood in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Must-See Films: 400 Blows with actor Antoine Doinel.
Cédric Klapisch
Contemporary. A man who loves to film Paris.
Must-See Films: Encore
Paris Films Featuring the METRO
Le Samouraï: 1967 Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with actor Alain Delon
Fear Over the City (French: Peur sur la ville) 1975 Directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
DIVA: 1981 Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Subway: 1985 Directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert.
Pickpocket: 1959 Directed by Robert Bresson. It stars Martin LaSalle,
Les Passagers de la nuit: 2021 Directed by Mikhaël Hers.
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Recorded by David Blanc for World Radio Paris at independent cinema Club de L’Étoile in Paris.
Just a Couple of Days (Quelques Jours Pas Plus) is a recent film by Julie Navarro which focuses on the plight of refugees in Paris as a romantic comedy unfolds in the background. A music journalist is assigned to cover “hard news” and ends up at a protest to keep the doors open at a refugee resource center. He meets the passionate Matilde, who he likes, and who convinces him to house a refuge for… “just a couple of days.”
The main character is played by Amruallah Safi. The actor was an Afghani asylum seeker who had never acted nor seen a film on the big screen. Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) talk with Julie and Amruallah about how they managed to cross language barriers and make this film with an incredible cast including French cinema heavyweights Camille Cottin, and Benjamin Biolay.
Julie Navarro is a seasoned Assistant director and Casting director, and this is her first feature film as Director.
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Recorded by David Blanc for World Radio Paris at independent cinema Club de L’Étoile in Paris.
Could you tell me how your favorite film tastes? This week we talk with Emily Neff who makes custom ice cream flavors in Paris about making a flavor for the beach films of Éric Rohmer. Emily unpacks the allure of these films as summertime staples of French cinematic culture while Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) ask questions trying to get to the heart of what these movies taste like as ice cream.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
IN THIS EPISODE:
Movies We Talk About:
Summer’s Tale/Conte d’été (1996) -Éric Rohmer
Clair’s Knee/Le Genou de Claire (1970) -Éric Rohmer
The Green Ray/Le Rayon vert (1986) – Éric Rohmer
Benedetta (2021)- Paul Verhoeven
Simple Comme Sylvain/The Nature of Love (2023)- Monia CHOKRI
Le Deuxième Acte/The Second Act (2024) – Quentin Dupieux
Call Me by your name (2017)– Luca Guadagnino
La Piscine (1969) – Jacques Deray
Ice Cream Shop Recommendations in Paris:
Folderol
10 Rue du Grand Prieuré, 75011 Paris, France
JJ Hings
46 Rue Bichat, 75010 Paris, France
(@jjhings)
Movie Theaters in Paris We Discuss:
Summer Program Eric Rohmer:
L’Arlequin
76 Rue de Rennes, Paris 75006
https://dulaccinemas.com/cinema/2625/l-arlequin/seances
A Few Good Reads on Éric Rohmer:
New Yorker Article on Eric Rohmer’s Movie Music
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/eric-rohmers-movie-music
New York Times Article on
“Make This an ‘Eric Rohmer Summer.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/style/summer-fashion-eric-rohmer.html
New York Times review of Clair’s Knee in 1971
Lost in Frenchlation with Éric Rohmer at L’Epée de Bois movie theater:
100 Rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris, France
July 23rd Le Genou de Claire (Clair’s Knee)
July 30th Pauline à la Plage (Pauline at the Beach)
August 6th Conte D’été (Summer’s Tale)
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Recorded by David Blanc for World Radio Paris at independent cinema Club de L’Étoile in Paris.
In this episode Yannick Champion-Osselin & Manon Kerjean interview Sionann O’Neill & Joan Lagache, the two translators for ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’ The thriller that was lauded internationally for its use of linguistics as a plot device.
‘Anatomy of a Fall‘ follows Sandra, a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed, and Sandra becomes the main suspect.
Little by little the trial becomes not just an investigation of the circumstances of Samuel’s death, but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.
The film received the Palme d’or in Cannes last year, a Bafta, Golden Globes, one oscar, and six César, among other prizes.
Produced by ARBL Murray for World Radio Paris, and recorded remotely from Cannes and Paris.
Lost in Frenchlation’s host and founder Manon Kerjean recaps her time at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with ARBL Murray. Manon talks about the French films that walked away with awards, the movies she found most moving, Greta Gerwig’s place as the new Jury president, and the prevalence of the #MeToo movement on the red carpet, which included a mysterious list and the hiring of a crisis management PR team by the festival itself.
Produced by ARBL Murray for World Radio Paris, and recorded at independent cinema, Club de L’Étoile in Paris.
French director Nora El Hourch speaks with ARBL Murray and Manon Kerjean about the making of her feature film, HLM Pussy. Centered around three girls in the Paris suburbs dealing with differences in class, race, and privilege – when a sexual assault occurs, they all grapple with how to deal with it in their own way and the different pressures it creates for each of them.
Created by World Radio Paris and recorded live in Paris.
In this episode we talk about the new Documentary: Even If You Go To The Moon or “Même si tu vas sur la lune”, A film about a group of young Syrians with refugee status living in Paris. Sara, Hassan, Gietth, and Kiree all attend a program at the Sorbonne in which they are able to learn French and continue their studies from their schools in Syria prior to leaving.
Hosted by Manon Kerjean & ARBL Murray, created by WRP, and recorded remotely in France and New York.
For the international French language day or “Journée internationale de la francophonie,” Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray chat with Marion Trotté about her academy, Clap Français, in which students learn fluency in French through cinema.
Hosted by Manon Kerjean & ARBL Murray, created by WRP, and recorded remotely in France and New York.
Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray sit down with director Sébastien Vaniček to discuss his break-out feature, VERMINES. Sébastien talks about his experience working odd jobs to support his filmmaking dream, his process, and his love and care for animals… even spiders!
Hosted by Manon Kerjean & ARBL Murray, created by WRP, and recorded remotely in France and New York.
On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray sit down with director Erwan Le Duc to discuss filmmaking, his writing style, and the making of his film La Fille de son père. It is the story of a single father bringing up a daughter in the shadow of the mother who left.
Hosted by Manon Kerjean & ARBL Murray, created by WRP, and recorded remotely in France and New York.
This episode, WRP’s ARBL Murray speaks with host Manon Kerjean about founding Lost in Frenchlation, her Parisian background, and her love for French cinema. This initiative brings the world of French cinema and culture to the international community in Paris by screening the latest films with English subtitles.